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I always imagine myself writing an eloquent, witty, riveting blog post and then later find myself staring at the text box wondering what the eloquent, witty, riveting post actually contained when I imagined it.

Um, here.


July 2008: Pikachu is confused about why he was drawn in the first place.


So I plan on turning this blog into a portfolio of sorts which will complement my website that I still have not made! Sweet. At least I know what it's going to look like!

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YAY SNOW!!!

Push yourself to the limit as often as possible.

So last Wednesday, I saw a documentary film on the font Helvetica. It was good. Although I think the only reason I liked it is because I am interested in typography and design. If it were on something like the button on Napoleon's shirt, I'd probably be turned off. Then again, everyone else would, too.

So now I'm completely conscious of the fonts around me. I think I was mildly aware of it before (i.e. I knew that setting my blog in Times New Roman would be horrendous), but now I look at a word and I can point at it and say, "Courier New. Serif font. BAM."
etc etc.

And Helvetica really is everywhere. Look, my username on the athena header pages is printed in helvetica.

But that's not the point. So sometime during the middle of the movie, they interviewed a guy in his office. And after awhile, I began to notice the artwork on the back of the wall. They consisted of a series of maxims, a few of which I COMPLETELY agreed with. So I memorized one line and googled it.

Trusty Goog spits out a result: Truisms, 1978 - 1983 Jenny Holzer. So this artist actually took these lines and made them into artwork. Like so:


But even the way they were presented on the back of the wall in the typography documentary---helvetica caps black font on white paper---was interestingly artistic. If the quotes were laid out individually, they definitely would not have the same aesthetic? no, artistic impact as they do when they're in a list.

That's all I wanted to say. Oh, no it's not.

And then Holzer has this interactive piece of artwork, called "Please Change Beliefs." You can actually change the beliefs to say whatever you want. After you change one of them, you will be able to see what other people have submitted.

I changed "You are a victim of the rules you live by" to "You are a champion of the rules you live by."

[EDIT 08182008]

Point is, I have to go eat lunch.

AAAH

IHTFP!!!! IN ALL SENSES OF THE TERM.




yes, even the penguin one.

yay i can post :)

Aside from being able to see two other countries, I got to see the Best Movie Ever Shown on a Plane. aka Meet the Robinsons. aka THE BEST MOVIE EVER.



I really love Disney. omg. (...okay I didn't think Chicken Little was too good but NEVERMIND THAT)

The movie made me laugh and cry at the same time... it's so hilarious. And other than it being about a 12-year-old nerd who says the most wonderful thing in the world ("All it takes a little imagination and science and we can make the world a better place!"), which is something that really connected with me (being a nerd myself), I think everyone can understand the underlying message of the movie.

and the humor was really original. it was weird how funny it was. that's a good thing.

and the plot was interesting. REALLY interesting. it was incredibly well-planned.

it was so freaking good i watched it twice on the plane. you really have to see it for yourself.

i remember my 10th grade history teacher used to write "disney" on the board, draw a circle around it, and mark a slash right through the word. okay, disney movies may not be historically accurate, but I don't think I ever watched the movies to learn history. Disney is truly animation at its best. I can't get over it.

I also semi-watched 300 and Spiderman 3 on the plane. They could not match MTR.


..Disney made a 3D version of MTR! I missed it! oh noes.

might i also add:

Potter Puppet Pals in "The Mysterious Ticking Noise"
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4)


lolls.

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Look! MIT hacks! involving harry potter! ILTFP!!!!




Source: IHTFP Hack Gallery: Broomstick Parking!




Although I think the dark mark would look a lot better if they had used more lights, it still rocks. rox. roxorz.
Source:IHTFP Hack Gallery: Dark Mark.

MUAHAHAHAHA, though. We (Krystyn and I) brandished ourselves with dark mark tattoos for the midnight release of HP7. For some reason, we were disappointed that the pack of tattoos we bought for the party only had hogwarts logos/crests and lightning scars, so we drew dark marks YEAH! Actually, we devised a way to make them work like temporary tattoos, almost: using a watery ink pen (I still don't know wtf you call those things.. they're not ballpoint really... almost like gel pens... roller ink??), I traced our sketches (Krystyn asked me to trace and embellish hers) on paper. Then we pressed the paper to our left arms and dabbed a wet sponge on the paper, so the ink bled off the paper onto our arms. THE MAGNIFICENT RESULT:


Yes okay, our snakes are in different directions... we hadn't realized that the image would be inverted before we did the mark on my arm, so for K's, I inked out the sketch on the back of the paper... XD (I'm probably not making much sense right now... oh well) of course, by the end of the night in the extremely hot/sweaty book store (probably filled over capacity with squibs and wannabe witches and wizards... and yes muggles too) my dark mark faded out... it was upsetting, because we were going to threaten the guy behind us to give us one of his two hogwarts pins that he had, but who would feel threatened by a faded, sweat-dripped dark mark?

In other news, I'm in East Campus (possibly until the end of orientation). Yaay. Of course, BC was my first choice, but I relish the fact that I can roll out of bed and get to class in 5 mins if I'm at EC. [EDIT: Also I relish EAST CAMPUS'S AWESOMENESS 08182008]