Lo-fi Shots

As promised, these are two shots (of the four total) that actually developed off my recent roll of film discovered in my toy camera. The first shot is an old shot of our dog Marley. The other shot is one I took recently to try to finish off the roll. It's a tree in our apartment parking lot. So what do you think?

B&G Helioflex 3000T

B&G Helioflex 3000T
Originally uploaded by crume

Since I feel like I have been in a super artsy mood lately... I decided to dig up a camera I received for as a birthday gift a long time ago! I discovered I am the proud owner of a lo-fi camera, a Benz Gant Helioflex 3000T! I can't wait to play with it! It even has some old film in it.. I can't imagine what is on it. I promise to post once I develop anything good with it.

Footsie :-)

Woke up too early this morning and didn't know what to do with myself. I decided to wake up with a pedicure! First I used a fizzie mint thing in hot water, then mint foot scrub, then lotion, and then I put on these sweet socks. My feet are glad I did :)

It's that time of year...

.. for giveaways!!! I love free things :) Christy Hydeck is having 29 days of giving on her blog, Art by Chrysti. She is giving away some amazing stuff, including a free membership to a Suzi Blu workshop!! What are you waiting for? Go enter now!!


P.S. This post also enters me in one of her fabulous giveaways for a $100 gift certificate to her online store!

Do-it-yourself

I went to NC for Thanksgiving and on Black Friday Dee and my mom and I hit all the craft stores in town! We found some good bargains and then did some crafting. We looked for sketchbooks to use as journals, but in the end decided to make our own with watercolor paper. Here's mine:

Cutest Store

Frankly Basic - clutches
Originally uploaded by SweetNee

This store has the cutest stuff ever. Even better, they have cute and free desktop wallpapers! If you are like me, You get bored easily with your background and are always looking for the next best thing.

Check it out!

Knit Graffiti

Knitta in Paris
Originally uploaded by knittaplease

Heard of Knit Graffiti? Check out more photos here.

Artist

Ok, I first must confess that I am avoiding doing homework. One of my assignments was to write up a diversity movie the class had to watch. The movie we were required to watch was really quite good. It was also inspiring. This clip sums it up well:

I got tagged!

I got tagged by Katie (aka Mixing-Katie). It's a blogging game! You tag someone, they make a post with six snippets about themselves, and then they tag 6 more people. Six things about me:

1. I love clearance shopping, I can spot a clearance sticker a mile away.
2. I hate homework (and will one day be assigning it).
3. I am addicted to music, especially making the coolest play-lists ever.
4. I just spilled an industrial size of Dawn in the trunk of my car.
5. I check Post Secret every week.
6. I shy away from telling people about my mail art addiction.

Finally!!

I finally scanned all of the cards in my altered playing card deck! (just a little prodding was needed...) Here they are, linked to Flickr where all the artist info is in notes:

I missed you, Ugly Betty!

I am so excited to be reunited with one of my favorite tv shows, Ugly Betty. I was exploring the official Ugly Betty website and found the new original web series 'Mode After Hours.' It stars Marc and Amanda from Ugly Betty. It is hilarious! I insist you check it out!

Aw, Juicy!

I have no clue what this song is about, but it is now stuck in my head...

Bad days & Good days

its been a bad day
Originally uploaded by dynamicdee - an official 365 failure!

I had a rough couple of days this week. I was just physically and mentally exhausted. But then my luck seemed to change... When I got home I had a HUGE box of goodies waiting for me! It changed my whole mood. How lucky that a friend sent a generous gift that arrived just when I needed it! The next day was great too, I had two of my favorite shows waiting on the DVR for me- Ugly Betty and the Cho Show.

THANK YOU KATIE!!!

Working Out Playlist

Don't Exercise Too Hard!
Originally uploaded by Legolam

Exercising seems to be my new 'thing.' I'm religious about doing it three times a week while I am at school. This is actually the first time in my life I've done anything about my fitness. The one thing that keeps me motivated to push myself a little further every time in my cardio is my workout music. So I thought I would share my motivating music:

Song title- artist
Bojangles [Remix]- Pitbull
Call On Me- Eric Prydz
Pile of Gold- The Blow
Hit That- M.I.A.
Lose My Waters of Naza(b)reath- The Hood Internet (download it free here)

Project Runway

Speaking of Project Runway, season five has been a blast so far! I love the difficult challenges with crazy materials, so last week's episode with the car parts was super fun to watch for me. It was really impressive how some of the designers used the unusual items to create clothes.

