<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:25:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>"lovin"</category><category>"things that make me swoon"</category><category>"words"</category><category>"getting to know"</category><category>"stylin me"</category><category>"why nots"</category><category>"enjoyin"</category><category>"things I am thankful for"</category><category>"it ain't all bout pretty"</category><category>"foodie freak"</category><category>"exercise in imagination"</category><category>"bits n pieces"</category><category>"flowers cult"</category><category>"hmm..."</category><title>cicak on the ceiling: staring at all that fascinates</title><description>-- an online journal of (very!) random musings</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>223</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-8554403435282243248</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-07-23T06:05:53.930-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"words"</category><title>Happy Birthday</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"&gt;Though much is taken, much abides; and though&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"&gt;We are not now that strength which in old days&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"&gt;One equal temper of heroic hearts,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"&gt;Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"&gt;To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"&gt;– Alfred Tennyson (1809 –1892)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2013/07/happy-birthday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-3799401811639853298</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-07-16T04:26:00.099-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"words"</category><title>I Could Take</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1584327262771762324" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"&gt;I could take&lt;br /&gt;two leaves&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and give you one.&lt;br /&gt;Would that not be&lt;br /&gt;a kind of perfection?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I prefer&lt;br /&gt;one leaf&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;torn to give you half&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;showing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(after these years, simply)&lt;br /&gt;love's complexity in an act,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;the tearing and&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;the unique edges —&lt;br /&gt;one leaf (one word) from the two&lt;br /&gt;imperfections that match.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;- Hayden Carruth (1921 – 2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-could-take.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-6628524131431697773</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-07-23T06:07:29.446-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"things I am thankful for"</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"words"</category><title>めがね by Naoko Ogigami</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM69AcKD_Z8u_yZKTq4oJRwTdNzOLzNGkOWbYFo6r_dMPIeXMMQLimiRqEbnJuPN61SfsKKgO_3SjsqE-P9FijYHc7aOsrz8C7-TrDgYCxV_TM7hnErP5Xp3lrWYodXtVMhoKi4FLBmZw2/s1600/298448_203301553067433_7392993_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM69AcKD_Z8u_yZKTq4oJRwTdNzOLzNGkOWbYFo6r_dMPIeXMMQLimiRqEbnJuPN61SfsKKgO_3SjsqE-P9FijYHc7aOsrz8C7-TrDgYCxV_TM7hnErP5Xp3lrWYodXtVMhoKi4FLBmZw2/s320/298448_203301553067433_7392993_n.jpg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Mir ist bewusst was Freiheit bedeutet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Folge dem Wege geradeaus,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;meide die Tiefen des Meeres,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1584327262771762324" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;doch hab ich solch Wort hinter mir gelassen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Der Mond scheinet auf jedem Wege,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;wie die in der Dunkelheit wie Diamanten schwimmenden Fische;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;heiß wie durch Zufall Mensch - und hier bin ich.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Was hatte ich zu befürchten,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;mit was zu kämpfen,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;bald ist es Zeit die Lasten zu legen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1584327262771762324" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Erteile mir noch mehr Kraft,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Kraft zur Liebe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Mir ist bewusst was Freiheit bedeutet,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;mir ist bewusst was Freiheit bedeutet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I know what Freedom is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Follow the path straight ahead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Keep out of the ocean deeps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I have left such words behind me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;The Moon shines upon all paths&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;like Fish who swim like Diamonds in the Dark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Called a human being by chance – so here I am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What did I have to fear?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Against what was I struggling?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;It’s time for me to lay down my heavy load.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Give me even more strength,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Strength to love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I know what Freedom is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I know what Freedom is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Poem and its transcription found via&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/2010/05/glasses-2007.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2013/07/by-naoko-ogigami.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM69AcKD_Z8u_yZKTq4oJRwTdNzOLzNGkOWbYFo6r_dMPIeXMMQLimiRqEbnJuPN61SfsKKgO_3SjsqE-P9FijYHc7aOsrz8C7-TrDgYCxV_TM7hnErP5Xp3lrWYodXtVMhoKi4FLBmZw2/s72-c/298448_203301553067433_7392993_n.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-5760410815085826113</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-08T14:07:59.042-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"words"</category><title>Deep words</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Stumbled upon these from other bloggers' sites and thought it too lovely to not immortalize on my site as well, especially since I do not typically pick up poetry books and will definitely not come across them on my own. I find most poetry perplexing –– I think I'm too impatient to mull over the words. So I get very excited when poetry readers share gems like these that I can easily decipher :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;which is what I have been doing all day. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Tell me, what else should I have done? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Tell me, what is it you plan to do &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;with your one wild and precious life?” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;– "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;(found via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mapsandfragments.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Maps &amp;amp; Fragments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;All I have is a voice &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;To undo the folded lie, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;The romantic lie in the brain &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Of the sensual man-in-the-street  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;And the lie of Authority &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Whose buildings grope the sky:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;There is no such thing as the State  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;And no one exists alone; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Hunger allows no choice &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;To the citizen or the police; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;We must love one another or die. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;– W.H. Auden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;(Can't remember where I saw this, but it definitely spoke to the quixotic part of me)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/10/deeps-words.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-3632115865105203163</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-24T15:10:38.480-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"words"</category><title>July</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/22564317?