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so the older you get the more candles go on your cake. yet the older you get the weaker your lungs are. Kind of an ironic tradition, blowing out more candles with a weaker lung. hah.

apparently I'm on a youtube fix

DUDE-




mmm bud light, always worth it.







so I'm newly 21...

funny.

No I don't hate bush, but it's still funny to make fun.


I guess when other people write your scripts, this is what happens when you're bad at memorizing.

... ok?

riiiiggghhhtttt....

Manon Doyle 

she's a friend of mine, pretty cool lady. 

in continuation to what I just wrote... my Grandma had knee surgery not that long ago and spent about two weeks in this rehabilitation center. It was a nursing home slash rehab slash assisted living.. the place was pretty big. Anyway, you saw a lot of people in wheelchairs because they've just gotten to that point in their lives that they can't get around on their own. When I went once to visit her, I had to get into the elevator since she was on the eighth floor or something. This lady waiting with me, who happened to be in a wheelchair, got into the elevator, was forced to stair at the wall, then when it was her time to get off at her floor, I had to get out.. just to let her out. This elevator was so small you couldn't fit two wheelchairs let alone one comfortably. Now don't you think in a place that is surrounded by people in those situations, the contractor should have taken that into consideration? And maybe the building was something else before this, but renovations can be made. 

When my uncle Alan was at Texas A&M, he was taking this interior architecture class and one of their assignments was to design a building. During their presentations, this one girl got up and started talking about her project. My uncle raised his hand and said, "Now that's a very good design, but my aunt can't go in there. She has polio and due to her wheelchair, she would have no way of entering your building."

Another story to go along with my last, my uncle, my mother's brother, was studying architecture at either OSU or Texas A&M. (he graduated from a&m after transferring from osu, I just don't remember where this story was from). Anywho, my uncle Alan was in this class and they had to design a chair. Well he turned in a sketch and the teacher said it wasn't good enough. So he did another one, still wasn't good enough. Did another one, the teacher said nope, I still want you to do better. Finally Alan was like, now wait a minute. A lot of these other chair designs are worse than mine, why are you being so hard on me? "Because I know you can do better". So then after I don't know how many more sketches, my uncle turned in a penis chair. My grandma describes it as a shaft with balls that you could sit in. Let your imagination take you to where his was in the 70's. So anyway he made this penis chair that he was pretty proud of, and even my grandma, who's a seven days a week church goer, said it was pretty sweet! He worked really hard on it up until it was due. He put it in the bed of his truck real late at night so he could take it into school without anyone watching him carry it in. Can you imagine the honks he must have gotten? Driving a huge wang and all. Well in reference to time, I'm not sure how far into class he got before people got upset. The teacher liked it, but some people didn't. In fact a lot of people found it to be very offensive. These people who said it provoked sinful ideas, burned it. Now isn't that a little ironic? They were from the church, said it wasn't right to make such a profound object, then stole the chair and burned it. ....soo what, what they did wasn't wrong? Anyway, I guess the story ended up being a little sad because I would have wanted to see what this chair looked like. But it's still kind of cool that he made a chair look like a dick. 

So here's a cool story. My dad used to go to OSU yearrrss ago studying art. Well he had this drawing board that he painted on, shellacted, and would use to clean his brushes at the bottom and stuff. Well so anyway time went by and his younger brother took it into class because he needed it for one of his drawing assignments. (our family likes art lol.) He left it there, summer and some time went by. Then one day walking through the halls of Hopkins he saw it hanging on the wall. Unknown artist. 

I'm trying to track it down seeing if possibly it might still be in the archives somewhere. Probably not, but maybe. I've got the names, phone numbers and emails of the people I need to contact, I just haven't taken it to the next step yet. Cool story though huh! 

america's next top model marathons.. anyone else sick of it? 

My parents are divorced so I have quite an abstract look on relationships and love and all that crap. I'm in a relationship now, and I think I am constantly trying to find something that's wrong with it. I don't know why I do that, well I have a few ideas on where that part of me comes from.. but how do I change it? I know plenty of people with divorced parents who have no problems with their current relationships. But not me, no I've always had issues with trust, commitment, all that stuff. I pick fights, I guess for a sense of rationality since my only reference to a couple has been a destructive one. Who knows.. maybe I haven't found the right one, or maybe I'll never let myself. 

so which was it.. the chicken? or the egg? 

