<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519</id><updated>2011-12-30T18:54:11.922-08:00</updated><category term='Designchick'/><category term='BFF&apos;s'/><category term='Update'/><category term='Best Friends'/><category term='Artshow'/><category term='Party'/><category term='Space Gallery'/><category term='Art'/><category term='Fun'/><title type='text'>McStuff and Puff</title><subtitle type='html'>Stuff mostly related to art, music and whatever the hell i want.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-6638293575742040459</id><published>2009-07-19T04:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-19T04:49:26.294-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Drumroll please...</title><content type='html'>and the answer to tumbl or not to tumble is...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;[drumroll please]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='large' style='font-size:32px; font-style:bold;'&gt;to TUMBL!! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;[insert balloons dropping and noisemakers here] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;woohoo!&lt;br /&gt;I figured out how to attach an rss feed to my tumblr so it will automatically post to tumblr if i want it to. c'est manifique!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-6638293575742040459?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/6638293575742040459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=6638293575742040459' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6638293575742040459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6638293575742040459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/07/drumroll-please.html' title='Drumroll please...'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-683979242924741902</id><published>2009-07-18T13:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-18T13:45:30.169-07:00</updated><title type='text'>To tumbl or not to tumbl</title><content type='html'>So i have this blogger account I've been using for the past year or so... not only that but I have multiple blog accounts, not the least of which is a myspace blog devoted to more personal stuff, but also 2 blogger accounts, a twitter, a last.fm, a blip and an old livejournal. I even have a goddamn yelp. I stopped posting to some and started posting to others, so everything is scattered everywhere and i wonder if there is a point to pulling stuff over to tumblr. hmmmm. should i do it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the &lt;a href="http://designchick.tumblr.com/"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to my tumblr blog. Get ready for overlaps. This may be my last post sadly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-683979242924741902?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/683979242924741902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=683979242924741902' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/683979242924741902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/683979242924741902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/07/to-tumbl-or-not-to-tumbl.html' title='To tumbl or not to tumbl'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-30576379524646725</id><published>2009-07-17T17:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-18T13:35:07.012-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Drop This!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="dropular.net"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/z18zepqcyt_3692239181_e8724980e5_b.jpg" align="middle" height="414" width="414" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have to thank my awesome boyfriend for showing me this &lt;a target="_blank" href="dropular.net"&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;. Most times I think he keeps things to himself so I'm always happy when he shares. So what is it? It's a media bookmarking site where people drop images into a large pool. It's focus is in but not limited to the fields of design, typography, art, photography. The people who add to it are folks who get an invite so the collection doesn't get overrun by the mediocre. Not only that but it has an engine that can organize by tags. Me likey.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-30576379524646725?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/30576379524646725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=30576379524646725' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/30576379524646725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/30576379524646725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/07/drop-this.html' title='Drop This!'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-3130823505130032323</id><published>2009-07-17T08:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T09:02:23.312-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hungry Anyone?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://scanwiches.com/"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://14.media.tumblr.com/1o2NBqhAYpy1vj4aeKXwFM47o1_400.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 559px;" src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/1o2NBqhAYpy1vj4aeKXwFM47o1_400.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An &lt;a href="http://scanwiches.com/"&gt;oldie&lt;/a&gt; but I thought I'd post it anyways. I have to wonder about the scanner though. Is it greasy?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-3130823505130032323?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/3130823505130032323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=3130823505130032323' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3130823505130032323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3130823505130032323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/07/hungry-anyone.html' title='Hungry Anyone?'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-1938939838137477682</id><published>2009-07-14T23:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T08:55:25.089-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Today's Acquisition</title><content type='html'>La Roux&lt;br /&gt;Marina and the Diamonds&lt;br /&gt;Major Lazer&lt;br /&gt;Metric&lt;br /&gt;Dirty Projectors&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kanye West posted this on &lt;a href="http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/index.php?em3106=235958_-1__0_~0_-1_7_2009_0_0&amp;eM="&gt;his blog&lt;/a&gt; just recently. The guy never ceases to impress me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YMPF6lpM0XM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YMPF6lpM0XM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-1938939838137477682?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/1938939838137477682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=1938939838137477682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/1938939838137477682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/1938939838137477682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/07/todays-acquisition.html' title='Today&apos;s Acquisition'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-4771490495528850383</id><published>2009-07-14T23:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-14T23:34:10.045-07:00</updated><title type='text'>RIP Dash Snow</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2007/11/29/dash-snow-studio-visit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 567px;" src="http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2007/11/29/dash-snow-studio-visit.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-4771490495528850383?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/4771490495528850383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=4771490495528850383' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4771490495528850383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4771490495528850383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/07/rip-dash-snow.html' title='RIP Dash Snow'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-4962766210065641632</id><published>2009-07-06T20:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T20:08:17.650-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Amazing Shadow Art</title><content type='html'>Check out this &lt;a href="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/incredible-shadow-art-created-from-junk/12265"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; about these two british based artists' named Tim Noble and Sue Webster. It's the most amazing thing I've seen in a while. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://inlinethumb11.webshots.com/42442/2883705280105101600S600x600Q85.jpg"/&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-4962766210065641632?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/4962766210065641632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=4962766210065641632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4962766210065641632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4962766210065641632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/07/amazing-shadow-art.html' title='Amazing Shadow Art'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-3986147764373744381</id><published>2009-06-22T17:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T01:42:19.426-07:00</updated><title type='text'>JUST SAY NO to dry web tech manuals!</title><content type='html'>For the past couple of years I've been suggesting to anyone who asks me if they wanted to set up a website what should they do. And for every inquiry I've recommended blog sites as an easy and cheap alternative. Well since I've been looking into updating my personal website myself, I've been doing extensive research and have stumbled on to a CMS and publishing platform that seems to blow the free bloggers out of the water! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The site is called &lt;a href="http://squarespace.com"&gt;squarespace&lt;/a&gt;. An all in one inclusive site that is reasonable priced and has all the tools you need at your fingertips. Even non geeks with no coding background can set a website easily with this online web application/solution. It's super customizable and cuts developing time down to a minimum so that designers can focus more on design and not on the techy stuff or waste money with hiring a programmer. Seems like technology is getting easier and easier these days with the end user in mind. That being said I wanted to share my discovery with others in order to make this world a better place. Generally I don't like to advertise for companies or products but because I find the services this website offers so amazing I thought I would just put it out there for everyone to share.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squarespace.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.medicalspamd.com/storage/graphics/squarespace.gif.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 468px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.medicalspamd.com/storage/graphics/squarespace.gif.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-3986147764373744381?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/3986147764373744381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=3986147764373744381' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3986147764373744381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3986147764373744381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/06/just-say-no-to-dry-web-tech-manuals.html' title='JUST SAY NO to dry web tech manuals!'