Posts from — April 2010

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This is how I feel right now. Blurry. Vacuous. Scratched out.

It’s the last week of classes. I’ve been writing papers every afternoon and night, and preparing notes for my final exams. This happens every last week— it’s crunch time.

You know what crunch time deserves? Awesome youtube videos!

This is a great cover of an already awesome song. So much soul!

And this will definitely make you dance.

Okay, I think I’ll go lay face down on the grass now.

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acrylic on bristol

Cruising is a little painting I spun out at a painting marathon in my friend’s apartment. She’s the happiest whale I’ve ever known, and was created in record time, too. I’ve been very interested in texture and patterning, and my usual dots & swirls combo showed in full force this time around. I used almost all remaining paints I had, which gave me a very strange but satisfying palette to work with. Inspired by my general fascination with whales, and a very vibrant color selection. It reminds me of an illustration out of some slightly psychedelic children’s book.

{ taken on my second cousin’s farm }

Take a look at this guy. He’s one happy goat.

I don’t normally anthropomorphize,

(a lie, I totally do)

His smile reminds me of the morning.

It’s time for the Sunday special— The Love List. It’s a collection of the things I’m totally loving this past week. And, of course, you can get in on it too. What have you been loving this week? Leave the good stuff in the comments.

1. Fleet Foxes — Headhunter Dupstep remix. It’s beautiful and hypnotic.

Going barefoot, I realized, is a perfect metaphor for my philosophy of life: the barefoot philosophy.

When you go barefoot, you become naked, you simplify, you become a minimalist.

It’s a hard philosophy to explain, because others often judge it as weird, hippy-like (as if that’s bad), unpractical. It’s very practical, and while it may indeed be weird, it’s also beautiful.

It’s the simple life, in a nutshell.

Appleseeds is the name for my little iPhone photograph collection. For the times when I don’t have a camera on my person (there aren’t many of those), I know I can depend on my little iPhone to record the moment. Here’s a little collection of recent appleseeds I’ve taken and processed with the super cool Camerabag application for iPhone.

the campus: University of Miami

I found a tiny action scene taking place on the IM fields.

sometimes I like to build forts.

the haiti elephant: painted sculpture, contributed to Haiti benefit art auction

resting on campus

I’ve resorted to iPhone photography, and I’m almost positive this is because I haven’t yet backed up my thousand plus photos from England, and so they sit on Dean’s memory card, keeping me from snapping off new digital photos to my heart’s content. Think I’ll have to finally get around to that today.

It’s sneak peak time.

I wonder what the contents of my handbag say about me. The contents of a person’s handbag can be quite fascinating, once you ask yourself this: what makes these items so important that me must carry them with us? I try to travel light whenever possible, usually because I’m toting at least one camera on my person at all times.

1. fresh polaroid, taken on the university green.
2. super beautiful taxi wallet, made by vera.
3. metal bird sculpture keychain, crafted by my lovely metal sculptor friend Yael Brisker.
4. super fly sunnies, found at haight/ashbury in San Francisco last spring.
5. yeah, I’ve got an iphone. I know.
6. candy cane parcel string. not quite sure how long it’s been in my bag, or how it got there.
7. spare change. because you never know.
8. burt’s beeswax lip balm. because I am addicted.
9. nail polish in “blu”. funky & bold nail polish colors are my favorite.
10. it’s more ON my bag than in it, but I just have to mention my adorable barn owl pin, which I received at the Holkhom nature reserve in Norfolk, UK, courtesy of RSPB: a million voices for nature.

And since we’re already sneaking a peek, I figured I might as well throw in a polaroid of what’s on my bed. Living in a dorm room means that your bed becomes so much more than a bed. It’s also my couch, library lounge, laundry shelf, and home office.

yes, those headphones rock. SO HARD.

I guess it’s easy to have a home office on your bed when you require few things: laptop, music, backpack full of observation notebooks and “homework”.