creation by elimination

Austin Kleon is a person who writes poems out of newspapers and makes me miss my high school creative writing class. We actually might have done this once. But things like this, or the magazine collage poems we did whenever we had spare time, were some of my favorite things I did in that class. I guess maybe it's easier to write when you can pretend it's not you doing it and you're really just finding it already there?


Either way, I think I should try doing some of these with those free newspapers floating around the metro. There's also a tumblr for submitting your own poems and a book which I kind of want to buy for myself and about half of the people I know. But it would be weird to get everybody the same thing for Christmas, probably.

Related, and found through the above: A Humument, which I also want, and which is also on the internest for you to look at.

knitten a mitten

To entertain myself over the break I started knitting some mittens! You know, for my freezing icicle hands that I have pretty much all year. This is the first one - notice the thumb hole, of which I am really proud (this is my first project with digits). The second one is going to reverse the colors, so the yellow will be the background and the red the more design-ish part. Too bad I'm not in Gryffindor.

The pattern I used is the Ruba'iyat Mittens, which is super awesome and can be found here if you use Ravelry, but I'm not sure how to find it otherwise.

echolilia

These are such lovely pictures.

(By Timothy Archibald, via Mind Hacks)

let's look at some sounds

Chladni Singing from meara o'reilly on Vimeo.

Have you seen this? I had not, until now, but OH WOW. This is incredible for the following reasons:

1. geometric patterns
2. a person making really awesome sounds
3. a person making sounds that manifest as geometric patterns
4. I just really like that one shot of her looking serious with all those spoons and things hanging about
5. SCIENCE!

(via the debonaire)

various things

Today:

- slept extremely late.

- bought my fencing glove.

- sent my resume to a dude teaching English at a private high school. I'm hoping he'll maybe give me a job as a tutor so I can be a functional member of this society I'm only vaguely part of.

- ate cheese bread in the park, watched ducks/geese/pigeons/one swan/one strange little white bird. Was caught off-guard by the progression of fall, which is indistinguishable outside of contained Nature Zones.

- was unable to remember my dreams except for frequent and vague flashes. If these are to be trusted, the dream took place partly in my quartier and partly in a metro station, involved a large crowd of people (some of whom were smiling creepily) and an avocado, and was generally unsettling.

- went through my huge unsorted bookmark file trying to decide what I actually needed in there. If you know me on facebook, you may notice me posting a lot of unrelated links in the next few days, this is because I want to get these out of my bookmarks but don't want it to go away entirely/feel I need to show it to people.

Related: here are some things.

This is something I found last year in my digital media class, and which I like a lot. You can put in places you want to go, and it will show them with a satellite image and cycle through all the places that have ever been submitted. Two of these are mine.

Also, I kind of want to do this. What do you think?

"sometimes people say my head is too big for my body"

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.

eeeeeeeeheheheheheeeeheeeheeeee!

I would drive this car.

This is fantastic. Everyone, I encourage you to make your cars better.