Whirlwind Surreality

Webs,

My weekend jaunt was surreal. I landed in a flat, wide state covered in more snow than I'd ever seen in my entire life. I saw friends I hadn't seen in four years. We relived lots and lots of tales from our time as camp counselors in the Colorado mountains. I went to my first ever bachelorette party. I attended a wedding. I rode home in a tiny plane with someone with serious gastrointestinal issues, which meant I spent a good majority of the flight gagging and looking around to spot the gassy culprit [no luck].

I took lots of photos.

I also left my camera in Colorado.

No photos for you, Webs.

Another day, I suppose. Whenever my camera makes its way back home.

In lieu of photos, here's the "first dance" song. I'd never heard it before, but it fits the style of the couple well. 

I would apologize for how lame this photo-less post is, but then I remembered that it's my blogumentary, and blogumentaries are honest, not necessarily interesting. Right? yeah.


-bRob

Here Comes the Sun

    Fall is coming so quickly, and I'm not ready for it. I feel like I haven't gotten my share of summer yet, since Germany doesn't exactly do summers to my liking - too chilly, too rainy. Autumn's my favorite season, but I want it to hold off for just a little longer this year...

Toni Frissel, 1940 via Tomboy Style

I am mad in love with this photo. I wish I were her...

Time to get back to my programming, I suppose. Do you know, Interwebs, what's worse than having two tests in one day? Bombing two tests in one day. And then having a lot more work waiting for you at home. And spending yet another cold night in the library. As my little broseph might say, first world problems.

Forging ahead!

-bRob

TechniColor: Just Hit Play

...because I included a lot of videos in this post. Don't worry, they're awesome.

via A Cup of Jo

Bless her little heart. 

Oh, but she tries...

suck UK via colossal

possibilities are endless with tetris sticky notes

click to see more incredible BTS shots: via

behind the scenes of Sesame Street











'A Gay Girl in Damascus' Blogger Kidnapped at Gunpoint in Syria
This is darker than the material I normally include in these posts,
but freedom of speech is not to be taken for granted.

Freddy Taylor via lovely package

packaging design  for organic beans by  Freddy Taylor

brown dress with white dots

men's shoes and skinny jeans

How bRob ended up yelling at the man operating the Y's front desk:


bRob: "Hi, I don't have my card. Is that alright?"
Guy: "No, where is it?"
bRob: "Um, at my house."
Guy: "You need to go back to your house and get it, ma'm."
[Did he just ma'm me?]
bRob: "Can't you just look me up on your computer?"
Guy: "No ma'm, you need to go back to your house."
bRob: "But I'm a member here, why can't you just look me up?"
Guy: "Where is your card?"
bRob: "At my house!"
Guy: "Well, you need to go to your house and get it."
bRob: "Oh, I get it, you're joking."
Guy: "No, you need to go get your card."

**This goes on for two more minutes, kind of like that, but more...repetitive**
Finally, bRob can't take it anymore:

bRob: "YOU ARE BEING INCREDIBLY RUDE!!"
Guy: "I'm just kidding, ma'm."
bRob: "..."


*bRob's  face went ...

like this, except for where she was a little more bug-eyed.*


bRob: "...oh. i'msorry."


*bRob speed walks off, Guy just continues laughing"

via A Cup of Jo

Song: Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez

You guys know how I have an ongoing love affair with Subaru and the wonderful songs in their commercials,

but this commercial is beautiful.

not so humble pie

mini strawberry rhubarb pies - if only

via my modern met

Volkswagon Aqua, a hovercraft design concept by Yuhan Zhang

Artist Heather Benning via Escape Into Life

a barn converted into a life-sized doll house

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

- Mother Teresa

dwell studio

i love studio apartments, in theory

Erin Hanson via sfgirlbybay

A series of reminders by photographer Erin Hanson

The 65 Best Planking Pictures From Around the World

some of these are pretty amusing

see more at Oddity Central

this father dresses up every day in a different costume to wave his son off to school
i feel like that's something my dad might do...

update: This family's blog, wave at the bus, just happened to be the Blog of Note a couple days ago.

greenworks via contemporist

greenworks uses luscious plants to line green walls and furniture in order to "try to recreate our natural environment"

Alexa Brooke [i think] via as lovely as a dream

i like nerds

source via Penrose Dream

but heaveno has such a nice ring to it...













