Monthly Archives: August 2006

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my days in austin are numbered

this weekend will be my final one in austin, after which i will be heading for la grange for about a week or so some sunday or monday. after la grange i will be taking off for atlanta to begin my new path and as a stepping stone for my ultimate move to nyc. right [...]

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always be aware of your actions

came across this from somethingawful.com and it this is totally hilarious! this shows that you should always be careful about your actions in public as you never know when your photo may be the source of a photoshop battle. here’s what somethingawful had to say about it:
In olden days many a Photoshop theme around the [...]

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design is totally misunderstood

for many, design is simply how things look. is it cool looking? ugly? sleek? however, this it totally wrong. design is more about how it functions and how it works, which ultimately leads to its appearance. good functionality will ultimately leads to good design. i came across the following blog post which dives further into [...]

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you education is brought to you by…

i was rather disturbed by an article in the nytimes this morning… words of wisdom vs. words from our sponsor which discusses how companies are now taking advantage of electronic versions of books, a shift that will take years to complete but is inevitable nonetheless. these companies, one being Freeload Press in st. paul, seeks [...]

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living in the pits of hell

omg i am so fucking sick of the heat here… if you couldn’t tell it’s beginning to make me really bitter (along with everything else). the temperatures have climbed at or above 100 degrees every bloody day for at least the last month, and it has not rained a decent amount (half an inch or [...]

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next phase of job inquiries commences

i finally finished putting together some compressed versions of my portfolio… basically about six PDFs containing some of the better images of my better projects since not all firms are asking for an entire portfolio (or my sixty page, 40mb portfolio at that!). this push was to send my work to REX, the architecture firm [...]

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stop.. enough!

i have recently found myself living in a cheap imitation of the matrix, or perhaps living among a large population who desire to play space shuttle commander or something like that. it seems that with the latest craze in gadetry also comes a degrading mockery of its overly-exaggerated usage. now this certain demographic of our [...]

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stress and anxiety take their toll

today marked the third day in a row of having to deal with a major tension headache and accompanying dizziness, which i was overwhelmed with upon waking up thursday morning… after getting back to austin late wednesday. both the headache and dizziness were so severe on thursday that i was totally useless when it came [...]

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phase 1 of X phases

my lease at my summer sublease apartment ended on the 15th, so i had to find something quickly as a solution for a couple of weeks while i continue my search for a job in nyc (i guess i totally underestimated how difficult finding a job would be, or perhaps it’s more a matter of [...]

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