Posts tagged jschool
EXTRA EXTRA: Lauren O’Neil Grows up (just a little bit)
Apr 17th
Grrreetings M’Ladypimps and Stud McMuffins!
I’m back from my brief hiatus and hereby do solemnly swear to start posting again daily(ish).
Yesterday was my last day of school. Not for the semester. Not for the year. FOR LIFE.
Okay, maybe not for life – the PhD is always a possibility, I suppose, and I will be taking many a course in the future to upgrade my skills/meet hot professor boys (hello French language training 101! hello intermediate Flash development! hellloooo improv!), but I think that this might be it as far as my “full time university student” career goes.
Whoodathunk that a girl who uses words like “whoodathunk” would land herself a Masters degree?
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Today’s been like a sort of weird, hazy dream. I don’t think it’s really hit me yet that the most intense year of my life is over.
I’ve been trolling around the house all spacey-like for the past few hours, tidying things, doing laundry – getting caught up on all of the junk that tends to get neglected during exam time.
Sleeping in past 8:00am today was just delicious. Better than a slice of candy pizza dipped in awesome sauce, I tell you hwwwhat.
Maybe I’m feeling a bit wonky because I was partying with beloved cronies until 5:00am last night… but I think it’s probably more than that.
I can’t really put my finger on what I’m feeling. All I can say is that it’s a terribly strong emotion.
I feel like I should cry, but I can’t. I want to be joyous and celebratory, but can’t feel that way either.
Emotional paralysis. Limbo. I feel so ‘Lauren circa 2006′ writing like this right now. Did you know that I used to be a bit of an emo-kid? A cam-pic happy emo-kid, at that…
*hangs head in shame*
I think that later, I will drive out to the one of the lakes with Deja Entendu blaring on repeat. That always does the trick. Something about driving – especially out in the country – is so cathartic for me. And Brand New never fails to choke me up. One of my favourite bands of all time, for sure. I’ve been crying to this album since I was 17. (I told you I was an emo).
“Coordinate brain and mouth. Then ask me whats it like to have myself so figured out. I wish I knew…”
Ummm anyways, we had to write a “self reflection” about our experiences this year for one of our professors.
I’m not going to bore you with the entire thing, but for this, my very last J-School post, I would like to share my “list of lessons learned” during the time I spent in the MAJ program at Western.
This is list is, by no means, comprehensive – are lists of this kind EVER complete? I was seriously tempted to add “doing stories about homeless people or cripples who do art therapy will land you an A+ at UWO’s J-School” but I refrained… 
Lauren’s Life Lessons v. Western Journalism, 2010
• Having good comrades can make even the toughest of battles seem easy.
• The more you kill babies, the easier it gets.
• Stories can be found everywhere once you know how to look for them.
• Nobody is too big or important to talk to a reporter. You never know who you might land an interview with if you just give it a try.
• Haters gon’ hate.
• My nerdy skillset is more unique and valuable in the wild world of news than I had ever realized .
• Blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking and good ol’ fashioned schmoozing can pay off BIG TIME when it comes to making connections and landing jobs. Whoodathunkit?
• Put yourself out there as much as possible. You may eventually be discovered by someone who matters.
• Shelling out $18 for UWO business cards was the best investment I made all year long.
• Never turn down a good opportunity, even if you’re tired and busy.
• The losers are the cool kids and the cool kids are the losers. That’s the truth.
• True friendships aren’t formed over beers at bars.
• I need to be creative and social every day in order to be happy.
• A fun and fulfilling career is more important to me than a lucrative one.
• The best work is produced when one is passionate about what they’re working on.
• Spending a Saturday night playing around with audio can be a lot more fun than going out to a club.
• It is humanly possible to live without cable, but I would never want to do it again.
• Having a car and a blackberry should never be taken for granted. I’m a lucky, lucky girl.
• My parents are amazing people. I would be nothing without their unfledgling support, encouragement, and badass genes.
• TV news is mindless and uninteresting.
• I would rather be known for my words than my face.
• Some people are just jerks.
• Sometimes, I’m a jerk.
• Being yourself will take you a lot further than acting like who you think others want you to be.
• It’s hip to be geeky.
• I’m pretty good at business writing and I like it a lot too. I’m just as surprised by this as I’m sure you are.
• I’d rather be odd but memorable than safe and unremarkable.
• “later” will come eventually. Spend time with those you care about while you have the chance.
• Sometimes, the grown-ups are wrong.
• Sometimes, you need to trust your gut and go for what you believe in.
