I’m just a maybe

celebrity crush.

I love Mo Rocca. I’ve been sorta a fan of him since first seeing him on VH1’s “I Love the 80’s” a few years ago. I love his witty, dry, sarcastic humor. Since then Mo has been popping up in my life; I really started to take note of him recently. He appears in two of my favorite shows as a guest judge or commentator; the first is “Iron Chef America” and the other is NPR’s news quiz show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”. Whenever he is on one of these shows I just seem to enjoy it more. I really like his humor and just how he doesn’t seem to take his job as a commentator so seriously. I love that fact that he is able to be a foodie and political commentator all at the same time.   And come’on who couldn’t resist his nerdy boyish looks? Defiantly my celebrity crush.

Mo Rocca

HI- human interface 

This is a neat video from a Spanish interaction design group called Multitouch Barcelona. I love how on their about page they describe themselves as a group “that explores natural communication between people and technology. We design experiences that merge real and digital into a creative environment where people are invited to touch, play, move, feel as they do in the real world.” I think that is so powerful. Technology as we know it is quickly taking over the way people communicate with one another- for better or for worse.  This video is humorous and socially satirical. Not to mention that the way it feels so DIY with cardboard props and comical plays on computer icons.  It’s nine minutes of your life well spent, enjoy! 

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.

 

HI- Loading Please..

 

beauty in entropy

I would like to thank my friend ChrisJ. for giving me a title for my bed series- “Beauty in Entropy”. He described the images as looking like “krinkled paper” and then called it “beauty in entropy”. Lacking an extensive vocabulary, I had to look up entropy, where I found this.. “lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder”- how freakn’ perfect. I love talking to people about my art (and other’s art) because often I can’t put words to what I am trying to show or convey coherently. And if I’m conveying what I want to then someone else will surely say it and then it just clicks! Like magic.

I loved critiques in college and high school because of this. I hated in college that people would only say polite, or nice comments. Heaven forbid you not like someone’s work! I would rather a person say that they didn’t like or even hated my work and why they didn’t, than for them not to say anything at all. How are we supposed to learn if no one points out our weakness or failures, likewise with our strengths and successes.  It doesn’t mean you have to agree with them at all, or think what they have to say is valid. Its how we can grow, though adversity. It’ll make you stronger, either in your own sense of work and knowing what you’ve done is right or in seeing changes to made for the betterment of your piece. 

Today was a good bed morning, I had a hard time picking from my shots- thus a triptych! 

 

 

Bed Six

 

 

And here’s some others.

 

Bill, the cat

 

Clayton & French Press

Wall/Flower

 

Inside

 

bonnie.

 I’m still enjoying my time here in the house and constantly being inspired. My daily routine has changed a little, for the next 7 days I’ll be taking care of another person’s cat too! This cat, Bonnie, is diabetic. I have to be at that house to give her an insulin shot by 8am and then 7:30pm everyday. It is so confining to me to be bound by those time regulations. I am glad that it will only be for 7 days. I feel constricted in planning my day, I’ve never had to deal with something like this before.

I was thinking last night what if Bonnie was my cat and I had just found out she was diabetic, would I keep her?  Being a young and active person would I bind myself and my life to caring for this cat on such a regimented schedule. I would like to think I would, that I loved the animal before I knew of it’s disease and that I would continue to love and care for the cat afterwards. The more I think about this,  the less sure I am that I would keep the cat.  I wouldn’t go to the extreme of putting the animal down but I don’t think I could continue to afford caring for the animal, afford both in time and money.  I would probably seek out a new home for the animal.  Just thinking about makes me appreciate people who are put in those situations and grateful that I’m not.