February 2012
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November 2011
7 posts
On Money
I didn’t sleep a wink last night. The concept of money and owning substantial things really started freaking me out.
Rewind and context.
Working with my company I’ve been fortunate enough to get a little raise when I re-signed for 2012. This made me realize I may actually be able to do the impossible: save up while living in NYC. But of course I started pondering the possibilities...
Never thought I'd say it but American Express has...
to become a small business owner :)
goal in life now is to own a small consignment shop somewhere in NYC. I want it to be decently priced like LA but top brands like all the NYC shops around here. It’s insane how expensive thrift comes here.
Step 1: intern a few hours a week at a local boutique while maintaining my full time writing job….Anyone looking for free work?
My boyfriend thinks I look like a boy...
and likes it :)
New place, new hair, new york 2011. Now, if only I can learn how to freelance instead of amusing myself with photobooth and reddit.
Leave it to a New Jersey Flea Market Peddler
to tell me I’ve done wrong in life. And I quote-
Him: Ah UCSD! What did you major in?
C: Economics & Minor in Political Science
H: And what are you doing now?
C: I’m a Marketing Associalte and Content Deve -
H: I’m disappointed. Economics and now Marketing? You know that Angela Davis taught at UCSD….(aaaand his questionably factual but impassioned rant continued...
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Quote to remember c/o Rainer Maria Rilke
“… I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions...
Oddities make the world a better place
An Italian Architect & designer named Luigi Serafini created a 300 page book called the Codex Seraphinianus a half a century ago. It’s an imaginary text about an entirely imaginary world. Thanks to the illicit internets this sought after ($300 on amazon) book is now only a click away. (screen capture your heart out. May not be up for long)
From sex transforming into alligators to the...
October 2011
12 posts
Farenheit 451, published in 1953
Then motion pictures in the early 20th century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass…And because they had mass, they became simpler…Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different…But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort of pastepudding norm,...
Amazing Resource for Twitter Chats
So I’m thinking, this will be the future of twitter.
Somebody took the effort to create a google doc with over 530 weekly twitter chats and schedules. If the interest graph is the next phase in new media (i.e. connecting with strangers with similar interests) I think these chats are a huge start.
http://bit.ly/ChatSched
After my experience w/ pivot and social week I see the benefit of...
I'm done!
Now that social week’s over, and my liver’s an utter mess, I feel wiser, more connected and whole. For a year I’ve worked on this event completely focused on the end product and without giving anything else much thought. I finally have a month to do whatever the fuck i want. SCORE:
My whatever the fuck i want list -
watch walking dead, read it too
visit boston, chicago, dc,...
Couple times in life where I've...
Taken a step back and thought wow. WTF am I doing. Yesterday was one of them in the best way possible. Working with pivot I ended up meeting Adam Duritz from the Counting Crows and am now helping him with a CMJ event out here in NY.
This is really cool not only because holy crap it’s the dude who sang mr. jones, but also because he’s really passionate about independent music...
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Tonight I stayed in to design a times square...
…yea pretty stoked :) Spent the last few days learning final cut pro and creating this ultra basic 15s billboard clip to be aired a few times next Monday/Tuesday. Life is so random :)
Untitled from Christina Buquid on Vimeo.
Today I occupied wall st
After visiting wall street, as passionate the energy was I got even more confused about the movement. There were libertarian’s screaming down with the Fed, students protesting loans, environmentalists championing sustainability, and one dude asserting the former secretary of finance was bald (zing!).
As a detail oriented, data driven person who can’t take arguments w/o...
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28 year old Rachel Sterne heads NYC Government 2.0...
The things I love in life: urban planning, NYC, technology, data analytics, and ambitious women all rolled into one. Here she talks about O’Reilly’s concept of thinking about “government as a platform”. She challenges us to imagine the city as Facebook or Twitter with API’s. In doing so you open the platform of governance, offer transparency to citizens, and drive...
today's listography
janicewrites:
- gonna make a vision board (needing some direction, universe)
- will clean up (re-arrange to be more productive, treating this new room as a studio)
- will finally run thru autumn wind (please let there be sunshine)
- write at a new cafe (must.)
- listen to The Tapes.
What’s a vision board? Sounds like some soul searching fun :)
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September 2011
4 posts
Social Media Revolution: Community first,...
The “Facebook revolution” of Egypt that happened in January was a turning point to me. Has technology created a rapid-fire medium to collectivize? Could the downfall of oppressive regimes in the Middle East be accredited to a couple of geeks from silicon valley? Especially working half in the tech field it was something that excited me and the people around me. It injected...
Community
In high school I so desperately needed some sense of community. I joined everything from band to community service to dance groups to better understand the world around me. I became obsessed with participating in groups.
In college I dedicated myself to building community through my organizations (often at the expense of my actual education). I co-coordinated a cultural show who’s sole...
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I just watched this...
amazing documentary about North Korea from National Geographic (streams free on Netflix, what up!). Holy crap. I know I’m an ignorant suburb kid but I had no idea people were still being subjected to such cruelty there. I had no idea they’re technically still at war w/ south korea. They interviewed this guard who used to man what’s essentially their version of a concentration...
