Jacob Escobedo

This is the artwork of Jacob Escobedo. He has some amazing drawings that you can look at and even buy prints on this website that I have found called 20x200.com

Check it out! It's got some great stuff...and some eh stuff. Jacob Escobedo's work was some of my favorite that I saw. His home website is hunteddown.com

If your interested here is some of his bio that I copy and pasted from 20x200's website.

Jacob Escobedo grew up in Pioche, Nevada, a small desert town three hours North of Las Vegas, surrounded by his father's horded collections of oddities, old medical books, and encyclopedias. His childhood provided an amazing backdrop for creative experiments and interest in the outdoors.

His work, which combines organic elements with the psychedelic, recalls the complexity of Nineteenth Century etchings. He has shown in galleries in Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Shanghai. Jacob is the Creative Director for the Cartoon Network's adult-block of programming, Adult Swim. He has won numerous awards for his commercial design, including One Show and Communication Arts. Currently, he lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife of ten years, their three girls, two dogs and one mouse.

art fart.

So, I ran into this website that designs a bunch of stuff from CD covers to apparel. I felt inspired to attempt to make a CD cover from scratch. Here it is. 

I'm at that point where I really need to start building up a portfolio of my work and what I'm strong in. I just don't know what direction I want to go in. I don't know if I want to do more design type stuff or stick with photography, not that I can't do both. I just need to have a strong area of focus. I really need to start back again getting on Photoshop and InDesign to build up my portfolio. 

on other news....aahh!! I'm moving in two months how exciting!

Freez er Burn

I was just wondering....

which would be the worst way to go??

Burning to death? or... Freezing to death?

random. I know. but just wondering.

See, you die either way but which would be worse? I think possibly burning to death would be the better choice. maybe. When people burn to death it is much faster and you inhale the smoke before your whole body is burnt right? well, if you freeze to death it takes waaaaay longer and being cold is just painful, not that being burned to death isn't painful. I just really HATE being cold, so I think I'm gonna go with freezing to death would be worse.

Quote.

So, I am a huge Woody Allen fan. I think this guy is hilarious. I laugh just looking at him because I can alway picture him with those old man glasses fidgeting around going on and on on some rant. The man is a comedic genius. Anyways, I was watching this movie he did in the 70's called "Sleepers" in which I recommend. It's about this guy who goes in the hospital for some medical condition and they end up freezing him for 200 years before he is awaken again. It is hilarious. I heard this story he was telling Diane Keaton's character that I thought was funny and would share it with you all.

"I asked my mother where do babies come from. Well, she thought I said rabies and said they come from dog bites. The next week one of our neighbors had triplets and I thought she must have got bitten by a great dane."

-Woody Allen in Sleepers

Weekend Get Away

So this weekend I went on a beach trip to Perdido Key, FL. with some friends of mine who had a friend who graciously let us stay in their beach house. It was so relaxing and just what I needed. 

On Sunday some of the girls left early because they were there a couple of day earlier than us and where burnt so then they decided to leave earlier that day. So then it was just me and my two friends Julie and Ashley. We laid out on the beach to catch a few more sun rays before leaving later in the day. 

Well, we were laying there relaxing on the beach listening to the sea breeze and the crashing of the waves on the shore when I hear this girl yelling to one of her friends about some floats that these people let them borrow if they wanted to use them. This girl was so loud and it didn't make me mad or anything but gosh she was loud and seemed super enthusiastic about life, that's for sure. I watch this girl for a bit not knowing who she is and lay back down to talk to Ashley and Julie and say something to them like "Man! could you be any louder! She sure seems to be excited to be at the beach! Geez!" (wow, I sound so snobby) then I think I hear my name in casual conversation from a distance. Then I hear someone yelling my name out "Rachel!" I don't reply because I'm sure there is just another Rachel out there..... then "Rachel Justiss!" I lift my head up to recheck my ears and "Rachel Justiss!"  what?? what in the?? who in the?? who is calling my name?! It was the girl that I was just talking about that I thought was being extremely loud in public and suddenly recognized who it was!! 

Aahh haha, this would happen to me right after I make a derogatory comment on someone. It was my really good friend Ruth! I love this girl so much! She is such a dear friend of mine! I went to church and grew up with her. When I finally realize who it was I got up and ran over to her to give her a big hug knowing that Julie and Ashley were snickering behind me because of the comment I had just made and then it being a friend of mine. It was soooo weird! I hadn't seen her since Feb. when we went to Gatlinberg with a bunch of friends. It was so great seeing her and such a pleasant surprise. I am such a dufus!

Later while laying out again there were some sea gulls that started to swarm around the area and flying close to the ground and I remember Ashley saying "Those birds sure are flying close." and then I feel something plop right on my head splattering on my arm. Bird Poop. That's right. One of them pooped on me. I couldn't believe it! That was the first time I think I have ever been pooped on by a bird. I laughed of course and went in the ocean to wash it off. Julie of course was texting everybody I knew well that I got pooped on and my room mate Leigh wrote back "she probably deserved it." hahaha! And now that I think about it... I totally deserved it!

