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Se fueren las mujeres porque por aya anda Pepe
Filed Under Feb18
I’m about to go M.I.A.!! Not sure if it is for a couple days or a week or two… =/ Just have a lot of schoolwork with the second half of the term rolling in. You know how that goes, have to put extra work in! Adding to school, my plate is full of side projects. Couple of mixtape covers and websites and some miscellaneous graphics. I also have an internship type of thing too for the remainder of the school year. I will try my best to update especially since London Fashion Week just began and coming up are Milan then Paris.
We will see how this rolls out… One more thing! Thank you to those people who are visiting every day. I was super nervous about converting this website to a more blog-based one and it is going pretty smooth. Thanks to everyone. =) Comments on the blogs are going to be indefinetely cut off. Email will be the best way to contact me. Debating adding a chat box. Hmm back to this work though! These designs will not draw themselves. Sigh.
Meaning I’m on vaca chilling on a big yacht
Jan13
Life kind of got in the way of this website. As you can see haven’t exactly been active on this site for a good month or so. Last blog was November when I got dumped with crazy amounts of homework for school. Then winter break came and I went back home to Boston from London. Not being home for several months was hard so I was trying my best to treasure the time I had there. This site might be down soon seeing as I now own Oh-Word.com and am switching hosting for this site under that one. I mean Oh-Word.com is going to be a hosting site anyways and I don’t see the point in hosting CheckTheMentality under a different server. Hmm.. I thing I have found the definite direction for this blog. Might possibly be getting a separate domain for my portfolio as well.
Bare with me while all of these changes are going on throughout the site. If you have any questions feel free to contact me via email. Whether it is for this site or questions about hosting under the new domain. And YES subdomains will be free, I will just implement regulations to ensure that you are fully capable and willing to manage your subdomain on your own. It will not be necessary to have knowledge of graphic design seeing as how there are great programs like WordPress and B2evolution where templates may be used. So please if you want to be hosted as soon as possible on Oh-Word.com do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you very much.
01/14/2010 UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!
I have realized my online portfolio has become massive and there is still more to add with all of the new work I have done so far in the past year or so that I still have yet to put up. Because of its massive size and the fact that its stretched over so many categories (Painting, Illustration, Graphic Design) I will be moving my portfolio to a new website all together, keeping it separate from CheckTheMentality.com. Also, note that because I am/have submitted the URL of my portfolio for college transfers that the portfolio will be getting my utmost attention from anywhere between two weeks and a month before I turn back to maintaining this website. Reason for this being I have already submitted a portfolio URL some places and need to work quickly. The listing for my network of websites will be:
CheckTheMentality.com – personal website & blog
Oh-Word.com – free subdomains and low cost hosting
Lastly, my portfolio. Have not decided on a name but will soon!
01/19/2010 FINAL UPDATEEEE!!!
THIS site has been working on and off all day yesterday and today. I am just transferring hosting seeing as my domain name expired and everything might get deleted inbetween. Sorry for the inconvenience! Especially if you are here to use resources and anything like that.
P.S. My portfolio site is going to be MissJanssen.com! Joining my network of sites including this one and Oh-Word.com. 
Inspiration hits you dead in the FACE like pigeon poo
Oct19
Not everyone gets pooped on by pigeons every day. I am one of the few who has not gone through the traumatic experience, only one to witness it.. several times. Afterwards I feel like how C felt in A Bronx Tale when he realized Sonny saved his life from taking him out of the car with his friends. Totally different scenario, but I feel lucky. Had I moved over a couple inches, I would have been the target.
Off topic. Okay. Inspiration hits as randomly as the situation portrayed in the title of this post. Some find it with every step they take, others must search under rocks. It is different for everyone. Honestly, I feel like it has nothing to do whether or not you are artistically minded. It might help. If you just look hard enough around you and learn to appreciate everything for what it is you will find it.
Now for the reason behind this inspiration topic, emails. I have recieved several throughout the past months and loads in the past three weeks asking me how I get ideas. The equation is (percieve + analyze)/(appreciation) = inspiration. Haha. Truthfully it is. If you can do the first two and appreciate everything for its unique state then you will be fine. It is a skill that you must perfect but worth it.
With that I leave you with places that I find inspiration in online. Blogs, forums, magazines, etc. Hope this helps the people that have asked. In no way am I directly affiliated with any of these websites.
Graphic Love | See Further Than I Am | No Pattern | My Fabolous Life | Fashion Toast | Drew Flaherty | Concrete Loop | For Your SatisFASHION | Tavi Gevinson | Life of the Jetsetter | The Aaron Reid Experience | The Blonde Salad | LookBook | Sneaker Files | I’m Flashy | Ayvii Armada | Urban-Graffiti | Hypebeast | Fashionista
Remember though that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but nothing can top being unique.
