Monday, June 28, 2010

Jasmine Morning


Recently, good and bad events are piling on top of one another so fast that my head is spinning and while this has inspired some ideas and conclusions, the thoughts are either too jumbled or personal so instead, a recount of this morning:

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Basically wrote about events a little before & after the spillage of my morning cup of tea all over some notes.  And how my laptop fell and went crack, like broken bone, upon contact with the concrete floor.  SAD TROMBONE.
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What a lucky morning:
* Thankfully, tea is not sticky and does not stain. It smelled like Jasmine the rest of the morning – Zen-tastic.
* Am not much of a tech fanatic (if it works well, it’s fine by me), but after 3 agonizing hours of not knowing whether my laptop was alive or dead, I had never been so happy to hear it whirling to life! Two random pieces had popped out – which hopefully won’t affect computer function - was able to push ‘em back into place. Bottom corner = semi-split, & upper left corner (not the actual screen, whew) is cracked, inside & out. Keeping fingers crossed that this is the extent of the damage.
* The relevancy is that anything, including design, should be about quality, quality, quality.  This laptop might not be the sleekest, but the thing is a BEAST. Yessirrr.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Free Letterhead

Bring back snail mail.  
Write a note to your co-workers, asking them to stop stealing food from the common fridge! 
Pimp out your to-do list. Heck yes.
VitalSignsArt letterhead

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Home Stretch


Going to be gone for a while, hitting the books, and then, Playing! Also, a mini project is in the works. But it wouldn't be nice to tease you when this is all I'm going to say about the matter, so leaving it at this.

--- Mini update: ---
Basked in the sunshine this afternoon, as it was a perfect day. I am more of a rainy/cool-day person, but today there was a slight breeze going, and sunshine tingling on the skin. Ended up staying out for an hour,
soaking up that warmth & vitamin D while reading the most hilarious book ever.
All to thumping music from an event in the distance... so perfect. Not usually one for cheesy sentiments but who cares - feeling all inner-peace-y, mellow, and floaty-but-grounded.

Good vibes to last 'til the next de-stress.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Saturday, March 27, 2010

DIY: Zebra-Print Shoes

Material:
*  Plain canvas shoes
*  Fabric pencil
*  Fabric paint - white, optional: black
*  Stiff craft brush (wouldn't want to ruin a fancy art brush!)
*  Blunt-ended toothpick

Step 1: 
*  Using a fabric pencil, lightly mark placement of white stripes.  You can cover the whole shoe in zebra print, or you can do patches, whatever your design preference may be.  I chose to block-in only the middle of the shoe.
*  Don't worry about darkening your lines; you should be rubbing away each stripe before painting over it anyways, because the powder from the pencil interferes with paint adherence. 


Step 2: 
*  Start painting in the stripes with fabric paint!  Again, this is just design preference, I chose to mix the white + black into a very light gray.  You can make your stripes plain white, or go wild with a different color!
*  This is where the blunt-ended toothpick becomes your best friend.  Even with a stiff brush held perpendicular to the fabric to 'beat'  in the paint, the color does not pop enough, and the resulting lines are not clean.  Use the brush to paint in the general silhouette (see stripes on the right side of the above picture), and then using the blunt-end of a toothpick to fill in the details (see the 3 darker stripes on the left of the picture).
*  Allow irregularity, otherwise your lines will just end up looking like chevron stripes.  =/


*  Do the inner side of each shoe first, so that your 1st attempts at painting on canvas material are in a more inconspicuous place, and let dry.  Then, paint the outer side of each shoe.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Heartbeat #1: Place of Lost Words


EDIT:  Taken off for use in another project


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* Posts entitled “Heartbeat” are works of fiction; resemblance to real people, events, or places are purely unintentional & coincidental.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Calling All Elitist Liberal Arts Scholars, or: "I'm so Deep"

Don't get me wrong - I love symbolism, metaphors, and allegories.

My favorite books are the ones you have to analyze to the last drop, the ones where each word is so thick with meaning, that reading the book is like wading through hot fudge sauce (delicious *wink*). 


Sometimes though, it's good to not over-analyze, and to just...relax.  With that, I'd like to share a few chuckles with you, courtesy of spoken-word artist, Beau Sia:

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