Taller Children

On my last Thursday in the city I headed to Rockwood Music Hall to see Rajan's girlfriend Jihae play. She was great! The headlining band came on and I recognized every song, I figured they were playing covers but then found out it was actually Elizabeth & the Catapult! They are a band I love the music of but never knew the name with the songs. It was a great surprise!

Jihae!

Elizabeth and the Catapult!

brown paper packages

Filled up with cats and candy! Thanks Justin!

Home is with You

Here is a current small project that I have been working on this week. A friend from my Redeemer Church group has a couple temporarily living with him due to an apartment fire. We are all creating some art for them to have in their new home as a surprise. I am very much into Victorian type and illustration! This isn't finished yet but I will post the final product as well.

REPUBLIC*

A delicious restaurant in Union Square! This is my lunch of curried rice with raisins and fried Japanese eggplant!

http://www.thinknoodles.com/

yo-yo club!

NYC Yoyo Club meets every Sunday at the IBM building on the Upper East Side. They were very excited to get a visit from Justin! Funny story is I met one of these guys on my commute home in the subway. I saw him yoyoing so I just asked if he knew Justin Weber and he got very excited because he did know him. He was a new yoyoer and really looked up to Justin's style. It was great to introduce them here. Good luck Adam!

Mike Perry: PULLED

Just snatched up Mike Perry's new Screenprinting catalog, "PULLED" I've been thinking about how Bio-chem students and nursing students save all their textbooks and graduate with a great useful library. Art and design students do have to buy some books but many classes are best learned by practice so we don't always have a book record of the technique afterward. A good library of resources is one of the most useful tactile things an Illustration student can graduate with and I am far behind on my collection. Josh Cochran posted on his twitter that the first 200 people who buy this book get a hand screen printed copy and since I have had this on my mind AND I'm taking screen printing this semester, I bought the book!

Some of the books featured artists are Aesthetic Apparatus, Deanne Cheuk, Steven Harrington, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Jeremyville, Andy Mueller, Rinzen, and Andy Smith.

Geeking out is good for you

Today I worked on figuring out how to make a point system for a certain part of a website we are designing. I researched how facebook liking works, schmedlines, taggo, linkedin, etc. It is really interesting to solve the problem of making a system that utilizes all your assests, has incentive for the user, and can function within the site and social media in general. I have never done a job like this. This is the awesome sushi lunch spread for the shooting crew. Around 4pm Somebody realized it was our creative director, David's birthday today! The whole studio was in a top secret rush to plan a surprise party undetected. It was mostly up to the other new intern Robyn and I. I made David a crown and we printed out pictures of animals he looks like for the wall. I printed out the meaning of the name David and statistics for the name's popularity and made a speech/toast to him. It was a silly party but very fun. I am feeling like family here now.