Hunted III

This morning I got up early and worked on my resume. I plan to move from Romania and get a job in London or a similar european city. I don’t know very much about working abroad, how are the employers or in wich company/agency is better to work. So I gathered some resources about CV and how to make a good impression.

After six hours of office work I felt like drawing something. The hunted series are an old obsession of mine, with origami styled animals and of course, bullets. In this episode the blue birdy got away. Hurrray!

Check the Attachment for the full illustration and be sure to check wehavespecialstuff.com for more of my work. ;)


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Updates for May on wehavespecialstuff.com

As you know it, wehavespecialstuff.com is my folio. For a couple of months I keep updating and  selecting works.

This week I posted some stuff done earlier this year. Just right after the new years eve. Was a shitty new year’s eve for me btw, but you know what they say ‘God is often right’. This year was not a perfect party starter, but very creative one.

Also I made up, I repeat, I made up an interview for my employers. Basically is kind a FAQ about me, because I felt that a complicated fluffy text about me will be useless or maybe worst : Unreadable.

Enjoy! =D

Oldschool Skate Romania

There are a lot of tools for trade on te web, the waybackmachine is one of the best hidden treasures. Yet unknown for the most and somehow is better to stay this way.

I have digged some stuff from the early versions of skateboard.ro. From the time that skateboard was a kind of rocket science in the eyes of passing citizens.
In Romania the boom of skate was pretty late. In the 80’s we had other stuff on our minds, communists, war, Ceaușescu and so. The skateboard camed like a revolution, bragging our belonging to western capitalism. Like every first pioneers, the early kids where consider weirdo’s and where three or four guys in every city. Now I feel better when I go for a walk and in every neighbourhood I see some kids trying some new tricks.

The whole future of teenage, girls, props and awesomeness, depends of that high ollie goes! haha


Enjoy some unique, non-instagramed, lomo, slr-made photos of the 90’s skate era in Romania.

April’s music talk

It’s obvious, I never posted music on my blog cause I’ve been waiting for something hot from maddecent. Major Lazer – Get Free is their latest track from their upcoming album that will launch this summer. Album that I’m very anxious to hear, confirmed rumors say that will be featured tracks with No doubt and Lee Scratch Perry, another grandpa’ supastar.
Who traveled with me knows that I’m a big fan of Diplo, half of Major Lazer project from Maddecent crew. I always have some tracks from him in the playlist. He even managed to be the first guy under 45 in the ‘people that inspired me’ list on facebook. Although the inspirational part in a guy life is definatelly over fourty’s.
Like every public figure who travels all over the world he has a book now. It’s called 128 bpm and more likely it is a photojurnal with great photos. And who knows my skepticism regarding photography, knows I’m nit saying very often ‘great photos’. Take a sneak peak on these two.

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BTW: This track is called ‘Get Free’ and you could get it free on majorlazergetfree.com. How cool is that!?

Today I feel that I need some vitamins…

As I traveled between city to city in the last months and started to live with real ppl; Not androids like on my farm in Săcele; I discovered that I have a strange approach on food. Ok! Everybody has their own eating habits. For example, in highschool I found out that many kids are not eating tomatoes or peppers or both. I came back home and said: Mom, thought I was spoiled! :) )

I have a very dissociated way of eating. Someone asked me once – Do you eat the usual, mashed potatoes + meat + salad? I said – Yes, of course. But in a different order. In the morning I like to eat meat (at least 1000 calories), salad in the afternoon and potatoes (baked) at supper.
Very rare I mix them up. And when I do, I came with some very odd combinations, haha.

 

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For two days I disappeared from society. Nobody knew where or what. After my comeback I felt a little low on vitamins, so I went to the grocery. I wanted to get veggies as local as possible. So I’ve had in my basket the usual green salad, some radishes, fresh dill, tomatoes (imported this time) and one spooky plant, a kind of undercover garlic named ramsons.

- For some seconds I’ve had a glimpse of how will be my life with a angry vegan wife. I prefer to stop this idea here. :) -

Ramsons are cheap and in my village are selled by gipsies. In some cases you can mistaken the smell of those too. So… let’s say this is the main reason that ramson is not so popular.
But if you look by the bio, green, veggie way; It’s a superstar. It’s wild, it grown on field without fertilizers, what else you can want!?
From my point of view it’s a sneaky plant. It’s a softer version of garlic, like leek is for onion. I’ve had a saying – If you put fresh onions into the salad, your evening is destined for watching movies at home. If you replace the onion with leek, you still got the chance to get out. :D

 

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This weekend I found myself in Cluj again. Don’t know why and don’t know how. I don’t have even one unplausable explanation to trow some stardust in the eyes.
Last weekend was great, I won the battle. I was praised in glory, but for me the war was lost. For the first time in five years I was depressed. :/ But I managed to find one exit through the giftshop and I’m okay now.

