Some Stuff

December 22, 2009 :: Category - Uncategorized

These boots are lovely:


Credits: refinery29 | mrnewton.com, vogue.fr, facehunter

Drawing & Making Music

December 21, 2009 :: Category - Designs, Messy Closet, Music, Uncategorized

I decided to make an infographic about the process of drawing & making music, and how they can overlap.. It’s weird because when I draw, I tend to look at a list of principles that I thought were completely different from when I make music.. but looking at it carefully: they have more in common than you’d think!

This is just a general idea.. of course there are different styles that would use different principles.

On the side note:
Interestingly.. I’ve never really seen beats as holding music together until after I started incorporating it into my music. So I guess the opposite applies, to create airy sounding music: remove beats or use different samples that allow the music to float!

Exploring Toronto Again

December 21, 2009 :: Category - Designs, Personal/Updates, Thoughts, Zines

Back to exploring Toronto again.. there are so many things I haven’t noticed during the summer roaming: new places to explore in familiar areas.


East side of Yonge street.. near Yonge & Wellsley

Grass Roots on Bloor


Eliot’s Bookstore on Yonge


Hot Pot on Dundas

Hello Holidays

December 21, 2009 :: Category - Personal/Updates, Thoughts

Today

December 19, 2009 :: Category - Personal/Updates, Thoughts





These quotes are interesting…

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
Maya Angelou

“Every wall is a door.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary”
Mark Twain

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn

“I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.”
Javan

Update: Angela Davis Poster

December 18, 2009 :: Category - Designs, Sketches/Drawings

I was contacted by the U of T Student Union for a poster design commission. It’s for Angela Davis’s lecture, which is coming up in February :)

I might go through quite a few drafts before reading the final product:


Poster Design “Skeleton” (first draft)


Incorporating a mix media rendered portrait of Angela Davis:

And that’s about it so far..

2:17 AM - Tuesday

December 15, 2009 :: Category - Personal/Updates, Thoughts



An incomplete track that I can’t finish right now.
This is how I feel





Life in Toronto?

December 11, 2009 :: Category - Personal/Updates

New Track & Stuff

December 10, 2009 :: Category - Music, Personal/Updates, Thoughts, Uncategorized, Zines

It’s Never Said Once - download

I finished another track. Even though it may seem like they’re all being sporadically produced, it’s only the 3rd final track that I would call a final. The rest were quite experimental, but it all lead to these completed tracks… so as an anology… experimental tracks are sketches? A process to final pieces?

This portable keyboard is soooo useful :) Making music at the cafe or library? Fun.

So I started logging onto myspace again to promote my music and the responses have been good so far ~

Drawing marathon needs to start soon…

Haunted U of T Building Photo Day

December 10, 2009 :: Category - Uncategorized

I went to 1 Spadina Crescent with a couple of people today for a photo adventure. The building is apparently “haunted” from an unsolved murderer in the 80’s… To top that off, a women recently fell to her death from the roof.


We ventured from the highest level of the building to the pits of the boiling basement:

Random animal prints leading to a vent?

A tiny room filled with the word “life” in different languages

A random drawing found in the basement