impossible project...

Step one: take care of multiple babies by yourself

Step two: feed multiple crying babies at the same time

Step three: change the diapers of multiple crying babies at the same time

Step four: be calm

Step one: decorate every inch of your house with Christmas Lights

Step two: decorate every inch of the outside of your house with Christmas Lights

Step three: decorate every inch of the inside of your house with Christmas Lights

Step four: have a low electricity bill

Public Art

msn had this article on their front page the other day... this brings up the question of graffiti and whether it is vandalism or art.
these pictures are seen as artwork. but what makes it art vs vandalism?

http://cityguides.msn.com/citylife/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=12333483&imageindex=1

Stop and Smell the Roses

here is group 4 aka Stop and Smell the Roses video on youtube. :D

Audio Blog

i decided to record the sound of water running. the sink was running while i was washing the dishes and thought what better sound then running water for this class. washing dishes is apart of everyone's everyday life. we are constantly washing dishes over and over. while listening to the sound it reminded me of the sound of rain falling. all that i could think of was snuggling up in a warm blanket with coffee in my hand and a book in the other. how cliche right? anywho enjoy my audio

Broadway Public Art

i was on Broadway in Seattle visiting my cousin the other day and we were on our way to catch a late dinner and out of no where in the store windows there were works of art. it was so crazy. it was kinda dark so the displays stood out like a sore thumb.
thinking about it this would have been a totally cool project to do because these works of art are in a place that is part of the everyday and to display it in store windows makes a statement.
these artists use different mediums to display their art. there was this one display that used strings of light to produce the artwork. the string of lights were placed in a way that formed an octopus in an ally way. i wish i could find more pictures but i didnt have my camera and i dont know where online to look.
anyways just digging deeper in to the way these works of art are displayed, one could walk down broadway and just think that every store is the same when all of a sudden BAM! these displays are there. in a place that is out of the ordinary. and is apart of our everyday life.

Diet Coke

The rock was probably lying in the Clear Channel parking lot in Seattle, or perhaps in the produce aisle of a grocery store. 'Baby, you're so sweet.' Isn't he sweet? And he also bought a liter of Diet Coke. She's a guy's gal if there ever was one. How's the adage go? Never trust a woman.
- Seattle Weekly

Naked Computer

McKenna's office has set up a PC, which it leaves naked and shivering in the cold, cruel landscape of the World Wide Web. Selis says the "honey pot computer," a pop-up started appearing, and every hour a 40-second video covered most of the screen
- Seattle Weekly

.... Stranger

Stranger offices, where people were already losing their minds at the mere PROJECTION that Obama would win. leaving Drinking Librally and the Comet (a bar for degenerates on Capitol Hill) the SECB started which—BURN!!!
- The Stranger

Falafel

Tim Ptak of the Airport Way bar Smarty Pants, Falafel, has been targeted by angry Georgetown business owners who have interfered with his business and pushed him out of the neighborhood's nightlife scene.FALAFEL TRUCKS ARE NOT A CRIME. "If you're going to threaten me, fine. [But] to follow through—that's just asinine," Wengard says.
- The Stranger

New Virus

new blue-tongue virus was in a safari tour booker in Lusaka, Zambia, who fell ill on Sept. 2 and was airlifted to Johannesburg. symptoms to diarrhea and a measles-like rash. Zambian authorities do not want one that will hurt tourism.named for their round sandy granules; “arena” is Latin for sand.
- New York Times

Bumper to Bumper

Seattle resident David Denman, who rides a motorcycle, and his wife, Melanie, who drives a convertiblea, they worry about the little sticker being stolen. "Why doesn't Seattle do this?" inside the front-seat curbside window for the car rejected out of concern about the increased expense of ticket stock.
- Seattle Times

Improv Everywhere

wearing clothing almost identical to the Best Buy's uniform, the agents would not claim to work at the store but would be friendly and helpful if anyone had a question.

Its interesting to think about this as a sort of political statement because we are all so used to this idea of associating a certain thing to something; in this case blue polos and khakis are associated to Best Buy employees. so to dress up like one can be saying that anyone could be one without being one? haha... yeah what do you guys think?

