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freelance work

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there was a time i would have loved it, but i have come to the point where i don’t really care for it. its money, sure but when it comes down to it, its alot of work.  sometimes to much work.  i used to do alot of freelance stuff but grew tired of it. 


i used to go to work 8 to 5 come home jump right in front of the computer and work till 2 or 3 in the morning get up at 6 and do it all over again. 

that used to be my life.

but now it has all changed. 

i don’t know why it changed, i just grew tired of it. 
i probably didn’t do myself any favors when i decided to stop doing freelance, my body was trained to do it. 

but like i said its different now. right now Im doing a job for someone it is requiring alot of work at the office mostly because i don’t have design programs here at home since i moved to a mac. 

so im stuck at work again i took a week off and now Im back… man honestly it feels like i live there. 

well a couple of months ago i made the comment to talia that i didn’t feel like a good father because i wasn’t able to put Chloe to sleep. i honestly felt so useless. 
well tonight i worked till 9:30 and received a phone call from talia asking me when am i going to come home.  I came home and talia tells me that she tried to put chloe to bed and chloe just wouldn’t go to sleep.  so i come home and i lay in bed for 10 minutes kissing chloe’s face and chloe falls asleep right between me and her mom. for the last month or two i have been the one to put chloe to sleep  i tell talia go get something to eat and ill put her to bed. so i ended up putting her down and making my daughter smile before she went to bed. 

thats all that matters to me honestly not the money or the work. 
not as much anymore 

Im just happy seeing that piece of art me and talia created. 
Im content making my daughter laugh and giggle every day.

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November 30, 2007 at 5:50 am

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artwork questioned

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i forgot to type this the other day. 

someone questioned my artwork…
mostly about a poster i created…
why i created it what was the meaning behind it…
why it was the way it was…
ill have to talk about it later…

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November 27, 2007 at 6:32 am

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i need something to post

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its difficult not having software to scan and imaging software…

i was supposed to buy the scanning software but didn’t get around to it and now money has dwindled..
the software i used to scan is called vuescan it will let you try the program but when you scan the image it leaves a watermark but thanx to screen shots i was able to bring you 3 frames…
i could get the other computer out and scan but im lazy and don’t really want to hook it up…
remember him from a post awhile back?
nice fellow love how you can see through his glasses. 

went to lunch and saw these people.

and a cows head too…
not to many frames from this place got stopped by security and they asked me to not take photos luckily they were cool and i didn’t understand a word they said i didn’t speak spanish. 
but i snagged this one and its my fav. 

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November 27, 2007 at 5:44 am

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up late again

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why are we still up the question that me and talia just asked each other tea and sigur ros again tonight…

i should be preparing for my bike ride tomorrow but i ain’t…
im a poor planner….

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November 26, 2007 at 7:25 am

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Transformers

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last night i had the actual chance to sit down and watch transformers. I know!

 dont be mad at me i have a baby now and it is hard just trying to sit through a movie at home. and its hard when your wife really doesn’t want to go watch it with me in the movie theater.
honestly i thought i t was going to be really awful but man was i surprised!
it was different than the cartoon but it was good i loved how they kept Optimus Primes voice the same Peter Cullen really did a awesome job. starscream rocked! i have always had this affection for starscream since he was my first transformer. 
i don’t know if i should admit that the movie actually made me cry, it was so cool to see Optimus on the screen and when i first heard the changing from machine to robot it was so rad…
we all grew up knowing and hearing that sound and to hear it yeah it was a little different but it rocked!
i didn’t have no complaints. 
so to those that told me it was good i thought so too…

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November 25, 2007 at 11:10 pm

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today was a good day…

just like ice cube says.

today actually was pretty good, well mostly anyways, im still mad at the commercialization over the whole holiday. i mean even before thanksgiving is over we have christmas decorations all over the place. its kinda annoying, yes christmas is awesome but why do we need to be reminded that we need to buy as much as we can.  every time i think of christmas and the crazy buying people i always think of a charlie brown christmas and it always seems to set me straight again and make me really think about the whole holiday and why we celebrate it.

i hope chloe grows up to think of this holiday more as a celebration of life, thanksgiving for all that we are blessed with, more than just gifts and gifts. 

well now that my rant is over ill tell you about my day talia woke me up so she could go buy some clothes at carters the baby store. so i watched chloe this morning. i fed her played with her and layed with her on the floor. honestly it felt so nice just to be home for once i told talia it seems like forever since i have been home i felt like cleaning and organizing i dont think i got to much of that done but i did enjoy it. so as the day progressed we went to have lunch at Talia’s moms house. 

