Something Growing at Eight Bit Zoo!

Exciting! So every Thursday, there will be a little bit of growing done at Eight Bit Zoo.. stay tuned and check back peeps!

Also new: a Facebook like button! We'll be launching Eight Bit Zoo's official Facebook page as well as a revamp of Twitter page!!

So many exclamation marks so little time...
xoxoxo

Update

I might have to create a company blog soon, even thought I most likely will keep this as my own personal blog. But for now, I am still here.

So things have been pretty crazy lately. That of course, is pretty much the biggest understatement of the year.

Paper People Clothing project is soon going to be wrapped up. I couldn't have asked for a better project to have taken on, since Jennifer has put my name out there in any instance possible! Without having to say, I am really really grateful for this since she didn't really have to. But if you would like to be part of the hype, she recently mentioned me in one of her interviews! (click) 

And being the overly-ambitious person that I am, another huge (yet totally exciting) thing has happened. Since I've decided a while back that the way to go for me would be freelance, I thought it was actually time to take action. Well, I didn't think it was but with a little push and shove from someone who in my mind I secretly regarded as my mentor, I am now going to take that scary step. Scary not because I don't totally crave it, but because I am obviously just starting out and far from being financially stable. Everything is costing so much more than I anticipated. Logging in my expenditures has definitely been scary!

So having said that, I now have a splash page to my website. I'll probably get a ton of questions as to why I named it what it is currently (unless you were one of the unfortunate fews who actually had me mumbling at you at every which hour!) As well, my business cards are printing and will soon be on the way! So hopefully there will be more to post on here soon. As well, there will be weekly surprises to my website until its final official launch! So you'll all just have to stay tuned. The goal here is to slowly unveil what my company is going to be like at a steady interval.

Enough of staring at the screen!
xoxoxo

A little teaser for my site :)

To my Blog

Dear Blog,

I was thinking of all the progress we've been making lately. Our relationship in the past has suffered a lot because I was either busy with my work, or just plain lazy. The last thing I want to do is make you feel neglected again, but I have something to confront you about.

I have been missing the feel of a pen in my hand, and the way it seem to magically transform a mess of scribbles into unfinished thoughts that only I would understand. What I'm trying to say is, I would like to explore my relationship with someone new: the hard cover diary I've been eyeing at the store lately.

I know this will not be easy for you to listen to, but every time I see it on the shelf in that old cramped up store, at the old Chinese mall near my house, I feel like it's the only thing that calls out to me. I promised I'll not let our relationship slip away again. But I want to do this for me. I know I already have a lot to be thankful for: like the worn out cover that shows how much I love my sketchbook, or the twenty-seven dollars and ten cents you promise me when I click the 'Monetize' tab, but I feel like it's still not enough. What I need is to feel the texture of the paper rub against my knuckles as I write, and the satisfaction of flipping the pages. I'm scared. I'm scared I'll forget how to write with a pen again.

Maybe we can make out an agreement, like typing the most interesting of thoughts and reorganize them on here? I swear your pictures will always be more colourful than the scribbled out messes that I occasionally might draw in there.

Let me know what you think, and remember: you will always be a significant part of my life.

xoxo

Time to Start Blogging Again

Finally after what seemed like weeks of torture, I have some time to breathe. Actually breathe. No, I am not kidding, it was project after projects which basically drove me insane. Thank goodness I actually like what I'm doing or else I don't think I'd ever survive this. Didn't get much sleep lately because even when I did have time to sleep, I would wake up after a maximum of FIVE hours.
I think it was because of this lack of sleep, that cause me to not think right, and congest soda and tums at the same time. NOT SMART. For those of you that don't know why, it's like that little experiment you do as a little kid in grade school. Add baking soda to vinegar and you get? Or if you're a youtube-junkie, I'm sure you've seen the multiple videos and exploding Mentos and Coke "rockets." I'm surprised I got through that last night. I've been known to have an iron stomach, so I guess that's what saved me. Thank goodness. This is where I say LOL, but I still remember the pain so I guess I won't.

So tonight I was being my insomnia-tic self again and I decided to watch this movie called "The Other End of the Line." I'm bad with names, but I do know that that main actor is the guy from "John Tucker Must Die,"  and what I have got to say about this, is that this movie is awesome. It totally touched me somehow.  The basic synopsis is that this guy, falls in love with this girl from India. How they met is interesting. The main female lead is actually from a call center in India, and everyone from that call center pretends they are from some part of America. It was through a case of identity theft, that this girl on behalf of the bank, and to contact the John Tucker guy. Through conversations after conversations, they realize they are starting to fall in love with each other. And like all chick flicks of course, they are both involved with someone else. The guy with a super hot girlfriend, while the female engaged by an arranged marriage. This movie is a must see! The social references that is taught to the people in India is hilarious! Not to ruin this movie for those who are actually going to watch it, but a part I remember most clearly is when the teacher asks the Indian students which fast food chain make the "square burgers." Haha if you don't know the answer to that, go treat yourself to Wendy's :)

To Template or not to.. Template?

After surfing the world of Blogger today, I have realized that during this time, I have yet to do something creative to this blog. This is surprising since usually, once I get started on a project, I will break it down and play with it until there is nothing left to do. This time however, I realized that I have no even deviated from the original template. This is very strange. I wanted something done, just SOMETHING! I was even desperate enough to contemplate the idea of installing a third party template. As I browsed through the different selections of templates, I snapped out of my lazy phase and finally realized why I never used templates to begin with. This being the fact that I am an annoyingly difficult to please perfectionist. Every template I considered had a "flaw" of some sort. This made me feel very uneasy and eliminated the idea of borrowing a template to use as my own.

This term at school, a section focuses on the web-based component of advertising. Hopefully, this will spark some creativity and motivation in me. Until then, I shall leave this blog as is. Sorry for the disappointment people. And now since I got all this frustration off my chest, I shall go to sleep and wake up in... FIVE HOURS FOR SCHOOL?!