I fail at blogging.

I always fail at keeping up with this blog. So here are some things:

I recently made a very tasty and vegan creamy chicken and vegetable soup. It was a recipe from the cookbook Skinny Bitch and was awesome.

My cat is still the cutest thing ever and everyday I love him more and more.

Cora's recital finally came and went and she was beautiful and amazing!

I went to Philadelphia and got myself a vegan Philly cheesesteak from Gianna's off of South St. Yes, it was freakin delicious. I want one right now actually. If you have a recipe for a great vegan cheesesteak, please share!!

Also hung out in a chandelier shop in Philly. Beautiful place. The ceiling looked a little old and a little stressed.

Thanksgiving is coming up and I'm having a pot-luck at my house tomorrow night!

We have a week off for break so I'll try and post more soon. xoxo

Okay, I made this today:

Vegan of course. And dee-lici-ous!

Brushcetta Pizza

This isn't my picture by the way. 

Eh whatever

I'm not feeling very creative lately. =[

This is kinda cool though:

 What are YOU working on lately?

New Video!

New video up on the 'tube! I am making a piece of felt cake to the song "All of a Sudden" by Telekinesis. 

They are definitely one of my favorite bands this summer. I've also got some new music to share with the world.

This is my "Smithsonian" playlist because we are going there tomorrow. Hehe

World Spins Madly On - The Weepies

Magpie - The Mountain Goats

Blue & Green - The Little Hands of Asphalt

I Was On The Moon - Apollo Sunshine

Wilde Rice - Summer Cats

Never Wanna Let You Go - Camera

The Garden - Mirah

Deep Water - Portishead

Pop Lie - Okkervil River

Repeater Beater - Mew

Too Young to Love - The Big Pink

The First Days of Spring - Noah and the Whale

They Live By Night - Make-Up

Lengths and Limits - Makeout Party

Looks Like Styrofoam - The Little Hands of Asphalt

Sling A Song For Me - Pint Shot Riot

Really Like to See You Again - Thieves Like Us

Play It Again, Sam! You Don't - Manchester Orchestra

In other news, I finally gave in and bought a vegan cook book. I got Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Vegan Brunch There 

are so many beautiful pictures. I'm drooling just thinking about reading through it again. I am definitely making the 

Tofu Benny on pg 67 tomorrow for breakfast along with some potatoes and beans I have left over. Yum yum yum!

Okay no more typing, here is my video. Ta ta!

July 5 Update. New video!

I haven't been up to much lately creatively. I thought this to myself when I remembered I had a blog to catch up on. But really I did create a cool video the other night. I think a lot of people have already seen it. This is a video of me baking pretty much. It was inspired by a similar video a friend sent me. I had a lot of fun and it was super easy to make - I even learned iMovie in the process (which isn't that awful of a program). A friend of mine has approached me about creating the video to a "mash up" song he made a while back so I hope to get started on that soon. 

MyLATESTVideo is in widescreen and cannot be viewed properly on this page. Please check out the link to YouTube to see it. Sorry, I don't feel like messing with the code to make it the right size. :)

Things that have inspired me lately:

I REALLY want to make a stop animation video:

Sea Orchestra from Shy the Sun on Vimeo.

Breeze reflection by Djeff @ "Mal au pixel" France from djeff on Vimeo.

And this article on paint/jellyfish. Just read it.

Almost forgot!

I got mail from Finland today! Tarja Trygg over at  http://www.solargraphy.com/ has agreed to let me be apart of her global solargraphy project! She sent me three canisters prepared as pinhole cameras which I am going to set up around Winchester for as long as I can stand it. They really should be hung up for three or more months to get a really good photo but I will either fail and take them down in a few weeks or forget about them entirely and forget where I put them. What an adventure! The pinhole cameras will take an extended photograph of the suns rays as they streak across the sky for...as long as I keep the camera up. I'm going to set up two around the city and keep the third one to open up and see how she loads them. Eventually they need to be sent back to Finland. I wonder how much the shipping will cost me...

God I love this.

Things that have inspired me lately:

This is pretty neat. The Red One Camera is still fairly new to the scene but lots of productions in Hollywood are taking advantage. The resolution to this thing is sick - it's better than HD. These guys are using the Red One Camera like a DSLR to shoot "living posters".  Check this out:

Living Movie Poster - Start to Finish from Alexx Henry on Vimeo.

Wonder how you can get your own? Look at the price on these cameras.

This is a program that you can use with any webcam to try out some basic lightpainting. I really like the idea but the program is super sensitive. This is the first one I did that didn't look entirely blurry. I will definitely play with this tonight when it's dark. The one thing I really don't like is that you have to have an internet connection to save your photo because it automatically saves to the web - which is also a drawback because the whole world sees your photo! How annoying. Cool concept though.

 

Using my phone as a lightsource 

And finally, if you know me, you know I only like two kinds of rap; the kind I enjoy making fun of on the radio and rap that has nothing to do with sex and making money. (I like my rap to be about more substantial things, you know, like drugs and death.) But really, I cannot get enough of this guy. His name is Chris Palko but he's gone by Cage Kennylz since he got out of the mental hospital after he grew up helping his dad shoot heroine into his arm which led to a life of cocaine and alcohol abuse/addiction. What a guy! But in all seriousness, what doesnt kill us makes us stronger. Or gives us inspiration to become badass underground rappers.  He's fairly attractive as well ...oh and Shia LeBeouf directed this video. It gives me chills everytime.