what a week! (nine)

Sunday I made the trek down to San Diego. I had not been home since early September and the escape down the coast was well deserved. My first stop was home to visit moms. Unfortunately the family dog Daisy has seen better days and is being tended to day and night.


Leaving Pas


On the way down


Daisy in her younger days

While I was at home my mom busted out some baby pics. I thought I would share them.




Moms, my lil sis Alyssa and me


Mike and I


My grandma and me outside Our Lady of Guadalupe Church after my baptism.


Magic Mountain...lots of magic in this blog post today


This pic was kind of weird. I pretty much hate reading but according to my mom. I used to love reading. I wonder what went wrong? Oh and this pic was during spring break in La Paz, Baja California, Mexico

After a short stop home I was off to pick up my lovely company for the next couple of hours, Veronica. I had not seen her since my last trip home and it was awesome that she was able to make the journey up from her new stomping grounds of Ensenada down in Mexico. Our first stop was beautiful Mt. Soledad. It was a typical beautiful day in San Diego. The weather couldn't have been better. Mid 70's, breezy with just enough sun. The views from Mt. Soledad were as beautiful as my company. After that we grabbed a late lunch before we said our goodbyes.


Looking out over La Jolla




Veronica and I cozying up for the camera



Then it was off to Scripps Ranch for Jason's birthday get together. It was good to see most everyone together. Jason's dad treated us to some magic. He truly is a renaissance man. Around 11 after almost 12 hours in SD it was time to make the trip back to Pasadena. My trip was short but very, very sweet!


Blurry shot of Jason blowing out candles


Birthday hat courtesy of more MAGIC!


RJ in disbelief


Still messing with RJ


Vic doing magic on Geovanna


Caiden and G


If you click on the video it will take you to Flickr where you can download the whole video by clicking the emded link and scrolling down. Flickr doesn't show the whole video.

Monday I started feeling sick. I noticed a sore throat was coming on and decided to act quickly. A lil too quickly. I thought it would be a good idea to get some zinc for my sore throat. Unfortunately I bought zinc tablets instead of lozenges. I took too many and had an acute overdose. I self diagnosed this thank to the internet. Sufficed to say my symptoms were stomach cramps and nausea within 15 minutes of taking the zinc. I had taken the equivalent of 1500% of a daily value and suffered the consequences. Two days later I was back in form with just a cold. However my early attack helped somewhat and my cold was not as severe as it could have been.

Luckily for me I had done most of my work for type already so when I explained to the teacher what had happened and why I didn't have all my work. He couldn't tell that I had not done all that I had planned on.


Folds I am using for a brochure/poster



After a nice long nap, I got started on screen printing my Archetype project. Wednesday I got the first pass on the press with my prints. Here is a peak.


Print drying madness




Cleaning up


Sexy ass black on black print


Varnish with some brown layer

Thursday I decided that going to the HS would have to wait until next week that I still needed rest. I was treated to some homemade chicken soup by Joanne. No pics of that as I crushed that soup with the quickness. By Friday I was feeling a lot better but still somewhat sick. I am still taking meds trying to kick this cold out.

Random Photos of the Week


Clean ass black on black AMG Benz to go with my black on black prints

week 8

week 8

Saturday I took Joanne to the big sale at LA Eyeworks. That's where I got my latest set of spectacles from. Joanne had mentioned she had her current eye glasses for some time. So when the flyer for the sale came in the mail I knew she had to go. She ended up getting a nice pair of glasses for pretty cheap. We also had lunch at the Grove. I had never been there before and it was very nice. I also was able to find a gift for Emily's first birthday.




Greek Food!



For Tuesday's Type 4 class I was working on a website all weekend. I hate coding and websites and flash even more. Miraculously I somehow was able to figure out with help from Jesse the site and got things working for the most part. Brad, my type teacher, was happy with the outcome.


Poster examples



Wednesday I decided to skip Archetype. Since I wasn't able to get the screen burned I didn't have anything ready. So sleep was in order! That gave me a lot of time to work on my interactive midterm.

In the evening I went over to Parkwood for Nico's Birthday dinner. Was a nice chill evening with the usuals for a pasta dinner.



Thursday was more of the same. Arcadia H.S. in the morning and finishing up interactive in the afternoon.That was another coding pain in the ass. Somehow after lots of trial and error and trouble shooting. I was able to get that working.


Friday I skipped imaging. I wasn't going to go because I didn't think I would have interactive done. However since I was able to finish it up on thursday I decided to go to class. However when the alarm started going off I couldn't bring myself to get out of bed. I didn't miss much since we had a substitute teacher. I slept in 'til around 11. Then it was up to get shit done. I went to South Campus and get some info so that I could start getting supplies for silkscreening. After a trip to get paint down in Commerce then to downtown to McLogan's I was ready to print. I still don't have the traffic mentality in my head yet. After looking at the trip time to Commerce, it was only a 20 min trip. I thought sure I can do that before I have class at 3:30. I left around 1:20. I was somehow able to get back to school by 3:00.



There was only one other person that made it to interactive. I guess a lot of people were having coding problems. Two other people ended up coming in late. Since no one was there. Ryan, our teacher looked at our projects and let us go early. We now have to rework a couple issues which is good but I thought I was finally done with this project.

Afterwords I went upstairs and hung out in the fishbowl with Dom and Joanne. Afterwords Dome came back to the house and we had some beers and pizza. Later I went to the Mentone Manor Monster Mash which was pretty chill.







Saturday I did a test print of my silkscreen, which if I say looks pretty dope. I can't wait 'til its completed. Only a couple more weeks and it will be done!




Random Photos of the Week




Bathroom at King Taco


Random note in one of my classes


While I have never been in there I recall the ads I used to see for them in Can Control back in the day.




Lil blurry but yes please

this week at ac

hmmm this week(7) wasn't super eventful.

Tuesday and Type 4 went well. We are working on screen based media (a website) this week. Time to turn my comps into a working site.

Wednesday at Archetype was proofing day. Here is a taste of what's to come soon.



Thursday at the high school was interesting. In the trailer classrooms where 2 of the 3 classes I TA for are located, the bells weren't working. There was another fire drill. However since the bells working working over there we instead had a lock down drill. Only we didn't know it was a drill until after the fact. This class is full of freshman. The teacher proceeded to act like it was a drill stating that we didn't know and still need to follow the rules. Some of the freshman started acting out as the teacher locked the door and turned off the lights. I can now see why a roving gun-child would start to take out these people first. Since I didn't know if it was a drill or not thoughts came into my head. Like taking the large stool next to me so that I could take out any wood-by gun-child trying to make it through the door. There is no way in hell some 15 year old is gonna take me out.

That evening I went into Archetype to work on my project some more. Joanne was working in there as well. Lizee called me and I told her to come hang out with us. Afterwords we went and got some grub. We went to Sala Thai. Their food is always bomb.







Beef Pad Thai and Pineapple Fried Rice with Beef, Chicken and Shrimp

Friday was relaxing. Imaging was pretty laid back and got out super early. Then I came home and did a lil work before taking a nap. I then skipped out on Interactive. Midterm for that class is due next week and I need to get cracking on that.

Tomorrow I am going shopping down on Melrose. Hopefully I will have some kind of story to share with you next week. 'Til next time

Random Pic of the Week


Just look at this awesomeness from the 80's