No, not me– my Blog!

If you look to the post below, you’ll notice that my last update was quite a long time ago. An embarrassingly long time ago. For some reason, I’m never motivated to update this thing. Thing is, I want to share with people, I want to keep a blog.

I’ve set up a Tumblr (on the bandwagon) and hopefully things will pick up with my updates. I find Tumblr’s short and to-the-point update model appealing.

Anyway, be sure to go and check it out. It’s situated in a pleasant little corner called tumblr.omgchris.com.

Here’s to much more frequent updating!

There was a while where I wasn’t really designing anything personal. After finishing up some freelance work, I’d just want to take a break from it all. After making 2 new birthday posters for Tiffany and Alec, I was in the mood to keep making stuff.

The idea for this one came to me yesterday and I got to work right away. I’ve always loved vintage advertisements and travel posters and I’ve always loved the juxtaposition of technology and pre-60′s America (probably stemming from Tex Avery’s old “House of Tomorrow” skits). I really love this piece and it’s definitely going in my portfolio!

Chris Davis and I have been talking about doing more short films for a while and, yesterday, we finally got to it and made one.

Without further adieu. Potato:

We both think it turned out hilarious and we had a blast making it and editing it. We made the whole thing from start to finish in just a couple of hours. In addition, we also came up with some more ideas so expect some more quick shorts from us in the future!

So in comes 2011.  Just like every single year, it’s hard to believe that it’s already time to start another one.  It seems like only a couple of years ago that I graduated high school yet it was nearly 7 years ago.

2010 had a lot of great things to make it definitely one of the most memorable years ever. I established myself pretty well as a freelance Graphic Designer as well as landing my first full-time job where “Graphic Designer” is my title.

I moved into another apartment (yeah, again), and Tiffany officially moved in with me and D.  Tiffany became part of a local bellydance troupe as well as getting a job bellydancing at a local Moroccan Restaurant.  Biggest of all, she graduated from SCAD. I did a lot of traveling as well and got to see some things that I never thought I would or always wanted to.

I won’t go into all the highlights like I usually do but just know that this year is going to be a big one. I’m immensely excited to see what happens.

Today, the internet kind of blew up with news of NASA’s discovery of a new lifeform unlike anything we (they) ever thought was possible.

Tiffany first sent me the link from Gizmodo so that’s where I’m going to link. Read the news here.

Basically, NASA discovered a new bacteria that is comprised, at it’s core level, of arsenic instead of phosphorus like every other living thing on Earth. This is pretty exciting news. But for me, this is not really a new way of thinking.

I’ve always said that with an infinite number of stars out there, each potentially housing a multitude of planets, its pretty naive to think that Earth houses the only life in the Universe. It is also naive (but very much part of the human condition) to think that if there ever was life out there, it would based off of the same building blocks that we are. Whenever I hear some news released by NASA claiming that they found water ice on the Moon or Mars or traces of it on a distant planet, I think “That’s cool… but it really doesn’t tell us anything”.

Why, in a universe where everything is infinite, do we have to limit our way of thinking to our own discovered system of support life or our own table of elements? Just a couple hundred light years away, there could be a highly sophisticated species of life that has the appearance of a cloudy gas trapped in a bubble and “breathes” multi-colored waves of a type that we’ve never seen before– no, not a new kind of light wave or a new type of radio wave but a wave that is something we have no idea about.

With all the brilliant minds at NASA did no one ever think that things could very easily exist outside of the realms of our own personal possibility? I understand that it’s all we know so it’s what we need to look for. Finding a planet that has water on it is a huge advancement in our history of mapping out the solar system and universe. What I’m saying is, do we really need to be that surprised that new life was found that isn’t composed from the same stuff as everything else?

One of the most exciting things about space exploration and study is that, when you really boil it down, we don’t know anything. We know NOTHING about what’s out there and that’s what makes discoveries like this one so exciting… so why act like we know everything whenever a new discovery is made?

SCIENCE!

*note* this blog is written purely out of love for space exploration and scientific speculation. I absolutely adore NASA and everything they’ve contributed to Humanity’s ever-expanding knowledge of the Universe

When I arrived back to Savannah from Atlanta on Saturday night, I checked my mail before going inside.  Much to my surprise, there was a form stating that I had a package waiting for my in the apartment office. As far as I knew, I wasn’t expecting anything. Unfortunately, the office was closed by the time I got the slip and would remain closed until Monday. I kept wondering what the package could be. I’m a VERY curious person.

Come Monday and it was time to pick up the mystery package. What could it be?

It came in a pretty decent sized box.  Still no idea what it could be or no memory of expecting any package.

Upon removing the contents, I was greeted with an iconic item block from the Super Mario series.

Surprise! Inside was a really neat figurine of all the classic Mario characters. This will be a perfect ornament to sit atop the old television on my “Old Games Station”.