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Love Notes, Actually

Posted on August 26, 2015

Looking back at all the photos I took from my long trip, I have a boatload of graffiti photos. It’s kinda crazy to think about how a country known to be so beautiful has quite a juxtaposition happening. You can defend how that occurs in every country and city, but it’s one thing to hear it and another to see it up close and personal.

As much as it is technically defacing buildings and other surfaces, I enjoy coming across bright, colorful, and detailed graffiti. It’s the vulgar language that I loathe seeing because it ruins the artistic aspect of graffiti. And this is why we can’t have nice things. 👎

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Travel

Old Town, Chania, Crete, Greece, Europe, Earth

Posted on August 12, 2015

Crete is Greece’s largest island, and is said to be a 12 hour drive from one end to the other. That’s about where I am in New York to the tip of South Carolina. Equivalent to a road trip down a good chunk of the east coast.
When I arrived by boat I just didn’t know what to expect at all. I pictured tiny villages in mountains filled with goats and donkeys. I was excited to see how wrong I was! It’s a very developed island which has areas just as hopping’ as Athens.

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Travel

Vacation Unexpectations

Posted on August 9, 2015

Finally have a chance to check in. I have to admit, looking at previous posts while being in Greece, it didn’t hit me until now how much I’ve done the past nine months. I made my big move to the west coast almost a year ago, and even though I’ve moved back home since then, I really haven’t been in New York much. I began the year in Portland, with a week in Louisiana a few months later, and now two months in Greece. Even though this was definitely not how I imagined things would play out, I was lucky to get out and explore this year because if I was still in Portland, none of these trips would have happened. Life would be so different, so I’m becoming appreciative for this free time.

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Paper Crafts

Rainbow Faces

Posted on August 1, 2015

First off, happy August! Can’t believe how far into the year we are already. This also means that I will be in Greece for three more weeks. I can’t believe I’ve been here two months already. Boy does time REALLY fly.

Onto the topic of the post…so, my aunt owns a textile shop here in Athens, but is not only limited to working with textiles. She does murals, displays, portraits, etc. I may or may not have gotten my artistic genes from her. Anyway, my aunt recently took a job with a client to make her curtains and pillows but along the way, the conversation became about art and all of a sudden I was assigned a job to do portraits by the client’s brother. He wanted a portrait of his daughters. This discussion was weeks ago, but because of the economic crisis here, the project was delayed.

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Love Notes

Crazy, Stupid, Love Notes

Posted on July 31, 2015

I’m just having fun with the titles at this point. I decided from now on I’m going to stay away from numbering the post titles because it gets a bit boring. I just hope y’all get the references.

Anywho, here’s another batch of some graffiti I’ve found across Athens, plus a gif of highway art for your viewing pleasure!

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Fanship

Psycho Killin’ Type

Posted on July 30, 2015

I’ve been wanting to step up my typography game. I went to college for illustration, and 95% of my professors taught us to stay away from typography in our art. We were free to experiment with type if we wanted, but it wasn’t recommended. So most of us never did.

I love graphic design and typography and have always had a huge interest in fonts, but I also enjoyed learning about illustration and how to further enhance my skills so I went to school for that. There was a weird superiority competitive aura between the fine art students, illustration students, and graphic design students, and for whatever reason the school found it wasn’t necessary for any of those three majors to interweave, we unfortunately weren’t given the option to learn more and experiment with fine arts or graphic design. I really wanted to learn more about type, and the one class we were required to take that “taught” typography was just crap, if I could be honest.

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