Dancing Always Looks Good

So, in real time, they just sat there and got real wet. Bummmmmmeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

"You know my every thought..."

Make sure you get through to 1:09. After that, it's your choice.

The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep

Hey friends! I made a friend out here in LA named DC Pierson. He's super nice and talented, and just finished a new book called The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To. It just hit bookstores yesterday, and I encourage you to pick up a copy.

He put a mix together of songs inspired by the book. I contributed a song called "Gone Straight from My Head." You can download the mix here, and check out other great things from DC.

Woot!

A photo to share

My mom looking willowy and lovely in her college coat. We were on a ferry in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Friday the 13th

Jon, Wil, and I have all, at one time, worked at a DVD Quality Control company that required us to watch movies and TV shows over and over again in various languages. A lot of these movies came from the Friday the 13th series. To keep from going insane, we wrote songs from the F13 world. The band is called Happy Campers in 3D. We use more cussing than in the past (hear Jon Mackey say the F word over 100 times through a vocoder in one song!). Enjoy!

HAPPY CAMPERS IN 3D

Thanksgiving Thankfulness

Hi Friends,

Over the weekend, I was thinking about our great, fun, tearful, video-taped Thanksgivings of years past. And it made me miss everyone. So to the scattered masses: I'm thankful for you all.

-Will

Hi friends. I'm so excited, I have to share. You can get two free transatlantic flights on British airways by getting a Chase/BA credit card. Okay, so it's a credit card deal. But it's a reeeally good one. On the first purchase you get 50,000 miles (1 round trip flight). Then if you spend $2,000 in 93 days you get another 50,000 miles. I already got the first flight. It's a $75 fee, but so what? Will can visit his huerfanos queridos; Aaron can fly away to Saudi Arabia; Cheryl can go to Ethiopia...or we could all just go visit Claire :)

Happy (free) flying.

http://www.mychasecreditcards.com/britishairways/hp_1

Cool Old Things

This blog posts lot's of old Children's music, pretty sweet!
Way Out Junk

If you've never seen it, this is worth a watch. Mr. Rogers was an awesome man:


And made pretty music as well:

Rebus Works

Hey! Rebus Works is one of my favorite galleries in Raleigh. There website features artists through their Daily Image Project. This week they're featuring seven of my images I submitted to their open call.

www.rebusworks.us

Pattern Is Movement + The Roots = D'Angelo?

Japan sweetness + DKD

These music videos are so sweet:
HANGETSU
Hibi no neiro

They're from the Japanese band Sour. They make your mind exercise.

At work yesterday, my worlds all collided. I was watching the second disc of "United States of Tara." At the end of the first episode, they used "That Knot Unties" by DKD! The Closed Captions thought the lyrics/song title were "That Night Unties." I was able to right this wrong. It felt extra good.

How is the fall for everyone?

Love,
Casey

blogging

aily drop cap is a new project by graphic designer Jessica Hische. In the design world, Jessica is a well-known young designer and she recently quit her day job to focus on personal projects and freelance work. On dailydropcap.com she will release a new fancy initial and provide html code so that bloggers across the internet can use them to beautify their posts. Pretty neat!

Published

My earring packaging project from Prague, along with the work of some of my classmates, got published in a design book called Design School Confidential. It features international student work. Steven Heller and Lita Talarico selected the Prague Souvenir project my class did while abroad for inclusion in the book.



On page '115' there's a little picture and a heavily edited description of my earring project. If you click over to its Amazon page you can type '115' into the 'search inside this book' box, and see my project as well as the work of my classmates on previous and subsequent pages.



It's my first time being published in a real book!

Betsy Harris on NPR

Last night I went to the Nightlight to see Swan Quarter's final show. They were the headlining band, and they gave a fantastic performance. Hunter even made a guest appearance on the trumpet. Betsy Harris was there too, documenting the evening.

Because of her devotion to the local music scene, Betsy Harris was recently featured on The State of Things with Frank Stasio. I really enjoyed listening to her interview here on WUNC's website.

Sad news about the Varsity.

So the Varsity theater, on Franklin Street, just closed down.

Shed a tear for all the great movies you saw in those semi-comfortable seats, and for all the times the projector screwed up right at the climax. Shed a tear for the Varsity.

Whooaaa, double blog!!@#$

June 22nd is "Stupid Guy Thing Day". I've been looking for lists on the internetz of "stupid guy things" to read to my old people on June 22nd, but I have a feeling my friends can do better. So boys, please enlighten us all and help my job performance by sharing the stupidest guy thing you've ever done. Ladies, feel free to contribute feats you've witnessed. Thanks, cher cher.

An old man yelled at me today. Not a demented old man, either. Not even a cranky old man. He thought I made a mistake. And so he yelled.

I can't remember the last time I was really pissed off. I don't know if I've ever been. But I was today. And then I went home and cried.

I miss this group of friends. And having everybody in one place together.

Africa

Hi All! This article is very interesting--

http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/954/moyo/

Miss y'all lots.

Happy Twinkie Day!

Twinkie Sushi... this is my kinda sushi... made with twinkies, fruit leather, and various candies.

This Twinkie Day the old people and I celebrated by playing floor hockey with a frozen twinkie. How did you celebrate Twinkie Day?

Love, Cheryl.

Garden Season

I've been starting my 2nd garden ever, and just like the first time, I've got a lot of questions for the pros. I decided to bring the pros and the newbs together and made a place where they can all get along and share information...I hope everybody considers a garden this time of year, and for those still local I'd be excited to see your garden at www.carolinagardens.org. Holler to Hunter for helping get this rollin'

Cheers!