In the true sense of the Christmas spirit let me offer a reminder of what the Holidays are really about: messing with your friends and loved ones!

and of course knowing that you still love each other when you wake up the next morning, and remembering that you are much better off for having them (even if they hate you for a couple months).

A little Holiday perspective courtesy of The Burg (also available on Miro if that’s your taste).

I would find it ironic; if that wasn’t itself so…uhhhhh…ironic. Crap.

Happy Holidays and best wishes from us at BoL!

Tags: Economics, Videophilia by Etruscan
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Never in my life have I seen so much snow!  While at work today on this Christmas Eve in 2008, I got the twitch to go snap some shots with my phone.  My camera on my phone has been doing me justice for some time now.  However, I do have some great shots that I took with my canon but those, of course, are stored on my drive at home.  I am finding that maybe I need to carry my canon with me because I get inspired at the most cameraless of times.

Last weekend, we got 15 inches of snow in town in a 24 hour period!  The average snow fall for the season is around 11.5 inches!  I am truly excited this year because it has never felt more like Christmas!  This type of weather reminds you just how alive you truly are inside.

I find that I am in the spirit more then ever with Christmas music playing in my ears and snow falling on my eye lashes while visions of sugar plums dance in my head!  I love this time of year and I am more in love with it this time around.

Enjoy the season and the snow that brings the color of purity with it!

Tags: Aesthetiophilia, Pictoriphilia by Nekogirl
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Drive to work while applying lipstick because you forgot to put it on at home. Realize that you left your lunch in the fridge. Fidget with radio because morning DJs are wankers and talk too much.

Walk in the door at 8:04am, decide that the today is going to work in your favor and you are leaving on time today! Look around your cubical and decide that you need to do a spring cleaning with it…Take 6 minutes to get your coffee because you are not opening your email before 8:15am! 8:21am, sit down in front of monitor and proceed to login to network. Have to reset password because it expired, try a series of different combos that apparently you thought to use previously, ugh! 8:24am, finally logged in and clicked on outlook to open…loading, loading, loading, sip coffee and think of what you could have for lunch since you left yours at home. Still connecting, now it’s updating folders, ugh……continue to devour your coffee as if you are a ravenous animal gnawing on a piece of raw meat…still updating folders, the I loathe bill gates thought comes to mind. 8:29am, inbox has 18 new emails, quickly glance at senders and subject lines…damn, sipped last bit of coffee out of vacant mug…decide to get up and go get a second cup, it’s now only 8:36am…the day’s surrealism has begun to set in…

(I thought I would do a series of cubical living and related topics because, let’s admit it, it’s life for some of us and it’s amusing to analyze on a social level.)  Next up, cubicle living no, no’s!  Stay tuned!

Tags: I should probably go to bed by Nekogirl
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November 6th, I started the artwork on my arm with an outline to set the precedence of what was emerging.  I discovered it wasn’t just a forearm tattoo but a transformation that was actually taking place.  Be it a step in the formation of the new me or just the me that has been forth-coming to the surface for sometime now.  I am finding that with each new accomplishment of this transformation, significant or not, the effects are astounding; each in their own way.

For now, I can close the book on this piece of artwork.  The color has been filled in with some minor touch-ups that need to proceed but for now, it will be left alone to thrive within my veins.

People ask me that annoying question:  “Does it symbolize anything or hold any meaning for you?”  I usually smile and say that it is not the items within the tattoo that mean anything it is the representation of the entire piece that holds meaning.

Body artwork holds something you can’t physically hold in your hand, a time, a memory, a nightmare, even hopes and dreams.

Tags: Aesthetiophilia, Pictoriphilia by Nekogirl
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As some may know I’ve been teaching myself flash this fall, and thought I would present some more of what I’ve been working on.  In case anyone hasn’t noticed the new banner; one of mine.  I animated the candles to flicker from a couple of still images that Neko took.  Lastly this is a zombie animation I’ve been working on.  It’s a little glitchy and works differently on various computers.  Let me know what you think.  Looking for feed back. I took the sketch from the the Walking Dead series and animated it. Link to the full screen flash:

Tags: Pictoriphilia, Videophilia, Zombiphilia by Gestalt
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