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Thursday, December 22, 2011
y u no put a ring on it
I don't always post on my blog, but when I do, its a nerdy proposal that made me waterfall.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
red nights
creative summer
So I took some survey about my creativity and I guess it's pretty accurate.
"Creativity gives you insight
You feel that creativity provides insight into your own being. In fact, it is like therapy for you, enabling you to get to know yourself better. You seem to be looking for a way into the mysteries of the subconscious. It’s not really self-expression you are seeking, but rather the tools of self-expression: discovering what your creation will reveal about yourself. Art helps you reflect on, analyse and expand your personality. You long to be creative, and it’s not just because you need to deal with your emotions. It’s the tension between contradictions, and the need to resolve doubt that drives you to be creative. Painting pictures, decorating rooms, arranging shells in the sand — these are all creative processes that allow your introspection to roam. You can trace your life through the different ways you have exercised your creativity. For you, art is there to make sense of life. You are more attracted to artistic activities that demand reflection, planning and solitude, and the personal discoveries you make often provide answers for others, too."
I'm planning to make a little zine that involves my journal entries during a time period of my life when I suffered major anxiety problems. T'will be interesting. I decided to do it after I wrote a new entry and went back to reflect and analyze (oh hey thats what my results said I do!) and it definitely helped me understand... everything on my life a little more.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
summertime
it's been a weird summer.
but when is it not.
every year, i have this mental cycle of needing to cleanse and reinvent myself into whatever is it i may want to be or do with my life. it's always so frustrating. because i never know what exactly that is. i feel like, if it wasn't for school, i would probably constantly question my motivates and actions all the time. i feel like the only reason it's been summers is because i'm too distracted during the school year for my mind to venture into those seductive thoughts of what my purpose in life is. what life is period.
i'm scared.
meanwhile
summer plans:
-sell off vintage clothing on etsy
-make prints and sell on etsy
-draw comics
-start zine
-watercolor
-clean out clothes
-clean out room
-clean out life
-clean out soul
busy busy.
let me come home
something about this song fills a void inside me.
which is strange because it just kind of reminds me that I have a void there in the first place.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
skewed dolphins
Ok.
I have to get this off my chest. The Cove was a skewed documentary.
I wanted to love it, I really did, but I just couldn't.
Reasons:
-unnecessary clips of funny and stupid looking facial expressions of fishermen
-Japanese man can only say two words (LETS MAKE FUN OF HIM FOR HIS LACK OF ENGLISH HA HA)
-interviewer asked loaded questions (I can't remember specifies but I assure you, they are logically fallacious)
-after being asked a loaded question, Japanese man stutters. This REALLY ticked me off. He probably doesn't know how to explain in English, not because he doesn't know how to answer. Why couldn't they just hire a translator instead? If he didn't have to struggle finding the right words in English, it would have completely changed the whole tone of the movie.
-comical sound bites during clips with fishermen and administrators
-lack of evidence AGAINST killing dolphins as pest control (not saying it's true but I'd rather see some numbers instead of hearing the white guy say, "Are you serious? PEST CONTROL? Come on!")
-demonizing the fishermen huddled around smoking and laughing like a mafia (they were probably on a lunch break; unnecessary footage)
-distracting lack of evidence with emotional images and music
-dolphins are smart and have feelings too, that is why this superior animal shouldn't be treated the way we treat all the other animals (aka kill, eat, shoot for fun)
-Seems to show how Japanese are heartless drones, highly doubt there isn't a group of active animal lovers there. (No animal activist groups here because they don't want to stand out, that's why we Americans are here to expose it for them. WE JUST WANT TO HELP)
-"poor japanese people don't even know what their country is doing to them we must save them and open their eyes for them because we are better". I don't know, that's kind of the hero message I was getting anyways.
So what about the way we murder our cows and piggies? The way we house our chickens that they can't walk? The way our meat gets e coli and our FDA has nearly no control over it? What exactly gives us the authority to say the way we kill animals is right and what they're doing to dolphins is wrong? There was a point made in the movie about Westerners telling other people what to do, and Japanese resisting. Frankly, I don't see why they wouldn't. Would we allow Japanese people illegally planting cameras in our meat industry and listen to them telling us we are murderers? I highly doubt that.
