Northampton State Hospital, originally uploaded by Kirkbride.
With Halloween only weeks away, I’ve been putting up decorations on the house and planning some of the festivities to come. In keeping with the spooky atmosphere, I ask you, what could be spookier than an abandoned insane asylum?
Awhile back I’d seen a movie called Session 9 which was [...]
Way back in May, my lovely family bought me two fantastic Mother’s Day presents: a Flip video camera and a necklace from one of my favorite Etsy shops. The Flip never worked properly and the necklace needed a little adjustment. Fast forward three months and I just received a replacement camera. The original camera was [...]
You should really spend some time at the Lightmark with a cup of coffee. The ‘Making Of’ section doesn’t seem to work properly (or I’m not as smart as I look with my glasses on) which is unfortunate because I’m intrigued by the light shapes and how they’re generated.
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The good news, the Hebe is blooming.
The bad news, despite their sunny yellow flowers they are trying to choke the life out of my lawn.
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Sometimes it’s good to just enjoy something for what it is. People who don’t know each other laughing and dancing all over the world.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
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I love, love, love Blik decals. The Dooz’s nursery is adorned with the adorable sheep from the Wee Gallery. The best thing about these decals are that they are completely removable, so as your tastes change so can your walls. It’s especially nice since many are pretty high impact and something you may not love [...]
There are moments when it’s quiet, save for the sound of the furnace and I’m surveying the scattered bits that form our life that I have this strange feeling. Looking at toys peppering the house, tiny socks waiting to be washed, stacks of diapers and half completed projects, I sometimes feel a loss. And I [...]
I’ve recently been hanging around at Etsy perusing the wonderful things people all over the world make by hand. It’s inspiring me to carve out some time to be creative again (the last burst of creativity is currently still tiring me out!). I was perusing the featured artist when I came upon a photograph of [...]
Why is it an unwritten law that when you lose a post, the rewritten version will never be as good as the first? And what happens if you’ve actually lost the post twice (having realized one of the links you were adding crashed the browser)? Does that mean the rewritten post will be twice as [...]
Some days, it’s really good to be a dog. It’s not too shabby being a dog owner either … especially when you have Marymoor Park a quick drive away to enjoy a little Sunday morning sunshine while the dogs enjoy some free range frolicking.
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I’m here to tell you that The Oblong Box and Scream And Scream Again were horrible. I mean bad, past bad-good and into embarrassing territory. Between cheesy props and blood that looks like house paint, it was very disappointing. You know how things seem cool when you’re a kid watching the thriller double feature (see [...]
Watched Session 9 last night, a disappointment with the exception of a single scene. Although it’s easy to see what they were going for with the prolonged buildup and false sense of normalcy, it didn’t quite make it.
The movie was filmed at the ultimate creepy location, Danvers State Insane Asylun. You would literally have [...]
Since, Shocktober is almost here …
What? It is! Weren’t you just saying “I can’t believe it’s already September”. And it’s already September 8th!
But, I digress. On a whim (and against my better judgement) I picked up Fatal Frame II for Xbox. As if there aren’t already enough ways I find to terrify myself, there’s a [...]
It’s been awhile since I dorked out on you about new technology. There’s nothing like a marriage of good design and good development. Mint promises to be a fine example of both. Designed by Shaun Inman, Mint is his new extensible, customizable, design-savvy site stats program promising to help you look at your website in [...]
} After a week of much working, Mark completed the fence and two gates. The yard is looking quite nice.
} In my hot little hands: The New Pornographers Twin Cinema, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl, Sufjan Stevens Illinois and Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah (even though I’m breaking up with Puss Rocktm, I’m not certain [...]
Just call me Jack of all trades (we’ll just skip the second part of that phrase).
Sonica: Last weeks KCRW Music Exchange played a bit from a band called Test Icicles, described by their engineer as “the Arcade Fire meets Slayer”. S’right, that’s what I said. Due to release a neon green 7″ titled Boa vs [...]
It’s that time again and and the Seattle International Film Festival is in full swing. I’ve got my short list of must-see movies. Unfortunately that is not going to include Marebito the latest movie from The Grudge director Takashi Shimizu due to time conflicts. But I do plan on seeing a handful this time around:
McDull, [...]
Movies, movies, movies.
} Gus Van Sant’s latest Last Days
} Lars Von Trier’s Manderlay (a note: this link was not working at the time I posted, but it’s worth checking back for)
} Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers: starring Bill Murray as Don Johnston who sets out on a cross country trek to track down four former lovers [...]
who doesn’t love a Tim Burton movie? i can’t wait for Halloween and the release of his latest movie The Corpse Bride with Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp as the lead voices!
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remember a long, long time ago when i kept saying i’ve been working on moving off of Typepad onto a different host? i swear unlike some of what i say, this is actually true. it’s just that (here comes the excuse) it is hard to work all day on mind numbing, brain crunching software design [...]
