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holy big brush!

i’m not very good at painting.

mainly because i haven’t really had a chance to get into it that much. I very much would like to though, but only because i like brushes. i think they look so cool. covered in paint, dripping wet, or just sitting in a jar. There’s something about a paintbrush that is so………aesthetically calming? lol i have no idea what i’m talking about. but you’re here on my blog, which means for some reason you’ve become willing to subject yourself to my ramblings. so here i am. rambling. ramble ramble.

stopped

the other day i was driving and all of a sudden it looked like everyone around me was in slow motion and moving to a stand still. it reminded me of the Big Fish and the scene where the main character sees the girl and everything stopped while he was still moving at a normal pace, pushing aside the popcorn that had stopped mid-air. There was a delicate silence about all of it, and all i could think was

“whoa. other worldy”

but then i heard a siren and realized that everyone was pulling over because a cop car was coming up. so i pulled over like the good citizen that i am, got an ear blast of too loud, and then continued on my drive back home.

so. i said i was going to post a photo everyday, but um…..yeah…….

things have been crazy as we prepare for the onething’09 conference in midst of the IHOPU student awakening services. Needless to say, God’s been rocking the the boat and i’m loving it.

in the meantime i’m making little hand-made delights that i would like to sell in my etsy store which will hopefully be up by the end of the week. In the mean time, I’ve been listening to Katie Chastain. I love her music video for “snowshow,” and love it even more after i watched the making of it. hand-made treats everywhere!

The video:

The making of:

whoa

So….it’s been a while. A lot has happened, and a lot needs to be processed.

In the meantime, there’s a rumour that a picture a day keeps crabbiness away. So here I go!

Rock All Day

i heart plastic kid. I like the rhythm of movement in his music videos.

a couple years ago i was OBSESSED with this music video:
(actually, still am. when i’m having a crap day it’s still my go to video to watch)

Here’s another video for Outlandish’s rock all day:

blogging on onething’09 site!

hey y’alls –>

i will be blogging on the onething’09 site, so follow me there! I’ll be giving updates on new free resources that we’ll be offering on the site among other updates. It’s going to be grand.

also i know i’m due for an update here….it’s coming……but to hold you over, here’s a picture of andrew from my ministry trip to chicago. (there will definitely be more details and photos from the Uprising conference coming up. soon….i hope……)

wallpaper? yes please!

i’ve heard a lot of horror stories of people spending days scraping wallpaper off their bedroom walls.

with these hand printed wallpapers from Deborah Bowness, i don’t think we’ll have that problem. or well…not for me anyway. my birthday’s still half a year away, so you guys have enough time to figure out how to get me a roll of awesomeness (hahahaha jk…..or am i…..)

dressing my wall up

books are a girl's best friend

Merchant Band chinese album

got the opportunity to work on merchant band’s chinese album. that’s right. merchant band singing their songs in chinese. on the CD, instead of hearing wong-da-jong singing “i’m in love,” it’s tim reimherr. feel free to take a moment to be impressed. because i sure was.

anyway. the project took a little longer than hoped….but i’m pretty happy with the result. here are the two intial concepts that i had come up with:

after much discussion we decided we needed to have an album cover that actually showed their faces since this was their first album released in asia. however the image wasn’t strong enough in the first artwork. soooooo we got steve offutt, photographer extroardinare and fabulous coworker to take some photos. At first we were severely bummed b.c we got rained out, but after choosing a different location, the weather worked in our favour giving us an awesome shine/texture to the street. The first cover was something i started to work on, but the second is what we landed with. Hope you guys like it!

water drips water drops

here are some ridiculously amazing photos from the Kusho series done by Shinichi Maruyama

water and ink never looked so good

back to the exacto knife

so…a couple posts ago i put up pictures of me working on concepts via paper and showed a picture of my handwriting cut out.

well. this girl put me to crying shame. shame i tell you!