Thursday, October 23, 2008

Unfortunate Luck

Due to an economic crisis that is starting to affect and scar middle class America I have become unfortunate to be disconnected from my Internet connection. Sadly, there will be no blogs till further notice. And just for your information I am posting this blog at school.

Till then I'll leave you all with this post.

Earning many celebrity endorsements both big and small, Barack Obama is well on his way towards the upcoming US Presidential Elections next month. As a vouch of support, jeweler Gabriel Urist created a special pendant based on Barack Obama’s campaign logo. Very similar to the pin I've been wearing around for the last few days.

Monday, October 20, 2008

I am Jacks...

Over this weekend I watched a movie heavily, and I mean heavily, recommended by Alexis. Fight Club. Like many non-watchers if this movie I thought this movie was mostly going to be about...fighting. Let me tell you now that the fighting part, just see it as a tool that the movie uses to accompaniment the plot of the movie. So again, the movie is not about fighting. I'll do a little analysis of the movie later in the week. There are still some missing puzzle pieces I feel that I need to find to get the broader picture to this movie. Otherwise it was a great, well joined, contemplative movie.

Ever taken those nostalgic child hood memories of Warner Bros. cartoon characters but give it a violent yet accurate twist to it. Sort of how it would it been if Tom & Jerry was aired on HBO. UK artist James Cauty makes an exact representation of this in his laterst exhibit "Splatter" in The Aquarium in London. You would think that a person would be sick minded to be doing this kind of things but really, like every artist I enjoy blogging about, he just rebelling against pop culture.








Designer duo Andrea Grossfuss and Olaf Kiessling have designed a plate that has a solution to everyday life. The plate comes with a handle that has a special hollow to hold your wine glass. See for yourself.




So I think I just "The Kitchen of the Cool People". The New 012 kitchen design from MK Style is entirely made up from 12mm thick Corian. Doors are opened with a groove that runs the length of each, lit by cold-light-producing LED's. Gaggenau electrical appliances are set within the Corian wall units, their modern stainless steel finish echoed by the table extension of the kitchen island. Freakin slick looking if you ask me.





That is all for today. I am going to conclude this night with downloading some Hip-Hop instrumental albums because it turns out I am not getting my MPC till December. Just going to suck up the luxury of others making beautiful head moving grooves. Till then, see you all this week.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Slow, but progressful, climb up

When time goes by slowly take the time to really see what's going on. Doing this you may see the most interesting things. Things you wouldn't of noticed if you were wining because time was going too slow. Slow progress can also be seen like this. A slow progress can be used to take time and see the things that can help when finally you make to the peak of your destination. Try not to see slow as a negative but as an advantage.

The next generation of Apple MacBooks are just around the corner for the holiday season. Even though the 160GB MacBook goes for $1,299 and the 250GB $1,599 the older MacBooks are going for under $1,000. It has new features such as a fully click-able track pad, new Nvidia graphics card, 5 hours of stated battery life and an LED back-lite screen similar to the MacBook Pro. Well, I know what I want for Christmas.







This is maybe one the coolest things I've seen a long while. Medicoms Toy's Bearbrick joined with one of my favorite Electronica groups ,Daft Punk, to create a pair off bears with their signature attire. Awesomely cute. Set to be released March 2009.






Bansky again attacks New York. Part of his rat pieces this time he shoots at the publicity channels like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and etc give to presidential candidates around this time. Even though I am very into politics and I highly support one of the presidential candidates, most of you know who, you have to admit his arts pretty clever. He also shoots at painters commonly seen on New York skyscrapers.






That's all for today. I am currently listening to Murs's Murs for President and let me tell you, I recommend it. Today was a pleasantly good day. PSAT'S went well, we saw a movie in Mr. Reitz, found out my GPA went up, after school was wonderful, and we have two days left till Homecoming.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Team building, with mother nature

Yesterday, Saturday, I joined my fellow Hesperides club members on a retreat to Mt. Lemmon. It was something I was looking forward to the whole week but the little weather box in my Google homepage told me it was going to rain that day. It had a bright and sunny sun for Friday and Sunday but a big gray cloud for Saturday. Out of all the days it had to be Saturday. Me trying to be very optimistic I thought to myself "Hmm...its maybe just going to sprinkle on us". Leaving my house on Saturday morning I carried that thought in my head. Walking to school, where we had to meet up, I looked to the sky and it looked pretty nice and calm. This added more to my optimism. I said hi to everyone, said hi to Tricia, and we loaded up the vans. We started driving up to the mountain, again everything was still looking great. Getting higher, at about 6,000 ft, the sky fell on us. Or to put it in lamest terms, we were inside the clouds. Or to put in even lamest terms, there was a lot of fog. Heart of Darkness anyone. But back on track, we were fortune enough to find this spot that looked fairly calm. The only problem, it was freaking cold. Getting settled we start with a team building activity. Half way into the activity its starts to lightly rain on us. My optimism goes back to it's original stage. Two minutes later it started to hail on us. We had no other option then to run back into the van. Around ten minutes later the hail calmed down. Getting back to our activity's we finish the first one and start another one. Starting the second activity it starts to rain again, hard. At this point my optimism was just let down. The rain again calms down. We get off the vans again and Ms. Ayala starts to grill up the meat. Some people left to go hiking to wait for the food. Me and Tricia decided to take a walk. A great walk complemented with nature. Again, it started raining. We decided to go lower in the mountain. Even though we were all soaked but hungry. After feasting in steak, beans, tortillas, fruit salad, chips, the sniffles, and capri sun we started to head back to Tucson. Arriving at Pueblo we realized we were all still soaked, our sweaters mainly. But even though mother nature did not cope with us in this trip we all still managed to have fun. What other team building exercise can we ask for. With everybody's helped we managed to have a lot of fun.

