Room to Think

It's hard work planning a trip two years in advance.  Part of me likes a little spontaneity.  Sometimes I think I deliberately wait for the last minute in order to help myself plan less.  Plans always  go awry. This weekend I planned to visit Vancouver, BC. But the only part of the plan that I have currently is that I'm going--as long as it's not raining too hard-- tomorrow .  I'm either going to get terribly lost, or have a ton of fun wasting gas.  =) Despite living four years in Bellingham, and having my own car and passport, this will be my first trip to Vancouver without my family. They came up for my 20th birthday and took me up there for an overnight experience .  It was then, with my entire family at the table in a so-so mexican restaurant in downtown Vancouver, that I discovered my absolute dislike for the taste of grenadine in my mixed drinks. They also made me wear the sombrero.  AND they never carded me. The b...

First of all, what I love about Joe's talk is that he truly is a storyteller. He even uses his own theme music! I took a storytelling class a few quarters ago, and I loved it, but it was hard work! Just getting my brain to remember the course of the story and all the words and motions that went with each story was a challenge.  Joe here had to remember his script, the order of the buttons he used, their placement on the iPad screen, and push them all at the right time so his story made sense. I can tell you it takes a lot of concentration to tell a story in an exciting way. I almost feel like I could see it on Joe Sabia's face a few times, despite how careful he was to seem excited about his narrative. It's the same way for blogs. Blogging is just another outlet for people to tell their stories--with new perspectives and through a new medium. And it still takes a lot of work to keep the stories interesting What I've found most interesting in the last coupl...

Good morning! Today's TEDtalk Tuesday is by that hipster man up there, Joe Sabia.  He's known for things like videos like " Tupac in Kazakhastan " and " A History of Lyrics that Aren't Lyrics ". He's a technological storyteller...which means that he tells a story about the evolution of stories in under 4 minutes . And, he uses his iPad. So I'll keep my summary short so you can actually watch the video. He begins with the book. "The book was the king of storytelling. It was venerable. It was ubiquitous. But it was a little bit boring...In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device."  (about 10 secs in) Then he shows how a man named Lothar Meggendorfer   started the revolution that led to the evolution of how we tell a story. "But the way that humans tell a story has always evolved with pure, consistent, novelty." (3:15) And that's what I'm going to ...

Happy Sunday everyone!  It's been a week since I drew my chubby Kidney Man, and I haven't posted like I promised.  So today you'll get a double dose of Sunday Scribbles! I had to do some fancy stuff with the flash on my point and shoot to get rid of the nasty reflection. Drawing inspiration from my classmate Maddie's  blog on the body, I've sort of become fascinated with learning how to draw boobs (breasts? I never know what to call them.) That's right, Maddie, you had better do a blog on breasts.  =) I've never really been great at managing to draw spheres.  The shading/lighting really throws me off.  So one night I decided to see if I could copy one of the paintings I have up in my room. "Butterfly Tattoo", by Amy Brown . Obviously, fairies don't have nipples, so I had to make her human. The interesting thing about Butterfly Tattoo is that whenever people come over and see her, their biggest problem is not that...