i know these people!!

this is the first time this has ever happened to me. i actually know the people in an internet meme! i went to mizzou with the happy couple and a bunch of their groomsmen and bridesmaids. incredible! what a great song!

I love Miranda July

Miranda July does everything and she does everything cool-ly. Here's a review/interview with her about herself and her installation/performance at the Venice Biennale. Here she is interviewed by Dave Eggers:

"Dave Eggers: As someone who works in different media, when you see or hear something you think you might work into an artwork of some kind, do you automatically know which medium it’s destined for?

Miranda July: Usually I do. I write down the idea in my notebook, and then I put a little letter in the corner of the page in a circle. S for story, N for novel, M for movie, A for art, P for performance, B for business. This makes me sound totally rigid. I am also lots of fun! Totally wild! Party!"

...and Khaela Maricich:

"Khaela Maricich: What is something that you have learned during the past 10 years?
July: I at least got a toehold on how to fight. The kind of fighting where I listen. I don’t agree, but I listen. And, like it or not, listening changes you"

I love her. If you get the chance, check out the article and look through the slideshow of her installation. There's one where there are three podiums that say "Guilty," "Guiltier," and "Guiltiest."

Interview Magazine: "Miranda July"

Dr. William Li's list of antiangiogenic foods

from the TED talk: "William Li: Can We Eat To Starve Cancer?"

heavenly

(etsy: timlaursen) via urbanoutfitters blog

freckles

(Jakandjil)

I love freckles. I'm so glad mine are coming back. The ones on the knees are the best.

Halo

(link)
"The word “glory” – the word which has to bear the weight of holding those “impressed forces” – is a stranger in current speech, and our first duty is to seek out its equivalent in working English. It suggests at first a radiance of some kind, something dazzling or glittering, some halo such as the old masters loved to paint round the heads of their Ecce Homos. But that is paint, mere matter, the visible symbol of some unseen thing. What is that unseen thing? It is that of all unseen things the most radiant, the most beautiful, the most Divine, and that is Character. On earth, in Heaven, there is nothing so great, so glorious as this." - Henry Drummond, "The Changed Life" (link)

Rembrandt - "The Flight Into Egypt"

This is an example of an artist taking characters from the Bible and placing them in his contemporary context. Mary and Joseph look like Dutch peasants. This is from the class i'm taking right now - "Women of the New Testament" with Jerram Barrs