Blog Awards

We were recently lucky to be given this award by the very random very Twilighter Lenore.

The rules are...1. Link the blog who gave you this award. 2. Give the award to seven other bloggers and link them. 3. Tell them that you have given them an award.

{1} Lenore-The life and times of a very interesting young lady. She seems to lead a pretty interesting journey through her blog. She's a sweet person who likes Twilight and Laura Marling. So if you need a smile, head over to her blog!

{2} Ambroisine-She lives in France. Her blog is bilingual. And she really has nice things to talk about. Really, go look.

{3}Oh Joy!-Trends from the wonderful far reaches of the design world. This one's just makes my day.

I really don't spend much time looking through other blogs, though I probably should. There is some really good stuff going on. So I'll leave it to Yami and Mai if they feel like nominating anyone.

where would you wish to wake up tomorrow?

"Fifty People, One Question is a simple project with surprising results. We go to a place, ask fifty people the same question and film their responses."

i came across the fifty people, one question project about a month ago.
it's beautifully shot.
quite unique. & very touching.
i loved each and every one of their responses.
it's surprising how many answered that they'd want to wake up where they are,
as who they are & with the people they love.
shows that self-contentment does exist in this world.
they also have a london, new orleans, and new york video.

as for me, i honestly don't know.
maybe a place where math tests don't exist.

"it's a simple question and the answers can lead us anywhere. so go ahead, ask yourself"

The Human Network?

It amazes me how easy it is to go international. Just looking at all those little clusters of dots on the map all the way at the bottom of this page makes me kind of happy. My ideas and thoughts and photos and life can be shared with the world, with people thousands of miles away, to places I've never been, and places I probably haven't ever heard of. The comments below are pretty much open to anyone, even if you're not a registered user. I (we) are really interested in hearing about where you are, what it's like in your neighborhood. Go ahead and just say one sentence, it can be completely random, about where you come from. I'm eager to listen. =D

Where I am, there are only two seasons: hot&dry and the nebulous period when the leaves fall of the trees, the days get shorter, and you might need a jacket.

Design!!

I just had to share this beautiful tie from Naked & Angry. I don't wear ties, but if I had someone to give a tie to, this would be my first pick. If I had $95 dollars laying around. Just the box it comes in enough to awe over.

I might also go and get them some of these beautiful surface graphics from bilk *drool*. I wish I had a few extra dollars around to get me this or this, both of which just happen to be Threadless designs.

Sometimes I just like to look at design, not just for inspiration, but it's a nice little mental vacation in the course of the day.

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Sunday is for new music.

Fleet Foxes-White Winter Hymnal

Passion Pit- Live to Tell the Tale

Matt Pond PA-three
download the freep!

Mystery Jets-Young Love

Enjoy your week.

beyond the sea

that's freddie.
& he's blingtastic.

"if a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late?
nobody."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Subtlety

Lately time has become so precious. I barely can withhold a shudder looking at the little white digits ticking away at the bottom of my computer screen. That clock has kept my life in time for the past few years, at the end of every school day, to the morning hours of the next, to every AIM conversation I just couldn't leave, to every batch of photos I couldn't stop editing and uploading, to every tired and sleepy moment of night, and all until my hands cramp up so badly I have now resorted to using my left hand for the mouse.

Really, I should save this stuff for senior year.

I wonder what this is.

The New Generation

There is this incredible society of young photographers, and they're just amazing. The new generation of photographers mixes old and new, color and darkness, all of it. And they never cease to amaze me. Sometimes when I'm in need of inspiration, I'll go and look at the Young Photographers group on Flickr, and I'll always find something new. It's wonderful how so many young people have found the love of photography and a means of expression that us at Chromaphilick have found.

Here are a few of my favorite young photographers. They've all impressed me to no end, and they all really know how to use a camera.

from a second story.

there is sun in my eyes

lenaah

{Just Call me S}

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eons ago, i was tagged by lenore to complete the secret fairy wishes challenge. this would be my first time to do these but i found that it was fun.
here are the rules for those that also want to participate; make a bunch of secret fairy wishes, hopes, desires, or bits of advice and scatter them somewhere magical...take lots of pictures and/or video and post it to your blog, telling us all about your fun. tag at LEAST 3 other bloggers. go to secretfairywishes.blogspot.com and comment to tell us you did it! **note: you don't have to be tagged to participate, but you do have to tag others if you participate and you must participate if you're tagged!
mind you, i won't be revealing the secret wishes that i had written down. when i was younger, someone told me that wishes mustn't be shared so frivolously. once spoken, they told me, their meaning becomes lost in a sea of frittered hopes. except in a different language, so it made much more sense.
i think they had meant for me to actually accomplish goals instead of just daydreaming & talking about them. or something like that. whatever.

except for the thing i didn't say when i had the chance:

i had originally wanted to scatter them here; but then i felt a tinge of guilt for littering.

so i did what i sometimes do. i made my way to the library & left a souvenir within each of my favourite books. a little piece of paper, within the pages of another story.

as for leaving them somewhere magical, i think the library would suffice. as a kid, i think i'd wanted to live in the library. i think i used to dwell between the medical journals & the Arts section most often. so much for the dewey decimal system; maybe it foretold the dilemma i have now. oh, the irony.
the one that i used to visit as a child was such a grand building, with shelves that stretched upwards, all the way to the high ceilings. quel magnifique.

*note: that isn't the library i used to visit.

as for whom i will tag, i can't think of anyone at the moment, so i will just leave it open to anyone who would like to partake in it.

My Review

Thanks to Zamaika, I finally got to watch The Fall (see her post below). I saw a few screenshots and awards it had recieved on a film festival website a few months ago, but I had never really gotten around to looking for a copy.

The movie was brilliantly filmed The story sort of reminded me of the fantasy in The Little Princess, which was my favorite movie for much of my young(er) life. Catinca Untaru (Alexandria) was incredible. I loved the dialogue between her and Roy. It was like a child would actually speak to an adult(especially the feigned innocence when she lied). Does anyone else think Lee Pace (Roy) looks like Sufjan Stevens?

I was told today that my face looked like a square. This would seem a bit offensive, except that's exactly what I thought when I saw myself in the mirror the day after surgery. xD I basically look like a chipmunk right now. I was reminded of an episode of The Weekenders in which the characters went to the grocery store, and one of the characters was made aware of his head's resemblance to a pumpkin...

In other weird news, I stepped in some weird, unknown yellow *wince* liquid at Michael's today as I was buying scrapbook stuff. So when I got out into the parking lot, my mom helped me and poured bottled water down my shoes. And some of it got inside and I think the ink leaked a bit. This reminded me of the one time in Aeropostale when my mom had to help me take off this sweater I was trying. I have a hard time pulling things over my head with my head out first, so I couldn't do it on my own. It was hilarious.

I finally picked up a camera and took a few shots today. But they won't be up until I get a little break. wahhh