Filed under: Lets take an Intermission | Tags: Faith Evans, Ghost Town Dj's, My Boo, Never Gonna Let You Go
Wow, havent done one of these in a while..
Anyway happy holidays everyone!
Prob wont be posting for a while,
Going back to philly after Christmas to look for a job and finish some portfolio work. Working during school will be tough next semester but its time i took my life seriously. =)
I know its Christmas time, but its never a worng time for 90s R&B… <3
Filed under: Pretending to be a Philosopher | Tags: Andy Mangold, qoutables, typography
I love qoutables.
I love typography.
Which means I love this piece by Andy Mangold.
I had to crop out the pictures ’cause my html coding restricts certain picture size, so definitely go to his site to view the full pics.
Ironically this project was to showcase a new font/typeface, Clarendon, but the writing in the journals overshadows any of that. I dont know for sure if that was the true intention, only the artist can truly know that, but sometimes the final product is not the embodiment of your original ambitions, but is still provocative and ingenious nonetheless. The final product is what the public is only seeing, but like the “tip of the iceberg” cliche, there was a long generated process that no one else knows but the artist and the fact that you can accomplish something that you never intended is sometimes the most gratifying experience. Now this may not be the case with this specific project, but its something that has been on my mind for a while and seeing this work today just reminded me even more of it.
Just because you didn’t do what you set out to do, that fact does not discount your effort. In fact it may be for the better.
But I digress,
Andy Mangold has some cool stuff.
Filed under: Pretending to be an Architect | Tags: Bird, Bird Habitat, study model
This is the second of my study models, and the last before I made my final one. I added program (buildings) and some representations of trees in the tower. My general concept got thrown out the proverbial window and when I confronted my professor about this he just said to run with it. So I did. You can see from up top that the buildings opposite the tower resemble a birds wing, as I stacked floors on top of each other sandwiched by cantilevered balconys. I also got rid of the structure underneath he buildings to make space for parking.
Filed under: Pretending to be a Photographer
I dont know what to compare snow to. You know, a metaphor for it. Cause its beautiful when it first comes down. Its pure untouched stage. Its only lovely when your inside in a nice heated house with a steaming cup of coffee looking out your window into the snowy wonderland that you are safe from inside your shelter. But then you have to drive in it (I have a job interview today and I didnt even clear snow off my car), and then it gets all dirty and brown it fucks up your shoes, then it melts and becomes ice and is a danger to senior citizens and shit. Thinking about it I really dont like snow.
Also!
Does the place I live in NYC now, even considered a part of NYC? I used to be in Crown Heights which is in the heart of Brooklyn and as we all know Brooklyn is the meat and potatoes of NYC while Manhattan is just the appetizer. But in Queens where I live now I have to take the 7 train to the VERY LAST stop (Main Street, Flushing) then I have to get on the 20A Bus and take that to the VERY LAST stop to College Point Blvd. I feel like I live in fucking upstate New York cause Im so far from everything.
UGH.
Filed under: Pretending to be a Rapper, Uncategorized | Tags: Q-Tip, The Renaissance
Straight up, the best album I have listened to since “The Cool” by Mr. Fiasco. I just only downloaded this a week ago and I just bought the actually CD yesterday. I dont buy that many actually albums, but this shit is straight up classic stuff had to go out and buy the actually thing. “Dance on Glass”, “Move”, and “Gettin Up” are pure IPod battery killers. To be truthful, I still haven’t listened to the whole album thoroughly because of those three joints. But “We Fight We Love’ featuring Raphael Saadiq and “Life is Better” featuring Norah Jones are terrific songs too. Its nice to have a LP that you can just listen and vibe too, without having the beat’s bass knock the concentration out of you.
This.
Shit.
Is.
Flawless.
