Official Obama’s Last Supper Photos

The official pics are out! Thursday night was quite special, because President Obama visited the Bay Area to dine with Silicon Valley’s tech giants. The pictures are the first to be released of the encounter, and the last one seems a bit too familiar. Steve Jobs to left plays Judas, Mark Zuckerberg to the right plays Mary Magdalene… the Lord and Savior in the center.

Yvannia’s Midnight Stories: Vol 1. The Lord Of The Rings

Yvannia Does The Lord Of The Rings Audio Download

Inspired in Drunk History and Star Wars Retold By Someone Who Hasn’t Seen It, I recorded my very funny and eloquent friend Yvannia narrating The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy as l fell asleep entertained. She retold it as she remembered it, and she managed to wrap everything into 20 minutes, including her interpretation ( which didn’t include the Eye Of Sauron, among other things ). I suggest you listen to this tucked in bed as I did; I bet your nanny wasn’t as entertaining as this.

Masks Series

This art series comes to be due to all the conflicts that have come forth regarding the use of masks. From the burkas in Paris to the gas masks in Israel, masks can be all sorts of things to all sorts of people. What can mean freedom to some, is slavery to others. To expose by concealing. The images are a mix of my own photography enhanced with found images and the use of Photoshop. Hope you enjoy.

Fhoke Studio

I really like this portfolio site for the UK studio Fhoke because it mixes grids, big copy, textures, and shadows in a modern, yet not too overwhelming sort of way. It is not extraordinary, but these are the type of grids we should be looking at to inspire ourselves in not repeating the same website over and over again.

Their project: The Little Cake Parlour reminds me a bit of how we (at Fluid) solved the Benefit Cosmetics design, which included a lot of “faking” ribbons and adding PNG assets to break off from the square edges. Benefit turned out better than this example, but it is always nice to see how other people solve similar issues.

Fhoke them… http://www.fhoke.com/

-Alex

Entre Trenes Iluminados… Again In Europe

Reflections, realities that get suffocated by dreams, lack of appreciation… constant search for the unknown, very aware that what’s unknown is what remains beautiful, and what’s discovered becomes dead. Train, after train, after train.

What a beautiful trip filled with thoughts and incantations. Nothing like abandoning your schedule to be able to think differently than before. I was absolutely blocked before this season finale episode started, also known as my “vacation.” My thoughts… gone. I had lived without a nice pocket digital camera for a while, and I felt the magic of the snapshot… of recording real life through an angle of emotions had disappeared. Before I left, I fixed this by getting a new pocket camera. I wasn’t going to allow myself to continue living such a dry proof-less existence.

The conversation with myself restarted as I got on a plane to go to France. In fact, it started the night before, as I became sick… sick with anticipation of what was ahead of me in the trip. You see, the older I get, the more scared I become. It is not fear of what could happen to me, but fear of having to go through too much trouble to get around, or robbed of my wallet, or sick. Soon enough I compared myself to the person I was 10 years ago, traveling with my first girlfriend through uncharted European lands. I realize my now ex-girlfriend probably knows more of me back then, than I do. Lacking a good memory, I get around by images and instinct. How to reconstruct who you were, if you don’t even remember how you got where you are. You just know this place where you stand now is yours once more, and it has been found by you again through fate, and not through planning. And that the moment you touched the memory, you complete a test you didn’t even know you were taking.

The present always feels eternal, and the past… a dream.

This flickr album contains snapshots of my spotless mind as I move through Italy, Switzerland, and France through the happy summer of 2010. A summer that confronts me with who I used to be, stimulating instincts left behind by forgotten memories. A summer full of textures and angles; where I make love to each curve and edge of my environment through my view finder.

Enjoy,
-Your Imaginary Dream Farmer, The one who lives when the Giant Wolf is asleep.