Corporatization
Well, I fell off online and certainly don’t tweet [http://twitter.com/jax989] as much as I used to, and definitely I don’t show up online as much anymore. I guess that’s what becoming grown up and getting a “real” job will do to you. I told myself I would stay the same at the core as much as I could and this would allow me to have the same hobbies but afford them.
It took a little over 6 months and two new years (Jan 1st and L to come to a realization. I was not expecting the corporate 9 to 5 to take as much time as it did. Now that I am at the realization things are changing.
Awareness is the key, seeing and meeting the rest of the company and seeing the tracking of what happens when becoming someone who has been with the “company” for so long.
I now realize how much control we have on people; and yet at the same time how big is not good. I am aware there are advantages to the sheer size of the company and the prestige of the name; but the same time there are limits. So, what’s the plan? Learn.
In the mean time I’m learning and also keeping true to my core, and teach to those who aren’t aware the company is not the end all be all. This is not where you end this is not who you are or what defines you. The company does not own you; you are only there to gain something meaningful while providing your own input to the system.
We are a generation that can change everything; look at everything else that is happening in the world around us. We have changed the world; we can change the company.
I’ll leave you with the parting note from a good friend I have the great fortune to know Randy Jensen and the post he found that finally finished this post out for me.
Later Days
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Food Truck Revolution
Every year one of the best parts of SXSW (South by South West) is the food trucks. Austin, Texas is one of the meccas for all great food trucks. There are gourmet trucks with chefs whose backgrounds match those of head chefs at the 5 star restaurants in the swankiest of districts. Why not have Duck, or a locally grown veggie puree with a bit of local herbs. More people are even getting creative in covering the food trucks. Food Network star Guy has started covering Diners Drive-ins and Dives, he has opened up the world that shows off the great gourmet that can be had from some of the most unlikeliest of places. The Discovery Network owes a lot to their food cart (food truck) vendor who stopped many of the returning lunch crowd from going into a building with a gunman.
The conversation from SXSW, the combined Pacha Kucha, and a few more conversations made me realize we need a food truck day in Dallas. There are some great ones in Dallas like The Bomb Fried Pies, Green House and many more.
Yes, as D Magazine points out they will eventually end up in the Arts District, but we need more. A conversation with my friend Valerie even brought up a good point; it’s too contrived to put all the trucks in one area. Don’t pigeon hole yourself in just one area and one neighborhood. Why can’t we have them on Greenville or in Uptown. It has to be organic, put the trucks somewhere the people are. We have great groups now riding on bikes we have great areas where people don’t need their cars to get around. All bar goers, hoppers and the masses all love food trucks. We are a vibrant city with connected people and more let’s get out there and show the powers that be Food Trucks are awesome and they are here to stay.
Action must come and what I propose is have a day dedicated to food trucks and have a day to go and enjoy them, the city, the weather and friends and family. I want to put this together and make this work we can make the Dallas area better!
An obsession
I just read an e-mail and well had to post this and some pictures to go along with it.
The reason for this is well we have a team we’re trying to get in, just the engine needs to go back in the car… more details at http://grassyknollsociety.wordpress.com/
Post SXSW 2011
It has been another year and another day of Jet Lag and recovery. Though this year proved again a few things: I am going to stay in the same hotel, and I am always going down Thursday night.
So, a little re-cap for SXSW this year it was all AMAZING! Though the better things happened outside of the panels but that is okay that is the spirit of South by Southwest. Pictures below show the first of many great connections made. I ran into Phillip D. Franco, again, as I always seem to do. We also ran into Zadi Diaz and the rest of the Epic Fu Team, the creators of Riese the Series and a few more.
The biggest thing I learned is to keep creating and keep my creations going. I’m also keeping up with one of my more or less New Year’s resolutions and that is to complete projects we’ve been thinking of over and over again. So I am going to be starting a new podcast and finishing my projects this year.
Creation includes art work as well, that is going to be the hardest one for me. I have a camera I finally adore and love to shoot with all the time and get great pictures from. I just never seem to be in a place where I want to take pictures. It’s finally getting warm enough to start heading out at night and shooting the night sky. I guess time lapses are in order for pictures at night and finally getting around to getting better lenses.
I guess there should be more from this year’s SXSW but really there isn’t. The final thing I will leave everyone with is a trailer of a great movie we had the opportunity to catch Wasted on the Young:
Still Cranking
More info is available on my final project blog but in the mean time here is the start of the discussion.
Quick Interview
So I had the oppertunity to sit down and chat with the writer of the Assimilator’s Log the other day. Enjoy the video…
For more information about the Assimilator’s Log visit the link in the blog roll section —>
Year 2011 or Year of the Rabbit
New year and new start: and an end too. I have been M.I.A. on blogging because I’ve not had the time. The research has kept me busy and the start of many, many projects and social commitments. I am about to complete my M.F.A. in Arts and Technology. More info about the project and it’s progress can be found on my blog specifically for school. This blog is my personal stuff and whatever else knowledge I can impart and some interviews hopefully coming soon.
In the mean time what is going on…
Mobile Lab is working on some neat projects and I should be posting more about what is gong on soon. Most of these updates will be coming towards the end of the week since I’m concentrating on working through out the week and becoming much more productive and regimented.
Besides the M.F.A. project and the usual nonsense there is a new film project on the horizon and hopefully I’ll have more about that coming up. Right now though you could really help things along and visit the kick starter page. Support a good cause, a great learning and life experience.
This year through may I’m trying to keep simple in the mean time. No more fuss just 3 simple goals:
• Finish projects previously uncompleted
• Graduate (finally)
• Get a job / job search for post graduate life…
• Less social commitment time
I’m a little freaked out about the graduation, I’m not gonna lie. Hopefully I can figure out what exactly I want to do and go from there. Ideas are solid and there are many interesting things going on. How can one survive off of these things. and also be funding other cool projects. That is the goal for life for now.
Later Days,
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For not posting
It’s been a long time coming, I new the screws would tighten and things would start getting left behind. This is one of the first things to always get left behind. Even after a New Year resolution to write more and to concentrate on what really mattered I still didn’t keep up with the blogging. I don’t know what it is about January but there always seems to be a better light at the end of the tunnel than there usually is.
At this point, well, I’ve been looking into how things are moving forward and things so far can get a lot better and hopefully keep going at this pace too. As for right now all I have to say is my life feels like the embedded image. If you like the comic please support him, it is what we are all going through as graduate students. We have no life really, it seems like it and some of our research is flashy and cool. Honestly though majority of it could be more exciting if we watched the grass grow beside us.
How life feels as a graduate student
Later Days,
Simple…
I Lack of rest
Not completing tasks
This month I await to end
Return to my insanity
I will soon be again
Later Days,
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insomnia and all that jazz... 
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