Flux Creative Marketing. What.

Beauty!

Its love :)

Our Gorgeous Logo!

Its been a heavenly summer.

We love our Job.

Funfun. We are going full force at this point. My sister has been here for around 2 months now and we are still living in a one bedroom apartment with Nate. We have our office set up in the dining room and Jens bedroom set up in the living room. Starving artist for sure.
Things are going well. We have clients, are paying our bills, and may actually make some profit in the coming months. Which would be amazing.
Things have been great with my boy, we took an awesome trip to the coast, starting at Newport and all drove the way to Astoria to go fishing on the ocean. I was not happy about conquering this fear. But it wasnt so bad.

Thats the basic update. Im keeping up on like 10 different networks right now and am hoping to download a blogspot app so that I can start blogging from my phone. I started a tumblr. Somewhere, Im not even sure what the domain is, but Ill link it later.
Pics :)

I was told I need to start blogging again. I agree.

Yes, I agree that I need to start blogging again. Which is important for me to figure out how much Ive progressed and changed and what the hell has been going on in my life during this past year... but when you blog for other people for a living, it can get kind of boring.
Personal Update: Just moved into my new apartment with my boy Nate. My sister is staying with us in a makeshift cubby room in our living room. We are going to be celebrating our 1 year anniversary on the 4th of July, which is weird, because it doesnt seem like a year.

View from my apartment balcony... inspiring!!

Professional Update: I quit Global. Weird things were going on in that place and it seemed to be oozing with bad karma. I didnt want to work with people who dont care about their clients or the quality of their products. I also did not want to work for a person who refused to see how much I was worth as an employee. I started to become bitter and I do not want to be "that bitter employee". Is it weird for you to have ethics if you work in advertising?

Ok so....next update: Jen (my sister) moved out to Oregon for a few months to help me launch Flux Creative Marketing, (still working on a logo) an advertising agency in which we promote the use of rich media (online videos), as well as social media, as a way to reach a new audience for smaller businesses. I also work with my partner Brandon at Focus Marketing
I basically do the same thing with Brandon, its called Search Engine Optimization. We provide networking and support to our clients as well as web design and other features. I also work on a freelance basis with a small company in Salem, doing miscellaneous graphic design and website templates. I am extremely happy right now. Even though Im barely making ends meet. Haha, a starving artist is a true statement at this point.
Im hoping to start updating this blog more often, I also work on a few other blogs as well, that I have been updating more often. They are silly, but I get a lot of response from them. One of the blogs is about my horrible dieting obsession, Im not going to provide the link, because its pretty private. The other blog is about working on the internet and how to make money doing it. Once get the layout finished I will add links to the topics. Basically I needed to start separating my weird obsession with Google news, and my personal blog and artwork. Please checkout my new website.
www.IshbethArt.com It is a work in progress. Though there is some artwork posted on it. I will be photographing some of my new work, as well as posting links to the websites that I am developing. They are really fun and Im happy to get to work with such creative clients. Im also happy to have the internet back again!!

Fun Fun

Random stuff going on. Work is actually going pretty well. Things are going great with Nate. I finally got my own place. Its awesome. I just got a desk. Finally. So the posting should pick back up shortly. I also have purchased my very own website and with the job, I know how to maintain it. So we will see how this blog progresses once the other site is started, because there will be a blog on thats as well.

Ok, welp... later!

New Art...

So, lately I have been spending my time doing the usual....

Hanging out with the boyfriend
Cleaning my apartment, which I am still settling into
Reading about my political party
Keeping up with friends and family from back home
Work work work.
Watching Harry Potter
Sketch Sketch Sketch

But I have also started some random blogging, which I will put you all in touch with soon enough and also have started to do some painting (something I havent done since I moved here over a year ago).

Please excuse the horrible lighting, this was actually taken on my cell phone...

I will be posting more, as if I dont say that every time. As of right now there are a few things on my to do list.... i need to get back into my themed sketching... I have a fun Peter Pan bit that I want to play with and I want to continue with the Little Red Riding Hood theme. I want to get my blogs to be full wordpress ready websites, so they are easy to keep up with, I also want to be able to get my car and everything fixed up!

Agh! Wish me luck.

Update on the Lovely Life of Liz Davis

Well, this is my personal blog and so unfortunately it seems to always be the last one that I update. I am still working with GME, though have found myself at odds with my career as of late. There are a lot of great things going on in Portland and I may even look into traveling to another state. Maybe I am just getting restless? Probably. Haha, Im sure Nate would be annoyed with that one. We are still dating, almost 4 months now, he is a great guy. I miss my family and am finally moved into the Hawthorne apartment. Things are going well over all. I still need to catch up on quite a few bills and am reworking a few other things in my life right now.... Agh! I am startig a new wordpress blog, specifically for my professional work, so expect updates on that soon.

Google Stuff....

So lots is going on in Google, as usual. Its kind of funny to me how much I dont really care to pay attention to all of these changes, but working here I really cant help it.

Here are a few interesting articles and blogs about recent activities.

Google China looses one of its main men.

Gmail went out for quite a while the other day, causing headaches to people all over the internet.

This is a great rebuttle on an article posted on The Onion, regarding a fake account of Neil Armstrong claiming that the moon landing was faked.
Turns out that a newspaper from India actually printed the article, not realizing that it was a fake article. This was hilarious because I actually read the article yesterday and was completely confused by it, I cant believe that this newspaper would print something so absurd without checking into it.

All geeks should find this interesting, or at least hilarious.

LARPS have made it into the nightclub industry.

Having fun with my new favorite site
www.PopURLS.com
Lots of fun information in content, video, and photo form. This site has a great little hub started compiling of the interesting articles and posts from all of the other interesting sites. Wow... what an idea... its a website featuring other websites?! How novel... because you know that they are making bank off of it. They dont even really have much to do... I mean sure they could do reviews and articles about the top new, which is already being posted 40 milliong other times, so why not just point everyone in the direction of those other articles and make money in the mean time.
Considering starting one of those "free vector art" sites..., kind of along the same deal as brusheezy, vecteezy, or vectorjungle.
I mean, between the 3-4 of us, and adding some extra adspace, we should be able to turn all of our blogging into some actual cash... we could set up a donate page and seek out advertisers...
Its a thought, I mean heck, with everyone else making tons of money doing iphone apps and other ridiculous websites... I think that the vector design is the best route. We would actually be able to provide our own artwork on there as well, gaining exposure personally as well as using the basic vector packs that are already on all of the other pages.
Just a thought.