05 December 2009

25 November 2009

time to revamp the port

working on re-doing my door site/portfolio and i'm pretty excited =]

there are a lot of holidays in brasil

I've been spending some time in Brazil doing some classes at the Miami Ad School in São Paulo and this past holiday i went away with a couple of friends to a town nearby called Itatiba where a friend has some property there. This is the sunrise as we arrived:


Check out the rest of the pictures of this beautiful place here.

07 July 2009

take me back to the first woodstock please

1969


2009

Woodstock concert’s undercover lovers, Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, 40 years after summer of love

As to why their photo was chosen, Nick has a theory. “It’s peaceful, which is what the event was about,” he says. “And it’s an honest representation of a generation. When we look at that photo I don’t see Bobbi and me. I see our generation.”

30 June 2009

in the motherland


oh brasil, how i love thee. the end of the night doesn't get any better than watching the sunrise on a hill overlooking the city blasting music and dancing around like fools.

22 June 2009

the blogs are a buzzz

they are finally here. can't wait for a trailer! first looks at the amazingness in the making that is tim burton's alice in wonderland. enjoy =]



johnny depp as the mad hatter

helena bonham carter as the red queen

anne hathaway as the white queen
tweedledee and tweedledum


concept art:

19 June 2009

type rocks!

great example of type used creatively

argentinean condom ad before the 2002 world cup qualifiers against brazil:

















Brazil's response:

17 June 2009

Another city for me to fall in love with

When I was told that São Paulo is the "New York of Brasil" I thought I knew what to expect but I haven't even been here a full 24 hours and I'm already overwhelmed (in a good way). I'm staying with my mother's aunt who is a psychologist and owns a pilates studio in the city and she's the "cool"aunt who's traveled all over the world and has a hard-cover copy of the Kama Sutra on the living room coffee table. Basically it's the 3rd(?) biggest city in the world and I'm seriously considering coming to live here at the end of the year for school. Pictures soon to follow. Tchau!

10 June 2009

UH-MAY-ZING

Went to go see Fuerza Bruta tonight with the brother and it was absolutely amazing. This goes way beyond audience participation in a show. During the entire show everyone is standing and the stages are platforms that move around the audience so at any point in the show you are pretty much front row center. At one point a giant tarp filled with water decends over your head and lowers so close you can touch it as people slide across. Pretty awesome.



03 June 2009

oh hey there new photoshop obsession















i love exploring because i find i can do things like this then obsess over it.
SOTD: Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon

Photo:Simon Woodham

02 June 2009

i'm growing strange and strong

“Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, “You’re crooked. You’ve always been crooked and you’ll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!” said the straight tree. He said, “I’m tall and I’m straight.” And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, “Cut all the straight trees.” And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.”

28 May 2009

i'm a modern mermaid


so, this is an excerpt from my favorite book as a child called “If I Were in Charge of the World: and Other Worries” and it’s a collection of short stories and poems written in the perspective of children. my favorite chapter is called fairy tales and provides alternate endings to some of my favorite fairy tales such as this one [my fav, and possibly the reason for my realist romanticism]:

…AND ALTHOUGH THE LITTLE MERMAID SACRIFICED EVERYTHING TO WIN THE LOVE OF THE PRINCE, THE PRINCE (ALAS) DECIDED TO WEAR ANOTHER

i left the castle of my mer-king father,

where seaweed gardens sway in pearly sand.

i left behind sweet sisters and kind waters

to seek a prince’s love upon the land.

my tongue was payment for the witch’s potion

(and never would I sing sea songs again).

my tail became two human legs to dance on,

but i would always dance with blood and pain

i risked more than my life to make him love me.

the prince preferred another for his bride.

i always hate the ending to this story:

they lived together happily; i died

but i have some advice for modern mermaids

wh wish to save great sorrow and travail:

don’t give up who you are for love of princes.

he might have liked me better with my tail.

dear doritos: please, stop


had a pretty long discussion about this on saturday and i just saw the commercial and it reminded me: do i really want my chips to taste like my drunken late night craving that i totally regret in the morning? no, i do not. these chip companies are gettign way too creative with their chip flavors. what’s next? let’s just skip all the bull shit and go straight to hangover flavor lol

you had me at light saber whip






















cp+b hero factory

26 May 2009

memorial day weekend in maimi = shitshoww






friday: went to see LMFAO at LIV w nika
saturday: pool party at the flamingo and dinner and drinks at the van dyke w the awesome AP's that came down for the weekend
sunday: soccer, pam's baked zitti & red wine at the flamingo
monday: went to go see my baby sister carson rose (she's potty training!) at dad's house in palm beach gardens

20 May 2009

so basically advertising has come to sandwich porn
new quiznos ad inspired by 2 girls 1 cup

19 May 2009

pollution is more real than you know

click on the pictures for more amazing/extremely disturbing images

01 May 2009

08 April 2009

portrait



















photo by Leandro Quartiermeister
meu amoorrr =]

04 April 2009

03 April 2009

adventure with nika #2



















so nika and I went to the sony ericsson open today to watch the men's single semi-finals and despite the blistering heat it was quite fun. high light of the adventure: watching federer lose his temper and slam his racket [above], causing everyone to burst into cheer haha

more pics and videos later

31 March 2009

speaking of technology



















that's a laser disc
google it

new technology is so much fun



















so i haven't seen a movie in imax since they first opened the theater here and they didn't even play real feature films then just documentaries on sharks or something like that but i went to go see monsters vs. aliens with my family the other day in imax and it was so much fun! btdub: monsters vs. aliens, pretty funny!

i laughed a lot today















so today i accompanied my parents to the high school i went to for 9th grade for their annual brazilian carnival. it was so crazy seeing my old school especially because it changed sooooooooooooooo much since i went there. kinda reminds me of what a BAMF [i thought] i was lol also, i got to be one of the judges for the miss carnaval contest which was pretty cool. it made me miss high school and it also made me proud to be brazilian woo hoo!

30 March 2009

i was me before you

"You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. "

-Breakfast at Tiffany's

earth hour pictures

LA on











LA off











Vegas on












Vegas OFF












plus ici...

can't go wrong with the beatles

getting healthy

ok so, i've probably said it a million times but at this point it's something i not only need to do but something i want to do. i know when i take care of myself i feel better so here it goes... some things i'll be cutting back and others i'll be adding to my regimen.

maybe not all artists do drugs but...

so close, yet so far

blog me baby

facebook, myspace, twitter, tumblr, and now this
i may have an addiction