September 2009
2 posts
21+ HALLOWEEN PARTY in LITTLE TOKYO
Original artwork for digital flyer.  (Please note all information on the flyer is subject to change.) 21+ Halloween Party in Little Tokyo Who: 21+ peoples. What: Halloween party. Where: 410 Boyd St. (restaurant) in Little Tokyo located on 410 Boyd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013. When: Saturday, October 31st, 2009. Why: To raise funds for the community.  All proceeds from this party will go to...
Sep 11th
Old School Shutter Shots: Nikon Nikkormat FT2
blast from the past: the nikon nikkormat ft2 so in an attempt to resurrect my photographic ambitions that were aroused during an introductory 9th grade photography class years ago, i retrieved our family’s nikkormat ft2 from home this summer and brought the lithe mechanized time cleaver to LA.  recalling how to shoot film has been a ‘relearning-how-to-ride-a-bicycle’...
Sep 4th
August 2009
1 post
Nikkei Student Union 2009-2010 T-Shirt Design...
Design entry for the Nikkei Student Union (NSU) at UCLA’s 2009-2010 membership t-shirt.  NSU is a Japanese American interest organization that provides outreach, cultural awareness and community service, sports, social and leadership development programs to all who are interested in Japanese American culture and identity.  For more information visit www.nikkeibruins.org. Main Design ...
Aug 14th
July 2009
2 posts
CHICAGO 09
Pictures from a recent trip to Chicago: July 2-6, 2009. Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City Raymond M. Hood and John Mead Howells’s Tribune Tower Lake Point Tower Chicago River at night View of Chicago River from State Street Bridge Daniel Burnham’s Reliance Building Rem Koolhaas’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center Mies van der Rohe’s...
Jul 26th
Little Tokyo Mapping Project
Image of Little Tokyo, ca. 2009.  Map Source: Google Earth Phase 1 of a project to digitally map Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo.
Jul 1st
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June 2009
3 posts
World of Shape
Disneyland’s It’s A Small World. Photo taken 6.23.09 Disney is Anti-Form. It is unyielding in its reverence of the visually vernacular. It is a geometric celebration of the incised Thrill. A world that thrives in the ecstasy of pre-set fantasy, Disneyland stands as the modern apotheosis of Shape.
Jun 28th
Guide to Sunset: BLOCK 12
final spring quarter project for ucla’s architecture and urban design 133: modernism and the metropolis.  spring 2009 prompt: “Final Project - Guide to Sunset Boulevard: A Slice of LA When Ed Ruscha shot the photos for Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) from a motorized camera mounted on the back of the pickup truck he was driving, he offered up a deadpan portrait of the...
Jun 19th
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Jun 8th