My “OTHER” Homes

As general a rule, we creatives I tend to have many passions—cooking, teaching, designing… etc. This help us shape what we will be doing with our art in the future, it also creates a sort of art junk if you can call it like that.  We love to share our creations and while at it, help others if possible. Some of us have Youtube channels with tutorials, others create blogs like this one, or even podcasts.  At the end, we want you to be able to view all of this content that makes the internet so great but we don’t want to mix everything we do in one website, other wise it will look like a pile of mixed-color-dirty laundry. So we create  homes for each passion.

In my case, I’m a graphic/web designer by trade. I did design for around 8 years. In that period of time I created many  things related to design as well as an audio post cast that shows how depressed I was during my college years and how by just doing this radio show helped me get over my worries. From episode 1 all the way to the 16th you will see the tremendous difference in quality. Here you can have a listen—but you need to understand spanish… sorry Bitacora De Un Estudiante De Diseño GraficoHere you can also see my Design Page.

 

My other big love is photography, specially portraits photography— 🙂 but many of you don’t really know that I also love wedding,  commercial,  architecture photography….the list goes on…. But I only house two of those genres, Weddings and Portraitsbecause that what I want to shoot the most.
Then we got the usual suspects Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Vimeo.
Each of this channels is a gate way of communicating my what I love to do. Each one of them help me find the appropriate way to communicate, vent, and make people happy with my art. 🙂

 

If you enjoyed  what I do, maybe your friend will too. So please share me!
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My  Wedding pagestoryboard005My Pinterest page

 

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My Instagram page

 

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Gratitud—the end of the year

It is almost the end of the year, time I get all melancholic and revise my past months and see how little is left for this year to end. Then, What comes next? gets in mind. New ideas, exciting places to shoot and great people to meet… but before I plan my next 12 months, I think is time for a recount.

 

What happened?
This past three years I had learn so many things—starting by practicing gratefulness. And not just thinking about it, but to really feel it and experimenting how life-changing this positive feeling could be.
I once was a really negative person, not negative in being a dark cloud in peoples live but negative towards my own achievements and trusting levels. If something good happened to me, I was getting ready for the disappointment— because in my mind it was too good to be true. There were always something negative to the positive—You graduated from college… But not with an 4.0 gpa or a great school. You have your own place… But in a really bad neighborhood. I always found the way to bit the shit out of my happiness and my little achievements.

 

What did I do?
Everything started to change one night after letting go decades of anger and self hate. That was the night I decided to raise a family and bring a child to the world. But before that, I felt the need of a soul cleanser. First, I needed to ID my feelings and find a way to make peace with myself. Second, to take actions.

Many of this type of problems happens when you are part of a dysfunctional household when you are a kid— and I was not an exception. But it was time for me to put an end to the past and start fresh because I felt I deserved it. So I did it.
Today
That decision taught me so much about feelings and how you can turn you life around by just switching your thoughts and being gratefully positive. Now I see things so much clear and different. I now understand that life is full of problems but is how you approach to the problems that makes the difference. Looking for the positive in any situation instate of the negative bring me more of happiness and better results.

 

Now I let myself be grateful and happy.
I let myself to love more
I let myself to laugh more
I let myself to give thanks more
I let myself to give… but really give more
I let myself to joke more and be less serious
I must of all, I let my self to be who I want to be

Only you can make your own happiness.

Books that can change your life
The Science of Getting Rich
-The Law of Attraction

Gratitud—the end of the year

Contact

Whenever it feels right just give a call and I will be happy to help you with your project.
646-281-1787
Or simple send me an email Hello@gustavourena.com

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