Daily Activities
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First Roast
My buddy Scott went to Costa Rica last year just as we were getting into coffee and he thought he’d bring back a little vacation souvenir to feed the growing hobby: coffee beans. Specifically green beans, unroasted, direct from the farmer. A couple pounds to play around with. He ended up with 20 kilos. Scooped…
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Classic Vancouver Cycling Routes
Looking over some of the classic road cycling routes of Vancouver I’m starting to see some patterns and shapes emerge. When I see the GPS tracks for these rides on a map I feel like calling them by their birds-eye views rather than their usual road / area names. Example: Rather than say “Let’s take…
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What I’m doing this week
Riding Seymour and Cypress / submitting a patent application / washing my bike / building two websites / installing a window display / organizing a photoshoot / getting drunk / applying for EI / applying for jobs / meeting a friend’s new girl / hanging out with a baby / creating a business plan /…
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Mistakes I Made Last Week
Lost the keys to a rental van Didn’t attack in the last lap for lack of confidence Cut off a teammate Went out to eat too often while on a budget Didn’t eat enough protein
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Rights I Made Last Week
Stayed in town for a gallery opening Went for a hike with the Moms Pulled over before feeling too sleepy Signed up for a friend’s bachelor party Encouraged high school art students Caught up with an old friend Mingled with many acquaintances at a party instead of just close friends Wrote a testimonial for a…
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Mistakes I Made Last Week
Didn’t check the race bike’s rear tire thoroughly enough and then flatted in a race Was too abrupt with someone who was having relationship troubles Didn’t call a girl when I said I would Set a deadline for a client I couldn’t keep Held back too long in a sprint finish Didn’t bring food on…
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Mistakes I Made Last Week
* Sold an item on ebay for too little * Shipped an item to a customer on ebay without insurance * Went out drinking the night before a bike race * Didn’t go to a bike race * Went on a date with a girl who already has a boyfriend * Went on a different…
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Art around town
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Mars Phoenix Is My BFF
Image courtesy my buddy, Mars Phoenix. 3:15 AM Jeffrey Werner Have you been following the MarsPhoenix on Twitter? It’s so great. Possibly one of the best things the internet has ever done 3:15 AM The wha, no 3:15 AM Jeffrey Werner Ya, you know the Phoenix is over there right now digging up soil and…
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Anne Frank House
I likely first heard about the Diary of Anne Frank in grade school, though I don’t recall reading the actual diary. I never gave her much thought again until I happened to walk past the Anne Frank Huis, now a museum and major tourist attraction, on my first visit to Amsterdam in 2003. At that…
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Living With the Composers
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Utrecht Excursion
Spent the day (April 26, 2008) in this happening central Netherlands city with some fellow design students visiting the Dick Bruna Huis and the Rietveld Schröder House.
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Design Academy First Impressions
Hi David, Jeff Werner here. How’s things? Me: I’m in Eindhoven. Been here over a month now. Got a decent room in a townhouse with three flatmates, themselves from all corners of the globe and masters students at the Academy. My days (and nights) are filled with studies in the Public Space department and the…
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Umberto Eco’s Intern
I walked up to him across the lawn of the stable, near the old red barn, and shook his hand. And Umberto Eco replied “You talk too much. In the car you were gossiping and gossiping with that man.” Then he looked away, but in a manner that said he didn’t mind me. He would…
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Nine Months of Sent Mail
These sent emails cover the period since I left Canada on April 23, 2007, and leaving Bali on January 26, 2008, i.e. nine months of sent mail.