HelloGiggles

i definitely failed Mother's Day this year

Matthew Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth via Flowing Data


two designers determine, by hand,  how much ink each font requires - read more

Shape-Shifting Cuttlefish Can Mimic Pictures 
that's pretty cool

Everyday Life of a Suburban Sahm

I've loved Alison Krauss for so long, 
and I love this song the most.


I know it looks a little dated, and the banjo intro's a little long, but stick to it - she has a gorgeous voice.

-bRob

Technicolor: Music, Lights, Fairy Tales, Design

My week in links, pictures, and articles. Except my week looked a whole lot more like the inside of a library and lots of economics, circuits, and manufacturing. But I'll spare you those pictures.

enjoy, InterWebs.

Suggested listening while you read : 

I can never get enough Ingrid.

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via Unstitched

Isn't that gorgeous? The lovely Lillian of Unstitched and talented Danni of Oh, Hello Friend took their boys and put together this beautiful table for a rooftop date night in Mexico. Lillian was kind enough to share her photos with us, InterWebs!

This sweet setup leaves me speechless. I would SO eat just about anything at that table.

Read the article about this single person submarine. Maybe I should trade in my jet-pack...

OH MY GOODNESS. I am begging you to go read this note and other ridiculous Notes from Chris. They absolutely slay me.






via Lovely Package

Yunyeen Yong designed these colorful juice boxes. A) I want kiwi juice, B) These are bomb. If they had had these around when I was a kid, CapriSun would've been toast. 

via PostSecret

That's what I always tell myself, too! [because otherwise nasty road-rage bRob comes out...and no one wants that,]

The Ten Most Revealing Psych Experiments
Interesting.

via Alyssa @ mymodernmet

Artist: Matt Sartain

The dream-like photographs are part of a dynamic series entitled Misadventures.  Don't they make you want to go exploring? Go visit Matt Sartain's website to view more, and learn how the photo above was compiled at Mr. Sartain's blog. 

Each one of his photographs feels like its own fairytale, no? 

Your Weekly Addiction

I love passing on little InterWeb addictions =)

this tiny house (i think my new favorite blog!)

ellmania

I am such a fan of twinkle lights above a bed. They are so sweet. Fun fact: I plan on having twinkle lights at my wedding. I think. Pics via apartment therapy.

...And speaking of lights:

Check out these beautiful and modern lights. I wanted to post a picture, but I couldn't figure out how...It's ok. I trust that you're curious enough to go check out Bocci's incredible lights on your own.

...And speaking of lights...again...

via this tiny house
source Kara Paslay Designs

This is pretty amazing. Apparently, in theory, this is a DIY project. I don't imagine I could ever really create this chandelier without a lot of injury, sparks, and property damages.

"There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted." 

-Oscar Wilde

via Refinery29

Would you be able to live here??

via apartment therapy

Another creative use of small space. In case you haven't noticed, living in small, tiny spaces is the new megaTrend. It's greener and cheaper and, honestly, cuter. How fun is that lofted bed?

via apartment therapy

While minimalism is far from my aesthetic (does clutter count as a design aesthetic?), I think we can all agree this is a pretty cool setup. 








10 Stylish PC Home Offices Without An Apple in Sight
Because I'm on a vendetta against macs.
[at least until I can afford one...]

I'm pretty sure working at InventionLand would drive me bonkers. What a wacky and creative work environment... I couldn't handle it. Read the article at mymodernmet.

via toxel

Sarah Jane Williams

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Encouragement

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

1 Cor 13:12

-bRob