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FAUX-BEAU by Kate Proulx
faux-beau.com/journal
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KATE PROULX is a 23 year old visual designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. When she isn’t designing websites at top digital media firm HUGE, she’s probably giving herself a manicure.
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Fuck the World – An Anti-Valentine’s Day Mixtape

While I love Valentine’s Day, here’s a little something for the haters… F.T.W. – An Anti-Valentine’s Day Mixtape : Tracklist: 1. Bikini Kill – Don’t Need You...

14 feb 12

Be Mine, Valentine – A Valentine’s Day Mixtape

Truth be told, I love Valentine’s Day. Not for the flowers, chocolates, or fancy dinners—but because I have always approached it as a day of being posi and showing the people most important to ...

14 feb 12

HUGE Totes.

The agency where I work, HUGE, is known for having ridiculous and fun tote bags. Up until now they’ve only been available to employees but today you can buy your own HUGE tote for $10 on Fab.com. Asi...

13 feb 12

Earl Kallemeyn

I’ve posted about Earl Kallemeyn long long ago when he was my letterpress teacher… now there’s a video about him on NY Times! Super cool dude, wish I had kept in touch. Related post...

30 jan 12

Kickstart my Heart

I went to a motorcycle show at the Javitz this last weekend. Motorcyclist Magazine’s century retrospective, aptly named “Century of Motorcycling” was super rad… one awesome vintage motorcycle t...

27 jan 12

Professor?

Holy crap, you guys—I have a new feather to put in my cap: college professor. I’m teaching Web Design 1 this semester at Parsons and my first class was this morning. I was feeling pretty Profes...

27 jan 12

Friday the 13th

It’s Friday the 13th! Make some time in your day to get a $13 Friday the 13th tattoo—you won’t get another chance until April. I came into work early and doodled some of my favorite flash ideas...

13 jan 12

Kate Dresses Like: A Boy/Someone Trying to Get Shit Done

I Spent this past Sunday art directing portraits of derby athletes for a freelance gig I’m working on. I jumped in and took some photos before breaking down our makeshift studio. Hat: Used Sock Condo...

11 jan 12

Fotoshop by Adobe

Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo. So, this video by Jesse Rosten is kind of perfect. Thought I’d share. I’ve always been interested in how american media portrays women—Ad age...

11 jan 12

Beautiful & Sunny California

Spending the holidays following Josh’s band cross-country meant I found myself in beautiful & sunny Los Angeles, CA to ring in the new year. I had only been once before and only for a few days, ...

09 jan 12

American Nightmare Reunion Shows in Boston & LA

When we started dating, I knew Josh had been in this hardcore band but I never thought I’d see the day that they’d play again. But they did, and that was how I spent my holiday… and it was awes...

06 jan 12

On Holiday: A Mixtape

For those of you who aren’t yet sick of listening to Christmas music here’s a playlist I made to get into the spirit. I’m hoping it will make the ride home on Metro-North tomorrow a...

22 dec 11

HUGE Holiday

Last week was HUGE’s annual holiday party. We celebrated inside the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower—a gorgeous former bank built in the 1920s. Here’s a few snaps from the photobooth. Related posts:O...

19 dec 11

.22 Caliber

Last week a few of my coworkers from HUGE and I went to the Westside Rifle & Pistol Range to shoot rifes and have some fun. I thought it was going to go the way of motorcycle class (read: I’d ha...

08 dec 11

Brooklyn’s Own Come-Back Kid

So what have I been doing in the the last year and a half or so that I haven’t been posting here? In short; working hard, moving back to New York, and still loving roller derby. Let’s go back, way ba...

05 dec 11

Things to Look at Nov 6-12 2011

7 High-Leverage Life Skills They Should Teach in Grade School was a good read. 1, 4 , and 6 are the ones for me. John Conn’s 80s NYC Subway prints are awesome, and going on the holiday shopping...

11 nov 11

New School Free Press

My alma matter, The New School, wrote a feature on me and my experiences thus-far in derby that came out this week!  It sums up what I’ve been up to in the last six months pretty accurately.  H...

05 may 11

Getting weird in the midwest

Photos by Shelley Mintz Two weeks ago my roommate Shelley and I took a road trip out to Chicago by way of Michigan.  I had been borrowing my brother’s pick-up truck since he moved away for coll...

07 oct 10

I graduated.

A little over a month ago I graduated from Parsons.  My senior thesis project, as it stood in the thesis show, was kind of a failure.  I built the staging for it, and thought I had everything covered...

03 jul 10

Bimbo Slice

So remember at the end of last year when I mentioned I was getting into roller derby?  Well, since then I was inducted into the league, chose my new derby moniker (Bimbo Slice, if you were wondering)...

24 may 10

Recent Work: FRESH MEAT

I recently finished FRESH MEAT, an assignment for Jamie Kosoy’s dynamic interfaces class. We were required to create a data mashup using two separate services, I chose an XML feed, Twitter, and...

06 apr 10

How Do You Get a Nerd To Run?

Why, you tempt them with technology and the promise to see their progress visualized, of course!  Having a little motivation (ie: roller derby) doesn’t hurt either.  You see, I haven’t ev...

04 mar 10

Daily Guilty Pleasure: Roller Derby

So, if you don’t follow me on twitter, or you’re not my friend in real life, you might not know that I recently started getting into roller derby!  It all started when Chino’s old r...

01 dec 09

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