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I am not Shigeru Ban
A recent comment posted by Wendall Chin on the entry https://jeffwerner.ca/2006/06/shigeru_ban.html says: Hello, I’m reaserching [sic] my project on your Picture Window House. I’m in need of the entire landscape from the ocean to the tip of the hill. If you could provide a landscape site along with wide range of photos relative to the…
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Petra Blaisse and Inside Outside
A design firm I toured recently through a friend. Blaisse’s Inside Outside, located in an old school house in Amsterdam, consists of two studio spaces (one for Outside or landscape work and one for Inside, or interior design projects), as well as a meeting and supply room. Blaisse and her firm have completed work for…
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Important Keys
I pille a bottle of water on my MacBook Pro a couple month ago an ever ince three key on my keyboar no longer function, two of which, it turn out, are pretty uefull letter in the Englih language. It i truly making me crazy. I avoi typing a much a poible now, which partly…
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Filipino Text Slang
So the Philippines is literally the text–or txt–capital of the world. More people send messages through their cellphones here than anywhere. The P1200 (approx. $27 CAN) used, ubiquitous (Nokia has sold over 1 billion) Nokia 1100 phone I bought from a street vendor in Baguio. Here pictured during a hike overlooking the Banaue rice terraces,…
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Baguio Digs
Some pics of the provided digs for the past six weeks of my Philippines Internship, i.e. where I live: Narda’s main building and factory in La Trinidad, where all the dyeing, weaving and business goes on. Narda’s also rents office spaces on various floors. The guest apartment I live in is on the top right,…
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I plug away in Baguio
On prompting, an update of my daily activities. The past two weeks have been pretty much like many other summer spent 18 hours a day on the computer HTMLin’, CSSin’, Flickrin‘, Blogin‘, Surfin‘. Except I’m doing it in an office alone in a small weaving factory in Baguio City, Philippines. My meals are fairly regularly…
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Strike
AutoCAD Final Project Soft Product Final Bag Ergonomics Midterm Ergonomics Final Assignment Report Core Studio Process Books Core Studio Lighting Image Boards Pack room shit for storage Pack school shit for storage Find summer roommates Pack for trip Cut my losses: Soft Product Final Bag Assessment
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Room for Rent
New posting, same place, for Summer 2008 I’m on internship for the summer and I’d like to rent my room to a kind person. If you’ve been to my place, which I share with three other Emily Carr students, you know what I’m talking about. If not… It is nice. It’s got a front and…
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FreeCell Best Streak
My top winning streak in the solitary computer card game FreeCell and my strategy for avoiding essays.
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Plows
Nothing like a little snow storm in the metropolis to help a small town boy feel special: City of Vancouver Snow Removal 27 plows $400,000 annual budget 2,000,000 people City of Nelson Snow Removal 4 plows $436,000 annual budget 10,000 people Sources: http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/streets/snow.htm http://www.city.nelson.bc.ca/html/snow.html Midnight outside my home in Kitsilano, Vancouver, November 26, 2006.
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Whimsical Design: Copywriting
Note the disclaimer below the directions on this sachet of Lipton Cup-a-Soup: You don’t have to add exactly 175 ml, it’s not like a law or anything Also the No Spoon sign. Examples of superfluous, yet whimsical design. Not judging its effectiveness, but good to keep in mind.
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Too Nice
Lunch with prof again: pork loin and sauerkraut melt on wholegrain, special mayo, side honey kettle chips, glass of Orangina on ice. Later: tea during paragraph breaks and URLs. Tagged along town earlier. Introduced to Neils (stern, tall, dark, Danish) at Inform; tour of new three-story, geo-thermal-heated store front with green roof. Side note: green…
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2360 Larch is my new home
I now live with Tobias, Hamza and Nate at 2360 Larch in Vancouver. I am building us a website. We are busy people. We hunt craigslist for furniture when we’re not all at the Emily Carr Institute. Things here are good. Hamza cooks us chicken curry often. Nate makes orange french toast and a Kentucky…
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Crunchy or Smooth?
I just answered an Unknown Caller phone call from a man I don’t know and he immediately asks me: “Crunchy or smooth, Rob?” Because my name is Jeff and I do not recognize the voice I reply, “Beg your pardon?” He repeats the question. “Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?” “Erm, crunchy.” Which is an outright…
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Muppets, Halifax
Like synchronized conmen two good friends of mine–who have never met yet both live in Halifax–have MSN’d me at the same time two Saturdays in a row now. At midnight. Drunk. I’m guessing, taking into account the East Coast time difference, that drinking establishments close around 3am there. And tonight, in-between the usual conversation (women,…