DIARY
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I’ve been obsessing about playing in a band again the last few weeks.
I just really miss playing for people. Whats the point of having taken music lessons for practically one half of my existence and not ever showing off my skill/talent (whats left of it). I really do miss it, and I really do want to get something going again.

I just hope that soon my job situation levels out and I have a chance to actually make my dream of being a designer by day and musician by night a reality.

I guess until then, Garageband will be my outlet,

Oh, how I love Garageband.
Its fast, easy and fun.
I made this quick little track this afternoon. No vocals, just guitars and drum loops. Enjoy.

Untitled - 2:40

If you know me, or have seen any (most) of my design work. You probably know how much I love the font Helvetica. You may also know that I have shunned Arial (or mostly anything else pertaining to Micro$oft) out of my life forever.

Now theres a quiz you can take that will tell you if you know your stuff:
Arial or Helvetica

Have you noticed that over the last few years more and more marketing campaigns have targeted the younger generations? The Pre-Teen demographic is the perfect age to “snag em” and keep them for a long time. Especially when the children themselves have control over their parents spending. “Mommy can you buy me this Gucci watch”, “Daddy, I need to have an Ipod or my friends wont think i’m cool”. It pretty much sickens me seeing small children walking around with the latest cell phones.

There is now a group out of Boston Mass. called “Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood” . They are fighting the battle for todays youth by educating children parents and teachers about how to “fight back” against the brands that bombard young people every day.

The world renowned designer David Carson is going to be doing a Creative Workshop in Toronto in September at the TBD Gallery on College street. Get more info here.

Anyone got 400 bux to lend me to go check it out?

Looks like we have a new way of getting the internet coming to our homes very soon. Its called Broadband Over Power lines - BPL. It looks pretty interesting, and could possibly *hopes* bring the cost of internet service providers down.

We’ve been using this new internet over our home power-lines in my house here in Toronto since January. Its pretty cool all you need is a router and these boxes to transmit and receive the information. We didn’t have to run any wires or anything. Nor do we need to worry about someone leeching off a wireless network. Its great.

Lets hope we see this in Canada sometime soon.