14 posts from April 2009

FLICKR and The WHITE HOUSE

Apr 30, 2009
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P042409PS-0122, originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream.

Obama is the ultimate social networker. I LOVE that he has a flickr account for the White House. The only ISSUE I have is this: will the photos only reflect the good times or will they be an honest look even in the bad times, the unruly stuff that sometimes won't make you look like the angel? Only time will tell I guess.

The caption for this image reads as follows:
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden practice their putting on the White House putting green April 24, 2009. Official White House

what 4 hours of cycling will do to a person

Apr 26, 2009
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what 4 hours of cycling will do to a person, originally uploaded by SOFTSERVEGIRL.

post cycling nap had me dreaming of peanut butter cookies. woke up and made a batch!

"GAY" is not "DOPE"

Apr 24, 2009
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On Anderson Cooper's 360 blog he reported on a story of a young boy who hung himself after bullies continued to call him GAY and "the virgin." In the comments section I noticed a "mother" had written a comment about the use of the word GAY in terms of meaning DOPE or COOL, and I couldn't help myself... The mother's comment was ignorant on all fronts. I just had to say something!

Cake Pops???

Apr 23, 2009
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There's a MONKEY on my BACK!

Apr 21, 2009
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my dog aspires to work at the circus.

The Colbert Coalition's Anti-Gay Marriage Ad

Apr 20, 2009
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Branding <MY> Style

Apr 20, 2009
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My friend Tricia Wang of Vox (who is the queen of social/media networking portals) has been emphasizing the importance of branding one's identity. She recently went through an overhaul of her own and has inspired me to walk down that path as well. I redesigned my websites (adrienehughes.com) and (softservegirl.com) and carried the themes as one package, paying careful attention to my design aesthetic while giving each site its own theme. I just finished making one of my business cards to match the web site. The cards will mimic the web site(s) and everything is color specific (page layout, patterns, even visual language, etc.).

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WLTF #4 | WTF?

Apr 19, 2009
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WLTF #4 | ONLINE NOW, originally uploaded by Colourific.

WLTF has released it's fourth on-line edition of their magazine. I really like this publication as it explores the seemingly sexual side of the human consciousness, artifacts of physical possibilities and the art of compromise.

This edition has shifted in its usual format. Apparently an anthropologist has curated this edition, editing it with an anthropological twist. You must look at it because the editor has selected images of "primitives" and compared it with contemporary psycho-sexual images. I was pretty miffed at the ensuing collection and wrote a displeasing letter to the editor.

"wonderful work as always but I'm a bit conflicted with all of the "africana" stuff and the compare/contrast between this -and- that, between savage(s) and savage beauty, and I can't help but feel it's somehow not appropriate to use vintage images of tribes and women and men in natural settings and use them within a sexualized context. It's like hottentot venus crap all over again with her legs spread open in the basement of fucking paris museum for people to oggle over. Though I know your intention was to point to the obvious the obvious is too obvious and for me insulting and racist. I have always loved your diptychs and how you think about the relationship between one image and the next, they somehow always bring about visual contemplation in the most positive of ways - but this issue is just the opposite for me, rather left me thinking WTF. "

Seriously, what the fuck?!

<ME>

Apr 19, 2009
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, originally uploaded by SOFTSERVEGIRL.

It was 89 degrees today, sunny, blue skies in San Diego. I went cycling with my ballet friends: Jennifer, Erin and Paige. Jennifer said we were a cycling girl gang now, and I guess that isn't such a bad thing. There are other things far worse than a girl gang who uses bikes to settle multiple differences.