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-3432738657657595820</id><published>2009-06-08T15:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T16:03:50.751-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I love Legos</title><content type='html'>When I was a kid I would spend hours playing with my lego sets, mostly building houses and what not. One of my dreams then was when I grew up i would buy every lego set ever made and assemble them and display in a room dedicated to my collection. Well I've since lived out 16 years of my adult life and still no lego collection room. But soon I may start! They're planning to come out with an &lt;a href="http://www.lego.com/en-US/architecture/default.aspx?domainredir=lego.com"&gt;Architecture series&lt;/a&gt; that will feature 6 iconic buildings including a Frank Lloyd Wright version. AWESOME!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://arkitipintel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/flw_legoset-11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://arkitipintel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/flw_legoset-11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-3432738657657595820?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/3432738657657595820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=3432738657657595820' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3432738657657595820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3432738657657595820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-love-legos.html' title='I love Legos'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-8059770785599934754</id><published>2009-05-27T17:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T12:42:23.490-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Inspiration</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://grainedit.com/"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dresscode_neversleep_cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 470px; height: 390px;" src="http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dresscode_neversleep_cover.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been at least a year and a half since I earnestly sought design inspiration or actively kept up with design trends that lately I've been down on myself for having let myself fall out of the loop. But recently I've found a couple links that has spurred my excitement and I feel are worthy of posting. My boyfriend purports he sent me one of the links a few months ago but I seriously have no recollection of it. Bad girlfriend am I.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://monsieurlagent.com/index.php"&gt;This agency&lt;/a&gt; has latched onto some good things and I'm looking forward to seeing more of their artists in future. A few of the artists with this agency work with some lesser known but awesome musicians. I recognize La Boca who's done album covers for the DC recordings crew. Quite a few have these artists have cycled through my itunes playlist. I've always believed good album covers leads to good music, mostly because I've noticed any artists worth their salt tend to collaborate with other inspiring artists. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://monsieurlagent.com/data/news/81594cic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 376px;" src="http://monsieurlagent.com/data/news/81594cic.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://monsieurlagent.com/data/news/93801ill_artofmusic2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 460px;" src="http://monsieurlagent.com/data/news/93801ill_artofmusic2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This &lt;a href="http://grainedit.com/"&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; is great for classic design inspiration from the 50s thru the 70s. It's a blog site that continually updates their articles. I stumbled onto them while looking for 70s book cover inspiration. Totally worth looking thru.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-8059770785599934754?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/8059770785599934754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=8059770785599934754' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8059770785599934754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8059770785599934754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-inspiration.html' title='New Inspiration'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-3416204316286471718</id><published>2009-05-23T13:33:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-23T13:57:14.756-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Videoless</title><content type='html'>Been posting mostly videos lately so figured that maybe I can change things up a bit and maybe inject a little personality this time round. Well whatever little I have to inject. A friend sent over a link to a youtube hindi cover of common ppl that led me to the original version sung by jarvis cocker and i must say i'm kicking myself in the arse for missing that boat the 1st time it came around in the mid nineties. Must have been after the tailend of my britpop phase. He is one sexy muther! MREOW! Sigh, shallow as it may sound makes me glad to have my own little brit boy to contend with. Yum.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k166/Mergen89/JarvisCocker2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k166/Mergen89/JarvisCocker2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-3416204316286471718?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/3416204316286471718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=3416204316286471718' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3416204316286471718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3416204316286471718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/05/videoless.html' title='Videoless'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-4522037122985130207</id><published>2009-05-15T03:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-15T03:49:41.885-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tweet Tweet</title><content type='html'>I can't help thinking about how pointless twitter is after seeing this on current tv. Each time I tweet I really do have the guilty thought of who the eff cares? :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PN2HAroA12w&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PN2HAroA12w&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also check out this other brilliant video from current.tv. I love these guys. According to their website the age bracket for their target audience is the 18-34 year old crowd. So what does that say to me? Does it mean once I celebrate my bday in september I must move on to something meant for older folks? And what would that be? Vh1? Network television? Oprah? It doesn't help that I've been recently contacted by old high school acquaintances who all are married and have children now. shit. maybe i'm overdue for a bun in the oven.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GI37OGm1ms0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GI37OGm1ms0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-4522037122985130207?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/4522037122985130207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=4522037122985130207' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4522037122985130207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4522037122985130207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/05/tweet-tweet.html' title='Tweet Tweet'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-3799972811372985290</id><published>2009-05-12T01:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T16:05:44.779-07:00</updated><title type='text'>omg like this is soooo kewl</title><content type='html'>I just stumbled onto this website that makes me kinda moist like warm gooey chocolate cake. i love this concept! it's a website that let's you mix and match any image from the net together in it's own drop and drag editor that lets you share with your friends. The interface is Flickrlike and currently it's mostly fashion sets but why let it stop there? I'm thinking interiors! art collages!! themes!!! collectibles!!!! the possibilities seem endless!!!!! Yet another time waster to add to my ever expanding list. Cool! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.polyvore.com/fringed_unkle_boots/set?.mid=embed&amp;amp;id=8574707"&gt;&lt;img width="400" alt="Fringed Unkle Boots" src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set/BQcDAAAAAwoDanBnAAAABC5vdXQKFkpFcDZvQVE5M2hHdFZvc2o4Z1ZXUGcAAAACaWQKAWUAAAAEc2l6ZQ.jpg" title="Fringed Unkle Boots" height="400" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.polyvore.com/fringed_unkle_boots/set?.mid=embed&amp;amp;id=8574707"&gt;Fringed Unkle Boots&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?.mid=embed&amp;amp;id=339109"&gt;Karine Minzon Wilson NEW CONTEST&lt;/a&gt; featuring &lt;a href="http://www.polyvore.com/vivienne_westwood_red_label_skirts/shop?brand=Vivienne+Westwood+Red+Label&amp;amp;category_id=9"&gt;Vivienne Westwood Red Label skirts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-3799972811372985290?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/3799972811372985290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=3799972811372985290' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3799972811372985290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3799972811372985290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/05/omg-like-this-is-soooo-kewl.html' title='omg like this is soooo kewl'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-4180007043055691349</id><published>2009-05-07T01:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-07T01:35:22.074-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Slap Chop.</title><content type='html'>I'm running behind peoples. I keep telling myself that I'm going to post everyday but I keep forgetting. Well at least I'm getting better. 3 for last month ain't bad. Here's another one to add to the collection. Cheers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UWRyj5cHIQA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UWRyj5cHIQA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-4180007043055691349?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/4180007043055691349/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=4180007043055691349' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4180007043055691349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4180007043055691349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/05/slap-chop.html' title='Slap Chop.'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-1249064316285910772</id><published>2009-04-22T10:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T10:11:50.288-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chitown Reprezant</title><content type='html'>True to my word I said I'd be posting new videos I've been sent lately. Here's another one. Ladies make sure you don't fall for this simple trick to impress. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IBRL7D0wcXM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IBRL7D0wcXM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-1249064316285910772?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/1249064316285910772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=1249064316285910772' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/1249064316285910772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/1249064316285910772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/04/chitown-reprezant.html' title='Chitown Reprezant'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-6305690291385034350</id><published>2009-04-21T19:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-21T19:44:24.276-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Stuff to Share</title><content type='html'>So I have a bunch of new videos that I'd like to post. But to space them all out I guess I'll just post 1 each day. That is if I remember. My ex just sent me this video by passion pit. Enjoy! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="230"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4230616&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4230616&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="230"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/4230616"&gt;Passion Pit - The Reeling&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user1616665"&gt;Smoke My Tabaco&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-6305690291385034350?