I never got into any of the Final Fantasy stuff. I actually never really got into video games. But I think I might invest in a PS3 just for this… and I know that these arent real-time graphics but damn…
I have re-watched this about 23 times now…
Filed under: Pretending to be Funny | Tags: California Love, Gangstarr, Love Pills, sex, Sexual Eruption, Smelly Cat, Snoop Dog
Saw this over at NOTCOT which then linked me to Smelly Cat (smelllllllllllly cat! Phoebe Buffay = <3, lol and what a great name for a blog no? too bad its a Brazilian blog and I dont understand Portuguese…) This video was made by students at Les Gobelins, the whole time I was watching it Snoop Dog’s Sexual Eruption played in my head, and the ending just clinches it. Its basically about casual sex and love pills, always the great topics.
P.S.
Your bitch don’t really got no ass, she just poked it out…
-Gangstarr
lol at the bitches in the video…
P.P.S.
For nostalgia’s sake =)
Filed under: Pretending to be a Writer, Uncategorized | Tags: Hand writing, pet peeves
So finals are all done. School is done for this semester. Not going Home till tomorrow. Kinda bored. Working on my portfolio for a bit. Guess its a blessing in disguise.
Anyway…
I was thinking about something the other day. It has occurred to me that I really REALLY REALLY hate bad handwriting. I think it is my biggest pet peeve more than pEoPlE tHaT wRiTe lIkE tHiS in text messages & facebook comments and more than people who misspell every other word. I find it kind of ironic that many of my peeves are related to writing/typing. And by bad handwriting I am not speaking of people who write illegibly. The stereotype of Doctors are they have loopy scribble that no one can understand. I really dont mind that. As long as it has a style. I just cant stand people who write like 3rd graders. Perfectly legible, but it looks fugly.
Example:
My roommate left me the gas bill before he left for the holidays. It looks like a fuckin ransom note. If I showed you this handwriting what would your impression of him be? Would it be good? I think your handwriting gives people an impression of your intelligence. The guy who wrote this is a pretty smart guy. He missed a 4.0 G.P.A. by only a half a letter grade this semester. But he writes like a 7 year old. Does this bother anyone else? Just me?
I mean there is little need, especially in this age of computers, to ever hand-write anything. It just gets on my last nerves when I see bad handwriting. I rather listen to somebody run their nails down a chalkboard… ok maybe not, but it does drive me insane.
Filed under: Pretending to be an Athelete, Uncategorized | Tags: Nike Commercial
Saw this Nike Commercial.. I love Football commercials; something about the whole romanticization of muddy practice in the rain, vein-popping screaming during the last rep of the last set of bench-press, bone crunching hits during scrimmages, and the eruption of skirmishes after the whistle. Its not far from reality, but its the underlying fantasy that football purist and people who know nothing about football all imagine it being.
The preparation for a Football season, no matter at what level, is to see how far you can push yourself physically in order to achieve new heights of success.
The hardest workers in Football are usually the individuals who can succeed at whatever they attempt in any and all aspect of life. Its not about being a good or bad player. Its about not giving up and working at it till the end. Its not about whether you won or lost the game; its about whether or not you played the game to the fullest extent of your ability, whatever level that may be.
I think that’s the most important thing I learned while playing Football.
The Giants sucking right now has Football on my mind, when the last of my finals should be.
MIA My Crush:
Don’t you hate that?
VINCENT Me:
What?
MIA My Crush:
Uncomfortable silences. Why do we
feel it’s necessary to yak about
bullshit in order to be
comfortable?
VINCENTMe:
I don’t know.
MIA My Crush:
That’s when you know you found
somebody special. When you can
just shut the fuck up for a minute,
and comfortably share silence.
VINCENT Me:
I don’t think we’re there yet. But
don’t feel bad, we just met each
other.
MIA My Crush:
Well I’ll tell you what, I’ll go to
the bathroom and powder my nose,
while you sit here and think of
something to say.
VINCENT Me:
I’ll do that.
EPILOGUE:
VINCENT Me:
So you’re gonna go out there, drink
your drink, say “Goodnight, I’ve
had a very lovely evening,” go
home, and jack off. And that’s all
you’re gonna do.
Filed under: Pretending to be an Architect | Tags: Bird Habitat, Pretending to be an Architect
This is my first study model. The tower thingy will have trees on each level for the use of birds. Im going to start to incorporate program and functional buildings in between the two black “wings” next to the towers.
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