So...there's this girl.
And it turns out she likes Optimus Prime more than me.
Oh snap!
No, but seriously, that just seemed like a good lead in.
To...
Nothing.
Well, no.
Yesterday I might have said some things in a bit of a playful (e.g. gradeschool) way intentionally because it was a bit of a fun way to do it, because it was different and because it was upbeat and I was in a very good mood overall over the course of several hours yesterday. [Edit the Second: And because the way I did it, in the moment, felt right and lighthearted and just...yeah.] [Edit: Ready for this...total break-away in...3...2...1...]
AND WHY CAN'T I COMMIT MYSELF TO ART?
Seriously!
Like...stuff that people will handle and be like, "Wow, for seriously? [insert a moment for contemplation/consideration] For srsly."
And truly, I do suck at putting stuff in the post.
I should totally get on that.
At least, send something. Even as the letter-equivalent of a LJ teaser post.
That might be a bit cruel.
But if you like mail that's from real people instead of junk mail that'll go straight in the garbage bin the moment you get inside then...let there be joy in the world
Hmm...that has me thinking of gift wrapping in...unusual ways. But doing that for someone who won't pick up the gift from under your local festive tree. (If you leave gifts there, or your bunny, or whoever else delivers to your place other than the usual suspects. (UPS (It should be delivered by a cranky old many in a flying house of ballons with a young boy and talking dog, that'd be way more exciting.), FedEx (who think that orange and purple are sexy together), and DHL (which must be faster than DSL because H is placed earlier in the alphabet...right?)))
It would take extra--and such bland!--effort (The irony of thinking outside the box for wrapping to only end up inside of one isn't lost on me.) to get that to someone who's not as local. But terribly cool.
Now...that means I need wire hangers.
And lots of coloured tracing paper. Or coloured tissue paper it's basically the same stuff.
Hmm. Maybe I can order some in bulk online for cheap in a bountiful array of colours? Now that sounds like a fun art project.
Oh! Imagine receiving a woolly mammoth as a gift? Art-styled but it turns out that it's not really just a woolly mammoth!
That's just the outside!
Cuter/funnier if it was pregnant.
I could totally make this a premium gift wrapping service. With the price of gift bags and unfoldable boxes so high already I could totally charge more...but then again the costs would be significantly higher in terms of resources, including labour for time spent.
It'd be pretty amusing if the wrapping turned in to valuable art itself, worth having in personal collections or museums instead of a mere novelty.
This is a pretty long not-the-art-I-was-talking-about tangent. (Hey, I should find out if they found the droids I was looking for.) I meant things like...well, to go with a classic example anyone that's picked up a good book would recognize: drop caps. That large first letter at the start of the chapter, sometimes (if it's a better book) stylized in a typeface other than that the rest of the text is in.
But yeah.
What if I told you Optimus Prime's girlfriend was a Decepticon?
Would it blow your mind?
Or just your electrical systems?
Oh snap!
No, but seriously, that just seemed like a good lead in.
To...
Nothing.
Well, no.
Yesterday I might have said some things in a bit of a playful (e.g. gradeschool) way intentionally because it was a bit of a fun way to do it, because it was different and because it was upbeat and I was in a very good mood overall over the course of several hours yesterday. [Edit the Second: And because the way I did it, in the moment, felt right and lighthearted and just...yeah.] [Edit: Ready for this...total break-away in...3...2...1...]
AND WHY CAN'T I COMMIT MYSELF TO ART?
Seriously!
Like...stuff that people will handle and be like, "Wow, for seriously? [insert a moment for contemplation/consideration] For srsly."
And truly, I do suck at putting stuff in the post.
I should totally get on that.
At least, send something. Even as the letter-equivalent of a LJ teaser post.
That might be a bit cruel.
But if you like mail that's from real people instead of junk mail that'll go straight in the garbage bin the moment you get inside then...let there be joy in the world
Hmm...that has me thinking of gift wrapping in...unusual ways. But doing that for someone who won't pick up the gift from under your local festive tree. (If you leave gifts there, or your bunny, or whoever else delivers to your place other than the usual suspects. (UPS (It should be delivered by a cranky old many in a flying house of ballons with a young boy and talking dog, that'd be way more exciting.), FedEx (who think that orange and purple are sexy together), and DHL (which must be faster than DSL because H is placed earlier in the alphabet...right?)))
It would take extra--and such bland!--effort (The irony of thinking outside the box for wrapping to only end up inside of one isn't lost on me.) to get that to someone who's not as local. But terribly cool.
Now...that means I need wire hangers.
And lots of coloured tracing paper. Or coloured tissue paper it's basically the same stuff.
Hmm. Maybe I can order some in bulk online for cheap in a bountiful array of colours? Now that sounds like a fun art project.
Oh! Imagine receiving a woolly mammoth as a gift? Art-styled but it turns out that it's not really just a woolly mammoth!
That's just the outside!
Cuter/funnier if it was pregnant.
I could totally make this a premium gift wrapping service. With the price of gift bags and unfoldable boxes so high already I could totally charge more...but then again the costs would be significantly higher in terms of resources, including labour for time spent.
It'd be pretty amusing if the wrapping turned in to valuable art itself, worth having in personal collections or museums instead of a mere novelty.
This is a pretty long not-the-art-I-was-talking-about tangent. (Hey, I should find out if they found the droids I was looking for.) I meant things like...well, to go with a classic example anyone that's picked up a good book would recognize: drop caps. That large first letter at the start of the chapter, sometimes (if it's a better book) stylized in a typeface other than that the rest of the text is in.
But yeah.
What if I told you Optimus Prime's girlfriend was a Decepticon?
Would it blow your mind?
Or just your electrical systems?