August 2011
6 posts
Note to self
Tutorials for web 2.0 buttons: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/03/10/web-20-tutorials-round-up/
Ernest Hemingway once said
his best work was only six words long:
“For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”
The legend says he was dining with his writer friends and they all bet $10 they could write the best ultra-short story. Needless to say, he won. Thought I’d share :)
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New webcomic
Decided to start one, fiiiiinally. Wanted to practice illustrator-ing :) Let me know what you think! I’m not a great drawer, mostly trying to understand the medium better and play with words. http://pwhatevers.wordpress.com/
July 2011
6 posts
Dinner at the LES Taqueria
Me: I understand monogamy in the sense that pairing up can help both of you survive, pay rent, eat happily, whatever..
C:uhuh..
Me: But sexual monogamy…To me sex is just another sense. Like seeing or smelling or eating. And could you imagine eating one type of food for the rest of your life?
C: Well no but..
Me: For example, you love chinese food. Can you imagine eating sha-lome-bow...
Ten lessons I've learned about NYC OR What I'd...
Whenever I wander aimlessly omw back home from work about 100 billion ideas come to me at once. This blog post was one of them.
NYC will give you whatever you put into it. It’s a tool to help you develop into your own. If you’re interested in learning obscure science fiction dialects, and have never, ever, met another person with the same interest, there’s probably an...
Text that made my day
From my aunt:
“Just had a freudian psychoanalysis moment! I dreamt of you today, a first time for me. In my dream you wore this long skirt, a jacket, had a short “bob” and heavy pink eye shadow. Yikes! You were walking alone in a busy street. Uncle Rommel yells “Hey, there’s Tina!” I run to you and I hug you because I was shocked to see you. You smiled an...
Why I heart him
Chen: Babe, there are so much cute stuff at urban outfitters for home furnishing! i really like some of their tapestries
Me: …am I dating a chick?
Chen: yes u r, its ur dream come true
Independence
Today I’ve celebrated my independence from everything back home by spending all morning brooding over facebook photos of friends that I miss so badly. I love all the new friends I have here in NY but can’t help but reminisce about the best friendships I’ve had back in LA/San Diego. My friends have been my world and it’s scary to be so far removed from that place.
June 2011
1 post
Movies in Bryant Park
NYC finally kicked off the HBO Movies in Bryant Park Summer series. Every monday at sunset they play a classic movie. This is actually only one of the summer film series here in NYC (apparently there are hudson river horror movies, I think madison square plays recent theater movies, and more). This Monday they started with One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest which we in turn celebrated with a mini...
May 2011
8 posts
Think I've discovered my passion for this company
Took a while, but I think I’ve figured out where my heart is with Pivot. (I am writing this down for me) I’d like to create an online medium for brands to get news that is concise, curated, and emotional. Pivot should be the new idea incubator for everyone in the tech/media/advertising field. I want people to better understand the movement of social and I want brands to learn how to...
just had a heated discussion with an old flame
about our taste in books.
I just finished this really cool book (to me) by vladimir nabakov called laughter in the dark. His prose is fantastic and the situational shit he puts his characters through is awesome. The way he describes things is just…magic. Like when describing the moment a man grows conscious of his daughter’s death he talks about the acidity of an orange, a whisper...
Keeping myself up, thinking about synesthesia.
Right now I’m reading this book called Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer. It’s about a journalist that competes in the World Memory Championships and his journey towards understanding the art of memory. Apparently mnemonics used to be a legitimate, practiced, art and the Ancient Greeks prided themselves at it’s mastery. The book talks about applying an artificial...
Microsoft to announce $8.5 billion Skype... →
Interesting… got a text about this an hour ago which sucked me into the seductive stream of tech tweets. Which begs the question: why the hell am I working at midnight on a tuesday?
soupsoup:
At a value close to $8 billion, the Skype deal would rank as the biggest acquisition in the 36-year history of Microsoft, a company that traditionally has shied away from large deals. In 2007,...
April 2011
3 posts
what drives you
Today was good. Got a free haircut from this guy I met at a wig store who’s training to work at Mizu in midtown. Took a javascript class whilst drinking asahi at GA. And picked up my first tv purchase with roomie after work. The dude we bought the vizio from ended up being a headhunter for web developers and mentioned I should hit him up if I’m looking for something. This...
Harder Faster Stronger
New product launch in iphone world means a billion pivots and putting release off till who knows when.
Still, it’s exciting.
(maybe because i’m more biz dev and not tech-side)
Today we learned our app’s getting a makeover. It might be investor-related or due to a dense market, but all we know is we need to adapt. It’ll be for the better, incorporating some really...
A Post a Day
Let me try this again.
I’m going to start posting once a day since I lost my iphone and the memories are slipping. Or I’m getting old.
I’m getting involved with a new app that’s kind of like instagram but obviously, way better. The app is here: tracks.io (email me if you want to be a beta tester! cbuquid@gmail.com). It’s pretty awesome, we’re partnering on a...
March 2011
5 posts
