My father, my brother, my friend

There is no easy way to say write this. After fighting Lung Cancer for over 6 months, my Father, my Brother, my Friend, passed away at the age of 59.

I haven’t shared the fact that we as a family were struggling with this earlier because I wanted to focus exclusively on giving him all the care and the attention he deserved, which is why everything else in my life had to be “paused”.

I know a lot of you didn’t had the chance to know my Dad, and frankly trying to fit him into any type of description would be as unfair as trying to paint a rainbow with only one crayon. Nevertheless, I would like to give it a try.

Many people come and go from this world without leaving any trace. They are the ones who save money and plan. The lukewarm man next to you in line who is simply waiting for you to step forward when requested. Not my Dad. He was something else.

At the service a lady who my dad went to school with came and said to me: “Your dad was the worse student I ever met, but he also was best buddy I ever had”

He taught me what heroes are made of. How to go in and do what you have to do even when you’re alone, scared and in pain.

As I sat next to his bed through the painful stages of this stupid disease, I saw an amazing human being teaching me how precious life is. I didn’t saw a pale, bald, slow man before me. I saw a father, a brother, a friend. The person who once taught me to always do sober, what you said you’d do drunk.

Thank you for everything Dad, thank you for making me the father, the brother and the friend I am today and most importantly, for giving me a lifetime of teachings to pass to your grandson.

UPDATE: I received this email this morning and I thought it would be nice to share it with you.

I love Vimeo, what can I say.

Amazing typography work from nkeppol. What are you still doing here? Go check his portfolio!

I just FFFOUND this and made me laugh. Sometimes it’s the simplest things that makes you laugh. Check out Alex’s blog for more funny illustrations.

(via @hec_d75)

I’m very very proud to present to you my first born child: Biel Andreu was born on a beautiful Saturday morning 14th March 2009 at 7:01am. He weighed 7 lbs and was 19.29 inches long at birth.

Being present at the time he was born was…  an undescriptible experience. Seriously, you can read about it, you can watch Nine Months several times, you can even ask your brothers and friends, but even all those things together will only give you a tiny little glimpse of the real deal.

Gabriele is doing great. I really think it has something to do with her german genes or something - even doctors are amazed at how quick she’s recovering. Me? I’m tired but incredibly happy. We just got the word we’ll be going home Tuesday 10pm. Can’t wait to take Biel home and show him the room we have ready for him.

At last the “sweet wait” is over and the day finally arrived. The Diaper Invasion Tour (insert guitar riff here) is kicking off this Saturday at around 9AM. Doctor says my little boy is probably doing wardrobe tests and some last minute rehearsals as I’m writing this. We couldn’t be more excited about the Tour and I’m pretty sure Biel is more than ready to finish his 9 months journey and eagerly jump into “the next level”, only this time, G and I will be there next to him holding his hand. In other news, I thought it would be fun to commemorate this incredible moment in my life with a Gig Poster just for kicks.

As for work, starting tomorrow I’m going to take some time off and in the next couple months I will be working as effectively as possible (most of the time from the home), focusing only on key process of each project and eliminating distractions as much as I can in order to secure the necessary time my family deserves — BUT I will certainly find the time to tweet/share with you the joys of parenting, oh and yes, the effects of sleep depravation.

My old man asked me to work on a logo for his business. I’m a big fan of isometric shapes so I couldn’t pass the chance to play with the “T” and this is the result. Giving the “T” the earthy look took a bit of work but I’m very pleased with the result.

Flickermood 2.0 from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.

If there was such thing as a Porn movie made with Helvetica characters instead of actors AND some great drum and bass background music, this would be IT. A MUST see, specially the HD Version on Vimeo on fullscreen. Enjoy.

I’m having a hard time trying to find the right placement for them. Ever since I started using dual displays I’ve always positioned the secondary display (in this case, the MBP) to the left of my main display, but it turns out, the placement of the CD/DVD Drive on the MacBook Pro (to the right side of the unibody) makes it very hard to insert and remove discs when placed to the left of the Cinema Display. No wonder Apple kindly hints the MacBook Pro should be placed to the right of your main display, but then again, as I just found out, what do you do with your mouse? Taking from Apple suggestion, I guess all I have to do now is start using the mouse with my left hand :)

Now, I would’ve shown you more images of the unpacking and stuff, but Martin erased them all along with some other pics I took recently. Just another reason why you shouldn’t co-own a camera. FAIL.