I haven't seen the other documentaries that were nominated for the Oscars, but I personally felt like it could have gone to something better. Maybe The Cove won because it makes the academy feel good about how white people are saving the day. I would love for the Japanese to do a documentary on American's deer hunting for fun and hanging up antlers as trophies in the living room. It would be called "Americans Slaughters Bambi, Japanese Breaks into Forest to Film the Murders".
On the other end, I did think it was a good documentary, didn't love it but I didn't hate it. There was a heartful message but I just didn't think it was portrayed in the best or fair way. I could go on about how it is great (such as promoting awareness to being proactive) but there's plenty of that out there. I only decided to voice my opinion about the downfall of the documentary when I tried to look for some on the internet and had no luck. So there's my opinion and procrastination from my studies. Back to my term paper I go.
I have to get this off my chest. The Cove was a skewed documentary.
I wanted to love it, I really did, but I just couldn't.
Reasons:
-unnecessary clips of funny and stupid looking facial expressions of fishermen
-Japanese man can only say two words (LETS MAKE FUN OF HIM FOR HIS LACK OF ENGLISH HA HA)
-interviewer asked loaded questions (I can't remember specifies but I assure you, they are logically fallacious)
-after being asked a loaded question, Japanese man stutters. This REALLY ticked me off. He probably doesn't know how to explain in English, not because he doesn't know how to answer. Why couldn't they just hire a translator instead? If he didn't have to struggle finding the right words in English, it would have completely changed the whole tone of the movie.
-comical sound bites during clips with fishermen and administrators
-lack of evidence AGAINST killing dolphins as pest control (not saying it's true but I'd rather see some numbers instead of hearing the white guy say, "Are you serious? PEST CONTROL? Come on!")
-demonizing the fishermen huddled around smoking and laughing like a mafia (they were probably on a lunch break; unnecessary footage)
-distracting lack of evidence with emotional images and music
-dolphins are smart and have feelings too, that is why this superior animal shouldn't be treated the way we treat all the other animals (aka kill, eat, shoot for fun)
-Seems to show how Japanese are heartless drones, highly doubt there isn't a group of active animal lovers there. (No animal activist groups here because they don't want to stand out, that's why we Americans are here to expose it for them. WE JUST WANT TO HELP)
-"poor japanese people don't even know what their country is doing to them we must save them and open their eyes for them because we are better". I don't know, that's kind of the hero message I was getting anyways.
So what about the way we murder our cows and piggies? The way we house our chickens that they can't walk? The way our meat gets e coli and our FDA has nearly no control over it? What exactly gives us the authority to say the way we kill animals is right and what they're doing to dolphins is wrong? There was a point made in the movie about Westerners telling other people what to do, and Japanese resisting. Frankly, I don't see why they wouldn't. Would we allow Japanese people illegally planting cameras in our meat industry and listen to them telling us we are murderers? I highly doubt that.
I haven't seen the other documentaries that were nominated for the Oscars, but I personally felt like it could have gone to something better. Maybe The Cove won because it makes the academy feel good about how white people are saving the day. I would love for the Japanese to do a documentary on American's deer hunting for fun and hanging up antlers as trophies in the living room. It would be called "Americans Slaughters Bambi, Japanese Breaks into Forest to Film the Murders".
On the other end, I did think it was a good documentary, didn't love it but I didn't hate it. There was a heartful message but I just didn't think it was portrayed in the best or fair way. I could go on about how it is great (such as promoting awareness to being proactive) but there's plenty of that out there. I only decided to voice my opinion about the downfall of the documentary when I tried to look for some on the internet and had no luck. So there's my opinion and procrastination from my studies. Back to my term paper I go.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
hell week
I wish I had the energy to update about all the nifty things I've been up to but I don't.It's last week before finals and ...yeah. That should speak for itself.
MEANWHILE.
I want to collect everything this man creates. Mainly, comics. By the way, that man is Nate Powell, the creator of some beautifully raw graphic novels.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
message to my friends
One of California's favorite cult classic of the spunky punk rock band, Alkaline Trio is back in our neighborhood. Although our musicians have experimented and drifted away from their roots in the past few albums, to a taste of music we no longer are familiar with, this is not the reason we are going to see them.
Hollywood Palladium
Three hours later with eyes pinned open, bruised and shaken, drenched in sweat from tip of my bangs to my converse shoelaces, ears ringing from the scream along lyrics, I finally reunited with the strangers I had arrived to the show with. We met with our smiles breathing heavily, and pulled our tired arms around each other. And we sung. Just in time for the last song... "shaking... like a dog shitting razor blades."
