Unphotographable: whenever the author of this site (a photographer) isn't able to take a picture of something, he describes it with words instead. Some examples from the site:
This is a picture I did not take of a man with a walking cane and cigar ambling toward me on the street, his t-shirt a faded yellow, bearing a worn message in 80s-style lettering saying "Ask Me About Century 21", and as he walked toward me, looking me in the eye, he passed a woman sitting on a bench right next to the sidewalk; her grey t-shirt said, "Ask Me If I Care..."
This is a picture I did not take of a woman driving a car, steering with her right hand while talking on her cellphone, which she held in her left, pressed against her left ear, while simultaneously clutching (with her left pinky and ring finger) a double-scoop ice cream cone, which (while she waited for traffic to clear so she could make her turn) was melting onto the phone and dripping onto her hair and her ear in the unexpectedly hot middle of a spring afternoon.
This is a picture I did not take of a nun, littering.
making zines: I've always wanted to make collages, but a huge sheet of paper waiting for me to cover it in teeny-tiny magazine cutouts is just TOO STRESSFUL. So, inspired by this article, I decided to try my hand at making zines. And it is amazingly awesome. I make mine like mini collages on each two-page spread, interspersed with doodles/poems/song lyrics/anything else I can think of. After making a few (and watching this video) I tried making a page-sized collage, too, and it actually turned out pretty cool.
p.s. Everyone in the world says that zine should be said like ZEEN, as in magazine, but I still think ZYNE sounds better. Does anyone agree??
You Look Like the Right Type: conversations, overheard and illustrated. Here are just a few of my favorites:
Miranda Sings: is the alter ego of Colleen Ballinger . Her YouTube channel (mirandasings08) has almost 400,000 subscribers. She is best known for her ... um ... distinctive singing style and very unique fashion. In this video she gives us her views on the royal baby born recently.
"Dear Stranger...": Leaving notes for strangers is another one of those things I've always wanted to do but never gotten around to before. A few days ago (in the midst of a happy nice-day-criminal buzz), Adair and I made several notes to put in library books. We asked for book suggestions (or suggested similar books for our unknown readers), and left an email address (nonsenseuncommon@gmail.com, if anyone wants to know!) so people could contact us. And we've already had one response!
BookCrossing: "Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true." -The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
BookCrossing is a site that allows book lovers to share their favorites with others. Basically, you register a book in their database and label it, then set it free - on a park bench, in a restaurant, on a sidewalk - for someone else to find. Then that person can read the book, leave a journal entry on the website, and pass it on. I released Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (by J. D. Salinger) on Tuesday. I haven't seen any updates on it yet, but my fingers are crossed!
I think that's it for now! What have you been up to this week?
~Maya
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