Nothing Spaces

My package reached Lisbon, hallelujah. // March 6, 2010

Look, Diana got the shirt I sent her! Looks great, love. :)

Diana’s a great photographer based in Portugal. Check out her work by looking at her website or her Flickr account.

On another note, I think I want to hold more contests over here. Just have to figure out what kind. If you have any suggestions as to what sort of things you’d like me to give away (no grandiose ideas, please! Just fun things that are easy to get a hold of and mail out), please leave a comment or something.

 

Hi, February. I’m going to begin this month with a mix. // February 1, 2010

Someone asked for songs for a lonely February. Here are some sad ones, I guess:

1. Alone Again • Illinois
2. Glue Girls • Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
3. I Don’t Want to Walk Around Alone No More • The Lucksmiths
4. The Lonely 1 • Wilco
5. I Am a Lonesome Hobo • Bob Dylan
6. So Come Back, I Am Waiting • Okkervil River
7. Owner of a Lonely Heart • Grizzly Bear (Yes cover)
8. How Fucking Romantic • The Magnetic Fields
9. I Am Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You • Jens Lekman
10. Loneliness is Not Better When You’re Alone • Hello Saferide
11. Lonely Lonely • Feist
12. Don’t I Hold You? • Wheat
13. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight • The Postal Service
14. In the Cinema Alone • Memphis
15. Skeleton Jar • Youth Group
16. Romantic Comedy • Stars
17. Your Heart is an Empty Room • Death Cab for Cutie
18. Motorcycle Drive By • Third Eye Blind
19. I Always Knew • Tilly and the Wall
20. So Long, Lonesome • explosions in the sky

Here’s the .zip file. Enjoy!

So now, I’ll be werkin’ on a quality post. Maybe. Or, I hope so.

 

I Picked the Winners. // December 30, 2009

I know I said I was going to pick you guys out of a hat, but then as humans (or just me, specifically, I guess) are wont to do, I became very biased and started picking people I liked. Which isn’t very nice of me. So, with the help of http://www.random.org, I “drew” 6 numbers and counted which comments they corresponded with. And the six lucky people are:

1. Darliza
2. Patricia
3. Ley
4. Diana
5. Kasey
6. Tim

Congratulations! I’m going to send y’all an e-mail, so you can reply with your mailing address. If we already know each other in real life (cough, Kasey, cough), I can just leave them somewhere in school. I can’t do meet-ups because my dad told me to stop oversharing online and I don’t want to be the dumb girl who blows off her dad’s advice and ends up dead in a ditch somewhere.

Ahem.

So, some of you seem to be really big Strokes fans and I’m kind of sad that I can’t give everyone a t-shirt. But I have a few favorite answers, and I want to give you guys something Strokes-related. So, I’m trying to work something out. I’ll get in touch with you over the next few days if ever I can work something out.

Anyway, thanks for joining! I’ll try to see what else I can give away next time. :)

 

Work, thesis and sharing your work online. // November 28, 2009

So, this blog was actually meant for sharing works in progress, and not really as an emotional dumpsite, which to be honest, is what it is shaping up to be. I can’t say that I’m grossed out by it (because I’m not — I kind of like the “feel” of this website, to be honest. If I may say this without appearing to be self-absorbed), but here is an attempt to reconcile what Nothing Spaces is right now, with what I intended it to be in the first place.

While fixing up my Cargo Collective account (which doesn’t really have much up, yet, so there’s very little point in linking to it), I realized that for the past three years, I have been including a certain project of mine in portfolio sites and resumés, and it is called Baraja. I am sure you are familiar with it. In fact, if we do not already know each other from a separate online platform (or in real life), that is probably how you got here in the first place.

Anyway, I got a little bit disappointed because I had this whole idea in my head, when I first registered this website, that I would be the kind of person who would be making stuff all day and posting about the process and the output or whatever on here. Which has clearly not been the case. I’ve actually been posting some exercises I had been doing on my Tumblr and my Flickr, but since I am generally averse to watermarks, there have been a few times where my work has been stolen and reposted without credit, so I don’t really know how safe the Internet is anymore.

