I grew into it. It grew into me.
It and I blurred at the edges,
became one amorphous,
seeping, crawling thing.

(Madness by Marya Hornbacher)

 
 


 
 


 
 


 
 


 
 


 
 


 
 


 
 


 
 


 
 
I made these a couple of years back and I just found them again. I can not remember what I did to the background pictures to turn them in to spheres though.

(Picture courtesy)

One of my favorite artists as a kid was M. C. Escher. I discovered a book about him through a friend, and when you are an 8 year old girl and nobody else around you had heard about this magical thing you encountered, it was like finding a secret cave or a beautiful treasure. As I grew older, I realized that the entire world knew who he was and that his pictures were often used for various illustrations and publications, toys, decorative objects and prints. I still love his images though, especially the intricate details, the accuracy and the incredible amount of work that went into each piece.

(Picture courtesy)

I recently stumbled upon this documentary on youtube about him. It gave me a feeling of being back in junior high, when the art teacher would force the entire class to watch a strange documentary made about 30 years prior with funky music and good ol’ 70ies style animations and fancy pants on the men interviewed. I recall that my classmates rarely enjoyed the wacky old documentaries presented by the wacky old art teachers, but I always found them charming and I rather enjoyed being forced to watch videos I could not watch on my own. (There was no youtube back then kids!) Anyway, here is part 1 of the documentary, the other parts can be found at youtube. If you can withstand the cheesiness (or if you are like me, you kind of secretly like it), it is a really interesting documentary. I especially like the parts where they interview mathematicians.

(Made for illustrationfriday.com – “Chicken”)

I made a salad this morning for breakfast with tobiko, mozzarella, avocado, tomato and green leafs. The combo of the avocado and the tobiko was really nice, it made the avocado taste almost like toro.

And then I went to my classes…

…and walked through the park.

アーユータィヨド？ 🙂

And I stopped by the pidgins again. It is the next best thing to having a bird of my own.

More mascots, this is a huge banner outside a new building with apartments.

Right now I am reading two books, one is called “Stuff” and it is about compulsive hording – a really interesting book. I am no horder, in fact, I am quite the opposite, but even though I do not keep things, I find the thoughts behind why we keep things very peculiar and interesting. The other book is a collection of mathematical and logical problems, which is always interesting to read just for fun. What are you reading?

What I should be reading is keigo, so I will try to get around to that now.

I think my favorite TED conference was the one about happiness, so many amazing talks. In this talk Dan Gilbert explains how people synthesize happiness, while most people think that happiness is something to be found.

Hjartesmil wrote a little list yesterday over things she wanted atm, so I thought I would follow up and make a little list of my own. Starting out – I want sushi that looks like this. I want quail-eggs and tobikko. Mmm…

New hair! I think I am going for this one, but I think it is a bit long. I guess that is what scissors are for. I might buy it tomorrow, but in chocolate brown. (Picture courtesy of Rakuten)

A remote release for my camera.

A small bird. I would call her Momoko, and I would love her immensely. She would sit on my mac while I am editing pictures and sit on my pencil when I write kanji. (This picture is 8 years old, I can not believe how long it has been!)

I would love some fresh berries right now – real blueberries, the ones that are blue on the inside as well and not the fake white ones, and wild tiny strawberries that are nothing like the strawberries you buy at the store.

And a little jewelry box filled to the rim with sparkly things, just because.

And last, but not least, I want to wish my grandmother a happy 95th birthday. I wish I could have been there and given her a great big hug. ♥ 95 and still rockin’ it!

Happy birthday Mormor! ♥

Today is one of those days where I just want to curl up in bed and read and not think about responsibilities or homework.