I have an ongoing romance with the internet. It has been lasting for over ten years, and I am constantly falling in love all over again. One of the things I love about the internet – is that it can be accessed from most places in the world, so it doesn’t matter if I am in the US or in Norway or in Japan – the internet looks the same. It feels like home to me.

Over my years on the internet, sometimes cute little things have even showed up in my physical mailbox at home. At couple of years ago, this beautiful necklace showed up in my mailbox, an internet friend had read that I wanted it, and he had actually bought it for me, and sent it to me in the mail. I love how the internet makes room for meeting people and new friends that you would have never encountered without it. How random people show random acts of kindness. When I found these pictures in my archive again, I just felt happy, and I wanted to say thanks Guav!

These were in my windowsill in my old apartment, and even though they are completely useless, I still liked looking over at them every now and again. I am very bad at keeping anything without a practical purpose (I feel a huge urge to dispose of anything that I can not utilize), but I was always very good at making things without a practical purpose.

I am not sure I mentioned it or not, but I made a page here on the blog for some of the various handmade things I have made over the past couple of years, you can find it here: http://sushibird.com/handmade/

Ok ok ok. So I am a little bit behind these days. Behind on my homework, behind on the housework, behind on planning my future. I will just take a deep breath though, and trying to convince myself that I am in fact – not drowning, I am just hibernating a little bit inside my head, and hopefully all of my thoughts will come out and manifest themselves as well planned actions within the next couple of weeks.

Are you good at living in the moment?

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.