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Persepolis Invitation

Made for Le Club Français Des Films. Fonts used: Rockwell Extra Bold, Adobe Garamond Pro Italic.

Birthday Card

Pepe turned ($&) last week. Opportunity to make a card...I reused the idea from my JBU COAST Pumpkin carving contest poster.

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pepe is notorious for staining his tie during the lunch hour

Le Club Français Des Films

Pepe, Claudia and I started a french movie club for our French class, which means I have an excuse to do posters and invitations. First up on the list is obviously Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain.



Next week: Persepolis, and I'm super pumped about the invitation.

Tikal & Belize

This week was particularly great. I've been in Guatemala over 4 months now and I hadn't seen very much of the great Mayan artifacts that this country is known for. I was able to take this week off to explore Tikal in northern Guatemala. I was surprised how large the whole park is. It takes 4-6 hours to walk around and explore it all. Unfortunately I don't have a camera, but here are some other people's images of the park:




After you take the long journey up to Peten, it isn't a very long trip to Belize and the Yucatan. And up until a week ago I still had only a small handful of beach experiences, most of which weren't memorable. However, my two days and two nights at Caye Caulker, Belize are quite unforgetable. The highlight by far was going snorkeling off the Belize Barrier Reef. I don't have a camera, but fortunately the tour guide, Carlos tours, takes pictures from the trip and can burn a disc (for a cost). Here some of the critters we found:

3 new life goals:

1. Scuba diving certification
2. Get a camera that can take pictures underwater
3. Dive with Whale Sharks, which fortunately reside not far away, just off the coasts of Mexico, Belize, and Honduras.

My first Guatemalan political scandal

I was admittedly very flattered when a Guatemalan national radio program acknowledged the fierce design of the Vice Presidential Annual Report which I designed early this winter, but in the current pooh-throwing political climate, there is always someone wants to rain on your parade.

Today, Pepe brought in a copy of La Hora, a national newspaper. Nestled on pg. 8 was a picture of the cover of my report, alongside smaller images of the Presidents reports. I immediately thought it was more good coverage. Wrong. The article "Gasto en revistas no disminuye en tiempos de austeridad/Spending on magazines does not diminish in times of austerity," complains of ill-used funds which could be used to fund "school teachers, supplies, etc."


I can't help but laugh. The caption under my report cover says "El costoso informe de labores del vicepresidente consta de 73 páginas y fue impreso en papel de alta calidad/The costly report of the vice president has 73 pages and was printed on high quality paper." Amateurs. That's all I have to say. It was printed on pretty much the cheapest paper the printer had, which is glossy. All halfwits are dazzled by shiny things, so who is to blame them for equating shiny things with $$$ and quality. If we had printed on matte-finish, nothing would have been said even though it would have cost loads more.


*Sidenote: The money which paid for the report was not Guatemalan gov. money, it is non-refundable foreign grant money provided to report country advancements, in order to prove that Guatemala is stable enough to be worthy of foreign aid — ironically, if your country is really messed up, it may be harder to get aid because the investors doubt any real change is going to occur or that their money is going to find itself in the wrong hands, so you must prove you are at least a progressing third-world country) (See MCC)

In resolution, I am only flattered that my design is perceived to be of such quality that it is equated with the benjamins. I hope Biggie would be proud.


To see the online article click here.

Party Animals...

I was just getting caught up on some Colbert Report, which is also a day brightener, and I remembered a poster I saw in a book years ago...

Illustration for video game promotion

World Flag—Epic Fail.

(I might have a bias against reg-green combos)

World Flag—Greatest hits.

Illustration excerpts from brochure...

Pirating is bad


Stealing office supplies is bad


...and if you do any of the above Presidente Alvaro Colom will tie you to a rock and make Quetzals eat your liver for eternity

Infographics from the Annual Report

Highlight of the diversity of animal species in the Trifinio Bioreserve


La Danta, the largest pyramid discovered in the El Mirador Mayan civilization, is estimated to be the largest pyramid in volume in the world


The effects of tropical storm Stan (2005)


Tourists


Volume of water usage (cubic meters)


Increase in drug busts


Harsher legislation (25-50 years)

Excerpt from Quetsol brochure illustration

70's rock star character sketches for upcoming video game

If aging scares you...

If aging scares you, rest easy, Richie is here to save the day. Check this cat out. He even makes balding look bad ass. (having knuckles glazed in turquoise and a beard that would make a caliph blush is neat as well.)

Fez

Casablanca

Which one is tooth paste and which is shaving cream? I found that out the hard way.

Hassan II Mosque-3rd largest in world.

Marrakech

Yves St. Laurent had a house in Marrakech...I didn't really know who he was, but I liked his pots.

I got suckered out of 50 dirhams by snake charmers.

I am seeing the storks for the first time myself just now.

The Viking and I

I have been in Tigmat for over 3 weeks now. I help Peter the Swede with his adobe house project. The majority is structurally completed and the work is most coating the walls with more mud layers, but also building planters for trees and flowers, laying concrete and such. This weekend I had a perfect day. The labor that'd usually make you sweat and your backside sore was quite refreshing due to the cool 20°C cloudy day, that was interrupted with rain. I was able to spend that afternoon drinking coffee and reading to the rain; a perfect combination.

Boone's Rainy day playlist is as follows:
Garbage-I'm only happy when it rains
Bob Dylan-A hard rains gonna fall
CCR-Who'll stop the rain?
Little Dragon-After the rain
and a bit of a stretch...
The Who-Love, reign o'er me

But what else do we do on the oasis? I suppose we chat a little. About IKEA? Pickled Herring? ABBA? Yes, those come up in conversation, but Swedes are more than just IKEA, Pickled Herring, and ABBA. I like to ask Peter the hippie why he thinks the world is quickly come to an end, and environmental catastrophe is on its way.
Sidenote: Let it be said that this area of the sahara which usually receives 3 days annually of rain has had 3 weeks this year. The farmers are quite thankful. They are having harvests bigger than they have ever seen. Too bad they don't know it is really iceberg juice that their crops are licking up, and that the ocean will be over their heads within our lifetime. :)


We also eat camel steaks bigger than your or my face. (The donors are pictured above)

Boone's end of the blog playlist:
a little diddy by Richie Havens, the famous cover artist, called "Here comes the sun".