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/6305690291385034350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=6305690291385034350' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6305690291385034350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6305690291385034350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-stuff-to-share.html' title='New Stuff to Share'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-1387274069523971427</id><published>2009-04-10T05:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-10T05:45:41.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Triggers</title><content type='html'>It's always weird how something totally random can pierce your consciousness and without warning transport you to a place that could have easily been lost to that blackhole of memories. In this particular instance it's a Jackson 5 song that came on to internet radio and reminded me of a simpler time when the biggest reason for my sisters and I to force ourselves up early was to get every second of saturday morning cartoons in. They loved the Jackson 5 while I remember hating that show. I'd be rudely awakened by the theme song blaring in our downstairs living/rec room with the dark wood-paneled walls and the carpet I can't for the life of me seem to recall anymore. Hearing this song by the Jackson 5 makes me sad how I couldn't appreciate them or my sisters more back then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CEaBjczgZTU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CEaBjczgZTU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-1387274069523971427?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/1387274069523971427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=1387274069523971427' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/1387274069523971427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/1387274069523971427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/04/triggers.html' title='Triggers'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-3573223634794110441</id><published>2009-01-21T02:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T02:04:49.274-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Engrish for Beginners</title><content type='html'>This video has been around for a while but I've recently revisited it again and felt that it was worth posting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/clWjfQ_xeAQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/clWjfQ_xeAQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-3573223634794110441?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/3573223634794110441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=3573223634794110441' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3573223634794110441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3573223634794110441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2009/01/engrish-for-beginners.html' title='Engrish for Beginners'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-4294784355313637591</id><published>2008-11-19T13:30:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T02:23:08.604-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Can I please have my spider back?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/foto/964abae4_canihavemyspiderbackot3.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 463px; height: 2643px;" src="http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/foto/964abae4_canihavemyspiderbackot3.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-4294784355313637591?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/4294784355313637591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=4294784355313637591' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4294784355313637591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4294784355313637591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2008/11/can-i-please-have-my-spider-back.html' title='Can I please have my spider back?'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-7235274950784836733</id><published>2008-10-09T13:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-09T13:43:26.980-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Eric Wareheim at it again.</title><content type='html'>So this was directed by Eric Wareheim from the infamous Tim and Eric Awesome Show! Great Job! show. The song is by Flying Lotus. An experimenta hip hop electronic producer in LA. Check it out.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="400" width="504" data="http://www.warprecords.com/dancefloordale/mediaplayer.swf"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.warprecords.com/dancefloordale/mediaplayer.swf" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="flashvars" value="height=400&amp;width=504&amp;file=http://www.warprecords.com/dancefloordale/dancefloordale.flv&amp;backcolor=0x000000&amp;frontcolor=0xFFFFFFℑ=http://www.warprecords.com/dancefloordale/dale_image.jpg&amp;searchbar=false&amp;showicons=false&amp;shownavigation=false&amp;showdigits=false&amp;thumbsinplaylist=false&amp;autostart=false" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Directed by Eric Wareheim (Tim &amp; Eric) in association with Warp Records and Warp Films. Music by Flying Lotus. Co Directed/ Animation by Devin Flynn. Co Directed/ Edited by Eric Fensler. More info at &lt;a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmRhbmNlZmxvb3JkYWxlLmNvbQ=="&gt;dancefloordale.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-7235274950784836733?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/7235274950784836733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=7235274950784836733' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/7235274950784836733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/7235274950784836733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2008/10/eric-wareheim-at-it-again.html' title='Eric Wareheim at it again.'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-8152955333362241464</id><published>2008-09-13T19:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-13T19:23:37.535-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Back Again</title><content type='html'>Hi been gone for a quick minute. Six months to be exact. Been traveling around the world sowing my wild oats and learning some useful things for life. Anyways, I'm back again with a pretty awesome skate video that someone sent me. I think this may have been filmed in Berkeley if I'm not mistaken. [Anyone who loves the bay area give me a woot woooooooot!!!! you knaw whut i'm sayin... you crazy kooksters.] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="225"&gt; &lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1654340&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt; &lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1654340&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/1654340?pg=embed&amp;amp;sec=1654340"&gt;Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user719550?pg=embed&amp;amp;sec=1654340"&gt;adam kimmel&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;amp;sec=1654340"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-8152955333362241464?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/8152955333362241464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=8152955333362241464' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8152955333362241464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8152955333362241464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2008/09/back-again.html' title='Back Again'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-7040414533301216146</id><published>2008-02-14T02:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-14T03:09:00.778-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HVW8 @ Upperplayground's Fifty24SF Gallery</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;“Greatest Hits by HVW8” &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Featuring artists Gene Starship, DSTRBO (Dan Buller) and Tyler Gibney&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fifty24sf.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Upperplayground’s Fifty24SF Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 7th-29th, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Drawing from the urban environment, &lt;a href="http://www.hvw8.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Heavyweight&lt;/a&gt; developed a mix-blend of styles &amp; skills accumulated from a free association of intuitive interests - peripheral influences included rare groove album covers, Japanese hyper-pop styles, dub soundscapes, graffiti burns, skate graphics and turntable culture. Heavyweight tapped into a growing artistic community, extending its creative network to include producers, DJs, musicians, filmmakers as well as other artists and designers. What surfaced was a Heavyweight version, street-style campaign of underground parties, music &amp; art shows, posters, flyers and stickers all housed and produced under one roof - forming the main elements of Heavyweight's creative foundation in art and design.]&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey guys, no time for a serious write up but I wanted to post pictures from  the last Upperplayground Fifty24Gallery opening featuring a 10 year retrospective from the guys who collaborate as the art and design collective &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/hvw8musicismyart" target="_blank"&gt;HVW8.&lt;/a&gt; Funnily enough, I was introduced to them completely random the night before through a mutual friend under different pretenses and got the unexpected treat of hanging with these guys on the real before familiarizing myself with their work. I swear, it never ceases to amaze me how small this city can be. Anyways, a little about these guys: &lt;a href="http://www.hvw8.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Heavyweight Production House&lt;/a&gt; originally started in Montreal, Canada in 1998 by Tyler Gibney and Gene Pendon and is currently based in LA with it’s own HVW8 gallery. Their main body of work called the Heavyweight Art Installation is a collection of large 6’x6’ painted canvases which were created live alongside performances by renowned DJs and musicians including Jazzanova, Afrika Bambaataa, Gilles Peterson, Bugz In The Attic, the Herbaliser, Roots Manuva, Osunlade and Jurassic 5 -just to name a few. With the collaborative efforts of &lt;a href=" http://www.myspace.com/hvw8tyg" target="_blank"&gt;Tyler Gibney,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/genestarship" target="_blank"&gt;Gene Starship&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.solidsender.com/dstrbo/" target="_blank"&gt;DSTRBO (Dan Buller),&lt;/a&gt; the installation itself has toured internationally including cities in North America, Europe and Japan. Wanna know more? Go &lt;a href="http://www.hvw8.com/info.php" target="_blank"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The show runs til the 29th. Check it out before it's gone...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc9o8kpuI/AAAAAAAAAAc/4sciQfeJj4U/s1600-h/1-IMG_3790.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc9o8kpuI/AAAAAAAAAAc/4sciQfeJj4U/s400/1-IMG_3790.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166786517789877986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc948kpvI/AAAAAAAAAAk/XPXnPvXsNsY/s1600-h/2-IMG_3786.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc948kpvI/AAAAAAAAAAk/XPXnPvXsNsY/s400/2-IMG_3786.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166786522084845298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc-I8kpwI/AAAAAAAAAAs/0aKMjh3RksY/s1600-h/3-IMG_3784.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc-I8kpwI/AAAAAAAAAAs/0aKMjh3RksY/s400/3-IMG_3784.