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ffffff" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/22564317"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Symmetry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/everynone"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Everynone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I don't find myself having favorites of any one thing but if I did, I believe July could end up as my favorite month out of the year, for reasons too abstract to get into right now. July of 2011, though, is proving quite melancholic. Two great artists whose work I find immeasurably great, Cy Twombly and Lucian Freud, passed on. More importantly, one of the handful of relatives I could conceivably describe as close passed on as well. The news came sudden, as these things are wont to be, and made more poignant for the fact that his death did not afford his loved ones the luxury of time for a proper farewell. Farewells are sad, and farewells without utterances of goodbyes all the more heartbreaking. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I often wonder at our amazing ability to recover from grief. In my darker hours, it seemed to me that life will never quite be the same but once emerged, life somehow always is. I suppose that's the thing about life, isn't it? That it goes on? And if we are to take the smallest token of consolation from that tenet, perhaps it is this –– that for every goodbye, there is a hello, and from death, there is life?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Dear A and family, 節哀順變.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/07/july.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-8558978854014637519</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-15T09:33:10.056-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"lovin"</category><title/><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;It's probably best not to bitch and moan about the weather (yet again), but seriously, the heat is murdering me! I have bookmarked a few things to blog about, but as I'm someone who's very sensitive to heat (and who tries to refrain from AC usage), they'll have to wait till the weather turns cooler (or at least less brutal).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the sake of some levity in our drama-filled worlds though, here's a quick post on something I think is 可愛い.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhrjor2QDkZzDwlOIFzIwRorgeR7YPPKeW35nMO_heTjPrqJWrXgJn7Y_sHU7J2et5TzZ7NCNiNuaXq0piFkQpoMuMn6Mxc1FWFF5eBA-5CALV-zfqnlK3cqlP4YmeXM8lhIGK2VDufdW/s1600/Slinkachu.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 405px; height: 588px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhrjor2QDkZzDwlOIFzIwRorgeR7YPPKeW35nMO_heTjPrqJWrXgJn7Y_sHU7J2et5TzZ7NCNiNuaXq0piFkQpoMuMn6Mxc1FWFF5eBA-5CALV-zfqnlK3cqlP4YmeXM8lhIGK2VDufdW/s1600/Slinkachu.jpg" alt="slinkachu" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606920040986546418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What, the picture not doing anything for you? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Teehee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;. That's cause you have to visit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://little-people.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; to see why it's so special.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I imagine only a handful of those individuals who stop to smell the proverbial roses would be able to spot them. Harried folks hurrying by would surely (albeit unknowingly) give it a flying kick :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thisiscolossal.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Colossal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/05/its-probably-best-not-to-bitch-and-moan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhrjor2QDkZzDwlOIFzIwRorgeR7YPPKeW35nMO_heTjPrqJWrXgJn7Y_sHU7J2et5TzZ7NCNiNuaXq0piFkQpoMuMn6Mxc1FWFF5eBA-5CALV-zfqnlK3cqlP4YmeXM8lhIGK2VDufdW/s72-c/Slinkachu.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-468559935839084047</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-02T12:34:00.392-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"things that make me swoon"</category><title>Tsai &amp; Yoshikawa</title><description>&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMM2blkzKdOXxYazbFMUAi5TT1yS8WWQUp1kFN07le2xauztBT8bbWopRMT6g8KSP374qqOf1uOffceD_iufFVqXWdxyA9iWVX7Gv3aWmO5GRNypHQi9I1AbHPgdWUx9eXiiL7grSr4qIE/s1600/hsiao-chi_tsai.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 542px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMM2blkzKdOXxYazbFMUAi5TT1yS8WWQUp1kFN07le2xauztBT8bbWopRMT6g8KSP374qqOf1uOffceD_iufFVqXWdxyA9iWVX7Gv3aWmO5GRNypHQi9I1AbHPgdWUx9eXiiL7grSr4qIE/s1600/hsiao-chi_tsai.jpg" border="0" alt="hsiao-chi_tsai" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601051915616353522" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMM2blkzKdOXxYazbFMUAi5TT1yS8WWQUp1kFN07le2xauztBT8bbWopRMT6g8KSP374qqOf1uOffceD_iufFVqXWdxyA9iWVX7Gv3aWmO5GRNypHQi9I1AbHPgdWUx9eXiiL7grSr4qIE/s1600/hsiao-chi_tsai.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Please forgive the deluge of imagery but I just got too &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;click-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;happy. The images above are works by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tsai-yoshikawa.com/hsiao-chi_tsai"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Hsiao-Chi Tsai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, a native of Taiwan but now based in London. They are, would you believe, textiles! Gorgeous colors and patterns, no? I saw the patterns and went "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;wow!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;" but when I realized that they were actually textiles and she fashioned garments out of them, I was pretty blown away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Her work is multi-dimensional too. Below is a maquette for a proposed project, I hope it gets realized, it looks like so much fun!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMM2blkzKdOXxYazbFMUAi5TT1yS8WWQUp1kFN07le2xauztBT8bbWopRMT6g8KSP374qqOf1uOffceD_iufFVqXWdxyA9iWVX7Gv3aWmO5GRNypHQi9I1AbHPgdWUx9eXiiL7grSr4qIE/s1600/hsiao-chi_tsai.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGo8Q9Wj6Amc0DpHxJFU7fqJJrwIWlUS3ILhP67yFy6dR8tI_P0KWd-ZlBjzQY7h9I4_aNWIkNdjaCFpWYCUw8Eypcmd8PMxB30cH9mVKwaQHmdaeEYdbp6i7n7-mr1g-__15nvrKe9AjP/s1600/hsiao-chi_tsai2.jpg" border="0" alt="hsiao-chi_tsai2" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601056100120458930" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Anyway, I explored the site a bit more, and realized that two artists share the space. According to the site, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tsai-yoshikawa.com/kimiya_yoshikawa/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Kimiya Yoshikawa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; is a long-time collaborator of hers -- his work looks equally amazing! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 820px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfncXUkPAkxLvGzy998mBlLYaSI0YY2iEBtO9O-87FiAXXvD-vfcjaiTubvS9qsKBqBj7Lfm7zaZObJPi74qzqfzgTAXKNISPr8CItIfN3sdv3mka22euN-GR0xwBAHQM14dcQlXc64iXb/s1600/kimiya-yoshikawa.jpg" border="0" alt="kimiya-yoshikawa" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601051919721970706" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The first and bottom images are site-specific installation projects that immediately caught my eye. How fun (and perhaps a wee bit intimidating for me) to walk into an art piece with only your heads peeping out, and that then becomes part of the visuals? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The images in the middle are from his "Balloon Series". Maybe I'm just a sucker for balloons, but they are my favorite. I'm especially digging the one to the left -- the textural contrast between the architecture and the balloon piece is stunning, visible even in that teeny picture.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Happy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tsai-yoshikawa.com"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;exploring&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;! I've got to rest my eyeballs now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/05/tsai-yoshikawa.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMM2blkzKdOXxYazbFMUAi5TT1yS8WWQUp1kFN07le2xauztBT8bbWopRMT6g8KSP374qqOf1uOffceD_iufFVqXWdxyA9iWVX7Gv3aWmO5GRNypHQi9I1AbHPgdWUx9eXiiL7grSr4qIE/s72-c/hsiao-chi_tsai.