This is an aesthetic that I’m not usually into, but for whatever reason, it seriously strikes my fancy today.
fixation.
San Francisco-based freelance motion graphics designer. A couple of things happen here: The title of this blog comes from the fact that I'm slowly working toward opening a design firm called Fixation Creative, which will hopefully open its doors by 2011. I'm a freelancer, so I don't have colleagues to inspire me when I'm lacking in something. Therefore, all my inspiration comes here - and that can mean anything from stunning motion work to bicycles to photos of brutally attractive men. This tumblr doesn't discriminate, and neither should you.
More on me professionally can be found here: http://www.jenrizzo.com or you can email me.
Also, unless I've specifically stated that I created an image, there is a 99% chance I don't own it. If you do and you hate me for using it, or I didn't give credit where it was due, please let me know and I'll correct it immediately.
More on me professionally can be found here: http://www.jenrizzo.com or you can email me.
Also, unless I've specifically stated that I created an image, there is a 99% chance I don't own it. If you do and you hate me for using it, or I didn't give credit where it was due, please let me know and I'll correct it immediately.
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Oct 30
“ But perhaps it’s simply this: Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.
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Chuck Klosterman, “Football” from Eating the Dinosaur
(via emrgency)
First and foremost: This went on my amazon wishlist today. I am a working adult that can afford to buy books and I still put things on my amazon wishlist for a year before I buy them impulsively. (See: Michael Ruhlman’s “Ratio”, which I just bought because I wanted free shipping on the $11 thing I bought.)
Second: I love Chuck Klosterman. I do. I know every pseudo-hipster loves Chuck Klosterman, but I love him for these things. The music banter becomes too much for me because I’m just not that good at it, but this is all for me. You wouldn’t look at me and think I’m much of a chest-bumper, but just wait until it’s five seconds to go and we’ve gotta make that Hail Mary or else and then OH SHIT DID HE SERIOUSLY DO THAT and it looks like his feet were out but then his feet WERE NOT OUT and we’re going to the championship. I will come at you like a freight train, because we just won. And that excitement, that unbridled passion for something that is ultimately inconsequential, that is what pushes me through those days when everything else seems to go wrong. The Mets winning the NL East, Andre Agassi playing his last game, Kansas beating North Carolina after losing to Bucknell and Bradley. I know that people who don’t follow sports think those of us who do follow them sound like idiots when we start talking like all this matters, but it matters to us. We’ve all got our stuff. Screaming “suck it” in a crowded bar is mine.
Oct 18
This transformation is just incredible. I still subscribe to New York Magazine, partially because I still love that city, but mostly because it’s $20 a year and their crosswords are fantastic and I really like their articles. I’m sure every neighbor who’s ever sorted my mail in San Francisco just hates me.
This week’s home design feature was brilliant. There are a couple that are just not my thing, but this one in particular keeps grabbing my thoughts. Take an old, boarded-up brownstone, and turn the second floor facade into a garage door that completely opens your home to the street in front of it? It’s a great way to interact with the space, and while it’s certainly unattainable for a whole lot of city-dwellers, it’s a fantastic solution to create a sense of outdoor space. Their astro-turfed back area is stunning as well.
Oct 17
Again, via AT.
In the year I owned a house, all I wanted to do was put a backsplash up. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the kitchen. I went to trade shows, did entirely too much googling, ordered catalogs, the whole bit. I’m a long way away from having the liberty of tiling (I think you have to own a house for that), but I still fall in love with backsplashes. Someday, fictional future house. Someday.
via Apartment Therapy. The chartreuse kick is sort of transitioning into a green kick. We’re not out of the weeds yet, kids.
Note: Had a friend’s car last weekend, so I went to Ikea. And I will have you know I managed to only buy one piece of furniture, and it was steel.
Oct 15
Working.
- me: baked cheetos are assholes.
- they look exactly goddamned like cheetos
- they taste exactly like death
- me: socially irresponsible.
- if you take the form of a cheeto, TASTE LIKE A CHEETO
Oct 08
This is the only thing I’m about right now. I am working like a fiend, which is amazing for my bank account, but is sort of taking some of my physical health away. So when I’m finally done at the office, I come home to this, and I stand here for about an hour. I improve my knife skills, I throw a little too much butter in a pan, I pour a slightly-too-large glass of wine, and I make this little space about me for as long as I can justify. We’ve all got our vices, I suppose, but right now? This is mine.
Sep 28
via AT
Going through a pretty serious backgammon phase for about three months now. Love these.
snuh:
ultrascorponic:theanimalblog: via
Today was sort of hard and trying, and it ended with my boss and I killing a bottle of wine in about 45 minutes, while still at the office. So you’ll have to excuse me if I come home and only want to look at bunnies snuggling with one another for, like, an hour.
Sep 20
“ Let’s say you have a day job, and it’s been getting more pressured every second of every day and each night you think of ways to make a break for it and get out from under what has become an intolerable bore. It does anchor you, provide stability and keep you from wasting away on booze or drugs or whatever other escape you’ve been using to keep yourself sane..There are perks, though, so you’re thinking maybe it’s not so bad after all.
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MichaelLutin.com | Next Week In Review
For all of my lack of belief in things unseen, sometimes this dude knocks me over.
Sep 19
via designsponge
Yellow, and it’s lesser popularized cousin chartreuse, might be my least favorite color ever. Six years of design school/being a real life designer, and you won’t catch me dead using it.
That being said? I’m on a chartreuse kick. I’m planning a new painting and I want it to be chartreuse on dark blue. I want the damn chartreuse Beddinge sofa for my new living room. And then? I see this kitchen, and it’s all over. Chartreuse everywhere. It’s kind of all I want. It’s a good thing I already own a white Kitchenaid, because I swear I’d run out and buy one in a color I will get sick of in a month. But right now, by god, it’s the only thing I’m thinking about.
via designsponge
Oh, man. I know I’m just moving into a new apartment, and I am easily a decade away from owning my own place that I can remodel at will, but CHRIST. I don’t even know where to start on how much I love this bathroom. The tub/shower with its super clean lines will be something I think about in every future bathroom I plan.
Sep 15
MTV VMAs Remix: Kanye West Interrupts Obama’s Speech (HD) (via freeyourpixels)
Uh, Erin, this is for you. Obvs.
Sep 13
via flickr
18th & Mission in 1979. I lived half a block down the street from here when I first moved to San Francisco. I love the things that exist in that building now (The Corner, Weird Fish, Grand Mission), but I can’t help but wish I lived in this time, just a little bit.
