a2lv.com

  • Home
  • Clips
  • About Alejandro A. Leal
  • About a2lv.com
  • archivos
  • Departments
    • Blogroll
    • cosas
    • elcinico
    • ficción
    • fotos
    • Lamento
    • leyendo
    • Música
    • Old stuff
    • Pensamiento
    • Playlist
    • poesía alevosa (anteriormente barata)
    • web know-how
  • Subscribe via RSS

Urban biking collage

September 14th, 2008  |  Published in cosas

This is one of my first assignments for my design concepts class: a collage. Its purpose is to illustrate me, or something about me.

My Initial goal was to portray an old hobby I decided to revisit – with a contemporary twist.

I love biking, and I used to go mountain biking back home in Colombia; since I’m also a city dweller, I haven’t had the chance to do much biking off-road. Well, thanks to the increase in gas prices, I decided to start biking to work, and so I tried to capture that theme with the collage.

I must say, I don’t like collages as its hard for be to visualize what I want and then work towards that. But in this case, my idea was to try to portray me (and my bike) against the backdrop of the city and or the road. In this case, I tried to work towards that and feel somewhat satisfied with the result. It’s not exactly what I had in mind, but I’ll take it.

I had a tough time extracting the bike out of the background, but It’s very cool to be able to place it anywhere on the illustration without worrying about edges, mismatch in background color, etc.

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis

temas:  collage > design > photoshop

So I wonder…

September 9th, 2008  |  Published in cosas

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?

What? You say? Google it…

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis

temas:  Doomsday > Large Hadron Collider

El cínico #006 - Nationalized Banking

September 7th, 2008  |  Published in elcinico

U.S. Unveils Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants - NY Times

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis

temas:  Dia Hard > fannie mae > freddy mac > John McClane > nationalized banks > socialized healthcare

El cínico #005 - dejar de importar

August 31st, 2008  |  Published in elcinico  |  1 Comment

es como estar en un salón de conferencias, con la luz apagada y la puerta cerrada...

¿Cómo lograr catarsis? A punta de Pandora programada con Thievery Corporation en mi iPhone… o con mi nuevo mix en 8tracks.

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis

temas:  amargura > falta de humildad > orgullo > rencor

New 8tracks mix - Liberation Funk

August 30th, 2008  |  Published in Música  |  1 Comment

As expected, the RIAA bullied muxtape out of operation (hopefully, temporarily), and so, in its place I came across 8tracks, a very similar site that differentiates itself from the muxters by allowing you to upload all your tracks (well, all 8 of ‘em, not 12) at once, add “album artwork” to your mix, and this…

…embed it on your blog!!!!

Sweetness. Eight tracks of electronica/dance/funk, including music by Audio Bullys, Bitter:Sweet, Brazilian Girls, Chin Chin, Kinky, Cut Copy and Chromeo.

Liberation Funk - A mix by Alex Loyal

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis

temas:  8tracks > muxtape

Audio: Heroin tightens its grip in Atlanta

August 24th, 2008  |  Published in cosas, web know-how

I produced a short audio piece for Mara Shalhoup’s cover story, Heroin tightens its grip. Its a conversation between Mara and Sarah, a recovered heroin addict, and one of the subjects of the story.

 
 Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis

temas:  audio productions > creative loafing

Previously


Sep 14, 2008
Urban biking collage

by alexo | Read | No Comments

This is one of my first assignments for my design concepts class: a collage. Its purpose is to illustrate me, or something about me.
My Initial goal was to portray an old hobby I decided to revisit – with a contemporary twist.
I love biking, and I used to go mountain biking back home in Colombia; since [...]

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis

Sep 9, 2008
So I wonder…

by alexo | Read | No Comments

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?
What? You say? Google it…

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis

Sep 7, 2008
El cínico #006 - Nationalized Banking

by alexo | Read | No Comments

U.S. Unveils Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants - NY Times

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis

Aug 31, 2008
El cínico #005 - dejar de importar

by alexo | Read | 1 Comment

¿Cómo lograr catarsis? A punta de Pandora programada con Thievery Corporation en mi iPhone… o con mi nuevo mix en 8tracks.

  • del.icio.us
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Spurl
  • Facebook
  • SphereIt
  • TwitThis
« Previous Page — Next Page »
About a2lv.com

el blog de alejandro andrés leal - la especialidad de la casa: la peroradera barata


  • otras vainas

    • MLBTradeRumors.com
      Freelance
    • Escúchela… la ciudad respirando
      Photo Blog
    • mi twitter
      hobby#2
    • Creative Loafing Media
      work #1
    • Revista Elite Magazine
      work #2
    • umpbump.com
      hobby #1

  • 27 episodios a2lv mix bag amigos andres-calamaro bad-journalism blogging chicha claudette-ortiz culpa design El Tiempo encore un fois te manque ficción gioco google gustavo-cerati gwinnett Horacio-Oliveira jorge-drexler journalism julio-cortazar La-Maga lake-hartwell literatura losamigosinvisibles manquer marta materazzi melancolía mundial muxtape newspapers pluto radio-shack rayuela red-hot-organization sandwich shakira spic superpopvenezuela te manque transformers tres-coronas worldcup zidane


    ©2008 a2lv.com
    Powered by WordPress using the Gridline Lite theme by Graph Paper Press.
    Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)