After watching so many episodes of the show (and watching lots of reality tv in general), it does seem like there are some patterns. If someone isn't given much screen time, they're probably safe. When there is a lot of time devoted to one person, that person is probably at risk of going home (or the producers want us to THINK that the person is going home). So when Keith got lots of time to talk to the camera, I thought it was a clue that he was gonna get Auf'd. I wonder if this will hold true next week...

Fashion

Watching the first episode of the Cho Show I was excited to see Jeffrey Sebelia make an appearance. He was the winner of Project Runway Season 3. Margaret wore one of his dresses to accept the Korean of the Year Award. Katie and I are obsessed with Project Runway! If you haven't watched it you can catch the latest episodes, including the most recent drag queen challenge, on Bravo or Youtube now!

Teachers

As usual, on the first day of class I am always in the Graduate Office over some mixup. I was ticked off from walking back and forth on campus in this horrendous heat and humidity, but was caught off guard when my fourth grade teacher greeted me! She actually remembered me and I remembered her! She was a pretty cool teacher. Mrs. Singletary actually taught both me and Katie in elementary school. She now works in the Graduate Office recruiting teachers to get their Masters Degree. That made my day! :)

Cho Show

Speaking of celebrities I love, Katie informed me Margaret Cho has a new show on VH1. Margaret makes me laugh with her raw, truthful humor. I checked out the supertrailer and the show promises to keep it real. Check it out for yourself:

• VH1 TV Shows
• Music Videos
• Celebrity Photos
• News & Gossip

Funky Hair

When we were in middle school together, Dee always had the coolest hair. She put in blue streaks, dyed it all glo-orange, and a whole bunch of other colors, too. I thought it looked great, but I never tried anything like that myself.

Well, lately I've been thinking about dyeing my hair pink. I'm not sure why the desire came now, but I've been thinking about it since at least March when I made this ATC with colored pencil:






I finally did it! I decided that my hair was short enough that any disaster would grow out quickly. The in-between step when my hair was bleached but not yet pink was scary, but now it's pleasantly pink :)

Smashing Pumpkins Concert

I'm going to see the Smashing Pumpkin perform this weekend in Charlottesville, VA!!! I am so excited! Billy Corgan has been on my mind ever since I made 3 ATCs of him. Now I get to see him in person (granted from a distance). This will be my fourth time seeing the band in concert. The first time was with Katie and my mom!

UPDATE: the concert was awesome! the set list included both new and old pumpkins songs. Billy, as usual, put on a great show and rocked it out. that man is amazing with a distortion pedal! you can check out some concert footage here.

Make It Mondays

Yellow Billy
Originally uploaded by addicted2shopping

Katie has not only gotten my hooked on making Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) but now to 'Make it Mondays,' which is essentially a site that challenges you to make something on a particular theme every week. The theme this week was the color yellow. I was also inspired to make this card because of a musicians portrait swap that Katie and I both joined. Billy Corgan is my favorite artist of all time, so I decided to keep this card all to myself :)

Audrey Hepburn Art

Audrey Art
Originally uploaded by addicted2shopping

I couldn't help myself when I spotted these beauties at one of my favorite boutique stores (Cat Banjo in Raleigh, NC). The are spray painted pictures of Audrey on vinyl albums. They are signed by the artist, Garrett Gregory, and numbered. I couldn't resist the $20 price tag and bought two! Then luckily I found the album frames on sale at Michael's for $5 each. These are definitely great finds for an Audrey obsessed person like myself.

Welcome to Two Brains

Welcome to Two Brains! This blog is a collaboration between two childhood best friends that now live 687 miles apart (according to google maps). For years we have had the same interests or pushed the same interests on each other. So in this blog, we hope to make the distance seem shorter by sharing things that interest us yet again. Expect posts about art projects, music tastes, shopping purchases, and everything else two intelligent twenty-something women love to talk about!
Oh, and in case you are wondering about the blog title, here is the back story: one day one of our mother's convinced us we should start a T-shirt company. So we spent an entire afternoon trying to think of the coolest name for the company (mind you we were in middle school at the time). We were both top of our class throughout grade school, so we like to think we are pretty smart! So we decided Two Brains we would be the best name. We never started a T-shirt company, but I think this blog is the next best thing!