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hey that's really cool - i wish i had the opportunity to do real work with the big guys. anyways, i was judging what was presented and trying to offer something constructive. like you said, the net is a great place for testing things. i also wanted to challenge you and better understand the thinking that goes into your work (especially given your experiences). personally i don't think a photo needs to mean anything. eye-candy is good enough for me. but it just seems a lot of contemporary art is being able to describe something visually abstract in some (vaguely?) coherent manner, which is again why i wanted to pick at your decisions a bit more. 

(+rep for not getting douchey to my rather blunt initial posting)

bumping this...sorry for crappy phone pic

Post your signature against a plain white background, for cleanliness of thread.

Feel free to talk whatever you want about it.

Mine was originally inspired by thresh, a pro-quake player from the late-90's. i have trouble fitting it onto the back of credit cards. 

lewl just rolled one and about to smoke it now...too bad about the packaging these days

considering a rimowa carry-on luggage case to replace a decade-old reebok gym bag to make up for all those flights of peasant-ness 

what else is light, well-made and looks relatively unassuming? not really liking the samsonites aesthetic but don't know what else is out there. help pls.

^koven, i know you've shot for vice or something, but most of the time i feel your shots are overly contrived. for example, the main frame here has a lot going for it (strong silhouette, well defined lines and proportions, sweet colour palette, flatness of frame etc.), but those three extra vignettes just detracts from all of that. what are you going for with these very deliberate choices?

6 or 7 years ago i bought a navy blue, white polka dot 100% silk lanvin tie for $2 from the local salvation army, which i still wear today. then i got a job and blew a few grand on shit i never wear. think someone on here (or someone famous i dono) said that the most expensive things are the ones you never wear. so true. always be smart with your money, and don't get sold on stuff you're not absolutely sure of. sales assistants sometimes can be very good at their job, and the tastes of your friends/gf/bf at the of the day doesn't mean a whole lot either. 

A scanner darkly - 2nd viewing. Not as enjoyable as the first time even though I pretty much forgot everything.

Rain man, cos Kim Peek's gifts were mentioned briefly in a book I'm reading. Valeria Golino looked good.

Monga, for the second time. Costume design and styling were pretty cool for the three main chars.

Common Projects

Desert boots; black suede

lightly worn - selling cos they're a size too big

sz 44

$250

As a a sort of journal entry since I started getting into this a few months ago, this is a list of the drams I've tried from memory: port charlotte peat project, macallan 12, highland park 12, glenlivet 18, laphroaig quarter cask / 10 / 18 / cairdeas / px cask, ardbeg 10 / uigedail, bruichladdich 15, balvenie 21, auchentoshan triple wood / silver oak, sullivan's cove double cask , limeburners something, bakery hill classic malt, ledaig 10, elements of islay bw1 / lg(x?), bowmore legend / 18, cragganmore 12, talisker 10 / distillers edition something, glenmorangie original / 18 / nectar d'or, yamazaki 12, glenfiddich 12 / 18, bushmills, templeton rye and a few other american whiskies.

Islays are great, but the toshan silver oak and nectar d'or are the standouts for me. The bakery hill is also a very fine drop coming out of australia.

A girl from our Singapore office has a strong womanly scent. Can smell her in a large meeting room full of people from meters away. #alpacino

It's late and I should be tired but can't sleep. Got thinking about wanting to have children, but being afraid of how they will turn out. Reminded me of a conversation I had with a stranger on a bus ride in china last month. Confided in him this fear of mine, the fear of having raised a bad child. He was around forty and a father of one, and all he said was that I should be proud, no matter how they turn out. I just nodded, and hoped he was right. My expectations still worries me. Anyway, I also remembered that I didn't even get this man's name, even though we spoke for over three hours. He's a captain of long haul freight ships, and hasn't seen Captain Phillips, the movie.

Not sure if serious, but they look different enough to me. I read somewhere about facial recognition. You develop skills to distinguish at an early age, so in this case if you weren't exposed to Caucasians until a later stage in life than it becomes harder to tell them apart.

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I'm of the belief that everyone has something of value to share with others, like perhaps new insights into life can be gleamed through open interactions with anyone. I decided to test this belief one day by giving a middle aged man, who I presumed to be homeless, a ten dollar note, a cigarette and some of my time and curiosity. After a little idle chatter, he revealed his great disdain for the city I grew up in, despite him never having actually been there himself. I wanted to call him out for being narrow minded, but whatever, a sample size of one isn't very useful so I gave it another shot whilst travelling this year. This particular African-American male was shouting at me for/about something, so I sat down next to him to try and engage in polite conversation. It was awkward because he proceeded on a loud and long rant about how white people wronged his race. I thought about protracting the discussion, but ultimately decided that he was just too fanatical for my tastes. This was also in the middle of the day, with plenty of people around on the street, including families. It's probably fair to say this hasn't been the most successful experiment thus far...

^^could go with a clipboard 

^doesn't ikea ribbas fit that bill?

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^were u squeezing one out when you posted?

good convo on anxiety n depression here. a number of people close to me have been going through with these illnesses and it's almost impossible to relate to, which is sorta depressing in itself. on paper and on the surface they seem better than normal, but apparently it was just an act to maintain appearances. drugs have helped them with the anxiety a lot, but it was shit scary worrying about the side effects, especially after watching the film of the same name. I suspect the incidence rate is significantly higher in developed societies, but don't recall seeing the hard data anywhere. anyway, all of this makes me think about raising children in developing countries instead, where hopefully the taste of a simpler/harsher life can lay a stronger mental foundation.

edit: wired rated hyperbole & a half as one of the best comics for 2013...this particular one is on depression - http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

Dior Homme

Sold

APC

New Standards

very well worn

sz 30, stretched to fit 32

$150

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gf and i stayed in west village for about a week. booked a small apt on airbnb for about 150 a night. good area imo. just try and stay reasonably close to a subway station. only problem we had going through airbnb was that the person was a renter, and wasn't supposed to sublet. had a nasty grounds-person try and kick us out and threatened to call cops and shit. luckily nothing happened but yeah, watch out if you do go down that route. 

Some old stuff. All referenced; can't draw from my mind. 

2003 (Hyung Tae Kim)

2004 (123klan)

2009 (Tiffany Bozic)