Here I am

I will catch up on blogging.
I will catch up on sleep.
I will enjoy every minute.
I will solve a scientific problem (no matter how minor).
I will look, listen, record, and absorb everything. everything!

But for now I have more pressing needs, like groceries and shampoo. Thanks for being patient. Till then, here's a piece of KillTaupe's drawing a day project. It was so great to meet him! Plus, I love the drawing-a-day obsessiveness. After giving myself the week off, maybe I'll be inspired and try to make a (very small, simple) book a week for the next ten weeks.

for the love of

for the love of PANTONE: just try to NOT want these

Pantone bicycle bag
thanks, designapplause
to go with your Pantone Bike

Pantone Rubix cube (Rubitone concept pieceby Ignacio Pilotto)

and the Pantone HOTEL in Brussels!


for the love of TRAVEL:
I've been daydreaming about traveling around the globe. Brussels ranks high on my list, and this new Pantone Hotel has moved it up a notch. In a perfect world, we could start by visiting colleagues in Prague (ahoj Alena a Petr!), take the overnight to Belgium to explore for a few days and staying in the Pantone Hotel, take the Eurail to stay at the Fox Hotel in Denmark, followed by Tim's dream-vacation in Sweden.

for the love of SWEDEN (goals):
Eat at a smorgasbord with only white-colored foods
Learn the differences (and names) of each of Stockholm's 14 islands
Find Tim's extended family/eat their food
Hike the Kungsleden trail
Buy beautiful, nerdy sweaters

thanks, knitting iris (flickr)

like a monkey with a miniature symbol

Wow.
I should be (and am, slowly) working on this:

but instead have been focusing on this^

 I am so immeasurably excited to begin, so blinded by reluctance to leave what's good, and so wishing for more (time, space, lung capacity). There is so much to be discovered, so much to be written, and so much to be thought.

Tomorrow Tuesday (completely forgot that long weekend = no USPS) I'm shipping out my dearest belongings and praying they reach NYC before I do. I booked my train ticket yesterday to Rochester (yay for visiting friends!) and my ticket that will drop me in the middle of hectic, beautiful, adventure-filled New York City. I'm even budgeting out my stipend with major expenses in an attempt to keep some semblance of control on my impending city-induced money crunch.

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In the mean time, I want to share my love of and obsession with Eva Hesse's work. Partially a response to the impersonal nature of Minimalism, Hesse's work is soft, noncube, organic, and beautiful. As soon as I saw her work, I loved it. I felt immediately connected to it, enraptured by it, taken in by it. Then I saw one in person last summer at the MoMA. I just walked around a corner and it was THERE. Staring me in the face. The happiest surprise of the day (though seeing my first Rothko came in at a close second, but that was expected, planned, and this was not). 

(thanks, newsgrist.typepad)

I hope you enjoy her work, too. And please. Go see it in person. Now.