Today is Wednesday, October 31. Today is also Halloween, All Hallows Eve. I'm dressed up as an Insurance Salesman. On Wednesday. Everyone dressed up for Wednesday. It's great.
Here's a short history of Halloween.
Short History of Halloween
Just about every culture sets aside a special time to remember those who have died
and give reverence to departed ancestors.
Halloween started out as that kind of celebration.
It has mutated since it came to America.
The Mexican version of Halloween is Dia De Los Muertos, Day of the Dead.
Halloween's a pretty interesting holiday. People do weird stuff. People say weird stuff. People wear weird stuff. People think weird stuff. It's also a holiday that transcends age. Last week, we made a late night run to Denny's and a group of Halloween celebrators walked in, all dressed up and "fancy." They were probably late 20s, early 30s. They could have been standing next to the elementary kids who dress up for reading time. Transcends age. People do weird stuff.
Let me tell you something. LIFEIZCRAY.
Don't have much to talk about. Because so much is happening. So many projects to juggle, so many conversations to be had, so many passions to pursue. It's all a mad conglomerate of stuffs, compiling, compounding, abstracting upon each other. It's a world of trouble, it's a world of craziness, it's a world of learning and pursuit and excellence. This is the time for it, right? College? Be pushed further than I could even imagine? And THEN some? Yup.
Here's two examples of what I've been working on. I've been digging them BUT there's bunches and bunches of work to be done.
Here's a poster for the All Student Art Show that has been showing on campus all this week.
AND SleepTalk100 was shown at the gallery which was an unprecedented honor.
Have a merry Halloween everybody.
Eat some candy, down some sugar, celebrate a straight up bizarre holiday.
Alright, alright, alright, alright. It's good to be comfortable. Here's the deal: I have class from 9-12:45, then (most days) I have work from 1-4. That's a lot of sitting. It's good to be comfortable, otherwise, that's a whole lot of time of squirming and squiggling in a already uncomfortable chair. It's an interesting business.
Here's the other thing, I have very little time to write this, but I do it anyway, not sure why, I've got stuff to talk about, not really, but, hey, we'll try it out, see where it goes, no knowing where it goes, because, hey, this is "It's Wednesday" and it could go wherever those words want to take it. Boom boom bam, let's go.
Last week, I sped through the post, last week I didn't even mention 2011. It's 2011 folks, nutty and a half. Yesterday was 1-11-11, nutty and three quarters. I'm almost used to writing "11" instead of "10." Normally this process takes months, but because of my job, where I am writing the date numerous numerous times a day, the process was sped up. I still mess it up sometimes though, I'm human.
Interterm has been incredibly busy, it's perhaps unreal, but it's very real because I am here doing it. So many things to do, so little time to do it. I posted this on my facebook the other day: "Life is just getting crazier and crazier...and then once it feels packed full of crazy, it rocks into the previously-unknown form of crazy.... Let's do it." This is still true.
There's big news, you know the post entitled "THE STORY (link)" and the wedding surrounding it? Well, that video is very close to being done, and in the process of the developmentation of that particular video, Mr. Isaac Svensson and I developed a serious interest in wedding videography. All that said, we have developed a wedding videography production company called......
Nope, not yet...it's not ready yet. Imagine it like a chocolate cake that is just a little underdone so it needs 10 minutes left in the oven...just 10 more minutes. Expect a separate post with the name, the website, and the premiere of the very first video!
It's exciting. We're excited.
Here's news, I had the opportunity to play a little bit of roller/street hockey the other day. Mr. Carlo Dangelo mentioned it, just a chunk of time to skate around and shoot around, pass around, all that jazz. I jumped on it. I haven't played since 8th grade, but for my middle school years I breathed roller hockey. I still have my skates albeit TINY, but I smashed my feet into them and skated and shot around, pass around, all that jazz. It was a blast, I was tripping and fumbling all over the place, but it was like riding a bike, it came back pretty quick. Super fun.
Here's a challenge: think of something you used to do all the time but stopped and haven't done it in a long long long while. Do it soon.
I've got some video for you, yeah?
First up, if you are artistic/photographical at all, you've either already seen this or you REALLY need to see it. It's decently long, almost 10 minutes, but totally worth it. Basically, a brilliant street photographer named Vivian Maier lived years and years ago with zero recognition, nobody knew she existed as a GREAT street photographer until recently, thousands upon thousands of negatives were rediscovered after being buried away in attic(s). This story is crazy, crazy crazy crazy. Talk about a discovery.
Next up, you played wiffleball? Yeah, the white ball with all sorts of holes all over it and it goes really slow through the air but is surprisingly hard to hit and it turns into a rather entertaining game of wiffleball? Yeah, that one. This video is entitled "Sick Wiffleball Pitches." The title cannot get more accurate. The amount of control and the movement this gentleman has on this hole-y ball is OUT OF CONTROL. There's other videos of him against actual batters and the batters look like loons trying to hit a wiffleball. Beauty.
Lastly, check this drummer out. Huh?
This video is WHACK. At first I thought, this drummer is a tool, yeah, talented, but a complete tool. Yeah his moves are awesome, out of control, brilliant, but they just do not match up with the rest of the bit. But then I thought, actually, this isn't a concert, it's a show! The drummer is putting on a show, like a circus, for the audience. This is very present in this next video where the drummer and this other dude (not sure who he is) go nutty, get the audience into it (3:35), this is no concert, ladies and gentleman. So, in this sense, go for the gold Mr. Drummer!
And that concludes it. I have work to do, I'm sure you have work to do too. That's what we do, we work, so in your work, be happy, be content, be glad you are working on whatever you are working on because you could be sitting in a corner staring at blank wall for hours upon hours, which in my opinion, is much better than doing data entry.
