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photos from judging weekend at periscope for AIGA MN design show. the show will be at the walker, next friday, march 26th! photos by christina rimstad.

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Photo Series of the Day: “Potency” by Nina Maria Kleivan.

Kleivan, Danish-Norwegian artist, dressed her baby daughter up as various ruthless dictators for a photo series aimed at illustating how “[w]e all begin life the same. We all have every opportunity ahead of us. To do good, or inexplicable evil.”

View the entire set here.

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New Music! MGMT - “Congratulations”

Title track off the band’s upcoming sophomore effort, due in stores April 13.

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i’m in the committee for AIGA MN design show again. this year dateline for entries is extended to march 2nd. the venue will also move to the walker (previous years have been at the weisman). we’re looking for more interactive entries too!

enter your awesome stuff!

the show will be on friday, march 26th. register and come check it out!

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I Am the Cosmos - Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn (Break Up)

got my tix today!

new wool felt earrings from my valentine from karin jacobson design. love her stuff!

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by Jason Levesque

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James Stowe: “Star Wars Valentines 2010”

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I got your force right here, baby.

[neatorama.]

via darice:peetypassion:  JDS architects: experiencing the void

architecture turned into enjoyment and participation.
instead of contemplating the void of the guggenheim museum’s central space, JDS architects have proposed an experience which sees a trampoline net spiraling down the institution’s rotunda. this idea plays on frank lloyd wright’s original scenography for the guggenheim in which he envisioned patrons visiting the exhibition from the top, downwards.

i don’t know him but i hope he get himself an awesome job soon because he has a ridiculously awesome website.

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Superfast Bullet Trains Are Finally Coming to the U.S.

madTV’s ipad skit from 2007. ha.

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Blue Valentine is fiction, but it was created like a documentary. The actors lived their parts as the camera crew followed their every move.

The result is a tragic love story about a couple — played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams— trying to reclaim their passion, intercut with memories from the dawn of their romance.

Director Derek Cianfrance ”wanted to make it as voyeuristic as he could,” Gosling says. “A lot of things we did for real. For instance, we really got married by a justice of the peace. We lived in this house together, and we’d fall asleep, and in the morning the whole crew would sneak in and shoot us waking up.”

Much of the movie, which premiered Sunday, was improvised.

“We wrote our own vows when we got married, we were there with other people getting married …” Gosling says. “I guess the only reason it’s not legit is we used our character names.”

- USA Today at Sundance

glow in the dark bowling at memory lanes last saturday.

last saturday afternoon dessert and coffee with the girls, salty caramel macarons and tiramisu cupcake from sweets bakeshop in st. paul. so good but we couldn’t eat there, the shop is tiny and have no seats.

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“Valentine’s Day” movie poster (Dan Meth remix)
Now HERE’S a chick-flick I’d definitely go to see. Maybe I should abandon this animation nonsense and become a Hollywood casting director… maybe not.

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Dissected mouse.

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i don’t know what it is but i want one.

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this is funny.

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If typefaces could talk, Papyrus would be all too self-aware.

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pretty red tulips

GPOYW. wearing my new awesome hat crocheted by my friend alejandra. love!

i had forgotten that i also said warm yellow when another friend ask me what color i wanted for a knit hat she’s making for me. i guess you can never have too many yellow hats…

dinking around cedar lake on xmas eve with pete. so much snow and so much fun! snowed in and ended up spending xmas day seeing avatar imax 3D at southdale, greasy dinner at CC club and bowling at BLB with pete and friends. best. xmas. ever.

Phillip Niemeyer | Picturing the Past 10 Years

i am not worthy.

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turkey taco night. with avocado, red onion, cheese, tomato, lettuce, cilantro and crystal hot sauce. deliciousness.

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my friend kelly and hubby curt’s xmas card is full of awesome!

guitar

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“I Wish It Was Christmas Today” - Julian Casablancas (mp3)

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white tree

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OMG LION KING IN REAL LIFE

smiley face pancake from maid-rite diner in cedar falls, iowa.

so i was so excited to go to chicago for the WXRT holiday concert thing this past weekend. i had such high expectation for the line up and was thinking that this will be the best show to end 2009 with. then real life happened. the venue was huge (i hate that). the sound system was blah. i lost my floor general admission tix and had to sit way up on the nosebleed section by myself for pete yorn set (long story). then we found out that phoenix’s drummer had to fly back to europe because of a family emergency (i hope nothing too bad happened). they did play an acoustic 3 song set but if you’ve heard them live as i have before, a short acoustic set didn’t do them justice.

i mean, pete yorn still put on a great show (max was dancing up a storm with his tambourine).

and we did move to better seats for phoenix…

and the flaming lips. i’ve never seen them live before and they were kinda amazing (she don’t use jelly!).

so i did had a good time. but i should not had that great of an expectation to begin with. it ruined the experience a bit for me. this also goes for relationships.

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cold september air.

I paint daily autobiographical comics…see them all at www.melindaboyce.com!  Thanks!

OMFG! what a finale. that’s how you end a season. i still cringe.

got an oil change and new wiper blades today. then i was told that one of my tire has a bulge that’s ready to pop anytime (like a pimple, eww) from hitting the many potholes on minneapolis’ roads, 2 bad ones and 1 kinda ok one. so yeah, that’s 400 bucks for the car today.

but the good news is that now my car’s all set to go to drive to iowa tomorrow to meet up with darice, then to illinois for the best holiday concert line-up ever on friday! snowstorm and all.

25 bucks for how many? where? i’m kinda considering buying them because they are AWESOME. even if it’s ridiculously overpriced and not actually filled with synthetic blood. ha.

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saw this over the weekend out shopping. interesting marketing for a new energy drink.  supposedly tastes like…orange?  Was $25 in the store, $16 online.  in case you’re interested.

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Joseph Ducreux Macro of the Day: The Prince of Bell Aire.

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