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[Jul. 10th, 2009|10:41 am] |
The papier-mache residue left by a thousand flyers.
(Wow, lj doesn't like the spelling of 1/3 of those words.) |
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|01:05 pm] |
any tips for a starter sock pattern (i do know how to knit) for whenever we get started on this?
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|01:08 pm] |
I helped a friend out with an assignment by drawing up a short little comic on Foucault. Here's a snippet of it |
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| Skirts are back! |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|01:08 pm] |
  
ok, that's it for the shop this week. Next week: Pajamas made from vintage fabrics! I'm super exited about those, I might have kept a few pairs for myself, lol. |
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| six days to go |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|01:04 pm] |
Only six days until Harry Potter opens! We can't wait!!
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|12:36 pm] |
10th Anniversary!
Here's the drawing I made for Brock for our anniversary!
Here it is framed! This isn't really the kind of frame I wanted, I was kind of thinking a square
matting would be cool, but I had limited choices and was short on time, so this had to do!
For me, Brock had our wedding tape put onto a dvd! Also, I have this pearl necklace he bought me for Christmas way back in 2000. I wore it like once and it broke! We've always meant to get it fixed, but it just kept getting put off. Well he finally got it fixed! Or is getting it fixed. He thought he could take it to a repair place to have done right away, but they said they couldn't do it, so he took it back to the jewelry store where he bought it and they sent it away to be fixed. It should be done on the 15th. Then I can wear my necklace again! Yay! |
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| very short book review |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|11:41 am] |
I can't be the only one who found The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty to have been dull (and roughly 100 pages too long). |
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| happy anniversary, love |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|11:32 am] |
Thank you for growing and learning with me all this time. May both of our lives be long so we've all the more time together. |
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| Medovnik/ Russian Honey Cake |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|08:06 pm] |
 Does anybody have any experience in baking this cake? I tried it in Russia and loved it so i wanted to try baking it. However, the end product from the recipe I found online was not quite the same. ( photos and queries under cut. )
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| pink again! |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|05:01 pm] |
freshly dyed!
after trying stargazer's baby pink... which faded in 1 WEEK!
tried some diluted direction's flamingo pink...
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i'm pretty happy with it :)
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| Strawberry Jell-O Cake |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|12:13 am] |
Hi! This is my first time posting a recipe in here! I hope you enjoy it! This is a take on the Jell-O poke cakes, but a lot easier to make!
( Directions under here ) |
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|10:01 am] |
Happy birthday to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) juliebata! My cohort in mild fear of champagne corks & PIllsbury dough cans! I hope your day is a great one. :D |
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| Heading back to the USA soon! |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|03:49 pm] |
The past 2 weeks have flown by, we miss our pets, especially Esteban something fierce. Spain has been super relaxing, we´ve literally been doing NOTHING. Spent a few days in Barcelona and went Gaudi crazy with a sprinkle of Picasso. I went to the Lomography place deep in the labrinth of Barcelona and finally replaced my Lomo LCA. One of my fave fave FAVE cameras that broke down a few years ago. It feels good to have it again. All my barcelona photos will be from that (aside from the tourist Gaudi House and Cathedral shots) Then we headed back to Costa Blanca for more reading, swimming and DS playing.
I started going stir crazy not having any photoshoots if you can believe it. Well I need not worry, the week I get back to the U.S. I´m shooting Har Mar Superstar and Psychic Ills portraits (!!!!!!!!). That mixed with all the rest of the photos I need to finish from L.A. and Gothic Charm School will mean I´ll be a hermit ever night next week finishing up the back log.
We miss everyone and there are parties, DJ sets and good time hanging outs already booked for when we get back, see you soon!!!!!
XOXO |
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| Food, Inc |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|07:58 am] |
So last night I went with a fairly diverse group to Rogue Apron's showing of Food Inc. By diverse I mean we had another artist who grew up in a small farm setting, a nutritionist and avid gardener, and a tech guru who grew up on a cattle ranch. I went in not really expecting to learn anything new, but I wanted to support the release of the movie, and more importantly, I wanted to hear the perspectives of my friends about the subject. The audience in general appeared to be made up of a few people who were really into some particular aspect the movie touched on... slow food, organics, local food, etc, and a lot of other people who were probably just learning about the issues and wanted to know more. It seemed like a good mix.
Since I read an awful lot already about most of the subjects in the film, the premise was pretty familiar. However, the one thing I thought the movie did extremely well was creating a narrative that connected the dots. Meaning, it gave at least some time to almost every aspect of our industrialized food system - everything from the scope of it, to the animal cruelty, to the problems with the regulatory agencies, to the multiple health issues and immigration problems.... all the way down to the downright terrifying intellectual property precedents that are being set in court cases brought by Monsanto. In other words, there was something for pretty much everyone to relate to, and that's the first step in getting people talking and working together.
The downside was that the ending almost ruined it for me. The end is full of the sort of feel good, write your representative, vote with your wallet, we can make a difference crap that I personally thought belittled the rest of the movie. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like they spent the movie talking about how the people in charge of the system were in bed with the people ruining the system, so I wasn't really sure why we were then supposed to think writing to them to tell them we didn't like it was going to do any good.
Beyond that, I was really bothered by the ending's comparison of the fight with Monsanto to the fight with and defeat of big tobacco. Tobacco use has always been a choice. Monsanto controls most of the world's food supply in one form or another, making it anything BUT a choice for an awful lot of the world's population. See: India. It's like comparing apples and oranges.
That said, I don't know that people who are already well versed in the industrial food crisis were this movie's target audience, and as such I'll let the things that bugged me go. Judging from crowd reactions around me, I think it most definitely appealed to people who are just starting to really pay attention to their food, or who maybe only really know about one or two aspects of the problem, and if it gets more people from different facets of the issues to realize they are all fighting the same battle, then great. The lady sitting next to me seemed fired up by the movie's proposed solutions, so clearly it works for some people.
There's one piece of this argument that I'm going to save for another post, however, and that's the entitlement argument. A guy says somewhere in the movie that people who don't care about how their food is treated are the kinds of people who will also find ways to marginalize the workers who produce it, and so on. There's a whole lot wrapped up in that meat for every meal mentality that I'm going to need a few more cups of coffee to tackle.
In the meantime, I hope everyone has a great weekend! |
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