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I was in Seattle last week with Michaela and we stayed at my mom’s place. She had just picked up a record player a few days before we got there and when we my brother was over for dinner, we hooked it up and dug out some old records. My mom was a radio DJ for like 20 years and has always had a huge collection of records. My dad’s a musician as well, so I grew up with a lot of music. I remember listening to a lot of actual records when I was real young at the house I grew up in in Kirkland, but we switched to CD’s pretty early on cus my mom would get boxes and boxes of them from labels, so our record playing days faded out at a young age. I think it also had to do with the fact that the table we had broke and when you have everything on CD, why get a new record player. Throughout the years my mom’s record collection has grown smaller and smaller. We’ve moved houses, my brothers taken a lot, she’s donated a lot of the crap ones she got for free, but there’s still a nice stack of classic in a storage room downstairs (my old bedroom… haha). She’s been talking about getting a new table for a long time, but it wasn’t until her old tenants moved out of the downstairs apartment and gave her their old one last week, that we’ve actually had a table in our house. When Michaela, my brother Hamilton and I showed up, it wasn’t plugged in yet, but we got that thing going real quick. We didn’t have much time to dig through the records, but Hamilton grabbed a few and I snapped some pics of the albums he dug up. As soon as we have more space, I’m getting a table for our house, but for now, I’ll have to wait till my next Seattle trip… Here’s what we were jamming to.
It was my birthday when I was down there and we met up with my dad, step-mom, and sisters at the beach. They were all hanging out at this beach called Denny Park that was right down the street from the house I grew up in. I hadn’t been to that park in years, but it definitely brought back crazy memories. I spent so many days hanging out there in the summer and we’d always go watch the boats with the Christmas lights and stuff in the winter. It really got me thinking how much fun it was to be a kid.
So, like I said before, I was my b-day and Michaela hooked up some amazing gifts!! New clear(ish) Nom De Guerre X Oliver Peoples glasses. I have the black ones, but the clear are so hot! (Andrew McMullen shot that photo on the Burrard bridge the other day)
And then she followed those up with a Tolomeo desk lamp! Now my desk is super official!
So, since I’ve been twittering a bunch, I’ve been slacking on my blog. I’ve really been thinking about twitter vs my blog and I think I’ve got it figured out. Twitter is for random crap that happens throughout the day that doesn’t really matter… and sharing links and stuff that I might not post on Defgrip. But my blog should be where I document the important stuff… or more like a summary of what I’ve been up to… like my journal. It’s so rad to go back through old blog posts and look at old photos, but I’ve had twitter for over a year and not once, have I gone though my old posts and looked back on life. We’ll see if i follow through with it, but I’m going to try to step up my blog posts on here a bit.
This entry was written by , posted on July 4, 2009 at 10:24 am, filed under news and tagged music, news, stuff. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
I’m going to try to do more fun, non-work, design stuff more. I seem to easily get cought up in only doing design for clients and months go by where I haven’t done one thing for my self. I guess Defgrip still feels like a personal project, but even that gets to feel like “work” a lot. So, this morning, I was listening to my brothers new album. He’s in a few different bands, but just finished up a project he did with his friend Nash. It’s more of a fun thing they threw together, but it was in my iTunes with no art… I’m super anal about having album art for all my music, so I though, what a perfect opportunity to do some random crap.
Hamilton and Nash titled this project “Horse Grinder” and for some reason, I had horse illustrations stuck in my head. I didn’t have much time to spend on the art, so I just hit up google images and came across this rad anatomy drawing of a horse, made a little logo, threw some type in there, messed with a the background and that was that! I only spent like 30min on it, but it was super fun messing around and I’m going to try to do something along these lines a few times a week… Keep my brain fresh!
Hamilton doesn’t have anything online for Horsegrinder, but you can check out his main band, Song Sparrow Research here.
This entry was written by , posted on March 31, 2009 at 7:52 pm, filed under news and tagged design, hamilton, music. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