I've been listening to Murs's album "Murs for President". Before its release I wasnt giving it as much appreciation because he was going to release it with a major label. You can also say that I called him a sell-out a few times. But now that I've been listening to it, it's still the same Murs that I love. Check out his video for "Can It Be".


Loud. com did a new interview with DJ Quik. On the interview DJ Quik leaked some information about Dr. Dre's acclaimed album "The Detox". Again I am hooked on this album even more. He also talks about Murs's album.


So today is Sunday. Last day of the weekend. I have to do some homework. I have to stop procrastinating. See y'all this week.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Laughter with Another

Do you think laughter is more satisfying with a companion? I think so. First period, I get to share my laughter with Alex and Ricardo, on a good day with another member of the media club. Being that it's so early in the morning you think laughter is the last thing on my mind but really it's the first, using to commence yet another day. Leaving 1st period I got to 2nd period, "Percussion Master" or drumline. Coming inside the class I immediately see Paul and Will. Just looking at them I laugh with them joining in confusion on why I am laughing. With Alexis, we make a smart movie, song, t.v. show, or youtube video analogy and right off we start cracking up. On a lucky Chenzo may be there and that's always a blast. 3rd period is always fun. Walking up to the class I already see Chivo, Gilbert, Ignacio, and Andrew (not in my class) and laugh it up a little till the bell rings. Inside the class I always have everyone in the class to enjoy laughter with. Even Mr. Reitz. Lunch, on some days we have those lunches where we're laughing through the whole 35 minutes but on a normal day I just enjoy and share those cute little laughs joined by saying "Oh geez..." with Tricia. 4th period, Mr. Santa-Cruz. I do not have to say more. And then I have Alex and Ricardo in there. 5th period, when Mr. Baladov feels like it he actually makes the class fun and with Ricardos smart-ass humor I always enjoy a few laughs with my fellow classmates. Once in a while Me and Will crack up some inside jokes. 6th period, Mr. Reff promised that we will be laughing in class all through this semester. He has not let us down one bit. I have enjoyed quiet a lot laughs with the other classmates in there because of Mr. Reff. 7th period, just saying "Hello" to Dr. Letter makes me laugh. His mellowness leaves you so comfortable you just have to laugh. Having to sit in the same table with Daniel always comes with a few nice little crack ups. Ending school and seeing Tricia we always claim a laughter at the same time just for the simple fact we are seeing each other again. After that is band practice and there always laughs to share there. But don't just take my word. See for yourself, see how sharing laughter feels so much better than regular ol' laughter.

Atmosphere released the video for "You" today of their album "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold". Remember those finger skateboards. Yeah, you'll be seeing a lot of that in this video. Weird because the song has nothing to do about that...


I really don't have nothing else to blog. As a matter a fact I wasn't going to blog today but some anonymous comment made. So there you go anonymous.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Re-Happines?

Is that even a word?

I know there can be such phrase as "I am happy again", but is that true? Can you leave happiness and come find it again. In the view of me a while ago. One day, while myspacing, my computer just brakes down on me. I tried to turn it on again but it wouldn't turn on. Frustrated at the computer I just give up and call a computer nerd from Geek Squad. I tell him my situation and he tells me that my computer is messed up. He tells me if I ever made damage to it and confidently I say no. Resuming on the problem the Geek Squad guy tells me I had to send my computer to a specialist. I send to a specialist. Thinking it was only going to take 1-2 days to fix it, turns out it took 8. During those 8 days I was so bummed. WHERE WAS I GOING TO MYSPACE FROM! The only thing that made me happy, myspace, wasn't in my reach for 8 days. But that one day I got my computer I felt so "happy again". It was a reunion to remember. But in my opinion, happiness is never gone. Even when the factors that causes happiness are gone there is always going to be some sort of amount. But when the factor is there...ones happiness can shine brighter than the morning sun.

British artist D*Face recently exhibited his showcase aPOPcalypse Now. The exhibit focused on pop culture and super heroes. Both from the Marvel and DC world.
















Very nifty.

If you didn't catch it last Friday VH1 had a rockDocs on NWA. Nothing special. They said the same thing they say over and over again. They meet, they make their first album, becomes very controversial, on top of the world, another album, turns out to be not as good, group brakes up, some members go solo, some beef, Eazy-E gets aids, Eazy-E dies, all wish they could of got together for another album. Yeah same old, same old. Here's a little preview.


That's all for tonight. I didn't blog Friday and Saturday because I actually had something to do. Other wise, Friday was awesome. See you all this week.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

"You got to do what you got to do..."

In a life filled with distractions and temptations it is hard to stay on track. Falling into this means that most of the time you bring the off-tracking to yourself. For some individuals sometimes falling off track is brought upon. Many things can cause it. Family issues, health issues, and etc. Even though they can be good excuses to not catch up only a few conscious people know what's best for them and that is catching up. Either if it's on a deadline with your boss, school work, and etc. Sometimes you have to put some enjoyments to the side. Not literally to the side, like letting it go for a while. Put a side in such a form that its one of the minor priority's. Even though it can be hard to do it you got to do what you got to do. Leaving the mind clear to enjoy life's enjoyments.

This weeks Artist of the Week is a fashion photographer from Singapore named Zhang Jingna. She must have a pretty good camera.



>







>
>


Here's another house from Brazil. It's called the Osler House. It has a panel of tiles by the artist Athos Bulcão designed specifically for the wall of its entrance. He is known for working with architects of the modern time.













Today was a very unenjoyable day. The part where I got to see Tricia again was more than I can ask for but otherwise, I feel like this heavy gloomy cloud keeps floating over Pueblo and doesn't seem to go away.