THE BLOG OF DIS: Daily DIScription

Welcome back! I haven't had time to post in a few days so here are the all the delayed images. I don't know if anyone is still looking but if you are comments are appreciated. The more comments I get, the more time I'll put into this and the more diverse this blog will become.

It's a leap year, which means that tomorrow will be the "bonus" photo day. I also realized that I've been posting these images for over a month now. I hope I can manage to continue this for a whole year but there are going to be a lot of changes happening in my life over the next couple of months and they may preclude my ability to keep this up for a year.

I am in talks with a company in Antwerp about a possible design job there, which I really hope comes through, but there are still a lot of things I don't know about the job or about how I would get over there, find an apartment, get a visa, etc. I am also still waiting to hear back from MIT regarding my application to the Visual Arts Program. It's a very competitive program (a maximum of 6 will be excepted) but I have a pretty good feeling about it, I'm still really nervous about it though.

If neither of those two options materialize I am planning on applying for jobs in New York and hopefully moving there by June. I don't know how long I can make it on my unemployment so I really am hoping everything will come together quickly as I need some stability in my life right now and I need to enjoy what I'm doing.

I'm still applying for local design jobs, but there aren't really any companies in town that I want to work for. Most of the interior jobs are in architectural firms and I really need to get out of that type of environment as they lack creativity.

On my walk down to the Ace Hotel today I was hit by an elderly woman in her car. She was pulling out of a parking lot onto Burnside (a major street) and she apparently was only looking to her left. As I approached the car it stopped at the sidewalk (so I thought she saw me) and then I continued walking only to be hit by her car when I was directly in front of her on the drivers side. Luckily she was going slow and stopped as soon as she saw me halfway on her hood pounding. I was also really close to the bumper so as soon as she moved I felt it, which turned out to be a good thing since I can see how even at a really slow speed getting hit by a car can really screw up your body., knocking everything out of alignment.

Finally, today I was sent a link to the New York Times review of newly opened Y-3 store in New York. The article has a couple photos of the space and I was surprised and somewhat happy to see that my design from the Y-3 flagship store in Tokyo made it into the New York store. The shelving, fixtures (some of the fixtures were Kunzweiler designs that I was asked to incorporate into the Tokyo store) and mirrored wall are all directly taken from the prototype design (which is almost two years old now). Anyway, the fact that my design is still being used is a pretty nice compliment. Personally, I would have done else for New York, but the review was favorable and now I can say that my prototype design was used in New York. I just wish I could have worked on the New York store. It would have been much nicer than working on condos and vet clinics like I have for the past 18 months.

Okay, that's all for now. Come back later for more news and updates on my future plans.