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.

“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 posted this incomplete track a few weeks ago.. I kind of started working on it again (out of no where!) and actually managed to finalize it during the past few days !!

I trekked over to the west end of Toronto yesterday (where Dundas meets College) and found an abandoned warehouse:

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!