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-Yellow-five

LED 2 ESCAPE

A quick run down this last year has been a challenge for me and my friend He is a very skilled artist, more than what you see on his page, but is really trying, wanting to grow as an artist. It used to be an ease for him to draw. These days not so much any more. Ever since we both had a friend who brought us down, tried to control us etc... its just bad all around. He is finding it hard to get back into the flow of drawing. That feeling where your imagination see's one thing and your hand cannot keep up. Any advice, techniques, or warm-ups you know of that can re-spark that drive and creativity we all have would be great.

Even I am going through some hard times finding the motivation again to pick up a pencil and draw. I feel like I pigeon holed myself in graphic design.



-y5

If you asked me 5 months ago, a year ago, any time in my life before now if I thought I would be where I am, be the person who I am, that I would be doing what I do. I would of laughed in your face. Life is a funny thing. There were moments where I just thought life was pointless sadly. Now I wake up looking forward to each new day.
My job is not something I would of even remotely thought I would do. In fact I have absolutely been frightened by the idea of Hospitals, or anything dealing with Health Care. Now I am working five days a week 24/hrs a day at a care home. Doing things that disgusted me 5 months ago. It was only a few years ago when I could barely take care of myself. Now I take care of 6 patients on a daily basis, washing, cleaning, helping get around, feeding etc some patients every day.
Life is a funny thing. Sadly this has taken away from "me" time. I barely get time in a day to sit down and find the focus to draw. But I am trying at every single opportunity to. I know this is not going to be the rest of my life, but for now it is what it is and I cannot complain.
I know there are a few of you who are looking for me to do something new, it is coming. This year has been a massive year of change, in who I am, what I do, my issues with trust, love, & friendship. I look back and I know my life is in a better place.

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There has been some big changes lately. Me and Chew Chew pretty much kicked out shady old friend markeezy to the curb. He ended up stealing all the Eclipse Ent e-mail's webpages... etc... like a bitch.

So Eclipse is dead. Chew Chew and I are coming up with a whole new business model and a new name. Our first project is a 2010 Calendar w/ Chosen by Destiny. So keep an eye out for that.

This last saturday, me, my 2 best friends and my friend's sister who is getting into modeling went out with <-Ryan who is probably one of the most talented photographers I have seen...ever. The whole thing was dope we started out with a photoshoot with hella graffiti so it was nice to see that side of SF again, especially stuff I never knew was there. Then we did some other shoots, around and about. Overall the whole day got me really inspired, and kicking it with Ryan was hella coo, not laughed that much in a long time.

Other than that, I have taken a break from throwing club events on the weekend, while I work about 5 days a week at a care home. Which is not all that bad, it is kinda putting me in check with my life. Which is good. Also I have stopped doing flyer design for many reasons. One the whole industry got cheap and thought they could just bully me around with threatening me to go find other designers who cost less than 80 bucks a flyer. Which is a lot when your are making a few thousand a night for a club event... my bad. I am just laughing at all this cheap pettiness, cause all the flyers now look like some one went to the bathroom and picked them out of the toilet. These companies really are stupid, because a good design can either make or break your event. Your flyer looks wack, people are not gonna wanna come. Don't believe me message Tonic Live about his [parties lately... barely breaking 200 people. While our events were breaking 800+ people for our first time ever throwing events... Honestly why do you think big companies spend so much on marketing and advertisement... yes the biggest seller is word of mouth, but people are not gonna tell their friends about anything if your advertisement looks like crap. Second reason, for our Launch, Dusk till Dawn, our company sold over 500 presales alone for that night and had a guestlist that was not as good as our thursday events, but we don't have presales for our thursday events either. still was not too bad. After 10 minutes of the club being open the own, who we have done numerous flyers for, shut the event down. He had several excuses why but what it comes down to in my mind is like this, When we started he offered us thursdays because he was in drama with the previous company who threw events there, rock the bay/ irock, and the week before he patched everything up with them pulled our thursday and when it came for our friday launch he seemed like just wanted it to be over before it even started. To me he just used us to get back at the other company and when things got fixed he threw us to the wind. Pretty unprofessional if you ask me. He then got back to me asking for flyer work, and saying he hopes we are still friends... We were never friends it is just business. He got impatient before the flyer was going to be done this last thursday hit up my buddy mark's phone and cursed out his voicemail, saying I was being unprofessional, for what? Not dropping my actual work work I do at the care home, taking care of people who need it over a damn flyer that is going to pay me 80 bucks? Sorry I am not that horrible of a person. After that I e-mailed him and told him I would not be doing any more flyer work for him at all. He had replied to me cursing me out and telling me that if this was some attempt to ruin his business as a club owner that he would fuck up my career. GL with that buddy, been around longer and been doing more freelance work before and after your little short lived flyer work you had for me. Plus I was paid better. After all of this and this nagging feeling that club work is soo... how do you say BULL SHIT I am stopping. I am now focusing on more legit work, that actually pays you, and clients who don't freak out when I send them contracts and stuff. Also work that you can do after your 30 years old... cause honestly if your working in the club industry after 30 and you are not a club owner, hate to tell ya I think your life went wrong some where.

So yeh that is basically what has been going on. I am going to be putting together a calendar with some of the local models around the area doing some massive photomanip, illustration work, graphic design work on them and have them out before October hopefully.

FIve