change!

i am happier than i thought i'd be because obama won, boy that acceptance speech was pretty darn goosepimply

ahehehe check this out

CELEBRITY TOE READING
everything you've always wanted to know about celebrities, as told by their toes.

The story of a litlle boy called Zenobia

my brother was nearly called after this lovely lady, the first emancipated woman of ancient times, my name comes from hers freaky

link

"We hope this idea catches on and, in the future, square CD packaging will be abandoned forever and only interesting art objects will fill record stores. We envision a time when you’ll be walking around your local record shop and be like, “What’s the new Radiohead album again? Oh yeah, a bonsai tree in the shape of a deformed goat, I see it over there.”"
of montreal on cds, clutter, babies, identity...good to read!
CLICK FOR MORE AND ALSO SOME PURTY PICS

website

hello folks
i thought i would share this little site with you
http://www.geocities.com/nisha.alberti/index.html
i have put some stuff on there and it's pretty functional though not entirely finished and all....

oooooooooooooooooh

http://www.instructables.com/id/Lightbulb-greenhouse/

American Surfaces

If you guys get a chance you should check out
Stephen Shore's "American Surfaces"
It is a book showcasing a collection of photographs Shore took in the Seventies.
The pictures are really great and wonderfully disarming so really really go and have a look. (I can't be bothered to scan and show some samples so just get yourself to your local library!)
Also the pictures really remind me of some of your photos Sina :)
and Nadine,
the library code is Third Floor, 761.2 SHOR although I might have it for a while :P
and also you should check out
Third Floor, 761.3 EWIN, a book called "The Body", it has tons of really cool photographs of all kinds of different bodies/people, including some Siamese twins

And hoka is currently living in tomorrow, although I guess I'll be joining Sina in yesterday soon, so Nadine you'll be the only one living in the present :P
Ah, time differences.
ciao.

Arms Akimbo

To stand with your hands on your hips and your elbows pointing outwards is to stand with your arms akimbo.

i thought that was kinda cool.

so stand with your arms akimbo today!

S

Okay.
since I have learned to write, I have always written
S
by starting at the top, moving back, circling down and forward and then circling round and back again.
never in this entire time has it occurred to me that you can write
S
by starting at the BOTTOM!?,
sliding forward, curving up and back and curving upwards and forwards again.
it's totally weird.

ok, maybe i'm totally weird, but no, I think this S writing thing is cuhrayzee. that's crazy. blew my mind.
try it, you will feel topsy turvy.

teddy bear

"Is Google Making Us Stoopid?"

'Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter [...] His vision was failing [and] once he had mastered touch-typing he was able to write with his eyes closed. [...]
But the machine had a subtler effect on his work. One of Nietzsche's friends, a composer, noticed a change in the style of his writing. His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic. "Perhaps you will through this instrument even take to a new idiom (style)," the friend wrote in a letter, noting that, in his own work, his "'thoughts' in music and language often depend on the quality of pen and paper."
"You are right," Nietzsche replied, "our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler, Nietzsche's prose "changed from arguments to aphorisms (short phrase containing wise idea), from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style."'

It's pretty interesting how the medium you use has an influence on the style and expression of your ideas, and if you write something by pen, the resulting idea may be very different from if you type it. This is from the article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid" : http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

It's a really interesting article about internet as the new medium of information intake, how it differs from inherited cultural norms (books, articles etc.) and how the medium in which information is presented not only affects how our brains process this information but also changes the ways the brain functions:
'The media or other technologies we use in learning the craft of reading play an important part in shaping the neural circuits inside our brains.'

It might seem a little long but it is quite fascinating and well written so worth the read!

nightly wanderings

"The two nostrils are associated with two very different energies. When we breathe through the right nostril, we are energized and stimulated. When we breathe through the left nostril, we relax and calm down. Our breath naturally changes dominant nostrils approximately every 2-1/2 hours. After eating our nostrils will change to the left to accommodate the energy needed to digest our food. That is one reason why we feel like sleeping after eating.

You can tell which nostril is your dominate one at any time simply by blocking off one, then the other. The dominant one is easy to breathe through and the less dominate one feels like it is blocked."

-- I, for one, found this fascinating :)

I LOVE YOU GUYS

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not possibly born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." Anais Nin

lady

i want to eat his mind

Sweetcorn
As a child I wanted to be a car stereo.
My parents encouraged me.
They let me sit in the car at night.
Hours, shivering, smiling.
I would ease my fingers inside the cassette deck and just sit there.
I was willing myself on but nothing happened.
To me, anything was possible, it was simply a question of desire.
I thought that perhaps I wasn’t sufficiently motivated.
At twelve, I wedged myself into the idea that I would become a staple gun.
My two front teeth hung bunny low.
My mother told me that the world already had staple guns.
She said many staple guns were unsold and unloved.
The same thing applied to car stereos, but that never seemed to bother her.
I bit into two sheets of paper at every opportunity.
To my surprise, staples would occasionally fire out.
They never quite held anything together though.
The staples remained half open.
I blamed my bottom set of teeth.
They told me that they worked fine.
They added that it was the top set that was slightly off centre.
A scuffle broke out.
I lost some teeth.
I found some teeth.
They didn‘t fit in my mouth.
I threw them away.
Years later I thought I’d found them.
I hadn’t.


http://figcrumbs.blogspot.com/

cowcat

my first attempt at moving images :)

ummmmm separable

An umbrella built for the inseparable. Produced with Marc Owens.


http://www.jasmineraznahan.com/index.html

linkage

okay
numero uno:
http://www.coedmagazine.com/entertainment/4344
coz you just can't get enough of a naked hoff whose bits have been covered by innocent wrinkly puppies...
and
numero dos
http://colorwar2008.com/submissions/youngnow
it's pretty cool then me now me, pictures recreated -- some aren't that great, but then again some are and make you wanna get yourself some one-sies so you can recreate the baby years..

'If you want to be lucky.....it pays to be ready'
-Michael Bierut

Half Human Half Tree

something i saw on tv a couple of days ago super fascination it was mad

welcoming welcomes right back atcha!

i give you a quick doodle:

welcome

Welcoming you in German style.......yodel yodel