I said REVAMP.. but..
Oct12
I couldn’t see my website this weekend? Wierd. I could access everything else like my WordPress and FTP programs though? Anyways a new theme is coming. Coding it tomorrow after class, after homework and on Wednesday. It will be a two day project fer sure. I was trying to do the theme first but then what happened was that it said something did not exist on my page, so I had to delete the revamp page I had up to see if some things worked. COMPLICATED. I know. I will stop talking about it.
It is 1:03am, no early class tomorrow. Psyched. Sorry that her tutor displaced her knee. OUCH! But that means I get 2 hours more sleep. During one of my two classes, I am going to try to start on coding ideas. Need to come of with some new and exciting things. Plus it makes decisions quicker once I pull up notepad.
Uhm.. oh yeah. My last entry was up for like a day before I put up that Gaga sign about the revamp. I have been working on the vamping up part! Got tons more stuff for the portfolio. Learned new things to make tutorials for thanks to my photoshop class. Taking down the shop. Sorry no more time for it anymore! Will be setting up the subdomain for graphic design requests, but I am still trying to figure out a way to make it so I can inform people of days I can not do any? Like I don’t want to post up my class schedule or nights I go out haha, but something. So people can see why I am taking long to respond back?
Besides that, still have school. Loads of work. But for once I love it. I am currently studying fashion, for those that do not know at London College of Fashion for the year. Yeah, that intro thingy on the side is def wrong. Need to update haha. There is nothing “academic” about it. I love it. Except one thing. This does not have to do with fashion, but I have a yearning to do math all of a sudden? Like english whatevs. I can write an essay on anything any day. Look at the notes section on my iTouch. But math?! It has gotten to the point. When I can not get rid of this craving, I look up algebra problems to do. I would do precal too, but haa don’t have a graphing calculator! Sad though. I must have no life OR maybe my high school prepared me too well?
p.s. To my affiliates!! Sorry for the abrupt hiatus I took, tell me how you’re doing in a comment :]
/*EDIT*/ I put this Nicki theme up already. Tweaks are done. Opinions? Adding pieces to the portfolio in graphic, mixed media, maybe illustration. Took the shop down. Music is up. Think that’s it. Starting next entry will be changing the blog up a bit.
Life just gets in the way sometimes
Jul23
At least when it comes to maintaining this website. Now to add onto my plate are all of these legal documents and such that I need to get OUT of the country for college. You would think the U.S. wouldn’t mind losing a couple of people for a couple months but nooo of course not. They put up a fight for every citizen and make it overly complicated to apply for visas, IDs, employment papers and more!
To the present, I am now waiting on my FTP Client to upload all of the scans I want to put up. It’s is a whole lot of them which explains why it is going to take 30 minutes - 2 hours until they are all posted. My life has been going peachy. Like the title says, it has been the main factor in lack of updates here. First there was that wedding dress which I’m delivering Saturday! Then there are side things like friends, random stuff and work that also help in me maintaining this life haha. Below are some pics of typical random things that have occured during my summer with description in the nexttt paragraph.
(1) My 7-year-old godsister Ariana drew me a card with her on the cover with the caption “Please don’t miss me…” and inside wrote “While your in college far far away in London!!” That pic was supposed to be of her face and it looks adorable because her interpretation is kind of good except she made her face huge. AW! :]
(2) I have been going out to eat quite often because it is summer time and my Mom tends to not cook because it is hot or she feels no one will eat it. The second one is true when my brother has work, my Dad is running errands or working, my sister is at her workshop and I am either out or at work on the same day. That pic is from an IHOP/movie date I had with my friend Jennifer.
(3) When I just want to leave my house I tend to go to this nearby park thing owned by Harvard University called the Arnold Arboredum. While there I feel like time stands still as I just walk and notice the beauty of nature like that ladybug by my favorite tree! (Yes I have a favorite tree! It’s a weeping willow.)
(4) Lastly, work! Now some people loathe work, but I actually enjoy coming into work for the random happenings that occur. The pic is of Charles Harrington’s business card which he left with my manager. He is a representative for Columbia Pictures and was in Boston scouting locations for Adam Sandler’s film in production, The Zoo Keeper. In the movie they just so happen to need a fondue place! Haha how random is that? And I happen to work in the one of TWO fondue restaurants throughout all of Boston. They came in while I was opening with about 50 guys as they picked a table for the scene they will be shooting in the restaurant in October. So mad that I will be out of the country for it!
Exciting life ain’t it? By the way that’s sarcasm. x] So to my cyber friends in the words of Wendy Williams “How you doin’?”
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