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April 24, 2012

 

 

 

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more layouts I did when I really should have been sleeping.

must.

get.

sunlight.

 

Visual Consultant

April 24, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Just finished editing some pictures my job wanted for an upcoming sale, long story made short, we got in a bunch of new shipment at my store (Uptowncheapskateraleigh!). Okay, recently our store won an award for our visual displays and I do a lot of the visual work there.

I like awards.

but what others don’t know, is that awards turn me into a monster.

I start plotting new ways to get them, and then I get really compititive, and then I start demanding I work doing visuals at the corperate level….I become impossible.

This case being no exception I stayed up to work on layouts for our new product. And now I’m going to sleep.

How I was scouted off the street, shook hands with famous people from vogue and got rejected all in one magical week.

April 24, 2012

an awful drawing of Alber Elbaz I did in the comfort of my room years before I had any idea I would meet him.


Download: lanvinpt2.MP3

the sound of the city.

March 23, 2012

 

my aduio recorder was recording in my pocket without me even realizing. I did manage to get some interesting feed of the sound of the city. It’s amazing, and just listening to it sends me right back to that moment. I start in a resteraunt. I think it’s called pops. Someone at the door is saying  “one dollar pizza, dollar hamburger, dollar hotdog, dollar fries” while he’s handing out flyers. I leave and i’m across from madison square garden. and i’m pusing through the crowd and avoiding the guys selling syracuse tickets. some of the voices are young, and other are harsh, and occasionally there’s laughter, but mostly it’s the sound of everyone coming or going. 

The city is  a beautiful creature.

 

Download: 12031602.MP3

mornings at panera.

March 23, 2012

 

 

I couldn’t find nearly enough time to sketch in the city, so many people, everything was constantly moving and everything was constantly inspiring. I did have enough time to decide that a kilt will be next on my purchase list. I dunno where I’ll wear it. but I want one.

Part of the reason I’m living off bowl o’ noodle soup now that I’m back in raleigh

March 23, 2012

this neat silk j.crew scraf I got at a thrift store

I haven’t quite decided how to wear it yet, but half the fun is developing the idea. I wore it around central park the day after I got it, and I wore it into tiffany’s during breakfast.

again, just an idea.

I didn’t really go “shopping” in the conventional sense. Most everything I got was second hand or a piece someone redesigned, which to me is so much more interesting. This piece included. A mustard colored utility jacket with flannel patches. I’ve already designed some patches and have a pretty substantial project in the works. You’ll see it when I’m done.

…..mmmhmm. gwen. my mom said it was “hype” I’m not actually sure what she meant. In our house she tends to use the slang that I’m not familiar with.

Five bucks. and freaking great.

Pleated polyester pant for an unepcified gender with a really unspecified size.

carrot cut drop crotch pant.

I went crazy for this fabric that I saw in one of the stores I went into, and on a whim I decided to buy a yard of it, i figured I think of something I could do with it later…..and then later arrived that next day.

while wearing this, a scout for MTV2 rushed across the street to ask me to be part of a book project documenting young artists living in the city….I had to inform him that I wasn’t actually from New York…He didn’t care…How real is reality television, anyway?

and more fabric. Unfortunatley I had no available machine.

which didn’t stop me from wearing it prematurely

this was not the look on my face when I was trying to cram everything back into my luggage.

Purchased at Brooklyn charm. I should write the address. I did walk out with one of their pens. I suppose I could mail it back….but then I’d be short a pen.

I bought two miniature moleskin notebooks that I carried around to write funny things I heard people say, or sudden ideas that I had or those things I thought right before I go to bed, or those instant thoughts I have right after I wake up.

I was set on creating a unique camera strap that could be changed around with either my film camera or my dslr. and I got this radical idea when I saw the bikers on fashion avenue  who carried large thick chains to wrap their bikes in I figured it would be a camera and a fashion statement. Go ahead Urban Outfitters. Steal the idea and give me NO credit.

  this, I just liked the color combination, and I wanted a strap that was long enough to be a cross body, instead of just around the neck, I suppose if I wanted to switch the strap on my messenger bag, I very well could. The entire thing for this didn’t even run me seven bucks.

I got these notebooks at the japanese bookstore, Kinokuniya. There perfect for writing scripts to the television series that I’ve pretty much been writing in my head up until this point. I’d honestly book a flight back just to restock on these bad boys. Or maybe order them online.

 

back order magazines from the American Apparel Wearhouse, only a dollar each! Im sorry. that’s freaking insane to me. 1 fantastic man easily cost thirteen bucks.

You can’t put a price on memories…

March 23, 2012

But someone did! A dollar each! I love New York!

 

 

 

 

 

I kept finding a lot of pictures with this same man and woman.

I wonder what their story is. I’m sure they’re married, and he’s the photographer. No, I’m not assuming this because he’s a man although given the time period (based on the style, my guess would be the early part of the 1940’s), and her haircut she’s likely to be a nurse or a school teacher (though I’m certainly getting nurse vibes).

He was probably madly enamored with her and rightly so, she just oozes of glamour from times past.

a time when you couldn’t click a camera and then instantly upload the image to facebook, where near strangers would choose to “like” some picture that was in no way related to them. It was a simpler time, but a beautiful time where a woman didn’t leave her house in the winter without a fur, and where a man shined his shoes because it was simply what he did. And if he didn’t shine them, he gave someone else a nickel so they could do it for him while he caught up on the daily news.

When did we get so unglamorous and downright tacky?

 

Julie and Julia and Michael

March 23, 2012

My friend snuck me into her school so that I could hear a reading and Q&A session from Julie Powell, the author of Julie and Julia.

This is significant becuase it was Julie and Julia, (that I think I actually referenced a few posts before even going to New York and finding out that she would be doing a reading), that inspired me to keep writing for an online blog. Really I just want some excuse for Meryl Streep to be casted as me in a live action movie, and I felt that blogging would be the most appropriate way to make that happen.

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my friend and I fell asleep while listening to the audio entries two nights in a row,and if you pay attention, it’s a pretty inspiring chapter. If you pay closer attention, you can hear me laugh at things that only I think are funny,

 

Like how I illegally snuck onto a school campus although I’m not a student and managed to record this entire entry.

 

wusssup.

Young people; always so wet behind the ears

March 23, 2012

 

 

this historic looking building is none other than the monumental Bed, Bath and Beyond….sorry….deceptive angle. I still like the shapes. so whatever.

Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made Of

March 23, 2012

 

It’s a postcard I found at the stationary store, and the entry I wrote my first night in New York.

One day, when I am much older, I’ll apologize to everyone for my awful handwriting.  I think clicking the image will make it bigger, but it won’t make my handwriting any better.

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