Memories: sweet smells

This is the floor of my bedroom, Japanese tatami. It's thick woven straw mats. It's soft, clean and feels good underfoot. In the summer heat it brings back memories of hiding in hay stacks, high in the loft of the horse stable. My family didn't have horses, but all of my neighbors did. I befriended all of my equestrian neighbors unbeknownst to their human owners. I would sneak away for a moment of solace climbing high in the dark of the stable hiding from the cowboys and gnawing on the sweet straws of hay.

Trips: Tokyo Disneyland

God's On Our Side

Doomsday

Sick Days: Weekend #2

When not at work, I spend my days being sick.
I just can't shake this thing. It may be time to go
to the doctor. I am making nice headway in "Crime
and Punishment"

Stealing From Friends: Kyle Mock

Inspired by tiny things and ackwardness. But it's ok to be strange and stuff.
I'm so hungry. Let's eat red meat while you tell me about your travels.
Never met a stiff drink he didn't like.

Pyramid- Triangle- さんかく

"Pyramid in your pants
Know the power of the pharohs (sic)
Flood her nile with your golden rod."

This is, by far, my favorite spam I have ever received.
I knew what it was from the starting gate, the subject
already revealing the promise of a historical erection.

When I was 7 I had a slight learning disability. It was only limited to the multiplication of threes, but still it was an honest mental block. Teaching math is a tricky business, to illustrate 1 apple plus 1 apple is easy. But to explain the value of zero and negative numbers, is an exercise in conceptual faith. In order to drive home the multiples of three's lesson, we made large triangles out of paper and wrote the multiple on each edge. My teacher was a bit dismayed as she came to my desk covered in pentagons. "Where are your triangles?" she asked. "They're all right here, like stop signs right?", I said looking at her like she was a crazy person. She went on to explain that triangles are named as such because they have three angles. Then, I finally understood.
"So, a triangle is like a pyramid", having finally grasping the logic of it's name. "No", she said, "a pyramid is a pyramid, it has a square base." Geometry had not been introduced to my feeble mind at this point and I was blown away, a pyramid is four triangles plus one square, the spatial potential opened up to me no longer was the world flat and 2d, now we had dimension.

My childhood problem came back to me just last week. I was trying to remember the Japanese word for triangle, but kept saying square over and over again until someone corrected me、 さんかく。 "Sankaku" meaning three sides.

Internet Love: doing the best we can

きてくださいー♫

A Shoebox

There are times I want this blog to be nothing but studied photography.
There are times I want this blog to contain itself to one idea, something
artistic and intellectual. And there are times I want to express my self
through boundless essays and I feel guilty for pop culture references
because it makes me seem less serious.

For now, I am just using this as a shoe box to hold all my influences and momentary
obsessions that will hopefully form a pattern later on so I can learn something about
myself.

I mean, come on, it's just a blog.

Smoochems: Marlon Brando

Obession: Lolvant Garde

I'm still a sucker for lol speak and ICHB.
But, this blog mixes the two amazing worlds of
the avant garde with my favorite "impact" typeface
and horibbl spering.
Srsly.

Schmapp East Coast Guide

This photograph I took of my boyfriend at the Enoch Pratt Library has been used for the
Schmapp East Coast Guide. It's an online travel guide for destinations
all over the east coast.

Check it out here*

Shaking in the Dark

Trips: Kameido Hyacinth

*Click photos for larger version.

Obsession: The Queen's English

I was "researching" Kate Bush on accident. I was actually looking for videos of Kate Nash. She was in one of those raising star lists, and I have never heard of her. So, a quick trip to i-tunes brought a happier Lilly Allen type music, from another chubbly English girl. The only thing I like about Lilly Allen's music is hearing her crazy British accent while singing. I love that, she uses crazy words like "fit" for hot, and "mates" instead of homies.

The music is like... cold toast... but that unusual accent and vocabulary is hypnotizing. I find my tongue rolling around in my mouth trying to form those exotic sounds.

I have these vivid memories of my dad singing along to the Rolling Stones, "guuud bai rewby tewsdai". I just imagine more mid-western bikers grooving in bars singing in bad British accents, and it pleases me to no end.

The evolution of the British accent in popular music:

1960'S



1967



1980's



1990'S



2000's



*Hint- Try playing the first and last video together.

Poems on a misplaced post-it

They're designer dolls
- violence
give info
alamode kind of girls.