Picture & Video posting from 2006 Vegoose, Lollapalooza, & Wakarusa festivals

Just wanted to let everyone know that after gathering and posting all of the Vegoose pics & flix from this year, it inspired me to look at all of the festival stuff I have captured from years past. So I am slowly adding pictures and small videos to my Photobucket page from Vegoose 2006 & 2007, Lollapalooza 2006, Wakarusa 2006 & 2007. For the videos larger than 100MB, they will go on my YouTube account under Kiedis1616. It is pretty cool to relive all these festival experiences, and hopefully even better will be added in the future. I have had such a good time at all of these festivals with good friends & music, I hope the tradition lives on for many more years.

theNEWDEAL website

Just wanted to say that I was searching various band sites for logo ideas for my typography class, and realized that this would be a good example of a flash site. I think it has a very good use of animation and sound, without overdoing it (so it doesn't load slowly). The band is called theNEWDEAL, and there website is here: http://www.thenewdeal.com/. Not to mention, I really like their music too, but they are from New York, and I don't think they have ever toured in the midwest other than Chicago. I don't feel like travelling 8 hrs. to see them, but maybe a festival soon? Hope so.

While I am at it, I think a bad example of flash use is the My Coke Rewards site. It is extremely slow to load, and they use flash in areas where it is unnecessary. I don't think it ever completly loads due to all the little promos they try to pack on the home page. The only reason I found this site is because I enter my codes from 12 packs and bottle caps here for various things. Kind of like how Camel Cash and Marlboro Miles used to be when I was a smoker. I quit, and they quit.

Architecture Portfolio Pages

I wanted to post my portfolio submission for third year admission. This was for the College of Architecture, not graphic design, so the emphasis is a little different. Any suggestions on what to keep, change, get rid of, add, etc. (with reasoning) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Holiday & Birthday madness

This is the crazy birthday month for me. My brother's (who I have already talked about), is midway through October, and it is just a warning that holiday madness is about to ensue. After his, we get Halloween, then Nov. 2nd is my mom, my roommate, and one of my good friends I have known since 7th grade. We just went out for my dad's b'day on the 12th, and I will go out again for my friend Mike's on the 18th, and I am sure I will get crazy on my own on the 24th (or the closest Sat. night to it). Don't forget about turkey day. Not my birthday this year, but it has happened on 4 different occasions. I am only 2 days off in 2007. Then it gets even more nuts because we have to x-mas shop, visit with everyone that comes back to Lincoln to stay with family for the holidays, and then Christmas & New Year's in one week. I also have a buddy I have known since I was 1 yr old (our families are friends) that has a b-day on Dec. 26th. So we celebrate that at the Grapevine at the stroke of midnight, or last call, whichever we hear first.

Vegoose Videos

Just wanted to put a link to the longer videos I had taken from the Vegoose weekend. I still need to add a few as of now, but that will probably be done over the weekend. Enjoy! I personally like the Thievery Corporation video the best out of what I have posted. Wish I could have captured a longer Daft Punk, but I have lots of short ones.
http://www.youtube.com/user/kiedis1616

These are not all of the videos I took at the festival, there are also shorter ones within the Photobucket account. So if you don't see the band you are looking for, go to the blog prior to this and click on the picture of Rob to get the rest.

The Vegas Trip pics

Here are the pics and slowly accumulating short video clips from our huge Vegas trip and the Vegoose festival. I put all the band pics in a subfolder called "Vegoose pics". Keep in mind, I am pretty sure that I didn't spend a completely sober moment the entire 4.5 days we were there. I even took a tall margarita flute thing with me on the plane as a carry-on. Needed lots of recovery time afterward!! In order to see all of the pics I posted, you gotta ask for the secret password. Otherwise, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

Photobucket Album

Vegas Summary

My trip was so much fun. The best thing about it was that I got to see 17 of my good friends for 5 days straight. We lived it up like we were all rock stars.

The first night we just got to party in a posh hotel suite on the 30th floor of Planet Hollywood. The picture window wall overlooked the strip towards MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, The Luxor, and many other attractions. Good catching up with the out-of-towners, and those people in our group that I haven't talked to in a long time.

The next night we all suited up and went to a club at the Mirage called Jet. We had a table big enough for 8 or so, but we had a good time none the less. I think we went through 7 bottles. Each bottle is at least $300, and we rode in limos there and back. What a bunch of drunk fools. Got lots of hilaroius pics.

The next two nights were when the Vegoose festival was happening. Very cool to see lots of bands I have not seen before. Daft Punk, Muse, Public Enemy, Iggy & The Stooges, and many others that I discovered shortly before I left via MySpace.

Will post many pics/vids when I get home and I have time to organize all of them. I have about 2 gigs worth of stuff from the trip overall. Very anxious to look at & share it.

No Time

All I can focus on this semester is how little time I have for anything. Sounds kind of ironic coming from someone who just got back from a 5 day vacation, but it is very true. That is the only time I have had to relax, and I am not sure if it was worth the cost. I tried to bust ass getting things done before I left, and now that I am back, I feel like I am behind again. It is just a matter of taking to much credit wise at once, but it is beginning to wear thin. My work I feel is falling short of what I am capable of doing, but I have no extra time to invest in getting it where I want it to be unless I want to sacrifice sleep or income. I only work one day a week at each job, but it adds up to between 15-20 hrs. a week. Everyone thinks you have all kinds of time over the weekend, but NOT TRUE!!! I work a double on Fridays, and a 10 hr. shift on Saturdays. Sunday is the only true day I have off, and during my non-class time during the week, I have about 6-8 hours to take care of everything else daily routine wise. I admit I am a procrastinator, but I truly have had no choice this semester. I am ready to explode. Come on turkey day break.