Revival! Thursday to Sunday…and beyond

This past week, I had the privilege of designing the flyer for CFC’s upcoming Revival weekend. If you’re around Champaign-Urbana during that time, definitely try and make it out, it’ll be well worth it. I actually made two flyers, only the first one was accepted. I’ll just post both of them for kicks. Don’t pay attention to the info on the 2nd flyer, only the first one is correct.

Whether you’re looking for a revival, reawakening, rejuvenation, resurgence or just a reestablishment of your relationship with God, this is where you should be. No matter where you’re at, if you just open up your heart to Him, the chemistry will…never mind. Just be there! Or if you’re reading this from another city or country, open up your heart to Him again and be revived, wherever you are.

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Shiver me Tumblr

Just to let everyone in the world know, I just got a Tumblr and it’s pretty fly:

My Tumblr (http://wugru.tumblr.com/)

I’ll be posting videos, songs, short thoughts, and teasers for this blog whenever I update it (you’ll have to continue reading here sucka). It’s like a cross between Twitter and blogging. I was trying to resist the temptation to get one since I already have a Facebook and Wugru, but the stylin minimalist themes were too hard to pass up.

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Every once in a while…

There is a song that I really get into that makes me a little insecure about my manhood. Don’t get me wrong, I know I’m a man–I’m one of the manliest people I know. In fact, probably the manliest man graphic designer out there (just kidding). But man, some songs on my iTunes I’m just not comfortable playing in public. On the heavier side of things, those would include all my hardcore underground rap songs. On the lighter side of things (where this song falls), that would include some Beyonce singles, Cheyenne Kimball, and all those cute Juno soundtrack songs.

But this song is to good to pass up mentioning. My boy, Urian, actually eluded to this song in a conversation a while back. So, blame him, he’s the sensitive one. Anyways, you’ve probably seen one of the awesome Where the Wild Things Are trailers on TV or the Web. One of the trailers of the movie featured this song by Karen O. and The Kids called, “All is Love.” This song just makes me smile and have a generally better outlook on life. My testosterone is going to have to have a talk with me later but listening to it is totally worth a trip to the principal’s office. Like totally! (dangit) *cough* Dude, it’s totally worth listening too bro.

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How far we’ve come and how far there still is to go.

It’s hard to believe that this time a year ago, I was a little over a month into my Freshman year. Done with my first wave of midterms, recovering from my first college sickness, and fully immersed in the small group, large group, weekend event, Sunday service (hopefully) rotation of CFC. Heck, even at the beginning of this year, I was still writing “Freshman” on the activity sign up sheets.

Recently, I came across this video that really took me back to my first days as a Freshman. I think I saw this video at the “How to Survive” event CFC put on at Lincoln Hall, which was held the night after the first day of classes. I even friended the creator of the video, Michael Chang, on Facebook. You can check out his work at bluevisionuiuc.

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5 seconds to eternity.

This past weekend, my church, CFC, held its annual mini-olympics. We’re the biggest church on campus with about a thousand people and seeing everyone from all dorms, ages, and ethnicities (primarily Asian or Pacific islander) compete and cheer each other on was awesome to see. We were so animated that I even saw a caucasian girl from the neighboring soccer game take out her camera phone videotape us. The body of Christ was in full force, even with the frigid weather and obnoxious rain. And even though the competitions consisted of crab walks, hula-hooping, and solving 3rd grade math problems, it was still pretty intense. Still, we knew that from start to finish, God was the only true victor.

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My Fav 5 iPod/iPhone Apps

Apple! Now that I have your attention, I’ll begin.

iPods are first and foremost a music player. And if you have an iPhone, I guess its first and foremost a phone/music player. So, who cares about apps? I mean, I could definitely live without them, but I’d rather not. They’re like toppings on an ice cream sundae.

Keep in mind, I have an iPod touch and not an iPhone; so, I usually don’t have a wifi connection. That means my favorites don’t require an internet connection (with the exception of one). Also, it has no mic; so, I can’t T-Pain myself or play an Ocarina. Don’t worry though, this list is still awesome. In no particular order: Read the rest of this entry »

99designs fail.

A while ago I won a contest at 99designs for my online engineering education site design and was stoked.

Still, I never got to share all the failures I had in these online design contests. So, here we go, 99designs: The Fail Story.

In total, I submitted 8 designs to 8 different contests, some were just quick-edits of old designs and some were designs I made to WIN. That’s right, I had the win or bust mindset during the design process. I’d like to share two of the designs in the latter category.

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Henry Wu Photography

First time posting two days in a row! Well, technically, it’s still the same day…

Anyways, just wanted to introduce you guys to a new link on the “Suggested Clicking” section on the right side of the page. It’s Henry Wu Photography! Henry is distant distant relative of mine (in reality, we just share the same last name) and was the one that inspired me to pimp out my desktop.

Anyways, he’s a young, up and coming photographer who hopes to go to professional by the time he graduates from college. Currently, he’s looking to shoot wedding photography/couples in love; so, give him a shout out if you and that special someone want to frame your love. Read the rest of this entry »

Desktop Pimping

Quick update on the most serious design work I’ve done since summer:

My friend Henry inspired me to pimp my desktop recently. Basically, desktop pimping is as Xzibit describes in, To Pimp Anything: Anytime, Anywhere, “Customizing the desktop of a computer or laptop to look like a hot ass ride.”

I couldn’t afford to get as fancy as some of the ones featured on deviantART but I did as best I could with just copy and paste. The end result features a new wallpaper, new application icons, new folder icons, and a fancy snap-to-grid feature for managing messy desktops.

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w00t, won a contest at 99designs.

Recently, I’ve been entering in some web design contests at 99designs.com. 99designs hosts a lot of design contests by allowing anyone to sign up and setup a “design contest” for their business or company. There’s anything from logo design to t-shirt design to twitter background contests. I don’t really have the time to commit to guaranteed client work at the moment (which takes a couple weeks to complete); so, I pretty much just browse around the site looking for any interesting contests.

Well, I submitted an entry for the design of EngineeringDegrees.com and was chosen as the winner! I guess studying electrical engineering at college was finally put to some use? It may not be my flashiest design, but it fit their needs and they’re happy with it; so, it’s all good.

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