Day 46: Solidify

Fragment: The world can be posessed

Font: Galaxie Polaris

Quoted: Professor Alexander Nemerov

Nemerov was talking about Van Gogh today. My family has a thing for Van Gogh. We have 4 cypress trees in our back yard. This fragment refers to Van Gogh's impasto technique, as if it were an attempt to capture the world physically in the paint. 

I've noticed I always feel compelled to use Galaxie Polaris Light for Professor Nemerov. Maybe it's in the fragility of the individual characters, but it's something about the two that just works.

Day 45: Class

Fragment: Chance favors the prepared of mind

Font: Galaxie Polaris

Quoted: Louis Pasteur, found in Barnet's Short Guide to Writing about Art

I suppose the value of education is really about the refining of the mind. I might not know much about a lot of things, but I know that I'm not afraid to learn.

Day 44: Narrative

Fragment: Why is that there?
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Professor Nemerov

Should it be there?
or... does everything have to have a reason?

In other news.

Day 43: Awkward

Fragment: Embrace the Awkward
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Aaron X (http://wheresthestagexx.blogspot.com/)

I've found myself saying "The first date is always awkward," pretty frequently.
Also: "It's only awkward if you make it awkward." But I've realized this one doesn't always apply, because somethings are just plain awkward.

Day 42: Tiger

Fragment: "They assume strength, not fragility..."
Font: Helvetica Neue
Quoted: Professor Amy Chua

It looks late, but no: The article came out in January, and I began this project in February. I'm working on a poster for our Asian Pacific Heritage Month Event (Professor Chua is our speaker) Whenever I think back to the article, this sentence stands out to me.

Today's a red day.

Day 41: Hypnotize

Fragment: If I'm not beside you, I'm inside you
Font: Avenir
Quoted: N.E.R.D. in Hypnotize You

Day 40: Distant Flickering

Fragment: Throw a stranger an unexpected smile
Font: Galaxie Polaris
Quoted: Imogen Heap in Headlock


Apologies to anyone who's been waiting for my fragments.
I've been listening mostly to this reglitch of the Imogen Heap song
http://soundcloud.com/cryptex/imogen-heap-headlock-cryptex-reglitch

Here is the original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKZsZkH_MJc

Day 39: Taste

Fragment: The good side is to be alive
Font: Galaxie Polaris
Quoted: Professor Nemerov

And he's back at em.

Day 38: Afterthoughts

Fragment: "I got what I wanted but I don't know if that's what I want"
Font: Avenir
Quoted: Jake Eliasberg

In case it's unclear.... he got what he wanted.... but is that what will get him what he REALLY wants?

Day 37: Achieve

Fragment: Stop asking for permission
Font: Stencil
Quoted: Graffiti

In full: To achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.

Day 36: Make Me Feel

Fragment: Bring me back to life

Font: Mama Script

Quoted: Skylar Gray in I Need a Dr. by Eminem and Dr. Dre

Only I thought about Evanescence the whole time.

Day 35: Bubbles

Fragment: "Pop it before it floats over your head"
Font: Avant Garde
Quoted: Andy Yang


And then you spend all your time jumping and trying to smack it but it just won't come down :(

Day 34: Hobbies

Fragments: You're just fishing
Font: Avant Garde
Quoted: Justin Lan


So, Austin, what do you do for fun?
She fishes
Yeah. I fish.
Really?!
No, not really.
Justin!!

Day 33: Free Will

Fragment: In the end, it's your life
Font: Avenir
Quoted: Boston Grafitti


This one's turned out oddly cynical. Also ironically, I'm a determinist, so free will, theoretically doesn't exist.

Day 32: Waiting

Fragment: "We've got time"
Font: Futura
Quoted: Stranger


I'm waiting for my delayed flight to Boston... Not that I mind.
Time is one of my favorite words in the english language

Day 31: Starving

Fragment: "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death"

Font: Knockout

Quoted: Auntie Mame

From the 1958 Movie, Auntie Mame.

Day 30: Taste the Peaches

Fragment: "Will you take the time to come inside
Font: Avant Garde
Quoted: Beautiful Small Machines


Now nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody understands
The promises between a woman and a man
Don't always go as planned.



Listen to awesome here.

