Today is only day, the old days make way for the new.

Went to drive to work today and my tire was flat... So I biked it instead.

Decent bike ride if you don't count the incidents where i narrowly missed being hit by cars.

At work John and I sealed 7 four foot by eight foot MDF boards. Two coats on Top and One on bottom.

1) Move board to drop cloth
2) wipe down with rag
3) wipe down with tack rag
4) paint sealer on with bristle brush
5) Move board aside
6) Move a new board in it's place
7) wipe down with rag
8) wipe down with tack rag
9) paint sealer on with bristle brush
10) Move board aside
11) Move a new board in it's place
12) wipe down with rag
13) wipe down with tack rag
14) paint sealer on with bristle brush
15) Move board aside
16) Move a new board in it's place
17) wipe down with rag
18) wipe down with tack rag
19) paint sealer on with bristle brush
20) Move board aside
21) Move a new board in it's place
22) wipe down with rag
23) wipe down with tack rag
24) paint sealer on with bristle brush
25) Move board aside
26) Move a new board in it's place
27) wipe down with rag
28) wipe down with tack rag
29) paint sealer on with bristle brush
30) Move board aside
31) Move a new board in it's place
32) wipe down with rag
33) wipe down with tack rag
34) paint sealer on with bristle brush
35) Move board aside
36 - 1,000,000) ETC

Then I biked home, narrowly missing being hit by a backing up car. Made nachos and now I am going to pass out. See you tomorrow

New Thirst Office!

We moved the whole of Thirst to the new office space today. We had movers come and WOW these guys were amazing. They were throwing huge boxes on their backs and had cleared out the basement in like 45 minutes. Incredible.

The new space is awesome! It's going to be so cool. Like a real, hip, design firm in Chicago. Here are a couple pics, I'll take more when it's all set up.



John in front of the Bertoia sculptures in the display room at Wright (the location of our new office).




The space before we fill it with all our crap. The tape on the floor in the shape of a pinwheel is where are desks are going.

The five people that live in Chicago

This really is a small world we live in. no joke.

My new neighbors (Dan and Wade) were playing a show this past friday at a place called Reggies on south State street. I mentioned that I wanted to go with them so they offered to give me a ride. When I got to their place after work we had to wait around for their third band member. So we are sitting for awhile and watching TV on their old projections screen, when the third band member arrives he introduces himself as Tim and sits down. At this point Wade comments "Tim here works in Barrington too."
"Oh yeah, Where do you work", Tim inquires.
"Well I work at a design firm called Thirst... do you know where Station stree..."
"Hold on a sec! You're Bud!?"
"... Yeah..." I say cautiously
"I work at GAS (Thirst's main printer in Barrington), I work with Ryan Whitmore. I'm working on Volume Two right now."
How strange is this, I am now sitting in my apartment building talking to someone I didn't know before just now that I have been indirectly working with for months. He made a comment that he probably shouldn't bitch about work too much, and we talked a bit about the work we have done and then made our way to the show.

wtf.

My RSS feed list

A friend recently commented that I read too many blogs, or that I'm a great googler or something. So in response I have compiled a list of the RSS feeds in my Google Reader. I have alot... I can't keep up with them all nor do I. I kind of pick and choose. The only ones I read all of are blogs from my friends. One of my favorites is FFFFound check it out!

I also recently discovered that google reader provides you with a public page where you can "share" interesting posts with others. Mine is here. I'm going to start sharing posts I like.

Misc
Life Hacker
Music for Robots
Panopticist
Better Living Through Design
Uncrate

Friends
Alex Erickson
Genevieve Johnson
Topher McCulloch
Evan Heisler
Tyler Malay
Paul Rodecker
Sarah Fuller
Lyndon Valicenti
Robb Irrgang
Zach Frank

Design
A Brief Message
A List Apart
All Manner of Distractions
Ars Thanea Blog
Brand New
Design Observer
Design-Your-Life
Hi-Res blog
Ironic Sans
Kaliber10000 { The Designers' Lunchbox }
Pixelsumo - Chris OShea
Rhizome
Rockwell Clothing
The Serif - Your daily dose of design inspiration
Speak Up
Styleboost
Ted
Typographica
Viewers Like You

Art
Fecal Face
FFFFound
We Make Money Not Art

Playing chemist at work.

I got to play chemist yesterday and see what happens when you mix kitty litter with old paint.



Turns out it's the same think that happens when you pix cat pee and kitty litter (except a bit more colorful)!







shame...

Hal, the man in my door.

My bathroom door really does have a man in it. He stands locked in an eternal scream haunting me while I use the bathroom with the door open (what? I can do that now, I have my own place.). His plastic bag head is punctuated by two dark eyes and a gaping mouth open in a scream, as if he is in abject horror of you sitting there on his toilet. His head sits atop a nice pair on man boobs and a well developed beer gut. All this is supported by two withered little legs upon which he is apparently wearing stockings.



He haunts me...

CRACK CRACK SPURT SPUTTER SPARK!

My free Microwave turned on me today and started shorting and smoking when i plugged in and tried to use it today. It said...

"NO I will NOT heat up your Baked Mastichioli that you have as leftovers from last nights lonely dinner by yourself across the street at the pizzaria! You have awaken me from my 4 year slumber... and for this! This Mastachili is not worthy! CRACK CRACK SPURT SPUTTER SPARK!"

Then My fire alarm decided to chime in...

"SMOOOKE SMOOOKE SMOOOKE!"

Dammit...

My door has a man in it (updated)

It has been a crazy few weeks, but after a crazy summer of suburban living. I am now a chicago resident.

Move in weekend was insane. I flew home on a friday morning, then immediately proceeded to spend the rest of the day organizing over 10 years of accumulations. It was now time to decide what stuff was worthy of taking with me in the future. I have too much stuff. This process continued through saturday. Sort, trash, store, pack. Somewhat stupidly I stayed up most of the night on saturday. Which made 8 am sunday morning seem to come quickly. We finished loading the truck and set off on our 6 hour drive across wisconsin. We finally arrived at my new apartment around 6:30 at night... Right about when it was starting to get dark. We then had to start the process of moving all my stuff up to the third floor. My poor Mom's first experience of my new place and neighborhood was the alley way where our building had recently become the canvas for some graffiti artist, and there also happened to be a posting about rat poison. She was waiting by the truck as my dad and I made trips up and down the stairs. By about the third trip she had decided that I was not to stay here and that she wanted me out! We convinced her to go upstairs and after that she settled down. The stairs were winding, the air was humid, and my dad and I were drenched in sweat. We finished up around 9:30 and took a walk down to Lazo's Tacos (A local 24 hr mexican place... to which I have now been 3 times since moving in a week ago). I'm a week into my experience here in Chicago and it has been great... Not considering the commute to Barrington though. This first weekend downtown was fabulous, but more on that later.

Right now I am in the middle of my first experience at the laundromat. There is a husband and wife who literally have a whole wall of dryers full of clothes for their multiple children. I think spanish would be very helpful to know.



Op! laundry's done, time to go. (And I'm tired of writing).

Quote of the day.

"Were all fucking fucked up!"

-Hal

QOTD

"once again process is a designer like no other."
-Rick V

"A hyphen is a separator that connects."
-Ellen Lupton