10pm!

Unbelievably light.  And these are some cool neon sculptures by my friend Eric.  

speaking of maps...

I thought that this one was cool.  The way it's organized really makes sense!

Lectures are cool

This morning I went to a lecture given by William McDonough, author of Cradle to Cradle at the Copenhagen Architecture School.  He's got a bad case of monotone and he wears a bowtie, which made his opening line "we live in a time of glorious abundance" kind of comical (think Reverand Lovejoy on the Simpsons), but nevertheless it was a very compelling lecture, I thought.  I really like his idea about basing technological and urban systems on nature.  Some of my favorite phrases were: 

"design is intention"

"efficiency in a bad thing is dangerous"

"being less bad is not being good"

"buildings like trees, cities like forests"

"asphalt, just two words assigning blame"

"monoculture of agriculture"

"leave behind habitat, not cement"

I'm telling you, it was a really good lecture! Because I never take notes during those things normally.  And he showed this really cool map of global wind currents.  Just the image is so inspiring.  I'm going to start going to more lectures at RISD if this is what lectures are like.

cupcakes

These ones are lemon cake with white chocolate chream cheese frosting.  This is the beauty of not having the rediculous schedule that I would have if I were at RISD.  Not only to I have time to eat and sleep, but I also have time to bake cupcakes for my friends' birthdays.  Amazing what real life is like!

my friend Holga

copenhagen

easter in copenhagen

amsterdam

amsterdam

amsterdam

This is my first experiment with using 35mm film in my Holga camera, which usually takes 120mm, thus requiring some ghetto-rigging.  But now that I've tried it, I'm not goin back because it's cheap to get just get the film deveoped and then I can use the digital slide scanner at school to turn them into jpegs.  cha-ching!

PDX-->CPH

Lucky me, I got to see YACHT at Vega on friday night.  YACHT is a Portland band made up of Jonah Bechtolt and Claire Evans.  Somehow this is the only photo that I took all night.  The crowd was a little weird, but it was a good performance and so fun getting to hang out with some Portlanders for a bit!

good trash!

If there is such a thing, this is it.  It just looked so beautiful.  The colors are so pure and bright that it looked like candy or toys or something.  (Rome)