Today I was privileged to enjoy a fantastic rainy Saturday with my friends. I was delightfully disconnected. Both my phone and computer had died on Friday night and being with out a car, in the rain meant, I was staying at Keegan’s house that night with no means of charging my devices. The trek home would have been difficult. Keegan and I went for a late breakfast at one of my favorite spots, Toby’s 19th Hole, looking over the City and the golf course. Due to the rain, an amazing river formed in the fairway, 25 feet wide and 3 or four feet deep (from the looks of it). Quite a pleasurable viewing experience accompanied by hot coffee, eggs and potatoes.
Then we picked up Max from the Zoo (he was on a field trip or something) and headed east to El Cajon, home of Wild Bill’s Western Emporium. I bought 2 sweet pairs of Wranglers ($25 a piece and they fit like jeans ought to). It feels good to have some new jeans, I’ve been wearing the same three pairs for about a year now, each of which have been patched several times and now are at the point of disintegration.
Next we headed to an Army surplus store where, indeed, I found the coolest pair of shoes you could find, (used) Navy-Seal issue “Guppies” aka “Coral Crawlers.” I also bought a pair of ultra-sturdy (used) military issue eyeglasses I plan to turn into sunglasses.
On the way back home, Max mentioned he needed to cut some Nopales for a dish he was planning to bring to a potluck tonight. We video taped the outing and decided that Max will host a new video segment for TMY that will educate viewers about all the edible plants that just grow around town. We’ll call it “Urban Edibles” or something lame like that.
So January has been nuts and it’s already almost over. Obama’s been in office for a whole year now… so no more excuses dude. I’ve officially decided to take a break from college to pursue whatever it is I’m pursuing. The Motivated Youth project is rolling full steam ahead with some interesting interviews events and ramblings planned, we need more content and a bigger audience… help wanted?
I just returned home from taking an extended vacation for about a month (only a mile away at my friend’s house) and it’s actually been very interesting, I’ve been satisfied living on 4 shirts a jacket and 2 pairs of jeans - its just so nice being close to the bus… I want to be closer to where I work, I’m still not very close. My dad has been giving me quite a few rides in his car lately. It reminds me how useful they are for getting places quickly. However, it makes me feel quite incapable and discipline-less when I have to call my dad because I didn’t get up early enough. Public transit is one of the biggest exercises in self discipline. I’m excited about this year but my inner struggle of staying motivated and organized persists. I’m working on it though…
I’m working on quite a few exciting projects right now (literally I’m juggling chainsaws) so stay tuned for links and photos and stuff.
Goals for 2010: This year I will live near the bus stop, not have a day job, kick ass, hone my self discipline.
Is that too much to ask? Ok so you all will hold me accountable now alright?
So this weekend I had a booth at Thread Show doin’ my Home Ec thing… I set up a little booth with a 10dollar banner i had printed at Kinkos and a clothes line for hanging shirts and posters! Oh and don’t forget candy canes - I think I gave away about 12 from my Baggu filled with 150 candy canes, who doesn’t like candy canes? I guess a lot of people. I sold out of my Rap Died in ‘95 shirts - thats cool, I met a lot of new friends too - double cool. We were upstairs in what must have been the “ultra exclusive VIP lounge” which actually, this is funny, turns out half of the people at the event didn’t even realize was there, ha haa - not cool - but it was awesome hanging out with Holiday Matinee and the Sezio crew - wouldn’t have traded it for the world… well maybe.
…for those of you that don’t know, Home Ec is my baby. We’re a boutique design firm specializing in branding, creative direction and party-starting; We are Dylan Ousley(San Diego) and Gareth Geraty(New York City) and we are visual communicators. I need your help spreading the word so I don’t have to get a real job ever… that’s sorta my life goal - it’s been working out so far. Now you know. Check us out at http://home-ec.org
While, admittedly, the whole day wasn’t so fun I did have the opportunity to photograph the boy-wonders behind the blog www.andampersand.com (their sophisticated taste in all things cool in relation to their age sorta blows my mind - I know I wasn’t that rad when I was 17). They just printed their first run of t-shirts to promote the blog (so that the blog can in turn promote the tees right?). It felt good dust off the ol’ camera and lighting stuff and it made for some pretty good looking photos -
They’re stoked, I’m stoked, are you stoked? Blahahaaaaaaa!(I’m sticking my tongue out and holding up a sarcastic ‘hang-loose’ sign if you couldn’t tell)
check out their blog for more info on when and where you can purchase the tees.
Hey, alright! I just got my copy of Holiday Matinee’s new book and I couldn’t be more excited with the way it turned it out. Gareth and I have been working hard on this project for a couple months now and It’s such a relief to see the result in real-life! I’ve been looking at the Indesign file on my computer for sooo long, it’s such a great feeling to just flip through the pages and be proud. HM’s book is one of the biggest and most exciting projects Home Ec has taken on… not to mention one of the coolest - “72 pages of creative inspiration.” Some of the feed back we’ve received has been amazing. If you can tell - I’m pretty stoked. Good job Dave, good job Gareth, good job me… so when’s the next book coming out? Visit http://holidaymatinee.com/book to learn more, download a free preview and buy a copy! You won’t regret it.
