So Fresh and So Clean

So, I know the soap looks moldy, but what you actually see is sage combined into this tea tree oil soap bar. I got it from Mississippi Moon Naturals, a farm in IL. I was stumbling (I love StumbleUpon and happened to come upon this site, called Local Harvest. This site is great because you can check out where all the local farms, Farmers Markets, etc are located around your area and the whole U.S. It's an easier way for you to support local farms and it gives you great organic choices.

Old School R&B

Ha, love how they are rocking the white gloves.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

This movie is so frustrating to watch, especially for the female audience. It definitely stirs up all these emotions inside you about how the women are treated in this movie, which is sadly based on a true story. It reminds me of how lucky I am to be in a place where females are treated more equal, even though we still have lots of existing sexism and we definitely need to fight on! This movie makes me sad because of how certain societies use religion to manipulate others just to cater to a few ugly individuals. Please watch this, and it's on instant watch on Netflix!

Side Note: I can't help but notice the beautiful hair that Middle Eastern ladies have.

MARSHMALLOW

This makes me wish I was a Marshmallow fanatic. 240 Sweet carries yummy flavors such as chocolate chip and dark chocolate to crazy flavors like beef as well as bacon maple and toffee.

Warpaint

I love it when friends find good stuff on YouTube.

Love Crunch!

My buddy, Mitch, talks about what they do at Love Crunch. I bought a bar myself and can't wait to try it out and also have my other half of the bar go into some hungry tummy.

try it out yourself! --> http://lovecrunch.org/

Light Show

If you ever get your hands on some shrooms or acid. Here you go:

Also, I recommend playing the video below of the song Reckoner by Radiohead as you are watching the above video for maximum amazingness.

Leaves

I tried making necklaces out of these, but I only succeeded in putting resin on the red long leaf.

Heartbeats--The Knife

Why am I attracted to so many artists with interesting voices? CocoRosie, The Knife, Joanna Newsom, Bjork, Fever Ray...Bring it on.


I also like Jose Gonzalez' version. His voice is just very nice and soothing.

DJ Wally Wonder

Check out these sweet mixes by my buddy DJ Wally Wonder from Bloomington, IN.

http://djwallywonder.tumblr.com/

http://soundcloud.com/djwallywonder

Cookie Story of the Universe

Alyssa put this up on the fb and I thought it very cute. It seems to me that today's main topic is, COOKIES.

One of my fave pictures out of the set

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/let-it-dough/

Cheesy Xmas Photo

So, originally, I wanted Paolo and I to be in really ugly Christmas sweaters and take cheesy family style portraits to send for the holidays. Sadly, we both do not own any sweaters like that so we had to settle for the colors: red and green. I did this last minute in our room with 2 shitty lamps. Enjoy!

Geminid Meteor Shower

Was able to catch some shooting stars after work. Woot!

Paolo asked me some things that made me wonder about how exactly meteor showers worked, so of course I had to find the best source on the interweb, which is Wikipedia! ha!
Click Click-->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_shower

Purple DRANK

Nothing solves a hangover like it. Mmmmm.

Black Hole

Gary Panter, he's an amazing commercial artist who also created the characters, Jimbo, in his comic book, Jimbo, Adventures in Paradise. If you watched Pee Wee's Playhouse when you were a kid, then you would be familiar with his set designs for that show. I had the pleasure of getting a luncheon with him with a group of my buddies when he came to Indiana University for a lecture in 2009. He's hilarious and I sadly did not have a book for him to sign, I should of totally brought my sketchbook because he drew, Jimbo, on someone else's. He also had worked with Charles Burns, and commented that he is one of the best inkers in the comic world. I got excited to hear this because I love Charles Burns' graphic novel, Black Hole.
Black Hole has beautifully inked illustrations and the graphic novel's context is very grotesque and interesting. It's basically about a town with a crazy type of std epidemic among the teenagers. I recommend you to try reading it and you probably don't know it, but you love comics. I got so many friends into reading comics or back into reading comics, it's definitely not a medium only for kids.

Web Addictions

One of my buddies, Luke Shumard is a web designer. I was browsing through his works and Dazed TV caught my eye. It has cool videos of art, music, and fashion. Such as this crazy video:

A Graffiti Collaboration With Groovy Clinks

Os Gemeos and BLU *heart*

I want

Honda CB 500 1971

Screaming Females

Marissa is a lil cutie.

If you like to read...

READ THIS!

Jeffrey Eugenides is also the author for The Virgin Suicides. Another amazing book. Middlesex has so many layers of history involved, from Cal's (the protagonist) grandparents story in Asia Minor, to his/her parents in America, and to the modern century in Detroit, MI. This book contains family secrets, secrets that build up and result in an interesting topic about hermaphrodites. Most people are turned off when I tell them this book is about a hermaphrodite, but it is so much more than that. I also learned some things about the Greek culture, which is great because I got a different perspective besides what the history textbooks gave us. It felt more human and not just about the usual war heroes, statues, and politics.

Green Tea Incense

Go ahead, say it with your teeth together, "Green Tea Incense." This was discovered by the lovely ladies, Lilly and Brody. Ah, college freshman year memories. I secretly burnt some today while listening to Weezer, that's right, I was in the mood for 90's. Don't judge me! Anyway, besides nag champa, this is one of my top choices of incense. It's settle, so it's not invasive at all to the nose. Burn it up!

M.I.A.

TIME FOR A DANCE PARTY IN THE ROOM!

Creatures I Draw

This is the result of me with two ink pens and when my mind is in another dimension.