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WHOA, last entry was in May?

Thank goodness for autosave or I wouldn’t even know what my password was to sign back in here.

So, I’m here after July 4th has ended (though the fireworks are still going), my good friend is gone and I’ve probably gotten 1 size bigger. bleh!

So what’s new with me?

Jerry Pinkney is what’s new!

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him last week when I had to deliver his precious, beautiful artwork back to him via the metro north railroads. So, I took the opportunity to ask him for a autograph since how many times in your life can you meet a amazing illustrator like Jerry?!

Here’s his newest book published by Little, Brown and Company. It’s the Aesop’s Fable The Lion and the Mouse.

Some closeup shots of his artwork

Amazinggg! He was the nicest man ever full of smiles and thank you’s. Hopefully in the future I get to meet more illustrators

As for my own graphic design and illustrations, sadly, with work I’ve hardly had time to create anything for myself. All I can do is wish that I can get my act together and do something creative over this summer. Right now, making my own website is all I can think of. But, there are just way to many Wendy Chan’s in the world, stealing my dot coms! Grrr, any suggestions?

Follow me on twitter? Look for missjellypus. Can’t miss me, I got a “fight me for my lollipop” profile picture up.

STRESS! Portfolios in in 5 days. I’m scared, sick and sweaty. So for the last 3 days, I had severe severe heartburn. So severe that I couldn’t get out of bed. As soon as I stood up, I felt like my spinal cord was going to collapse. After 3 days of laying in bed putting on ointment, drinking some sort of medicine called 333 I finally found my heartburn medicine from 2007. It was overdue but what the heck, I took some this morning and I feel so much better. I took this chance to give the doctor a visit. He thinks my stomach might be inflamed/infected that’s why it was burning for 3 days. So I have to make a appointment to get it checked out and he also gave me temporary relief medicine. Thank goodness the pain is gone, because I have a meeting on Monday and I can’t lay in bed any longer. I got shit to do man!

Before all this happened, I finally got the chance to go to B&N again and get the recent Shojo Beat issue. Yes it is out. The manga NANA is on the cover.

Here’s a scanned copy. It’s weird because most of the stuff listed there aren’t handmade. Their all made by million dollar companies in Japan so I feel a bit raggedy. Pick up a copy of you like girl manga, there are actually some pretty good stories in there which I’ve been reading when I’m free.

And here are some of the stamps I made. Enjoy

And honey, baby girls out there who just 15-17, I know its hot out but please don’t go dressed like hoochie momma’s. When I came out of the doctor’s I saw some 15 year old girl wearing booty velour white shorts that reached her ass cheeks. And I saw her ass sweat stains on it. Girl, if you gonna wear booty shorts at least wear another color! Not one where I see the sweat drippin. I wanted to be her mother and wrap a pair of pants around her. That is so sad considering I’m only 21 and not that much older. Kids these days.

Update again when Portfolio’s are over and I’m Freeee!

So, I finally made some rubber stamps.

I would do anything for you Hello Kitty. Well, almost anything. So I took a 1.5 hour train ride then a 2 hour ride with Jin up to Palisades just to partake in the Sanrio $20. Grab bag event. We’re given a bag and allowed to stuff it with as much of the selected items as we wished. The only thing is that your bag must be able to close.

So….

Along the way I passed a Saloon. That was just crazy to see that with the old school typeface. And being a designer, instead of punch buggy, I was trying to identify all the fonts on storefronts along the way. Well, that didn’t go all to well cuz I’ve noticed in the signage upstate, they love using cursive script fonts and Olde English typefaces. Now why is that.

I went giddy like a schoolboy and snatch up a bunch of stuff from the Sanrio store, but you wouldn’t wanna see what I got.

After shopping for so much of the cute stuff, we decided to be stingy with our lunch and get some Wendy’s.

I picked up this awesome Flan/Purin letter set from the Kinokuniya up there. Look at that, they wanna scoop themselves up and engage in some cannibalism.

And this super pretty sticker sheet. I don’t know wth is wrong with me. I go weak in the knees for cute things like this.

TWITTWAT ME : missjellypus

I’m a bit ashamed to admit that I have Miley Cyrus’ The Climb on repeat while I’m working.

BOOM BOOM Mitsuwa Here I come!

Update Later on with what what’s going on in my life and what I purchased from Mitsuwa!

I watched Watchmen on Sunday and I thought it was satisfactory fan boy creamer delight. It stuck very close to the story line and many of the character casting was good. Especially for the Comedian and Dan. Rorshach was great too.

The demise of the Comedian was one of the saddest and greatest. Contrasting the brutal beating to such a mellow lovely song as Unforgettable was genious. The opening was my favorite part of the movie. All I can think of right now is that when it comes out on DVD I will plan the beginning over and over loud. The music they paired it to was excellent. Going from Nat King Cole to Bob Dylan to Hendrix! Wow. Basically because it stuck so true to the story of the book, the people who did not read it found it to be a bad movie and boring. They walked in expecting another Dark Knight full of fighting and action shots of stuff blowing up, boy were they disappointed. It’s not another Hollywood sellout. Especially since I doubt Alan Moore will allow it. The colors were great, but then again it might have been the IMAX experience. haha

Here’s a parody of Watchmen in cartoon style

and if you haven’t checked out the movie website yet you definitely should. It’s full of gorgeous color, gorgeous imagery and  futura type goodness.

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/