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166786526379812610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc-Y8kpxI/AAAAAAAAAA0/9x--ij1sdOg/s1600-h/4-IMG_3783.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc-Y8kpxI/AAAAAAAAAA0/9x--ij1sdOg/s400/4-IMG_3783.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166786530674779922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc-o8kpyI/AAAAAAAAAA8/QnYAr-fq9ec/s1600-h/5-IMG_3779.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc-o8kpyI/AAAAAAAAAA8/QnYAr-fq9ec/s400/5-IMG_3779.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166786534969747234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qdd48kpzI/AAAAAAAAABE/1KEVNslHOWs/s1600-h/6-IMG_3781.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qdd48kpzI/AAAAAAAAABE/1KEVNslHOWs/s400/6-IMG_3781.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166787071840659250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qdd48kp0I/AAAAAAAAABM/iXR5gisXYJM/s1600-h/7-IMG_3787.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qdd48kp0I/AAAAAAAAABM/iXR5gisXYJM/s400/7-IMG_3787.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166787071840659266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QdeI8kp1I/AAAAAAAAABU/42Hc03GroS8/s1600-h/7-IMG_3780.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QdeI8kp1I/AAAAAAAAABU/42Hc03GroS8/s400/7-IMG_3780.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166787076135626578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QdeY8kp2I/AAAAAAAAABc/SYwx-giQ4-Y/s1600-h/8-IMG_3782.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QdeY8kp2I/AAAAAAAAABc/SYwx-giQ4-Y/s400/8-IMG_3782.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166787080430593890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qdeo8kp3I/AAAAAAAAABk/1VnLYcxOPfY/s1600-h/9-IMG_3792.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qdeo8kp3I/AAAAAAAAABk/1VnLYcxOPfY/s400/9-IMG_3792.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166787084725561202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QdwY8kp4I/AAAAAAAAABs/6vY0rcJ-Bww/s1600-h/11-IMG_3793.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QdwY8kp4I/AAAAAAAAABs/6vY0rcJ-Bww/s400/11-IMG_3793.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166787389668239234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QdwY8kp5I/AAAAAAAAAB0/SmSNp8nbLoI/s1600-h/12-IMG_3798.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QdwY8kp5I/AAAAAAAAAB0/SmSNp8nbLoI/s400/12-IMG_3798.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166787389668239250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gene Starship&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qdwo8kp6I/AAAAAAAAAB8/RKdr_OWdW-8/s1600-h/13-IMG_3807.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qdwo8kp6I/AAAAAAAAAB8/RKdr_OWdW-8/s400/13-IMG_3807.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166787393963206562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Damon, JT, Dan Buller&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QebI8kp7I/AAAAAAAAACE/lDxjD-dM7ME/s1600-h/14-IMG_3813.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QebI8kp7I/AAAAAAAAACE/lDxjD-dM7ME/s400/14-IMG_3813.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166788124107646898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QebY8kp8I/AAAAAAAAACM/a5Jlsjhb1C8/s1600-h/15-IMG_3797.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QebY8kp8I/AAAAAAAAACM/a5Jlsjhb1C8/s400/15-IMG_3797.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166788128402614210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My friend Mo and Dan&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QeqI8kp9I/AAAAAAAAACU/ttGdX5q8vwk/s1600-h/16-IMG_3812.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QeqI8kp9I/AAAAAAAAACU/ttGdX5q8vwk/s400/16-IMG_3812.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166788381805684690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tyler Gibney&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfD48kp-I/AAAAAAAAACc/EcBWHz0of_0/s1600-h/17-IMG_3810.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfD48kp-I/AAAAAAAAACc/EcBWHz0of_0/s400/17-IMG_3810.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166788824187316194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfEI8kp_I/AAAAAAAAACk/qKmX0tLcHwY/s1600-h/18-IMG_3809.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfEI8kp_I/AAAAAAAAACk/qKmX0tLcHwY/s400/18-IMG_3809.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166788828482283506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfEY8kqAI/AAAAAAAAACs/F_XsNS59grs/s1600-h/19-IMG_3808.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfEY8kqAI/AAAAAAAAACs/F_XsNS59grs/s400/19-IMG_3808.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166788832777250818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfEo8kqBI/AAAAAAAAAC0/1Ozs-qdtkDM/s1600-h/20-IMG_3806.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfEo8kqBI/AAAAAAAAAC0/1Ozs-qdtkDM/s400/20-IMG_3806.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166788837072218130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfEo8kqCI/AAAAAAAAAC8/8WRkRVzImjM/s1600-h/21-IMG_3805.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfEo8kqCI/AAAAAAAAAC8/8WRkRVzImjM/s400/21-IMG_3805.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166788837072218146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfY48kqDI/AAAAAAAAADE/JBFK9E3v7RA/s1600-h/22-IMG_3803.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfY48kqDI/AAAAAAAAADE/JBFK9E3v7RA/s400/22-IMG_3803.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166789184964569138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfZI8kqEI/AAAAAAAAADM/vx_CR-0uLK4/s1600-h/23-IMG_3804.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfZI8kqEI/AAAAAAAAADM/vx_CR-0uLK4/s400/23-IMG_3804.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166789189259536450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfZI8kqFI/AAAAAAAAADU/_gRly3C4sbY/s1600-h/24-IMG_3802.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfZI8kqFI/AAAAAAAAADU/_gRly3C4sbY/s400/24-IMG_3802.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166789189259536466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfZY8kqGI/AAAAAAAAADc/u6CaHNEC7y4/s1600-h/25-IMG_3799.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfZY8kqGI/AAAAAAAAADc/u6CaHNEC7y4/s400/25-IMG_3799.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166789193554503778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfZY8kqHI/AAAAAAAAADk/_wSeYU_DRuE/s1600-h/26-IMG_3800.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfZY8kqHI/AAAAAAAAADk/_wSeYU_DRuE/s400/26-IMG_3800.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166789193554503794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qflo8kqII/AAAAAAAAADs/M2CXV17QqLM/s1600-h/27-IMG_3801.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qflo8kqII/AAAAAAAAADs/M2CXV17QqLM/s400/27-IMG_3801.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166789404007901314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and for all y'alls who need a visual diagram, here ya go...&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfyY8kqJI/AAAAAAAAAD0/SGSESxMbk2w/s1600-h/28-flowchart.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7QfyY8kqJI/AAAAAAAAAD0/SGSESxMbk2w/s400/28-flowchart.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166789623051233426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;peace&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-7040414533301216146?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/7040414533301216146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=7040414533301216146' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/7040414533301216146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/7040414533301216146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2008/02/by-joy-greatest-hits-by-hvw8-featuring.html' title='HVW8 @ Upperplayground&apos;s Fifty24SF Gallery'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R7Qc9o8kpuI/AAAAAAAAAAc/4sciQfeJj4U/s72-c/1-IMG_3790.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-6163558646987259701</id><published>2008-01-31T03:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-31T03:42:12.051-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WHY???</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NqFOB77jLaE&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NqFOB77jLaE&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-6163558646987259701?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/6163558646987259701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=6163558646987259701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6163558646987259701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6163558646987259701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2008/01/why.html' title='WHY???'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-4432297003548906242</id><published>2008-01-31T03:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-14T03:11:53.208-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ajit Chauhan with Tara Foley @ Adobe</title><content type='html'>Ajit Chauhan with Tara Foley&lt;br /&gt;"Milky Way of Breeding Stallions That Roll, Ejaculating by Themselves"&lt;br /&gt;Performances by Tank Attack, Jessica Pratt and Lathan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://adobebooksbackroomgallery.blogspot.com/2007_03_11_archive.html" target="_blank"&gt;Adobe Backroom Gallery&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Opening Thursday January 24th 2008, 7-10pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Thursday was the opening for the Adobe Backroom Gallery show for Ajit Chauhan with Tara Foley. Last Thursday was also the day John and I agreed to have me come in to help with Fecal Face stuff. I think I was just about to leave for the office when I got a text asking me to instead check out an art show taking place at Adobe and could I please pen some words for it. Being the hardworking, eternally loyal, dutiful and might I add AWESOME intern that I am, I said no problem and headed there thinking it would be a quick and easy in-and-out (I always think that). Now I’m not sure if this is something I should admit to but obviously I had no idea there was an opening nor had I ever heard of this Ajit (pronounced Ah-jeet) guy. When I got to the bookstore I was thrown off, having never had the opportunity to check out the gallery before nor for the life of me being able to figure out whether I was in the right place or not. I made my way around the bookstore, weaving in and out amongst the shelves, scratching my head, trying to ascertain how this art show was actually going down. Now if you’ve ever been there you’d know that this place can irrefutably qualify as a quintessential bookworm’s wet dream with the narrowly spaced bookshelves lining the wall from floor to almost ceiling, the overflowing abundance of well worn books, the mismatched furniture, the threadbare rugs, the homemade cardboard signs, the smattering of garden variety houseplants, the tight and typical cozy corners to pop a squat in...all things lending this place its dusty, old school, attic-like charm but  also with no real wall space to grace any art on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was there for 15 minutes before I said "to hell with it" and finally asked the old beatnik looking dude with the headphones manning the front desk whether I was in the right place or not. Turned out that the show opened at 7 and that it was in the back room. Wish I had known beforehand that the gallery name had the word B-A-C-K-R-O-O-M in it. So fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, I failed to make it to the actual party to capitalize on the free wine and cheese we all know are the only things art shows are good for, but rather caught Ajit putting on the final touches in preparation for that night’s anticipated event. Just as well though, because the back room was teensy weensy which I imagine would have undoubtedly been overstuffed with rainsoaked peeps had I shown up next to these art loving joes. Not only that, but the plexiglass covered floor serving as extra wall space would have definitely been obscured by dozens of smelly feet due to the no shoes policy of the room. Conclusion? These factors combined probably would have more than likely prevented me from proper documentation AND I wouldn’t have had the chance to chat with the artist nor sign my name on to one of Tara’s books, so I guess it all worked out for the best in the end. Ah, the advantages of being a clueless dimwit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don’t know much about Ajit but from what I was able to gather he’s sort of not from one particular place but from all over even though I do think I recall him saying he does hold a special place in his heart for the bay area. His last and most recent showing was at &lt;a href="http://www.thelab.org/" target="_blank"&gt;The LAB&lt;/a&gt; here in the Mission. His art is comprised of intricately detailed quilled ink drawings that he illustrates on found vintage paper, some of which he got in India while visiting his grandfather's placed. What’s really great about these drawings are the exquisite and meticulous details that invite the viewer to step in and take a closer look. I tried getting detailed shots of some of the pieces but with the lack of flash and all, you can tell that this is something better appreciated in person.  