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-4119027980267962517</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-02T12:31:46.259-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"bits n pieces"</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"enjoyin"</category><title>Art Therapy</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I don't know about you folks, but it's bleak times around here. The only consolation is that it's been raining somewhat daily, I can't begin to describe to you how much the rain means to me. Looking at beautiful images helps as well -- I suppose that explains the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;ever-so-slightly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;increase in postings on here. I've been very lucky with coming across things that are both a sight for sore eyes and the bruised mind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;These three images brought instant smiles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaF93qSg28eU9_F5nzAd6b9u4ulA9aE0qp8gMqqrRxsJ4UrnlMMQmX0xUIqQZ8vwvGQYDdLdYOVaxELXoaDILZYxEjaZIsYq_aEb-MeycKppqGExnhdj8ofey1QDEyiV228FmpPlGlUg-/s1600/rachel_caunt_kaleidoscope.jpg" border="0" alt="rachel_caunt-kaleidoscope" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599869542917481602" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Kaleidoscope-inspired collage by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.papercoversrock.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Rachel Lois Caunt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 398px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAb2kz7EMylgbxEOWxPdNrDcLgoX-HPy64upcxCH7bYxLbQq2dnuAq-flPKK6T4B0oPjzPTA_ngkvSt1T6h29Lfk-D7vTRNbPOJHQSPQIsUBuX6wmghUR1Yz7exWNPk0345FI6qeRJix3H/s1600/liat_yaniv-spring2011.jpg" border="0" alt="liat_yaniv-spring2011" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599869542218538818" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;"The Times They Are A-Changin" by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.liatyaniv.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Liat Yaniv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh7Pcv7qLIHDnYKW1drxJcypSVtN7WKe7PSof-GP-ia_FbXRLfJ1wg4q9F_QBQVFIO1YOpO4u50lYLPo768lUsZzRFsOaiuCjy6z29SmyUzvzyW0NbPMQLNlNVmNGMGOs2yDuOdIXolihx/s1600/betsy_walton.jpg" border="0" alt="betsy-walton" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601075198897310994" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;"Floral Ocean" by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.morningcraft.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Betsy Walton&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;// This &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/10/greathomesanddestinations/20110309location-ss.html#1"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;peek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; into an Art-Deco apartment in Shanghai is satisfying my voyeuristic thirst. It is so charmingly decorated, plus I'm a big sucker for those steel-and-glass french doors. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;// Also, even though I've never been a fan of the kitschy decor (feels a little claustrophobic for me), I am totes &lt;i&gt;amoureux &lt;/i&gt;with the &lt;a href="http://theselby.com/6_3_10_AlGillianMaysles/"&gt;home of Albert and Gillian Maysles&lt;/a&gt; (shot here by Todd Selby). Doesn't it shout "life well lived"?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;// Lastly, has anyone out there tried &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bookmooch.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Bookmooch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;? Just wondering if it works.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/04/art-therapy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaF93qSg28eU9_F5nzAd6b9u4ulA9aE0qp8gMqqrRxsJ4UrnlMMQmX0xUIqQZ8vwvGQYDdLdYOVaxELXoaDILZYxEjaZIsYq_aEb-MeycKppqGExnhdj8ofey1QDEyiV228FmpPlGlUg-/s72-c/rachel_caunt_kaleidoscope.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-6949300120738492246</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-23T00:34:00.265-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"lovin"</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"why nots"</category><title>Diem Chau</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEA4HBkbNHx4m5o84XFM-Dlo1VzuXXcC-HvcW-skLPAwXM7XbyaHQMnjMjYjHZKwWPe69b3ZLWud_6fVC1GHVgML4GbDyIdxU6Onv40hkNQ1OSMCXNrHK7EzQWlwWtfCxWjlBgcx0jLX8/s1600/diem_chau1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 336px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEA4HBkbNHx4m5o84XFM-Dlo1VzuXXcC-HvcW-skLPAwXM7XbyaHQMnjMjYjHZKwWPe69b3ZLWud_6fVC1GHVgML4GbDyIdxU6Onv40hkNQ1OSMCXNrHK7EzQWlwWtfCxWjlBgcx0jLX8/s1600/diem_chau1.jpg" border="0" alt="diem_chau1" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598336490754155234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEA4HBkbNHx4m5o84XFM-Dlo1VzuXXcC-HvcW-skLPAwXM7XbyaHQMnjMjYjHZKwWPe69b3ZLWud_6fVC1GHVgML4GbDyIdxU6Onv40hkNQ1OSMCXNrHK7EzQWlwWtfCxWjlBgcx0jLX8/s1600/diem_chau1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Head over heels with these works by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.diemchau.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Diem Chau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, beautifully intricate with a slight nod towards whimsicality. There are plenty more to gawk at in her &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.diemchau.com/plates1.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;gallery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, where I've been blissfully spending time. Also, be sure to check out her &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.diemchau.com/crayons1.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;crayon sculptures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifYcb0dpSY0GaonBoUWSZDwAE-czlMFPFUYmjDtDxQIxWw2jgijsgUPxIHo9PGPzPKijeZNletHrpPzgObO56j2kawaDA6S1nne45rPF8z-STF94Avmj8bcnvvUhaD_XF1FiMk6K9O586d/s1600/diem_chau2.jpg" border="0" alt="diem_chau2" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598336494981969170" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thienkieu.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;day of practical awakening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;// A fun link for you, it's a little silly, but hilarious nonetheless. Or maybe I'm just easily amused :-) Besides, haven't everyone sort of thought about it? -- A photography project entitled "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.christiangideonphotography.com/2011/04/what-if-you-lived-at-ikea/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;What if You Lived at Ikea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/04/diem-chau.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEA4HBkbNHx4m5o84XFM-Dlo1VzuXXcC-HvcW-skLPAwXM7XbyaHQMnjMjYjHZKwWPe69b3ZLWud_6fVC1GHVgML4GbDyIdxU6Onv40hkNQ1OSMCXNrHK7EzQWlwWtfCxWjlBgcx0jLX8/s72-c/diem_chau1.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-6407983420752850800</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-16T12:34:00.417-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"why nots"</category><title>I swear I'm not a shopaholic</title><description>&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0obZN0wmLfuVsVh-4zAZ797KQTBue5PLVaJfob5CpG72kWPY8xZ8p6UUo-0J52K5d4UpAOWbnszqhEUhT2czJAYTkL4VpIravxMMwu6mRwXRh7rZwhsQTI8dB3_S7JnZ9x1g5JhbdZY4/s1600/appree.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 410px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0obZN0wmLfuVsVh-4zAZ797KQTBue5PLVaJfob5CpG72kWPY8xZ8p6UUo-0J52K5d4UpAOWbnszqhEUhT2czJAYTkL4VpIravxMMwu6mRwXRh7rZwhsQTI8dB3_S7JnZ9x1g5JhbdZY4/s1600/appree.jpg" border="0" alt="appree" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595749655797895570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0obZN0wmLfuVsVh-4zAZ797KQTBue5PLVaJfob5CpG72kWPY8xZ8p6UUo-0J52K5d4UpAOWbnszqhEUhT2czJAYTkL4VpIravxMMwu6mRwXRh7rZwhsQTI8dB3_S7JnZ9x1g5JhbdZY4/s1600/appree.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;If your first thoughts were along the lines of "Nature photography?", you would be mistaken. These are actually office products, produced by &lt;a href="http://www.appree.net/"&gt;Appree&lt;/a&gt; of South Korea. Yup, I thought they were pretty cool, I would certainly love to have the gingko notepads around. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 566px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt-sgWd6GUk83Wxr2_QJojzbBcKUpipkzK7mHoXkDawAitYWNq2FNk4QMtFGEs9i8ax9u1sZM96FHMqi0dM0rvMtR4yrTsO3Y38z7uVJ1bkW0jLqOg4Y6MbClbpAxJUu7nE1-vdFnfw-I8/s1600/appree_products.jpg" border="0" alt="appree-products" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595754066860913314" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Also loving the tissue box with the tissue in flower-like folds. No seriously, as utilitarian as the regular ol' rectangular-shaped ones are, you gotta admit they are ugly mofos that add nothing to a room's decor, am I right? I'm just being persnickety, you say? Hmph, fine, I still say &lt;a href="http://appree1.blogspot.com/2010/05/flower-tissue.html#more"&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; are prettier to look at.