I don’t have a lot to say.
I began my internship the other day,
Which makes this less of a vacation.
This is some stunning animation.
I drew and watched some Doctor Who
but have yet to reach “The Hogfather, Night 2″.
Outside is snowing but only in sprinkles,
Not enough to cover the ground’s creases and wrinkles.
I wish that the sky would snow me in
snug like a mouse in a biscuit tin
until spring thaws turn the rivers to rust
and spring breezes come in and blow away my dust.
I went sledding today!
It was not all that cold out, as you can probably guess by my less than seasonally appropriate attire. The temperature was in the mid 40′s when we started and by the time we finished, had reached the high 40s. So, you know, t-shirt weather.
I have named my sled “Steve, the Snow Steed” and talk to him as we sled. It seems to help — look how awesomely I am sledding HERE:
Yeah. You wish you sledded that totally amazingly.
After sledding, I posed with Steve…the photos are probably going to be in an Olympic magazine some day, so I made sure to make super awesome serious Olympic poses.
This part of sledding was not as fun, but Steven and I know you gotta take the ups as well as the downs — in life as well as in sledding.
After sledding, I decided that I obviously had to build a snowman. So, I did.
I have dubbed him “Hipster the Snowman”. His carrot nose is ironic. Now I can laugh at him as he melts. Only, he’ll probably be all, “Whatever. Being in a solid state is kind of over. I usually hang out in forms that you haven’t even heard of. Also, is that T-shirt from H & M? Because I used to shop there, but then I stopped because they got way too mainstream. Now I only buy clothes from bums in alleys or stores that no one else shops at because their clothing sucks…which is okay because I’m only wearing it ironically. Why do you suck so much? I’m going to a coffee shop with my iPad now. And then if I’m not totally melted, I’ll probably go to a concert that this band I know is throwing…well, not really a concert, because that would be way too mainstream…really it’s just a bum that bangs on trashcans in an alley…totally subversive. You wouldn’t get it.”
Now I kind of hope it DOES keep getting warmer and Hipster the Snowman DOES melt, because he is the worst kind of D-bag. I mean, I really wrote all that stuff just to fill space because I decided to text-wrap Hipster’s image for some reason, but once I filled in his dialogue, I decided that he is kind of a jerk and I will laugh when he and his stupid center part, ironic carrot and wood-rimmed glasses return to the soil. Die, Hipster, die!!!
Anyway, I took a few other pictures of him as well. Marvel at his douchiness. I kind of want to go pour a cup of black free-trade Sumatra over him now, if that were not a waste of tasty coffee.
Now, I am inside in a sweater and curled under a blanket, drinking tasty coffee. It would only be better if it were snowing outside again, but this way I get to laugh as hipster looses his leaf-hair and the glasses that he doesn’t even actually NEED…he doesn’t want you to know this, but they have clear glass lenses.
Postertext.com makes posters out of full books and some creative text-wrapping:
My classmate directed me to the website Behance, which is just made up of all kinds of awesome and inspiring art stuff. Kind of like 9Gag, but with art. Even within just a few minutes of checking it out, I found a number of fantastic things, like:
This girl’s Renaissance-styled 2011 calender that she spent 4 years drawing and designing
<–I mean, seriously…wow.
Or, this stunning photographic series — I want to paint pictures inspired by every scene!
Illustrations for a book on mixology (the making of cocktails). I love the combination of the old-fashioned, scratchboard style with the bright, pop-art colors and contemporary themes:
One more before I go, a set of lovely/disturbing drawings that often involve girls who are also flowers:
<– it’s settled…I must do something with little oval-shaped mirrors/picture frames/lockets/windows.
Anyway, if you want any more of what Behance has to offer, you’ll have to go let the site suck you in to it’s awesome depths yourself.
Finally, before i go, because I feel I should have at least three things, and I feel like the multiple posts from Behance counted as one and a half at most, and because it has been snowing here pretty much every day, at least a little, I will share a trio of really gorgeous winter-themed cakes that were featured in CakeWrecks’ Sunday Sweets this past weekend:
The first week of December and we are finally getting some decent snow…though not QUITE enough to sled in. Because we tried that today and failed spectacularly. There was a great deal of scooting and at one point I managed to literally run Briggs over.
Today was an overall wintery, Christmassy kind of day. I drank coffee with eggnog flavored creamer, worked on the final page of this year’s calender (yes, I do hope to have them out before Christmas this year) while watching the snow fall outside, attempted to sled, and finally put up my awesome-tastic pink Christmas tree while watching The National Lampoons’ Christmas Vacation, Scrooged and The Ref.
Look how pretty:
(The star on the top isn’t blue, btw… Briggs had me shine an LED flashlight on it while he took the picture so that the star would show up, and the LEDs projected a somewhat different spectrum than the incandescent tree bulbs.)
Anyway, it’s even MORE fabulous now, because I cut out a bunch of snowflakes and stuck a few to the wall and hung most from jewelry wire above the tree. Super pretty. The whole corner is pink and gold and silver and sparkly. And yes, I know that this may be the girliest tree ever.
Just to put the cherry on top of my ‘Doing Christmassy Stuff’ sundae of a Sunday, after dinner I might bake cookies, as I’ve been meaning to bring some to various people and keep failing to find time.
***EDIT***
So, of course, it snowed all night, and now that it’s Monday and Briggs and I have to return to our mutual work/school lives, we have a few inches and a perfect day for sledding. Our car this morning:
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A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R.R. Martin
Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10) by Robert Jordan
