happy '09, maybe

• graphic & web design. silver lake, los angeles 90039.

ccharles@alum.calarts.edu

thank you.

• new client. working on facebook and myspace social application graphic and web design. added a few new items to web section.
• working and learning the boom for bugess.
• starting as a motor scooter courier in and around Downtown Los Angeles to enjoy the beautiful weather.
• finished my Beautiful Decay internship. great experience.
• recently began internship at beautiful decay magazine, we're working on a new site using wordpress, pretty fun so far.
• good to have three brand new clients. working in-house doing print and web for Hamadi Beauty, web design for the Samburu Project and additional web design work. also spent some time working for the DNC this month canvassing door-to-door for Obama.
• bank account balance today was 777, i was born on the 7th day in 77. change is coming. let the games begin.
• if you restore something, it can recover and enhance the functionality of that object.
• v1 of my portfolio. after graduating calarts, taking a few art classes at lacc to defer my loan repayment for a while and to continue to learn. i have a new friend, and am appreciating los angeles as seen from the perspective of a motor scooter.
• some work animating little vehicles for block animated but didn't really work out as a long distance freelance opportunity.
• floyd, from one eleven productions is a great guy. he is gifting me a sweet old dual g4 desktop in exchange for some web work. cool!
• being single sucks. having a hard time with my current situation. I want what I had, but i need to continue to move forward. I need to get out more,
• hmm... where should i go today to sit in front of my laptop to work? this reality is what i wanted really. I can work and travel, the new mobile me... looking forward.
• recent frontline episode to watch online called growing up online ... "writing an email for a lot of kids we talked to is equivalent to hand-writing a letter. ... They describe e-mail as a slow archaic way to keep in touch."
• officially have holey socks but i'm finally beginning to get it. currently looking for full time employment.
• my design, video and web work will be posted regularly here on the site. let me know what you think!
• makes me cry, no matter what your position is on the war, we still have a responsibility towards the soldiers that have suffered there. a soldier remembers - ny times video on injured soldier home from the iraq.
• contacted M83 to let me do video graphics at the echo on May 20th. I should be able to start work on video for UK group futurecop soon, which should be fun.
• it is starting to warm up around here, windows open at night is a southern california luxury. I sure am going to miss this place.
• new video posted i did for calarts "second life" show that was in the mod. site design for itsnotabomb will be posted soon.
• I sure appreciate the fact that i've been in a car chase when i was young. I remember speeding off from brock mathis, the high school jock taking off with his "girl". received a nice kiss that evening in my vw rabbit. too funny the things you remember.
• brought live video art setup to anne's house for maxime and rinus' going away party. i setup a drawing table that projected into the space and amanda vigil, mike afsa and jose hernandez fooled around creating live video collages.
• I want to travel, graduation, end of year show, projection.
• "I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me - I’m going to smile.” —unknown
• “those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.” —Golda Meir
• "some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go." —unknown
• I have another videographics show for dreamtiger coming up at a club called violaine in chinatown on may 15th.
• my first videographics show was a success. i was pretty nervous, but things worked out well. here are some pictures dave house took and i adjusted. the graphics were for dreamtiger, a shoegaze band. They played with (among other bands) a band called shields, they were pretty great.
• Its been a rough month, michelle and i are not together right now and i'm now faced with the possibility that i'll move on without her when i graduate. I am working through quite a few things right now including trying to find my dad, reconnecting with friends that i've lost contact with, facing my own worst tendencies not to mention staying on top of my final year of art/design school here at calarts. The strange thing about all this is how it has really kicked in my productivity and my perspective on all the things around me. however things work out, i'm going to be a better person because of it.
  
• post break-up above
• last night a trackball saved my life. feeling much better lately, reading bruce mau 'massive change' finally. really interesting ideas so far, huel howser, old documentaries and
• home staging pay designers to make your house look nice so that you can pay for it in this crappy market. i could do that. seems like it would be fun, just not sure if i could handle the day in and day out of that, also i would feel a bit out of place... who knows.
• bought a vhs/dvd recorder from school money for my videographics work. i've been frequenting amoeba and atom records for old vhs tapes of obscure stuff and make digital versions of some of the footage. its pretty great.
• michelle and her parents and I pitched in on a projector as a christmas gift, so now i am wired for video on my own terms!!! just into the diy aspect, and its possibilities in terms of art making.
• soon, we will not have to move. preparing for later life i suppose.
• going to make a book on hobo signs and symbols.
• ed fella and geoff mcfetridge - feb. 21st at redcat.
• cloverfield made me motion sick, same with michelle.
• hard-drive head gone bad with all my video and work on it. $2200 to fix, what a joke. moving on. in meantime looking for alternatives to get this repaired.
• it's raining lets play almost done. it an audio/visual recording of real time videographics that I recorded as i listened to his mix. this project is also a collaborative effort to explore things that interest me.
• planning videographics work with shoegaze band dreamtiger if james rocks the crowd. currently working with daniel, barney, cameron, kris, sean, jose and nate on videographics related projects.
• freelance work & winter break.
• started to think about contacting my real dad. sent an email to my mom, and now i have a little but more knowledge of my real father. the next step is to pursue this further. not sure if its going to happen before i graduate though. sure would be nice in a surreal utopian crazy sort of way.