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS522n-uEH_aegzRu2V2elbB29iYJuGzz3OXeDV7usUWEW3a_36L8JfJXLFqF70Hz6DdypFRuY65XdsBI45HCP35cNoyE5AprevqijM3v6mYJKWSr4QarJb5jYt6xHCG1pU-t-qeQzil3j/s1600/appree_tissue.jpg" border="0" alt="appree-tissue" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595754071345234258" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://babyramen.blogspot.com/"&gt;babyramen&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another cool thing for you to check out (although I trust you'll have come across it since it's making the blog rounds -- it's &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; cool!) is Kelli Anderson's &lt;a href="http://kellianderson.com/blog/2011/04/a-paper-record-player/"&gt;Paper Record Player&lt;/a&gt;. Essentially a wedding invite, she's designed it to showcase a song the bride and her groom wrote and sung together, basically by turning the paper invite into a playable record all on its own! Definitely one for the keeps huh? This isn't the first time her work has made the blog rounds either, I first came across her name when she produced &lt;a href="http://www.kellianderson.com/projects/handkermap.html"&gt;wedding hankermaps &lt;/a&gt;(maps printed onto handkerchiefs) for another couple. An undeniably talented lady, that one is.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-swear-im-not-shopaholic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0obZN0wmLfuVsVh-4zAZ797KQTBue5PLVaJfob5CpG72kWPY8xZ8p6UUo-0J52K5d4UpAOWbnszqhEUhT2czJAYTkL4VpIravxMMwu6mRwXRh7rZwhsQTI8dB3_S7JnZ9x1g5JhbdZY4/s72-c/appree.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-8698878344125732015</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-14T09:40:38.756-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"stylin me"</category><title>Mirka</title><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 819px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXTXrlmuvVXAyOMsP_Jhn1wt9doXqFO2H-I1U9vLWD7uFO0b6ZgLhiICMkO3P092AJSTVUEehF_f3IRfCd9YMItlw4UMGVkDCDoS1obCQaw4yLohiu8lhPVsU4EKGyRIEEhrfRPGycHpU/s1600/Mirta-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Mirta_jewelry" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595422772754009858" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I love &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(jewellery)"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;rings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;. They are the one type of accessories I consistently love. I remember one of the first ones that I had bought when I was a teen. It was a chunky rose carved out of silver and soldered onto a half-round silver band. It looked huge on my then-scrawny fingers, and in fact, my cousin made fun of it :-) She wondered out loud if I wore it for self-defence purposes, hah! But no matter, I loved it and wore it every chance I got (which wasn't very many since national schools forbade ornamental adornment of any kind. And yes, even barrettes count as ornamental, can you imagine?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;All these reminiscing just to show you what caught my eye, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/andrea0503"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Mirta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;'s rings. For some inexplicable reason, I've always had an easier time finding chunkier-sized rings that look good on my fingers rather than the thin, wispy ones, which is what I love about the rings above. They look like they can be worn in polite society and yet have just enough idiosyncrasy to make them charming. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I also ❤ ❤ ❤ these pieces below, especially the necklace. She's got a lot of other lovelies at her etsy &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/andrea0503?ref=seller_info"&gt;store&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 819px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nnPY35ZzNpJC8yybowaJm04KqWnHLuq9Nq_BX4TZIBPSlobncBmmlTs00Qh8mfvoMmXiGakaVa1s3xrySYMR_ZVg75jN9oTxSiHpTvpJUoM5KcJfwgSHa6qPy4VgyYWvsQOddhS5BVWW/s1600/Mirta-2.jpg" border="0" alt="Mirta_jewelry" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595422770643572546" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/04/mirka.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXTXrlmuvVXAyOMsP_Jhn1wt9doXqFO2H-I1U9vLWD7uFO0b6ZgLhiICMkO3P092AJSTVUEehF_f3IRfCd9YMItlw4UMGVkDCDoS1obCQaw4yLohiu8lhPVsU4EKGyRIEEhrfRPGycHpU/s72-c/Mirta-1.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-246610092047526906</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-03T05:43:17.458-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"enjoyin"</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"stylin me"</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"why nots"</category><title>Ogling</title><description>&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu8u4tqclZI3MCMZ6V7XBaRbu89-hNW-_8L-XM5Nic_okhmlHNLU1qARzllE60zZEgnM22eiE-7EbtJUGWINZuMX5KtRcmkJHNMc73eHfLpoBu-7ZgXLldC38Qg32cvv3X0yDVSJft-VPo/s1600/shingo_matsushita.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 410px; height: 397px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu8u4tqclZI3MCMZ6V7XBaRbu89-hNW-_8L-XM5Nic_okhmlHNLU1qARzllE60zZEgnM22eiE-7EbtJUGWINZuMX5KtRcmkJHNMc73eHfLpoBu-7ZgXLldC38Qg32cvv3X0yDVSJft-VPo/s1600/shingo_matsushita.jpg" border="0" alt="shingo_matsushita" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591286821746856434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I'm not one to accessorize much, which I sometimes feel is a shame because there are so many little pieces that I see and admire and would indeed love, scratch that, yearn to have. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shingomatsushita.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Shingo Matsushita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;'s pieces are an example of that. I love the fact that he uses crochet as a design element but instead of the result looking dowdy, the combination of materials (threads, pearl, leather) and color choices makes his pieces infinitely edgier (oh how I hate that word but you get the drift ;-p)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Two links I've been meaning to share: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.themakersproject.com"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Makers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; -- a photography project by Jennifer Causey that's glued me to the computer screen for the past couple of hours. I love sneak peeks into artiste's work places! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;This next link has been on my to-share list for a while, but because I've remained conflicted about it, I never got around to it. Anyway, I've decided it's definitely worth posting about because, for what it's worth, I think it's thought-provoking :-) So here it is: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://nycgarbage.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;New York City Garbage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, its &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nycgarbage/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Flickr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; collection is worth a look at too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/04/ogling.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu8u4tqclZI3MCMZ6V7XBaRbu89-hNW-_8L-XM5Nic_okhmlHNLU1qARzllE60zZEgnM22eiE-7EbtJUGWINZuMX5KtRcmkJHNMc73eHfLpoBu-7ZgXLldC38Qg32cvv3X0yDVSJft-VPo/s72-c/shingo_matsushita.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-5825680844106026240</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-24T09:27:46.565-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"flowers cult"</category><title>Just cause</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlU1Y65fGYof6yaFf9UGmqPEtr1irHwjkQJ7B-pMWy1XrDkqq0qODKttFgnUvSvAyd3pViycfFQmJKqcVopedmuah_BAJcWDY-449Kdv9z7K0yJE5gENTXmDoOw8m4JXjbBKFHBkvLIVDs/s1600/saipua.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 415px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlU1Y65fGYof6yaFf9UGmqPEtr1irHwjkQJ7B-pMWy1XrDkqq0qODKttFgnUvSvAyd3pViycfFQmJKqcVopedmuah_BAJcWDY-449Kdv9z7K0yJE5gENTXmDoOw8m4JXjbBKFHBkvLIVDs/s400/saipua.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584756801746797218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlU1Y65fGYof6yaFf9UGmqPEtr1irHwjkQJ7B-pMWy1XrDkqq0qODKttFgnUvSvAyd3pViycfFQmJKqcVopedmuah_BAJcWDY-449Kdv9z7K0yJE5gENTXmDoOw8m4JXjbBKFHBkvLIVDs/s1600/saipua.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlU1Y65fGYof6yaFf9UGmqPEtr1irHwjkQJ7B-pMWy1XrDkqq0qODKttFgnUvSvAyd3pViycfFQmJKqcVopedmuah_BAJcWDY-449Kdv9z7K0yJE5gENTXmDoOw8m4JXjbBKFHBkvLIVDs/s1600/saipua.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Performing my daily (joke!) good Samaritan act by informing you that New York residents are eligible to win a lovely floral arrangement by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;le fleuriste extraordinaire &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://saipua.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Saipua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; every Friday. Actually, it's just an excuse so I get to post images of her gorgeous bouquets. :-) But seriously, all you have to do is leave a comment &lt;a href="http://saipua.blogspot.com/2011/03/flower-giveaway.