Agustin Sanchez>

I’m guilty. I’ve been a bad blogger. You caught me red handed. If you look below my last post was May 13th, which to me seems like a lifetime ago. Part of my Birthday Resolution is to use this blog more. My birthday is October 24, this saturday (you can wish me a happy birthday by giving me money), & I say part, because I’ve made myself other promises… promises i’ll keep to myself.

So, let me atone for my sins… let’s go through some updates on who I am, what I do, & what makes me tick:

• I’m an Art Director at AgencyNet. I create, craft & manipulate pixels everyday for some really cool brands, doing exciting things everyday. Creating is my passion, whatever the medium. The fact I’m able to do this daily, on exciting projects, surrounded by like-minded professionals makes me feel extremely blessed.Some new passions at work, are designing for the iPhone and composing audio, both things that 6 months ago were not on my plate to the extent they are now.
• I continue to play guitar on a regular basis, eventually keeping releasing some collection of songs in the back of my mind. Through work I’ve been able to experiment and grow my skills technically to include composing music using Apple’s Logic Suite. While I own a tub amp and love the warmth of a vinyl record, there’s something extremely liberating about recording digitally, sequencing drums, layering multiple guitars & basses and adding effects and textures, all without costly setups and equipment.
• Photography has overtaken my life outside of work. I’ve been able to slowly get better equipment, playing with light and composition. You can check out my photography portfolio or flickr to see some of my work. The interesting thing is training my eye to see things differently, and learning new photo manipulation and cleanup techniques actually expands my skillset with daily photoshop work.
• I consume far too much music and like to make mixtapes. I have an hour drive so in some ways it’s essential to my mental health. You can check out mixtapes.
• I live what I consider a blessed life, sharing it with my extraordinary wife Meli and my two Boston Terriers. True love exists. We’re currently house hunting, looking for the next step in a series of next steps of maturation.I grew up in the SF Bay Area; owning a house seems like the oddest thing to me at times. Growing up with such high property prices and taxes, renting was the only option I ever knew, so it’s a complete novelty to be “house hunting”

So, photos, sparkling water, pizza, guitars, boston terriers, camera clicks, IKEA, cigarettes, and dirty trucks… that’s me in a nutshell.

Some of those other resolutions I talked about earlier are to create more content, things that make me happy. posters, tshirts, custom designed sneakers, screen prints, flyers, and photography. It’s high time I start bringing all these disparate *hobbies* I have, and start making some truly memorable stuff…

More posts to come on a regular basis.

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