The cherry blossoms were already out last week. Weather was perfect, lay out sprawled on the grass, seeing pink against clear blue.



There are dragons in the city, don’t you know?

Patek Philippe exhibition at Tiffany’s. BALLIN!


More visual treats to see:
Murakami exhibit @ the Brooklyn Museum (site)
The Fall (site) - absolutely stunning visuals (see here), shot in 18 on-site-locations around the world. Lee Pace from Pushing Daisies is also a huge bonus.


The semester is winding down. I’m getting wound up. But it’ll end well, I think. It usually does. Well, ja.

Wonderland really is that colorful. Alice told me herself.
It’s got color that overtakes all your vision and leaves you seeing nothing else.

There are other ways to leave you seeing nothing else. It’s too easy to get blind-sided.

The world is wet. Or at least New York City is.
That’s okay, today was a good day regardless of the weather.

MoMA exhibition is excellent.

Visualization: Protein Homology Graph


Tony’s Di Napoli off 43rd between 6th & 7th. Delicious and oh so satisfying meal, topped with some great Sangria and two favorites.

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I seriously can’t stop watching the Jabbawockeez. Kaba Modern is also great, but something about Jabbawockeez is just so much fun to watch. I can’t stop. Lewis Carroll really had no idea what sort of monster he concocted.
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Fusion Fashion Show is tomorrow. School spirit time. \o/

We had this assignment, back in senior year of high school; AP Psychology. We were given a sheet with four(?) images, and we were to write a little blurb for each one - whatever came to mind first. One of the images was of a man sitting at a table, grabbing the arm and attention of a lady. I took it as him being a customer at a coffee shop/restaurant and her as a waitress therein. When this assignment was given, I… didn’t do it.. ..properly. Sometime thereafter though, I randomly came across it again and wrote this little piece:

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In a flash of what he thought was recognition, he took hold of her arm only to realize his mistake too late. Her character was one to to stress the importance of first impressions; though perhaps this time around as she accepted his offers of an apology, she thought they always had the whole rest of their lifetimes to make up for those initial ones.

Twenty-five years later they found themselves in the same setting. This time she sat across from him, hiding a smile behind a cup of coffee. He still couldn’t believe that out of all of life’s silly sayings, it was this one that proved itself true.

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Points to you if you can figure out life’s silly saying.

This pervasive sadness comes and goes as it pleases.
It doesn’t always need a reason, and it doesn’t always stay for long. It just makes everything a little darker, a little duller, a little more unsuitable.

Of course it’s never anything to dwell on because it comes, and it goes.


Everything gets so messy.

The little brother and half-way up the mountain.


All the way at the top. See the houses across the other mountain? That’s where we stayed.
//on second thought, you can’t even see them.


View of the slopes at night from where we stayed. *very c o l d

It was a good weekend
(even if I am quite possibly the worst snowboarder in the world.. it’s quite shameful really)

zZz. I could have slept in today…
@ my internship right now (9:35 am, where is everybody?? I missed the memo...).

This is keikei’s souvenir to me from Italy:

HOPE:
Please keep me from nodding off…

This weekend I will be with my family… snowboarding!  Cheers!

Stefan Stagmeister - Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
Deitch, Jan. 31 - Feb. 23
If only for the banana wall… yes it is Stagmeister.. and more importantly, he has a banana wall.

Design and the Elastic Mind
MoMA, Feb. 24 - May 12
Innovative design is always interesting.

I can now say that I’ve been to a speakeasy.

I can’t believe it took me so long to watch High School Musical 1 & 2. These movies are quite entertaining. I laugh every time the little Russian boy comes on with his funny hats, his sister captures the Super Sweet 16 brat perfectly, and the main couple is really really very cute from the get go. What happened to the guy though between movie one and two? He got a lot… gayer. Especially that Lion King Simba-esque soliloquy, I was laughing too hard to watch it properly. I did catch the trek from grassy knoll into desert terrain and the literal self-reflection, I couldn’t hear what he was singing through it all, but all I needed to know was that that short solo journey helped him find himself. See? Simba-esque.

Well ffter watching that movie, I am beginning to crave summer again. I’m ready for warm weather! Sun! Dresses! Longer days! And the days are getting longer! ! !! Woo!!!
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..this summer is my last..

The first week of school is always so deceptively easy. Early dismissals, canceled classes… long-winded and detailed discussions on how to assess the world. Yes, we package designers have to consider these things. It is of the utmost importance for our successful futures.

It’s all light hearted and mindless really… FOR NOW.

I have work tomorrow. It’s fun, though that is not the face of fun. It is the face of tired. There were a lot of things I wanted to do this break that I didn’t get to do because I was busy with work and school and other miscellaneous things. But there are ideas running through my head right now. Like apps and languages and design… I need more JUST ME time, with no obligations to do other things. I have three days left. Yes. Yes. noooooo

It’s cold. -_-
I wish it would snow. It’s useless being so cold without any snow!
And if it does snow, let’s go snowboarding :D

The collection of smiley faces on this thing is funny…           (it’s a big one)

...Anyway, today kinda sucks: locked out of the dorm, paper to write, final to study for. 
Well just two more days to go I guess

I am resigned.
Do I care? Of course I do, but at the moment all I feel is resignation.

This is how the world works: you care, about the one thing somebody else doesn’t give a shit about. You care, they don’t.

If you’ve taken the time to read this, then take the time to heed this: don’t tamper with an artist’s work.

It’s just one of those days and it’s been a long week. Actually, it’s been a long three weeks and it won’t end till Wednesday. Just gotta keep going!

...I try to stay optimistic and patient, but it gets hard. I’m sorry if you get the ugly side of me. I think I’m at a low point at the moment… just gotta keep going, right?