get the skirt steak.

the spork.

commonly used at fast food restaurants.. the spork. Half spoon, half fork.. spork. Now, could you really eat soup with it? Probably not.. I mean, lets be honest it would probably scratch you if you tried. Soo, what can you actually use the spoon function of the spork for? Not too much... and then for poking possibilities the prongs aren't really long enough to do the fork function's justice. Damnit. I still love the spork. 

A guy goes to the supermarket and notices an attractive woman waving at him.
So he says hello.

He's rather taken aback because he can't place
her, so he says, 'Do you know me?'

To which she replies, 'I think you're the father of one of my kids.'

Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to
his wife and says, 'My God, are you the stripper from my bachelor party that
I made love to on the pool table with all my buddies watching while your
partner whipped my rear end with wet celery?'

She looks into his eyes and says calmly, 'No, I'm your son's teacher.'

"why we'll never understand each other"

when you shouldn't hyphenate your name..

Hawk Gallery

If you're from the Columbus area, you should check out: this place. We just went on a class field trip and it really does have quite the cream of the crop when it comes to glass works. This lamp done by Dale Chihuly is no longer there but a similar red one is still on display. I love these not only because they just look cool and fun, but when a patron buys this piece, Dale will actually plan around the home to re-install it where they'd like it to be hung. Not only that but because it is compiled of all separate pieces, each re-assembly could be different, making the work new and different each time it visits a new place! It is definitely worth the time to stop by and take in the time and patience these artists have put into these works.

nature's art.

Even though I have yet to capture these on camera, I still can, which makes it so neat. I think of this as an ongoing never-ending countless possibilities project: Nature's Art.

Idea #1: In Autumn, when the leaves fall, they stay until brushed away yes? Maybe by the rain, by us, the wind, whatever- Well have you ever noticed after a rain storm, leaf prints are left on concrete? It's almost as if mother earth is stenciling her remains on the un-natural.

Idea #2: There is this string of bushes at Ohio University.. I have not pinpointed the reason for why the bushes never change colors at the same time; maybe the way the buildings are positioned to block the sun, maybe it's the time they were planted, I don't know. There is probably about 10 bushes all lined next to each other and at the beginning of the fall they start in a deep green and fade into a bright red. Towards the end of the season it goes from a deep red to bare leafless twigs.

bad commercial, bad!

If you watch TV I'm sure you're familiar with those Diet Dr. Pepper commercials who use their, "There's nothing diet about it" slogan to sell their soda. Now, maybe it's just me, but are they kidding?! "There's nothing diet about it" ..there is nothing diet about this diet soda, but in fact it is very un-diet. ...right? I mean that's what they're saying, aren't they? Their entire line of recent commercials is filled with play-ons of comparing the soda to cake, cupcakes, candy, anything unhealthy they can think of. So wouldn't it make more sense to say, "There is nothing diet about the taste"? and yes in fact this diet soda is truly a diet soda? but no.. there's just simply nothing diet about it! Come on Dr. Pepper! You can do better than that!

bless you?

When someone around you sneezes, do you follow up with the traditional, "bless you"? For some reason when no one says 'bless you' after I sneeze, during a quiet exam for example, it really makes me angry. Maybe I see it as inconsiderate, or I'm just weird. Well I was driving the other day, stopped at light, when I let out a loud sneeze! Windows up no one heard but I happen to turn to the guy next to me in a white van and I see him mouth to me, "bless you". Kind of creepy but at the same time I guess we both share the inability to ignore a sneeze.

like woah-

I was watching TLC's "My Shocking Story" ..and was baffled by this half man half tree. Yes, A man, who is growing actual bark limbs..

Dede is from another part of the world and suffers from trying to live a normal life with part of his body incased in tree-like warts. A top dermatologist, seen left, has been called in from Maryland to see if there is a treatment to possibly cure this unbelievable disease.

Watch this video for a more upclose look... Hopefully with more funding, the research needed can be done and a possible cure might be found!

Soo I found another one of those bravia commercials- I came across it when trying to find the song to another one. I really think the techniques used are so different and well, cool! I still like the paint video the best, but this one is still neat. Check it out!

wow..

shuan white.. love him.

here's another unique one:


haha mowing his hair, that's funny! I think if you're going to have a permanent thing on your body, it should be for a purpose, and his is obviously to make people laugh. I would love to meet this man.

tattoo of the year

My friend sent me this in an email ....I mean come on it's pretty funny. It made me think of the whole concept of tattoos. "Never get one EVER" -my dad. My mom says if I got one she'd stop helping with school, I just think she would cry, a lot. My dad has one, it's on the inside of his foot under his ankle. It's his frat symbol. FIGI. I guess after they were all initiated into the fraternity, it was a tradition to drive up to Kent and get this tattoo at the same salon, I forget what it's called. The reason my dad says not to get one? Because about six months later, he failed out of school, and in turn was no longer a part of the Figi frat. Tat for life, figi not so much anymore.

