Woo

IT CAME!!!! I'm at 7.7 gigs now, 3.3 to go.

This is my background on it:

When I can't stand up in this cage I'm not regretting

I drew this during work [again]. I realized I made my girlfriend's lips a bit too small in the drawing after I was done, but it was based off of a picture on my phone, so...

Oh yeah, caramel-flavored tofu ain't that bad.

The merry wives of Windsor I swapped for cans for spam

So I got my grocery deposit (finally) and promptly used 2/3 of it to buy the Creative Zen. I wound up going with the black, because the green went up 20 bucks. I'm going batshit without my music, can't wait for it.

What boredom at work can do

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My tin-man and scarecrow are so more badass than the originals.

Your mother was/might've been an immigrant

POTATO! Finished it between class and work today. The idea comes from a Yiddish poem I learned in my Yiddish class, called Bulbes, which is Yiddish for, you guessed it: potatoes. The poem is about how poor Ashkenazic Jews ate little more than potatoes (Ashenazic refers to the Jews of Northern/Eastern Europe).

I'm 3 generations removed from my great grandparents, the Ashkenzim that immigrated to upstate New York in the early 1900s, but I still identify with those people. At the same time, I realized recently that I am dating an immigrant, even though today maybe we don't think of people as immigrants. I guess the term conjures up the image of poor Europeans entering the US through Ellis Island, seeing the statue of liberty, etc... Yoona's from Korea, not Europe, nor is she poor, and she came here on a plane with a student visa, but she is still, in essence, an immigrant.

So the painting idea is that if we ever had kids, thats what I'd tell them.

I got my head shaved by a jumbo jet

Its a potato! Or it will be.


Card I made for Yoona for Valentine's Day. Normally (IE when I was single) I hate Valentine's Day... and I still think its a holiday thats been kept alive by card/candy/condom companies purely for profit. But I have a girlfriend who I love, and that means making a card and taking her to a nice Thai restaurant.

Toefwho?

2 cups chocolate chips,
1/3 cup coffee liqueur
1 block silken tofu
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon honey
1 prepared chocolate wafer crust

Place a small metal bowl over a saucepan with simmering water. Melt the chocolate and coffee liqueur in the bowl. Stir in vanilla.
Combine the tofu, chocolate mixture, and honey in the blender jar. Liquefy until smooth.

Pour the filling into the crust and refrigerate for 2 hours, or until the filling is set.

In the end, it keeps me coming

I found this on my scanner bed when I went to scan the other stuff:

Totally forgotten I'd left it there. Salt printing is also known as calotyping, IE, one of the original photographic processes. I'm gonna buy one of the kits and go crazy.

So I was waiting for the shuttle-bus one cold night (every night in Philly since January 8th) in the library, and I spotted this book:

I picked it up initially out of boredom then checked it out out of genuine interest. Upon further glancing, I actually wasn't too impressed with most of the ideas, but one in particular caught my eye:

I had this same idea like two years ago, move the garden into the house! Incorporate nature right into the architecture of the house (like support the roof with trees)
Here's another view:


Ok, I think I've wasted enough time.

Science damn you, time-child!

So one of the key necessities of art for me, music, has been removed from me temporarily. My mp3 player died the other day, and I won't be getting a new one for a few weeks. Luckily I saved my music to my laptop the night before it died. 2 and a half years, and many a fall, but none so epic as this: it dropped, hit the corner at an angle, bounced, spun in the air, then hit another corner and fell over.

Here's what it said:


I'll be getting this:


The new version. A bit less capacity, but I only used 11 gigs of the old one (1/4) anyway.

Until then, just stuck with iTunes I guess. BTW, does anyone know a good [free] wma-to-mp3 converter?

I should be doing something more productive

So I've started a third blog. Not that I use the first one anymore, really, and the second one was really more for griping about life when I was single. So, I figured, why not make one specifically for connecting with other artists? So here it is. Spiffy, ain't it?