The smell of Balsamic vinegar makes the inside of my nose itch. It is quite strange looking outside at 3:30pm and not seeing much daylight. The sky is covering itself up with a blanket of snow-filled clouds, only letting a few flakes escape every couple of hours. Maybe the clouds are saving up for one big hoorah of snow-falling joy. The surrounding mountains are completely covered now, it is so lovely to see them early in the morning when the sun shines onto them, creating this enormous winter-wonderland that looks slightly painted on. This is the only time, the morning sun, and the evening sun, when I like Vancouver architecture. The sunset especially, creates a gorgeous glow when reflecting off of the downtown core; the glass mirroring the incredible landscapes and showing off nature's color palette. I suppose that is why this type of building is so common in this city – Mies van der Rohe used the floor to ceiling glass windows in his skyscrapers, to reflect the colors and shapes of surrounding landscapes, and too allow the occupants to see these things from the inside. Bringing nature to the office-workers and residents, so they wouldn't have to leave the comfort of their Herman Miller Aeron chairs to see a little bit of foliage. Ok, so Herman Miller wasn't around back then, but whatever. I have decided that I need a break from the ole puter, so I am going to do some illustrations and collaging for a while – I am changing the direction of a couple of projects, simply because I am tired of looking at the screen. It is time to set my brain on analog and use a bit of simple hand-crafting to create designs. Then why, you ask, am I sitting here in front of a monitor now? Well, I might freak out if I don't get at least small doses of the digital world from time to time. It is like a bad drug addiction, if I don't get my fix, I am going to have a difficult time coming down off the high, now I wouldn't want that to happen would I? Please do check out a little, well, huge project I am currently working on. This one is completely digital and is under heavy criticism at Typophile. It is due this coming Tuesday, along with a mocked up book and book cover, (which SHHH don't tell I haven't really started yet) – but the guts are almost complete. It has been a long process, belive it or not, to re-design this screenplay for Brazil. Go to the link at the beginning of this paragraph to view details and read the remarks by professional typographers and type designers, it is really quite interesting. Jeebus, what a long post.