Museums should be more interactive...

This weekend I went to/by two different museums that I really enjoyed. Rob was in town and we went to the Neon Boneyard. It is at the Neon Museum downtown.


They only take groups by reservations so we just drove by and looked in above the fence. It was amazing. They have all the old signs from old imploded hotels and casinos. I have to get an appointment and organize a rendezvous with some friends. So if you want to go, contact me and we will get a reservation!!
Second museum that we experienced was the Pinball Hall of Fame.

It was so much fun! They have about 5 rows of superb pinball machines. Most of them have little tags talking about how they acquired the machine and how old it is and how famous/infamous it is. Heres a picture of the inside.

Basically, I have been thinking all day about the next time I can go. I am really excited to play the Pirates of the Carribean machine. There was this guy hogging it for a long time when we went, but it's pretty awesome if you can sink
the ship like Rob did.
Wouldn't that be great if we could play with all historical artifacts when we went to museums. History would be much more interactive and maybe I would appreciate it even more.

THIS IS A MUST!!!

My friend Kara just told me about clearification.com. It is really funny. Just go there with plenty of time to watch and plenty of breath to laugh! oh man, I could watch it for hours...

COWA'BANGS'A!!

I have always thought about going to hair school. It would be neat to actually know how to cut and dye hair, even though I do it without proper training. Here are some of my clients/friends. I am trying, one person at a time, to take over the world with bangs. Bangs will hopefully soon wield more influence in society.

"The Sidesweep" a classic show on Bryn

"The Rachel" shown on Lauren

"Bangalicious" shown on Julia


This one is called "Bangarang" shown on Rachel


And just a note, from one who was told they have very healthy gums by a friend who is in dental school today, remember to floss. Gingivitis is no one's friend.

Did you know??

Ben Folds turns 40 this year. And to think that all this time I thought he was our age, I guess I never really thought about it. But now, rethink all of his music as being sung by a 40-year old man. weird.

me di cuenta

We just need to help more people. Everyday I realize more and more how many people need help. 2007: year of selflessness. Go forth to serve!!

steve jobs, can you help us out???

So when I was little I loved to talk on the phone to my friends. We would always imagine how cool it would be to be able to pass things through the phone. I feel that technology has advanced far enough now to be able to figure that one out. I mean, come on, we are in 2007! Also I think we should invent the ability to download real things (like 3-D objects) to our computers/houses and if you want to google a scent, for example you want to know what patchouli smells like, you just click on some icon and patchouli sprays out of your computer. That would be better than those weird flavored jelly belly beans. I think that the future has great things in store for us. Apple will prolly be the first one to make these ideas reality, hopefully they will include click wheels, and lots of them. I want everything in my house to have a click wheel. Patchouli, patchouli, patchouli...thats really fun to say, thanks Julia!!!

Merriam-Webster sandwich on spelt bread

This has got to be healthy. Do you ever wish you could just eat a dictionary for lunch and then ingest all those words that you need to know for the GRE?? I do. ONLY TWO MORE DAYS LEFT TO STUDY!!!

the after party party

Levi is practically spiderman. The Luxor did not know what hit it and the police were too slow to catch him. Happy day after New years where everything is closed except for the pizza shop in the NY, NY that sells a small soda for $4.
sorry i didnt rotate the movie, but i figured you all can rotate your computers or your heads. It is so amazing that it is worth a little rotation.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

saying "2007 is the new 2006" is the new "Happy New Year!!!"
I love fireworks!

I could never complain...

I have to say that I have an amazing life. I am very grateful. I love people watching, especially because it helps me realize that people need help and that's why we are all here together, to help each other. Life really would be no fun. In Jonathan Safran Foer's book 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,' Oskar, the main character has this idea that we should just have limousines that were so incredibly long they would start at your mom's womb and end at your mausoleum, it would be as long as your life...I thought about just walking through a limo alone and am even more grateful for people who make life so interesting!! PS its a really amazing book!! get it, read it!
Christmas was extraordinary! I made all my presents! And I think I received a grand total of 5 presents. I think it was the best Christmas ever. My parents have helped me so much this year, I told them not to buy me anything and the other small things from my siblings were things I really needed and appreciated ('Everything is Illuminated'-the book, a bell for my bike, a pair of shoes I picked out at Thanksgiving, a battery for my car clicker) Then my parents planned this big service project where they wrapped up all the supplies for hygiene kits and we all assembled them. It was a great Christmas activity!!!
Plus we started Christmas off with a, hopefully, new tradition...the morning jog. I kind of wanted to open presents, fresh outta bed, just because I am accustomed to that, but it was fun to go for a family jog and then open presents. The family that sweats together, stays together. Heres a photo from the jogging: Merry Christmas from the VANS!!

