///BALL-NOGUES///

Words cannot explain what we experienced last night at [BALL-NOGUES] opening for their Feathered Edge installation. Delicate drapery from some standpoints, straight edged from others. It's up till November so I highly recommend all of you go see it for yourselves and do make sure to walk through the middle. And perhaps even lay on the ground and peer up to the ceiling. Each strand is a numbered file. The intricacy astounds. Mathematics + art = my loveee. One of my best friends Joem is one of the few interns for Ball-Nogues, and he had the privilege of working on this with the "fine art-chitecture" geniuses Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues. I wish I could feel what he felt once the piece was fully completed and installed then finally presented to the public. Watching and evesdropping the many reactions. I know my mouth was just open the whole time in absolute amazement and I could not stop smiling in excitement. Joem ILOVEYOU! Oh yeh, it's showing at MOCA at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Gogogo!

Just as words cannot express what we experienced last night, photographs cannot do it justice either.. But here are some attempts at teasers anyway:

///TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE///

yeh. we didn't see it, asia did. one of the longest at six minutes thirty-nine seconds in some places. i wish we could've seen it, i would've driven out to an empty parking lot and stared at it through my car window alone. ..as i did last year or the year before when that red one was seen from LA. that was peaceful.. i conversed with my dad via text message while doing so. eclipses are a pretty nostalgic symbol for me. they always seem to make me think of my dad. well, the moon in general i think. yeh, this just occurred to me. whenever i'd throw a massive crying tantrum when i was a toddler, my dad was the only one that could calm me. he'd take me out to the back porch, it'd always be nighttime for some reason.. i'd be on his lap and we'd look at the moon and the stars till my hiccup-sounding crying would gradually slow to silence. a silent smile, then goodnight.

my dad can be the moon and i can be the stars.

of other importance.. the total solar eclipse fell on one of my best friend's birthdays - HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL YOU YELLOW HOE! <3

click [NASA] for scientific stuffs on the matter.
click [EXAMINER] for zodiac stuffs on the matter.

EDIT: click [HERE] for a video on the matter. fuck imagine if you were on that eclipse plane. looking out plane windows whilst above the clouds already amazes the shit out of me.. i can't even imagine seeing a TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE from my plane window. rah.

"astronomers are hoping wednesday's unique event will help unlock clues about the sun. the solar event was an opportunity for a prolonged view of the sun's corona - a white ring that extends more than one million kilometers from its surface. scientists predict that there will not be a longer total solar eclipse than wednesday's total solar eclipse until the year 2132."

ok i was not aware that that was the definition of corona. fucking beer. and i am truly upset that i didn't get to see the eclipse from this friggin' city and i'm pretty damn sure i won't be alive till age 146 to see the next long one. booo.

///TOTALLY META///

Meta (from Greek: μετά = "after", "beyond", "with", "adjacent", "self"), is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.

I've been thinking about a family tattoo for ages now.. I would say too long, but things such as this require quite a bit more thought than the teen tragedy LBT I have.

META = Marlene Ethan Tania Anthony = My Family.

Linking back to that first quote:
-My family is who will still be there for me after all my fuck-ups.
-I love them beyond words, beyond the love I hold for any other entity.
-They are beyond the physical to me, one can never be superficial when it comes to family.
-They are with me, in every way, wherever I go.
-They add to me, shape me, teach me, and complete me.
-I can look to them for self-reference, they are who made me.

I mean, technically TEAM, MEAT, MATE, and TAME are also possible anagrams but somehow META just seems to me to be the best of the five choices.

As for WHERE I shall be inking this on my body.. I'm not quite sure yet. I might be completely unoriginal and do my knuckles. But what if knuckle tattoos become as notorious as LBTs??? Ha, I doubt that.


EDIT: Left hand knuckles: M E T A - what built me up. Right hand knuckles: X X I I - what broke me down. And if I ever married, the ring would fall on the T [for Tania] which would make sense as it would join whoever with me [Tania]. ! Wow. How deep. And, also, I wouldn't get the same typical font as every other person with knuckle tatts.. I'd get 'em really thin, ring-size, so they could be easily covered whenever I wished.