After all,
What does someone,
who doesn't have to do anything
do?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
70 Year Old Graffiti Artist Arrested
via Animal Mag
Just proves graffiti will never die cause it's all rooted in underlying emotions, intentions of some sort eating at you. I like his excuse "the word intrigued me..." which sounds like an on-the-spot lie to me.
Beef for 20 years?! Come on man, life goes on
Just proves graffiti will never die cause it's all rooted in underlying emotions, intentions of some sort eating at you. I like his excuse "the word intrigued me..." which sounds like an on-the-spot lie to me.
Beef for 20 years?! Come on man, life goes on
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
In the Middle.
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It's interesting to be a senior at NYU Stern. I'm not quite a full-time employee sucking corporate dick all day. I'm not quite a student, either, sucking recruiter dick in the hopes of getting a chance to suck aforementioned dick forever.
In fact, I'm not doing any of this at all for the first time in years! and man it feels good having a good clear throat. In my euphoria, I'm doing things because I really want to do them, impulsively, I'm lazy when I want to be, I drink for leisure and not because my week was stressful; in essence, I'm a normal college kid...finally.
Being sandwiched between the junior students and the full-timers is an odd-place to be though.
On one hand, I hear and see juniors wearing their best suits and ties, losing sleep, stressed over jobs they would give their left nut for. They talk about companies as if the places are heaven, as if their whole life has been spent preparing for a chance to enter the pearly gates into a pristine world of bonuses, status, and hot girls on their arms.
On the other hand, I hear and see alumni working in the finance world, that so-called heaven, and it is just the opposite: hell. Still no time to sleep, asshole bosses, no weekends, doing retard monkey labor like binding books. Recently, I talked to an alumnus about how her other alumni friends were doing: one fired and going to teach english in china, one fired and working as an assitant's assistant's minion's slave's bitch for $10/hr., and my alumnus friend was planning on quitting for lack of pay and horrible hours.
Not only is it not a heavenly scenario, there are no more large paychecks (see this article arguing that investment bankers earn less per hour than mcdonald's employees: I-bank or McDonald's), no status (NY Times article on "pariah" status of investment bankers), and therefore, no more bottles and models.*
Essentially, college is a purgatory, full of trials and pain to prepare you for where you think you're going: heaven. Except after all the trials and pain, you enter "heaven," and St. Peter takes off his mask, and he's really the Devil, throws you into hell, and makes you stay endlessly, formatting worksheets by making sure columns are centered.
So Juniors, don't worry too much. The likelihood of you staying and actually liking your jobs is pretty rare (according to what my friends in the finance field say). So go grab a drink, spend time with your friends, and remember there is much more to life than a summer internship.
*just in case some may think that this is just a down-time in the market, remember that with Wall St. screwing up so royally, there will be increased scrutiny from the US Government, and therefore less risk-taking, possibly changing the US investment banking game for good. Talent may hop to hedge funds or to Asia, leaving US investment banks a pretty shitty place to work.
It's interesting to be a senior at NYU Stern. I'm not quite a full-time employee sucking corporate dick all day. I'm not quite a student, either, sucking recruiter dick in the hopes of getting a chance to suck aforementioned dick forever.
In fact, I'm not doing any of this at all for the first time in years! and man it feels good having a good clear throat. In my euphoria, I'm doing things because I really want to do them, impulsively, I'm lazy when I want to be, I drink for leisure and not because my week was stressful; in essence, I'm a normal college kid...finally.
Being sandwiched between the junior students and the full-timers is an odd-place to be though.
On one hand, I hear and see juniors wearing their best suits and ties, losing sleep, stressed over jobs they would give their left nut for. They talk about companies as if the places are heaven, as if their whole life has been spent preparing for a chance to enter the pearly gates into a pristine world of bonuses, status, and hot girls on their arms.
On the other hand, I hear and see alumni working in the finance world, that so-called heaven, and it is just the opposite: hell. Still no time to sleep, asshole bosses, no weekends, doing retard monkey labor like binding books. Recently, I talked to an alumnus about how her other alumni friends were doing: one fired and going to teach english in china, one fired and working as an assitant's assistant's minion's slave's bitch for $10/hr., and my alumnus friend was planning on quitting for lack of pay and horrible hours.