• Sometimes, you just have to grin and roll with the punches.
• It is possible for stories to be entertaining and journalistic at the same time.
• Deadlines can be blessings.
• London, Ontario is a wicked city that I love and am going to miss very much.
• I’m intelligent enough to earn a Masters Degree
• My right eye starts to twitch uncontrollably when I sleep 2 hours a night for 3 weeks straight.
• Kindness is one of the greatest virtues a person can have.
• I have an “unconventional writing style” for news – but apparently, this is as a positive thing.
• There is always going to be somebody out there who’s better than you.
• People behave in certain ways for certain reasons.
• Consider the source of both criticism and praise.
• Be careful about what you post on the internet.
• Volunteer when you can, but know where to draw the line so you don’t over exert yourself.
• I can produce a rap song AND a rap video, legit!
• Anything is possible if you put the effort forth. It really, truly is.
Love, Lauren O’Neil, B.A. (Hons), M.A.
(amd I promise that you will NEVER see me write those letters behind my name again. Sa-ha-hoooo douchebaggy.)
The Lady Truckers…
Apr 14th
Well, here it is folks – available for your downloading and streaming pleasure (big ups to my Tweeps for turning me on to soundcloud, btw. Very cool.)
The Lady Truckers – A radio documentary by Lauren O’Neil by laurenoneil
I’ve spent many, many hours working on this piece. Too many to count.
Wait – that’s a lie. I could probably count the hours if I had been making a concious effort to keep track of them over the course of this semester.
Gosh, between research, sound mixing, script writing, interviews, driving back and forth to Guelph, running around truck stops, getting chased out of truck stops, and the hours and hours spent I spent locked up in the editing room… it must have been at least a hundretty jillion hours. That sounds about right.
But I digress.
Today was a very big day at J-School: the 2010 Canned Festival!
Students in the broadcast streams of the MAJ program got to show off our term projects to faculty, peers, and all of the random librarians and FIMS people who intermittently stopped by to bask in our awesomeness – if only for a moment.
It was a time to make our “swan songs”, as one professor put it.
I thought that this was a lovely sentiment until I got home and googled “swan song“, at which point I became very, very sad.
#Uliana_Lopatkina_is_flawless
#you_can’t_use_underscores_in_hashtags
#you_can’t_use_hashtags_in_blogs
#web_rebels_anonymous
#douchebags_anonymous
I would love to stay and blog it up real hard for a while, but I’ve got to finish a paper and then wake up hecka early.
Too many blogworthy life happenings going on for me to have time to blog about them. What a paradox.
Follow my Tweetfeed if you’d like the real time play-by-play. You know how I am, what with the “blah blah blah” and the “tweet tweet tweet”…
Big day tomorrow. Night night.
Love,
Anna Pavlova.
the “no time to blog” blog
Apr 12th
I’ve got FOUR incomplete draft posts in the queue. No joke.
I’ve been trying to keep up with my “blog every day” New Years resolution, but it’s the end of the semester and time is tight. Give a kid a break, okay?
In lieu of my temporary absence from the blog-o-verse, I will open up the floor to questions from the audience.
I may not have time to straight-up blawwwg for the next couple of days, in light of exams and mega-papers and end of the year BBQ parties (hooray!), but I can always make time for formspring.
And Tumblr, apparently. But that’s less of a conscious effort to produce content than it is a shameful, all consuming, late-night addiction… TO HILARITY! shashashashasha:
And because I don’t like picture-less posts (who does?), here are a few of my favourites from the J-School semi-formal the other night at Aroma (the most beautiful restaurant I’ve been to in this city).
Full album to be on FB soon:
(Family portrait with C & B!)
(The freshest kids)
(presenting the Pulitzer Prize awards with Mr. GQ)
(This man invented awesome)
(helloooo prettehs!)
(helloooo gum in my mouth!)
(helloooo chefs!)
C’est tout!
-Nizz
Blue Screen of Death Belt Buckle – Would you Rock it?
Apr 9th
So? Would you? Let me know in the comments.
I stumbled upon this little gem (fifteen dollah hollah!) a few weeks ago while doing some research for a feature article about “the big business of nerd merch” for my business reporting class.
Due to the sheer volume of pure unbridled awesomeness available for purchase (and the fact that I interviewed about 8 different equally interesting superhumans) it turned into one Mastiff of a story.
I call it a Mastiff, of course, because it is gargantuan, sloppy and unusual, but delightfully fun to spend time with!
