I dropped by the Regional Assembly of Text again… an artsy independent store that holds one of Vancouver’s few Zine Libraries. Last summer, I remember going to the library and donating a few of my mini zines. To my surprise, they were still there:

August starts tomorrow and I have several big plans to end off the summer with… which will flow right into the school year.

A new online business - I will release a report with the logistics behind this idea after this has been out for at least 3 months:

Projects, projects, projects - I’ve finally updated my projects section of the site. It made me realize that I am juggling a lot at the moment (yet, oddly enough, I don’t feel stressed about them). The only two blogs I’ve decided to keep have been around for almost 4 years now?? Right now, they just need to be updated… as for turning it into a blog network (or using it for marketing a different project..) I will have to wait to come up with a strategy that’ll work. For now, these will be like land property, an investment over time… but not ready for use yet.

The death of nufrosh and birth of Visual Pile - I might kill off nufrosh… this might be really hard because I’ve formed an attachment, it’s always been with me since highschool!

I am looking to start branding a tiny design firm this year (it’s just a concept at the moment, and will be online-based for now). The goal is to have it decently established for when I graduate, which is when I will register the business name, and turn a concept into reality. This might be the birth of Visual Pile because of it’s marketability potential over nufrosh.

At the surface level, you can notice that each blog advertises another blog in a one way direction, there are not benefits that are directly reciprocated. However, when looking at the network as a whole ecosystem, they are all connected to each other. As one blog benefits, the whole networking flourishes as well.

Keeping the network connection indirect is impacting to:

1) SEO (search engine optimization): it allows the maximum potential for SEO. When links are reciprocating, search engines usually lower the value of the link because they are not viewed as organic (since it may be a link exchange).

2) User Traffic: this also allows visitors to shuffle along the blog network, spreading the users and traffic across the network in a controlled maze. If the relationship were simply between two blogs, the benefits would only be exclusively exchanged amongst them.

Acquiring a large blog network leads to several benefits for your dominant and secondary businesses. How can you intertwine all of your projects so that they can form a network of symbiosis relationships?

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
G.K. Chesterton

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
Rosa Luxemburg

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost

“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”
Chuck Palahniuk

Attempted to draw a graffiti-like typeface for fun with my friend.. and it ended up looking.. vulgar:

Also, decided to go from long hair

To short… from Nikol D at Coupe Bizzare!

Also… on the side note: I will be participating in an artshow during the month of November at Sleeping Giant Gallery. Keep your eyes peeled out for details!!

In queue:
- Secret artshows (completely anonymous, maybe you’ll bump into them in the city)
- Zine making
- T-shirt silkscreening
- Finishing up another EP.. and perhaps a bootleg remix CD
- New business venture
- A soulful trip to Vancouver and NYC (which I’ll be taking some streetstyle photographs for my joint collaboration fashion blog with my bestfriend)
- Adding an interactive/UX design portfolio section to the site
- And lastly… people, people, people

I dropped by Chelsea this early afternoon and found some pretty neat street art there:

I started off the day with the worst burger ever. A falafel burger that tasted like a bitter block of salt.

Back to NYC again!
I discovered some new things here and best of all: the streets and feel of the city is starting to become familiar (and it’s only been my 3rd trip!)

Fun part: experiencing the city with different friends.

I spent my weekend catching up on school work and relaxing (finally!)..