I used to tell myself, “Well, at least that means your work is good enough to steal,” or “Well, if they steal something of yours, that makes them pathetic, not you.” But now that it’s happened to me, it really is a sucky feeling. I especially hate it when they take something of yours, and then re-alter and tweak it. Amy Ng from Pikaland.com recently had this to say about the issue: “When someone copies your work, it’s a crime against the spirit of sharing that is prevalent online.”

And it’s true. But I realized that I shouldn’t let them stop me from posting my work online, because it really is the best place to get critique and to get hired for projects or tapped for collaborations. So, here! Some small sneak peeks of the last few projects I’d been working on:

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This is something I made for The Bead Shop, which is going to launch
a collection of luck-themed jewelry.

This was a collaboration with Paulina Ortega.
We were tapped by our friend, Marvin Sayson to design
Don’t Forget, Clementine’s new album, Grace, and Dragging Her Wings.
It was a lot of fun (I got stressed out a few times, but mostly because of time.)

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Lastly, here are some mock-ups of the book covers for my thesis.
I don’t know what to do about it, but judging from the last meeting I had
with my thesis adviser, I would like to think that it was pretty well-received.

YAY. Hopefully I’ll be making more things or reading more or writing more the next few days. I’ve actually finished reading Dave Eggers’ “The Wild Things,” so maybe I can write about that. One thing you should know, though, is that book really made me really, really sad, and my heart was really heavy after it. I sometimes find Dave Eggers’ prose a little overwrought, but this book really found new ways to break my heart.

But I’ll talk about that tomorrow, maybe. For now, I have to get back to the daily grind and read Aristotle for Philosophy. Sometimes, I really love school, but then I get reminded that I need to be good at it, and then it’s not so fun anymore.

 

For me to remember: // November 6, 2009

On a few other notes:

1. School on Monday.
2. I am looking for work. E-mail me if this information is relevant to you: yankee@nothingspaces.com.
3. I should really finish my online portfolio.
4. NaNoWriMo is not going so good.
5. Just because you can be a douche about something, it totally doesn’t mean that you should be. Yes, I am looking at you.

Also, a message for Julian Casablancas: BOO YOU WHORE.

What Ever Happened?

 

Things That Are New. // October 12, 2009

For real. It is the worst!

So, I technically only have two days of school left, if I finish everything by Wednesday. Seeing as this is unlikely, I will probably have to go back to school two more times than is necessary. So that sucks for me, because my brain and my body is in full-on sem break mode, I am not even kidding. This semester is probably the only time I will settle for a D as a final grade.¹

In other news: my friend Raymond asked my what my bigger plans are for this website. Seeing as I’ve been updating pretty rarely, and not as extensively as I’d initially planned, I’m going to say that I have pretty big plans, and chalk up the inactivity to schoolwork and other distractions. But for real, please believe me when I say that this is going to be full of stuff you can click on. Mostly because I know how ADHD-ridden our generation is, and because, truthfully, I am pretty wordy and I would like moar hits and a lower Bounce Rate.

Also, in the past week, I ran into friends in real life (?) who have told me that they’d been visiting this crap hole (jk, I love Nothing Spaces) and I just wanted to say that you can actually comment without having to sign up. The field for e-mail is just so that you don’t have to enter it again, in the event of you wanting to comment again. And also, so that it knows that you are not a spam bot.

Aside from my nose pimple, I am happy to say that I’ve finished a 3′ x 3′ painting. It’s nothing special, but I haven’t done anything that huge before. I feel pretty neat. That is all.

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¹ In my defense, it was a philosophy class under Sir Calasanz. If you are/were from Ateneo, you would understand.

 

V-v-vlog! // October 7, 2009

So, I combed my hair this one time and I thought my hair looked pretty good, so I decided to make a video, and here it is:

In other news, I’ve got big-big! plans for this little place on the intarnets. I don’t know. I’m getting tired of excusing myself from updating regularly with great things (!) like I had envisioned doing when I first bought this domain. It is past three a.m. so I promise, tomorrow, things will be better.

P-R-O-M-I-S-E.