This is me and my friend Ruth! :)

Week 2 Orientation

By orientation week I think I got into the groove of Pine Cove and a bit more comfortable with where I was going to be working in July and August. The first two days of orientation were in conference form. All the camp's employees were gathered into this big auditorium. It looked like somewhere where you would go to see a play or something. 

To get you an idea of how many employees (all college students from all over the U.S.) Pine Cove has, there are about 1100 people in all who work at these camps. Yeah.

Anyways, it took basically two days to explain all the rules and what the camp is all about. The thing I loved most about these two days is that the guy (Opie-his real name is Kevin, his camp name is Opie) would have a story for every rule they had and explain why they have that rule. I think if I didn't have an explanation of all the different rules I would have come out of this orientation feeling a bit unexcited, because some of these employee rules sound a bit ridiculous and stupid until you hear the reasons behind them and understand where they are coming from. It was also great to see people from the other camps and people that I knew that were working from UA at different the different camps.

After the two big gathering days we all went to our separate camps to learn our different specific jobs. I work at the Ranch camp which is the 6th and 7th grade camp. I will be a health assistant which helps out the 24 hour nurse at the Ranch. Each camp has a nurse and then there is a doctors office at the Woods camp in which appointments can be made for campers and workers that need one. Yeah, this camp is so big it needs it's own doctors office and onsite nurses. So, I will be setting up appointments for kids and employees when needed, calling the nurse when situations arise, helping kids with broken bones, sick kids, kids that are home sick, and dispersing medication during meal times and bed times. I have no idea how I got this job but am excited that I am able to have it and be used in what ever way God will use me and also show himself to me during this time.

Week 1 trailblazing/training

Wow. 

A lot has gone one in the last few weeks of my life. I've been away for two weeks doing lifeguard training and then orientation for a Christian camp called Pine Cove that I will be working at in Tyler, TX. The first week I was there I felt so overwhelmed with all the new people that I had never met before learning camp cheers, other crazy camp things, and re-learning lifeguarding techniques, which brought to my attention how old I am getting. 

The last time I lifeguarded was my last summer in high school and it was my third year to do it, which is also the last year my certification was good for. Three years of high school and four years of college = SEVEN YEARS?!! since I was first certified. Most of the people in this class were 19ish and here I am almost 23 saying "yeah, the last time I got certified in this stuff was 7 years ago" I stopped myself in shock of how long ago that sounded to me and how much older it made me feel compared to these new LG students. 

With that said I think I have met some of the coolest people yet in those past two weeks and highly look forward to working and spending time with each and everyone of them July-August. It was also interesting on getting re-certified by two of the wives of two of the Pine Cove directors. Both are wives and both are mothers of three. Not interesting as in "oh, their moms so they'll be easy on us" more of interesting as in they taught from the view point of parents so they will emphasize more on the importance of child safety and situations that we will come into contact with. The camps of Pine Cove are overnight weekly camps that kids go to and also family camps. So we deal with parents with their kids and kids that don't have parents to watch them. I don't know if I am explaining this well or not but basically I'm just trying to say it was good to get their view point as parents because I feel as though they were able to teach the course better than someone that was just trained in this stuff and hadn't experience the feelings or emotions as a parent that have been in those situations.

It's sort or like an educated doctor with no family teaching students how to be a pediatrician compared to an educated doctor that is a parent teaching students how to be pediatricians. Get my drift?

Anyways, I really enjoyed being in such an encouraging environment with such caring and meaningful Christ centered women. They are so great and I love them dearly. 

At the beginning of the first week I was NOT feeling the environment and how happy everyone seemed all the time. That sounds so stupid now but it was definitely how I was feeling at the time. I would think to myself "If I have to smile or fake laugh one more time I am going to smack someone and tell them that not everything about life is so happy happy joy joy!" this was probably mainly due to the fact that I didn't know anyone very well and there for didn't feel like I was in my place yet. I always seem to do that when there are several hundred people I don't know and no one I do know (which I can only imagine is normal anyways) and then later find myself to open up after I've gone through the basic start up convo. 

I don't know how many times I heard someone say "oh! you go to _(name of school)_? do you know_(insert name)_?" "oh yeah I do! okay yeah! huh, that is so cool! that's so funny! so how do you know them?" I don't blame them. It's only natural, and I also acted in these conversations. I just find it interesting the process of start up conversations and in how people try to relate themselves to each other. It fascinates me actually and I also find it hysterical.

There is so much that I want to say that happened in the last two weeks but this post would end up way too long and my attention span is not long enough to write it all at once. So, I'll have to write more on it at a later time.

I do want to say however, that I have grown so much closer to Christ being in such a Christ centered community for just two weeks than I feel like I have in a long time and it just shows how important the type of people we surround ourselves with to keep our lives focused on God. I hope to give off that same feeling when someone spends time with me. That they will become more Christ like by God using me as an environment that they can surround themselves in to come closer to him.