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Archive for November, 2006

Polish Night Sucks!


Finally checked out what “polish night” at Wadpoles was all about last night and sadly must report to all my polish friends that the place does them no justice.

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Giving Thanks


“Thanks-taking” day is best celebrated for the meaningful things we do have in our lives (like love, friendship, family, etc..) rather than for some misrepresented day which earmarks a massacre of native peoples in the americas.

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1st postmark ever


On the recommendation of my tutor, I took a stroll over to Bank street to snap a picture of an infamous sigh that commerates the first ever postmark issuing facility near that very spot.

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TA week 8: Typographic Expressions


This week’s lesson featured a performance of typographic letter forms where pairs of students had to physically express their assigned character. Some very clever stuff presented and fun to watch in general.

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Swiss Re Tower


One of my favorite pieces of architecture here in London is the replacement building for the former Baltic Exchange.

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Grandma Day


An old-school photo of my grandmother, my mom and myself back during more “simpler” times. My grandma was a looker back in her day, wasn’t she?!

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THANKS from LONDON!


I sent out a bunch of custom postcards as a way of saying “thanks” for those that participated in sending submissions over the summer to help assist my thesis project. Did you get yours yet?

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TA week 7: Studio Day


Just a studio day for the students to work through some of their projects and to touch up their postcard assignment.

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Tibisay day!


I couldn’t help dig up these gem photographs….those were the days, weren’t they?!

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Vertigo


Decades later Alfred Hitchcock’s films still prove to be masterpieces that can provoke and startle it’s viewers.

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The Fog of War


Good documentary film featuring former U.S. Secretary of State (Kennedy era) Robert McNamara giving his views on the handling of the Vietnam war and offering some lessons to be learned from it for today’s mishandling of wars.

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I Kiss You


I think Sacha Baron Cohen owes Mahir Çağrı of Turkey a lot of ca$h for his big hit movie “Borat” which clearly uses the Turkish internet celebritys’ likeness without abandon or endorsement.

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U.S. mid-term elections


Democrats open a can a whoop on the Republicans and send Dubya and his cronies a strong message that change iscoming, and coming fast!

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TA week 6: Postcards


This week the students were scheduled to hand in their final postcard designs for their typography project.

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Halloween in London


Halloween itself sucked. However, the Halloween party I went to a couple of days later was a blast.

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Dracula 3000


Words alone can’t explain what a complete brain-drain this movie was. An awful way to spend a Halloween night. No wonder why they were giving it away for free at the pub I was at…

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