Smells like capitalism.
Made some last minute business cards this morning when I realized I had none before an interview. Printed on old soviet-era stationary with just a name and number, David said it was the creepiest business card he had ever seen. But I got the job, so I win.
Have something to say about this post? Contact me.“Your instagrams aren’t art.”
Said an image going around Tumblr.
Art deprecates. Or maybe it has always been a simple concept. But there are plenty of examples of art being pointless and not actually made (Duchamp) and even not original (Sherrie Levine) . So I don’t see why instagram can’t be elevated to high art. Modern art seems to have the retort “You could have made this but you didn’t” while instagram is the bit that says “that’s pretty and you did it”
Good enough for me.
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There’s a couple apps that I feel need a mention on my blog.
Android | iPhone | Online
This is basically a calorie tracking tool. It has a massive database, badges, social options, goals, and more. There even is a pricey scale you can buy that will automatically update your account with your weight, as well as a step counter that will add the steps you take to your calorie burn count. It’s faster than looking up calories for every food while keeping a food journal, and the graphs and visual aids help you see how well you’re doing. It’s all free, and if you stick with it, I think it is incredibly effective. Losing weight can be alot more complicated than just eating a set number of calories, but Lose it! will help you see which of the foods you eat are the real culprits and which exercises have a good enjoyment:calorie burn ratio. It’s a learning tool, in the end. And if you’re wondering, I have lost weight by using it. And the more I use it and track my food, the healthier I eat and the more I exercise. It’s pretty motivating.
Android | iPhone
I have a love hate relationship with waze. I don’t care for it’s GPS navigation stuff or even the traffic info. However, what waze does which is awesome is it tracks all of your driving (via GPS). It tracks your speed and how long it takes you to drive on certain roads. Then it updates it’s own database with this information, from all of it’s users. What happens is it gives you much faster routes than Google maps. For example, there’s a ton of speed bumps on one entrance to my neighborhood, and that is the side that Google maps tells me is the fastest (to get to the freeway, for example) Waze tells me to take a back exit, avoiding speed bumps and a light. This ends up being much faster in reality. So Waze uses user-generated content to figure out real world fastest routes. And I love it for it.
Camera Zoom FX
Android
Time lapse photography on my phone. Nuff said.
Go Launcher Ex, Go Launcher To-Do List, Go Launcher Calendar
Android
Go Launcher redesigns your phone and gives you several extra widgets. Their calendar and To-Do lists are sleek, elegant, and I constantly use them.
That’s it for now!
xoxo
Noemi
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Cover to cover
Finals are through but Art through the Ages remains, along with the scribbles of numerous previous owners.
You’ve found your home, book.
Bowers Museum
There was a free admission day on Sunday to Bowers Museum. I’d have to say the highlights were seeing part of the famous terracotta army, the scrimshaw exhibit (because scrimshaw is really fun to say) and the Polynesian art section. There I saw lovely relics such as this adult human tooth necklace and a fork used for eating human flesh.
Yum.
Have something to say about this post? Contact me.Re: There’s an App for that
This is a reply to DJ’s post, There’s an App for that
Sometimes when I’m hanging out with friends, there comes a time when we are all on our phones, tapping away. Someone sarcastically mentions, “Hey guys, let’s hang out so we can just play on our phones.”
It’s easy to see the disrupt that technology puts into “being human” and it’s easy to be opposed to it. But the benefits far outweigh these awkward moments.
The fact that people are using this increased connectivity to drastically improve their lives is the most amazing part of the internet. One example of this is the Wikimedia foundation that brings access to Wikipedia to Africans who do not have access to the Internet. They can use this information to learn about different subjects, especially science that when applied, can significantly improve their lives. Books were the first step towards this increased connectivity. They are massive amounts of information stored in portable devices that we can gift, pass on, share, and read. However, books can be limited to those with the money and education. Think about the college kids that skip out on buying $100 books to save money; can you blame them? What the internet does is offer information up to a much broader group of economic classes. Though not the whole world has access to this pool of information, many people in disadvantaged situations and countries do. Some of them have used the internet to learn and become self-taught. The educated upper-class looks down upon my internet-educated generation because it is terrifying to them how much we can know and learn for free and without a degree. The connectivity of the Internet granted two great new freedoms, the freedom to mass information and the freedom to easily publish information.
While sometimes, it may seem like you are in your own little world when you are on your phone or focused on the music blaring through your headphones, you are really in our little world. A world that has become larger through massive amounts of data yet smaller in the way it keeps us closer. A world we all created together, one byte at a time.
Have something to say about this post? Contact me.I’m gonna miss this car
When it lays down and dies.
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thanks to amy for the photo
thanks to manic panic hot hot pink for the color. My hair was not prelightened, just damaged towards the ends and lightened previously many moons ago. I’m done with bleaching my hair, so I used manic panic because it comes out bright even if you don’t bleach. it’s a nice gradeint. feels good. My ends are healthier (and thicker).
good good good
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.. decaying just short of forever..
Unfinished.
Not that anything is ever truly finished.
The dead things are coming.
Because I like drawing them.
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