North Bergen, NJ identity

Salvadoran Restaurant: "Guanaco"

Huge Ice Cream Shop

Spanish Botanica: Closed

"They look so sad, like if they're in jail" --Geo

Hair Salon

lamp: COMPLETE.

'2008 NYC STUDENT LIGHTING COMPETITION

EVOCATIVE LUMINANCE:

How can light be used to trigger an emotion or spark a memory? '

Well, I finally finished my lamp for this mess and I am hella excited! Spent the last few days with little sleep and using mad friends as slaves. Gracias a Dios que termine! I owe so many people beer now! I got a free subscription to Professional Lighting Design Magazine and a free bag full of fun light design stuff, making me feel like a damn celebrity that's right.

write-a-thon

Me and Kim wrote a poem at the 12hr write-a-thon about the models' pose during the draw-a-thon at Pratt on Friday. It was great.

i'm tired

can't sleep.
6:56AM

"it's the viewers which make the pictures." --Marcel Duchamp

The Dia Beacon Museum is the shit!

"in conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work...all planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art"

-Sol LeWitt

Richard Serra

Dan Flavin

A lot of conceptual art, including artwork by Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson and more. It's sited on thirty-one acres on the banks of the Hudson River, in a three floor 1929 Nabisco warehouse. The space is beautifully built with skylights everywhere that elusively bring northern light in. It's quite far from Brooklyn, almost a 2 hr ride, but definitely worth it. I loved it, it isn't a crowded space with staff following you. The work I think, is something that all artists should personally see and experience.

BOOKS=COOL!

I work with a program America Reads/Counts.This is a program that helps mostly inner city children learn how to read and write through tutoring with material like the reading, arts and sign language. We went to Lisa Libraries to collect books for schools and hospitals the other day, here are some great pictures illustrating a lot of the fun we had.

I love my job.

En tus pupilas

La vida es una colección de recuerdos
Pero nada como tú, recuerdo tan bien
Desde la redondez que tienen tus labios
Al olor de tu pelo
el color de tu piel

No pienses que te irás y me voy a resignar
Eres lo mejor que me ha pasado
Entre lo mundano y lo sagrado
Y aún más
Tú lo haces vivir
Y siento
Algo en tí, algo entre los dos
Que me hace insistir
Cuando miro en tus pupilas sé que Dios no dejo de existir
Tú lo haces vivir

Lifesize

We stood so tall we caught a plane by the wing
and held it
Until we found it a place to land
We layed across the ocean wide
Bridged the gap in record time

I know that we are different

sitting in your stoop
smoking a cigarette
waiting for you.
what am i doing?
where is this going
and
why am I doing this?
why can't I make up my mind,
after all?