hearts and hearts and hearts

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currently in love with joette maue's fiber art. (photo is from her website). hand stitching on reclaimed old linens - what amazing texture and character to her work. plus, as is probably clear by now, text-based art is a minor obsession of mine. seeing so many people creatively incorporating embroidery in fresh ways is really getting my crafty senses tingling.

you can buy her work on her etsy store!

blog revival

alright, internet. me and you. again.

sadly, there is not much of interest that i have to write about anymore seeing as i work a desk job on the west coast and am currently on a trajectory to a very boring and unfulfilling career. Luckily for everyone though, I do have a lot more bright white rage than ever before. i think that this can be good sometimes. at least, it provides a motivation for change. as well as a motivation for crafts.

so, travel blog no more. but this will become e-documentation of making the best of things.

a new life strategy:

... what would jay-z do?

inspired by ben lee, my sister, and of course, HOV.

i think that if we all adopted this strategy,\\\\\\\ well. everything would be better.

jay-z would not bomb final exams on legislative interpretation because he wouldn't write them. he would be in st. tropez with "the hottest chick in the game" (beyonce).

some of us take so much

too much talk radio (not enough?)

i can't sleep

i can't sleep

i can't sleep

it feels like i haven't slept in days.

when it rains, i can't get out of bed

recently, i got word of a really exciting happening in vancouver at the end of october. some of my favourite writers will be speaking and reading from recent works (like anik see, who is giving a talk on the book as object and also reading from her latest book, postcard and other stories.... since i am a giant geek for her, i have been anxiously counting down the days until its release. yes, i have it on pre-order. and yes, i think about it all the time).

when my brain started gearing up for this festival, i realized - i haven't written ANYTHING since june. i hate that feeling. WRITE MORE WRITE MORE WRITE MORE! but no amount of yelling at myself can really make things fall into place. settling into a new city hasn't helped (the settling part. i am not used to being so permanently bound to a place).

i miss montreal. the leaves don't change colours here in the fall and it is leaving me feeling rather out of sorts.

i seem to be a verb

... is a book by R. Buckminster Fuller (that guy with the glasses). He, apparently, was all of the following things: comprehensive designer,

inventor, engineer, mathematician,

architect, cartographer, philosopher,

poet, cosmogonist, choreographer and last but not least, a visionary.

I bought this book a couple of years ago not knowing anything about it. Mostly i bought it because of the quote right on the cover: "The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: An instruction book didn't come with it." Looking through this book is quite an unsettling experience... everything is all twisted around, upside down, with text and images everywhere. needless to say, incredibly intriguing. Every now and again, i pick up the book to try to see if I can take get something new out of it. Mostly, I enjoy the sensation of reading it and feel inspired by some short passage or quote. Everything in the book is so disjointed, though, and I never really know where to start. Maybe this is just me...

[I just discovered that there is a Buckminster Fuller institute which puts on events like Park(ing) Day 2009 in Brooklyn - reclaiming parking spaces on one day a year to turn them into people-friend public spaces. ]

The greatest part, so far, of my current re-reading is the following Frank Zappa quote that Buckminster Fuller put upside down somewhere:

"A lot of things wrong with society today are directly attributable to the fact that people who make the laws are sexually maladjusted. 'Why should those dirty teenagers have all the fun'?"

or alternatively, this little nugget of truth:

"the sun doesn't rise or set. the earth revolves around the sun into sight and out of sight. sunset is merely a word with poetic imagery that creates erroneous reflexes. how about two new words: Sunsee and Sunclipse."

well. how about them?