Lindsey.

lindsey's using blogger again and it's making me jealous

because she's an awesome writer
and also because this means she's probably not going to come over to tumblr which is AHH SO MUCH BETTER sorry for leaving.
it's harder to check blogger, lindsey. gosh.

(THIS POST HAS MORE ART) This next song takes something that's not fun, math, and turns it into something offensive.

That's a Bo Burnham quote, by the way. I spent maybe an hour online today finding his 3 albums and downloading them and exporting them and opening them in iTunes and renaming them to normal, etc. I've gotten better at this whole thing. I didn't download it from YouTube, even, cause it takes forever.

The pictures on the right side are my, like, references, the Nerd Wall, and the left is just pictures.

I think I've only added two things since I last posted.

This is my sibling's and I's interpretation of what the main characters of The Mysterious Benedict Society look like. I did Renny, Sticky, Kate, and Constance. My sister did a Sticky and a Kate, and my brother did a Sticky. This was in the car to New Jersey, and I cut it out and glued it all down. 

What I made in Art last year, you might remember. It's a Starkid cartoon wheel. Which means that you can spin the wheels around and give Joey Richter's body Joe Walker's hair and Dylan Saunder's shorts. Yeah. Or Joe Moses can get Brian Holden's body, and then be shirtless, which is great. Anyway. I thought that it fits on the wall.

Now onto just plain art. I've been doing a lot of painting recently and it's really fun. I'm gonna try and do someone I already know soon, so I can see how different it is, from like, drawing a sketch.

This is from awhile ago. I'm not sure, but I might have posted it already... whatever.

These next ones I just did today. That's a tree. And some sort of face. I didn't realize it while I was doing the yellow face guy, but if you look carefully, he has two eyes on one side. the one that's shaped how it's supposed to be is not lined up with the other one, and the other one is just wrong. It looks right, though, when you just glance at the picture. So weird.

The top one is another yellow picture, but this is two different kinds of yellow. I actually really like it. The shadowing, etc. The next one I also like. I was cleaning my paint bored thing by wetting a paintbrush and leaving different colored water from the paint in each section of the board, and I got all these really pretty shades of brown so I decided to paint a picture. I couldn't get her mouth and then I ran out of red and it's counterproductive to get more paint out when you're CLEANING the board. You know. So I stopped. 

That's on a paper towel, which made it do all this leaky stuff. It was freaking awesome. CAPILLARY ACTION WHOOOOOOOOT.

Yeah, now you're all caught up. Bo Burnham. Painting pictures. Weekend. All good.

sadddddd dot com slash sold out dot html!

i'm depressed because i didn't tell you but i thought that i could almost go to the s.p.a.c.e. tour thing by starkid in n.y.c. and i convinced my dad pretty much then i went to buy tickets and they were sold out and i was sad and then i was really disappointed, disproportionately so with how long i wanted this this is all i've wanted for the past 48 hours, yeah?

I tried really hard to make that a run on sentence, kay? It was difficult. You wanna know how many words i mispelled in the first draft of that sentence? Yeah, no, you don't. I'm so horrible. It's a miracle my English teacher likes me at all.

By the way, I'm proud of this.

 YOU SEE HOW CURLY MY HAIR IS? FRENCH BRAID+SLEPT OVER NIGHT+NEW FRENCH BRAID+HAIRSPRAY+WHOLE DAY!

I am happy in this picture, trust me. And yeah, my hair is curly. Seriously happy with this. Shut up.

Update on My Wall

I haven't posted any new pictures of my nerd wall in awhile, and a lot of new stuff is up. Markus Zusak and Patrick Ness, mostly.

Fighting Reuben Wolfe/Getting the Girl, Markus Zusak. Same picture, one in color, one not. Which one do you like more? I don't really know. In real life, the pencil one looks more dirty. But I don't know.

HP In a Week Reading Marathon chart. Notice how I mostly finished in the 2-3AM range. Ah, Summer. I miss you.

Only the best book in the world. The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness. Not kidding about it being the best book in the world. Yeah, better than The Book Thief. But weirder too. Deal.

Drunk Text Message to God, Watsky. That poem I memorized, 'member? You can test me on it. Or just ask Maggie.

That Dr. Who picture is finally up there. I showed it to you before. Yeah. Anyway.

The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Green Light. Off the dock.

Last but not least. That's a part of some art by some guy at Dia:Beacon, a modern art museum somewhere in New York.

Enjoy. By the way, it was a week. I'm just a pathetic blog poster. Ally.

math homework

Haha, people forgot. I'm a nice person. Don't try and cheat. Really. That's stupid. Of you. Because my answers are wrong.

Beauty Queens

Hi guys, so this is a book I haven't talked about yet that I wanted to. Kinda like Grassroots, but it's a book.

The first thing you need to know about this book is that it has an amazing cover.

You SEE that awesome?? That's a bullet chain of LIPSTICK, people. Yeah.

This book, simply explained, is pretty much Lord of the Flies with teenage, image-obsessed girls. It starts with a plane crash of Miss Teen Dream (a beauty contest) contestants. People die. There are surviviors. And commercial breaks. 

Seriously.

It's one of those books where you're not sure if it's actually happening IRL. You know? Have you read that book about an evil genius who wants to be your class president or something, where you have no idea if he's kidding or not about things? It's kind of like that. It's set some time in the future, and there's this major Corporation that does everything, and pretty much sets everyone's dreams and view of what's wanted and whatever. But like, the commercial breaks (I'm not lying about those, they have commercial breaks every so often.) are kind of odd. They, like, say things that if they were said on TV NOW wouldn't work or be totally ironic. Like, the mom saying things like, "I need you to look good or else I wouldn't be able to parade you in front of my neighbors." Except more degrading than that? I don't have the book anymore, sorry. Can't look it up. Or stuff about how this product, made to take off lady mustaches, also can be used to like, clean your bathroom or something. Stuff you don't really say to your customers. It's odd. But awesome.

It's really hilarious. Ally's favorite girl was Tiana, Miss.... actually I forgot her state. I really reallly really loved Taylor, Miss Texas, because she was SO unbelievable. Everything she did or said wasn't anything anyone would ever do or say, sorry about this sentence. And then she goes crazy.... sorry not giving that away.

It's also really awesome how they continued to, kind of, compete, there. Like, Shanti hated Nicole on principal because they were both not white, and the corporation would not let an Indian AND an African-American in the finals. (Tiana: I thought you said The Corporation wasn't racist? Both: Bitch, please.) And Taylor keeps practicing and getting everyone to practice after the crash.

It's a really good book. I hope you read it. Actually, I hope, that when you read it, you enjoy it. Because you're going to read it. It's so good, seriously. Really awesome.


And I leave you with (puppies humping things, Ally?) a picture that I found by... well I can't tell you where I found it because it's Ally Week and it's one of the banned subjects but I found it and I think it represents my life/future well as well:


Goals seminar, in Lindsey's words, was "shit." I don't totally agree, but it did make me nervous. In a have-you-seen-this-venn-diagram,-i'm-screwed,-yo,-what-do-i-want-to-do-with-my-life-???? way.