Luis Acoltzi

Restart

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:49:46 -0600

It’s funny how things work sometimes. I decided to restart the blogging thing just keeping some posts. I was going through my tumblr again and I realized there was a lot of really relevant stuff to me. Not that I don’t like cute cat pictures but meh, there’s my feed for that.

Maybe this is all part of the whole “getting out of college” thing. I’m nervous, excited, sent a few job applications some days ago and I’m just getting ready. I’ll post updates here every other day. I feel like I can actually post something more decent now.

I’m back!

Caught up and wasted it… Long Gone…

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:50:35 -0600

Caught up and wasted it… Long Gone…

T = -1yr

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:09:07 -0500

Life’s a crazy thing I’m telling you. During the past month I’ve been thinking a lot about my career, what I wanna accomplish professionally and how to achieve it. Starting by reorganizing the portfolio (which I discussed earlier in another blog post), I realized that my work is not as bad as I thought and that I’ve grown a lot both as a designer and as a person.

I’m in a position right now in which I have to set my mind on something. Do I want to stay in Albuquerque? It’s hard for me to say it, but I do not want to stay here. It’s not that I don’t like this place, I’m sure the day I leave here will be one of the Top 5 most difficult moments in my life because of the amazing friends I’ve done here, but I don’t see myself growing as a designer here. I’m aiming for something like Houston, Austin, San Francisco or D.C., especially San Francisco as the tech community is focused over there and I would like to focus my creative work on that field.

It’s a period of big changes, for the first time I’m thinking about my online presence and how the different versions of me can’t really be under the same space. Luis Acoltzi in Spanish is different from Luis Acoltzi chilling in English and he’s also different from Luis Acoltzi as a Graphic Designer more as a professional (but not quite there). I’ll have to find a way to merge everything all together, but so far it seems really hard. That’s probably one of the reasons why I’m writing, posting and everything else now on tumblr instead of at my website, because I want my website to showcase my work and to try to make people think I’m actually smart, not just my random thoughts (like this post).

Another first this week was that I started thinking about my image and how I look, which seems really interesting to me because apparently (and by looking at my closet) I don’t really follow any big fashion trend, which actually allows me to explore more into what I feel comfortable on and what looks good on me. Maybe it’s time to start following Esquire’s suggestions for style, maybe I need to reinvent myself once again, I got no idea. All I know for now is I’m getting ready for life after college, and as scary as it seems it’s being truly exciting and introspective.

Hope y’all are having a good weekend (it’s just getting started!) so if you drink don’t drive, and if you don’t drive please don’t do anything crazy.

-Luis

"Don’t let schooling interfere with your education."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:16:02 -0500

“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”

- Mark Twain

PITAAAAA!!!

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:25:52 -0500

PITAAAAA!!!

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:02:57 -0500

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

- George Bernard Shaw

And we're back

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:37:34 -0500

After checking online and thinking of many ways I could get back to customizing this blog, I finally found out that if you find a theme and install it directly on Tumblr (without getting to the customization screen), it’ll fix the problem. So yay! we’re back. I’ll hopefully be posting on this thing this time lol.

What's been happening

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:27:00 -0500

Ok tumblr (and the rest of the internets), so my blog’s been pretty much down for the past… 2 years? I used to blog more in Spanish than I do in English (funny because I’ve always kept my personal journals in English). I’ve noticed that the problem with my blog (LuisAcoltzi.com) sometimes is not about content, but about WordPress, there’s something about it that, even if I can do it from my phone or iPad, I get lazy because I need to worry about how the images look and all that… besides of the fact just sending an image is awkward. So what I’m thinking of is migrating everything to (tumblr) and add my .com domain to it. don’t know if it’s a good or bad idea, but I’m hoping it works. Option two is turning my .com domain into an exclusively professional portfolio place (which will come out in one or two weeks, yay) and getting a .com domain for my stuff and personal interests. Any comments on that? I’m also looking for a decent tumblr theme so I can make it all work, let me know if you know of a nice one ;).

Hope you all are having a great weekend,
Luis