Here is to another year! I always get a tad nostalgic this time a year, 2008 was a particularly crazy one so it is only right that I get a little more sentimental this time around.
Just for fun and perspective I included a couple of pictures from a little over 10 years ago… on the left is my last day on the job (not sure why is says “first”) as a dude with no gun who puts money in ATM machines… Yea, thats real money, I cant quite remember but I would guess that its about $500k or so. On the right my first visit to Tijuana, the broken arm is fresh… I think I am 20 years old in both pictures.
In the 10 years since these pictures were taken I co-founded 3 companies (Asterik Studio in 1999, The Artery Foundation in 2005, and ground(ctrl) in 2007). I relocated to Seattle, Oakland, Coconut Creek Florida, and back to Sacramento. I traveled to Europe, Japan and all over the United States. I went from never owning a computer and having no career prospects to being unbelievably lucky to get paid to “work” with friends all day, design, and have some of my small ideas grow into bigger ideas, and sometimes really BIG ideas.
Most importantly I met and married my beautiful wife, bought our first home and have begun the grown up phase of our lives… (well as grown up as we will ever be). Looking back at the 2000’s makes me super excited about the future. January will bring things full circle, once again I will be working alongside the person whom I can say singlehandedly kick started this crazy journey 10 years ago… I must say it’s crazy how things work out.
So this is my only resolution… to actually update often. Some people might remember a time when I actually kept up on this… Before spell check was invented (of before i knew how to use it).
Have a safe and happy new year!
Favorite Albums
01. Kayne West “808’s & Heartbreak”
02. Girl Talk “Feed The Animals”
03. Coldplay “Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends”
04. Fleet Foxes “Fleet Foxes”
05. Weezer “Red”
06. MGMT “Oracular Spectacular”
07. Death Cab For Cutie “Narrow Stairs”
08. Nada Surf “Lucky”
09. Tokyo Police Club “Elephant Shell”
10. Kings of Leon ”Only By The Night”
Favorite Live Shows
01. Far (Hollywood, Ca)
02. Airborne (Austin TX - SXSW)
03. Bon Iver (Austin TX - SXSW)
04. The Artery Foundation Showcase (Austin, TX - SXSW 2008)
05. Audrye Sessions (Austin, TX SXSW)
Favorite blogs/bookmarks (The daily reading)
01. Engadget
02. The Boy Genius Report
03. The FWA
04. The Creature Speaks
05. Yewknee
06. Uncrate
07. Absolute Punk
08. Perez Hilton
09. fffound
10. Practice/Work/Play
Favorite Television Shows
01. MadMed (AMC)
02. Heroes (NBC)
03. Brotherhood (Showtime)
04. Dexter (Showtime)
05. TrueBlood (HBO)
06. Weeds (Showtime)
07. The Office (NBC)
08. 30 Rock (NBC)
09. My Own Worst Enemy (NBC)
10. Life (NBC)
11. Crash (Starz)
12. Chuck (NBC)
13. Entourage (HBO)
14. The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
15. The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)
16. Countdown With Keith Olberman (MSNBC)
17. Realtime With Bill Maher (HBO)
18. The First 48 (A&E)
19. The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
20. The History Channel (all the time)
Favorite Podcasts:
01. This American Life (NPR)
• The episode “Giant Pool of Money” is what got me hooked, highly recommended if you just cant get your head around what the hell is going on with the economy and how we got here.
02. Planet Money (NPR)
03. The Moth