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, can you believe the crazy??? Makes me wish I was in NY for sure. I mean, look at them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 415px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC8UkLJwJY-MzzkBagtD3Hnf8rXNMoiNpl0YJ3kMxdKM6Opj4smuIjsqf5OdDDd5ye1GcO9hXrIeiBdX71NoNXe8DcTgXJChDOpKNpAFfQpW__MwiR8pdpipTLOfo3yN8ykV-lxsGvPmJX/s1600/saipua02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587356315740108818" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Also, if you are anything like me in the kitchen (read: hopeless) and have to map out ingredients and instructions (down to the tiniest detail like which spoon and bowl to use) into illustrations way before the day of the deed, you'll appreciate this site -- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theydrawandcook.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;They Draw &amp;amp; Cook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/03/just-cause.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlU1Y65fGYof6yaFf9UGmqPEtr1irHwjkQJ7B-pMWy1XrDkqq0qODKttFgnUvSvAyd3pViycfFQmJKqcVopedmuah_BAJcWDY-449Kdv9z7K0yJE5gENTXmDoOw8m4JXjbBKFHBkvLIVDs/s72-c/saipua.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-8991472347563177845</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T07:30:40.195-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"enjoyin"</category><title>Anastassia Elias</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlaTNfEJ3Ia_wAqnBdj6B9gaCjre2Z2U2RAwum2wrl_dbex_5-jHVHm9VARgaThUtNYT7mqYE7nOCfHZeMFH4tM8hnz4IJxLYRjWre8QqW65IrPbBuyqWnoJ2A_ENqcir-UkZyRx94QI5t/s1600/Anastassia_Elias01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlaTNfEJ3Ia_wAqnBdj6B9gaCjre2Z2U2RAwum2wrl_dbex_5-jHVHm9VARgaThUtNYT7mqYE7nOCfHZeMFH4tM8hnz4IJxLYRjWre8QqW65IrPbBuyqWnoJ2A_ENqcir-UkZyRx94QI5t/s1600/Anastassia_Elias01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586122333517324834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUeuZ8g1fEx3XJTWcK96b3vLHQOr1GgE1BZcdSCiG72NY1ZIuSDLqmZtpZqn0dMwjr1kMuQtUhVIvOt3T6MV7CbLWA2g-lmOttz9oU2cl2CkijSFw7CoGF3o2sFTvIAOnF0wt56Ce3NTaN/s400/Anastassia_Elias02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586122333822100194" /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJ9x5LwFMXKo_Ky2O2Tq45SjZJa9XJuJ3-zNR63qRYt5HSGWfbVTSbbWV6YpT7X1KKagRmcD3ZlpeqSxRSy4L8HQHkwvEzvN0mh2Z0PS1jLDM3Js8yUVljL-kUAek5ZWq9fVYyQ0f47v4/s400/Anastassia_Elias03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586122341315699554" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Cute little vignettes in a toilet roll, who woulda thought? I love &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Paper-cuts-Rolls/241623"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;these&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; paper cuts by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.anastassia-elias.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Anastassia Elias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, each one a tiny glimpse into a mini world, perfect size for a little day-dreaming :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/03/anastassia-elias.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlaTNfEJ3Ia_wAqnBdj6B9gaCjre2Z2U2RAwum2wrl_dbex_5-jHVHm9VARgaThUtNYT7mqYE7nOCfHZeMFH4tM8hnz4IJxLYRjWre8QqW65IrPbBuyqWnoJ2A_ENqcir-UkZyRx94QI5t/s72-c/Anastassia_Elias01.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-8196690976208358069</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-16T15:06:36.150-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"things that make me swoon"</category><title>Paul Barbera</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqg54nl-nB-6ZUUBRYmrOFqgZgqopOzymBqcINilWcINtXBe8wbXBq1aWp0cIpMXqMm3hnH6SYAWcGujKo4k9BhWiPIX4gA24c2_yoAABEx5YJTJO2pmABnLyWW02GrnFYeMHJVa3eA16s/s1600/paul_barbera.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 415px; height: 598px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqg54nl-nB-6ZUUBRYmrOFqgZgqopOzymBqcINilWcINtXBe8wbXBq1aWp0cIpMXqMm3hnH6SYAWcGujKo4k9BhWiPIX4gA24c2_yoAABEx5YJTJO2pmABnLyWW02GrnFYeMHJVa3eA16s/s1200/paul_barbera.jpg" border="0" alt="paul_barbera" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584753901845747554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Click on any link within &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.paulbarbera.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Paul Barbera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;'s site and chances are good that you'll be riveted by one image after another, his photographs are so mind-numbingly gorgeous. The ones that capture my attention the most are his personal photography projects, my fave so far is his "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thegirlfromipanema.org/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;The Girl From Ipanema&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;" series (above). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/03/paul-barbera.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqg54nl-nB-6ZUUBRYmrOFqgZgqopOzymBqcINilWcINtXBe8wbXBq1aWp0cIpMXqMm3hnH6SYAWcGujKo4k9BhWiPIX4gA24c2_yoAABEx5YJTJO2pmABnLyWW02GrnFYeMHJVa3eA16s/s72-c/paul_barbera.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-8210469497384898052</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-09T04:38:09.155-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"words"</category><title>Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Came across one of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.paulgrahamarchive.com/writings_by.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Paul Graham's essay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; entitled "Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult" on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.jodyrogac.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Jody Rogac's blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; and couldn't resist posting it here as well. Such sagacity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;It’s so easy it's  ridiculous. It’s so easy that I can’t even begin –  I just don’t know where to  start. After all, it’s just looking at  things. We all do that. It’s simply a  way of recording what you see –  point the camera at it, and press a button.  How hard is that? And  what's more, in this  digital age, its free -  doesn't even  cost you  the price of film. It’s so simple and basic, it's laughable.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;It’s so difficult  because it’s everywhere, every place, all the  time, even right now. It's the  view of this pen in my hand as I write  this, it's an image of your hands  holding this book, drift your  consciousness up and out of this text and see: it's  right there, across  the room - there... and there.  Then it’s gone.  You didn’t photograph  it, because you didn’t  think it was worth it. And now it’s too late,  that moment has evaporated. But  another one has arrived, instantly.   Now.  Because life is flowing through and around us, rushing onwards  and outwards, in  every direction.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;But if it's everywhere  and all the time, and so easy to make, then  what’s of value? which pictures  matter? Is it the hard won photograph,  knowing, controlled, previsualised?  Yes.  Or  are those contrived, dry  and belabored?  Sometimes.   Is it the offhand snapshot made on a   whim. For sure. Or is that just a lucky observation, some random moment  caught  by chance? Maybe. Is it an intuitive expression of liquid  intelligence?  Exactly.  Or the distillation of years of looking seeing   thinking photography.  Definitely.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Life’s single lesson: that there is more  accident to it than a man can admit to in a lifetime, and stay sane&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; - Thomas Pynchon, V&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Ok, so how do I make  sense of that never ending flow, the fog that  covers life here and now.  How do I see through that, how do I cross  that  boundary?  Do I walk down the street and  make pictures of  strangers, do I make a drama-tableaux with my friends, do I  only  photograph my beloved, my family, myself?  Or maybe I should just  photograph the land,  the rocks and trees – they don't move or complain  or push back.  The old houses?  The new houses?  Do I go to a war zone  on the other side of the  world, or just to the corner store, or not  leave my room at all? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Yes and yes and yes.  That's the choice you are spoiled for, but   just don't let it stop you. Be aware of it, but don't get stuck – relax,  it’s  everything and everywhere.  You will find  it, and it will find  you, just start, somehow, anyhow, but: start.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Okay, but shouldn’t I  have a clear coherent theme, surely I have  to know what I’m doing first?  That would be nice, but I doubt Robert  Frank  knew what it all meant when he started, or for that matter Cindy  Sherman or Robert  Mapplethorpe or Atget or...  so you  shouldn’t expect  it.  The more preplanned  it is the less room for surprise, for the  world to talk back, for the idea to  find itself, allowing ambivalence  and ambiguity to seep in, and sometimes those  are more important than  certainty and clarity.  The work often says more than the artist  knows.