I had been meaning to post this video for ages, I swear. It's a video that still gives me shivers. Obama is such an amazing man and speaker.

This video is amazing =)

And exactly what my presentation on Tuesday in my Environmental Ethics class is about...

The debate...

Wow. Just wow. The debate tonight between Obama and McCain was spectacular. Admittedly I haven't seen any statistics yet, but I definitely got the impression that Obama blew AWAY McCain in terms of his responses. Not only did it appear as though Obama's responses stayed more on topic and actually answered the questions, he also came off as much less condescending than McCain did.


Also, it was rather fun to watch them milling about afterwards and marvelling at how many more people wanted to get their pictures taken WITH Obama than those who just wanted to take a picture OF McCain. Accessability plays a part there I suppose ^.~

Only one more debate to go (October 15th at 9PM EST, be there or be square). I hope your best man wins ^_^

Shoes and voting =P

In keeping with the political spirit of yesterday, I found this around the net (but cannot for the life of me remember where) here's an awesome photo I found to encourage people to vote from the 2004 election year.




















And on an exciting side note - are these not the most amazing shoes ever?

Obamana *doo doo de doo doo* OBAMANA!

So we got up at 8:30AM this morning to head out to Asheville High School, Memorial Stadium. He didn't start speaking until 2:30PM or so, but it was oh so worth the wait (sunburns, dehydration, hunger and heat as well). He was AMAZING! And I hope so very much that he turns out to be our next president.
Clip of a section of his speech from the event -

Bike to a greener world?

Is this not the best idea ever?

The theory (brought to you by Design 21) behind this is that while you bike you release bubbles that are laced with a seedling mixture.
The bubbles trail behind your bicycle and land along the edges of the sidewalk where they will eventually blossom into wonderful green flowers and plants.









In more news about adding a sense of beauty to our urban streets, Martin Lihs (for his student thesis at Bauhas-University in Weimer, Germany), has created the "WiiSpray" can.

It's all the workings of a WiiMote packed inside of a spraypaint can. He hopes to create a communal, online spray paint community for people to create their own personal tags and share them with the rest of the world.

The latest from the interwebs.

Today, while checking my blogs I often frequent I came across two gems of our modern-day, technologically advanced culture.

First on the list is brought to you by The Stranger
That's right, folks, bacon...in a can.
Need I say more?




Well, actually, I need to say more. For shortly after I discovered bacon-in-a-can, I found something that can not only be combined with bacon-in-a-can, but may, in fact, be even more disturbing.



A cheeseburger-in-a-can.
Who would have believed it?

This one is brought to you courtesy of Gizmodo

Terrifying, no?

Under the weather....

I've stolen my title for today from a wonderful KT Tunstall song, but it still says the truth.
I started to get a sore throat about three days ago and at this point it has escalated to a heavy cough and an inability to talk as usual. I sound reminiscent to either a frog, or (in my opinion) the little kid from the shining who screams "REDRUM!"

While fairly amusing, it means I haven't been feeling up to much. Just coughing and sniffling to report.

A somewhat productive day...

I had all these plans of having a productive day today, and only some of them came to fruit. =/
I began reading Freakonomics last night, and it's incredibly fascinating. I'll be sure to report more after I've actually finished the book (should I find the time). I also created and began cutting out the pattern pieces for a doll(s) I am hoping to fashion the the near (hopefully) future.

I also got this brilliant idea to create this interesting star/night-sky inspired makeup application and then to take lots of wonderful pictures that I could show here....
The only problem being that when I reached for my somewhat finicky camera, it instantly stopped working (in a way where I don't know if I can fix it). Perhaps when my mom gets home from her training I can borrow her camera, otherwise this particular look shall just have to be lost to the pages of blogging history.

A lazy few days...

The summer heat is starting to set in around here. We (Trevor and I) opened both of the windows today and have both fans on and we are both still sweating.
With the advent of the summer heat wave this past week, we've been having some lazy time just hanging out, today mostly with my parents.
World of Warcraft (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com) has been the game of choice, especially since Trevor, both my parents, my grandfather and myself all play.
I've been procrastinating about getting some productive work done (such as sewing, or even writing/reading), but it's all in good fun and that's all that really matters, right? ^.~

Power of suggestion....

This is all thanks to my mother (whom I love dearly). After making the suggestion I begin a blog (for a wide variety of reasons) I have at last gotten around to doing so. Filling this webspace with everything from make-up to college (Eeeks!) to crafting to flesh-eating zombie-fiends.

First things first.
This past weekend I attended the North East Unschooling Conference (http://www.Northeastunschoolingconference.com). It was an incredible eye-opening experience, I could not be more thankful to the family who made sure I went (check them out at http://www.learninginfreedom.com/). While I was there I met some incredibly awesome people and did some incredibly awesome things, most notable being the GLBT round table I led (with the help of Michael Greenspan) and the make-up artistry funshop with Ren Allen.
To the left is my friend Felix modeling my makeup at the funshop.

All in all it was a fabulous weekend and I can't wait for my next experience with all of them at the Live and Learn conference in September.