December 2011
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Post-grad life metaskill of 2011: Scaling.
One thing I’ve never paid much attention to while in school were milestones in school. They are neatly cut-off by semesters, tucked into smaller deliverables determined by weeks. It was fairly easy to know when to pump it up and when to slack a little. For example, the strain of powering through finals is met with a period of complete relaxation at the end, without that, it’d be hard...
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Early new year's resolution: a goal & a barrier.
Amongst all the great things which happened during my company design retreat, the greatest meta benefit for me personally was that the experience sharpened my focus for choosing the path I walk. I’m sharing this one piece specifically because it concisely puts out there, and serves as a reminder for myself, what my intentions are for life. [1] Some context: the task was the choose 2...
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Sharpie Sketches | beautiful people & red ink
In which I use my secret weapon [1] to draw things. This what happens when I like you: You occasionally, okay - often, end up in my doodles. Some are better than others. FOREVER immortalized. ;) Now, featuring the gorgeous girl behind Behind the Seams, one of my favorite fashion blogs. I have an immense girl crush on Trang. & now, a red, coral, & pink...
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Illustrator'd: Totoro, Totoro hats & Self
See the full gallery on Posterous In the search for a highres photograph of myself that I could stand, then coming up empty handed, I decided that I’d stick with the illustrated route. And with my newly found option+click skills, this is what became of that experiment. It’s not often I add the blog url into the image, but when I do, I think it’s when something actually...
November 2011
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Analyzing How I Work
Lately, I’ve been frustrated with myself, mostly over nothing. When you were graduating high school, you felt like the shit: getting into a college, preparing to leave home, embarking on a new adventure. Then, once arriving, it quickly becomes clear you are, once again, at the bottom of the food chain. “What the fuck am I doing? I don’t know what I’m doing.” ...
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Instagram'd Sketches
Just some sketches I instagram’d. They’re all automatically Dropbox’d too. Thank you ifttt! Though honestly, that’s the only ifttt flow I’m finding useful so far.
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Clash of Ideals.
My parents have always, and still, measure success by prestige. [1] They would’ve loved to say “My daughter go to Harvard.” Now, they would love to say “My daughter work at Google.” [2] But I actively rejected both paths. My mum always makes a point to tell me the latest funnies in explaning me to other parents. It usually involves: statement, confusion,...
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a few paragraphs about my 'favorite' teach
Recently, I was asked to write a response to a prompt, “Write about a favorite teacher. What made them special?” .. The limit was 5 minutes of writing. To my surprise, this was written quickly and cohesively. Looking back, he was really a professor who had an impact on me, less in the world of academia, but more so in my faith in humanity. Without further ado, the unedited version...
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Happy Birthday to my little brother. | with a...
I give many shits about him (It just means I care except in angsty rebelious 16 year old terms).
That is all. We have a very awesome sibling bond as of date.
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More Sketch! | Colorful Cute Photoshop...
Inspiration strikes at midnight and I finally bring a best friend’s* personal project to a close. It was fun thinking of ideas to make.. And though the assembly (aka design dirty work) took way longer than anticipated, it was worth the while. Paying it forward and flexing a creative muscle is time well spent. Unfortunately, the project itself shall remain a *secret* .. but here’s the...
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Latest Watercolors | eyes & trails
Painted these back in September: here you go internet! Finally get to see. watercolor + watercolor pencils .. Also - new apartment is coming together.. Not quite ready to show it off in full, but am happy to show off some desk shots :) See the full gallery on Posterous I find that I like working w/ just the Thunderbolt display alone. Less screens to be distracted by. .. ...
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Latest iPad Sketches & I'm still alive here
I doodled these with my stylus and fingers on a flight back from Austin. I am currently drafting a big ass post about the documenting the working life and thoughts on recent events.. but for now, I just wanted to let the internet know I’m not dead and attempt to get myself posting here regularly again.
See look,
POST IDEAS
I promise I’m still thinking about ideas!
October 2011
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Paying my respects to a legendary human being.
Today, the news of Steve Job’s passing hit me hard. It’s funny. I had no idea that it would impact me this much. [1]
I’ve never been a rabid Apple fangirl, nor can I even say that now, despite owning the golden trifecta (Macbook Air, iPad2, iPhone 3G - soon to be iPhone 4S), yet, I still hone immense respect for him, less so of a god than as a person.
When famous people pass, I...
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Summer Sketch Set : Doodles
Whoops, for some reason, the attempt to post this same thing last night was a total fail. (404??) Oh well, this is simply a continuation of the last post.. Doodles. Sharpie, always handy. The properly scanned version of this copic marker drawing I instagram’d. Obligatory clarification: despite illustrating this, I was unfortunately the one who was jumped upon...
September 2011
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Summer Sketch Set : Wireframes
Before I left home for San Francisco and Asia, I sat down and scanned EVERYTHING [1]. Here are all the pages which contained design drawings. Tomorrow is my first day working as a full-timer ever. Wish me luck! — 1. By the way, why is this process so hard?! Scan > Tweak (scanner) > Tweak again (ps) > File naming > Upload > Post. Someone improve it:...
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Trip on this Triptych | Autumn + Boston Inspired
After those posts about picking up the brushes again, I present to you the final piece… It’s a triptych! First one too. First painting completed since December ‘09. Hung over the couch. See the full gallery on Posterous Process photos.. Or at least, the ones which I remembered to take. *Gets too immersed into painting and usually forgets to stop and do this* ...
Visited Butterfly Garden while waiting for flight...
Taken at Terminal 3
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Rare Candy | initial thoughts before moving up...
A few thoughts, in no maybe a particular order: I’ve spent many nights at home this past three weeks just snooping around the web, reading everything that suited my fancy. I just read a great post about Overcoming Impostor Syndrome, something I didn’t realize had a name or was that much of a problem amongst so many people, both girls and guys. I do acknowledge this as something...
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retrospective: the MHCI post mortem, special...
Hi everyone, tonight, I am here in front of a laptop to finish up [0] to you my latest post: THE MHCI post mortem. I hope, you, the reader can peek what into what has been my world and experience for the past 8 months - It’s an adventure for you and me [1]. I am also very pleased to let you know this will be a multimedia piece! Illustrative doodles accompany major points of this...
