new year

I return to New York more or less unemployed and look for work.  In the process of updating my portfolio and resume I made this for my 5th year project, The Vomitorium.  It feels like a really long time ago but I’m pretty pleased with the results.  It sort of cracks me up because it’s a heavily photoshopped image of an analog model that was built to look like a digital model.  I like the aesthetic.  I also posted a not as good night shot, and some other news after the cut.

It’s a bit difficult looking for work in the architecture field right now, mainly because nobody is building anything anywhere.  Even the UAE is slowing down I hear.  I’ve been really busy despite the fact that I’m not working.  I got sick from running around so much.  It’s also pretty cold here,  like the low is 8 degrees.  The hot water didn’t work when I first returned, so Hannah and I couldn’t take showers for like 4-5 days.  Next was the internet.  It was “accidentally” cut by the construction workers below and so didn’t have internet for a week.  Just fixed it yesterday, only because one of my neighbors took it upon himself to do some work.  There is good news about job stuff on the horizon, but I’m announcing nothing so as not to jinx it.  

Christmas vacation was good, it was a bit of culture shock to return to Sacramento after living here for the year.  I actually realized that it had been the first time outside of the 5 burroughs in a year.  And I’ve still never been to the Bronx.  I’ll post about the CA trip some other time.

Also did the no pants subway ride with Dan, Danny, and Matt.  I’ll post about that some other time too.

I’ve been going to the Compleat Strategist on Thursday nights for 40k, and seems really cool.  I have yet to get a game in, but I’ve been pretty unorganized about it.  However there is a tournament on Jan 24th, which I’ll participate in.  I’ll let you know how that goes.  And I’m looking forward to making this a regular part of my schedule.

Oh yeah Hannah and I will very likely move soon.  I’m not gonna say too much as to not jinx this either but it’s a good place, cheaper, and not full of ridiculous problems like construction workers and no hot water, etc.  Moving will be a bitch though.

So it’s shaping up to be a new job (hopefully)- new apartment (hopefully)- new friends- new year.  I’m enjoying it so far.

2 Comments

  1. garretfarmer says:

    sorry to hear about the job dave. thats to bad.
    I wish you guys luck on the new place and job and what not.
    I miss seeing you guys regularly and the city. Thanks for always giving me a place to crash whenever I’m there. You guys are great hosts.

  2. david says:

    yeah, the economy is really really bad right now, hopefully it’ll be a little better when you’re done but man. you are definitely always welcome here, I think you’d like the new place here, our place has just become ridiculous in the past 2 months.

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WHITE HOUSE REDUX

Hey everyone, earlier in the year Jeff, Justin, Laura and I made a submission for the White House Redux competition run by Storefront.  I’m pleased to announce we won second place.  Everyone in NY should come by on Oct. 2nd for the opening and prize-receiving ceremony at Storefront.

Also, if you would like to vote for us please do!  we may win the popular vote as well! VOTE HERE!

movies/outta the way PECK!

watched willow, and superbad.  not back to back, but within the last few days.  that’s the new problem hannah and I have with our life, netflix.  next up is kicking and screaming, and not the will farrell movie, which is actually pretty funny because he has a brother who is as old as his son.  what’s also funny is I didn’t realize that sorsha and madmardigan actually fell in love for realz during the filming of willow and married shortly after.  we are going to do a movie night sometime but I don’t know when, and what the hell to watch because there are so many movies/shows in the world.  i had never seen superbad before, it’s funny.  I also didn’t realize how much non stop fighting/action was in willow, as a kid I sort of thought the story was more balanced in pace, but I guess I was just wrong or had a.d.d. because there is a battle like every 2 min.  I also didn’t realize that there half of willow’s lines in the movie were just yelling “madmardigan wait!” or “madmardigan stopppp!!!” or “Kaya!!!”, etc.  hahaha.  Also learned (i’m learning a lot) that the actor who played willow is like the ruler of all midget actors, if you look at his filmography he’s in everything that has ever needed a midget in his lifetime!!  anyways, willow imho a perfect kid movie.  back to movie night, would a sealab night be cool? or the proposed forever thai night ie Ong Bak + The Protector + thai food be cool?  or like John Carpenter night ie BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA + THEY LIVE be cool?  there are entirely too many options.  hahhaa oh god i just thought of the ultimate: PITCH BLACK + FAST AND THE FURIOUS + XXX + CHRONICLES OF VIN DIESEL + a five course meal of mountain dew and code red.

IN THE PIT! IN THE PIT! IN THE PIT! IN THE PIT! IN THE PIT! IN THE PIT! IN THE PIT! IN THE PIT! IN THE PIT!

everything is over

Here’s a comic titled “everything is over” I did for MOCCA this year. It was originally going to be 16 pages but got reduced to 8 pages due to time constraints. I think it works better as an 8 pager, and will likely not draw the other 8 pages. Finally uploaded.

 

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SOME THINGS

I was a college dj for four years while in school.  the station was kcpr and it was probably one of the nicest parts of my college experience.  having an access to a huge amount of great music and constant updates on new releases with a great community of like minded music lovers was actually more awesome than it sounds.  Although in retrospect I did take a year off when I was abroad and when I returned most everyone I knew was graduated, the new kids were cool and it turned out to be a good year station wise.  I’m still coping with not being a part of that station.  Searching for new music is an annoying/rewarding task, I’ve sort of forgotten how to do outside of a college radio station atmosphere.  Anyways I will post some short reviews of cd’s I bought.

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WKND (Aug 15-17)

Hannah got us a projector.  It’s all set up now, it’s pretty ridiculous looking because I used one of the leftover gargoyles/griffin’s as it’s base.  But it works well, we saw Tekkonkinkreet on Sunday as a test.  BTW that movie is awesome.  It follows Taiyo Matsumoto’s work very well, and the visuals… amazing.  I highly recommend it, and hope they adapt more of his manga into movies soon.

We’re hoping to have movie nights at our place soon.  I want to see Inland Empire.  Maybe a David Lynch night then.  We have 3 couches so movie night seems to make sense.

Also, Hannah and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary.  crazy.

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve added a few pages to the blog.  Some architecture work and comics work is archived.  It’ll take some time before it’s all up here.

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