It’s not actually that huge – and after my professor takes care of some minor grooming, it won’t be sloppy anymore either, but I needed a clever way of throwing in a shoutout to Hercules, the world’s biggest dog.
Imagine owning a dog that weighs 282 pounds. I’m imagining it right now, and it’s BLOWING MY MIND!!!
In other blogworthiness…
- The Elle Canada Gala & New Label Competition is taking place the day before I move out of my place in London, and I’m so going anyways.
I wonder if I can get a press pass. Do “recently graduated journalism students with blogs” qualify as press? *sigh*
I need to get a legit journo-job. Fast.
-This crackhead freak talented Amy Winehouse lover is taking “fan art” to a whole new level (and inspiring me to take up the art of Lego Busting. Imagine how good say, Andy Samberg, would look in 8bit?):
(via Geekologie)
- And speaking of 8bit, If you haven’t seen Patrick Jean’s ‘Pixels’ yet, you need to watch it. Right now. I’ll wait.
That’s it for today, folks – I need to go study for my Media Theory Criticism Exam. I will be a happy girl when Monday is over, but until then… you can find me in the library sucking Chomsky and Habermas into my brain through my eyeballs.
Maybe I will sketch a picture to illustrate that later when it’s time for another procrastination break.
Love,
Lego’Nizzle.
OH! before it slips my mind – If you’re in London tonight and looking for something to do, come check out the rejected spring show at Moon Over Marin on Dundas. I’ll be walking for Dilly Daisy. Should be a good time
iPads and Squishees : a very good day.
Apr 8th
A long, busy day for this kid. Here are the highlights – with photos, huzzah!
8:23am -9:40am : Woke up, showered, prettified myself for the day – all that jazz. Then, I went surfing…
Web surfing, of course. I live in London, Ontario people – come on now!
As much as I’d love to try surfing for real, it wouldn’t really fit into my morning routine, what with having to fly to the coast and all.
Plus, I like to multi-task by eating breakfast while I take my morning jaunt around the net.
I don’t suspect it would be very easy to balance my cereal on a surf board.
I eat big breakfasts, fyi. Brain food:
10:15am - A REALLY BIG THUNDERSTORM CAME!
10:20am - The sweet thunderstorm was over and I went back to studying.
11:45am ish - Drove downtown to get the zipper on my broken boot replaced.
I was ticked off that I had to pay $40 to fix a pair of $250 boots that I’ve owned for less than half a year, so I bought myself a red squishee and walked around downtown for a while.
1:00pm -2:00pm ish - Went Grocery shopping, because I didn’t actually make it to Loblaw’s before the store closed the other night. #fail
2:45pm - Watching TV and chopping celery in my kitchen. Suddenly, I realize that it’s 2:45 in the afternoon and I start busting my booty to finish up with the produce preparation.
A phone interview in the J-school studio at 3:30pm means I need to leave the house at 3:00pm to make it in time.
3:07pm - locking my front door and putting on my shoes at the same time. I jog to school in the rain and arrive, soaking wet, with 2 minutes to spare
3:30pm – 3:51pm – A great interview with an official from the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada for my medical feature story.
I spent the next two hours transcribing said interview / answering emails / chatting with classmates…
and then it was off to yoga.
6:30pm – 7:30 pm – Ommm….
(I would have taken a photo, but cameras aren’t allowed in the class. I wonder why that is?)
8:00pm ish – The fun begins. I drove on over to Chaucer’s for GEEK DINNER LONDON! (#gdldn)
I got to touch my first iPad tonight and it was dirty magical.
James was kind enough to let me play with his brand new bouncing bundle of joy…
And then she was called away for something even dirtier…
(Yes, this was my idea. Yes, I’m a nerd. Stfu.)
Then, the iPad got passed around the room, that little floozy!
I think more than 30 people had a hand in this crowdsourced portrait of Monsieur Picard. Comic Jamming 2.0 or what? The possibilities are endless with this thing!:
But it’s not the gadgets that bring me out to Geek Dinner, of course – it’s the awesome people (PHRONK) I get to hang out with when I’m there.
… people who just happen to have sick, sick gadgets – like Bill Deys, who has so kindly let me touch both his Nexus One smartphone and his Amazon Kindle.
Oh, how I want an e-reader… and server colocation.
Someday… When I’m less poor and more rich.
As for the iPad, I’m waiting for it to come to Canada and depreciate in price a little bit before I rush out to buy one.
It’s a sweet, pretty toy – no doubt about it – but I get by just fine with my laptop and blackberry.
