You never know where the Illuminati will exert their influence next.
4.08.2014
4.01.2014
BEAUTIFY: Plastic bag! Plastic bag!
I was originally trying out the technique I read about here, but I was either too impatient or not applying the polish thick enough on the baggie to be able to peel it off! So instead, I just cut the bag into shapes I liked and stuck them on my nails, polish side down. (I already had a base coat applied which helped them stick better.) After applying all the shapes I wanted, I swiped some top coat over them. Once dry, I took my fine point black permanent marker and drew the accent lines and dots. The top coat kind of smudged the ink, but I found if I was able to only go over an area once it helped prevent this. The designs reminded me of Joan Miro art, but my husband said it reminded him of Saved By the Bell...
Wah wah.
Making up pretty new nail art is a nice distraction from the news... I'm still weirded out by all that's been going on around town with the APD protests this past week. It's so strange to see cops in riot gear right in my own backyard. This city is still pretty new to me, and though it has its faults (um, worst drivers EVER!), I love more and more about it every day. The people here seem so much more involved in their community than any other place I've lived. It's awesome. I can't wait to explore more and get involved with things myself!
3.31.2014
READ: Albuquerque Protest Turns Ugly
The Albuquerque Police Department are being investigated by the FBI after a YouTube video went up last week, showing APD shooting a homeless man who was camping, after what was reported as a standoff that lasted for hours.
This is the 22nd police shooting since 2010, and outrage has poured out over the incident, sparking the interest of the national media and even Anonymous, which led to protests against police violence all over the city Sunday night.
APD has said that the deadly use of force was warranted in this instance, because the suspect, James Boyd, had a history of mental illness and was armed with multiple knives.
(Read the rest of the story here...)
3.21.2014
READ: Mazes, Monsters, Charlatans, Satan and Suicide: A Short History of the Satanic Panic
One of my favorite pieces of Satanic Panic-era propaganda has to be Jack Chick’s “Dark Dungeons” religious tract. One of hundreds of such tracts created by evangelist Chick, “Dark Dungeons” is the story of two young women led astray by the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. One of them, Marcie, commits suicide after her thief character “Black Leaf” dies and the other, Debbie, is initiated into witchcraft after her cleric character Elfstar advances to eighth level. As the diabolical Dungeon Master “Ms. Frost” leads Debbie further from the loving arms of Jesus, her mysterious friend “Mike” pops up to tell her that she’s in grave danger. Following a visit to a mustachioed minister, Debbie repents and burns all of her D&D materials instead of saving them to sell on eBay in twenty years when she needs beer money.
(Read the rest here...)
3.19.2014
READ: Skeleton Key to the Conspiracy: The Eriksson Twins
There’s a gang of YouTube videos out there “proving” that So-and-So is a shape-changing lizard alien, based solely on minor video distortions. And (if you didn’t know) Paul’s bare feet on the cover of Abbey Road is proof that MI5 replaced him with a double when he died in 1966. Sometimes, the most innocuous event can be touted as evidence of a conspiracy.
And sometimes, the evidence supporting a theory will be so damning that it will push that theory into the realm of “fact.” Like Snowden’s revelations, which proved what the Alex Jones crowd had been saying for years.
But somewhere in the middle, are those events which refuse to be either proof or conjecture. Events that merely dull Occam’s razor, leaving you with only a slightly scarred hunk of rock-solid “what if..”
(Read the rest here...)
2.07.2014
READ: Robomancy: Technoccultist Joshua Madara on Arduino and the Future of Magick
Four hours of trudging through circuit diagrams and forum posts that read like Chinese toaster manuals, trying desperately to figure out what “Arduino” is. I finally have a breakthrough realization: I may have reached the far end of my brain’s capacity to learn new things.
I am an idiot. What a downer.
Luckily, I find a TED Talk by Massimo Banzi, an instructor at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy and co-creator of Arduino, an “open-source electronics prototyping platform,” which breaks it all down for me. Through a haze of tears, I learn how a couple of nerds have managed to turn the world of interactive technology on its head while fooling around with toys and LED displays in their bedrooms.
(Read the rest here...)
2.04.2014
BEAUTIFY: Ain't Nobody Got TIME to Post!
Just in case anyone was wondering what I have been up to, the above photos just about sum up the most interesting parts of the last nine months I haven't written anything here! Really though, it's been quite eventful lately and I wish I'd make more time to write, more often. Maybe that can be a belated New Year's Resolution?
So I turned 30 this past year... My mom wigged out that I was actually looking forward to it, haha! It feels good to be out of my 20s, honestly- at times they seemed more annoying than my teenage years. You think you've figured things out, everyone around you acts like you're a capable adult, but really you're still pretty naive about things. Maybe it's just me.
I'd like to think that I take every chance I get to grow and learn and play and love. Lots of self-evaluation and listening to others helps me on this journey. That's really been my focus lately, to be more self-perceptive and to listen better, to everything, everyone. Seems simple, but really it's easy to miss a lot when you stop actively trying to do these things. Love, friendship, health, family, creativity... all these things need constant nurture. Well duh! But it's the "obviousness" of these things that makes us forget, makes us lazy.
Maybe tomorrow.
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