sasha comes to washington!

yayyy
national portrait gallery, american art museum, national gallery, nmai
food at teaism
drinks at room 11--most delicious drink ever: rite of spring (gin, chamomile, honey, lavender bitters)
sitting at yen's drinking coke&vodka, playing drinking games to awful lifetime movies (The House Next Door and You Belong to Me)

pic of the day: spencer!

The Parking Lot Movie (2010)

day 3 :D

finished the 111-page list
need to put together the board books
had a 5 HOUR MEETING (lordddd)
and gotta get my shit together
won't know if i'll stay in d.c. until oct 26+
time to get my applications a moving :)

documentary du jour:

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011)

pic du jour: Smithsonian Castle

Month Long Promise 10.10.2012

#1 Write a I-Like-This-About-You note/text/email each day for someone (Easy)

#3 Take one picture each day (Hard)

#6 Take a moment each day to practice self compassion and self-love (Hard)

#11 Watch a documentary each day (Easy)

 Day 1:
Indie Game: The Movie (amazing)

Indie Game: The Movie (2012)

picture of mushrooms outside of the national botanic gardens

Day 2:
Life in a Day (great)

Life In A Day (2011)

picture of fake flowers in thompson during breakfast with leslie

Argo was awesome, met some great gals from NMAH (American History) where we went to Chef Geoff's on Pennsylvania Ave and saw their bacon bar. had a candy apple sangria and some delicious yucca fries
then went to the pre-release for Argo, which was legitimately thrilling :)

"What is this, an act of congress?!"

- Angela Leipold

The tale of the hole punched paper conquest is one that stretches over 48 hours, or two business days.
Locked up reams of hole punched paper were as isolated as Rapunzel, stuck in a locked cabinet in a locked room to which there were only two keys.
The key keepers darted in and out, refusing to take heed of anyone's pleading for the emancipation of the hole punched papers--whether by phone, email, or quick chat in the halls--all words fell on deaf ears.
So as you can imagine when the hole punched paper was finally freed, there was a joyous celebration of food and drink.



....Or it was immediately mocked and onwards to the quest of getting the files which need to be printed onto said paper.

First Event! Davidson Institute Awards :D

Bunch of 16-18 year old nerdy asian boys milling about in suits who've done math/scientific projects
Got a nice free catered dinner out of the event :D

Delish

Got back to the dorm _just_ as dinner was ending and there were all these balloons to celebrate the finishing of the kitchen...plus there was a raffle and people won stuff :(
OF ALL THE DAYS TO MISS DINNER AT THOMPSON, I MISS THE ONE THAT HAS COOL SHIT AND GOOD FOOD
snagged a cup of vanilla ice cream with strawberries though
headed upstairs and lovely leslie informed me that a bunch of girls were going to head over to Pour House as a farewell for one girl and also to watch the debate

so yep. sunk into a leather couch, had two glasses of wine, and watched the debate with thompson girls and a bunch of quiet d.c.ers
certainly interesting, but after a while i was thinking about what i should be for halloween and if i should decorate my door haha

Found this on my desk this morning :D

college lyfe~

Quote of the Day: Brian Jungen

Much of Jungen's work is created out of sports paraphernalia — a suit of armor made of catcher mitts, a skull crafted from baseball skins, blankets woven from jerseys, and totem poles of stacked golf bags. It's a deliberate choice, Jungen says, to make art from materials belonging to an industry that has claimed names such as The Chiefs, Indians, Redskins and Braves.
"I felt that if these professional sports teams felt that they had every right to use this terminology, then I had every right to exploit their materials for my artwork," Jungen says.

"Professional sports play a role in society that serves like a ritual and ceremony," he says. "Having experienced that within my own family — the dancing and drumming that I participate in — I know how important that is. So I wanted to use that — use things that people would recognize in their everyday world."
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113840238

Ramsey :D

my new best friend, cultural interpreter Ramsey is my homeboy
i better ask if we can beading bros because he's exactly what i looooove: art and math and physics
teaching me about beads and shit, and even bridges (compression vs. suspension)<3

topics:
quillwork weaving
pony beads are glass too
hand pump drill to drill beads
elk teeth to show hunter's abilities
spongebob beadwork
dragon beadwork
cherokee dragons - lizard with wings
lakota dragons - fire breathing water serpents
beaded pens, beaded clicker (tension keeps the beaded net together)
beadwork as MATH lessons --taught on reservations!
scooping beads up with the needle
quill-->beads-->plastic beads-->lacework
sinew - tendon which hardens, can be pulled apart like string cheese, one end left hard to be a needle!
talking about bridges--how europeans use compression (domes, hammer/nails) and latin americans used suspension technology
why indians never used the wheel (but they did have wheels)--Plains Terrain (no roads) would make wheels sink in, bandwagons always breaking apart, travoy's would bounce along, and also that indians didnt have large domestic animals (except south americans who have llamas who could just carry things up the highway)

TOO. COOL.