I’ll probably buy an iPod touch soon to bridge the gap, but I think I’ll wait on the iPad until the next generation comes out.
Hopefully, it will be able to withstand my blender.
(viaJ-Jack)
I saw this in the hall at Chaucer’s, btw, and I like it. So I took a picture.
And then I drove home from Geek Dinner in the rain. The pretty spring rain
It’s now 2:02 am and I AM LE SOFA KING TIRED!
G’Night, e-homies.
<3, i’Nizzle
In ten days, I will be your Master.
Apr 6th
Okay, maybe not YOUR master – but A Master. A Master of Arts in Journalism, that is.
Six Weeks ago, I was certain that on this day I would be straight thrilled with life.
I’m nearly finished my term work (only one major article and a few small assignments left to crank out!), the winter weather is well on it’s way to Australia (suckers) and our big J-School semi-formal is this Thursday night.
As Ms. VP of Communications, it was my job to make a poster promoting said night of pure awesome, so I did last night, whilst watching How I met your mother and cruising the internet for funny stuff job postings.
The dead dog is an inside joke, btw. I’m not that deranged.
My feelings about the end of the semester are mixed, to say the least.
I mean, I want to graduate. I need to start working and making money so that I can get an apartment of my own (sans roommates – for the love of Buddah! I’m done!), a legitimate coffee maker, a bed that isn’t a futon… maybe even adopt myself a little dog – or at the very least, a nice houseplant.
The thing is, I’m a wee bit frightened by the prospect of finishing University. I’ve been going to school since I was 3 years old. It’s what I’m comfortable with – what I know and love.
Maybe that’s why the idea of getting a PhD has appealed to me so much lately?
Four more years ensconced within the warm, stimulating confines of academia, the promise of a cushy career filled with research, writing and teaching teaching to look forward to, a big office filled with books, some of which may even have my name on the cover, GLAVIN!!!
Maybe someday…
Right now, I really do think the best thing for me is to get out into the real world and start working. I’m up for the challenge!
A big part of me is just chomping at the bit to make my mark in the wild world of journalism (or whatever industry I end up falling into).
Still – it’s scary.
People keep asking me what I’ll be doing when I graduate…
“Got a job lined up yet?”
“How much have you been offered?”
“When do you leave London?”
“Where will you be living for the summer?”
“What’s your five year plan, deary?”
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
“Can I have your credit card, social insurance number and bra size please?”
It’s seriously suffocating.
I don’t have the slightest idea of where I’ll even be living a month from now! I leave the city of London on April 30th and then it’s off to… Toronto? Chatham? Windsor? San Diego? Guelph? Hong Kong?
I hope it’s Hong Kong. (that’s a lie. I hate chinese food.)
But it’s not what city I’ll be living in that’s stressing me out the most, it’s what I’ll be doing in that city.
I’ve had opportunities come up within a variety of fields – Reporting, marketing, PR, advertising, teaching, gangsta rapping…
How do you decide what you want to do for the rest of your life (or at least the next little while) when you want to do everything at once?
I’m just waiting to find out about the AXE gig so that I can at least make a move in one direction or the other.
Not much of a point in moving to Los Angeles in May if I find out that I’ll have a free place in Toronto come June, right?
Oh gosh… I really, really, hope I’ll have that place in Toronto come June, and the sweet, sweet summer job that comes along with it. Then, in September, maybe I’ll fulfill my life long dream of landing a job as a reporter likeNews Anchor Barbie (who just so happens to be released the year I’m graduating from Journalism School. A sign?)
She’s almost as cool as nerd computer engineer Barbie.
Btw – anybody else notice that the binary code on her pink laptop (#covet!) spell’s “Barbie”? Clever, clever!
I think that Computer Engineer Barbie needs to give her netbook (I am classifying it as such because its display is definitely less than ten inches) to Reporter Barbie so she can develop the crucial multimedia reporting skills that will allow her to succeed in today’s multi-platform news gathering environment!
Give her your sweet binary tee and hot pink kicks too while you’re at it, Nerdlinger.
Actually… maybe reporter Barbie should just give her mic to Poindexter Barbie and go return that little pink teddy she’s wearing to La Senza for some real clothes. Like, wtf Mattel?
I love pink more than Paris Hilton and Regina George combined and I still wouldn’t wear that to work. You’d be hard pressed to find a legit journalist who would (except maybe on Halloween. Actually, that’d be kind of cute, eh?)
Disjointed blog post? Maybe.
Weak conclusion? Yup.
Nightnight!