At first thinking this was a solo show, I wondered about this Tara person he kept referring to that did the hair. Finally, I figured it out that Tara Foley is the artist credited with doing the mini-book installation portion of it as well. An appropriate choice since they both complemented each others work well. A few of the pieces I really liked plays with letterforms appealing to the graphic designer in me and when asked if there was anything in particular that inspired his work he said not really, that he just flowed in a sort of automatic stream of consciousness mode and that he also tends to find himself repeating certain patterns. Anyways, I'd be more than happy to go on more about these things because it always all very interesting to get the artists perspective on their own stuff but since this post is starting to resemble a novel I think I'll just get on with the show. Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/1-IMG_3342.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/1-IMG_3342.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man himself&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/2-IMG_3360.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/2-IMG_3360.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/3-IMG_3375.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/3-IMG_3375.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tara Foley's hair calligraphy&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/4-IMG_3333.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/4-IMG_3333.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/5-IMG_3332.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/5-IMG_3332.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/6-IMG_3343.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/6-IMG_3343.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/7-IMG_3363.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/7-IMG_3363.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/9-IMG_3372.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/9-IMG_3372.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;floor art&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/8-IMG_3337.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/8-IMG_3337.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/10-IMG_3344.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/10-IMG_3344.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/11-IMG_3355.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/11-IMG_3355.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/12-IMG_3377.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/15-IMG_3336.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/16-IMG_3352.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/16-IMG_3352.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/17-IMG_3371.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/17-IMG_3371.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/19-IMG_3370.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/19-IMG_3370.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/18-IMG_3378.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/18-IMG_3378.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My friend Loreto who came with me that day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/20-IMG_3354.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/20-IMG_3354.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/21-IMG_3369.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/21-IMG_3369.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/22-IMG_3356.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/22-IMG_3356.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/24-IMG_3387.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/24-IMG_3387.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it's all about the deets&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/23-IMG_3357.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/23-IMG_3357.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/25-IMG_3386.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/25-IMG_3386.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-4432297003548906242?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/4432297003548906242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=4432297003548906242' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4432297003548906242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4432297003548906242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2008/01/ajit-chauhan-with-tara-foley-adobe.html' title='Ajit Chauhan with Tara Foley @ Adobe'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-6366368169499258414</id><published>2008-01-16T17:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T17:41:00.539-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Classic</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xc0CB6URrV0&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xc0CB6URrV0&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-6366368169499258414?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/6366368169499258414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=6366368169499258414' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6366368169499258414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6366368169499258414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2008/01/classic.html' title='Classic'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-8777263725077190879</id><published>2008-01-09T01:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T01:34:13.947-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sneak Preview of Ben Tour's "Underbelly"</title><content type='html'>“Under Belly” by &lt;a href="http://www.thetourshow.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Ben Tour &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp; “Letters to the Editor” Group Show&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fifty24sf.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Fifty24 Gallery&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thursday, Jan 10th 7-9:30pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey Hey, just got back from documenting Ben Tour prepping for his upcoming show this week. Who the heck is Ben Tour you ask? Well, Fecal Face did an interview with this fine fellow sometime last year that you can check out &lt;a href="http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=153" target="_blank"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; Ben’s show opens Thursday, January 10th at Upper Playgrounds’s Fifty24 Gallery in Lower Haight. I had the pleasure of meeting him and shooting the shit for about an hour before having to head back to the neighborhood café to concentrate on my boring humdrum work.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So after missing Ben on my first attempt, I figured I’d go to the cafe and hit him up in a few hours after I was done. Ten minutes after getting settled to the closest and only available outlet, Kimberly, the gallery curator, called me to let me know that he was back. Fearing I would miss him, I packed up ALL my stuff thinking that I’d go in, say hi, take some pictures, get out, go back, grab my coveted corner, finish my work, &lt;em&gt;bada bing!, bada bang!, bada boom!,&lt;/em&gt; I’m done. I even left my tea cup with the counter guy to say I’ll be coming back in a few and to please hold it for me. Needless to say that wasn’t how things went down. But s’all good! After chatting it up with him, I discovered that he’s a super duper swell guy, not to mention that his work is dope! So I HIGHLY recommend you make it out to the show to check out his art and say hello. While he worked we talked about Vancouver (where he lives now), Toronto (where he’s from), his wife, the expecting of their first baby, traveling and him moving to the sunshine coast. But because I went with no intentions for conducting an interview and because my mind is like a giant sieve that retains .005% of all information that penetrates my eardrums, I will do you the favor of NOT recounting our conversation since I know me and the quality of my operations. It’ll be the ol’ classic chinese telephone phenomenon where I end up reporting a story about the time he sold his house, took his family down to honduras to try and create his own personal utopia, builds an ice factory but ends up running into some serious obstacles, alienating all around him and polluting a... Oh wait, that was a movie wasn’t it? See what I mean? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So anyways, here’s a sneak preview. Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;And go to the show!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/1-IMG_3047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/1-IMG_3047.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/2-IMG_3045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/2-IMG_3045.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/5-IMG_3051.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/5-IMG_3051.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/4-IMG_3050.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/4-IMG_3050.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/6-IMG_3057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/6-IMG_3057.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/7-IMG_3055.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/7-IMG_3055.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/9-IMG_3079.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/9-IMG_3079.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/11-IMG_3076.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/11-IMG_3076.jpg" alt="11-IMG_3076.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/10-IMG_3066.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/10-IMG_3066.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/12-IMG_3060.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/12-IMG_3060.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/13-IMG_3077.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/13-IMG_3077.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh you’re still following me? Well, lucky you then because I also took some pictures of the stuff that will be showing in the upstairs space of Fifty24. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Letters to the Editor" featuring the work of Cum*, Eine, Brent McHugh, Ryan Jacob Smith, and Mario Wagner &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/14-IMG_3039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/14-IMG_3039.