Dave Chihuly ..cool guy. He makes a lot of glass art, in case you've never heard of him. He has things at the Columbus Museum of Art and the Franklin Conservatory.. you should go check him out! 

I've been in college for almost four years, and I have had no idea what I want to do. Well, I've had plenty of ideas, just couldn't decide slash wasn't good enough at anything lol. But I finally decided that I'm going to major in art and concentrate on glass. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet since I don't really want to be an "artist", but we'll see where it takes me. Right now I'm just having fun learning about it, I'll get to that whole job bolder when I get there. 

If you got pregnant, or got someone pregnant, and you weren't married.. what would you do? 

You know what really grinds my gears? Idiots on the road. When the sign says 45, you don't insist on driving 30! And why does it seem that you always find the only other person on the road driving the same speed as you, and then drive for miles parallel to each other forcing no way around. URRRGHHH! I mean just because it's the limit, doesn't mean you have to choose to drive wayyy under the speed that everyone else is comfortably moving at. 

If you haven't heard of Michel Gondry, then google him because this man is amazing! He directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Science of Sleep, and many many more commercials, music videos, the list could go on. He is this crazy artist who uses visual tricks to make art! I love his stuff!! This White Stripe video is one of the many he made. (I'm sure you've seen the one done with legos? "in love with a girl" ..yeah that's him too!!)

I don't know if you've ever heard of Pipilotti Rist but she is such a good artist! The first picture is of her doing a live installation right in time square! I think it was for ten seconds every hour a shot of her being "stuck" inside the tv would come on. She'd move around literally as if she was stuck behind the screen!

The next pictures are shows I'm less familiar with.. but she's just so neat! She uses a lot of light and video while showing beautiful bright colors. I did a project on her for a 4-D class, and learned a lot about her. One project she did was to walk up and down this street with a oversized flower. The flower was actually not real and very hard. After a moment of acting polite, she takes the flower and starts banging the crap out of this old vw. It's very comical, and so is she :) Just thought I'd share.

life comes at you fast

When I was posting about those Sony Bravia commercials, I remembered this: about a month ago I was driving through
downtown Columbus when something bright caught my eye! How cool is this? The Nationwide, "LIFE COMES AT YOU FAST" ads did an actual interactive installation! I just love this-- those cars and ticket booth are covered in lime green paint!! I can't really imagine how much paint it must have taken for them to do this, but it looks frickin sweet!!

About a year ago, well actually I guess it was a little over a year, anyway-- I was taking this imovie class, and our teacher loved to show us videos as a treat sometimes. Well one of the ones she showed us was this sony bravia commercial. They were trying to show how great their television was for showing color.. well here check it out:

I LOVE IT! The music, the flow, all of it, I think it's so cool.

When I was searching for this video on youtube to show you, I came across two new ones they did:

How cool would it be to have been able to help but these things together? The time it must have taken to do something that went by too quick! I just love these :)

I don't remember when or where I came across this picture, but the use of words humors me. Obviously they mean that area has a large flow of pedestrians coming through, but it could be taken as "fat people in" passing. When I went to Ohio University, there was a sign similar to this: "high pedestrian area". Now I don't know if you're familiar with the reputation Athens, Ohio has held high for years, but surrounding counties are known for growing the best marijuana in Ohio, so I've heard. We thought it was hilarious to think that the sign was informing traffic that, "hey be careful, high people could be walking through and not see you". I took a picture of it once for a photography project but I couldn't find it to load onto here. When I saw this one about possible heavy set people passing through, so it might take awhile, it gave me a chuckle. It just goes to show that the interpretation of the american language can go many ways.

(did you ever think that words spelled the same sound nothing alike, like other and bother or comb and tomb? Even though this has absolutely nothing to do with that street sign, it definitely adds to the ways the american language differs! crazy isn' tit? )