HAHAHA...sigh :(

----- Piotrowski Sandwich Book -----

Ridiculously useless but ridiculously awesome. Brilliant piece that reminds me of livre d'objet.

----- We're A Constant Walking Cliché -----

What I mean by that is us, being in our twenties, constantly bombarded by the same stereotypes that define us as the twenty-somethings. Constant worriers. Constant undeciders. Constant party-ers. Constant whiners. And this list called Twenty Something Ways to You're Twenty-Something is the perfect corroboration. (i highlighted the ones I relate)

Twenty something ways to know you’re twenty something

1)      There is a nagging suspicion in your brain that there’s something missing. Not missing as in “Shit I lost my cell phone.” But missing as in, you wake up in the morning not really sure of your path in life, if this is really what you want to do, and if this perpetual hangover is really how life is supposed to feel.

2)      Your finances are constantly subject to new “budgeting” attempts, new excel spreadsheets, new financial plans, and yet never really seem to accumulate as quickly as your friends say theirs do.

3)      Your friends’ jobs are all better than yours

4)      Your friends’ apartments are all better than yours.

5)      If you’re single you are worried you’ll die alone, if you’re in a relationship you’re constantly worried if “this is the one” and otherwise you’re newly engaged and everyone else is jealous but you’re worried about becoming a divorce statistic. Really though, everyone just lives with each other.

6)      One night stands seem way less appealing than they did approximately 15 months ago and you’re not sure what changed (except your unexpected new devotion to hygiene).

7)      Your hangovers last 3 days, but you love dark and dingy bars. They make you feel artistic.

8)      Your hangovers are no longer just a headache but defined by ‘booze blues’ and ‘shameover’ symptoms (re: what am I doing with my life?!; oh my god why did I drink so much?;) and losing your wallet/phone/coat/pride no longer seems as funny as it did when you were 20. You find yourself staring teary-eyed into the mirror at your smudged eyeliner wondering if this is really what you should be doing with your time. Then you slowly, and quietly whispering, start singing yourself a Celine Dion song.

9)      Suddenly staying home with a bottle of cheap vino, a blanket, a tear jerker, and your cat seem a substantially better way to spend your Saturday nights then standing in line waiting to spend $100.

10)   Oh yah, now you stand in line because bouncers don’t find 20-somethings as attractive as just-turned-19’s.

11)   Your head suddenly feels crammed with numbers:

a)      Cell phone bills

b)      Student debt payments

c)       Monthly income

d)      Booze costs

e)      Coffee costs

f)       How many centuries it will take to afford a house

g)      Etc.,

12)   You remember a simpler time.  It included such heart-warming and moral shows as Breaker High, Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince, CITY Guys, Wishbone, Ghost Writer, Captain Planet, and the Smoggies. A major part of you suspects that your morals and values were shaped by the lessons in these cartoons.  Another major part of you suspects the lack of morality in youth these days stems from their inability to watch the same programming you did.

13)   You have thoughts that start with, “Kids these days… When I was a teen… In my day…. When I was younger…” and other such statements you never thought would come out of your mouth.

14)   You start parenting your parents.

15)   You remember a time before the internet.  You remember when your family got its first computer. You remember, “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?,” “Encyclopedia Britannica on CD-ROM,” and the first Apple computer on the block.  You also remember the evolution of social media because you were there for it all.  BBS – ICQ – MSN - Yahoo Chat – Forums – Chatrooms – Email – Facebook – Perez – Twitter – Blogs - ?

16)   You find yourself sad sometimes because you actually feel like the Internet’s become a bad place.

17)   Everything is solved by brunch. 20-somethings love brunch. Post-break-up brunch, post-night-out brunch, before-flea-market brunch, before-shopping brunch, happy brunch, birthday brunch, gossip brunch, ‘wanna go to brunch and catch up’ brunch?

18)   Time goes by quicker than ever before, for an unknown reason, and the more you try to slow it down the faster it goes.

19)   Going travelling versus paying off your student loan versus buying property is a serious legitimate conversation in your head. Backpacking is as legitimate a rite of passage as college/university.

20)   You have a niggling suspicion that someone lied to you and that your twenties are not the huge party previously assumed.

21)   You are also starting to suspect that the rumours going around about your thirties being the REAL party are just a ruse to get you through your twenties.

22)   You’re favorite saying is, “What am I going to do with my life?” This is usually followed by self-assuring statements that you’ve done a lot more than most people, you’ve got memories if not experience, and that’s really all that matters in the end because YOU won’t have regrets.

23)   You find yourself making lists more often because your forget more things: to-do lists are your new bible.

24)   There’s something about HBO shows, like unreal shows that seem real, and you HAVE to watch them every week.  This is especially true if the shows involve vampires, drug dealing moms, drug making teachers, doctors, or police/fire fighters.

25)  You suddenly understand what people meant by, “Generation Why.

That's a lot of orange highlighter... à la sigh.

----- I'm a Hipster! ----- 

Cardigan? check. Blouse? check. Brown trousers? check. Oxford shoes? need.

 this cute game is addictive for a bit. so do i find myself to be dressed like a hipster? what does hipster mean anyway nowadays, it the most overused word to the point that its meaning means as much as saying "weird", "different" ,"artsy" ,"pretentious". sometimes, the word can be confused for "fashionable". that's my view.

Source

----- Cartoons in Legos -----

Can you guess?

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----- Comic Without Sans! -----

What if Comic Sans took over logos?

For those readers who don't speak French — but, seriously who is even reading my blog— 'sans' in French mean 'without'; in type, it means without serif, which are the little stroke in the letters. In my world, Comic Sans is ironically named because we really can go "without" it. I remember in my childhood days, when home desktop computers were happening, Comic Sans was kind of cool because honestly there wasn't much to offer in the font book. Now it has become the world's most hated font. There are so many jokes, mockery and essays against it (there is even a ban comic sans group); the reason? Comin Sans is like an indirect, kick in the groin insult to typographers. The time it takes to design a set of typeface is so strenuous and detailed, accurate and planned, the job is not haphazard, and it is what Comic Sans look like: a lazy, child job. We have no excuse now for lazy-looking fonts; yesteryear, we didn't have many fonts to begin with; todayyear, floods of excellent, I-could-cry-because-it's-so-beautiful fonts bombard our repertoire, and hand-written font look less lazy.

Comic Sans, designed by Vincent Connare, was modeled after comic books (no way!), and introduced it in Windows 95 (ah, the good old days). Connare, while on job, discovered the wrong use of Time News Roman in a software that is meant to be casual, Times News Roman seemed too serious. Thus he created the softer font with curves. Initially the results were positive, like I said, there weren't anything similar back then. Type was not not a priority at offices and homes, people never thought emotions can be projected through the choice of font.

Office workers unfortunately still use it, probably to send spam mail to each other (remember the crazy ones telling you must send it to 20 friends else you will have no love life, IN COMIC SANS). To me, Comic Sans cannot be used for text due to its lack of readability, and be seldom used as header. Children is probably the only exception; though there are much better suited fonts today.

Time to waste? Youtube: comic sans.

I'm Comic Sans, Asshole from joehollier on Vimeo.

BBC Article
Ban Comic Sans