Entry #142: Round and Round we go (we go)

(My high school’s recently renovated velodrome).

Entry #138: The clicks and clacks

This morning while eating breakfast I wondered if you had enough potassium.



The looking glass.

Entry #168: You know, you know.

Newspapers aren’t getting enough love these days with that other medium’s ability to report breaking news faster than your high-speed cable can keep up. The Death of the Paper is an often talked about event in newspaper circles and I too was almost ready to mourn the lost of an era but something telling started to happen.

Network cables’ ineptitude at verification of facts started to surface. Even conservative online versions of the newspaper made false, somewhat deceptive claims, including The Wall Street Journal (ok, the only conservative paper I actually like to read). This up to the second, in yo face homie, breaking news reporting is really made for readers who like the thrill of not really knowing, or readers who in their younger days picked at daisies and recited “loves me so” to “loves me not.”

The paper, on the other hand—is akin to the wise old man who takes a thoughtful look and deep breath before finally speaking deliberately. These are the facts, and I stick by them, he seems to be telling the readers (without a cowboy twang).

But I’m a news junkie. So I follow the thrill of the newsroom. And urhm, I pick at daisies!

And I think all of this yearning for the paper is really just me wishing wishing wishing for self actualization of some sort. If this makes sense, then we belong side by side, like two apples in a fruit basket “hoping for the best for each other.” 1

Today’s Headlines:
NYT: Killing of Sunni militia cause of consternation for America—the militia is a key component of their Plan to Decrease Violence in Iraq.

LA Times: Presidential polls- blaaaah. Good ol HillBill are leading nationwide and the GOP seems even more confused than them Dems.

Wall Street Journal: Influx at the Gaza (national headline) and the stock market

Washington Post: The swingin stock market and wtf are we to do?

USA Today: 76 colleges have over 1 billion in endowment so why aren’t they spending like they should on scholarships and other improvements?!

1. Anne Sexton

Entry #149: Edward Steichen

If a picture speaks a thousand words, well--






So... what do you say?

Entry #148: Grey Gardens Goes.. urhm. Glam

Yes. I know. Everyone goes ga-ga over Grey Gardens. She's darling! Dashing! Dangerous! A girl's best friend.







You can see more at Mia Mäkilä website.

O, o.. and I think I am going to be wearing similar numbers now :)

Entry #143: History Repeats Itself

My historical reproduction class is going to be AMAZING. I can feel it coming in the air tonight… (hold on!)

Entry #139: THIS IS L-to the O-V-E!

How cool.

Entry #73: The Silent Movie Theatre

Thursday
MAY 24 at 8pm

Alfred Hitchcock's
The Pleasure Garden in 35mm (1925)

with

Menilmontant (1924)

and

The Londale Operator (1911)

AT: 611 N. Fairfax Avenue - Los Angeles, California 90036 - 323.655.2520

Entry #69: The Wonders of the Modern Day World

The Seven "New" Wonders of the World published a count of the top 10 wonders voted by the internet community, as of May 7, 2007. You can continue to vote at the website above, with the winners to be declared July 7, 2007. A few countries, such as Egypt, have declared this vote as a publicity stunt for the travel agency, as the previous Wonders of the World were named by historians as opposed to a for-profit agency. Additionally, there are questions as to whether or not these wonders can be considered a world vote, as many of the inhabitants of the 22-sites shortlist and many people in the world at large lack internet access. You can find a list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Here.

Top 10:

Acropolis in Greece




Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Mexico


Coliseum in Rome



Eiffel tower in Paris


Great Wall of China


Incan ruins of Machu Picchu


Petra in Jordan


Statues on Easter Island


Britain's Stonehenge


Taj Mahal in India


A chronological map of the Ancient Wonders below:


If I had the skills to paint, I'd do a painting of the above map in some cool way?

Entry #66: Interior Cavities & Designer in Training

My new job at an interior framing architecture company is rather interesting. I'm learning a lot about borrowed lites (windows, lights spelled "lites") and Sidelites. I just do pricing and drawings, but o mi, o my, architecture makes me swoon with delicious dreams.

My favorite building is actually Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Perhaps it's because it is located on the fertile soils of my roots, but the trees into concrete faces that seem to cuuuuurve and smile or frown with misery while overlooking the water or war scene... it just whispers zen and lyrical stories galore.



via: Wood s Lot



via: Travel Adventures

Entry #47: Pay me in prints and pleats

I would like to be paid in objects.

pleats!



Early day little birdie? Why, YES! The dress I'm making is almost done.

Entry #46: I have never been so enlightened in my LIFE.

A picture speaks a thousand non-verbals. Our President should seriously learn. Anyways, how AMAZING is the following? Eff minimalism, I'm all about cravats in all its historical senses and splendors. My, my... Monday through Friday = you are sooo-x TAKEN!








And in case workers start asking about the past few "very interesting" outfits that you've been wearing, translate this crazy Cravatica bloggggg and come up with some uber-educated answers about Cravats. But I would get all starry eye and start chanting the story about a girl who always wore a green scarf around her neck... consider them your friend if they laugh in glee and recite the ending. Foe if otherwise.

Entry #42: Love and the Invisible City

A friend and I gathered this past weekend. While sitting in a booth with him, the line “Bury me in your Rs and roll (wrap?) me around like a Spanish tongue” came to mind.

The work of Marlaina Read also came to mind. Every time I view it, I feel a longing for some type of make-believe past. Nostalgic fantasies, I suppose.

I read her paper on non-places. About airports, she writes:

In the airport I feel a sense of dislocation, it comes, I think, from knowing that there are hundreds of airports just like this one all around the world. I cannot be intimate with a location that is constantly repeated because it does not exist as an individual place. The structure of the airport does not require individuality in order to function. Its production of repetition and homogeneity is the basis for its efficiency worldwide because it creates an order through which people's movements can be controlled smoothly. Any intimacy I could want to feel in this space would, therefore, be swallowed in the airport's overwhelming sameness. This is a space that serves to move people on their way, it does not exist of and for itself, but instead only as a means of delivering people to their destination. The airport is a place of transition; it does not need to describe history or culture because no one is coming to the airport to be at the airport.


My memory of airports are a lot more intimate than Read’s, and I think it’s because I’ve used the airport as a sleeping (and playing) ground, and have also placed a lot of emotional value on airports. I remember staying the night at the airport in Barcelona, washing up in their facilities, and perusing the book shops for paper. I also remember being terrified in Philadelphia’s airport because I missed my flight… and there was LAX, when I first arrived to Los Angeles, in the arms of my father. And of course, I remember picking up this gentleman that sat next to me at the booths from the airport (and how nervous I was) and then later, much later- how sad. And when a certain other picked me up from the airport- how quiet and stone silent the ride was back to my apartment (that too was sad)... I remember leaning into him and how he said, "let's not talk right now." Airports have stories.

Or maybe- I am just trying to add value and meaning to airports in my need to consume.

Anyways, I absolutely love Read’s work.





Check it out at Invisible City.

Entry #13: Introducing some worthy pictures

To be honest: I'm not very cute when I eat, sleep, or cry. Dammit. The following records, however, are very lovely. I haven't actually heard the music (sorry).