Keep this White Man from Voting

This dude right here apparently walked into a Louisiana Ballot Office, threw a hissy fit because the line was too long and started telling officials that he was urgently in need of casting a vote so he can "Keep the nigger out of office." Hahaha. What year is this? Who says racism doesn't exist. I really wonder why he's hating. This is some shit I can't understand. What makes him think that something like this is exceptable? Here's his warrant-on-the-go papers. When he was arrested, he continued hating on blacks and told officials he had a shotgun hidden in his residence. He's sitting in his cell with a pink bow on his head giving a foot massage to his 340 lbs cellmate who is black as hell. I hope Obama pardons your stupid mug just so he can throw you back in the cell...that is...if he wins the election.

Great Designs Ruined

I'm coming very close to a 6 month-a-versary of working at Qi Interactive in New Jersey. The people are great and I've had the opportunity to learn. We address simple problems of the web experience that our clients demand and we push back with complicated answers, thus achieving mediocre results. I guess it makes sense if you do the math.

I can't help, sitting in my cubicle, but feel like our collective potential (Designers,Managers, Developers, Account Managers alike) is far from being reached. I found a blog by Designer Matthew Inman about the corporate design process. It's comical. Check it out!

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-ruin-a-web-design-the-design-curve

In a nutshell...the more "dissecting, analyzing, and critiquing a design by the wrong kinds of people", the work exponentially gets worse.

Group intelligence is multiplicative when idiots are involved - combining a half-wit with another half-wit does not result in a full-witted person, it results in a quarter-witted person (1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4). Combining a full-witted individual with a half-wit still only yields a half-wit. The more of these "wrong kinds of people" you have involved in the process, the worse things get.

I do see growth in the company though, even if I've only been there for a a couple months. Little by little, I can see they are recognizing design as more as a necessity and backbone rather than merely cosmetic. Not fully there yet...if only they knew the power of design. If only I knew how to articulate the ideas the same way my hands handle the craft. It IS a pharmaceutical design firm...and they will probably always more concerned with press releases, clients, and winning awards, but won't see any results until they isolate the cancers and silence them...leaving room for awesomeness to run it's course.

The trends by Matthew Inman:




Go check out his blog. Sounds a little over-elaborate and bitter, but I think you'll understand and perhaps have a nice laugh the next time some idiot at the office asks you to make the background color on their website bright teal.

Look What I Found!

I keep a lot of old drawings, and one that stood out immediately was this one. I loved comics. I'm pretty sure that's Cable from Marvel. This drawing must be 5 or 6 years old from when I was in High School. Maybe older! COOL.

Jekyll & Hyde, Bruce Banner & The Hulk, Left & Right

Some drawings with my left hand and then redrawn with my right.

Which one is which?

Teenagers: Expert Apathetics

A recent study on teenagers (engadget.com) reports that they won't be able to listen or hear altogether. Their attachment to their electronics... cell phones, ipods/mp3 players, speakers is nothing less than blasting their eardrums into "null." The consensus was that they thought they were bulletproof (danger is my middle name), that they could fly ( I am capable of extraordinary physical things), and that they would never lose touch of their highschool friends (read your HS yearbook comments, it might say something like: "Let's keep in touch!" ... "Who's Bobby Kim?") On that note, whenever I'm walking around New Jersey Suburbia, I make sure I don't start beef with the local HS Seniors. They don't care about anything. I remember when I was the HS Beast... I wouldn't want to argue me either.

You know that ringing you hear sometimes in your ear after a loud concert? Apparently, that's your ear losing that frequency. My friend Danny has a laugh every now and then at church...he has a high frequency mp3 on his phone that he turns on during a sermon. Everyone older than 30 years of age had no reponse, while all the kids turned around squinting cuz the sound was loud.

For the majority of my time, I freelance design at home. I was working on a project when I started hearing a very loud high pitched sound coming from outside. I thought it would pass, and waited for about half an hour. The sound just got louder and louder... I thought my windows would explode. I went on a short adventure looking for the sound all around the house. I was almost immobilized because my ears were hurting. Finally, the noise led me to the grill outside, where mom was making dinner on a grill that burns from a propane tank. The noise was coming from a leak in the propane tank, which is dangerous and also super annoying. I began yelling at my mom to turn it off. She looked at me and had a strange expression. "What's wrong with you?" I had my eyes closed, bent over and I began yelling, "TURN OFF THE TANK!!!" She finally turned it off and I asked her if she heard anything. My dad came outside. They were both very confused.

Technology is cool, but teenagers lack moderation in their leisure. I went mini golfing with my friends younger brother... he said that mini-golfing was "gay" and went off to the golfing range. I thoroughly enjoy both mini-golfing and the range. Don't kill a fun thing by doing it all the time. Try new things. Get off of your mp3 player and MAKE music.

Too many tangents. I'm off.

Awesome Invention of the Month

It's not really the awesome invention of the month, it's been around for a while. For coding geeks out there like me... (correct me if I'm wrong) we understand that RSS is a sophisticated version of xml files...which in itself is a quite dynamic file capable of doing lots of things. For the commonwealth out there that don't understand "Geek Talk," RSS is revolutionary...my information comes to me, INSTANTLY. It also takes up 80 percent of all the informational updated websites you go to, facebook, cnn.com, my GMAIL...and even this very blog can go into your RSS reader by clicking the link on the bottom of my side menu that says "subscribe to posts." Just copy the link into your RSS reader! COOL.

So I'm still new at this, but my brother pointed out something SUPER cool. There are RSS readers that allow me to look at all my information... visualize and interact with it. In other words, I just saved like 40 minutes out of my busy day. Instead of waking up and checking my email/replying, checking my facebook (messages, updates, new wall entries), checking the news, looking through 5 different job listings websites.... I cut that all down to just one solid page where i can customize all the information. It even has neat widgets...calenders, to do list, blah blah. SO SIMPO.

Anyway, you can download a RSS reader...for you mac users, there's stuff like www.newsfirerss.com. Or like me and my genius brother, you can just make an account super fast at www.netvibes.com and make it your homepage.

Chicago Kollaboration

Here's some video of last years Chi.Kollaboration on the Korean news. Note, that during my shot they chose the least articulate moment of the interview. 5.0 GPA? Is that even an actual score? I don't think it is...but I do make a nice point.



Doesn't even look like me. Bald head for 3 years. What was I thinking? I might have to start it up again because I'm balding. That fedora is badass though, I haven't had a chance to wear it since. Everyone that commented on the TXT MSG project. Thanks a million. You guys are the true eccentrics and harbingers of change. I don't know what that means right now, but it sounds awthum.

AND, I found a video of the entire performance in higher quality than the old one! Enjoy.