July 2008
9 posts
Hold on to a Hotel Key
I love San Francisco, but right now, I would rather be in Los Angeles.
June 2008
19 posts
Work
Well after a very succesful paintball excursion yesterday, I am now staring down the barrel of a very aggravating design project. I had taken this project pretty far down one visual track, and had gottten the “go ahead” from my teacher, only to get sent right back to the begininng the next week. Legitmate reasons, but the sudden reversal of opinion cost me an entire week of time that I...
Losing weeks like buttons
I am sleeping! (Not right now of course, but in general.) Finally I have kicked my rather massive case of jet lag and am back to dealing with my old problem of wanting to sleep too much. The jury is still out on which problem is better. I’ve also started reading “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” again. I’ve been meaning to read so many books over the past few...
Menu
I recently designed a series cocktail menus and was pretty happy with this design so I figured I’d post them. They come in threes and are exactly the same except for the title of each page, which spells “Lubricants” (as in social) when they are all lined up next to each other. The photo in the background is one I took in Tokyo of one of the many cloudly cloudy days. *Update- An...
Oh my oh my
Ouch. So it’s 5:10am right now and I am not asleep. I remember being in bed two hours ago thinking “wow, it would be really annoying if I can’t fall asleep tonight”. Well. It is. I’m thinking jet lag is definitely to blame. The night I returned from Tokyo, having been awake for 35 hours, I only slept 6 hours. Last night, I slept for 13. What’s the deal? Tonight...
Home!
Well not yet. I still have to pack and sleep, but I will soon be on another ridiculously long plane flight, this time headed for California. Sorry for the brief posting, but packing is turning out to be a bit more of a challenge than I thought. I might have to cut off a few sand bags Why I often get turned around at train stationsWhat got me here (despite how big it was, it sure didn’t have...
Toky..wait.. Kyoto! Day 13
Phew! Back from 5 hours in Kyoto and 5 hours traveling. I took the bullet train, sans Douglas (who overslept), and got there around 12:30 this afternoon. It was intense, and definitely too short a time in such a beautiful city. (Parts of it anyway, other parts are ugly like fish) I basically flew around, trying to see as much as possible in the little time I had to sightsee, which was made...
Tokyo Day 12
-I’ve uploaded a lot of my photos to Flickr, you can check them out here- Yikes I can’t believe it’s already day 12. The beginning of my trip feels like it was yesterday and forever ago at the same time. I started out today with a little recon mission to Tokyo Station to figure out how easy/hard it is going to be tomorrow morning to get on the train to Kyoto. I wanted to make...
Tokyo Day 11 (Nighttime)
So today was a “break” day, but tonight was just like any other night. I decided to head to Daikayama tonight to check out this club called Air. Of course, like every club ever to exist, it has a lame, one word name. One day someone will come along and name their club a full sentence, but until then, we are stuck with these ridiculously named places like Air, Bed, Home, Wet, and Love....
Tokyo Day 11
So today I am taking a break. No sightseeing, no shopping, no adventuring. I rarely do this while traveling, but I am also rarely moving at such an exhausting pace. Something about Tokyo I guess. Just now, on my way home from lunch, I spaced out and overshot my subway station by 4 stops. I think it’s time. So today I’m going to lay low, plan my trip to Kyoto and catch up on some design...
Tokyo Day 10
Its been pretty nice not having my email follow me around everywhere I go. I am deathly afraid to turn on my phone over here because I hear AT&T will charge you international fees given any opportunity. Walking around phone-less is quite liberating. (in the same way having your phone with you at all times is, but in a weird, equally opposite sort of way) Today I moved up one of my “nice...
Will i ever go to bed?
One of the (many) benefits of being in Tokyo is the unbelievable number of new and exciting things I come across. These come in many forms, and I always look forward to each day because of the infinite possibilities the city seems to hold. Today, I came across two design magazines I had never heard of before. (Perhaps they aren’t carried in the US, or maybe I just missed them) These...
Tokyo Day 9
So today was supposed to be a break day. It wasn’t. My feet feel, again, like they are only still attached to my legs by an accident. If I have one more 8+ hour day of walking I think I might be doomed. Tomorrow, yes yes tomorrow will be my break day. Anyway I am glad today wasn’t a “break” day because it turned out to be another superb day in Tokyo. (Despite the serious...
Tokyo: Purchases
Bought these two shirts instantly
Tokyo Day 8 (Nighttime)
Well I just learned a lot about street performing in Tokyo. (called “busking”, but I wasn’t sure how many people would know the term, sounds weird if you haven’t heard it before). I went down to Shibuya, mainly because the Shibuya Crossing is reportedly the most trafficked pedestrian crossing in the world, but also because it just looks so damn cool at night. I thought it...
Tokyo Day 8 (Daytime)
So so so so To Key YO. Today I went to Ochanomizu to see the crazy amount of music stores they have managed to pack into one block. I have never seen so many guitar stores so close together in my life. The density is astounding. (and obviously awesome) Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I was going to search for a cheap cheap guitar that I could buy and then make the money back by playing on the...
Vote
Lately I have been trying to think of a name for what will eventually become my graphic design company. I’ve been thinking forever and I haven’t been able to come up with a killer name just yet. I do not need it to be clear what the company does in the name. It just needs to be cool, and consistent with the feel of the company. At some point, I would like the name to be able to extend...
Busk (like dusk but more musical)
So I can’t fall asleep right now, most likely because of my weird sleep schedule from this morning. Anyway, I have been brainstorming all over the place while trying to fall asleep and I had a really fun idea. Tomorrow, or maybe Tuesday, I am going to do an experiment. I am going to go buy a cheap ($100) guitar from Shibuya and then try and make the money back by playing on the street. When...
Tokyo Day 7
So I wasn’t expecting much out of today, mostly because I felt like cement when I woke up from my 4 hour nap this morning. I was worried I might sleep though the day and I could tell it was going to be a beautiful one when I went to bed with the sun was rising in a flawless sky. Somehow, I got moving around 1pm and set off to find something to eat other than my normal croissant and water...
Tokyo Day 6 (Nighttime) (and morning...
Ouch So I did it, I stayed out until the first subway train this morning. I went out last night in Roppongi with some friends of friends and somehow managed to stay out until 5am. (I got home at about 6) I left the club at around 2:30am and then wandered the streets, which were teeming with activity for the next few hours. Crazy stuff those Tokyo streets when the sun is rising. Despite my...