oh my, i just saw this video and it's so pretty! it rings a lot of my artistic senses with aesthetic contentment. makes me want to travel to the east again and to go shoot with old film cameras. also makes me excited to paint, which is nice considering recent circumstances....
i need more stuff like this in my life.
as a side note, this is also one of my newest obsessions to play on my guitar for no reason other than it is-- so. fun. to play. the chords are easy, but it's satisfyingly difficult to syncopate singing with guitar-ing in ingrid's music.
however, i tend to play it best when my 7-yr old niece is singing along while playing percussion on her homemade instruments.
2.19.2011
2.14.2011
a day to love
9:56 am -- every valentine's day, i'm determined to find things and people to love extra well, regardless of my relationship status. i think it's sad how much anti-happiness there is because there's so much emphasis on the dating aspect of valentines.
i wanted to write a valentine post today, but had no idea what to write about. so i started keeping a log during the day of these valentine-related things.
9:37am (yeah, i realize that one already happened)
my teacher ryan woodward and his wife brought us all donuts! and i added chocolate milk : )
10:02 am
my friend simini posted something adorable for her parents.
10:52 am
in the ladies' room, i found sweet little post-its on the mirror. i found out it was part of this. kind of lovely.
11:04 am
i am specifically trying to smile at everyone i see today. it's working pretty well so far. and i'm happier, too...i used to do this all the time; why don't i reinstate that habit?
11:28 am
i got distracted watching this video.
11:46 am
'harappa' by e.s. posthumus lulled me to sleep in the animation lab. i woke up at 11:52. it was a soothing little nap
2:12 pm
went to eat tasty food with nikki, and the clouds were BEAUTIFUL. the day just felt...good. on the way back, i experienced a tiny hail storm. quite the interesting phenomenon
3:24 pm
wish i could say i spent that hiatus being productive...but alas, i was better spending my time eating good food, fabulous chocolate, chatting with friends, and drawing jamba juices with sad faces on them.
4 pm
went to class and had a fun time joking with my classmates; i also appreciated talking to my teacher jake parker about how to get out of artist slumps and realized how fortunate i am to have such awesome professors.
i stopped keeping track after that...but you get the idea.
i was also very fortunate to be the recipient of various valentine surprises from some of my dearest friends, as well as from others whom i was pleasantly surprised.
it was also good to hang out with some of my girl friends and made me realize how grateful i am to have such wonderful people in my life.
the night proved to be difficult and didn't end quite like i had planned, but tomorrow is a new day.
i wanted to write a valentine post today, but had no idea what to write about. so i started keeping a log during the day of these valentine-related things.
9:37am (yeah, i realize that one already happened)
my teacher ryan woodward and his wife brought us all donuts! and i added chocolate milk : )
10:02 am
my friend simini posted something adorable for her parents.
10:52 am
in the ladies' room, i found sweet little post-its on the mirror. i found out it was part of this. kind of lovely.
11:04 am
i am specifically trying to smile at everyone i see today. it's working pretty well so far. and i'm happier, too...i used to do this all the time; why don't i reinstate that habit?
11:28 am
i got distracted watching this video.
11:46 am
'harappa' by e.s. posthumus lulled me to sleep in the animation lab. i woke up at 11:52. it was a soothing little nap
2:12 pm
went to eat tasty food with nikki, and the clouds were BEAUTIFUL. the day just felt...good. on the way back, i experienced a tiny hail storm. quite the interesting phenomenon
3:24 pm
wish i could say i spent that hiatus being productive...but alas, i was better spending my time eating good food, fabulous chocolate, chatting with friends, and drawing jamba juices with sad faces on them.
4 pm
went to class and had a fun time joking with my classmates; i also appreciated talking to my teacher jake parker about how to get out of artist slumps and realized how fortunate i am to have such awesome professors.
i stopped keeping track after that...but you get the idea.
i was also very fortunate to be the recipient of various valentine surprises from some of my dearest friends, as well as from others whom i was pleasantly surprised.
it was also good to hang out with some of my girl friends and made me realize how grateful i am to have such wonderful people in my life.
the night proved to be difficult and didn't end quite like i had planned, but tomorrow is a new day.
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| {image via here} |
2.08.2011
someday
it's interesting: i don't think even some of my closest friends realize the extent of my 'hopeless romanticism', for lack of better term. not even with just dating-type-stuff, but just my general life perspective. but it's not like i'm gonna tell them...
well, unless they see my blog, i guess....
i gushed over this video for lots of reasons.
{thanks, simini, for showing me this!}
2.04.2011
intangibilities : beauty
people need beauty in their lives.