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Ok, but my photography  doesn't always fit into neat, coherent  series, so maybe I need to roll freeform  around this world, unfettered,  able to photograph whatever and whenever: the  sky, my feet, the coffee  in my cup, the flowers I just noticed, my friends and lovers,  and,  because it's all my life, surely it will make sense?  Perhaps.   Sometimes that works, sometimes it’s  indulgent, but really it’s your  choice, because you are also free to not make  'sense'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;"so finally even this story is absurd,  which is an important  part of the point, if any, since that it should have none  whatsoever  seems part of the point too" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;-  Malcolm Lowry, Ghostkeeper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Ok, so I do need time  to think about this.  To allow myself  that  freedom for a short time.  A couple  of years.  Maybe I won't find my  answer,  but I will be around others who understand this question, who  have reached a  similar point.  Maybe I’ll start on the  wrong road, or  for the wrong reasons – because I liked cameras, because I  thought  photography was an easy option, but if I’m forced to try, then perhaps   I’ll stumble on some little thing, that makes a piece of sense to me, or  simply  just feels &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;right&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.  If I concentrate on that, then  maybe it grows,  and in its modest, ineffable way, begins to matter.   Like photographing Arab-Americans in the USA  as human beings with  lives and hopes and families and feelings, straight, gay,  young, old,  with all the humanity that Hollywood never grants them.  Or the black  community of New Haven, doing  inexplicable joyous, ridiculous  theatrical-charades that explode  my preconceptions into a thousand  pieces.  Or funny-disturbing-sad echoes of a snapshot of  my old  boyfriend.  Or the anonymous  suburban landscape of upstate in a way  that defies the spectacular images we're  addicted to.  Or... how women  use our  bodies to display who we believe we should be,  Or... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;"A Novel? No, I don't have the endurance  any more. To write a  novel, you have to be like Atlas, holding up the whole  world on your  shoulders, and supporting it there for months and years, while  its  affairs work themselves out..."   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; - J. M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad  Year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#5588cc;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;And hopefully I will  carry on, and develop it, because it is  worthwhile.  Carry on because it matters when other things don't  seem  to matter so much: the money job, the editorial assignment, the fashion   shoot.  Then one day it will be complete  enough to believe it is  finished.  Made.  Existing.  Done.  And  in its own way: a contribution,  and all that effort and frustration and time  and money will fall away.   It was worth  it, because it is something real, that didn't exist  before you made it exist: a  sentient work of art and power and  sensitivity, that speaks of  this world and your fellow human beings  place  within it.  Isn't that beautiful?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Text for Yale MFA graduation book, February 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/03/photography-is-easy-photography-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-695117335439403110</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-03T15:32:20.396-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"things that make me swoon"</category><title>Homage to Beauty III</title><description>&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wR7_7oxeIMaSIQ76FPNsRCW8HAflwhd9eBx14FTU2iItu81qtmUtAM_ybrOylPibFqINFfsOCWo6AOjdhyeH3-k4wxS5TlmjP3KtT_uIMRFpqGWCQLmSJQ5MQYdKfsLRjFk21KG7AgiA/s1600/rita_smirna.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 684px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wR7_7oxeIMaSIQ76FPNsRCW8HAflwhd9eBx14FTU2iItu81qtmUtAM_ybrOylPibFqINFfsOCWo6AOjdhyeH3-k4wxS5TlmjP3KtT_uIMRFpqGWCQLmSJQ5MQYdKfsLRjFk21KG7AgiA/s1600/rita_smirna.jpg" border="0" alt="rita_smirna" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578412365056067474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Have you seen anything lovelier? I wish I have talent like that! Embroidery by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ritasmirna.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Rita Smirna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; as cover art for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mapasbsas.com/"&gt;Bueno Aires city guides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;. (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;First spotted at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://emedemarta.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;emedemarta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 410px; height: 576px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkN24Bg1QKnI_tvtQk2xvqTtb_95BMyVNH5LYLjy4WVwvrnrewy-PtdxBrwoFeev6RELEs-BYO0ITL7a25P2kk-bVo8HA0h2VnYteNKWN8S-jeMHhtqZQM4NG6yMtRKgCU0ssIXr0f6z9T/s1600/susie_cowie.jpg" border="0" alt="susie_cowie" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578401175791930418" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Another embroiderer whose work makes me wistful –– &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.susiecowie.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Susie Cowie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;// Two links for you to check out: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mjolk.ca/"&gt;Mjölk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; is visiting local artisans in Japan, and they're letting us tag along on their &lt;a href="http://kitkadesigntoronto.com/?p=12375"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; (to follow the travel, you'll have to click on their &lt;a href="http://kitkadesigntoronto.com/?cat=831"&gt;travel&lt;/a&gt; category). If you haven't already, visit uponafold's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://uponafold.com.au/blog"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -- I just learnt about Hina Aoyama from there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2011/02/homage-to-beauty-iii.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wR7_7oxeIMaSIQ76FPNsRCW8HAflwhd9eBx14FTU2iItu81qtmUtAM_ybrOylPibFqINFfsOCWo6AOjdhyeH3-k4wxS5TlmjP3KtT_uIMRFpqGWCQLmSJQ5MQYdKfsLRjFk21KG7AgiA/s72-c/rita_smirna.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-3414760256128780996</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-06T05:09:00.480-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"lovin"</category><title>Homage to Beauty II</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I've always been a huge fan of Agnes Martin's work. I find her work so ethereal, sublime and romantic. When I looked at it up close, I found myself drifting from the smallness of a being to that of being part of the world at large. Even from the monitor screen of the computer, the idea behind her work magnifies itself to become somehow both meditative and contemplative, if that makes sense.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;When I came across &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jillsylvia.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Jill Sylvia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; online, I thought her work was evocative of Agnes Martin's spirit. The intricate cut-outs also invoke a sense of fragility that reminds me of lacework, so pretty!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7NrKXucUFiAs25lB2XXTzz6-nabyLvLyPbPRuw2Y6cDP3YGZ2-WThDdSphrJDsCuSAMjU70aOQBVvCT2GFbSrZ8bLgbf4CuUb5TyJIkd0R3soL5XS5BdC94zvPwCvGizAFqCST1OoVLhu/s400/jill_sylvia-vertical2.jpg" border="0" alt="jill_sylvia" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547508165474929298" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHiDALrWAi5veDVnmVnwitlmQIB7Dr1DVqC7U5dRbts8MMYX44UIWYyW4dKFj-pr-a3ceDB8ebWPk7KJsmf5XOYl5qp1WMJx3j76nfCX1m_GlNN5fL8wjcqpNukSz5ckPvx3x57-AFh6O/s400/jill_sylvia-vertical.jpg" border="0" alt="jill_sylvia" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547507116170543122" /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9LXWDT0py1KtC4GOCnYvNqjQTLG1GBASkAxw5tNhxdTtZaqu6czwd4cQ95Z5VCmqzgx7WsyNga3w6Hnx4VC1_Lvo6d3wCu-GavF996z3KebLgbz5RbDuj4ElSaMAovWJ4HfLRLNaDF7hZ/s400/jill_sylvia-yellowbook.jpg" border="0" alt="jill_sylvia" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547507121269511794" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2010/12/homage-to-beauty-ii.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7NrKXucUFiAs25lB2XXTzz6-nabyLvLyPbPRuw2Y6cDP3YGZ2-WThDdSphrJDsCuSAMjU70aOQBVvCT2GFbSrZ8bLgbf4CuUb5TyJIkd0R3soL5XS5BdC94zvPwCvGizAFqCST1OoVLhu/s72-c/jill_sylvia-vertical2.