I put together this entry nearly a month ago. Oops.
+ Vienna Vegetable Orchestra. The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens.
+ Banksy art. As I was looking through this, it occurred to me that, in my mind at least, his skill as an artist was superceded by his message.
+ Kermit Bale. This made the rounds on the internet a few weeks ago, but it's still gold.
+ Dolphin Rings. I could spend hours watching this. There is just something so delightful about watching dolphins play.
+ The Butterfly Effect. A one-in-a-million close encounter with an insect convinces him that the theory is true: The fluttering of gossamer wings can change the world. This is a charming article (from the Washington Post, so you might have to log in) about a man who finds himself in the company of a red admiral butterfly.
Lastly, I am lightheaded with coughs. This probably won't be funny to anyone but me, but at the local grocery store, they had remedies for various coughs: Chesty Cough, Tickly Cough, and something else that I can't remember. Tickly cough! How accurately worded, how simply put!
Showing posts with label real life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label real life. Show all posts
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
to do
This was going to be a post about how much I hate myself etc, but I'm too tired of rumination to do it. So instead, here's a short term list of things I need to get done. Hopefully by Friday, a lot of these things will be crossed off. Actually, hopefully by Friday, this entry won't exist anymore.
Commissions:
+ finish and send out Lea's (in progress; just need to bake and paint)
+ start Sym's (who knows what's up with this one)
+ start Gina's (finalize reference photo / character)
Miscellaneous art stuff:
+ send out Claire's baby zilla shirt (in progress, will finish in a day or so :D )
+ start 5x7 acrylics series
Real life:
+ pack for London
Commissions:
+ finish and send out Lea's (in progress; just need to bake and paint)
+ start Sym's (who knows what's up with this one)
+ start Gina's (finalize reference photo / character)
Miscellaneous art stuff:
+ send out Claire's baby zilla shirt (in progress, will finish in a day or so :D )
+ start 5x7 acrylics series
Real life:
+ pack for London
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Done at last!
completed and sent off August 9, 2008!
Detail shots:
Elbow tattoo | Drawn on Converses | Cigarette pack
Sketchbook
I hope they get to where they are supposed to go unharmed. *frets*
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
a few not-links
It's been a long week, and I haven't had time to post some stuff that I think is worth noting. But since it's a slow day at lab, I'm going to be lame and just write out some of the more minor things that I don't have the links for right now.
Hopefully some time this weekend I'll have time to write out the more thinky posts that have been creeping their way into my head. There's been so much stuff going on in the media (see also: last week's NYT articles on literacy and the internet and today's magazine preview on troll subculture. Also, the meta-analyses of the media on media representations of Obama and McCain and the control of the political narrative.) that it's been maddening to not have time to sit down and just write it out.
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On Gerard Way:
+ He won an Eisner! For his first comic! I can only imagine how overwhelmingly cool that must be. (Incidentally, at the panel at ComiCon where he spoke with Grant Morrison, he looks remarkably pretty. Not a word I usually use, but strangely apt.)
+ He spoke to Zach Snyder, the director of the upcoming Watchmen movie (!), and My Chemical Romance is going to play a cover of Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row" for the soundtrack. Seriously, when I grow up, I want to one day wake up and have the same, "How is this my life? reaction that I'm sure he's had these past few years.
On Dr Horrible:
+ Joss blogs about Dr. Horrible (with a link to it on Hulu). And by "blogs" I really mean "rambles about it before posting a link to it on Hulu." Kind of odd.
Real life:
+ Last night, while doing my telemarketing thang, I had the pleasure of talking to two fantastic people and one rather unpleasant human being. Of the former, I got to talk to a woman who graduated from Northwestern with a degree in Civil Engineering and who is now starting her college education anew by going to Parsons. She was doing well by all measures in her engineering job, but she felt that she was just not taking full advantage of her life, and so made the leap to graphic design. The other wonderful fellow underwent the most amazing transformation throughout the conversation. At the start, he came across as a slightly sad recent retiree; his old cat had recently died, and now the new kitty is a little too energetic for him. But then we got onto a conversation about where he was from originally, and then onto where he's been since, and by the end of the conversation I was just staggered by how richly he has lived his life. He has been around the world, has seen things that I will most likely never see, and done things that I will likely never have the opportunity to do, and now he is enjoying a quiet life at the end of a street with his ten month old cat. Talking to both of them made me so happy that people are out there, living incredible lives. I hope that, just a few years from now, I can relay the same enthusiasm and opportunity in my own life.
The other person isn't really worth talking about -- I assume she just had a crappy day and a reason for accusing me of things not worth discussing-- but I would like to say that apparently real people don't say the word "genuine" and that my accent is really fake. Who knew?