Not only is it not a heavenly scenario, there are no more large paychecks (see this article arguing that investment bankers earn less per hour than mcdonald's employees: I-bank or McDonald's), no status (NY Times article on "pariah" status of investment bankers), and therefore, no more bottles and models.*
Essentially, college is a purgatory, full of trials and pain to prepare you for where you think you're going: heaven. Except after all the trials and pain, you enter "heaven," and St. Peter takes off his mask, and he's really the Devil, throws you into hell, and makes you stay endlessly, formatting worksheets by making sure columns are centered.
So Juniors, don't worry too much. The likelihood of you staying and actually liking your jobs is pretty rare (according to what my friends in the finance field say). So go grab a drink, spend time with your friends, and remember there is much more to life than a summer internship.
*just in case some may think that this is just a down-time in the market, remember that with Wall St. screwing up so royally, there will be increased scrutiny from the US Government, and therefore less risk-taking, possibly changing the US investment banking game for good. Talent may hop to hedge funds or to Asia, leaving US investment banks a pretty shitty place to work.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Maeda.
"John said that he believes art and design will inform the 21st century as none other, that RISD has a real role to play in that. The analogy he used was MIT. Before World War II, MIT was a geeky science school. After World War II, with the explosion of science and technology, MIT's role changed. And right now he sees RISD in a similar position."
John Maeda (President of the Rhode Island School of Design) on the role of future role of RISD.
This is uber-geeky, but when I read about John Maeda's remarks on the future of RISD, i get excited. He's got an Obama-like spirit of change to come at RISD, and I can't even imagine going to a school where the student body is actually unified, working towards "building a justifiable case for creativity in our world" according to Maeda.
Now contrast that to good ol' gray NYU Stern. I don't even remember convocation. Did we even have one? Whens the last time I felt I was among a team of people, building off each other to achieve a purpose? Granted, NYU is much more diverse and large, so that unity is much more difficult, if not outright impossible (especially without sports teams), but I just want to point out that Maeda's got it right when it comes to being a president of a university.
PS, I've always wondered if the name "Stern" has any impact on how I and the rest of the world view the school. Just the name evokes a frowning old lady in my mind, strict rules, gray colors, etc. Does anyone feel me on this?
John Maeda (President of the Rhode Island School of Design) on the role of future role of RISD.
This is uber-geeky, but when I read about John Maeda's remarks on the future of RISD, i get excited. He's got an Obama-like spirit of change to come at RISD, and I can't even imagine going to a school where the student body is actually unified, working towards "building a justifiable case for creativity in our world" according to Maeda.
Now contrast that to good ol' gray NYU Stern. I don't even remember convocation. Did we even have one? Whens the last time I felt I was among a team of people, building off each other to achieve a purpose? Granted, NYU is much more diverse and large, so that unity is much more difficult, if not outright impossible (especially without sports teams), but I just want to point out that Maeda's got it right when it comes to being a president of a university.
PS, I've always wondered if the name "Stern" has any impact on how I and the rest of the world view the school. Just the name evokes a frowning old lady in my mind, strict rules, gray colors, etc. Does anyone feel me on this?
Monday, February 2, 2009
Realiza Tu Sueno
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I went to James De La Vega's store today in St. Mark's because I've always wanted to check out his work. Little did I know I'd get to meet him! I talked to him about how he got started (didn't know he was a Cornell grad) and about graffiti. Dude even blessed me with a free t shirt. Always been a huge fan of his words of inspiration:
http://www.delavegainternational.com/
I went to James De La Vega's store today in St. Mark's because I've always wanted to check out his work. Little did I know I'd get to meet him! I talked to him about how he got started (didn't know he was a Cornell grad) and about graffiti. Dude even blessed me with a free t shirt. Always been a huge fan of his words of inspiration:
http://www.delavegainternational.com/
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