Wednesday, November 30, 2011

resistance

i'm stalling right now.

i've been working on these
electrical drawings for work.

based on the blueprints,
i have to make a
3D isometric view,
add in all the
outlets
switches
and lights.

and then figure out the
path of least resistance
for the wires to travel
back to the breaker box.

and the longer i work on this,
the more times i sing this song
over 
and over
and over
and over.



it's break time.

lessons in futility

i'm learnin' 'em left and right.
but it's not worth getting into.

i was walking home from work last night,
and passed this woman who
was shouting at someone up ahead
saying,
"listen to me!
my real name is patty la-bell!
stop walking,
i've got other things to tell you!"

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

the meters

i am slightly frustrated at the moment, but it's a little difficult to be when listening to these songs. 
problem. 
solution.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

ding dong, mkay

after 36 hours at the fair this weekend,
and listening to non-stop christmas music
all i can think about is this:


they played this song quite a bit.
fortunately, i do enjoy it
but when it's sung by these people.

craftin' market!

i have some pictures to share of the market i've been in for the last 2 days, and will be going back to today.


this is michael resetting our display from the day before.



here's a picture of ricky ticky, lookin' cute sitting in the back. he had been keeping me company the day before.

but then, i had a brain thought...why not add him to the front!

so, this is michael...re-resetting up the display.

 thank you mikey.

and this is kim's stuff. we are sharing the cabin. she makes the amazing ceramic pieces. mostly all by hand, not many wheel-thrown. each piece has a really unique look and feel. 




and here is a panorama from the inside. i got a little bored.

alright back to work back to work back to work.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

30 helens agree...

jason segel is perfect for me.

during my lunch break at work, i usually watch something on hulu. although because yesterday was monday, there wasn't a new colbert or daily show posted yet, so i had to look for something else. and since i've liked jason segel for quite some time, and he hosted snl this weekend...and i've been hearing pleasant things about this season of snl (...like it's actually funny again), i decided to watch that.

but 5 minutes into it, i realized just how deep my love for jason segel was, and that i had been giggling...even at the jokes that were't that funny. the monologue wasn't even over yet...

my love for jason segel goes back to high school when i would watch freaks and geeks on tv.
"can't wate for tonite. w.a.t.e"

although to be honest, i am more in love with this guy from that show.

and then i forgot about jason for a while, until i saw forgetting sarah marshall. and i found out he had a love of puppets as well.


and now, to find that he's making a muppet movie?!?! forget about it!


i am very excited about this movie, because i trust that he understands the muppets. i read an article a little while ago about about him, and this. and he stated that the best thing about the muppets isn't how silly they are, it's that they deal with some serious and sad things.

anyway, i had to stop watching snl. and instead had a text exchange with my sister:
"i think im in love w jason segel"
"That is understandable, for sure.
I think too, that if you met, he would 'get' you and you would sweep him off his big clompy feet."
"ha, yeah, i think that too."
"So make it happen"
"i think that i'd just giggle the whole time if i ever met him"
"oh man, don't do that."

i can't 'wate' for this movie.


Monday, November 21, 2011

spoiler alert: finkle IS einhorn!

this movie came on tv last night.
i forgot how funny it was.


i was hoping this clip would include the bubblewrap part...because i don't know about you, but whenever i see that stuff lying on the ground, i do that bit. or at least think about doing that bit.


cheddah! ooooooow!


oh memories.

Monday, November 14, 2011

handmade arcade!

i am slowly trying to collect all of the pictures and videos taken of the event this weekend, so be patient.

but man, i don't think it could have gone any better.

when we were trying to find the convention center and a place to park, i noticed people looking at me and laughing. i was still in serious mode, and said to myself, "what the heck is so funny people?!" and then i looked in my back seat and remembered the giant balloon costume, and then i laughed at myself. my brother michael and his girlfriend heather were in the car in front of me. heather had put on one of the helmets and was riding around like that for who knows how long.

here are some pictures of my brother michael, heather, and myself. we got there a little early, so we started playing around...i mean..setting up...







i couldn't figure out why no one was stopping by. i thought it may have been because people couldn't figure out what they had to do. so heather and i started demonstrating.

 teamwork.
 (...it dawned on me later that the doors hadn't opened yet..oops).

since we weren't selling our toys this time, i made these balloon business cards to pass out. in order to get the contact information, you have to blow it up. and for an added bonus, i drew a monster on them. i had michael video tape it....anything to get people to come over and play. (i edited the footage to go in reverse first, because that entertained me)

the doors finally opened and there was a sea of people, which was equally overwhelming and incredible.

you can see the giant pizza in this picture. starting from the top, there's the dough, the cheese, a pepperoni, an olive, and a banana pepper.






we never had enough people at one time to have 3 people to a team and race. instead, we would get one or two people and they would pick which costume they wanted to wear, and would race against each other. and that worked out just as well. it kind of turned into whatever the kids wanted to do. some of the time, it was just a free play area, because the kids were fixated on making a pizza over and over again. and other times they wanted to put on the balloon costume and pretend to fly away. and other times it was just a dance area.

some of the kids were too young to understand what they had to do, so we would change the game around to where they picked a costume to put on, and would have to catch all the pizza pieces like a ring toss. but no matter what version people decided, everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves and that was awesome to see.


this little girl was great. she ran up and jumped on the pizza, and made a bed out of it. she was there for a good half hour.





