This summer, I’m going to be working for a mobile gaming company called Superboise in Tribeca. On Tuesdays though, I’m doing storyboarding for the Museum of Natural History’s next space show in the planetarium (I’m pretty good friends with the director, I’ve worked for him before.)
Additionally, I’m working on a game here at CMU with a group of talented freshmen. My cover photo, the one you commented on, is concept art for that project. It seems to be sucking a large amount of my creative energy away from classes… But I feel that’s alright… for now.
Anyways, I got an internship at Adobe, turned them down because I’m not interested in their industry, and I wasn’t planning to spend my summer out there in San Jose. Call me crazy.
The thing is, I’ve got a girlfriend (3.5 years), and she’s going to be working in Chinatown, and I wanted to spend time with her this summer. I’m expecting to go out to Pasadena next summer for classes at Art Center and CDA. I know I should’ve done it this summer, but because I’ve got two jobs and a girlfriend, I’m staying in the NY area this year.
Right now, we design freshmen are finishing up our game projects and drawing space projects. We have to redesign the room next to studio. If it were up to me, I’d just be working on the game all summer. Everything is due Monday. Ohgawd.
I haven’t updated this blog for months.
I seem to have gained a few followers.
Hi. I’m not quite sure why you’re following this… It’s basically a public diary.
This is the first weekend at college in a while in which I can actually take time to relax, so I’ve been watching mad men (and some Death Note). I’m on episode 7 of Mad Men, and it’s oddly addicting, despite its lack of clear direction. I find the window on the 60’s depressing mainly because of the accurate treatment of women depicted in the show. At the same time, I’ve been drawing scenes of a pleasant post-apocalyptic commune built around the wreckage of a crashed space ship (http://josheiten.com/post/20214132422).
I also read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, which I learned a lot from. It’s a fantastic read for anyone interested in story.
Yesterday was my uncles 70th birthday (wow), and I forgot. I’m such a bad nephew.
Note: I got three lovely hours of sleep last night… I have a bad habit of staying up til the wee hours of the morning watching movies and/or drawing with my buddies <3. It’s fun, but harmful to my health.
Anywho:
Though it’d be lovely, I’m not going to college in a Hogwarts. It’s become clear to me that I am not living and learning in a dream-come-true, and for me, that’s a good thing. I’m here to grow, and growing takes too long in a dream.
I lived in a dream during high school, and that dream was fortunately shattered when I got to college. Now that I’m awake, I may have actually learned as much about myself and how to live in the past three months as I had in the three happy years prior.
This school is a very, very, down-to-earth place. It’s a place that teaches me something valuable everyday. I am learning things big and small which are going to affect how I live and think for the rest of my life.
Some things that I’ve learned about myself and how to live my life so far, in a mushed-but-sort-of-organized order:
- Being aware of something and knowing it are completely different. While I may have been aware of a lot of things on this list, I didn’t truly know them.
- I am a simple person. I have simple needs and desires compared to a lot of my friends. I didn’t know that until recently.
- I have a bad habit that I’m slowly kicking: I don’t think enough about the right things, and I think too much about the wrong things.
- The best way to learn is to fail and try again.
- The biggest gift I have is my ability to draw. I truly love drawing more than anything else.
- The thought processes that go into design can be applied to any problem. I chose the right field.
- Strive for simplicity. We have too much clutter in this world. It’s easier to successfully solve a problem by overworking the solution and then reducing it down to its essentials.
- You can never be done with anything because nothing can ever be truly perfected. You can just arrive at a point where it may be acceptable to move on to something else.
- While it can be very harmful to over-think certain things, it is necessary to over-think others.
- What you do defines who you are.
- With everyone you meet, take the good with the bad. People are a lot easier to love when you can accept their flaws.
- People are good. People are bad. There is no good, and there is no bad. There just is.
- Everyone you meEt has at least one thing they can contribute to your life, whether it’s big or small. Likewise, there is at least one thing you can bring to their lives, too.
- An emotional wound is very similar to a physical wound. The more you focus on it, the more painful it is. The more you scratch at it, the slower it heals. Bad injuries may never heal completely, but they can scar up, and you can at least live comfortably with a scar. Just don’t open it up again.
- Emotional anxiety can pose a real threat to physical health if you let it grow out of control.
- Controlling yourself involves letting go.
- It’s unproductive to always be so hard on yourself.
- Anxious? Meditate.
- Can’t sleep? Listen to people playing video games while lying on a couch with your eyes closed.
- Sometimes, you have to do painful things in the short term to heal in the long term. Sounds obvious, right?
- Most things are easier said than done, and (at least for me,) easier drawn than built.
- Enduring pain makes you stronger.
- Pain comes from inside. Do not blame your surroundings.
- The first step to improving something is to know of its problems. Being critical of everything is not a bad thing, as long as you know what you can fix and what you can’t.
- It’s amazing how many different ways their are to love someone.
- There is a difference between love and romance.
- The love you have for one person is unique and independent of the love you have for another.
- To make your comfort zone a comfier place, step out of it.
- Seems I’m a pantheist. :3
I could go on and on, but I’ve got to write a paper on street art. Toodles!
