save your scissors.

Project 365: August 2010 favorites.

did you see it in my heart?

It has been a while, I know. I’m working on creating a regular blogging schedule as I balance internships and personal work.

And now, even though it has been out for a while, I’m pimping one of my favorite Asian artists—say hello to BoA, and her self-titled English-debut CD!!

BoA – BoA (at Amazon.ca)

For a preview, here are the music videos for the first two singles:





For those who know me, they know I have this massive celebrity-crush on BoA :D
Therefore, this CD has been on rather constant repeat. My other favorites from the CD are “Scream” and “Hypnotic Dancefloor”

inner voice: that’s nice. Now back to work!

…k.

clap if you believe in faeries.

Randy Pausch "The Last Lecture"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

I highly suggest clicking the link.
It cannot hurt, it can only help.

In other news, I am intensely enjoying the end of my schooling, doubly so as my sister is in Montreal and I have the apartment all to myself. :D
There have been many trips to the library. And many hours spent reading. And many hours of not feeling guilty for spending many hours reading.
I have, so far, read ten books this year (I am not counting the number of graphic novels, as I consider them appetizers compared to the main courses regular novels offer.), and while I do not know how many books I had read at this point last year, I find it safe to say that it is a considerably larger number. Today I just finished reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams (yes, i know, finally)

Other books I am currently engrossed in (yes, all at once, and in no particular order):
World War Z Max Brooks
To Be Continued... Michele Karlsberg & Karen X. Tulchinsky (eds.)
To Be Continued...Take Two Michele Karlsberg & Karen X. Tulchinsky (eds.)
A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution Karen Green & Tristan Taorimo (eds.)

I have been contemplating starting my own zine. Because zines are cool.
Mine would be a rambling affair punctuated by nonsensical/nonlinear prose, poetry, and illustration, and probably more haiku than most people have ever seen since high school English (or something). I would reach out to all the creative people I have ever met (of which there are many, going by my Youthwrite network alone).
There is also the question of print or digital. Because I am painfully lacking in funds by the second, I am thinking that digital = practical. And would also help me flex my web design muscles that have been growing rather flabby lately.

My plans over the next few weeks include tackling a commissions list I've been ignoring for years (yes, years.), and putting together a website for a friend of the family from back home.
And then I will be going back home, at the beginning of May. (Gods, I miss everyone so much.)

I am not sure how the whole graphic-design-employment thing is going to go. I'm choosing to stay positive and not worry about it too much until I get back. I know I have the skills, and I know I have talent, and I've gotten a lot of good feedback on my portfolio and my website (//pimp).
I'll be okay. :)

(Gods, I never meant for this entry to be that long, it was only going to be the link and that's it 0_o oh, well. Later, dudes.)

you're on candid camera (not.)

http://www.vancouveriam.com/videos/5c77e0441b94

Dear GOD, why has no one ever told me how annoying my voice is??

i have changed, just like you.

OKAY. JUST BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN ON CONSTANT REPEAT FOR THE PAST THREE DAYS.

The theme from Mirror's Edge "Still Alive" by Lisa Miskovsky:


AND. AND. AND. JUST BECAUSE IT MAKES MY BRAIN EXPLODE:

In-game footage from Mirror's Edge:

It looks so freaking amazing. SO FREAKING AMAZING. But I would probably die if I tried playing it. A lot. A LOT. And get really worked up as I tried not to die. A lot. And curse at the TV and the game consol and the characters shooting at me. A lot.

//fangirl

A Text Conversation.

Akki: It is Silent Hill at the back of the store...
Me: Decomposing nurses and barbed wire?
Akki: Halogen lights and metal wiring with eerie ghost creaks and a haunted tap.
Me: That was going to be my next guess.
Akki: It scares meeee... :<
Me: Don't you have your cross?
Akki: 10.30 shift. I forgot it in a state of sleepiness.
Me: Baka. Sometimes I wear my pentacle, my ankh, and my cross, just to have all my bases covered.
Akki: Pft, in case you run into a demonic Celtic mummy?
Me: But of course.

<3

The minor fall, the major lift.

One-month-late-New-Year's-resolution: actually update this blog and turn it into my professional one. :|

...there seems to be something slightly contradictory about the phrase "professional blog". It's probably the word "blog". It sounds very...teenage. But that's just me. 

Other "resolutions" *cough cough* are to read more, write more, draw more. 

Yes, I will do all of this, plus graduate with honors. 

I am freaking superwoman. 

So I have this rather retarded little digital diary that is no more than a word document. When I'm not demonstrating my ADD through disjointed drabble, I also drop in quotes and interesting links I come across. 

Inner voice: When you should be working.

...

*shoots inner voice*

I also like doing horrible things to the voices in my head, but that's sort of connected to the disjointed drabble. Writing. It is good to keep the mind sane. 

Anyways. 

Let's go back in time for a week or so and rediscover some of the good little tidbits I have discovered. 

Note: most of the links will have to do with design and artsy-type things. Because I am a huge nerd. HUGE. 

Links:

http://diinterviews.com

http://www.mattsoncreative.com

http://www.ilovetypography.com

http://www.idrawgirls.com

...Hell. My cell phone just went off while I am sitting in on a class. Very loudly, I might add.  Can I sink into the floor now, please? And why is my cell not on vibrate when I need it to be, and yet it is always on vibrate when I am expecting a call and no where near it? This is the second time it's gone off during a class gaaaah... (I will stop obsessing now. Like, right now.)

Time for quotes:

“Oh God, that’s good.” —Mythra, my Professional Development teacher, after taking a sip of her coffee.

“Are you going by Kat or do you have a real name?”—Drew, classmate, to me.

“No, no, I’m not calling you gay, I’m calling you a queer-ass faggot.” random drunk girl, to Chris.

(That last one is my personal favorite.)

PS--I now have a Twitter :D