Someone contacted me via flickr a few weeks ago asking permission to use one of my English error photos in some video, so i told them that would be fine. A few days ago i received an email containing a link to the finished video: The Apostrophe Song. I guess it’s actually a promo for an iPhone app that teaches you how to use apostrophes correctly. So here’s the video, and one of those photos was taken by me. 
Kinda catchy, eh? “Don’t put an apostrophe in ‘its’ unless you mean ‘it is.’” 
It’s that time of year again when i get to spend an entire day doing whatever i want! Today i’m on vacation from work so i slept in and looked at all my messages on Facebook, and soon i’ll be going to try on wedding dresses with a few friends and then celebrating the rest of my day with them and Nathan. My lovely friend Jennifer did my nails last night so that i’d look extra glamorous in the dresses:
Happy Birthday to Me!
Even though i’ve been a designer for years and was an artist for years before that, i’ve never been all that fond of color. I was more interested in value, i guess; i thought shades of gray were perfectly nice-looking and suitable for any application. In high school i had a purple room and drove a teal car, but i’ve always worn a lot of black and even avoided using color in certain design projects in college.
However, something about scouring the web for the perfect color palette for our wedding has made me totally smitten with color. This is somewhat odd considering that the primary colors of our wedding will be black and white and that a wedding is probably the one event where that palette is appropriate, but searching for the perfect accent color has really opened my eyes to all the subtly-different millions of colors out there and how certain combinations of them can change the way a person feels. I’ve even been buying more colorful clothing lately. It’s such a wonderful thing – who knew??
There’s a website called COLOURLovers that i’ve been using for several years as a source for color palettes, but i never created an account or started creating my own until now. I’m getting off to a slow start in terms of popularity, but i’m having a lot of fun creating color palettes from photographs. For example, the palette you’re seeing to the right is one i created from this photo:
…Which, by the way, i have forgotten the source of. I didn’t take the photo and i can’t remember where i found it, so if you know its origin please let me know!
And – designer friends – you should really consider trying this site out; it’s a lot of fun despite the fact that i have no idea why you can love a palette, follow a palette or a person, send love notes to a person or (i think?) a palette and yet can’t really go back and find the colors you loved/followed/left notes for. I wanna see what colors make you swoon.
After this week i’m going to start doing this on Fridays, because Calee does hers on Thursdays and she’s been doing it longer, so this way if we want to blog about the same band she gets the credit and/or i can change mine.
This week i’m going to talk about The National. Their new album High Violet came out earlier this year, and while i don’t think it’s quite as good as Boxer it’s been steadily growing on me and i think it’s a really solid album. I discovered The National at pretty much the same time and in the same manner that i discovered Stars. I still don’t have their older albums, but i’m working on that.
Evidently The National doesn’t really “do” music videos, so here’s a live rendition of the track “Terrible Love” off of High Violet. There’s a little flub in the beginning, but keep watching.
Today i am the featured blogger on my friend Calee’s blog, chimesblog. Calee is a good friend of mine and is going to be one of my bridesmaids, but she’s also a very talented designer and crafter and one helluva dedicated runner. She does marathons and stuff. A force to be reckoned with, for sure.
So if you’re new here, welcome! A lot of my writing is purely about my own life, but i also like to review books, movies and music, rant about religion, post my photography, and correct people’s English. I’m also a bride-to-be, and i’ve been keeping track of the things that i find inspiring as i do my planing on my tumblr. Have a look around and please enjoy!