Some Observations

Had the meeting with James about the End-of-Year show. We got a bit further but only as far as ideas. (I should post more creative work to actually show what I'm doing...Oh, well.) Since school was closed last Friday, we went to a cafe around Union Square called Thé Adoré which was run by Japanese people. Now, I don't know whether it was the fact that they were Japanese or whether they just liked bite-sized food, but the breakfast sandwich I got was comparable in size to a tennis-ball. (See below) Very cute and cozy though.














The Adoré used to be an old printing press! Oh those were the days.














Small but tasty. But small.


After an observation by Mark at the Design Office about a certain shape of the negative space in a subway-ad, I now cannot undo the harm to my eyes. Is this how the patriarchy subliminally enforces its powers on womankind? I guess we are evil after all:








Watch that negative space, designers.
(Needs to be viewed in full-size. Click!)


On Friday there was an art-school party in a studio-space almost right next door to me. One stop over on the JMZ-line. Me, Anna-Sophia (from Halifax) and Sara tried out some different beers (a pirate-beer among others, yarr!) at a Williamsburg-cafe before heading over to dance a bit.














The munchies set in somewhere around three o clock

Saturday was laundry-day and I was fascinated by this machine that had this lovely rhytmical beat to it. Unfortunately it wasn't my machine, so when the woman whose revolving underwear I was filming came back, I had to apologize and ask if it was ok.


The funky laundry machine. Turn the volume up.


Went out with Taranika on Saturday to Lotus in the Chelsea/meatpacking-district. It was...intense. Let's just say I learned a little about New Yorkian and U.S. club culture. VIP and free drinks are never bad though.















Tomorrow Chip Kidd is speaking about his new book at Barnes & Noble in Tribeca.

I hope that I will meet some ECI people there as they are now in town!