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ight now I’m digging Jessica Hische’s Daily Drop Caps. I can’t believe I’ve never used them before. She’s pretty much my hero.
If you haven’t already, please visit her site, Daily Drop Cap!
Some people were put on this planet to make beautiful typography. Jessica Hische is definitely one of those people.
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C. really likes to make music, and he’s good at it. He’s got all sort of fancy gadgets and speakers and keyboards and programs that he uses to put together some pretty rad beats.
Recently he started a project called Skyscrapers, and has been slowly posting samples on the web (with some encouragement). He doesn’t sing (though he can) or get too poppy (but he could). Mostly just beats… or has he puts it, “dance beat oriented controlled chaos coldwaved sounds.” You know, something to groove to. Work to. Bob your head to. Throw your hands in the air!
Well, Skyscrapers has a website…and C. has a few demo clips to share with the world!
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j
of shutting down (and powering up)
A. For as hard as I’m (trying to) keep up with school, I’m working twice as hard keeping my cool. I really feel like I could perpetually crawl into my bed and eat Oreos, yank every single curl out of my little head, and just sleepandsleepandsleep. Just to keep sane. But there is a world out there that has many curiosities, and fortunately I feel compelled to greet them. You can’t do that in bed.
2. Is it too late to talk about the new year? I never really wrote the obligatory “What I learned in 2010 / What I’m looking forward to in 2011” post. Last year (2010) was better than 2009 in many ways (except 2009 brought my big bad visit to Europe, so that year will always hold my heart very dearly), but 2010 brought the same deal of growth and frustrations. I’m not going to get all sappy and reflect on my achievements and shortcomings, but I do know this much: Life is hard, move on! (Thank you, Alec Greven.) Which means a lot of things:
• Attempting to work out and take care of myself
• QUIT WORRYING. Wow.
• And again: QUIT WORRYING.
• Eating more Oreos
• Family first
• Watch more movies (this has been on my New Years Resolution list since 1999)
• Also, read more books…or read ONE BOOK at least (picture books do not count)
• BECOME PUNCTUAL = Allowing myself time to get places (or, actually arrive EARLY)
• Cooking more! New foods! COOKING NEW FOOD
• LESS STARBUCKS, MORE OTHER THINGS
• LEARN something new = take a dance/yoga class, start sewing and…
• MAKE MORE THINGS. Because Jesus knows, I can.
iii. I don’t write like I used to. I only write poetry when I’m in a poetry class, I only write creative nonfiction when I’m in an English class. Now I’m only in art classes and I forget about writing. I should really start writing more.
D. I eat at weird times. Is it normal to eat dinner at 12:30 a.m.? Or lunch at 4:30 p.m.?
5. I sleep hard. One benefit to being busy all day is I’ve had the best sleep! Nights when I’m not busy, I toss and turn for hours, really. The last week I’ve been sleeping like nobody’s business. Incredible.
…speaking of sleep, my candle is dangerously low…goodnight!
I think I just found my future…and it’s looking frizzy.
(See: Betty White, SNL, May 2010.)
Starbucks has remembered my birthday for the last 3 years. I’m starting to think they’re big-brothering me…
iN dA sTuDiO
My studio space: where I spend a ton of time. A lot of times it acts as a coat rack while I work down in the sculpture studio space (where I can actually get messy), but my space is where a lot of my schtuff sleeps at night and comes alive during the day.
Just to give you an idea of the kind of chaos my life is in right now, here’s the space next to mine:
…and here’s where I occupy:
Finally, a teaser of what I’m working on. This is all you get! (PS, don’t let the cardboard fool you! I promise it won’t be kitschy!)
Back to work with me!
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j
Currently Digging: Cute things from ban.do
I’m a lady. It’s in our contract to like cute, flowery and bright things—which is why I’m in love with ban.do. A lot of the stuff I couldn’t pull off (for example, my hair just couldn’t accommodate many of the flower headpieces) but everything on the site is either A) FUZZY 2) SPARKLY 3) SHINY or D) SOFT. Some things are all four of these things combined (don’t ask how that works)!
WARNING. LADIES. CUTE OVERLOAD.
Shoe clips, oh you fancy!
(My favorite is the rhinestone headband pictured on the bottom right!)
AND THEN there’s ban.do’s “Black Label” hairpieces, which I could neither 1) wear or II) afford but regardless, they’re pretty pretty…
Okay, enough’s enough. I’m about to have a cute seizure.
Movie Spotlight : Little Miss Sunshine
I NEEDED TO LIFT MY SPIRITS last night, so I watched Little Miss Sunshine as I did my homework. Everything about the movie cracks me up, from little Olive’s chunky glasses and carefree spirit, to Dad’s motivational mantras, Grandpa’s wisdom, Uncle Frank’s unstable yet gentle mannerisms, and Dwayne’s silent sarcasm.
My favorite things about the movie:
Olive being Olive.
Dad’s motivations, and despite his book deal totally falling through, still managing to stick it out for the fam.
Dwayne hating everything, but secretly kind of liking everything.
GRANDPA: Giving Dwayne pep talks, teaching Olive to dance, and having Uncle Frank run into the convenience store to buy him adult magazines.
Giving the van a push when it breaks down…then realizing, “Where’s Olive?” Going back to retrieve Olive.
The show going on when Grandpa passes away. Grandpa spending the rest of the movie wrapped in a sheet in the trunk of the VW van.
Dwayne finding his backbone after learning he is colorblind.
Olive doing her thing that Grandpa taught her, even if it gets her kicked out of the Little Miss Sunshine pageant.
And lastly, Olive’s picks…
Go forth and watch a good funny movie. I felt great afterward!
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j
Vivre Sa Vie
This is Anna Karina.
She’s a babe (obviously), an actress and a muse. She made her way to France when she was really young, met the right people who saw her attractiveness with potential, began modeling, changed her name, and began starring in films by some filmmaker by the name of “Jean-Luc Godard” (whom she later married), etc. During the course of her sensational career she married herself off, one or two or four times, which is beside the point. Clearly she’s good looking. Probably charismatic. Got it going on (at least she did when this photo was taken in 1960-something.) Miss Karina is still around now, which means she’s jumped to ‘cougar’ status. Meow.
So why Karina? I rented this “Godard” character’s film, Vivre Sa Vie. It turns out that Karina, Godard’s muse, has the starring role which, from what I’ve learned from reading a review or two (I haven’t actually watched the film yet), her sweet character Nana submits herself to a life of prostitution after a series of downfalls.
Here’s a trailer for the film Vivre Sa Vie (which translates to “live life”).
Now, imagine that my boyfriend revealed today that Karina is his dream woman!
How can I compete with that? She’s a cougar now!
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