This pisses me off. // August 24, 2009

Every time I pass EDSA from my house, on the way to watch a movie over at Trinoma, I see this very annoying ad from Giordano:

Look familiar to you?

It’s one thing to rip off designs. People do it all the time. I’m not saying it’s right, just that it’s a fact of life. This is why laws to protect artists and their “intellectual property” have been made. This is why “copyright” exists. I really have no doubt in my mind that it is nearly 100% impossible to get rid of copycats. But to lift a design almost directly from a “non-profit movement” is really frakking heinous.

I have no idea if this design was copied from To Write Love On Her Arms with their permission or not, but either way, this just really pisses me off.

 

senior syndrome: graduation picture day. // August 21, 2009

How absurd is the moment of the realization of the impending doom that is college graduation? Very, I say. The image of a toga and a cap and being done with schooling forever just does not compute in my puny, pea-sized brain. More so if that image happens to be of me. That is just such a crazy, foreign concept that I can’t wrap my brains around. That, and the six-month-or-so long “weekend” between the point of graduation and the point of employment.

But anyway. Before I break my brain, let me digress, or just post about something tangentially related to this: graduation picture day. In other words, I just had mine taken today. Yay? Sure. Here are some photos:

me + isabel

paulina. guuurl, why are you so pretty all the time?

jamie (& her awesome falsies) + rhein as russell from up!

jamie with rhein’s balloons. spot the ‘badges’ on the table. :)

Speaking of balloons. They were filled with helium, by the way. We all know what that means:

music by sufjan stevens. on another note, i LOVE my new computer. it is so easy to edit videos.
i used to slave away on them because my old one was so slow. but now it is all great and stuff :D

So, I went as Max Fischer. I am living now in the constant fear of making a guest appearance on Tenenbaum Fail. This fear is not a joke. It is real. Don’t you dare submit my picture, blog reader. :(

More pictures under the ‘cut’.
Continue reading senior syndrome: graduation picture day….

 

Hello, hello. // August 20, 2009

So, in case you did not notice, Nothing Spaces was down for a week. Pretty timely, too, since I was looking forward to updating about my Phenomenal! Week! But yeah, so it goes. My brother talked to the host, though, so things are well for now.

Since I’d been itching to update but couldn’t, I made a vlog (lest things turn irrelevant, as they are wont to do). Yes, I went there. Here it is!

HAHA. Say hello to my stupid face for five and a half minutes. Wow, aren’t I wordy?

(P.S. I’d been ‘vlogging’ for a while in 2007, I think, then stopped because some people I knew in real life found it and it was way awkward. And also, I’m not really very funny, so I ran out of material right away. Ho hum.)

Double P.S.: I got an account over at DailyBooth. Here is my last picture:

Let me know in the comments if you have one! :)

 

 

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