Quake of the Cans

A bunch of really talented people got together recently for the QUAKE OF THE CANS paint-in - a mega graffiti jam session - and turned this big ol' grey wall into something I cannot even describe. If you want to check this thing out, it's on Douglas Street, Victoria B.C. at the fifty fifty art gallery.

As my bus goes right past this wall every day, and I may or may not know some of the people who painted at this thing, AND I love a good photo op, of course I had to stop by and take some photos. Unfortunately I had to work while this was going on...

(photo stolen from my pal Cody's facebook page)

But I did manage to stop by the next day while the scaffolding was still in place, and snap like a hundred photos of the finished product.

Big grey wall before... (taken from the bus window as I was going by)

...and after!

I took ninety something more pics that day, you can probably expect to see them all soon.

diptych: yard plants

Retracting my previous statement.

The other day when I mentioned that some pretty roses just basically magically appeared in our front yard after I said something about liking two-tone roses...well that was only my side of the story. Ryan was all bummed that I made it sound like he just ran out to the full-grown-roses store or something. The truth is, he's been working on our front little garden for weeks.

And to my unobservant brown-thumbed self, it was like magic. All of a sudden, one day pretty roses were everywhere. Because I don't really even know what's involved in making a rose survive.

I'd like to apologise to you, mister Ryan, for not recognizing all the hard work you put into the yard.

Just so you all know how crazy beautiful these flowers are, I didn't do anything to the pictures. No cropping, no color saturation tricks, nothing. They look surreal when you're walking up to our house, like somebody colored on them with hi-lighters or something.

Look what Ryan grew!

Tumblr'n around

I can't get over the amount of pretty pretty and weird things I come across daily on Tumblr. It really is fantastic. Here are some of my faves. If you want to know the original source, join the club. Tumblr is just a thousand million people stealing from other people...if one of these is yours, please let me know. Because it's awesome, and I'll totally give you credit, take it down and/or feature you on my blog.

I may have said this before, but I feel like people's Tumblr accounts are like little glimpses into their psyche. It's a weird thing, I've inadvertently begun following a few people who are 14-16 years old and man they are cuh-ray-zee. Even on the internet. Or especially on the internet. And they constantly seem to be getting messages from anonymous people telling them they should kill themselves and they're fat and ugly and stupid and have no friends and in the same paragraph "Did I see you at the mall with so and so? He's so cute." So basically it's also a window back into the hell that is high-school. Goddamn teenagers are so weird and dramatic!

Do you have a Tumblr account? You should make one if you don't. And then tell me about it. I'd be curious to see what the inside of your brain looks like. :)