What do you do now that you have graduated?

This is the question I am asked the most often. My typical answer is nothing. Followed by a chuckle, then an explanation that I have been on the job hunt, applying to positions in Advertising, Branding, and Marketing while trying to embrace my entrepreneurial spirit on the side. In actuality, in the past few months, I have been applying on the side and trying to start projects while really just living life. The internet provides a tremendous opportunity to be able to create movements that can be propagated to a vast audience with very very little overhead. In essence, you can touch people, and all you have to do is click. I feel liberated because as much as I do nothing, I do quite a bit. I peruse the internet, through a laundry list of social media avenues, collecting ideas and inspiration from all the cool shit thats going on here and there. All of which effects the way I think, act, and live. I am truly connected. In my cover letters, I explain that “I don’t just like social media, I grew up in it and I live it daily.” This is pure truth. As I sit in a house in Atl, in the midst of what many would describe as a crazy trip, I am still able to do all the things that I do when I am home, the things that I feel are key to my daily feeling of accomplishment. Sometime thats just seeing something amazing on the internet, like the NYC Dining Car or blogging about it, or checking on my friends on fb. Being away from home has allowed me to feel how connected I am really am in SF. all the friends that hit me up on weekends to know where they should party or monday afternoon txts about where we are going to play some ball. I appreciate the power of knowledge and then sharing what you know.

Who are you?

I guess asking what I do with myself is asking in part who I am. I could answer that question with blogger. Maybe. Social activist. Maybe. Good party aficionado. . I am one to look at the world critically and set out to change it for the best, just a little bit. That could be giving Hamburgers to the Homeless or trying to convince someone to go out without being scared of the consequences. I have looked around at the things that I do, the things that other ppl do and tried to find what makes me happy and what doesnt. Then I fight, tooth and nail to do much much more of the first and much less of the second. I love a good drink, the company of other ppl, an intriguing woman, sport, fashion, a good laugh and a satisfying meal no matter what time it is, just to name a few. If I can inspire one person, then I can die happy. I am tha Giant, looking at the world from the Clouds, with a bird’s eye view, a comb and a magnifying glass.

Now step right up to the edge of the cliff, and ….

TAKE THE LEAP with me.

Its always a great feeling to see your folks get on. I have mentioned the cats over at street etiquette numerous times, they are really carving out their stake in the fashion world. I put up a post about Mara a while back but if you havent gotten her EP, “From Her Eyes” get on that. Its for sure some ballet for the ears. If you dont believe me, watch the video. Well, watch it either way. Check Mara Hruby out

If the name wasnt enough, the swag is. This man is wet there is really nothing else that I could say. Its nonchalant, easy, effortless. Im a fan.

The video is pretty sick, the storyline is classic and the execution is interesting. Enjoy. You should slide thru to the show to see him and my boy @DuckworthSpeaks perform

Interesting…

Isaac Salazar makes these pieces of “Book Origami”. “I see my work as a way to display a meaningful piece of art onto a book that would otherwise sit on a shelf and collect dust; it’s also my way of recycling a book that might otherwise end up in a landfill. The words or symbols I use are drawn from anything that invokes inspiration or encouragement, such as “Read”, “Dream” and the Recycle symbol. If my work also makes people look at a book and even art in a new light then the piece has done its job“

With that being said, I am not sure if there isnt more meaning in the fact that the books are collecting dust and being thrown away but I do appreciate the artistry.

So we all saw that Oregon Nike has changed the game when it comes to college football uniform combinations, now Tinker Hatfield has changed the hoop court game too. I imagine it wouldnt be too disconcerting once you were used to it, ie if you are the home team, but I imagine your first time on that two tone would prolly give you some issues. Touché, Nike, Touché.

See the interview with the designer on Wired.com

I gotta show love to the folks, all day. My mans Bobby Brackins just put out an EP called Live Good 0.5. Dl that, if you question him living good, just look at Rosa Acosta. #Boom

Get on iTunes and buy this EP, or….. “Live Good 0.5“

Honestly, this is a brilliant viral campaign. So often companies talk about going viral but that not only sounds dumbass corny but never works unless the video itself would stand without the product. The videography and finger boarding are wet as is, the Hermes just adds an ill theme.

Btw… I started tumbling andrethagiant

This should be on your booklist, and the video is pretty slick too. Check out the Kottke.org write up.

I am always one to play off of contrast and juxtaposition. I also have grown very fond of tattoos. In this same vein, The Word Made Flesh comes very naturally to me. The idea resonates. Its a melange of two words I balance on my shoulders, the academic and the street, the ego and the id. The world we live in tells us to value the formers over the latters, but without the latters we cannot be real ppl. Just something to think about. Either way, I was always have a desire to look at ppls tattoos and cannot find them as readily visible as possible, whether its on the internet or me staring down some girl on a street corner. There were a myriad of photos to choose from for this post, but I thought that the first drawing was very telling of my perspective. Being a lifetime “mark”, I feel ppl have a tendency to want to force a tattoo to look like something specific, therefore constraining the artist. IMO, a tattoo is a living breathing thing. It sounds cliché but its true. You get one, then it fades, you touch up, you cut yourself, the tattoo changes. One would not argue whether your epidermis was living or not, so as the canvas for artwork, the art must live as well. Not to mention conceptually, the meaning of the tattoo must change, just as the person it is on changes. As artist, one would never tell an master artist to paint something in this way with these colors and nothing else, because that would stifle creativity and with it the artistry, the same is true of tattoos. Let someone artsy your body.