In October 2003, I met the friends I would have forever.
Sitting on the grass after school by faculty parking, swaying to Hakon's acoustic guitar as he sings, "maybe I... just set aside... the fact that you were broken hearted... in my own special selfish way".
Analyzing what bathroom surgeries mean and it clicking together when Becka points out "I've never met arms like yours". AIM away messages that read "forgot you've got so far to go" as I questioned the meaning of my high school relationship. Getting drunk at David's house and singing along to Maybe I'll Catch Fire as Becka's tears begin to fall and hugging me as if I was slipping away. Scribbling the words "I hope the suns out in New York, I hope he bought you roses..." in my calculus book on Valentine's Day. Making our usual circle outside of Universal CityWalk as Johnny took out his guitar and showed us how he learned to play "If You Had a Bad Time", and we all sung along and told each other, "Let's not slip away after we graduate."
Alkaline Trio did not just bond our friendship, but created it. With a melody that traveled in a guitar bag filled with beer, their raw songs of emotions followed us through our reckless and epic youth. Everytime my ipod randomly shuffles to their song, my heart sinks me into days of long free lunches, random love notes, drunken school activities, walking everywhere under the blazing sun, and simple days that felt so hard because my crush noticed someone else. Alkaline Trio is a bookmark into my life that holds some of the most amazing friends I'll ever had.
Glasshouse
We are going to see Alkaline Trio because this facebook event would have never existed without them.
Cheers.
Hollywood Palladium
Three hours later with eyes pinned open, bruised and shaken, drenched in sweat from tip of my bangs to my converse shoelaces, ears ringing from the scream along lyrics, I finally reunited with the strangers I had arrived to the show with. We met with our smiles breathing heavily, and pulled our tired arms around each other. And we sung. Just in time for the last song... "shaking... like a dog shitting razor blades."
In October 2003, I met the friends I would have forever.
Sitting on the grass after school by faculty parking, swaying to Hakon's acoustic guitar as he sings, "maybe I... just set aside... the fact that you were broken hearted... in my own special selfish way".
Analyzing what bathroom surgeries mean and it clicking together when Becka points out "I've never met arms like yours". AIM away messages that read "forgot you've got so far to go" as I questioned the meaning of my high school relationship. Getting drunk at David's house and singing along to Maybe I'll Catch Fire as Becka's tears begin to fall and hugging me as if I was slipping away. Scribbling the words "I hope the suns out in New York, I hope he bought you roses..." in my calculus book on Valentine's Day. Making our usual circle outside of Universal CityWalk as Johnny took out his guitar and showed us how he learned to play "If You Had a Bad Time", and we all sung along and told each other, "Let's not slip away after we graduate."
Alkaline Trio did not just bond our friendship, but created it. With a melody that traveled in a guitar bag filled with beer, their raw songs of emotions followed us through our reckless and epic youth. Everytime my ipod randomly shuffles to their song, my heart sinks me into days of long free lunches, random love notes, drunken school activities, walking everywhere under the blazing sun, and simple days that felt so hard because my crush noticed someone else. Alkaline Trio is a bookmark into my life that holds some of the most amazing friends I'll ever had.
Glasshouse
We are going to see Alkaline Trio because this facebook event would have never existed without them.
Cheers.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
zombies
Night of the Comet by John Pham; my favorite piece from the Zombies in Love show at Gallery Nucleus. It might have been the bright neon colors that made this stand out among the crowd of dark and bloody zombies, but regardless, I really love it. On my search of his work, I discovered he is a graphic novelist. I remember skimming through Sublife while I was in Comic Con 2009, but by then I had run out of money from buying a ridiculous amount of other things. Reminds me a bit of Chris Ware, whom I love, so I'll have to put this on my to read list.Sigh.
I need to start saving like... NOW for this year's Comic Con.
My credit is afraid.
[photo via G.Nucleus]
Friday, January 29, 2010
overwhelmed
Bye bye snow.There is a pile of to-do lists located in varies places such as my purse, desk, calendar, email, palm of right hand, so on. I'm so overwhelmed with the amount of stuff I want to get done that I just end up doing nothing instead. Story of my life.
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