Working (Not) From Hone

How's it going?
Hope you're doing well.

I have been feeling a bit stale the past few weeks in my daily work life.

I’m so grateful that summer has been GOOD to me in terms of client work and getting to work on meaningful creative projects.

Unfortunately the only major downside to that (besides maybe my overloaded stress lol) is that I am WORKING IN MY HOME OFFICE TOO MUCH.

Working on a few major projects day to day, all starts to feel like a blur.

I wake up in the moring on a weekday, do the 15 seconds walk to my home office (my daily commute lol) and start working.

I usually just work all the way until I get super hungry and snap out of my adhd hyper fixated state.

At this point, I eat lunch and finsh all the work I have for the day, head to the climbing gym, eat dinner, watch some show and go to bed.

Besides the weekends, that is kinda the same at least 4 days out of the week.

Today, as im writing this on friday I decided to switch up the funk a little bit and have quite honestly the most “LA day” ever lol.

I started by driving in the semi morning traffic over to silverlake to meet one of my new homies Kat at this dope little coffee shop called Dayglow.

So meeting for a potential job in a boutique coffee shop on the east side of LA while rushing through traffic already felt hella “LA”.

Kat is a dope photogrpaher who shoots some of my fav bands in the HxC scene and we chopped it up about some exciting future projects.

From there I rushed over to a diner in LA to meet with some new online friends.

Crocodile Jackson and WizardofBarge (those obvi are not thier real names but most recognized by those sick monikers on Instagram

I had a great time and ate some pretty good food alongside some niche convos.

We hit it off right away and already feel like homies who have hunout multiple times, which is always a good thing and reliving tbh. I get hella nervous meeting new people at times.

I have been trying to do better at utilizing this INSANE network i’ve built over the years and meet up with my fellow creatives.

I have the luxury and privilege of knowing SO MANY DOPE PEOPLE on the internet and every time i meet up with some of them it’s a good time so i def need to more often.

In between these little meetings too, that little devil inside me that forces me to do graphic design and work on stuff had me busting outsome revisiosn off no lunch and 2 coffees lol.

I am so swamped with work to be fully honest, but this is the life i always dreamed off. Living in SoCal, working for myself and being around dope people.

Don't complain about having a lot on your plate when your goal was to eat

To top off this whole “most LA type shit ever” in the evening i went over to my long time friend Sean Martens movie premiere in the valley.

He made a short form recently called “Rental” and I had to show out for the boy and check it out.

It’s kind of wild to think about how much easy access i have to so many cool locations and dope people. I am fully trying to take advantage of this more while I can.

I know this newsletter might have just felt like me giving you a recap on my day (umm cuz it was lol)

However, that is lowkey the point. I want this to be a place where we can talk about design but also just what’s happening.

I don’t have a lot of outlets these days to be more introsepctive and personal. I will not let the newsletter become dictated by algorithms or graphic design buzzwords.

I hope y’all are having a great day and maybe if ya can, do something yourself to swich up the routine this week.

Much love and Talk Soon!

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