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These guys are a anonymous art collective from Belgium called &lt;a href="http://www.cuminthestreets.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Cum*&lt;/a&gt; and their stuff is really cool! Check them out too when you’re there. I mean, what do you gots to lose?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/15-IMG_3042.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/15-IMG_3042.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/17-IMG_3041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/17-IMG_3041.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/16-IMG_3040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/16-IMG_3040.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/18-IMG_3043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2008/01/sneak_preview_of_ben_tours_und/18-IMG_3043.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See yous there!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-8777263725077190879?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/8777263725077190879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=8777263725077190879' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8777263725077190879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8777263725077190879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2008/01/sneak-preview-of-ben-tours-underbelly.html' title='Sneak Preview of Ben Tour&apos;s &quot;Underbelly&quot;'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-3970765912799632966</id><published>2007-11-19T21:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-19T21:42:57.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Piece</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R0Jzntwqh9I/AAAAAAAAAAU/QytNeRDZ0yg/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R0Jzntwqh9I/AAAAAAAAAAU/QytNeRDZ0yg/s400/Picture+5.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134793651291588562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a new piece I've just recently finished. So loosely it was partly inspired by the whole italo disco movement/electro nu rave aesthetic/ really cheesey psychedelic 70s album cover art. No real concept..just eye candy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-3970765912799632966?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/3970765912799632966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=3970765912799632966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3970765912799632966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/3970765912799632966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-piece.html' title='New Piece'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/R0Jzntwqh9I/AAAAAAAAAAU/QytNeRDZ0yg/s72-c/Picture+5.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-8211183150858985909</id><published>2007-11-09T00:30:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-09T00:30:47.186-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Right Vs. Left</title><content type='html'>The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5687820,00.gif"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;kinda crazy but after some hard squinting I managed to get it to turn the opposite way.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS&lt;br&gt;uses logic&lt;br&gt;detail oriented&lt;br&gt;facts rule&lt;br&gt;words and language&lt;br&gt;present and past&lt;br&gt;math and science&lt;br&gt;can comprehend&lt;br&gt;knowing&lt;br&gt;acknowledges&lt;br&gt;order/pattern perception&lt;br&gt;knows object name&lt;br&gt;reality based&lt;br&gt;forms strategies&lt;br&gt;practical&lt;br&gt;safe  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS&lt;br&gt;uses feeling&lt;br&gt;"big picture" oriented&lt;br&gt;imagination rules&lt;br&gt;symbols and images&lt;br&gt;present and future&lt;br&gt;philosophy &amp; religion&lt;br&gt;can "get it" (i.e. meaning)&lt;br&gt;believes&lt;br&gt;appreciates&lt;br&gt;spatial perception&lt;br&gt;knows object function&lt;br&gt;fantasy based&lt;br&gt;presents possibilities&lt;br&gt;impetuous&lt;br&gt;risk taking&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-8211183150858985909?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/8211183150858985909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=8211183150858985909' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8211183150858985909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8211183150858985909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/11/right-vs-left.html' title='Right Vs. Left'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-4269287751866134266</id><published>2007-11-06T10:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T10:37:37.458-08:00</updated><title type='text'>sorry</title><content type='html'>this is so wrong yet so awesome at the same time. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i14.tinypic.com/2hfl079.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://i14.tinypic.com/2hfl079.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-4269287751866134266?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/4269287751866134266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=4269287751866134266' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4269287751866134266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4269287751866134266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/11/sorry.html' title='sorry'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i14.tinypic.com/2hfl079_th.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-4974335520305870571</id><published>2007-10-26T14:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T15:06:28.328-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tea Party</title><content type='html'>Some random person sent this weird creepy video to my email today. The email instructed me to watch it because it was about my life. It definitely got my attention...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="366"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wkO34IQ9aBE&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wkO34IQ9aBE&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="366"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-4974335520305870571?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/4974335520305870571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=4974335520305870571' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4974335520305870571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4974335520305870571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/10/tea-party.html' title='Tea Party'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-340200860544087089</id><published>2007-10-25T02:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T03:00:51.843-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I am not a DJ</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Top ten songs Oct 10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes I know generally top 10s are relegated to something DJs do but I’m tired of nerding out on music alone so I’m just going to shout it out to the universe and let it drift where it may. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Warning:&lt;/span&gt; these playlists are dance heavy but it’s what I’ve been obsessed with these days. If I were going to describe the stuff I’ve been getting into, I would definitely say it’s electronic based, heavy on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_rave" target="_blank"&gt;nu rave&lt;/a&gt; with some inclination towards minimal techno with trancey elements. I’m also digging the disco-y stuff and electro house stuff. ‘Cept that I’m wondering if maybe &lt;a href="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_disco"&gt;Italo Disco&lt;/a&gt; has reached it’s peak and is on it’s way out. I’m sure we can say that about nu rave as well &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_disco" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; although I’ll have to admit I'm not quite ready to end my love affair just yet. A little bit longer until after the holidays and then i'll end it. It'll be easier for the both of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out this &lt;a href="http://www.trashfashion.co.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;trash fashion&lt;/a&gt; video. I hope they are kidding. Two words: NATHAN BARLEY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bwIIBsV_AEk&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bwIIBsV_AEk&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok on to the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top 10 Oct songs&lt;/span&gt; (Goddam, this is hard)&lt;br /&gt;This is the Industry – Calvin Harris&lt;br /&gt;On Just Foot – Black Devil Disco Club&lt;br /&gt;Hadouken – Tuning in&lt;br /&gt;Mason vs. Princess Superstar– Perfect&lt;br /&gt;Fancy Footwork – Chromeo&lt;br /&gt;Self Loathing Rulz – Shout Out Out Out Out&lt;br /&gt;Flawless (Italo disco mix) - The Ones&lt;br /&gt;Casualties – Morgan Geist Remix&lt;br /&gt;Mighty Girl - Lindstrom and Prins Thomas &lt;br /&gt;the Party – Justice &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top 20 Aug/Sep songs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got this Down -  Simian Mobile Disco&lt;br /&gt;Bump – Secret Weapons&lt;br /&gt;Cobrastyle (Feat. Mad Cobra) -Teddybears&lt;br /&gt;Shake and Pop – Green Velvet&lt;br /&gt;The Djs Got a Gun – Robots in Disguise&lt;br /&gt;Booka Shade – Night Movements&lt;br /&gt;It’s the Beat – Simian Mobile Disco&lt;br /&gt;Aerodynamic – Daft Punk&lt;br /&gt;Pop the Glock (Sebastian remix)- Uffie&lt;br /&gt;In white rooms – Booka Shade&lt;br /&gt;Inspiration &gt; Competition – Shout Out Out Out Out&lt;br /&gt;Homecoming GNB XTC RMX 1996 – Teenagers&lt;br /&gt;Midnight Swim (Surkin Drowning Mix) - Para One&lt;br /&gt;Good As Gold (Morgan Geist Monophonic Mix) - Tiga&lt;br /&gt;Zdstarlight – Digitalism&lt;br /&gt;Fast Freeze – My My&lt;br /&gt;Punkrocker – Teddy Bears&lt;br /&gt;Ice Cream – New Young Pony Club&lt;br /&gt;Blacklight Sleaze – Peace Division&lt;br /&gt;Next Level Pope – Popular Computer&lt;br /&gt;Weird Science – Does it Offend You yea?  &lt;-for good measure)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Recent favorite albums&lt;/span&gt; (spring/summer/fall)&lt;br /&gt;Ratatat Remixes Vol. 2&lt;br /&gt;Justice - Cross&lt;br /&gt;Chromeo – Fancy Footwork&lt;br /&gt;Black Devil Disco Club – 28 After&lt;br /&gt;Lindstrom and Prins Thomas -  Self Titled&lt;br /&gt;The Emperor Machine – Vertical Tones &amp; Horizontal Noise&lt;br /&gt;Ellen Allien and Apparrat – Orchestra of Bubbles&lt;br /&gt;Morgan Geist - Unclassics&lt;br /&gt;Calvin Harris – I created Disco&lt;br /&gt;Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSound&lt;br /&gt;Fugiya Miyagi – Transparent Things&lt;br /&gt;I’m Not a Gun - We Think As Instruments-(TOWER&lt;br /&gt;Boris Brejcha - Die Maschinen Sind Gestrandet&lt;br /&gt;Rub N Tug – Fabric 30&lt;br /&gt;Spank Rock – Fabric 33&lt;br /&gt;Kitsune Maison Vol. 4&lt;br /&gt;Booka Shade – Movements&lt;br /&gt;Cocoon Compilation G&lt;br /&gt;Daft Punk – Musique Vol 1 1993 – 2005&lt;br /&gt;Simian Mobile Disco – Attack Decay Sustain Release&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One last thing. I will definitely be back on the indie tip soon. I can already sense the winds shifting...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-340200860544087089?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/340200860544087089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=340200860544087089' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/340200860544087089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/340200860544087089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-am-not-dj.html' title='I am not a DJ'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-8391692902045856</id><published>2007-10-24T16:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-24T16:59:13.931-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Oink Oink</title><content type='html'>Poor &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oink%27s_Pink_Palace"&gt;Oink.