GOOD THING BLOGGER AUTOSAVES I JUST TRIED TO SAVE SOMETHING AND IT CRASHED AND CLOSED OUT THE WHOLE WINDOW… STUPID SAFARI. 

so after lunch me and talia decided to go wash the car and when we got to the dryer it wasn’t even blowing very strongly so we just left. good thing it was free. well with no change for the dryer down the rode we came home real quick left again and went and had a trip to zia records its been awhile since we had been there so we spent some time in the store shopping for us…
kinda sad but man it’s been forever we bought a cd we found some old records and a couple of cds. i bought the new sigur ros cd talia got a newsboys cd and i found the dopest records the Muppets Movie soundtrack and a couple of old Dr Suess read along book records a very cool find i think. i live for moments like that when you are looking for vinyl and you come across those fun and rare finds… there is nothing like digging the crates for records. 

this evening we took Angie out for dinner since we missed her birthday and Darrell too…
thats always nice to have dinner with friends and to top it all of it was mexican food!
at ponchos!

well so i need to tell you all of this story it seems. well on the way home Chloe decides she is done for the day to the point where she is going to cry because she is tired and cranky and she cant fall asleep. she cried for 15 minutes until we reached Angie’s place and fed her there. she also go to meet maggie Angie’s dog which was awesome maggie is a kind and gentle dog and loves babies, so she was happy to meet chloe finally. 

well ok so this is the part where i have to kick myself in the booty and embarrass myself. it needs to be told…

well there is one thing that makes chloe completely stop crying. it used to be water, the faucet used to stop her then she learned what we were doing and that didn’t work no more, then it switched to the vacuum cleaner and now that just freaks her out. well now it has moved to only one thing and it is the weirdest and funniest thing i think. there is this song called young folks by peter bjorn and john. and everytime that thing starts she stops crying sits through the whole thing and doesnt cry, there has been times where we have had to play that song over and over again and it works…

well earlier when me and talia were in zia’s i said we should get that cd so i happened to grab the sigur ros cd at the same time and i hung on to them until we needed to check out. then right before we checked out Talia holds up the cd’s and says choose one. i looked back and forth and i told Talia you decide and then she says to me you choose so in a moment i go ok ill choose the sigur ros cd and we put back the peter bjorn and john cd. that was one of the worse decisions i have made in along time…
and all i could think of on the way home was you stupid stupid fool!
moral of the story always trust your gut…

i learned my lesson ill tell you that much. 

 

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November 24, 2007 at 6:45 am

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so i got alot of new film and negs…
i had the holga sitting around with film still left in it i guess i used it at the pool and then i took it out for Halloween, i had to ghetto rig a flash i had i used alot of masking tape to hold it on…

so these are the resulting shots i don’t have photoshop to really do any real cropping or resizing. so i used the scanner to scan in at 150 dpi and then straightened and cropped…

reese swimming

terri and reese

reese jumping in the pool he needs to learn how to swim so he dont need those things on his arms.

the girl of my dreams

stuart always to cool for school

the Halloween trick-or-treater’s

Ghost Rider

kids at the haunted house

me as charlie brown

the chainsaw guy at the haunted house he runs out the last second inside the haunted house and chases you with a chainsaw, pretty scary for the young kids and adults too especially if you are named Talia… someone sprayed him with silly string and this is the point where resse freaked out.

last shot of Talia spot light on you!

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November 23, 2007 at 6:16 am

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HEATHER POSTED SOMETHING

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forgot to post this too…
heather posted some gorgeous scans of prints she made…

love love love them!

she needs to post more she needs to get a rangefinder so she can take pictures everyday.
link to her page is up in the list….

thanx for letting me post the pic heather!
one of my favorites…

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November 20, 2007 at 6:12 am

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Its tea time

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so lately i have been on this tea kick. I don’t know why honestly.

well actually when i think about it im tired of coffee and it just seems to really hit the spot.
instead of evil starbucks coffee i have now switched to tea its cheaper and has been very kind to my wallet.
its nice to sit and enjoy a nice cup of tea with my wife also.

she made us this tea last night that totally made me tired…

Im also addicted to listening to radiohead and sigur ros right now.
work today was pretty slow and tiring even though we didnt do much my boss took me and my other coworker to breakfast so that was nice i can never deviate from my usual eggs toast ham and hashbrowns…
i look and spend time lokking the menu over and nothing it never changes…

Im also going to be doing some side work so Im pretty excited to be working on side projects again. cant say to much now about it but when i get more info ill post more.

well i hope all is fine and ill be having photos posted sometime this week…
i found a program to help me out so im excited…

currently listening to radiohead-let down

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November 20, 2007 at 6:00 am

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random thoughts on a long day.

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why does my wife enjoy ripping paper…

i hate the sound of paper ripping but for some odd reason she seems to enjoy it…

i do like the taste of strongbow though she doesn’t like it not that she has ever tried it…

but it taste’s pretty good to me…

well our event is over.
im tired well i should say extremely exhausted.
but im enjoying my evening…

ill be busy tomorrow again but at least i can rest for most of it…

lately i have been loving sigur ros…
there music is so beautiful
there is just something about it… maybe it has something to do with where they are from. they are from iceland and it reflects in their music.
so beautiful so so elegant.

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November 18, 2007 at 6:38 am

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