Archive for June 15th, 2009
Fallen Princesses
These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The ‘…happily ever after’ is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.
The Uniform Project
Starting May 2009, I have pledged to wear one dress for one year as an exercise in sustainable fashion. Here’s how it works: There are 7 identical dresses, one for each day of the week. Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accouterments, the majority of which will be vintage, hand-made, or hand-me-down goodies. Think of it as wearing a daily uniform with enough creative license to make it look like I just crawled out of the Marquis de Sade’s boudoir.
The Uniform Project is also a year-long fundraiser for the Akanksha Foundation, a grassroots movement that is revolutionizing education in India. At the end of the year, all contributions will go toward Akanksha’s School Project to fund uniforms and other educational expenses for slum children in India.
American Flags Saved By Canadian Garbage Man
ELGIN, Ill. – Suburban Chicago veterans have honored a garbage truck driver who’s credited with saving 250 American flags from being improperly thrown out within the last 18 months.
Elgin’s American Legion Post 57 and Elks Lodge 737 recognized Waste Management driver Jeff Olsen during a Flag Day ceremony Sunday.
Olsen is a 34-year-old native Canadian who says he plucks flags from the refuse in his truck whenever he sees them. Waste Management representatives say that has been a regular practice among their Elgin drivers for some time, but Olsen is the most successful.
Olsen is married to a former Army medic who did two tours of duty in Kuwait. He says that throwing flags away is like stomping on them.
Federal code says American flags should be discarded in a dignified way.
Your Logo Makes Me Barf
YourLogoMakesMeBarf.com is intended to be a humorous look at what can go wrong when an unskilled person (your neighbor’s brother’s uncle’s friend anyone?!) designs a logo. Good logos require time and involve great forethought. A good logo should be a financial investment but also something that will benefit the long term growth of a company.
So leave the designing to the designers and browse through some of these fine examples of what not to look for in a logo. Barf bags recommended.
The best and worst cities to live in
The world’s ten best and ten worst cities in which to reside, according to Mercer’s 2009 Quality of Living survey.
Mineral Wells, Abilene, and Lewisivlle did not make either list.
Bag of Randomness
- I just learned that diesel engines, that is cars with a diesel engine, don’t have spark plugs.
- WifeGeeding has an in-law that is flying a jet for Steve Wynn. Recently he had to fly from Las Vegas to Oklahoma to pick up Garth Brooks, and then back again.
- Simon Owens took a look at political blog traffic from Oct 08 to May 09. If that kind of stuff interests you, check it out.
- I did some spray painting in an area that is not well ventilated and felt I got really high for the firs time in my life.
- Even though WifeGeeding was not home this Sunday, I still went to church.
- A guest pastor spoke about how Christians are, or can be separate from the world. He broke it down to how Christians are separate physically, culturally, and mentally. It was quite interesting.
- I’m giving my pool table away to a college buddy of mine. I have lots of fond memories of that pool table, and all the good times me and my buddies had around that thing since high school. But I doubt I’ve played pool twice in two years, and it should be put to good use.
- I’m somewhat thinking of turning the room where the pool table use to be into a home theater. So I guess I now need to research projectors.
- I went to the deep freeze yesterday and discovered it was no longer freezing and all the food was just cool. Turns out I needed to reset the outlet breaker thingy and it started back up. The frozen chicken breasts were thawed out, but were still cold. I can’t decide if I should throw all the food away in the deep freeze or not
- Grace