Blogging Excercise

This picture is quite amazing, how real it looks with its sky and the birds in the sky. Its almost like there is a wall outside, Rather than the sky in a room. This picture reminds me of summer days sitting around lazily just looking up at the blue sky with the clouds flying by. Just thinking of how beautiful it is today and not having to worry about anything else. Like work or life or anything of that matter. Being a child gives you the freedom to be able to not have to care about anything in the future rather a child is able to live day by day. Enjoying every moment of life. It brings me back to a time when I was little, during the summers where my sister had to babysit me. Her room had the best view in the house. It looked out into the street in front of our house but beyond the houses in front there was a magnificent view of mountain rainier. On a good day it looked so majestic and so close you feel like you could almost touch it. On any given summer day I could find my sister perched on her window sill or outside on the rooftop just reading a book or listening to the sounds of summer. I would climb on her bed and just lay there soaking up the rays of the sun that was flooding into the room. When she moved away, I took up her position on her window sill which became my window sill and sat there and let my mind flow with thoughts. Now and days if I attempted to do that I would find myself worrying about one thing or another. Thinking about what I need to do before the next day or just worrying about the future. I find myself not having a spare moment to be able to bask in the sun or even sit and think. However whenever I see a beautiful sunny day or even the sky so blue and clear I think of those summers and how life used to be.



this picture reminds me of my childhood, how I used to obsess about these dolls that were called the American Girl dolls. There was one doll who wore an outfit like this young man in the picture. Her name was Samantha and I remember how I wish I had her as a doll. I would read her stories that came with each doll and imagine how life would be as her. i beg my mom for one of these dolls one Christmas and I would not stop begging until I knew I got one. That Christmas I remember a package coming to our house and seeing my mom at the bottom of the stairway about to take it up to her room. She saw me look down and told me to go to my room. I asked her why and she said its nothing just go. So the morning of Christmas I opened a present that felt like the size of the doll. And to my “surprise” I had my doll. It wasn’t the Samantha doll but the Molly doll. I told my mom I wanted the Molly doll because it looked more like me. It had glasses and pig tails. I loved it so. i would still go through the catalog that the doll came in and look at all the other dolls. The Samantha doll would have this desk set from the time I believe was the 1950s or perhaps earlier. It reminds me a lot of the stool the little boy is sitting on. I made a desk of my own to try to imitate the desk in the catalog. My mom was not going to get me the desk because the desk cost a lot more then she would ever pay for. Also in fourth grade my teacher had this antique desk that was similar to the Samantha desk. And I would love to sit in it during our reading hour. The desk was so classy and cool. In elementary school we did not have those type of desks.


Hmm… this picture reminds me a lot of a television show called Friends. Where one of the characters on the show works as a paleontologist and for his job he would work as a curator for a dinosaur museum. Everytime I see an exhibit like this one I think of the show and how the paleontologist would take the children on tours. But this polar bear brings me back to a documentary called the Inconvenient Truth. Where it talks about the issues of global warming and the affects it has on our world. We see that global warming is real and can make an impact on our world. Why this picture reminds me of this movie is because of an animated image that the documentary put together to give the audience more of a visual which showed how polar bears population is decreasing because of the melting of the ice caps. Polar bears can only swim for so long before the die from drowning. The animation that the show is this little polar bear trying to grab hold of a piece of floating ice. But the ice melts and breaks and cannot hold the bear. Its so sad because the polar bear is made to look so cute. After seeing this documentary I took up a position of trying to be more environmentally friendly. I have practiced more sustainability after this then I would ever have though. My new passion has opened my eye to the things of this world. Before this I was so stuck in my own world and the happenings of my own world I failed to see what was happening in the world around me. This brought about a new interest in helping those who are most vulnerable in the world. Trying to be able to give all that I can give to benefit those who are less fortunate then me.

