Color- est

Color is a bizarre, complicated, yet incredibly simple element.  Take notice of my clothing.  Do the colors match? No. They don't. When I was standing in front of the mirror, a look of disgust took place upon my face; just in case, I wasn't in a place to change.  Normally I would change, but I thought to myself "Man, color is such a bizarre, complicated, yet incredibly simple element, that I think I'll rock these whack colors today and write about it on my blog."  As you can tell, this is precisely what happened.  Seriously though, color is pretty crazy.  Why do some colors work together and others don't?  Whats the deal with complimentary, analogous, triadic, color schemes.  Don't know the answer, can't help you out.  What do I know? I know that color is an art and some people just don't have it, same reason some people can't clap on beat to save their lives, drives me bonkers, but it's life, and I'm blessed to have rhythm...and color recognition.  If you can't clap on beat, sorry.  If you can't tell red from black (yes, I'm talking to you Connor), sorry.  But here's the deal: you're probably using the skills that I have used up clapping and looking at colors in other better, cooler, radder, sweeter places than I could imagine.  You're talented.




That was a somewhat random spiel, how nice.

I've got some artistic matter for you today.  I am in a typography class at Biola labeled "Letters & Symbols."  Kind of hard to explain what exactly we learn, but it's an incredible class that is stretching my mind through great lengths.  We had a project due yesterday: we had to choose 3 words and then construct them out of virtually anything and everything.  There were rules, rules irrelevant to this blog, but I followed the rules and below are some fun examples of the outcome.  Enjoy.


Exhibit 1: Blue Painter's tape. FUN FACT: In real life, this stretches over 6 feet in length.

Exhibit 2: Hot Sauce on a refrigerator door. FUN FACT: In real life, this is still sitting outside my room. It smells like hot sauce exploded on a refrigerator door.

Exhibit 3: Socks. FUN FACT: In real life, those are real socks, look closely, you can tell.

Exhibit 4: Shoelace(s). FUN FACT: In real life, the shoelace had to be eliminated from the shoe in order to spell elimination. How symbolic.

And there you have it, some words.






Moving forward

This week is crazy, last week was crazy, so much stuff happens in a week, it is rather remarkable.  As of last week, Justin Bieber was pretty much a Biola student, that has changed quite a bit, but hey, I'm still a belieber.  Even the Mawwiage Films banner was updated, last week was weak sauce, we'ek needed to upgrade:

 

Mawwiage Films | Wedding Videography

Speaking of things that happen in a week.  There are two specific videos that were born and then took over the face of the planet this last week.  One is the girl from UCLA who rants about Asians in the library, expressing her disgust towards their behavior in the library and elsewhere.  I'm not going to post that trash on my blog, no offense. She has received mauling by the multitudes, I wish her good luck in the conquering the rest of her life.  It's a bummer this had to happen.




All in good form, the other video is by brilliant lyricist Rebecca Black.  Arguably the goodest lyrics of the year, Black's "Friday" inspires millions with lyrics such as

"Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes afterwards"

and

"We-we-we so excited"


Here's the vid.





Wonderful.






So that's the plan, that's the jam, it's the end of the post, worth as much as spam.

Have a wonderful day people of the internet. Enjoy yourself on this fine day.

Decembing

It's December.  Can't believe it.  I went on and on and on about time flying in recent posts, you know this, if you're that interested scroll down and/or do some research, it won't be too hard to find; fact is, time is flying, it's going to continue to fly, it's going to continue to surprise me, it's going to continue to blow my mind, it's going to continue being a prevalent topic in this blog; fact is, I don't want to talk about it any more, the topic has become overused, I have worn it out in a way; however, someone is as interested as I am: the phrase "time flies too fast it's almost 2011" was searched a number of times in the search engine we know as Google, leading to the clickage of the #1 hit, this blog.  Time is indeed flying.

Not too much to discuss today.  It's too bad.  I have a plethora of video for you though, so that's good.  There will be a considerable amount of explanation and discussion surrounding the content of the videos, so hopefully that will suffice.


First, the day after Thanksgiving, the holiday known as "Black Friday."  I personally have never participated in the highly anticipated shopping extravaganza, but I've heard stories, I've seen videos.  Speaking of videos, here's one for you now:



This video is entertaining and incredibly exciting, but there's an undertone that I picked up, it represents the disgusting nature of consumerism in America.  These people will go to the absolute extreme to pick up an xbox for cheap, perhaps trampling other shoppers, perhaps busting through gates and doors, perhaps running from point A to point B without yielding to the in-store displays, but hey, as long as you save $50, it's all worth it.  I just got a phatty knot in my gut watching this; yeah, it's exciting and I bet you if I was there, I would be just as much into it, but I'm a consumer, consumerism is nasty.  We gotta have it, we gotta have it now, and if we can get discounted? GIVE IT TO ME.  I have yet to hear to actual deaths occurring from a trampling on Black Friday 2010, but I know years past have experienced their fill of fatalities.  Oh well, it's all worth it, it's all worth waiting hours and hours in line to get something the majority of the shoppers do not, in the slightest bit, need.

I'll join in the fun someday.  Like I said, it's thrilling, it's just a very interesting representation of American consumerism.


Next next, speaking about consumerism, this guy knows his market, he knows how to make a buck; he's dedicated, he's been in the same business for 60+ years, he's a millionaire; he is Joseph Ades and he sells potato peelers on a street corner.



This video is inspiring.  With dedication and passion, anything can become something.  Joe Ades is pro and I was very sad to hear he passed away in 2009.  It's too bad, because I would like to have been convinced to buy a potato peeler; I don't think it can be done, but millions of mulah doesn't lie.



Next next next, this is a video I discovered by NPR.  Great little clip of extremely interesting, ridiculous, conceptual, baffling examples of the discouragement of trying to walk straight with a blindfold on, the idea and approval that it is indeed impossible.  NPR takes a closer look:






Next next next next, this video was posted on Facebook with a challenge: "Hume needs to step up their game."  We're talking about the famed Bike Jump, the premier weekly event at Ponderosa high school camp at Hume Lake.  I didn't know what I was getting myself into before I watched this video, let's just say NUTTY is an understatement.






Next next next next next, this final video is simply intriguing for whatever reason.  I honestly don't know why, I was simply intrigued, for whatever reason.  












That's it peeps!  Sorry to all y'all who enjoy the reading aspects of this blog, I just didn't bring the heat today; for this, I apologize.  However, the video content upped it's game with 5 videos, a number more than normal; additionally, the content contained within these videos reigned more interesting and thought provoking that a many of the videos posted on this blog, so hopefully you find solace.


Have a nice day today, go outside and look at a blade of grass, just one blade.  Think about it's journey from underneath the ground to breaking the barrier of the soil to protrude into the open air.