Read about this teeniebopper who designs Myspace layouts and is a self made millionaire. Hmmm, maybe I should hit the adult entertainment industry and make layouts for them. Doesn't this make you sick? Not to be hating but it really drives me insane at how lucky some freaks of nature get.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

-Paul Altreideis, DUNE

Committed Facebook suicide the other day....I feel, cleaner somehow.

Pretty tight book on swiss (or 'Grid') based design and layout. With cool overlays on existing designs that show how they correspond with a grid system. Not bad for $20.00.

Labels: Graphic Design

There's an abundance of tragedy in day to day existence that screams with such distinction about the finiteness of our lives.

My fiancee's sister was walking along in LA with several of her co-workers when a driver who was engrossed in waving hello to one of his homies lost control of his vehicle and sped towards the pavement, killing two of her friends and putting a third in critical condition. This took place in LA, and fortunately they caught the little shithead. Turned out to be a 19 year old hispanic male, who's being tried as an adult can add manslaughter to his list of charges, an upgrade from vehicular manslaughter. He fled and even dragged one of the female victims along in his beaten up piece of shit ride. He'll be someones wife in jail soon I'm certain. And now his life is royally fucked beyond anything and that in itself is definitely an evil thing. Despite our tendency to demonize him, despise him and anything else just imagine in an eyeblink your life is shattered beyond repair. I don't think that the guy deliberately wanted to run over people unless he'd been playing GTA and was high as a kite.

And now she has to seek counseling. How strange it must feel to have come within an inch flirtation with death, knowing that people you know died instantly. She also has to dodge reporters to add stress to an already stressed out situation. Fortunately she didn't stick around for media morons to annoy and harass as she left the scene to contact people, phone 911, etc. She didn't stand around gawking by spode into quick action. I admire her for it, too. To top it off, she just got through a battle with Breast Cancer earliest in the year and won. Wow, two close encounters with death and she survived! Amazing...simply amazing.





Read about it here.

Labels: Art of Life