– "What's up, Paulo?"
I'm senior art director with tms agency in Chicago, working for McDonald's; using my design skills to fit different kinds of graphic pieces and information together. I've learned to use new tools besides staple Photoshop and Illustrator. In this position I use Figma + Airtable, and also Sketch + Abstract on a daily basis.
In 2022 I discovered intermittent fasting. A miserable experience with great results. This year I started a fafsting variation called 5:2. Feels less demanding and sustainable on a long term. Still not fun.
This weekend we drove west to Sycamore. In nearby DeKalb we found a used books store called "Classic Books" where I found these two books listed below.
Since we moved to our new home in 2022, I've been more diligent with meditation. Still keeping up 🙂
. I wake up at 4:45 am, meditate for 50 minutes. Always using Insight Timer App to track it.
I have started "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman, and "Leonardo da Vinci" by Water Isaacson. I'm rereading for the 10th time "World War Z" by Max Brooks. I'm also browsing "Things I have learned in my life so far" by Stefan Sagmeister
– "I was fascinated by OpenAI's Dall-e. But after I started using Adobe's Firefly in April 2023, my mind was blown - both by its results, and also by its simple, elegant, powerful interface."
Here are some Dall-e generated images in 2021:
"Gangster squirrel counting his money"
"Nike Air Jordan sneakers imagined by Monet"
"Batman night scene painted in oil by Vincent Van Gogh"
And Firefly's in 2023:
"Backlit glitter explosion"
"Octopus creature with diamond glasses singing in underwater bar stage"
"Fire made of ice"
"Ancient Roman mosaic depicting an astronaut"
In 2020, when we moved to the US, I started a Google Photos album called Illinois skies.
The album is a variation of the Mexican skies photo collection I created when we moved 2018 from Brazil to Metepec, a small town an hour outside Mexico City.
Geneva, IL
Metepec, Mexico
To emulate the healthy living experience we had in Mexico, we choose to settle an hour out of Chicago. Away from the gray high rises and traffic jam. Geneva is our home now and we intend to stay here through our daughter's HS.
Also from our stint in Mexico, where exposed to unusual and exotic local beverages, I started taking pictures of the bottles before sampling the content. I keep doing it to this day. Here in the US coming by strange drinks is even more likely.
Suzu: our cat.
> There's expensive and time consuming bureaucratic paperwork when moving abroad with a cat.
Cat tax, per Reddit
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