Friends Hang Out Together

I think anyone who knows me knows that I think Valentine's Day is a pretty lame holiday. Its a day full of pretty stupid expectations. If you love someone, why don't you show them that every day? Why do you have to cram it all in on one hallmark holiday? Isn't that what anniversaries are for anyway???

In college I used to give my closest single friends a single spring flower as a token of my feelings for them - and so they had something to carry around school and not feel so bad about being single (because lets face it Singles Awareness Day is a sort of ugly spin on Valentine's Day).

This year I offer you the following amusing cartoon for friends on Valentine's Day from James Stowe::

There are 5 more (one from each episode) at his blog at the link above!

Cats go "Bing!"

So a bunch of us went to see Eddie Izzard's Stripped Too: The Intimacy Tour on Saturday night in LA - and can I just say: FANTABULOUS!

First off - I <3 Eddie. He's hilarious, intelligent (even if crap does come out of his mouth sometime), and seems like a pretty good natured guy. I've been a fan of his for a while, but this was the first time I got to see him live and it was totally worth the wait.

Also - before the show and during the intermission you can tweet Eddie and his twitter page shows up on screens on the stage - mine made it up - which was kind of cool.

Here is a little taste of the show (clips are from youtube, not me - we were sitting in the loge):

Photos from Death Valley

Got a few photos from Death Valley posted on Flickr, including this montage: 

Been super busy lately, and haven't really had a chance/had anything important to write about.

Haiti Destruction Mapping

If you're like me and like maps then you might find this one interesting. Its a destruction map of Port-Au-Prince.

Do yourself a favor and check out The Guardian's post for an interactive experience with the map.

Art Takes

My friend E has started this fantastic  collaborative art blog called Art Takes. Each week she gives her readers a theme and at the end of the week she posts all of the submissions. As an artist you interpret the theme and choose your own medium - its really fun, and this week I submitted my second piece for the theme Portrait of the Artist. I've been using it to get myself out and take goal oriented photographs, which I've never actually done before (I'm more of a documenter than an artist when it comes to photography). My previous post was for Night. I do want to branch out and use different types of media, and I think that this week's theme of Maps will help me to do so.

Check it out!