MY BEADS, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.
So many possibilities!
I also want to say that it was nearly impossible to get a good picture of these! Time to figure out what kind of photography set up I can get together in my shoebox apartment.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
New Beads!
A couple of weekends ago, I made a bead emergency trip to Dongdaemun. I bought one strand I needed, and like billion strands of things I loved, including these amazing faceted mookaite briolettes. Look at how adorable they are! I'm embarrassed of, and kind of horrified at, how much I paid (I need to start haggling a bit more at the markets here in Korea), but I don't care. Non, je ne regrette rien!
MY BEADS, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.
So many possibilities!
I also want to say that it was nearly impossible to get a good picture of these! Time to figure out what kind of photography set up I can get together in my shoebox apartment.
MY BEADS, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.
So many possibilities!
I also want to say that it was nearly impossible to get a good picture of these! Time to figure out what kind of photography set up I can get together in my shoebox apartment.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Music Monday: Tiga
I'm in the process of cleaning out my music library and re-organizing it. The great thing about this is that I keep finding musical gems I had somehow forgotten about. This one sends me on a hardcore nostalgia trip for senior year of college. Plus, the video is pretty cool, too.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Science Saturday: Playing God
I put off watching this one for a while because the title was just so dumb, honestly. Phrases like "playing God" and so forth perpetuate this image of science as a reckless, thoughtless endeavor; a field of study full of people who don't consider the consequences or repercussions of what they do. It paints this image of science as something that will ultimately doom us all and glosses over all of the good that science has brought us.
It's doubly unfortunate that Playing God has such a stupid title, then, because it's seriously the most amazing thing I've seen in a while. All of the documentaries I've watched so far have been good, of course, but this is the first that made me go, "Holy shit!"
It's another BBC production, this time hosted by Adam Rutherford. This one is all about genetics and what amazing things scientists are doing with gene splicing: goats that produce tougher-than-Kevlar spider silk in their milk, radiation treatment in tiny carbon capsules injected under astronauts' skin, purely synthetic materials created with squid camouflaging genes that will change color from the carbon dioxide in your breath, brewer's yeast that make petroleum instead of alcohol. Everything in here sounds like the stuff of science fiction, and yet scientists are creating this today.
The good: Everything. Just...everything. It also raises legitimate ethical concerns, not fluffy fear-mongering.
The bad: The documentary gives a little too much credence to the "are we meddling with what we should not?" view in some places, but for the most part avoids that trap entirely.
One interesting fact: It was all interesting, but I think my favorite part was the "citizen science" lab that was set up in the community center of some town in California. For a small membership fee, John Q. Public can now perform science experiments that, just a few years ago, were only possible to do in university laboratories. I wish something like that had been available when I was a kid!
Would recommend? A must-see. More than anything else I've watched so far. Even more than the Alan Turing biopic, and that's saying a lot!
It's doubly unfortunate that Playing God has such a stupid title, then, because it's seriously the most amazing thing I've seen in a while. All of the documentaries I've watched so far have been good, of course, but this is the first that made me go, "Holy shit!"
It's another BBC production, this time hosted by Adam Rutherford. This one is all about genetics and what amazing things scientists are doing with gene splicing: goats that produce tougher-than-Kevlar spider silk in their milk, radiation treatment in tiny carbon capsules injected under astronauts' skin, purely synthetic materials created with squid camouflaging genes that will change color from the carbon dioxide in your breath, brewer's yeast that make petroleum instead of alcohol. Everything in here sounds like the stuff of science fiction, and yet scientists are creating this today.
The good: Everything. Just...everything. It also raises legitimate ethical concerns, not fluffy fear-mongering.
The bad: The documentary gives a little too much credence to the "are we meddling with what we should not?" view in some places, but for the most part avoids that trap entirely.
One interesting fact: It was all interesting, but I think my favorite part was the "citizen science" lab that was set up in the community center of some town in California. For a small membership fee, John Q. Public can now perform science experiments that, just a few years ago, were only possible to do in university laboratories. I wish something like that had been available when I was a kid!
Would recommend? A must-see. More than anything else I've watched so far. Even more than the Alan Turing biopic, and that's saying a lot!
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Teaching Outfit One
Because I'm too lazy to do any fashion self-portraiture, and because I'm already in my PJs, here's a Polyvore collection of what I wore today. This is an outfit I probably wear once a week, at least. (I packed pretty light coming over to Korea, so I repeat my outfits a lot.)
What's the same:
What's different:
I think I might make this kind of post a regular deal. What people wear is interesting, right? I think it is, at least. Also I like the challenge of trying to match items on Polyvore to the items in my wardrobe.
What did you wear today?
What's the same:
- The cut and color of the gaucho trousers.
- The color of the sneakers.
- The shape of the cardigan.
- The shape of the watch face and the mechanics of the cuff.
- The t-shirt is the same shade of yellow.
What's different:
- My glasses aren't sunglasses, of course, but Polyvore doesn't seem to understand the sheer cuteness of regular glasses so there you have it. They're also greener in the frames.
- The cardigan I have is far more drab green than bright forest green.
- My trousers are ankle-length. They also have an elastic waistband, without buttons or fasteners.
- My shoes aren't Pumas.
- My bolo tie is a piece of unakite my boss' husband set for me, but again—difficult to find bolo ties on Polyvore! The color family is close, though.
- Instead of the adorable peanut butter and jelly hug graphic, my t-shirt (a discount find at BangBang, a large Korean clothing chain) has a brown print of a camera and some random Engrishee text.
I think I might make this kind of post a regular deal. What people wear is interesting, right? I think it is, at least. Also I like the challenge of trying to match items on Polyvore to the items in my wardrobe.
What did you wear today?
Monday, February 6, 2012
Music Monday: Tears at the Birthday Party
Not exactly the most cheery of birthday songs—but have some Elvis Costello! Today is Jan's birthday (the ripe old age of 31!) and Elvis Costello is one of his favorite singers.
Also, have this Etsy treasury, full of geeky birthday boy goodies:
'Geeky Birthday Boy' by Kokoba
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
I found more Internet crack.
Someone linked me to Polyvore, which is all of the fun of making fashion collages without the mess of scissors and glue and paper scraps. Between this and Pinterest, my life is ruined. Like on Pinterest, I'm Kokoba. You can follow me there! Here's my first creation:
Are you on Polyvore? What's your favorite collection you've made so far?
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