Saturday, August 30, 2008

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A Day in the Life of...

So since I'm sure many of you wish I was drawing more, posting more, or even maybe you are wondering if I really am alive, I thought I would give you a brief glimpse into what my average day is like...

7:05 a.m. - Alarm goes off (Shipping Up to Boston)

7:13 a.m. - snooze

7:21 a.m. - snooze

7:29 a.m. - Finally crawl out of bed and into the bathroom

7:34 a.m. - finish morning piss

7:45 a.m. - out of the shower, teeth are brushed, now to get dressed

7:50 a.m. - breakfast?

8:00 a.m. - on the road, traveling to work

8:45 - 9:15 a.m. - arrive at work (depends on traffic)

9:30 a.m. - Go over the calendar and events of the day with Em (my assisstant)

9:50 a.m. - Check and respond to emails (personal and work)

10:15 a.m. - Designing

10:20 a.m. - (Department Director) walks in my office complaining (Project they neglected to tell me about for weeks) needs done immediately

11:20 a.m. - finish (Project they neglected to tell me about for weeks), start working on the days jobs again

11:30 a.m. - Meetings

12:30 - checking my favorite webcomics to try and relax my brain

1:00 p.m. - lunch

1:30 p.m. - While I was at lunch (Department Director) noticed (Random working project) needed to be changed

2:10 p.m. - Jeff comes in and says (Project that I thought was done) has changed and needs to be updated

3:00 p.m. - finally back working on whatever I was trying to start in the morning

3:15 p.m. - get frustrated and start looking at design blogs to get inspired

3:40 p.m. - start harassing Em with brain spew, or sending out random anti-informative text messages to friends

3:50 p.m. - designing again

5:10 p.m. - Leave work

6:05 p.m. - get back home

6:10 p.m. - unwind

6:30 p.m. - FOOD.

7:00 p.m. - Scrubs time

8:00 p.m. - back in front of the computer working on freelance stuff

9:00 p.m. distracted by blogs and surfing the interwebs

10:00 p.m. - realize that things need to get done for work tomorrow and begin working on them

1:00 a.m. - Finally get tired of my eyes burning and go to bed

back to the top...

This is a generalization of one of my average days... but yea... i've been so busy lately that i don't remember a point in time when i technically didn't have something to do... i probably wasn't doing it right at the moment, but i had it to do....

and on the sociology front...

Not too much, but a nice little article.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

...huh

So my assistant noticed today that when I hit a "creative block" I start with a bizarre hum and launch into the Oscar Mayer Weiner song. This perplexes me, one because I never noticed I did it, although upon reflection, realized I do it all the fawking time... and two, when have I EVER wanted to be an Oscar Mayer wiener? This must be some bizarre form of psychosis...

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Proof

Being somebody who slaves day in/day out at there "day job" (which I place into quotation marks because this job has been lasting long long into the night for the past three weeks) doing things like "imagery", "graphics", "designing", "marketing" and other such horrible words that I am sure will get me banned from the vastness of the internets, I notice things. Sometimes I will be walking down the street and see a particular sign on an establishment and say aloud to the annoyance of all those around me, "Why the fawk did they use that font? That looks horrible!". Today I noticed these.... these two magazines were released in the same month, featuring the same people on the covers... this is the power of marketing and propaganda. Congratulations, you are all now sheep....side note, I didn't even know Tiger Beat was still around... I thought that shit went under at the end of the 90's.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

just watch... just... yea

...i can't believe i'm doing this

so yes, i know, it's a pepsi commercial... but it's a futbol pepsi commercial, and it's amazingly well done... so... yea, this one's for you jim...

Thursday, August 7, 2008

This May Not Be Bat Country Anymore...

This article caught my attention and with my work last year with bringing awareness to local bat populations, it's even scarier.