To Sort, Or Not To Sort -- That is the Question

I found a cute website recently called Sorting With Style. They are an online retailer of all things pertaining to organization: notebooks, planners, desk accessories, clipboards, etc.

Not gonna lie -- most of the design patterns are heavily geared toward women, however, there are a few more masculine-looking collections, too.

Check it out.

Chihuly + Fun With PhotoShop

Yesterday evening my boyfriend and I went to see the Desert Botanical Garden's "Chihuly: The Nature of Glass" exhibit. All the glass sculptures scattered throughout the garden are by artist Dale Chihuly, whose works are on display in more than 200 museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. (Plus, his name is fun to say. )

Here are a few photos that I took while I was at the garden. Most of these I merely touched up, but a couple I altered pretty heavily. And had a lot of fun while doing so. Because I am just that much of a nerdlette.

Click on any photo for a larger image.


The last one posted here is my favorite, because it looks like it's out of a comicbook or something. You'll have to click on it to bring up the larger version in order to see what I'm talking about.

Anyway, not my best photographic work, but it's hard to take a good photo when dozens of people are trying to pushing their way past you. Seriously, you have got to watch out for the senior citizens around here. They will take you out with their walkers and canes...

Photos by Sway Sovay

Happy Earth Day 2009!

Today Disney premieres its documentary film Earth, narrated by James Earl Jones, and I expect it to be at a fairly high level of awesome. Here's the trailer:

(Click the "play" icon, and then click the little "HD" in the bottom right corner to watch it in high-definition. If you don't have a super-fast internet connection, I would suggest pausing the video for a few seconds to let the high-quality video load before you continue watching it. I know, I know, I'm annoyingly methodical... Copy editor, remember?)



If that short video doesn't make you fall in love with our planet, I don't know what would. To learn more ways you can show Mother Earth how much you appreciate her, visit these sites:

Earth Day Network
Earth 911
Treehugger
Ecologue
EarthDay.gov
TerraPass

May we celebrate our beloved Earth, today and every day!

*Woops! Somewhere back there, did I mention falling in love with our planet and then right after that compare it to a mother-figure? I did, didn't I. Well that's not right. Sorry. You know what I mean.

Charlie the Unicorn

Um, why?



Why??



Seriously, why?!?



Do not do drugs! Drugs are bad!!

Today

One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three beloved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

-- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) a disaster.

--Elizabeth Bishop

"I Dreamed a Dream"

A woman walks on to the stage during a taping of the show Britain's Got Talent.

Everyone takes a look at her and immediately lowers their expectations.

Then she starts to sing and blows them all away.

Susan Boyle on Britain Got Talent
by dwarthy

What does this say about the human race? Have we really come to place that much weight on a person's appearance that we rely on this as an indicator of his or her capabilities? That makes me sad.

Anyone Like Daft Punk?

Work it, Make it, Do it.

Where The Wild Things Are Movie Trailer

I will admit that I was never really into this book when I was younger; however, the movie trailer looks flippin' excellent. Really, really odd, but excellent.

Things Over Which I Find Myself Currently Obsessing

- iPhone
- Coffee
- Doves dark chocolates
- Flight Control app on iPhone (wicked fun)
- Twitter (Erg! I've finally been sucked in!)
- Lush products
- Blogging
- Green tea
- Messenger chats with KT
- Coffee
- How I Met Your Mother
- Big Bang Theory
- Scrubs
- Better Off Ted
- People.com
- IMDB.com
- More coffee

And, of course...

- Not ending phrases, sentences or blog post titles with prepositions*

*Unless in instances of extreme laziness... in which I want to fix the phrase, but I'm just too tired to

There Will Be Karate Chops Involved

No matter how many times I watch this video, it always makes me smile. Or, depending on my current state of mind, deliriously happy and giggly.



I don't have a cat, but if I did, I would mos' def' want him to be a ninja kitty.