fine wine
I turned 29 last week. And much like any year, it held a little bit of sadness, a lot of pride, and gallons of alcohol. This year, I asked my friends to join me at the Viceroy in Santa Monica. And as I took the time to look around and see the various people who somehow joined my life, I was thankful. Thankful for having awesome friends, family, and way more people than Nancy-What’s-her-hole who was taking up all the chaise furniture around our corner of the pool area.
Here is a recent conversation I had with a friend/client of mine discussion my new age of discovery.
That about sums it up , really.
PICS from the Viceroy…
continents and years
The past few weeks have once again barely spared me any time to write. Well, that’s a lie. I could probably have taken some time to do so, but the brain activity in my few moments of alone time was so low, I thought I wouldn’t bother with forwarded some dumb links and pictures like I normally do when I’m lazy.
Between my one week of SIGGRAPH insanity, and later having a visitor for over a week stay at my place, I think Oliver only saw one version of me - the exhausted one.
And now my life is somewhat back to normal I suppose. But that’s not to say that things won’t get hectic again.
And now, a very short pictoral retrospect of my last month.
SIGGRAPH 2008 - Los Angeles
Houdini Dinner
Drinking on the job (well, at night of course)
Anne-Laure visiting from Paris
always a good side
Who said being fat was bad? Apparently, it might actually save lives.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An inmate scheduled for execution in October says he’s so fat that Ohio executioners would have trouble finding his veins and he might not be properly anesthetized.
In other news, I finally got back my two rolls of 120 mm film. A few things about buying a Holga I would like to pass on to those wishing to take up this hobbey.
- There are like 4 places in all of LA that still develop traditional film, only one exists in Santa Monica. That would be Boulevard Photo on 12th and Wilshire.
- Of the 24 pictures I took, roughly 6 of them were decent enough. Those six pictures cost me $36 to develop. One set.
- Learn how to manually wind the film, apparently this is key to not exposing your stuff.
Otherwise, enjoy…
I get browner by the hour
Seriously, this tan is out of control. Having 3 BBQs over the long weekend hasn’t helped either. I swear , I haven’t even tried to get this dark. And no, I don’t work in a field. But whatevs, I’m feeling glowey.
July 4th was a lot of food and a lot of friends …
On Sunday, we all had a blast at Becca’s for her birthday. I was drunk from booze, Ollie was drunk from food.
And SF was fun …
mosaic game
I picked this up from my pal Jen!
1. LEYLA (CEPT getting busy), 2. goose bento 2, 3. Thank God It’s Friday III, 4. vertical neighborhood., 5. Forearm, 6. hasselblad summer rain, 7. OIA, handmade houses, 8. Vanilla bread pudding french toast, 9. curator, 10. love…, 11. Empathetic fairies, 12. Bored
bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
Made a mosaic
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into flickr search.
2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into big huge lab’s mosaic maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.
The questions:
1. what is your first name? Leyla
2. what is your favorite food? right now? sesame seeds
3. what high school did you go to? Palos Verdes
4. what is your favorite color? teal
5. who is your celebrity crush? Christian Bale
6. what is your favorite drink? Champagne
7. what is your dream vacation? Greek Islands
8. what is your favorite dessert? Bread Pudding
9. what do you want to be when you grow up? Gallery curator
10. what do you love most in life? cuddling
11. what is one word that describes you? empathetic
12. what is your flickr name? leylabot
parallels … you draw the correlation
Some similarities are harder to see than others …
work and stuff
You know, I hate to blame my lack of activity on work, but I’m going to blame it the after effect of work on my brain and body.
I travel, I do meetings, I set up more meetings , and I process things for future meetings. Then I come home the next day, load up my email and read more emails asking me to set up more meetings. It’s really a never ending cycle, but there are moments where I stare at the blinking voicemail light on my phone and think “fuck it”. Then I realize if I don’t answer that now, then it’ll turn into a screaming person on the phone.
Honestly though, work has been eerily satisfying. In that way where I feel like I’m contributing on a bigger level, in a way where I feel like people are being helped, kind of like a bigger helping feeling. Yeah, that’s it.
So lots of people have no clue what I do. And honestly, I don’t have the typing power to cover it on this blog. But look at it like this, I work for a company that develops cutting edge high end technology for 3D animation and visual effects in film. This company is comprised of under 50 people, and I help most of those people, our R&D team mainly, try to understand what our customers , the FX artists and technical directors, need in production of really terrible high budget movies that milk our paychecks and make us feel unfulfilled in the end.
Yeah, I enjoy it. Because the only thing more amazing than listening to endless technical meetings discussing pixels and rendering power, mico-polygons and and dynamic simulations … is learning this is all because Mr. Un-named Fancy Director wants to see it just a little different when the jeep blows up on the mysterious alien planet.
It’s all a part of life’s work.
