Oh, Romance

I got home last night I had two "boyfriends" in my inbox.

Hunk #1, from my dear sister, Yasmine.


This one is from Katie. It features our 27th president, William Howard Taft.


In other romance news, whenever I sent someone something on Facebook, an ad like this shows up:



Then when you are bored with your Iranian girl you purchased at a great price, you can go chat with your friends using this service:



Or if you love Jesus, get a hold of these people.



Sorry that none of these banners go anywhere.

A Tasty, Plushy Friend

A week or so ago, I received an text from my dear friend Fawn saying she purchased me a gift. All she would tell me was that it involved the word, "pork." This of course intrigued me. What appeared in our mailbox surpassed anything I could have imagined.







Apparently, he is supposed to go like this. Pardon, my gross fingers. I had an ink accident yesterday.



The text on his lil' tag says, "Plush dumplings filled with love...and pork. It doesn't get any more delicious. Whether steamed or fried, these mini pot stickers are sure to warm your taste and your heart---not to mention your love of food-based stuffed things."

It's nice and rainy.

Today was a good day.

Despite failing at drawing realistic boats (don't ask).
Despite spilling a bottle of water in my bag.
Despite the fact that I then spilled a bottle of ink in my bag.
Despite while cleaning the spill(s), I dropped my sketchbook in a puddle.

Because I got a really cute hair cut yesterday and I look like myself again!

Because my wonderful roommate killed the mouse that was roaming our apartment! (It wasn't afraid of people! It was duped by poison. ahhhahha).

Because I saw Adrian Tomine and Seth talk at the Strand and it was really inspiring and lovely.

Because it is summer! And instead of feeling stressed out and overwhelmed, I am eating lots of water melon and watching tons of Kids in the Hall.

New Gossip Cover

I saw this on umm....ONTD. It is the cover of the upcoming album by the Gossip. I don't know why, but I just really love it.

oh, Pandora

So this year, I decided to give pandora another chance. When it first came out years ago, I tried it and it was terrible. It would kick you off for being on it for too long and once, I had a Belle & Sebastian station and it played this, which is actually my least favorite song in the world.

It still has problems, but it is soooo much better (even if it tried to place the Beatles in my twee station. But check this shit out:

Yeah, Pandora. That is not the right cover art.

something troubling me

In my typography class, we were each assigned a typeface and instructed to make a huge as poster (I am actually "working" on my poster for Gil Sans right now). One of my classmates got the typeface gridnik, which was designed by this Dutchman, Wim Crouwel. The poster had this amazing quote that I can't get out of my head, "I am functionalist troubled by aesthetics." That feeling pretty much summed up how I feel about lots of things, especially design. Of course, it was a Dutchman, who expressed the senitment the best.

World's Largest Ipod

Via Studio 360.