Love,
Blogster Barbie.
Journadventures – O’Nizzle meets the Amish
Apr 5th
… and refers to herself in third person sometimes. (#coolkidfail)
Some of you may recall the post I wrote about Podcamp Toronto 2010 for the Toronto Star’s Intern Blog a little while back.
That was hecka exciting for me.
Also exciting? Being asked to pen another blog post and seeing my name on the Star’s website once again.
What can I say? I’m a news nerd. Writing for the Star’s intern blog is a great opportunity, and Hey – with a bit of luck, I may just be lucky enough to score an internship there some day myself
It’s always exciting to see my name in the news media for something other than what I was up to over the weekend.
Yeah, that’s right.
So, please go check out my story about the ups and downs of J-school and learn a little something about how Amish people get their news.
You think second gen iPhones are old school? My Amish homies don’t even have RADIOS. This obviously proved quite problematic for Carrie and I when we trying to produce a radio piece about Amish Media.
It is now 9:52pm. You know what that means? Mad dash to the grocery store time!!!
6 packs of Jello are on sale this week – 2 for 5 dollars! You know I’m not missing out on that.
Hehe. That’s totally a Bill Cosby jello shot portrait. Gotta love Google Images
<3 Always,
- J-E-L-L-O'Nizzle
P.S. - Check out Marissa Nelson’s recent blog post about how to get a job in online journalism if you get a chance.
Great advice for aspiring new media journalists from the senior editor of digital news at the Toronto Star.
The Monster Hoodie – Would you rock it?
Mar 13th
The Maker Culture project – Media episode goes live!
Feb 19th
Finally! Episode Six of the Maker Culture series is now live on thetyee.ca and rabble.ca! Eeeee! Check out DiStef and I hosting up the MEdia podcast here. I’m so insanely proud of the work we all did on this project, and psyched to finally see it go public.
Let me back things up a bit to give you a little bit of context…
Last semester, my j-school cronies and I took an online journalism course. All 30 of us got to take it together because it was one of those mandatory “everybody has to take this class” classes (and with good reason, I would say. It’s no secret that the news industry is changing – some might even say dying – and the internet is playing a huge role in this transformation).
Anyways – a major component of this class was our term project – and what a freaking project it was…
It was such an intensive, all consuming project, in fact, that the very name of this project came to replace the name of the course among j-schoolers. We weren’t taking “online journalism” anymore – we were taking “Maker Culture“. Thursday was “Maker Culture” day. Professor Wayne MacPhail was “Maker Culture guy”. Soon, we were having Maker Culture weekends, Maker Culture conferences, Maker Culture road trips, Maker Culture panic attacks … near the end of the semester, the print room, radio room, TV studio (and the hallways in between) became the Making Maker Culture Workshop. Maker Culture Land.
Makerculturemakerculturemakerculture. It was THE buzzword around the department Fall semester 2009. Hell, it was the buzzword around our LIVES…
“Sorry mom – I can’t make it home for Thanksgiving – I’ve got to work on Maker Culture…”
“Maker Culture? What’s that?”
“Um… well…”
Funny thing is, nobody really even knew what the heck it meant for a while (I’m still not entirely certain). Eventually though, most of us ended up getting it at some level – some of us even got INTO it, becoming makers in our own right (more on that later).
One thing’s for certain – between the 29 of us, we created some insanely good work. Podcasts, videos, feature articles, photo galleries – you can see it all (and the behind the scenes methods to the madness) on our class wiki and project blog. I highly recommend that you check them out.
Between what our class and the class we collaborated with at Ryerson produced, there are now enough Maker Culture multimedia stories on the great wide interwebs to satisfy INSTRUCTABLES-BOT himself!
You’re probably waiting for the beat to drop eh? Enough of the build-up, you say! TELL ME WHAT IS THIS MAYKER KULTCHER PROJEKT NAOW!
I’m going to pass the mic to professor Wayne MacPhail (our fearless leader) for this one. He writes on rabble.ca :
For twelve weeks in the fall of 2009, 45 students Online Journalism students at Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario, under the direction of rabble board member Wayne MacPhail, worked together to document the evolving Maker Culture community.
Maker Culture? That’s coders, fabricators, foodies, artists, educators, activists, citizen and even scientists grabbing the Do-It-Yourself ethic with both hands and changing our world in the process.
These are people who aren’t just making things, they’re making a point of sharing what they’ve learned, what they’ve made, and why. Often, for free. Makers are responding directly, locally to globalization,commercialization, copyright and central command and control.
