I’m starting a new project: Visual Pile (there’s only an uncoded mock-up of the site at the moment). It will essentially revolve about visual communication.. in an interesting way - I have yet to plan it all out.

So, it’s the end of the semester and I can’t believe I survived illustrative drawing. It was one of those classes that basically tore my self esteem into pieces. A huge chunk of the classmates were highly skilled in realism… whereas I was that student that couldn’t really draw. I remember going to the first few classes with Marta and we basically left EVERY class feeling like crap (for lack of a better word), doubting ourselves and our skills. Now that it’s over, I feel that we’ve all really improved with our drawing skills and most importantly: leaving with a clearer direction into knowing what needs to be improved Next step: illustrative drawing & painting.. never really painted full pieces before.. this will be the hardest challenge yet.

Random
I’m trying to practice french pronunciations daily using a website that provides audio files of common words! Check it out here

I just made a draft/rough version of how the infograph would be animated: it’s a bit too basic and indeed tedious without proper motion graphic techniques.

…and another video:

2 days
My “full length” track is finally complete.
It’s one of the few that I’m pretty satisfied with and a fusion of… everything I wanted?

Off topic:
I was asking my buddy for some advice about style… and it lead to browsing through fashion sites after fashion sites in the morning:

Image 1, 2: Band of Outsiders ; Image 3, 4 Agyness Deyn

Some pretty useful links:
- Trench Coat inspirations
- Band of Outsiders
- NYC Streetstyle @ TFS
- Paris Streetstyle @ TFS
- Models Streetstyle @ TFS
- Agyness Deyn Online
- Miss Pandora Fashion Blog

I roamed around the west today and came across a row of cute houses on Palmerston & Wolsley St. They kind of look like sail boats, parked beside each other.

My friends and I passed a bicycle store on Spadina that were selling vintage cameras yesterday… so I decided to drop by again today and bought two polaroid cameras for my collection

And ended the evening at Trinity Bellwoods Park after using up my last polaroid from my 10 pack:

I’m determined to roam around the park during sunset.. but that requires getting up before 7:00am! I have 1 more pack of polaroids left: they’ll be used up around the city. Trees & houses? And anything simple in between ~

Oh and something quick I did before bed last night: