transparent street signs illusion

"Chicago artist Cayetano Ferrer paints street signs with images of its immediate background, thus giving them the illusion of transparency."

-taken from oddee.com

happy mayday.

Andy Goldsworthy

"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."

america

these are the things i can not wait to get home for:

television
not wearing flipflops in the shower
rice milk
dollar bills
good sushi
my cell phone
tap water
a bed that isn't twin sized
windows with screens
fast internet
sinks with one faucet
my car
a gym that is not at the top of a mountain

i'm sure there are more. don't get me wrong, abroad is amazing...but not quite right.

ta ta for now

trompe l'oeil is cool

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whatttttttttttttttttttttttt.

after the Visualizer, the Top 25 Most Played feature of itunes is my favorite. it would be my #1 favorite feature but, y'know, the Visualizer is pretty much the best creation on earth. anyways, here's mine:

1. god's bathroom floor- atmosphere
2. modern man's hustle- amosphere
3. if i could- phish
4. body pillow- atmosphere
5. cotton- the mountain goats
6. reflections- atmosphere
7. d'yer mak'er- led zeppelin
8. wading in the velvet sea- phish
9. knockin' on heaven's door- bob dylan
10. mama- strangefolk
11. show stopper- danity kane
12. far from yourself- strangefolk
13. free- phish
14. heavy things- phish
15. the woman with the tattooed hands- atmosphere
16. sunshine- atmosphere
17. adjust- atmosphere
18. sad- strangefolk
19. reelin' in the years- steely dan
20. travel (remix)- atmosphere
21. so rich, so pretty- mickey avalon
22. alaska- strangefolk
23. woman tonight- atmosphere & murs
24. shoes- atmosphere
25. atlantic city- the band

hmm...also, why has this huge furry bumble bee taken up residence right outside my window?

byeeee.

a sweet picture, in my opinion. taken from thecobrasnake.com.

Elevator Video, The New Yorker

worth reading the article accompanying this video: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all

next time i'll take the stairs...

Atmosphere-Shoulda Known

britney save can justin only

the people of berlin know whats up.

new atmosphere album is out in 4 dayyyys. so so so so excited. it will no question be the only thing playing in my car all next semester. word.

reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs

"I entertained myself with the notion that this was what would happen if the Big One hit. Maybe if the Big One hits, I told myself, the world's few remaining survivors will convene in the wastelands in the aftermath, giving rise to a bevy of semiutopian, hedonistic shantytowns characterized by outrageous celebration, massively creative explosions of self-expression, a bartering economy, and a nearly obsessive preoccupation with sex, fire, art, and the finite nature of existence. Maybe the world's new leader will be a nonleading leader, an antiauthoritarian bohemian with a penchant for innovative social theory. Maybe Burning Man is a demonstration of how human beings might handle things in the event that we finally succeed at fucking things up for good, which, as far as I can tell, could happen any day now.

Or maybe not."

-Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

this is sweet:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1609676

i would, yknow, post this video straight onto the blog...that is, if i knew how to post this video straight onto the blog.

i don't think technology is my thing. in fact, i'm posting this from a typewriter. oh, lord.

back

so i am back in brighton after 4 weeks in: hong kong, berlin, zurich, interlaken, venice, florence, rome, athens, mykonos, and eurodisney.

included in those 4 weeks: 2 amusement parks, the berlin wall, hitler's gravesight, the balcony where michael jackson dangled his newborn child, an overnight train with a triple bunkbed, alot of swiss chocolate, cheese fondue, skydiving from 11,000 feet above the swiss alps, watching the dvd of myself skydiving from 11,000 feet above the swiss alps, fight club, oceans 12, a lot of italian food, rabbit pasta, wine, a hotel room with a 25 foot ceiling, several nights of debauchery with wash u people, several hostels with no hot water, 2 pregnancies (turned out they were food babies), the colosseum, ouzo, not being able to figure out the brakes on an ATV, a leopard-like sunburn, and, finally, jasmine & aladdin.

and now i am back in my bed in my little room at sussex. lovely.