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Happy New Year

Kevin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:19:40 +0000

Welcome to two thousand and ten of the common era, or as I have taken to calling it twentyX. May the year and the decade of the teens bring good fortune to you and all your endeavours.

- Kevin

Flying Dog of Frederick, MD

Kevin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:59:05 +0000

This weekend was pretty the tits. A few friends and I went to the Flying Dog Brewery on Saturday for a brewery tour and it was fucking amazing. Dare I say it: The best day ever. We got to sample all the beers from Flying Dog on tap—including the new Belgian IPA they’re developing—which was heavenly.

The tour, while not all that long, took us through the prep room (which smelled deliciously like dry dog food…), the fermentation room, bottling, packaging, and “the lab” (where their taste-master tests all the brews for flavour and freshness). So we got to see pretty much everything Flying Dog, except the recipes.

Click the picture to go to the Flickr set.

AKQA at CCA+D

Kevin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:15:30 +0000

One of the benefits of going to art school in The District is the proximity of so many great studios. Just a few minutes away in every direction are places like Bethesda Softworks, Grafik, Kinetik, Big Huge Games, and AKQA—just to name a few.

Well, this past semester, two media designers from AKQA sat in on the digital media department reviews and gave me some pretty encouraging feedback on my work. As a result AKQA (click the link, their stuff is amazing) has invited my thesis partner and I to tour their DC office next month!

If you’re not sure who the folks of AKQA are and/or why you should care about them, turn on the nearest XboX360 and stare at the interface. They did that. And if you remember the Coca-Cola “Happiness Factory” advert… they did that too, among a plethora of other very amazing stuff.

P.S. The weather in DC is amazing today. Just FYI.