Just received an autographed copy of Steven Aimone’s Design! A Lively Guide to Design Basics for Artists & Craftpeople. Many thanks to Steve and Katherine Aimone for this invaluable book. Beside writing, they also provide art workshops, classes, and lectures. For more information on their work, check out Aimone Art Services.
Looking at this young, full of life, and adorable face takes me back to the joyful days I spent with Samantha. The last time I went back to Lancaster for the weekend, she did something that I could never forget.
After I kissed her soft baby cheek goodbye, she grabbed my arm and sadly said, “Where are you going, cau Doanh (uncle Donny)?” I told her softly, “I have to go home, honey.” She immediately replied, “But your home is up there” as she pointed to my old room. I busted out laughter with happy tears. I held her tight and didn’t want to leave.
Visualgui.com is restyling once again. Obviously, there are bugs to kill, especially with these beautiful flowers, but I am not going to sweat them. Holla if ya feel me.
The controversial Eminem takes his stand on political campaign. His latest video “Mosh” produced by GNN is pretty damn wicked.
Just made a minute and a half presentation in front of about 15 Vassar’s Trustees including Meryl Streep (class of ’67) and Lisa Kudrow (class of ’85). I had to briefly describe the design process behind Community Works and Powerhouse websites.
The presentation turned out fine since I made it as short and concise as possible. I am glad it was done and over it. I hate public speaking ever since I was a freshman in college. I wanted to be a communication major, what was I thinking? Public Speaking was the most stressful class I ever had in college. After that course, I immediate changed my major to Digital Arts & Multimedia Design so that I can just let my arts do the talking for me. Well, I can now breathe normal again. Have a fantastic weekend everyone.
Is my navigational element provoked some curiosities? The arrangements of types are visually playful. It’s a bad choice in web design but I am sick of sticking with the straight forward and “don’t make me think” approach. I want you to look at them for a bit and try to figure out what the heck they are supposed to be. Obviously I am a color guy as well. As you can see I used many colors in my design. By the way, I also took out other sets of GUI styles. No reason, just not interested anymore.
Is Talib Kweli’s Beautiful Struggle struggling that bad? Didn’t cop the album but heard a couple of tracks. While his lyrical content is impressive, his delivery isn’t so convincing. He can’t flow to the beat the way Pac did. Speaking of Pac, Beautiful Struggle makes me appreciates Me Against The World even more. It’s a fantastic album with beautiful lyrics, blazing flows, and bomb-ass beats. The way Pac dropped his verse was amazing.
Eminem’s new single “Just Lose It.” Here he goes again with the wack-ass hook and bang-ass beat. Can’t wait until Encore, his new album, drops.
Yahoo goes standards but doesn’t support Safari. What is up with that? It looks good though. This is a big move and a right direction for Yahoo.
Asian American is the Least Likely to vote. Hey! I registered.
The real Tuan Ngoc without makeup. Although he is aging, his voice remains unchanged.
While reading Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, I am tempting to collect every Hip-Hop album reviewed in the book. Oliver Wang and his contributors have done an extraordinary job of tapping into the movement of Hip-Hop by giving us constructed criticism of albums that had changed the game or taken rap music into another level.
Incase you haven’t noticed, I’ve added a set of GUIs called Typefaces and I also set it to be the default style. The visualgui.com types are refined from serif to sans serif with more colors to match each set of GUIs.
The “Top Ten” and “Rants” catagories have been dropped and moved to “Everything Else.”