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-8144120702998219298</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-16T15:00:42.516-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"lovin"</category><title>Homage to Beauty</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Life has been giving me lemons for the past months. Times like these make me become the person who doesn't believe that there is a pot of gold at the end of rainbows. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;I don't mind being that person. In fact, truth be told, I'm probably more that person on an average day than the one who clings to ideas of unicorns, tooth fairies and the likes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;But silently cursing at the sky doesn't take away the poison that becomes you as cynicism begins to reign. About the only thing that saves the day, and you might want to avert your eyes if you are adversed to idealism, is beauty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;I think beauty will always prevail in our troubled world. All kinds of ideas of beauty. Beauty will save souls and nourish sickened hearts. Beauty &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt; the superhero of our times.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;I'll be sharing some beauty here that my eyes wish they could feast on up close but will unfortunately have to settle for the pixel-based representation. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful. But put it this way, if I have money to spend, these beauts are what I would like to be lapping up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;First up, via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://teenangster.net/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Teenangster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.baileygallery.com/artists_03.cfm?fid=108&amp;amp;pg_art=13"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt; piece of surrealistic beaut by Julia Randall. I love that the image titillates just enough to keep me interested yet doesn't make me feel uncomfortable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 545px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPHMLbVtBFiZcF7dpDn56CmpUqxqXaHApLA5IYJtvjhykkpY40KOl8BdrpEjPYTvgEzGSAV8ADmCQiFsrX6vBl_ou_z9ensufLigaysL-2CjXAkvhWHi5iuyL5y1iXA33UdYDDaYyEiUb/s1600/julia_randall-d1.jpg" border="0" alt="julia randall" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542828403099484514" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2010/11/homage-to-beauty.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPHMLbVtBFiZcF7dpDn56CmpUqxqXaHApLA5IYJtvjhykkpY40KOl8BdrpEjPYTvgEzGSAV8ADmCQiFsrX6vBl_ou_z9ensufLigaysL-2CjXAkvhWHi5iuyL5y1iXA33UdYDDaYyEiUb/s72-c/julia_randall-d1.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-2689350030825982675</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-17T15:25:22.199-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"bits n pieces"</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"things that make me swoon"</category><title/><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3j4K6Szn4T_2UJVOv68Z31uuQsB_eQ1eSGuWPH-9Q12ppFjPL7SrlLrrUk0UK8Zo6JJ9hflR5wkPXU_oXdWgl3mUKjoci8nFQkMQhcmfxQ6scGpDDj0tCubTiEPu9UbbuGY9TLcRePRe/s400/eben_goff.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506449603225191410" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;After many moons of unrelenting sun and heat, the rain is finally upon us. I find it really invigorating to hear raindrops tip-tapping on the roof. Hope you find these gems I turned up on my recent forage in the vast forest that is the Internet just as invigorating.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; min-height: 19.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Check out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ebengoff.net/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Eben Goff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;'s amazing body of work, I especially *heart* his monotypes. Shown above is one of his many beautiful prints. Totally swoon-worthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; min-height: 19.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Also having some major hots for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boblab.nl/species/Home.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; eclectic collection of animal parts and object by Bob de Graaf (below), though it's probably not everybody's cup of tea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyckEhBDX3e_98_5OzSDZ5VHaw1983f3y8OPpDh7SOKA7acnt44xFiDCXUo_QcgWo0DJ3PWsujKYMiqq1LK624E7qX2o1yZdAWOLfie3Gr2eRg5ADBID9y9hyphenhyphenvC7-uTifmqVYzeceSMiZx/s400/bob_de_graaf.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506453571826423714" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; min-height: 19.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A beautifully animated Japanese &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;haiku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; entitled &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro'; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.izuru.net/kh/index.html"&gt;化粧する花&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; by Izuru Aminaka. I don't read a lick of Japanese, but luckily for me, beauty transcends all earthly boundaries :-) Still, if anyone's up for translating, I'd be mightily grateful!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; min-height: 19.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I dig show-and-tells detailing the process of how something is made or done. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washitales.com/papermaking.html#"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Here's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; an insight into how gorgeous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;washi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; paper is made. I found the link via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://uponafold.com.au/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Upon a Fold&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;, a fantastic store of paper goods with an equally fantastic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://uponafold.com.au/blog"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;And lastly, making the rounds in the ol' blogsphere today, an&lt;a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/"&gt; illustrated guide to a Ph.D&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Interesting food-for-thought?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2010/08/after-many-moons-of-unrelenting-sun-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3j4K6Szn4T_2UJVOv68Z31uuQsB_eQ1eSGuWPH-9Q12ppFjPL7SrlLrrUk0UK8Zo6JJ9hflR5wkPXU_oXdWgl3mUKjoci8nFQkMQhcmfxQ6scGpDDj0tCubTiEPu9UbbuGY9TLcRePRe/s72-c/eben_goff.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-2559350537915418889</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-23T08:13:36.687-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"bits n pieces"</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"things that make me swoon"</category><title>PeekaBoo!</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8bREyGmAvZkejgcYO8Y5WR92DZMMWjm1Pes2QLgWNZ85zobMAT7VPAspRcRi5HoGab7om1PVd1fOKh_c8VUJ6KUz91wMsuKUj2qnAHwTNzbRpDQ_O_JE0Su1nKZx7bTi6bcZ6UmLw1hxw/s1600/zimmerlinde_tillmans.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8bREyGmAvZkejgcYO8Y5WR92DZMMWjm1Pes2QLgWNZ85zobMAT7VPAspRcRi5HoGab7om1PVd1fOKh_c8VUJ6KUz91wMsuKUj2qnAHwTNzbRpDQ_O_JE0Su1nKZx7bTi6bcZ6UmLw1hxw/s400/zimmerlinde_tillmans.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496819504900281458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8bREyGmAvZkejgcYO8Y5WR92DZMMWjm1Pes2QLgWNZ85zobMAT7VPAspRcRi5HoGab7om1PVd1fOKh_c8VUJ6KUz91wMsuKUj2qnAHwTNzbRpDQ_O_JE0Su1nKZx7bTi6bcZ6UmLw1hxw/s1600/zimmerlinde_tillmans.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of looking at my blog with all that blue text and no pretty images so I thought I'll share with you the image that's captured my heart recently, Zimmerlinde by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://tillmans.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Wolfgang Tillmans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;. I love the juxtaposition (look at me using fancy art terms) of the flowers with the frosted glass, feels like I can get lost in daydream staring at that scene. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Insert obligatory wistful sigh here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Before I leave you, allow me to share a few links I came across today:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;–-&gt; This &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg_vny5sFpo&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded#!"