Hopefully some time this weekend I'll have time to write out the more thinky posts that have been creeping their way into my head. There's been so much stuff going on in the media (see also: last week's NYT articles on literacy and the internet and today's magazine preview on troll subculture. Also, the meta-analyses of the media on media representations of Obama and McCain and the control of the political narrative.) that it's been maddening to not have time to sit down and just write it out.
==
On Gerard Way:
+ He won an Eisner! For his first comic! I can only imagine how overwhelmingly cool that must be. (Incidentally, at the panel at ComiCon where he spoke with Grant Morrison, he looks remarkably pretty. Not a word I usually use, but strangely apt.)
+ He spoke to Zach Snyder, the director of the upcoming Watchmen movie (!), and My Chemical Romance is going to play a cover of Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row" for the soundtrack. Seriously, when I grow up, I want to one day wake up and have the same, "How is this my life? reaction that I'm sure he's had these past few years.
On Dr Horrible:
+ Joss blogs about Dr. Horrible (with a link to it on Hulu). And by "blogs" I really mean "rambles about it before posting a link to it on Hulu." Kind of odd.
Real life:
+ Last night, while doing my telemarketing thang, I had the pleasure of talking to two fantastic people and one rather unpleasant human being. Of the former, I got to talk to a woman who graduated from Northwestern with a degree in Civil Engineering and who is now starting her college education anew by going to Parsons. She was doing well by all measures in her engineering job, but she felt that she was just not taking full advantage of her life, and so made the leap to graphic design. The other wonderful fellow underwent the most amazing transformation throughout the conversation. At the start, he came across as a slightly sad recent retiree; his old cat had recently died, and now the new kitty is a little too energetic for him. But then we got onto a conversation about where he was from originally, and then onto where he's been since, and by the end of the conversation I was just staggered by how richly he has lived his life. He has been around the world, has seen things that I will most likely never see, and done things that I will likely never have the opportunity to do, and now he is enjoying a quiet life at the end of a street with his ten month old cat. Talking to both of them made me so happy that people are out there, living incredible lives. I hope that, just a few years from now, I can relay the same enthusiasm and opportunity in my own life.
The other person isn't really worth talking about -- I assume she just had a crappy day and a reason for accusing me of things not worth discussing-- but I would like to say that apparently real people don't say the word "genuine" and that my accent is really fake. Who knew?
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Things I've learned today
+ When I grow up, I want to be Raymond Kurzweil. Not because I take pride in my ability to predict things or because I want to be wildly successful in all aspects of my life, but because I want my wikipedia article to be half as amazing as his. No, seriously, when I say things like "centuries hence," people give me strange looks, not awards. That should change. [wikipedia, science]
+ Being too fat 'can damage sperm.' (And also, searching for "obese men" on BBC is incredibly depressing.) The article itself is interesting, but what caught my attention was this bit towards the end:
+ Most importantly, this life tip: If you're trying to find a video rental place that you've never been to before, bring directions or a sturdy umbrella. Both would be optimal, but, in case of emergency, that one or the other will improve prospects and morale considerably.
This lesson was learned on an epic quest to get a movie. Ryan and I walked approximately three and a half miles to get to a video store located half a mile away. Three and a half miles in the rain with only a sad, sagging umbrella between us and true misery.
On the plus side, we eventually triumphed and celebrated with an excellent dinner at the inimitable Hamburger Mary's. I'd say lesson learned, but, knowing us, it'll probably happen again at a different stop. Between the two of us, I'd say we have enough character for a third. [real life]
+ Being too fat 'can damage sperm.' (And also, searching for "obese men" on BBC is incredibly depressing.) The article itself is interesting, but what caught my attention was this bit towards the end:
Ouch. [BBC news science]Dr Ian Campbell, chair of the charity Weight Concern, said it was known that overweight people had a tendency to have fewer children.
He said there had been a suspicion that was mainly due to lack of opportunity.
+ Most importantly, this life tip: If you're trying to find a video rental place that you've never been to before, bring directions or a sturdy umbrella. Both would be optimal, but, in case of emergency, that one or the other will improve prospects and morale considerably.
This lesson was learned on an epic quest to get a movie. Ryan and I walked approximately three and a half miles to get to a video store located half a mile away. Three and a half miles in the rain with only a sad, sagging umbrella between us and true misery.
On the plus side, we eventually triumphed and celebrated with an excellent dinner at the inimitable Hamburger Mary's. I'd say lesson learned, but, knowing us, it'll probably happen again at a different stop. Between the two of us, I'd say we have enough character for a third. [real life]
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