Aug/092
Childhood memories
Whether it’s the fact I’m turning 32 in just under two months which means it’s that time of the year again or perhaps I’m just in the mood for nostalgia, I’ve been having little memory flashes of my childhood a lot lately. In fact, everytime I have one, there’s this awesome sound effect, akin to a great fwwooossh that precedes it. Thank you, oh precious LOST.
No, the thing of it is, I keep having little scattered memories of what I enjoyed as a kid. Oddly enough, none of these memories include the following items:
- Spreadsheets
- Math
- Checking my voicemail
- Financial planning
- Watching calories
- Eating items found in a V8
- Pushups
- Guilt
Point is, I think it’s either my subconscious telling me that my life is out of whack or, radioactive super intelligent ants have crawled inside my brain and are messing with my wiring. Either way, message recieved super inteligent insects. Sort of miss spending my days with what I imagine consisted of any number of the following tasks:
- Avoiding all things to watch the Disney Afternoon, more specifically Darkwing Duck and Tale Spin
- Riding my GT Performer everywhere, one of the main contributors to the Museum of Scars visible on both my arms/legs.
- Playing with my Transformers/GI Joes in tactical battles against my sister’s League of Dolls
- R/C Cars and Micro Machines
- Captain Power VHS game
- M.A.S.K.
- Writing and reading all things fiction
- Everything Nintendo
Just the same, needed a reminder for myself of all the fun things that adulthood likes to grind into a tasteless gray paste at times.
I leave you, with this:
Aug/091
Getting to know you
Well, a certain Stephen Roth made me think that maybe I need to figure out a clever way to get to know my friends better as I think it’s too often you only get so far in what makes people tick.
Take for instance the fact my friend Andy is a crazy cool guy and, until a trip to Arizona, I had no idea the two of us dug drawing so we started a little comic side-project that proved to be a good time.
Or, my friend Sarah (Andy’s wife) is one hell of a photographer and took the professional photos of our wedding (to be shown once ready for public consumption).
My friend Dan wants to be an Actor/Director which I didn’t know until we accidentally got onto the subject of making a short film.
The list goes on I’m sure, which is the point really. So, if you’re reading this, which I know at least 2 of you are, if there’s something cool you’re into that I’ve been too lame to inquire about, fill me in.
Also, I’m pretty sure I’m going to sign up for a Parkour/Freerunning class after hearing about it on Twitter today. 6′8″ guy scaling walls like Jackie Chan.
Exactly. So awesome.
Aug/091
Photography skills
Surprising how you can work with someone and have no idea they’re talented outside of the 9-5 set of talents you associate them with.
Good example is one of they guys who had worked in our Marketing Department a while back, Matt Santomarco. I knew him as our Marketing Intern at the time but until recently, both due to a rather crowded Twitter feed (of which I mercilessly cleaned by destroying the following of a dozen rather “spammy” individuals) and my lameness of not getting to know who I work with better, that he’s a pretty freaking talented aspiring photographer.
At any rate, some really cool photography if you’re looking for a Denver area photographer, some bad ass photos of Denver or someone to lavish your jealousy-driven artistic praise upon.