i ♥ abu dabz.

super short day trip to abu dhabi to fulfill mom's visa drama - -  dense highrise city center + insane traffic + green expanses/intercostal waterways reminiscent of fl + a modest & cautious dubai (thank allah)

papa's askin' for an abiya for christmas.

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merry christmas!

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patterns!!!

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TESSA SPREAD IT OUT WHAAAATTT!!

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this into that

Furniture design sort of baffles me. I understand why people do it; I have even attempted a little bit of it (clearly rudimentary) myself. I lust after meticulously devised couches and clever coat racks. I can have a sense of humor about bookshelves. Still, the whole thing here is a little too House of Paper for me to be comfortable. Too literal.

And then there's this thing that seems to bother people about defacing books. Since I worked in a bookstore and know that books are routinely stripped of their covers and thrown in dumpsters (sorry, public), this sort of reuse doesn't seem like an abuse to me (and certainly not a step down the slippery slope toward National Socialist Book Burning Slumber Parties). If it were a little bit more subtle, I would probably be an advocate.

What do you guys think? Should books only be a design element so long as they remain mutable, available in their "intended" form? Does making a book into something else remove its "intrinsic value"? If you thought of books as something structural rather than something more abstract, something floating in the intellectual ether, how would that change your relationship to the things that you read?

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Science v. art: sort of.

Fruit flies, unlike humans, have ovaries that are comprised of small, stem-cell derived strings of cysts (called "ovarioles"; see image at left). The video is comprised of a series of images taken with a confocal microscope of one portion of an aberrant ovariole cyst. The idea behind confocal microscopy is that you can look through the "layers" of an image to try to get a sense for the actual, three-dimensional qualities of the mounted material (which, while squashed down on a slide, still has some depth and cannot all be visualized in the same focal plane). Some really nice software allows you to stack the images and play them back. Here, nuclei of particular cells are stained with a dye that binds between the "rungs" on the DNA ladder, making the nuclei of the cells within the cyst appear red under a fluorescent filter. By running through the stack in a video, you can easily visualize every cell within the cyst (which is how I realized that there was something seriously wrong with this fly's ovaries).

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collective calendar *updated update* down to the last two: july+dec

At the moment I have:

January: Amy

February: VA

March: Laws

April: Temps

May: Dylan

June: Hali

July: Josh

August: Casey

September: Kelly

October: Mooresy

November: Kaitlyn

December:

We need seven more months so if someone wants to do two months go for it. Maybe the second month could be featuring a favorite collective muse. Or if you haven't picked one yet, claim your month.

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patternpalooza

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more portfolio re-do's

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TessaTrek at Lauren and Brian's

Clay and I installed TessaTrek over the summer at Lauren and Brian's home. It was about 200 bricks. It leads to a new deck and a pad for garbage and recycling bins.

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bones festes!

it's christmas time in tha s.y.r. (or at least in one corner!).
also, a photo of the new bike [check out flashy triangle reflector]!
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bon nadal a tots!

spreading bcn christmas cheer digitally. off to the desert tomorrow, shall be skyping from there!

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_round 2

Project time line done. Each project title will be flagged out to the side for my portfolio contents page. The "cut" line is to skip some projects that sucked and avoid eating up vertical space. And I just wanted to squish the month names together. Like the satisfaction of eating chocolate. or something.

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Mmm Illustrator peacock swatch.

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Secret Santa

Let's check this list off so I can send you a name/who's doing secret santa? 
Brian
Kelly
Andrew
Va
Kaitlyn
Ted
Dylan
Amy
Wimmy
Hali?
Whit?
Lindsay? (someone call Woods)
Anyone else? 
The best part is, everyone here is creative so money is no issue. No one will be offended if their present is home-made, thrift, vintage, or just plain everyday (food hint hint, good cheese etc...). The common, the utilitarian is the new lux.  Continue

TREEtrimmings

         Sometimes, imperfections can be exchanged for galaxies, heavenly bodies and sunspots. Continue

a process collage marking the idea of a reflective surface emerging from the middle of the building.
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my try!

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let's get the tacky out!

alright, ladies. for this assignment, i want you to color, pattern, and gradient your way out of this bland paper bag.

posted is this .ai, get to colorin'

DOWNLOAD THE FILE HERE.
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