Eerie Photoshopping

The New Republic's front page is quite eerie. This image looks like an effete man - which Obama definitely isn't; and neither is Hilary a benign woman.

Pillow Talk

In all our silliness and spontaneity, we went to a pillow fight organized by the "Banditos Misteriosos" mobsters yesterday armed with a (soft) pillow and a D-SLR. It was a whole lot of fun to attend something so ridiculous and hilarious. There was a huge turnout, and everyone had a blast.

It comforts me to know that because it was an "International Pillow flight day", and because silliness has no boundaries, "at the very same moment" (in history?!), people in Beijing, Budapest, Copenhagen, Sydney pummeling each other as well.

My babies

Over the last spring and fall semesters, I have been taking wheel pottery classes at Clayworks; a non-profit ceramic art school and studio. My proud achievements include making symmetrical cylinders (whew, finally!), and some sugar bowls. These are some of my creations.

Stumbled upon something really cool...

The basic premise of this site is that our experience online, most often called "surfing" is more likely a stumbing experience. We search for something, click on the link, don't like it, go back, click on some other link...you get the picture.

StumbleUpon is a great site to discover new sites, tag them with a thumbs up or down. I've found some really cool sites this way, and what better way to pass your time than stumbling through websites? I love their Firefox extension, so a cool site is just a click away!

Some Photoshop fun

A solarized image using the Filter > Stylize > Solarize option in Photoshop Elements. The image looks too dark, so adjust the colors by using the Enhance > Auto Levels option. The end result is a cool, pop-artsy look.

Puerto Rico!

I'll let the pictures do the talking for you. Watch this space for posts on our travel.

Five things you don’t know about me

Petty-Change tagged me, and since you already know that I can be a real slacker, I'm just going to link you to a very similar post that I had blogged about almost a year ago.

Shear Genius!

I don't consider myself a very logical person, but I'm always intrigued by paradoxes and oxymorons...though I will not be inclined to draw any derivations out of them - just something to tease the brain, and I'm happy. Here's one very interesting one:

A very dedicated barber shaves all men (and hirsute women) who do not shave themselves. Under this scenario, the question is "Does the barber shave himself?"

Check out the rather above-my-head explanation here.

This is so hilarious!