This is Coco aka Duoeuqckes (pronounced Dukes).  He’s a 17 year old chow/collie/fox mix from Hiroshima, Japan.  He currently resides in San Francisco and wants to wish everyone a Happy New Year!  It’s Amazing that Coco has lived for so long.. 17 years has made him The Truth!.  Though he has arthritis in his back hind legs, Duoeuqckes still has bursts of energy and enjoys walking around the block while sniffing everything in sight! Happy New Year everyone!

I love google reader.. I’m on all-things-homie-related, as soon as its posted… My friend M.Dot.Strange, recently posted his thoughts on the end of the year, and it’s definitely worth a read.  He’s already directed/animated/produced his first animated film “We Are The Strange”, completely by himself, and he’s already On To The Next, with his upcoming film “Heart String Marionette“.  He’s a one man power house with an INCREDIBLE WORK ETHIC.  Who the hell writes/directs/animates/produces/slangs their own film???? really though..? Unheard of.. and it’s something all new, emerging, new-media artists, can look up to.  Thanks M.dot, for being an inspiration. !

A year’s end is just a punctuation mark on a sentence you can choose to ignore… but for the sake of clarity and the need to organize, process and drive forward I will totally like write some year end stuff…

- Seems like now more than ever before… most normal people assume that the quality of something is directly related to how much money it makes and vice versa… if it has made a bajillion dollars it must be the best…if it has made 10 dollars it is the worst… the mainstream has always been the mainstream but now social networking allows the stream to build faster and stronger (read… dumb and DUMBER ^_^ )

- Even if a film isn’t a pre-sold franchise the visual style, narrative and thematic elements are… its the same thing in a new way (read… gay3(cubed and shet) not in a 1950′s way)

- Joseph Campbell said that a culture/society needs to be infused with new mythology periodically to remain healthy, vibrant, alive… most films have been shoveling the same old shiTE down peoples throats in new ways… no new mythos… lame, beaten, tired pathos… What are they telling you? What are you learning? From what perspective? What are you feeling?

- I feel that we are finally at the cusp of a real artistic revolution… now if everyone would realize that and stop chasing around “experts” and “bosses” to tell them what to do they would rawK teh world… if they would stop chasing empty immediate feelings and instead get on the long road toward realizing and living ones dreams the world would be a better place…

- Inside all of us is the power to create and destroy… light and dark… I’m not sure which side I’m on but I know I must not stop.

- When was the last time you said “AMAZING” and really REALLY meant it?

- When hyperbole replaces original thought and educated opinion… numbness will reign supreme and anxieties will be created to fill the void where HEART and GUTS once sat.

- I’m just one d00d… but these days with a bunch of computers one d00d can do a lot.

- I’m thankful that I’ll get to do this for another year.

- When my new film comes out… some people might die inside… and with they deaths many more will get lyfe….. but not in prison… and hopefully not me…..ITS JUST A FILM ^_^

BEST to YOU and YOURS in 2010 homies!

Yer Phase Alternating Line,

M doT StranGE 2009

Source: M Dot Stranges Blog

WE (been) HERE……

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A Reminder to get through this list ASAP. Clock is tickin…..

Illa J :: Timeless

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_. Ability to create and develop visual response to communication problems, including understanding of hierarchy, typography, aesthetics, composition and construction of meaningful images

_. Ability to solve communication problems including identifying the problem, researching, analysis, solution generating, prototyping, user testing and outcome evaluation

_. Broad understanding of issues related to the cognitive, social, cultural, technological and economic contexts for design

_. Ability to respond to audience contexts recognizing physical, cognitive, cultural and social human factors that shape design decisions

_. Understanding of and ability to utilize tools and technology

_. Ability to be flexible, nimble and dynamic in practice

_. Management and communication skills necessary to function productively in large interdisciplinary teams and “flat” organizational structures

_. Understanding of how systems behave and aspects that contribute to sustainable products, strategies and practices

_. Ability to construct verbal arguments for solutions that address diverse users/audiences; lifespan issues; and business/organizational operations

_. Ability to work in a global environment with understanding of cultural preservation

_. Ability to collaborate productively in large interdisciplinary teams

_. Understanding of ethics in practice

_. Understanding of nested items including cause and effect; ability to develop project evaluation criteria that account for audience and context

Source: AIGA

_1.  Pay off all debts

_2.  List out Short Term $/project goals

_3.  List out Long Term $/project Goals

_4.  First Quarter Planning and Revamping (This really shoulda been done 4Q of ’09)

_5.  Organize Circle of Influence and schedule accordingly

_6.  Mock up the ideal intense schedule daily routine for ’10

_7.  Clean up computer/free up space.

_8.  Clean up studio, cuz the outer is a representation of the inner.

_9.

_10.

A glimpse of what my journal has been looking like lately….. I’ve been writing in the morning a lot more lately, and the therapeutic quality of it has been helping a lot.  I learned to keep a journal back in college art school and I’m very glad that I’m keeping up the habit.  I hope that after decades pass, I can look back at these, dust ‘em off and reminisce about the times, when all I cared about was making a name. Hopefully by that time I will have done something Epic in nature. So much I want to achieve, and as always, only so much time to achieve them.  I hope that by showing my pages, it will inspire something in whoever is viewing, to perhaps do the same thing, and see the significance in documenting process.  Process is key, and the duration of time that passes during the journey to our goals, is far greater than the actual achieved goal.  I look back at a project like the ‘I Wonder‘ video, and see the value in all the brick walls that i ran into, and the struggle I endured, of realizing that I wasn’t able to achieve my original vision.  Lessons Learned. That’s what’s golden.  These pages here of the last weeks of 2009.  I tend to make tons of lists, and i fit in some sketching and tagging.

Bambu :: Queen is Dead (Courtesy of Diggity’s drop on BIFTK)

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THANK YOU DON! ( you already know what it is Don blood)

Don was explaining to me that There’s Rules… when getting a pair of Jordan’s….

Here’s a shot of Don and the Banana cream pie I asked for, for Christmas

MMmmmmmmm Homemade goodness.. bless the hands that made it.

and these have got to be the BEST oatmeal raisin cookies you’ll EVER bite into.

This past October, marked my 29th Birthday, and this is what I got to do…

Around this time last year, I was in the Philippines, HANDLIN MY BIZ’NESSsss….

AYB Force :: Do You Wanna See

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Old Man: What do you hear?

Boy: …I hear the water……  I hear the birds…

Old Man: …Do you hear the grasshopper, which is at your feet?

Boy: ……..Old man,…. How is it that you hear these things..?

Old Man: Young man…. How is it that you… do not..?

I came into work this morning, greeted by a fortune on my wacom tablet, saying:

“Focus on your long-term goal.  Good things will soon happen.”

(Thanks to whoever put it there)

Happy Holidaze everyone…!  It’s been a hectic end of the year, with much to look forward to.  I want to thank everyone that’s been following the life of Stablished Projects, for even taking the time to see what goes on here.  If you’ve been reading, its evolved into a more personal voice, rather than the standard regurgitation of pop culture news. With many of the posts, I’ve also featured some select beats, that have all been collected into this end of the year compilation, which you can download here.  I hope everyone has a great holiday season! See you next year!

_Ra

Allure :: Instrumental

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