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;demonstration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; of the proper Japanese way to bow made me chuckle endlessly, heh heh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;–-&gt; And while the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yiyinglu.com/sc/pictogram-design/dog-poo-project-(part2)"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Dog Poo Project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; is for a noble cause, there's still room for some humor. (Hard not to, given the subject matter I suppose)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;–-&gt; Lastly, I haven't tried any of the recipes, but I'm dying to. One of the things I find most frustrating about baking is having to assemble ingredients that I don't normally stock at home. This annoyance is followed closely by the near-impossibility of following instructions to recipes I found online that aren't accompanied by pictorial guidance. (I'm all thumbs and a total novice when it comes to all things baking). So while the mom in "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://mihow.com/tags/mom-it-down/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;mom it down&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;" doesn't apply to me, her non-fuss style speaks VOLUMES to my inner baker. Itching to try her Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Frosting and Mini Cheesecake. Wish me luck!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2010/07/boo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8bREyGmAvZkejgcYO8Y5WR92DZMMWjm1Pes2QLgWNZ85zobMAT7VPAspRcRi5HoGab7om1PVd1fOKh_c8VUJ6KUz91wMsuKUj2qnAHwTNzbRpDQ_O_JE0Su1nKZx7bTi6bcZ6UmLw1hxw/s72-c/zimmerlinde_tillmans.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-2348420911360815567</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-05-31T12:51:31.125-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"words"</category><title/><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;So it looks like cicak hasn't been cheeky so much as cicak has been absent. To be truthful, I just didn't feel like I have anything to add to blogland. Some days, I think that pretty much all there is to say is already said by someone somewhere sometime. And my take on that is, why add to it unless I really feel the need to. Right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Anyhoo, popping back in here just to say hi, hope everybody's doing well and to let you know that I continue to update &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2008/09/links-i-heart.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;links I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2008/09/links-i-heart.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;♥&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;. I know I keep calling it blogland, but really, there are way more sites out there than can be defined. I love visiting some of them for the visual pleasure, others for the eye-opening reads, and yet others for some vague sense of company. Whatever you want to call the sites on the list (intentionally left un-categorized), they've never failed to serve me as a source of inspiration. I hope you find them the same too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2010/05/so-it-looks-like-cicak-hasnt-been.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-9082331226979539007</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-15T05:32:47.374-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"lovin"</category><title>What is art about?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPkQGOPcG05OFHyyUG1IK4K9Ju2clvuWXU17uvUf3fFb0S5vq-yAmT4ONkDhvQSXQ9xQgHyaWpd5VmTdt0jjLntjRHihmsgmrVcoakdt-d5mT3q3FVc3PI-56G-Y3of9T4A6v9Wz8dZDj/s1600-h/F_Hamann.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPkQGOPcG05OFHyyUG1IK4K9Ju2clvuWXU17uvUf3fFb0S5vq-yAmT4ONkDhvQSXQ9xQgHyaWpd5VmTdt0jjLntjRHihmsgmrVcoakdt-d5mT3q3FVc3PI-56G-Y3of9T4A6v9Wz8dZDj/s400/F_Hamann.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Yeah, on that, I'm still looking for answers :-) However, I do know that what it does do for me, today, is give my blue soul a bit of an uplift. Case in point -- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://friederikehamann.com/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Friederike Hamann&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;, whose work is bringing the corners of my mouth north-wards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://chelliswilson.com/art/come_darkness/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Come Darkness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;, a small exhibition of art pieces curated by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://iammav.com/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Maria Vettese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-is-art-about.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPkQGOPcG05OFHyyUG1IK4K9Ju2clvuWXU17uvUf3fFb0S5vq-yAmT4ONkDhvQSXQ9xQgHyaWpd5VmTdt0jjLntjRHihmsgmrVcoakdt-d5mT3q3FVc3PI-56G-Y3of9T4A6v9Wz8dZDj/s72-c/F_Hamann.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-6975809971326958936</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-25T14:37:42.105-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"things that make me swoon"</category><title>Hello, anybody out there?</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;This poor dead blog o' mine. But no eulogies for it yet as today, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;yes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; today!, it's getting a wee jolt of life. It's always so inspiring to see beauty originate from as humble a source as discarded envelopes and newspapers. And &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kristiinalahde.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Kristiina Lahde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;'s work is so inspiring that I felt I need to shout it out to the world from the top of the mountain (or, okay, from the seat of my chair via a blog). I *heart* her &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kristiinalahde.com/?id=52"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Envelope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; series.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400557184061049970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKvvwMzMN7Bo5KYlcxxlGFmYeOK7-GDVEEFoE6Gaqj7Oj44CFyeXtRYT4Fl437UKk4VLjnlYRtQm6oi7RJwaj92lMo9tOtRk2fridStyvkRH_5mCPBtknbcEzCoqCuvi6FkK3PgnlvLs2/s400/Envelope_Piece__8_2004_KLahde.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 389px; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400557198639690498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_EPv5qpI86h0Y7azL4H4LoPXs0oDDcEuR11iANIfpXFabxwoS3rSkmyKkhMzYB1BmOY6XLWhenyyd_L3AdF3YOxcBk6HD0OoEapYUq052IHAco7KeHPHkpr06-HT_pKH3l2C1KzH-JAK/s400/MakingHistory2008_KLahde.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 351px; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;link via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://camillaengman.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Camilla Engman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2009/11/hello-anybody-out-there.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKvvwMzMN7Bo5KYlcxxlGFmYeOK7-GDVEEFoE6Gaqj7Oj44CFyeXtRYT4Fl437UKk4VLjnlYRtQm6oi7RJwaj92lMo9tOtRk2fridStyvkRH_5mCPBtknbcEzCoqCuvi6FkK3PgnlvLs2/s72-c/Envelope_Piece__8_2004_KLahde.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1584327262771762324.post-6897902905779453489</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-04T16:46:34.830-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">"words"</category><title>Hi!</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Wow. I didn't think it was possible to stay away from my techie alter-ego for that long. It was a sort of packed end-of-July, in terms of head space, that is :-) A couple of deaths to deal with, a birthday, a missed deadline, ill-health and an assortment of other pesky things nagging away. These eat up not only the hours of the day, they also tire me out, body, mind and soul (clichéd but true!). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;However, at the end of the day, it's good to remind oneself that life is about keeping forward. It's alright to stop for air, but once you start thinking you're comfortable and that it's ok to stop at where you are, it can get tricky. A good quote that jolted me up today was uttered by John Maeda, the president of the art and design program in Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) who used to be a professor at MIT (yup! that one). He &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/johnmaeda"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;tweeted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, "Being well is much more than, well, just being."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;So basically, life is more than just surviving the daily trials. Simple, right? Hmph, if only. Anyhow, for some poignant (IMHO) reflection on life, check out this article about artist &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/arts/design/15song.html?_r=1"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Song Dong's mother's life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; in the New York Times.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I hope I can swing back into a more regular posting schedule. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', -webkit-fantasy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cheekycicak.blogspot.com/2009/08/hi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (cheeky.cicak)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>