- Enough with the personal-cinematic stuff, let’s cut into the main idea. -

This weekend I’ve been witness to a tumblr-event, with a tumblr-band avec tumblr-music, tumblr-ppl, tumblr-prints and so. Do ya’ know tumblr? Right? It’s that half blog, half social network for kids from New-York. You find there anything from arts, pseudo-arts, cheap design but full of emotions, dubstep, more-dubstep, indie, pop, nudes, porn… etc, etc.

The funny part is that most of their <users> are kids. It’s a special vortex that sucks you into the void if you are above 20. Without one trace. Just like that! I showed my libra dominion badge and managed to escape. Btw: here is my tumblr.

The main band was called Light Out, followed by Quantum Drive. Okayy, these details where discovered long after the event. My main impression of a non-indie person was good. They where tight, had good marketing. The Lights Out logo was everywhere, on the entrance stamp, walls, tshirts, even a Light Out cocktail at the bar.

I always thought the new generation is making a big bang. By every meaning, haha. Well in the musical section this is it.

I managed to pull this noisy shot before the avalanche of iphones and galaxy’s where lighted up. The venue was an old paint-brush factory, now is designed as a workspace for art students. How cool is that!

Later Edit: As I lurked on their fb page hoping for some photos, I found some interview on their press conference. Yes, it seems that they had even a press conference. Look how cute they are. ^_^

 

- The afterparty -

Let’s translate a little, this is a kind of wishlist made of sticky notes. A place where ppl write things ‘I wish To be a fish’ and stuff like that!

After a good party that ended in the morning sunshine at 6 or 7… You have to eat well. I’ve taken my kiss-the-cook outfit and prepared some mixed rice avec chopped pork dipped in spiced tomato sauce. Who cares about vegans anyway?!

Meet Cătălin Zaharia

Zaharia is from my hometown Brașov and does a great job distorting people. At least fictional talking:))

He does caricatures, cartoons, illustrations, painting and all sorts of drawings. He went to one of the most prestigious school from our country and got his master in arts in Iași at George Enescu college.

Currently he works for various newspaper like Brasovul Tau, Adevarul network, Forbes, Money Express and many more.

Check some of his work on caricaturizaharia.blogspot.com and don’t hesitate to drop to him some lines. He is very open to all sort of projects and he also works very well digital!!!

PSSST: He got facebook, too!

Samsara

I am a design junkie so I have my macbook with me to do some typography and sketch some ideas. I wanted to make a gift for my hosts at Samsara teahouse, so I have sketched something for them.

See the close-ups in full effect on Behance:http://t.co/vEPfvfzc

If you go to Cluj you definatelly have to get to Samsara. It’s a teahouse diped in a psychedelic environment, and it works, they celebrated two years a while ago. It’s one of the few optimistic things seen lately in this awful land filled with corruption and social dirt called Romania.

Finally I reached the outer limits of my 5 years old, 1 GB, MacBook. The vertical and horizontal scrolls are completly frozen, from this point I have to move the PSD file to another machine. I’m thinking of a new mac pro, so I guess I have to search something to work.

More about ‘Life supposed to be fun’ on my blog here:http://felixhornoiu.com/life_supposed_2_b_fun/

Later edit: After seeing this, the guys from Samsara asked me to paint a 1,5 meter board with this design, for their tea garden opening. I was skeptical about it, but why not have a try. It has been so long till my last session with paint, I will update the result. :D

 

Cluj vs. Bucharest

“Cluj is like a Disneyland…”

“Work for what!? God’s sake…”

Cluj, Piezișă – Felixgr.am

We have here two major cities from Romania. Cluj is a student orientated town in transilvania and Bucharest is the capital, situated south. The 437 km are not the only thing apart from them, they are absolutely opposite. Cluj is like a Disneyland, you have the fuzzy woozy pooh, the monkey eating bananas from the palmtree, Bamby, Mickey and all sort of characters. Bucharest on the other side is a cold empire where surviving it’s all about ‘sharpening your elbows’ or ‘knowing when to bend over’. You figure it out, I’m not the author! :)

I felt so weird when a friend said: Felix, here in Bucharest we work hard, it’s not like we party every day. And my main reaction was: Work for what!? God’s sake, I better go to Morocco and deal hash!

Downside in Cluj are the jobs, if you are not plugged in the IT biz, the odds are ending serving meals in a restaurant. In Bucharest is plenty of work in all kinds of domains, it’s like a jobmecca. But all at a price, life is more expensive and that cold crowded city pushes you to consume.
Cluj is boem, the student campus influence, the hills. Let’s say, if you want to skip a day in the sun, you’ll find a lot of opportunities!

I want to resume this using my libra-skills:

- If you want to build yourself a virtual career, work and chew your way into capitalism; Earn money and instantly spend it in the same day, sharpen or bend down, go to Bucharest.

- If you have money and want to go to college; If you don’t have money and want to go to college; Work in restaurants, bars but be drunk and happy every night or if you are similar with one of Disney characters, don’t be hasty, go to Cluj! :D

But wait, there’s more. I feel that Cluj is somehow of launching pad for going abroad, meanwhile Bucharest traps you there. Maybe this is from the geographic reason, closer to the west, or maybe is something more mystical, I don’t know!