(no this is not me or anyone I know, I found this picture off google just to give you something to look at while I talk about things I'm sure you don't care about :)

Soo I have been in college for about four years now trying to decide what I want to do with my life.. geze the frickin pressure! "If I don't pick the right thing I will forever be stuck in a terrible unhappy life that will result in years of useless therapy and deprssion". Great.

Here's a little bit of history so you can know what goes through my head when I try and figure life out. My dad has been all over the place when it comes to career decisions. When I grew up he would paint a lot, go to museums and art shows, and he spent a lot of time in antique shops buying mainly junk. My mom went to school for teaching and now works with middle schoolers stressed and aging quickly, but she loves it. Neither of my parents graduated till after I was born soo the fact of me taking awhile, doesn't bother them, because honestly they're not allowed to let it! I saw my dad struggle with making money and trying to survive off selling his paintings and that is something I never want to do. My main goal is security, that's actually the only reason I'm going to college.. to have options. options = security. Even though I have always leaned toward the art field, I'm trying my hardest to stray because I do not want to make a life out of struggling to make my work worth something to someone else.

Ok so I went to Ohio University taking the basic g.e.c. classes with more art than anything else. I left knowing these things:
1. I hate psychology 101. They cram you with way too much. Hate it.
2. Philosophy was interesting, but it was hard for me to continue to pay attention.
3. Math is hard. very hard. (it took me 3 times to pass calc with a C. actually this is a good story, I'm going to tell it real quick. I went into orientation and ok my mom has always said I'm not a.d.d. but I have to be something because I can't pay attention to save my life! But so the orientation people were talking, I was dazing, and then they passed out our results for the english and math placement tests. What? I scored into the level that allows you to take calc? How'd I do that? Well whatever yay for me!! So then we scheduled and me, who doesn't listen, didn't know I didn't HAVE to take a math right away. I placed so high if I majored in art I would never have to take math ever again. But I didn't know that because I didn't listen. Soo here I am 3 classes later of barely passing with a C. So now I know, listen!!

...okay I got distracted and forgot where I was going with this.. anyway I took some art history and foundations classes at OU, which I liked a lot, but still wasn't sure if that's what I wanted to do. I was leaning to photography when I decided to come to OSU, but hadn't picked up my camera in awhile and didn't miss it as much as I thought I would. I always liked taking pictures, my dad bought me a sweet camera when I like 13 ..so I got into that a lot in high school. ANyway, my friend was majoring in visual communication and that sounded really appealing to me. It was something that fit all my criteria: I wanted to be able to use my creative-ish brain, work for a big company where I can make lots of money, deal with people. ...SECURITY! I loved it, I got really into it thinking about all these ideas I already had to make the commercial advertising sweet! (you just wait... I've got tons of ideas) Well I took my first design class.. it was frickin hard! It was only three credit hours and I worked harder in that class and spent more time than I did on anything else. I got all my drawings back with "this line isn't straight enough", this lines too sketchy", ...C. Wait. What? C? I have never gotten less than a B in art my entire life! That has always been the only thing I can count on A's for! Now I am used to doing badly but in art? What?!? So I scrapped that because 3-4 more years of that torture was going to send me into a downward spiral. Plus it was such a competitive field and I wasn't looking so hot. Well this same quarter I was taking a glass class learning how to cut, glue ..it was using all cold glass. I loved it! I wasn't the best at it but I was learning and I really liked it! I like to draw and I like to paint and I like to take pictures, but I was starting to love glass. Well I got on the wait-list for glass blowing and kilm work, both were full and I knew I wasn't going to get in. At this point it's Christmas break and I figure that I'm going to do art, because I want to graduate and I was furthest along in my art classes. I talked to my dad and he said just to do what I wanted now because in the long run it doesn't really matter what I major in and I can always go back to grad school. Well I thought about glass but I knew it was fate (yes, I'm so cheesy and yes I think this was fate) when I was sitting on my butt doing nothing on the first day of winter quarter and decided to check my email. It was about 7pm when I was reading the email: Hello, you're on the wait-list for glass blowing and an opening has just become available. If you can get to our first class tonight at 6:30 then you can join the class. I think I actually yelled out loud with joy lol. I have heard people waiting two and three years to get into glass blowing so I was very excited. I drove there and even though I was late, she let me in. I love this class, I am very bad at it, no natural that is for sure! But I love it. Soo I went to my advisor and said, I want to major in glass. We set up a plan of when I'd take my classes and when I'd graduate. Now the next step is applying for my BA review, which will be in the spring, and then in the fall apply for my BFA so I can take my adventure into glass further! What a relief to declare a major! Phew! Now I can breathe.

So you might be thinking.. but what about the money and the job and the security of not becoming a starving artist? Screw it. I just want to be happy at this point. I want a big family and even more to be able to be there for them when they're growing up. Now my plan is to marry a man who's making all the dough and live off that :) ..and maybe one day cash in on all my sweet commercial ideas. trust me, they're good. :)

I don't know when this Snicker's commercial came out, but it's pretty funny. Well I think so :)