Creepy? Endearing? Endearingly Creepy?

FREE RICE

a vocabulary recognition game(ok) that donates 10 grains of rice to third world countries everytime you get a word right (awesome). the only one that loses is my laundry, exams, and anything else i should be doing while i continue to improve my verbal prowess!

top 5 websites/blogs as of late:
05 skull-a-day
04 glassbooth
03 book by its cover
02 design observer
01 igoogle

why igoogle? because i just discovered it, and its everything i ever wanted from a search engine PLUS novelty graphics that clutter the space/make it so dang endearing.

effective marketing? or future installation?

bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com

i'll be occupied for days!

i dislike street art. for many reasons. I love the ny splasher! for many reasons. if whoevertheyare ever becomes un-nameless I'd be the first to give them a metal.
read on for an absurd quote by shepard fairey(obey).

+marginal revolution: blog by smart economists
+tea sketches: soak a teabag, slap it down on a piece of paper, and make a picture out of it.
+leonard cohen, the new spoon album, and the new tegan and sara
-commuting

as long time lover of plaid i could spend all day on this thing: tartan maker
make your own plaid backgrounds, any color! any size stripes!

gawker is ranking the most annoying liberal arts colleges in america! and i think its hilarious

BACK from the Gulf of Mexico.
tanner, less tired, happy to be back
-work tomorrow
+istanbul
+morocco
+wanting to travel more
-no money
+ up and down with the rollingstones by tony sanchez
-6'30 wakeup

I don't know how I feel about this...but I certainly don't hate it.

Chinese prision inmates performing their rendition of Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

via gawker

life today:
cleaning/packing
this jose gonzalez video:

discovering ted.com-- a talk on soft.ware.

+propaganda posters from the mao regime.
maopost.com

okapistudio.com

-if i dont go to the beach soon i'm gonna die.
-someone go hiking with me too.
+good mexican food last night
+friends with porches.
ok.
however, the most important objective right now: i need a sandwich.

photopost

summer

+fireworks/bonfires/ice cream/hiking/cold tea
+reworking little red riding hood into modern graphic elements
+reading WHY WE CAN'T WAIT by MLKjr
+libraries! (the underused resource of america!)
+thinking of songs as landscapes (seriously, try and picture your favorite song as a place not a transient sound)
+new ryan adams, new tegan and sarah coming
-not getting enough sleep
-not finding any new music terribly exciting
-being disenchanted by NYNY

lately i've been interested in:
-spray painting things gold (anything, including my wallet)
-making dresses (mostly modifying old ones)
-democratic socialism
-ny public digital image library
-edward tufte
-going to glasgow, scotland (studying there in spr08)

classes/internship/breathing getting in the way of posting
mostly just slacking/forgetting this thing

things i've been interested in lately:
-photolog about what families from different countries eat in a normal week:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373755,00.html
-seeing the Richard Sera retrospective(Whitney) & the exhibition about design for third world countries(Cooper-Hewitt)
-reading the Communist Manifesto

all winter i shit-talk wilco, only to rediscover them in the nice weather, because they're just perfectly boring for a lazy summer

I know this is a common artist/creator thing, butI get so dang pissed off when I see that someone has done something similiar to what I did previously(and did not know had been done)
EXAMPLE: Ruler bracelets. I've been making these things out of compasses and various other rulers for a while, and I found almost the same thing on the site Cutout and Keep. With the exception that I risk my lunglife and melt the plastic in the oven.
ANYWAY, heres their version:


http://cutoutandkeep.net/projects/ruler_cuff/

www.TheStatus.com

Does anyone else think this is the creepiest thing on the internet?

Family members can make posts about their loved one's condition while in the hospital.
Also, people can comment on their predicament. So weird. It's the pinacle of the internet disguised as an intimate medium, while being wholely public.

started a new internship today. media design. adequately fun, with enough parts learning. teaching myself html again.
haven't found anything new, so figured i would post OLD STANDBYs:

#1. built by wendy is a long running favorite of mine (and others i'm sure). but woe is the life of a student, and i'll stick to thriftstore shopping and garage sailing.

builtbywendy.com

#2. hope gangloff, illustrator

this girl kills it with pen and ink!
hopegangloff.com

#3. ok, so let it be known i saw wolf parade this time last year, and they really were tight. and enthusiastic. and they had windchimes. and spencer krug was 3 feet from me, wailing on his keyboard. anyone who is passionate is a favorite of mine. and spencer krug was not immune from this. it doesnt hurt that hes cute.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Krug

would i want to stay here for a week? i don't know. but i would certainly stay over, especially because of its "pay as you wish" policy, where you pay what you can.

www.dasparkhotel.net

love of ted leo

ted leo and the pharmacists at webster hall last night. so fucking good. he segwayed from "little dawn" right into "one more time" by daft punk
and as if i needed more reason to love him (even after his shout out to his mom at the show) my friend sent me this:

greetings from the information super highway

STATEMENT: too many things i find on the interwebs/life/literature from day to day for me to remember it all. so here is what i can remember, when i remind myself to write on here.
DISCLAIMER: i like the idea of the internet as something that is perceived as intimate, however is extremely public. i will do my best to balance this in a way that makes me feel comfortable. or maybe i'll challenge it? i don't know. i'm just saying.
THOUGHT: when did the internet become such a relivant thing? i know it was over time, but at one point people took this powerful tool with a grain of salt. now--(for some) its life.
MYSELF: a current graphic design student at mason gross school of the arts, rutgers university. a love of knitting, sewing, design, sustainability, making art, reading(currently: the lives of lee miller), city planning, maps, running, bikerides. a respect for music, music makers, film makers, vegans, physicists, the passionate, general smartasses.