Day 29: Breakthrough

Fragment: "Leave the clouds behind"

Font: Galaxie Polaris

Quoted: Horoscopes

I like to read my horoscopes at the end of the day and see how much they match up. Sometimes it's scary how accurate it gets

Day 28: Roman Candles

Fragment: "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved..."
Font: Times New Roman
Quoted: Jack Kerouac


The full quote:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and in the middle, you see the blue center-light pop, and everybody goes ahh..."

Day 27: Grumpy

Fragment: "She was never happy, she was just delusional"
Font: Futura and Halvar
Quoted: Winston Hsu


Hahahhaha

Day 26: Space

Fragment: "Most needed are those 'third places'"
Font: FF Din
Quoted: Ray Oldenburg


The theory is that your home is the first place, your office is the second place, and everyone needs a third place.


“Life without community has produced, for many, a life style consisting mainly of a home-to-work-and-back-again shuttle. Social well-being and psychological health depend upon community."

Day 25: Spring Forward

Fragment: "clock time is a convenient fiction."

Font: Corbel (and Canadara for the numbers)

Quoted: Howard Mansfield in an NYT op-ed (here)

Getting my read on with the NYT. Mostly the fragment has a nice ring. Ironically, I was trying to experiment with this "Scheduled Post" option that Reuxben kindly taught me, though it didn't seem to work. Now my post for yesterday is published today (March 10th is on the 11th)

But now I get it. Always next time.

Used Canadara for the numbers because it bothered me that the 1's were serifed. Picky picky.

Day 24: Steady

Fragment: "Don't Rush"
Font: Gotham Light
Quoted: Mom


I give a lot of advice quotes, because when I hear them, I think of them as good life reminders.... but truthfully, I don't know much about how to live your life, so my fragments are salt to taste :)

Day 23: Summer Like Cinnamon

Fragment: "Go Ahead, let your hair down"
Font: Scriptina
Quoted: Corinne Bailey Rae


I've been singing this song all day... No reason.
Listen

Day 22: Too Cool

Fragment: "(Hashtag) Well Played sir"

Font: TwitterU and Pico

Quoted: Allen Zhang

Dedicated to a day of fun and silliness with amazing friends: Kevin, Mary, Victor, and Allen.

Victor: I guess coolness has finally caught up to me.

Allen: #well played sir.

COLOR, BAM!

The font that twitter uses for their logo is similar to Pico, though slightly edited (like the e isn't pico's and the t is from the 2001 version) I found a font called TwitterU here, which is a nice edit, though it's missing quite a few characters.

Anyways. Love you guys xoxo

Day 21: Twitterpated

Fragment: "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all"

Font: Times New Roman

Quoted: Thumper from Bambi

I came to the sharp realization earlier today that I've actually missed a day of blogging due to flying around. I'm making up for it now. Sorry!

A quote from Thumper in Disney, while grammatically incorrect, good advice nonetheless.

Day 20: Pretty Woman

Fragment: "The bad stuff is easier to believe."

Font: Avant Garde

Quoted: Julia Roberts, as Vivian Ward, in Pretty Woman

I spent the entirety of my flight back to California watching quality television: Indiana Jones, Pretty Woman, What Women Want, Archer, Jersey Shore, Family Guy, and Two and A Half Men.

Full quote from the 1990 movie, Pretty Woman:

Vivian: People put you down enough, you start to believe it.

Edward: I think you are a very bright, very special woman.

Vivian: The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

Day 19: Rush

Fragment: "I feel like I'm running into the world"

Font: Futura

Quoted: Mia Thompson

Day 18: Fighting

Fragment: "...it isn't over"

Font: FF Din

Quoted: Adele in Someone Like You

It isn't over til it's over

Or til you give up.

Jake sang this song at his event, Standing Room Only. 

Listen to Adele: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUQ9tg3ysLA

Videos of Jake to come

This is actually the second poster I made today. I ended up giving up this one:

Not that I don't like it, but it's certainly a different sort of fragment.

Day 17: Trophy Case

Fragment: You should be off breaking hearts

Font: Milk Script and Gotham

Quoted: Allen Zhang

Get back up on your feet again, beautiful!

Day 16: Judgement

Fragment: "...the weight of that which is weightless"

Font: Helvetica Neue

Quoted: Professor Alexander Nemerov

Professor Nemerov was speaking on this painting, by Vermeer. Running through an xray, they found the scales actually hold nothing.

Weighing the weightless, valuing the valueless, and basking in the feeling of simply being alive.