*** i like something different ***

I found this on design sponge [one of the lovely blogs I follow]. The story behind this video is really sweet: April and Jeremy were planning a wedding, which spiralled out of control because of 'external pressures'. They realised that a wedding is all about the two people getting married, so they ran off and eloped. Just the two of them on their special day. They had this video made and sent it to the guest's of their originally planned wedding with the subject title, “Reclaiming Our Wedding 2010.” How lovely!

*** i like artistic ideas ***

I came across these images a while ago. These 'paintings' are in fact not paintings, but photographs of painted people. How creative. How creative some people are...





By Alexa Mead. Images found here

*** crabbies ginger beer ***

This is an artistically irrelevant post, but I feel I have to get back into the habit of blogging, so I am sharing utterly useless information with you... namely that I really like this beer. The really friendly shopkeeper of the corner shop in my street was telling me about the new ginger beer he has in stock [and since I buy quite a lot of beer there]- he advised me to give it a try... and so I did. It is awesome. It tastes exactly as you would imagine the perfect ginger beer should taste. It is sweet, but not too sweet. Tangy, but deliciously so and as an added bonus it is alcoholic...

Also I had a great evening, baking pretzels and working on a script for class. So I am feeling pretty jolly and in the mood for sharing irrelevant drink advice.

*** i like being productive ***

A friend of mine referred me a blog that made her think of me, I found this image on it and it made me smile. I feel like a nerdasaurus... I have been feeling that I am getting old, because I spend most of my time in front of my computer [let me digress and say that my computer called "stinky pie"]... as opposed to being in some pub 5 out of 7 days a week. And surprisingly it feels really good. I like being productive. For the time being at least.



Image found via Personality Prototype.

*** i like... teaparties ***

The other day my "Core Research Skills" Group and I had a teaparty in an elevator. It is a response to the reappropriation of the space at the Glasgow School of Art. Basically the idea was to transform an elevator- an essentially very unsocial space- into a very social one... it was lots of fun. And our teammate Nils took lovely photos.

*** i like slides ***

Too cool!

I want one of these in my house oneday! I live on the top floor of a block of flats, I'd love to slide down every morning rather than tackling 6 flights of stairs...

*** happiness ***

Someone posted this on facebook and it made me think "yes!".

A few days ago I was in a halfway dingy bed and breakfast without prospect of a home (I moved to Glasgow and it is a nightmare finding accomodation such short time before university starts). The weather was bad. I had to move out of the bed and breakfast today and had nowhere to go. I don't know a soul and bed and breakfasts were full.

But I found an awesome person to couchshare at [yes, couchsharing- I raved about it a couple of weeks ago], I found a homely flat to move into in two weeks and I am drinking a Scottish beer. So I am happy as a pig in shit.