First blog post! Portfolio Finally being updated!

If there was a time in my life where I felt like things were transitioning to a new chapter instead of phases…it’s now. For those who have been following the other blogs or stories thank you so much for showing me support.

For a long time now I have tried to refrain from using social media. I think it’s had its time in our lives, don’t you? With every social media there was a time where it was extremely popular. Facebook seems to continue to keep its focus on having more than being more on their website now. A once well created area now sits well with parents as they discover (at least in the states) how easy it can be to communicate with friends and share pictures or videos. Messenger may have won some over but Whatsapp (also owned by them-shocker) still holds reign nearly all over the world except WeChat.

For me I decided a break was justified. I needed to feel like it wasn’t controlling me or wasnt really that important to my graphic design and marketing career. In retrospect tik tok was barely catching hype and there is no running away from this part if you want to be knowledgeable about it. Since the two year break I took breaks from many other things as well. Job wasn’t looking so good back then. I had taken a job with poor pay and terrible hours, I lost sleep, gained even more weight after my binge of take out from living in Chicago for the past two years before that with my friend Eli or Stasi or Diana and Carlos, I wasn’t really going for jogs that often, worst of all i lost the drive to continue designing as video game addiction (“just one more game bro".) was real.

Looking back at all of those four years I’m still blown how fun it all was and the amazing memories I made. Truthfully what really made it all shitty anyways was the fact that someone hit my car and I was unable to get work anymore. Before that I was easily making money every night. Things change and maybe for the better honestly because in the last two years since then I have gotten to live with some amazing people, meet many more entrepreneurs that pushed me even harder, gotten to spend time with family more (came to live with parents during covid essentially), there was even this time I got to drive recently to LA all the way from Chicago. I’ve worked at two bars since, Roots in Chicago and Jesse Oaks in Wildwood. I’ve gotten a new car, I’m about to get my own place soon, got everything I need or would want at the moment. Happiness isn’t the word, but I can definitely say that working on happiness first over everything is so important and I’m glad I had the opportunity to do that. For a very long time I thought solitude was becoming more and more of my friend but I got to be real with you now being social is my new…hobby…so is alcohol…lol hey I went years without drinking. Besides I’m a bartender now I need to try and see whats good, right? I know I know i don’t really drink that much, pretty much just sangria once a week or a gin and tonic. Being social is hard after being alone for so long it’s a hobby because I’m making it one. I try to go out more and talk to strangers and meet new friends. I sorta…met this girl…i know this first post is all over but hear me out this girl was literally the highlight of my whole transition to who I have been the last fourish months. I went through that phase of solitude with happiness don’t get me wrong I was not unhappy but when I met this girl I was like man I gotta change. Before her I was learning more about Mexico and it’s music collections over the years, french music, italian, nigerian jazz, Don Draper type music, even got back into dance music. I was still studying design even! I started touching programs like Figma, Blender, Wix, and the newer version of Lightroom. I created tons of prototypes, worked with three or four clients, learned to do portrait photography again after fixing the camera I had for so long broken (broke right after I bought it -_-). Like it wasn’t all bad for my health and antisocial just a whole new rhythm of life compared to what it was before that- before Tribeca and Kalina.

Oh man I’m really not getting to the point of this post. Well I guess I’ll come back to some of this stuff later. Basically the jist is I’m back on social media. I will only be using Instagram essentially or my website or Youtube or Twitch. I do use Tumblr on my very old account but that is also gonna be left for another post. I hope that this helps me continue writing more in one area and sharing with everyone my journey. I hope this portfolio is done soon I don’t want it to take up more time. I am essentially trying to set it up perfectly so it doesn’t look weird when i try to apply to places and it’s still not entirely done.

Ill post soon also a story of my trip to LA! totally forgot to upload or edit any of that I sorta went anyways on that trip with no regard to technology just me and the open road. Anyways hope I wasn’t boring I just wanted to get something on here and give some update again. So much more to tell.