my favorite superbowl ad

The Google one too, but why does Google even need to advertise? It was really good, but I don't really get why people cried during the ad.



I will watch your vampire TV shows with you.

j dawg's first j dawg

THIS.

It's 11 am, and I don't have work today, so I've already crossed ten things off my to-do list (I only make these lists on Fridays that I don't have work and some Saturdays). I added "shower" to that list so that I could cross it off, which leaves me with thirteen.

Oops, fourteen. I forgot about Vampire Diaries.

Productivity.

Rebekah is moving to D.C. today. Sad. I liked having her as my roommate.

reminds me of my juneau

I still miss him.

photo from here

urban dictionary: word of the day

Vaguebooking: An intentionally vague Facebook status update, that prompts friends to ask what's going on, or is possibly a cry for help.

Mary is: wondering if it is all worth it
Mark is: thinking that was a bad idea

Example:
Have you talked to Mark? He's vaguebooking again. I wonder if he's back with Mary...

Opposite:
Tammy is: in line at the grocery store

guide to avoiding camera loss

I want to share this, because it is funny and awesome.

I really need to create my own, since one time I lost my camera after getting lost in Rockefeller State Park with Christina and Matt. As Andrew supposes, I did leave my dear camera on the train—the Metro North train—and was furious about it for a couple of days. I wish I would have had a series of photos like this on my camera at the time, but perhaps I didn't really need them since the camera turned up in the lost and found at Penn Station anyway. But it wouldn't have hurt.

I dropped the camera and broke it a week later.

Click here to see the rest of Andrew McDonald's pictorial guide.

my sundance: a review

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. The first half of this movie was the favorite of all the films I saw. I was impressed and inspired. I was ready to get out and make something happen in this world. As the documentary went on the inspiration sort of faded. The film was too long, and I didn't like the feeling of the entire second half. But again, the first half was really fantastic.

Night Catches Us. It was a beautiful seventies period piece set in Philadelphia. I liked it. The best part for me was the main actress, Kerry Washington. She was beautiful and charismatic. I think that the movie was trying to show us that violence isn't the answer, that the Black Panthers stood for more than that, but I was unsatisfied with the ending.

Holy Rollers. I loved getting an inside view of the Hasidic Jew families and community of Williamsburg. I've always been fascinated by that group of people. The story was a little too much for me at times, but I felt like I could really relate to having a strict moral code and religion and then being put in situations that were quite uncomfortable and made one question their way of living.

Skateland. I guess I didn't read the description thoroughly, because I went in thinking that this film was about skateboarding rather than the name of a local roller rink. Although this story was the most cliché of them all, it was the only one that kept me into it enough and was short enough that I didn't check what time it was. Dialogue wasn't great.

Homewrecker. For some reason I thought I was seeing an entirely different movie for Best of the Fest, so it took me a while to switch gears. One of the main characters was in her own world and extremely annoying, but she was still sort of likable. I liked the dynamics between Mike and Charles, but all in all I wasn't a fan of this film.

i'm only here to fall apart

I both love and hate when I am so partial to a particular part of a song that I am unsatisfied
listening to the other portions of the song and have to skip ahead to the parts that I love.

and it all comes down to composure that's been lost
when it all comes down to composure that's been lost

-Carissa's Wierd, You Should Be Hated Here

photo from here

letterpress love

Josh and I took a letterpress workshop at Sycamore Street Press in Heber on Saturday. Now I know all about letterpress. Well, not really, but it was quite fun, and it did reaffirm my desires to start my own biz in something or other someday.

ice castles in midway

They wanted me to pay to see exactly what I could already see from the parking lot of the Zermatt resort, so I took pics from the car. One benefit of paying to see what I could already see would have been that I could have ice-climbed my way to the top of one of those castles for an epic photo.

Like a miniature version of the Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in China? Maybe? Maybe? Yeah, no. Someday I'll see that ice festival in real life.

all day on repeat

Christina and I started a project a few weeks ago. It goes like this:

One part elementary art project, one part experimentation, and one part exploration equals a weekly creative project with a new object every week. Sometimes all we lack is a little push and a deadline.

What happens when Becca and Christina each go crazy with a ________?

Results later this week.

Week 1: Green Marker

Christina

Becca

Week 2: Rooster

Christina

A Sriracha sauce (aka rooster sauce) rooster. Cooked on a flatbed scanner.


Becca

Week 3: Icon

Christina

Becca

viva la

Due to purchases at my Christmas ward service auction, here are some collages I made for Brandon.

treehouse point

I feel all refreshed because of the refreshedness of my blog design.

Right now I'd like go to Washington to live among trees for a while. Like an Ewok. kthxbye.

Treehouse Point

time to join the masses

I guess I'm going to have to find a copy of The Hunger Games to borrow.

currently obsessed with looking at

Bakerella, you are KILLLLING me.

at sea

Last week I was able to spend some time with an X-Acto and some foam core cutting out a giant circle to be a placeholder for something that was going to be filmed that day. I like using X-Acto knives. They make me nostalgic for all of the times I had to mount and cut out all of my projects back in school.


(Yes, that is a floor mat that I'm using as my cutting mat.)

That day, the leftovers became a porthole. Today, my paper bird silhouettes rounded out the experience. (Pay no attention to the gross, foggy mountains, for we are now at sea!)

a cool animation

Something else that came out of cleaning through my starred items in Google Reader is this animation by Benjamin Ducroz. It's amazing, especially when you look at the following photo and realize the process that went into making the project.

PRESS + from benjamin ducroz on Vimeo.

saying what we mean

I was going through my starred items in Google Reader and came across this article in the New York Times that I'd been meaning to read but had forgotten about. This quote stuck with me:

In my writing class, I teach my students about subtext. I tell them people alter their conversations depending on whom they wish to address. I tell them people rarely say what they mean, that we are constantly revising our words, that the movement from thought to word is often transformative and strange.

It is true. And it is strange. Why do we do it? I will always prefer to say what I mean.


ALSO, this is so cool and pretty! Thanks, Christina.

ninjas

I'm Zukumimika.

From here. I tried to trace the links and reblogs back through Tumblr, and this is as far as I got.

in celebration of

I am continually intrigued by graffiti, by street art, by things of this nature.

I plan, someday, to participate.

Like me, this site also celebrates street art.