My love affair with Junot Diaz has largely depended on fate and faith.
I’ve mentioned him a couple of times before. A Pulitzer prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz fell into my existence at the tiny bookstore in the Ferry Building. After an early October dinner with the visiting parents, [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘arts’
August 21, 2008
Sketchy
Apart from going out a lot, working and having a precious few hours a day to play with my kitteh, there hasn’t been much time to blog this week, which sucks cuz life happens to be so interesting right now.
In the interim, I found this spectacular site by Andrea Joseph, who works wonders with just [...]
August 11, 2008
Jany Xu’s Mooooooo
Some of you may know that I’m majorly (huh, I always thought ‘majorly’ was a legitimate word- not according to WordPress) obsessed with typography and stationery. I even wrote an entry about how I wanted to get my own business cards.
Well… here they are! I just put the order in.
I wanted something very simple and [...]
June 6, 2008
Punching your employees in the face
literally. It’s kinda of strange, but quite interesting.
I don’t know if this should be mandatory for everyone as Gawker states, but definitely work the watch. Skip to about half way to see the actual action, but the music makes the set up worthwhile.
May 15, 2008
I never saw the whole thing until now!
This is amazing. Not just the time and energy, but music editing, thought-provocation (is that even a phrase?) and his openness to sharing the video. Of course, each viewing promotes his work, but the thought counts.
Some more information:
The new short film by Blu: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in [...]
April 18, 2008
Being Obsessive
I can’t get over how much I love this picture of me… cuz I really don’t look my best today, but you can’t tell w/ a lil Japanese magic:
Also, if you look to the upper left behind my head, there’s a caricature of me. You can see it here, but it looks really amazing in [...]
April 11, 2008
“I decline to accept the end of man.”
This post is almost 100% copied from here, other than this little paragraph. Enjoy! (P.S. Yes, I realize I reblogged this on Tumblr, which imports my WordPress entries. So sorry… but :oP.)
“All his life William Faulkner had avoided speeches, and insisted that he not be taken as a man of letters. ‘I’m just a farmer [...]
January 29, 2008
No Country for Unprincipled Men
I guess I really feel like blogging today. BTW: Spoiled Alert!
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Last Saturday night, Oscar and I went to go see No Country for Old Men, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen- who in case you didn’t know also worked on Paris, Je T’aime; O Brother, Where Art Though; The Big Lebowski; etc. I loved the [...]