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/Rx_cC8-Qr1I/AAAAAAAAAAM/tC0dTp2lzZo/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/Rx_cC8-Qr1I/AAAAAAAAAAM/tC0dTp2lzZo/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125056844256030546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was going to post this up yesterday but was so busy i couldn't break away from the stuff I had to get done. Anyways, I had JUST gotten an invite to the account only recently and never got around to figuring out how to use it (got a laptop). Heard that shit was bomb and now it's gone. *sniff* Oh well, at least I knew about it's 15 mins thanks to my geek friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;RIP Oink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;10/23/07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read about it &lt;a href="http://torrentfreak.com/oinkcd-servers-raided-admin-arrested/" target="_blank"&gt;here. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-8391692902045856?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/8391692902045856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=8391692902045856' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8391692902045856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/8391692902045856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/10/oink-oink.html' title='Oink Oink'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ5i40UOSmc/Rx_cC8-Qr1I/AAAAAAAAAAM/tC0dTp2lzZo/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-2188741476320687398</id><published>2007-10-22T00:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-22T00:38:05.480-07:00</updated><title type='text'>fun stuff for the whole family</title><content type='html'>&lt;object enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" height="350" width="425" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/bL6CvI8qK40"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bL6CvI8qK40" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-2188741476320687398?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/2188741476320687398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=2188741476320687398' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/2188741476320687398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/2188741476320687398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/10/fun-stuff-for-whole-family.html' title='fun stuff for the whole family'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-6938225078184256527</id><published>2007-06-28T11:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T12:08:04.579-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Artshow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BFF&apos;s'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Designchick'/><title type='text'>Art</title><content type='html'>I know I shouldn't spoil the artshow by posting my new work before the unveiling but I've updated my &lt;a href="http://www.designchick.net" target="new"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; and  am also posting this for the benefit of those who won't be able to attend. You can see a preview here but for a more detailed view go to &lt;a href="http://www.designchick.net" target="new" &gt;designchick&lt;/a&gt;. Besides, this onscreen view isn't quite the same as seeing it in person since there's a lot of subtle detail lost in these scans. In addition to drawings there's new digital art I've added as well. So check it out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.designchick.net/illustrations.htm" target="new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.designchick.net/images/Compilation.jpg" width="350" height="350"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-6938225078184256527?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/6938225078184256527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=6938225078184256527' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6938225078184256527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/6938225078184256527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/06/ive-updated-my-website-with-new-art.html' title='Art'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-9014585840039000245</id><published>2007-06-25T11:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T11:30:30.041-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Space Gallery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Best Friends'/><title type='text'>BFF's</title><content type='html'>Hey Y'all, this week I'll be participating in a group show at Space Gallery running from June 25-29th. There's a closing reception on Friday that will be guaranteed F-U-N. Come out and show your support. In return I'll let you be my BFF for a day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:130%;color:red;"  &gt;BEST FRIENDS FOREVER&lt;br /&gt;Space Gallery&lt;br /&gt;1141 Polk St. SF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A fun and nostalgic approach to the subject of friendship, while acknowledging that best friends can also breed negative emotions such as jealousy, loneliness, pain and guilt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reception on Friday, June 29th 8:00 p.m. until late&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="300" height="450" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/lizao/BFFflyer.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Ian Bartholomew, Michael Braithwaite, Jen Corbett, Hoyt Fay, Maria Forde, Bradford Gregory, Shawn Gurczak, Jackie Keh, Lily Lin, Jamai Lowell, Jason Morgan, Jen Nedbalsky, Liza Oesterle, Juliette Oken, Lisa O'Reily, Primo Pitino, Travis Somerville, Billy Sprague, James Sterling Pitt, Hannah Stouffer, Joy Suthigoseeya, Michele Théberge, Amanda Thomason, Aiyana Udesen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-9014585840039000245?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/9014585840039000245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=9014585840039000245' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/9014585840039000245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/9014585840039000245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/06/bffs.html' title='BFF&apos;s'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-5790623269521584249</id><published>2007-06-10T23:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-10T23:11:57.789-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Life of a Blogger</title><content type='html'>There's a part of me that's scared that I'm going to turn into this guy. I like blogging way too much.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;object enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" height="350" width="425" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/uK6l2Sfb7I4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uK6l2Sfb7I4" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-5790623269521584249?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/5790623269521584249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=5790623269521584249' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/5790623269521584249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/5790623269521584249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/06/life-of-blogger.html' title='The Life of a Blogger'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-1327892479729372306</id><published>2007-06-01T15:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-02T21:03:35.114-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Capsule Design Festival or alternately: What I Did Last Sunday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.designchick.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.capsulesf.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Capsule&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; Sunday May, 27th 11am-6pm&lt;br /&gt;Hayes Valley&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Last Sunday was the semi-annual Capsule Design Festival in Hayes Valley. Usually street fairs are boring and lame no matter what the event is with the same tired vendors trying to push the same old shit. Generic art, ethnocentric wares, crafty goods, “unique” handcrafted jewelry, meat on sticks... you get the picture. Most times the only way to cope is to make a beeline for the beer stands and guzzle as much overpriced cheap beer as you can whilst cultivating that perfect white trash sunburn. AND if your anything like me and let’s hope you’re not, the way it inevitably turns out is that during some moment of beer soaked euphoria, you are charmed by a treasurable find and return home with a souvenir that ends up being thrown into a box under the bed labeled “Duped Again.” &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Well, this one was different. There was no food. No beer. No sun.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;No fun you must say?! On the contrary, it was actually quite nice. It was far from your typical craft fair and to call it that would probably be an insult to all parties involved. Nope, it was a design festival with artist backgrounds ranging from fashion, textiles, and apparel, to jewelry, art, print, housewares and even make-up! All pretty cool! I attended curious to see what our local design community had to offer and discovered some talented folks in the mix.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Here is my day in photos...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/1-IMG_5350.jpg" alt="1-IMG_5350.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/2-IMG_5353.jpg" alt="2-IMG_5353.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Follow the designy looking people.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/3-IMG_5368.jpg" alt="3-IMG_5368.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/3-IMG_5439.jpg" alt="3-IMG_5439.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I went to the festival alone with the idea in mind that I’d run into people I would know. Lo and behold one of the very 1st tables I visited was ran by Dan and my friend Seanie. For a respectable sized city, SF never fails to disappoint in reminding you how small it really is. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/4-IMG_5438.jpg" alt="4-IMG_5438.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;His design company is called &lt;a href="http://www.spookyvutron.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Spooky Vutron.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/5-IMG_5443.jpg" alt="5-IMG_5443.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;p&gt;These gals screenprinted canvas messenger bags. I knew I shouldn’t have waited 5 days to post this. I done forgot their names. :P But I do have their website! &lt;a href="http://www.ladypom.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Ladypom.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/6-IMG_5373.jpg" alt="6-IMG_5373.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/7-IMG_5380.jpg" alt="7-IMG_5380.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is Rebecca. I chatted her up because I really liked the stuff she had. Her boyfriend &lt;a href="http://57thirtythree.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;James &lt;/a&gt;designed the Tshirts and she created the bags and pencil cases. Some of the T-shirts were even hand stenciled. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/8-IMG_5381.jpg" alt="8-IMG_5381.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Each individual pencil case has original artwork (&lt;a href="http://www.designsbylolo.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Loretta Nguyen&lt;/a&gt;) drawn directly on the material making each piece unique. Super cute!&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/9-IMG_5382.jpg" alt="9-IMG_5382.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Cross your eyes and stare really hard. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/10-IMG_5383.jpg" alt="10-IMG_5383.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Just kidding. That doesn’t do anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squink.us/" target="_blank"&gt;Squink Industries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/11-IMG_5389.jpg" alt="11-IMG_5389.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Another run-in. Unless you are a certified hermit, you live here long enough and you run into everybody and their mother! This is Alex and Danielle. I used to work with Alex at the worst company ever to taint SF’s gracious soil. They ran their company like Hitler ran Germany. Except without the genocide. Or the moderate success of running a well oiled nazi regime. Or blind adoration from their minions. Or… Ok, point is they sucked. Many &lt;a href="http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/" target="_blank"&gt;TV shows&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.bullshitjob.com/officespace/" target="_blank"&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt; have been inspired by &lt;a href="http://www.bigrockcabin.com/BigRockPhotoGallery_files/images/13Campsite%20Outhouse.gif" target="_blank"&gt;crapholes&lt;/a&gt; like them. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/12-IMG_5398.jpg" alt="12-IMG_5398.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/13-IMG_5400.jpg" alt="13-IMG_5400.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Live painting by &lt;a href="http://http//www.pacificartcollective.com" target="_blank"&gt; Pacific Art Collective.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/14-IMG_5401.jpg" alt="14-IMG_5401.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;And here is Alyssa and Rannie. They’re designers too! They do stuff for Readymade magazine.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/15-IMG_5424.jpg" alt="15-IMG_5424.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;AWWWW YEAAA, BUCKET O’BELTS!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/16-IMG_5408.jpg" alt="16-IMG_5408.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href="http://www.katedurkin.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kate.&lt;/a&gt; She’s an artist/designer that ran a really sweet table with her own embroidered bags and cards. She says she checks fecal face everyday. Need I say more? She knows the dealio!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/17-IMG_5407.jpg" alt="17-IMG_5407.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Like what you see? &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/18-IMG_5406.jpg" alt="18-IMG_5406.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Go &lt;a href="http://www.katedurkin.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/19-IMG_5410.jpg" alt="19-IMG_5410.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Stuff.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/20-IMG_5411.jpg" alt="20-IMG_5411.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I passed by this table eyeing these sweet treats hoping they were “enhanced.” Sadly, they weren’t. Silly me. Where’d I think I was? San Francisco? &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/21-IMG_5419.jpg" alt="21-IMG_5419.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is David. I really dug his artwork so I asked for his business card and his title said Bounty Hunter in big bold red letters. When I asked him if that was for real he said no.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/capsule_design_festival_emor_alternativelyem_what_i_did_last_sundayp/22-IMG_5421.jpg" alt="22-IMG_5421.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/24-IMG_5416.jpg" alt="24-IMG_5416.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href="http://www.fundamentaladornment.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Ashley.&lt;/a&gt; She created these cool earrings using her own original photography documented from her personal experiences.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/23-IMG_5418.jpg" alt="23-IMG_5418.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Learn more about her earrings &lt;a href="http//fundamentaladornment.typepad.com/fundamental_adornment/2007/05/mama_earrings.html" target="_blank"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/25-IMG_5425.jpg" alt="25-IMG_5425.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/26-IMG_5428.jpg" alt="26-IMG_5428.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I had no clue this cool boutique existed until that day, even though according to my friends it’s been there for a while. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;…there goes my deluded sense of self.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/27-IMG_5429.jpg" alt="27-IMG_5429.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/28-IMG_5432.jpg" alt="28-IMG_5432.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is Henry. He sells deconstructed Tshirts that he designed the screenprints for. He was very friendly and super cool and spent some time explaining to me how screenprinting wasn’t enough for him and how he wanted to lend his shirts some originality by deconstructing them. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/29-IMG_5433.jpg" alt="29-IMG_5433.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Right about this time is when my camera battery died with still one more block to cover. I considered calling it a day but instead decided I might as well go through the trouble to make the quick jaunt home for a recharge and then come back. How’s that for dedication?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Capsule Design Festival, Part II. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/30-IMG_5469.jpg" alt="30-IMG_5469.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This lovely lady’s name is &lt;a href="http://www.hilarysdolls.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Hilary&lt;/a&gt; and she designs handmade dolls. They are definitely one of a kind.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/31-IMG_5475.jpg" alt="31-IMG_5475.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My  fourth failed attempt to get little guy Lily to look at the camera. Gosh darn sweet stupid! Who’s a good puppy??&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/32-IMG_5446.jpg" alt="32-IMG_5446.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/33-IMG_5457.jpg" alt="33-IMG_5457.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squaresix.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Square six.&lt;/a&gt; The “Rock On” card tickles my funny bone. &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/34-IMG_5459.jpg" alt="34-IMG_5459.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;p&gt;buttons, buttons, &lt;a href="http://www.Vividotonline.com" target="_blank"&gt;BUTTONS!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/35-IMG_5461.jpg" alt="35-IMG_5461.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/36-IMG_5452.jpg" alt="36-IMG_5452.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/37-IMG_5462.jpg" alt="37-IMG_5462.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Meet the talented &lt;a href="http://www.grandarray.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Hannah&lt;/a&gt;.  She is a graphic designer/illustrator whose done work with &lt;a href="http://www.ordinarykids.com" target="_blank"&gt;Ordinary Kids&lt;/a&gt; as well as other notable clients. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/38-IMG_5463.jpg" alt="38-IMG_5463.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Love her stuff. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fecalface.com/content/upload/2007/06/39-IMG_5464.jpg" alt="39-IMG_5464.jpg" height="300" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Whelp, this concludes my photo documentation. There were 140 designers set up and obviously I hardly covered a quarter of them but I hope that it’s enough to give you a little taste of what to expect for this event. Be sure to check it out when they set up their next one in the fall. Ok, bye bye. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-1327892479729372306?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/1327892479729372306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/1327892479729372306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/06/capsule-design-festival-or-alternately.html' title='Capsule Design Festival or alternately:&lt;em&gt; What I Did Last Sunday&lt;/em&gt;'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-648615869858506942</id><published>2007-05-27T23:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-28T00:31:42.685-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Start of Something New</title><content type='html'>So I've been considering starting a new blog. A photoblog in fact. To be used as an outlet for my own artistic impulses. I have a blog on myspace and livejournal and could very well post there, but I've been feeling like doing something a little more serious with focus on subject matter thats not so personal. I finally settled on blogspot considering this seems like the most legitimate blog site out there. Who knows though, since in truth I don't browse other blogs unless I've been directed to a person's page from alternate links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Truthfully, I'm not really sure what is going to change. I write when the mood strikes and don't have any solid plans for how much time I'm going to put into this thing. I'm not looking to become a fulltime blogger nor am I trying to create a name for myself through blogging. The simple fact is I'm more interested in forcing myself into a habit that's going to nurture my writing and photography skills. I'm not  even sure about how I'm going to fit time into writing for this. As it is, with freelance work, personal art projects, interning for fecal face, and the maintenance of a somewhat demanding social life, I have little time for anything else. But I am motivated so we'll see how it goes. For now, this will be used as an artistic playground. So that's that. Not much more to say about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next few days I'll be posting a photoblog on the Spring Capsule Design Festival that took place in Hayes Valley this memorial day weekend. Stay tuned for more!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-648615869858506942?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/648615869858506942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=648615869858506942' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/648615869858506942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/648615869858506942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/05/start-of-something-new.html' title='The Start of Something New'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308291417672564519.post-4510163615921557652</id><published>2007-02-13T17:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-13T17:59:53.857-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bloggity blog blog</title><content type='html'>Yet another one of these. I suppose I'll have to start moving old posts over sometime.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/308291417672564519-4510163615921557652?l=designchickadee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/feeds/4510163615921557652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=308291417672564519&amp;postID=4510163615921557652' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4510163615921557652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/308291417672564519/posts/default/4510163615921557652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://designchickadee.blogspot.com/2007/02/bloggity-blog-blog.html' title='Bloggity blog blog'/><author><name>designchick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00360114886450900691</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/483621445_b4a7255577.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