And, they’re everywhere: building printers that can print themselves, mashing up music, doing science at home, changing their cities and countries, even imagining how we could print out our own organs. And nearly four dozen students caught up with the movement as it grew. Sometimes they even helped it grow. You’ll see.
Each episode will contain a podcast on the rabble podcast network, video clips on the MakerCulture You Tube channel and a feature story right here on rabble.ca and, for the first time, co-published by our friends at thetyee.ca. Look for new episodes each week over the next three months.
This a feature series that is a series of firsts: The first time Ryerson and Western have worked together journalistically, the first time rabble.ca and thetyee.ca have co-published and the first time journalism students have used social media tools so completely from the very beginnings of a story.
Yup. In a nutshell – that’s the makerculture project. My group (Daniela DiStefano, Brittany Seki, Laura Schober and Isabella Ssozi) was TEAM MEDIA. We tackled the DIY indie media scene in Canada and abroad – and had a blast doing it (for the most part). We took a road trip to Toronto one day for Canzine, another roadtrip to Windsor for a 48 hour film festival / visit to Broken City Lab, and a whole bunch of other cool things.
Highlights for me include talking to hilarious artist Jacob Borshard, writer Hal Niedzvecki of Broken Pencil, and Stephen Chao – CEO of wonderhowto.com (and former FOX Television president who created COPS and America’s Most Wanted. Yeah – he’s a big deal.) I also got to play guest panelist in a test run for the Education group’s live streamed Edupunk conference, and that was fun.
But my biggest contribution to the project was probably this video from Canzine that I produced. I know I’ve posted it before, but hey – I’m proud of it… sheet, I worked DANG HARD!
For more makerculture-y goodness, check out our class youtube channel and flickr photostream.
Oh – and as previously alluded to, over the holidays I sort of “took things into my own hands” and became a bit of a maker meself! I wasn’t exactly aiming to “stick it to the man” by crafting my own gifts, but I did make a conscious choice to remove myself from the cult of Christmas consumerism this year – and that’s makery… I think? Does it matter if my choice was motivated by the fact that grad school has made me dirt poor? Let’s just say that it doesn’t. My name is Lauren O’Neil, and I’m a maker because I made…
CANDY SUSHI for my bff’s Holiday Bash!
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Mario art for my Brother’s wall
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(which I guess isn’t much of an affront to consumerism since it was designed in Photoshop, printed at Shopper’s, framed at Wal-Mart and features a character created by the Nintendo corporation. Whatever.)
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A Mouse Pad, custom letterhead and jar labels for my mom’s (DELICIOUSLY FIERY AND SOON TO BE SUPERFAMOUS) hot peppers):
And… well, I caved and bought the rest of my gifts (I can’t exactly make my own “University of Western Ontario Grandma” mug, or a copy of a Best-Selling novel that my dad wanted. I mean, I could… but it would take a really long time.
I felt really good about these projects though. Making these gifts made me feel like I was crafty or something. Like an inventor
I’ve already got a couple more 8-bit art projects planned (nintendo coasters, HOLLAH!) and I bought myself an entire book dedicated to the art of making monster plushies. And this magazine, too:
Once I get a little bit of time (and actually allow myself to chill out), I’m going to start making my own little guys – then maybe I can join the PLUSH TEAM and sell them on Etsy! Eee! I can’t wait.
Maybe I’ll start… in 56 days, when I graduate
Sheldon Cooper & Lego Cake
Feb 18th
Awwww yeeeah – Geekologie has, once again, thrown me into wanting tizzy. Are you as in love with Sheldon Cooper (and his restoopulously nerdtastic collection of t-shirts) as I am? Then don’t check out sheldonshirts.com (unless you have a lot of extra bones to throw around – in which case, um… whuchyo nayyyme iz, sweet thang?)
I’ve been up for entirely too many hours working on this BASCHNORMOUS group project that had me running all over the city today and locked down in an editing suite with two boys until midnight. I’m straight up mind-tapped, brain drained, scatter noggined – DUNZO.
It was actually a pretty good day despite the long hours and rush rush rush … and, in the midst of my image searching activities I just happened to stumble upon this wicked cake in a Flickr pool:
When Sheldon and I get married, that will totes mcgoats be the cake at our superstellar under-da-sea wedding.
I’m obvs totally kidding about having a wedding under the sea, btw. My maid of honour can’t even swim, and she kind of tweaks out around live fish… so you can see how my marrying a fictional television character under water might be problematic.
BAZINGA!
<3L