Taking life for granted... so cliche i know

So i'm taking this classes called realities of inequalities at UWB and its basically a class about looking at the inequalities of certain groups of immigrants. Its a very interesting class because it just puts life into perspective. Today a women who immigrated from India came and told us her personal story of what it was like to immigrate from India to the United States. and her story of how she felt and what she went through was so amazing. People immigrate from other countries to the United States for various reasons; persecution, more opportunity and the lack of security one family could feel in other countries. The everyday life of others in different parts of this world maybe way different from everyday life here. Its just a lot to take in when you are set in someone elses' shoes and just to see the difficulties they go through from day to day.
It makes me really appreciate living in the United States, especially after hearing about persecutions that go on in other countries.
It is just something to think or ponder about... here we talk about the everyday life but looking at things in a bigger perspective we see that the everyday life can be so diverse depending on the person. but yeah.. i just thought i throw that out there.

Life aka The Game of Life

Hmm... i am surprised no one has mentioned The Game of Life. What better game for this class then the game of life. Well not really.. the game of Life is an interesting game. I think i've only played this game once or twice, so i decided to google the synopsis for the game... and here is what i got.

Skill and Chance for all the family - an exciting journey through life. Rich man, poor man, beggarman...Life is full of surprises. Risk everything for big gains or quietly amass a fortune, you can make a lot of money and then lose it again. Will you end up at the Millionaire's Mansion or the Retirement Home?

also.... i found this summary of the game: • Make your choices, take your chances and experience the twists and turns of real life in this modern take on the Game of Life
• Electronic gameplay lets you choose how long you want to play and lets you manage your money, houses, cars and family matters at the touch of a button

its funny how this game is all about buying and making choices and the final prize at the end is either a millionaire's mansion or the retirement home... it makes you think about what people or society sees as an important factor in life. is that all life is really about? what about the meaning behind living? is there meaning? is there a purpose other than being financially comfortable? makes you think huh? :)

or does this game just highlight the everyday life? i always seem to get confused with finding the important in the everyday life vs just seeing what goes on in the everyday. its still alittle blurry because my whole mentality is that i want to constantly see the importance of the everyday or in other words "smell the roses." i feel like i need to always see the little things that matter. i'm not entirely sure i am making sense but thats the fun of blogging, just to get your thoughts all out.

what do you guys think??

My Journey to the past i once knew.... (my slideshow :D )

Christmas decorations already...

I saw Christmas decorations at the store today and it made me think of our winter last year. This picture is one i took last year from my bed room window. This picture made me think of the UFO pictures that were shown in class and how i probably would not have taken a picture of the street in front of me if not for the beautiful sunset and snow sprinkled on the ground.

Anywho... christmas decorations already?!?! its only october.. it feels like the stores start selling decorations for holidays early and early every year. I am a sucker for it though. I've already started my christmas shopping, my whole thought of mind this year is to get my shopping done early so i dont have to worry about it later. but somehow i always wait till the last minute to buy gifts then i end up buying useless or close to useless stuff. We'll see how this holiday season goes. I told myself i want to stray away from buying materialistic stuff and try to make my gifts or make them more personal. But that whole topic is a whole other story. We'll save that for when the holiday seasons comes closer.

Hope you guys find this picture as breathtaking as when i first took it. :D

Twenty Mintues...

Hmmm.... so my twenty minutes of nothingness was spent in a car for 3 hours on friday on my way to portland. I was heading down for my cousin's wedding and i had not had the time before to take twenty minutes out of my schedule. Originally I had planned for my 20 minutes of nothingness to be spent lying in my room just staring up at the ceiling but i figured since i had 3 hours to do nothing might as well spend it on something productive? Haha thats a interesting thought.. considering spending 20 minutes to do nothing productive. but its only productive because its a requirement. 

Thinking about how some people consider sitting in front of a television or similar activities a form of doing nothing were as I see doing nothing requires me to free my mind from anything distracting me. But when i just sit there and "free my mind" my mind would usually be racing. I would think about the things i need to get done or things i need to do before the next day. So really thought i consider doing nothing just sitting in my room but some may beg to differ.

Anyways during my 20 minutes I tried to just zone out and disengage myself from the conversations that was going on around me in the car. But just observing the conversations allowed me to notice little things. For instance I noticed little quirks that my mom did when she was talking that i never really noticed before. I think I may need to shut my mouth more often and just listen. But i think that was the point of this whole exercise.