a lot of people asked if we were a performing group, and if we did kids parties and stuff. michael and i looked at each other and said, "....uh...we do now.."

there was a lull for a hour or so in the middle of the day, so i danced to the music.



i brought my monster coat too, which drew a lot of attention. it was entertaining to see which kids were terrified/confused and which one wanted to tackle me.


we have some videos of kids doing the race, but i'll post those tomorrow (hopefully).

it was pretty cool to see a lot of adults getting involved as well. it's always a challenge to get them to let their guard down enough to put on a costume and act silly for a few minutes. but that's why i love working with kids so much. they don't have those walls up yet, and they don't know what embarrassment feels like yet. that is something i try to keep in mind, and something that inspires me.



there is more to come to this post!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

david and robocop



i work for a design company that creates the visuals for court cases to help explain the case to the jury. most of the time, the things we design are timelines or other printed boards that are similar to the timelines you made in grade school that described the important events in your life such as when you lost your first tooth. but other times we make these full-blown flash interactive and presentations that include video, documents, sound recordings, etc. 

not every case calls for a super high-tech interactive, for example, when the person we are helping is trying to get the point across that they don't have a lot of cash. this is referred to as the 'david and goliath' conundrum.

my coworker, a saleswoman, has to give a presentation about our services to potential clients every now and then. she asked me to jazz up her text-heavy snooze-fest, because apparently i'm one hip chick. so, realizing this is the perfect opportunity have a bunch of lawyers looking at a picture of robocop..i drew this. it makes me giggle.



Tuesday, November 8, 2011

80 billion years of gigglin'

i've been pretty obsessed with this song (and cd).
it has been repeat since it came in from the library.

holy moley, lots of shows!

i just dropped some work off at a gallery last night. it's a pop-up shop called the double feature gallery in lakewood, ohio, and the space is incredible! such a cool little spot, right next to the capitol theater...(and the happy dog is a few blocks up, always a plus).

the opening is this friday: 11/11/11. so go. check it out.


and then on saturday (11/12/11) is the handmade arcarde in pittsburgh! thankfully, i finished the last of the costumes over the weekend. i am super excited for this show!


then, i'll have one weekend off.

but then! starting the thanksgiving weekend, i will be in a marathon crafting fair markets every weekend until new years day. this is a card i made for it.

whew. lots to do.

Monday, November 7, 2011

status update:

...still bored at work.


i love s'merch. 
and i don't care if i'm only as tall as his knee-cap.

standing up

this weekend i saw michael ian black at the grog shop with my good friend tom cava...i mean brandino, adina and her dudefriend. it was a pretty good show. i like michael ian black...but..i feel like he does better when he's playing off of someone/doing a bit, like the stella group, or tom cavanaugh and MATES.

but it was a good show, and i had a good time.
this wasn't one of the jokes he did, but it's what i could find on youtubes.


and this is an example of mib's work that i enjoy more:

but while we were at the show, we found out that todd barry (!!!) is coming to town.
i will have to go.

one more clip. i found this the other week, and i finally have a reason to post it.

and why not, here's michael showalter...showalter

priorities

Friday, November 4, 2011

...i must be having fun

it may be all the christmas shopping in the air,
or it may be something else,
but something is making me realize
the end of the year is already here.

i've been a little spacey today...



here are some practice faces i drew

Thursday, November 3, 2011

bigfeets eggs

after seeing the new black keys video, lonely boy, i was inspired to somehow green-screen myself into the video.  i decided that i wanted to do one video a week where i green screen myself into something...

so i went over to my brother adam's house, but got sidetracked with this project. i brought luke da uke with me, and we attempted to write a song. 

this is what happened:


...we never got a good take...
haven't had time to actually do anything with the footage yet. 
but just you wait.
boy, just you wait.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

...eh

someone just walked back to the graphics department and said, "man! none of the graphics people are here."

...is it my fault he didn't check my cubicle? should i have stopped watching youtube...?

ahoy mateys!

i am obsessed with the MATES podcast. 
i am also bored out of my mind at work right now.
so i made these things.

check it out.
become addicted.





i spent maybe 10 minutes on this...but it's the thought that counts, right?

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

calvin and alice

i've been reading this book
on the train into work
by calvin trillin
called 'about alice.'

it's a memoir about his wife who died. i am enjoying it. there was one paragraph that particularly caught my attention:

"...when we were in our early thirties, it occurred to me that one way to divide the people we knew was that some of them were still dependent on their parents - financially or emotionally or some other way - and some of them had seen that role ended or even reversed. i never embarked on a study to see if that distinction was a predictor of how people handled what has to be handled to get through life - the small matters of logistics and maintenance that were known around our house as Administrative Caca, or serious issues of, say, catastrophic illness or financial disaster - but is suppose i always assumed that alice's early responsibility for her parents had something to do with her tendency to sit down and systematically deal with whatever problem came up..."

it caught my attention because this is something i struggle with personally, and this was the first time i have come across someone else addressing the issue.

i don't want to forget this thought.

data porn

well, it's the first of them month which means student loan payments - among other things - are due. and even though i am sending in triple payments each month to pay it off as fast as possible, i still feel like i'm making no progress.

so here's a chart i just made since there's nothing to do at work.

there are some things i'd like to fix. and maybe i'll update it when the department of education loan is finally paid off completely, but i'm bored with it for now.