Provo, nice knowing you...

Well, I did my time. I packed up my car today and drove away. woah. It's a surreal cinematic feeling. I wish there would have been some sappy song as I looked over my shoulder at my living room, scanning for any last forgotten items, and then leaving my keys on the kitchen counter. I'm outta there!!! Now onto the next step of life. I told my mom that I want to set up a studio in our house. maybe the garage? Then as I checked out the christmas tree, I noted aloud that there weren't any presents big enough to be a wheel. I guess that will come out of my first paycheck. I already have a kiln and ceramist friends here in vegas. I have a feeling that things will be ok. maybe even great. so far, adulthood is great. ps. I have a celebrity crush on Chevy Chase, well just the character he plays in Foul Play.

wow...

It just hit me at the end of my hometeacher's lesson that I am moving from Provo. I will miss it a lot. I even shed a couple of tears. Surely, my hometeacher thought he had said something amazingly inspired, "little did he know" (I love "Stranger than Fiction") that I wasn't paying attention and was thinking of how that would be my last time being hometaught at my Provo abode.
Trying to figure out how to be an adult is confusing. I want to do something hard or challenging and have amazing experiences. So I am weighing my options. I don't want to take the easy way out of things, so thats why I decided to move home. ha. There I go embracing the future, branching out, and having an adventure.
You all have a place to stay if you are going through vegas. my house of course, not the ten-ga-jillion hotels/casinos. Unless you would rather stay there. But the continental breakfast at my parents house is much yummier.
Thanks Provo!

step teams

I was talking to my friend yesterday about step teams. He didn't know what they were. I think this was the best part of my highschool career. I had a friend whose Dad was a baptist minister and they had a step team as part of their church service. They team would come down the isle before the preaching. Well here's an example and there are tons more on Youtube if you search "step team." its pretty awesome!!!

bands and comments

well here are some bands that hillary, amy and heather should like. I dont even care if they read this. I am a hard core web logger, doing it for the love of it. I like Lali Puna. I like The Blow. I like Ms John Soda. Comment now if you want. Maybe I will care. Yes! my comments work now!! Coming soon....the results of my scientific experiment about Blondes vs. Brunettes.

thanks everyone

My show was great. I had such a fun time seeing all my wonderful friends. I just want to say thanks for all the support. My parents and sister came up from Vegas, my cousins and aunts and uncles came from all over the valley and it was really amazing to be able to see everyone together in one place. Heres me and my favorite friends ever! thanks tigerfire. you play well. Little A, you are the best.

yes, I will be giving autographs on friday...

Yesterday this reporter called me and said she really loved my BFA show and wanted to write an article about it for the Daily Universe. She interviewed me, asking me questions about my inspirations and ideas. Then she also interviewed my professor, Von, and some gallery personnel. Then this morning, as I ran to campus, I grabbed some newspapers at the bottom of the hill. I AM FAMOUS! The article is pretty awesome and I am excited to finally be able to say that I have been in a newspaper. I am published. Even if it is only the Daily Universe...that still deserves a couple of thumbs up. PS Lauren and I decided it would be funny to get a bunch of copies and have them at my show and sign them all. I love being an artist!!!

out of this world

Don't you wish you could watch "Out of This World" again. I do. I really loved that show when I was little and my default song was "would you like to swing on a star, carry moonbeams home in a jar..." I was searching the whole world wide web to find it on dvd and I found this website petitioning Fox to make it into a dvd. I agree. So I signed. If you want to see it again Please sign petition titled Put "Out of this World" on DVD hosted with free Petitions hosting site.
Also you can see some clips on YouTube that will wet your appetite for more. I wish I could freeze time like Evie.

My BFA Final Show

I guess if I post all these pictures people will think they don't need to come to my final show in the HFAC Dec 1- 15th. But thats not the case. You all need to come. Especially to the artist's reception on Dec 8th 6-9pm. Come on and see!!1

thanksgiving shamanksgiving

Me sleeping, thats all I want to do....

I went home last weekend and I got the stomach flu from my little niece. I came back to school with one day to do a lot of things before I went to Phoenix for Thanksgiving break and instead of being able to do all the stuff I had to do I got really sick and threw up all the time and just wanted to sleep a lot. After about 1/2 a day throwing up I stopped, then I just didn't eat the rest of the day. I had to take a test, photograph all my ceramic pieces for my show, and pack and get ready.
I guess it's good that food makes me sick because usually people gain ten pounds during Thanksgiving and I am prolly gonna lose ten. I don't feel like eating anything still. Hopefully I will be able to choke down a festive piece of pumpkin pie and say my thanks for the season of giving.

Halloween revisited

I decided to post pictures of halloween. I had a great time as Lady Godiva.