{written at 8:42 am}
early this morning i headed to work, surprisingly on time. when i rounded my very favorite bend of the neighborhood looking over the city, my breath was literally taken away. for some reason, today it was more beautiful and ethereal than i've seen in quite some time. it looked completely unreal. the view that i saw would have been obscured if one were already below in the city. because i was on a hill, my vision was perfect. metaphor? possibly. i slowed the car and pulled on the side of the road to watch.
i turned off the radio and listened to the silence. i couldn't stay long, and i had no camera. however, photographer as i am, i was almost glad that i had no way to record it this time. it forced me to just stare upward, appreciate, soak in the real thing -- not just the record of it -- more fully.
{when i first started photography, i had this hunger to record absolutely everything. as the files started piling up and the anxiety of getting them all edited/facebooked/sent/whatever, i decided to take less photos and started to just...feel...more. today was one of those days.}
i wished i had someone there with me to share the view, anyone-- but alone in my car, i did not.
then i realized i had someone there: i prayed. thanked God for just about everything in my vision. just that act, coupled with the pure, untouched beauty before me was a really fascinating experience. i was surprised about how much i was truly and genuinely grateful for right at that moment -- those intangible three minutes of time.
i drove to work and parked. i work on campus; i have to climb a hill to reach my building. as i climbed, i kept looking up. though at first my vision was obscured, the more i climbed the more i saw. finally, i stopped and looked around -- there it was: the beauty. the view was different; the perspective had changed. i had to adjust my position to see the same mountains as i had before, but beauty is fleeting; it wasn't as glorious as before. but still pretty breathtaking. made me glad i'd seen what i had from where i was before--it made me more fully appreciate what i saw now.
i had to keep going-- work was my destination. i kept climbing. right before i walked into the building, i took one last look up and could see, almost hidden by foreground trees-- those mountains. the beauty.
metaphor time! this post is just a literal record of the thoughts and how they formulated i my head this morning. concluding with the quite obvious and perhaps all-too-overused metaphor. i'll keep it short and let you fill in the rest:
sometimes it's hard to see the beauty in life. we focus on our worries, concerns, tasks, goals, day-to-day activities, people...at times, we just have to. but remember, beauty is fleeting. how will we see it if we aren't looking heavenward...?
{written at 8:42 am}
early this morning i headed to work, surprisingly on time. when i rounded my very favorite bend of the neighborhood looking over the city, my breath was literally taken away. for some reason, today it was more beautiful and ethereal than i've seen in quite some time. it looked completely unreal. the view that i saw would have been obscured if one were already below in the city. because i was on a hill, my vision was perfect. metaphor? possibly. i slowed the car and pulled on the side of the road to watch.
i turned off the radio and listened to the silence. i couldn't stay long, and i had no camera. however, photographer as i am, i was almost glad that i had no way to record it this time. it forced me to just stare upward, appreciate, soak in the real thing -- not just the record of it -- more fully.
{when i first started photography, i had this hunger to record absolutely everything. as the files started piling up and the anxiety of getting them all edited/facebooked/sent/whatever, i decided to take less photos and started to just...feel...more. today was one of those days.}
i wished i had someone there with me to share the view, anyone-- but alone in my car, i did not.
then i realized i had someone there: i prayed. thanked God for just about everything in my vision. just that act, coupled with the pure, untouched beauty before me was a really fascinating experience. i was surprised about how much i was truly and genuinely grateful for right at that moment -- those intangible three minutes of time.
...
i had to keep going-- work was my destination. i kept climbing. right before i walked into the building, i took one last look up and could see, almost hidden by foreground trees-- those mountains. the beauty.
metaphor time! this post is just a literal record of the thoughts and how they formulated i my head this morning. concluding with the quite obvious and perhaps all-too-overused metaphor. i'll keep it short and let you fill in the rest:
sometimes it's hard to see the beauty in life. we focus on our worries, concerns, tasks, goals, day-to-day activities, people...at times, we just have to. but remember, beauty is fleeting. how will we see it if we aren't looking heavenward...?
byu illustrators' showcase!
{editor's note: thank you for all the comments on the music post and other posts! i'll let you in on a little secret: i love your comments. don't tell. but i do. it means a lot that you like something enough to say something about it. coo'. coo.}
i've been oh-so-very busy this semester (i know, surprising, right?). this year has been perhaps harder and busier than my other college years.
either way, as president of the byu illustrators' association, i have been able to do some really neat things. one of which is to be in charge of the annual byu illustrators' student showcase...and tonight is the opening reception!! live bands, food, art...if you're in utah county, please come and support. it'll be a good time. i promise.
i've been oh-so-very busy this semester (i know, surprising, right?). this year has been perhaps harder and busier than my other college years.
either way, as president of the byu illustrators' association, i have been able to do some really neat things. one of which is to be in charge of the annual byu illustrators' student showcase...and tonight is the opening reception!! live bands, food, art...if you're in utah county, please come and support. it'll be a good time. i promise.
2.02.2011
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