It’s Cool to Love Your Family
My lifestyle has changed greatly over the past few years. I’ve transitioned back to a full-time in-house design position after almost two years of solely freelance work, and in doing so have increased my skill set more than I could have ever imagined possible.
I have also come to the realization that I can’t do absolutely everything; In order to do my job creatively and attentively without tiring of the screen, I said goodbye to freelance.
I’m lucky to work for a company that that allows me the freedom to train, read, and experiment with new techniques as I see fit. Since my need for growth and creative outlet in the area of web design is mostly fulfilled during office hours, I’m not sure what utility this site serves anymore.
If you’re interested in genealogy, feel free to visit my family site… the-richeys.com.
April 22, 2012 Leave a comment
There is a City by the Sea
And as it tells its sorry tell in harrowing detail, it’s hollowness will haunt you.
- Los Angeles, I’m Yours by The Decemberists | Album –Her Majesty, The Decemberists
October 15, 2011 Leave a comment
Pasta with Tomato Cream Sauce
About 3 years ago, I had the Ravioli Alla Rosini from Chicago’s Pizza. It was so delicious that it rose to mythical status in my mind and I finally had it again while visiting friends in Chicago last month. It was amazing.
Unfortunately, we don’t live near a Chicago’s Pizza and have found nothing similar at the nearby restaurants, so we decided to try ‘Pasta with Tomato Cream Sauce‘ by The Pioneer Woman in an effort to replicate the deliciousness.
My hopes were not high, but the results surprised me. We added meatballs and chopped basil and it has now become my new favorite dish.
- Photo by The Pioneer Woman.
October 15, 2011 Leave a comment
Mercedes in the Sky of Armenia
Mercedes Benz Business Center planned for Yerevan, Armenia.
The building will be covered in green space and take advantage of geothermal energy,
graywater systems, & solar power.
The mixed-use Mercedes Benz Business Center planned for Yerevan, Armenia is a chance to redevelop a rundown section of the city and transform it into a business destination and an example of sustainability and progress.
- Photo & Quote taken from - Mercedes Benz Business Center is a Stacked Green-Roofed High Rise Concept for Yerevan, by Bridgette Meinhold – Inhabitat
October 15, 2011 Leave a comment
Orphans No More
These are sad and perilous days for the world’s largest land animal. Once elephants roamed the Earth like waterless whales, plying ancient migratory routes ingrained in their prodigious memories. Now they’ve been backed into increasingly fragmented territories. When not being killed for their tusks or for bush meat, they are struggling against loss of habitat due to human population pressures and drought. A 1979 survey of African elephants estimated a population of about 1.3 million. About 500,000 remain. In Asia an estimated 40,000 are left in the wild. And yet even as the elephant population dwindles, the number of human-elephant conflicts rises. In Africa, reports of elephants and villagers coming into conflict with each other appear almost daily.
- Excerpt from Orphans No More, by Charles Siebert – National Geographic, September 2011.
- Photograph by Michael Nichols.
October 14, 2011 Leave a comment
Eli, the Barrel Boy
Sells coal and marigolds, and he cries out all down the day
October 10, 2011 Leave a comment
Steve Jobs Has Died.
It takes an amazing man to make a million strangers mourn…
What a very sad day.
“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
– Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speech, June 2005
- Quote first shared tonight by Thomas Hawk | Art by Jonathan Mak
- Recommended – “A Front Row Seat to Steve Jobs Career” by Robert Scoble
- Recommended – “I Will Miss Steve Immensely” – Bill Gates
October 6, 2011 Leave a comment
And then Radiohead
A tribute to the connection between music & memory
Last night we decided to turn on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. While finding the show mostly unwatchable for many years, with the exception of digital shorts, I had heard that both Alec Baldwin & Steve Martin were on and I love Alec Baldwin & Steve Martin. Radiohead was the musical guest, and as they started playing I hadn’t realized how much enjoyment they would bring me.
That realization came as I heard Thom Yorke’s voice and suddenly was transported back to wintertime in high school, doing paintings on ceiling tiles, taking classes at the Art Institute, wearing giant vintage coats, tall shoes, and shredded tights, loving Audrey Hepburn, and reading Chuck Palahniuk.
What power music can have to bring back the abandoned memories of things no longer thought about. I’ll definitely be listening to a lot more Radiohead from this point forward. I feel guilty for having forgotten.
October 1, 2011 Leave a comment