November 4, 2007Cirque du Soleil plans 2008 return to Redmond's Marymoor ParkKeeping to its plan of visiting the Seattle area about once every two years with a different attraction, the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil will bring its circus spectacle "Corteo" to Redmond's Marymoor Park next year for a run that begins on April 24, 2008, and will last four weeks or more. Before coming here, "Corteo" will have a Portland engagement, and after the Redmond run the show will travel to Vancouver, B.C. The title "Corteo" is Italian for "cortege" (typically meaning a train of attendants, or a funeral procession). Cirque du Soleil describes the show, which premiered in Montreal in 2005, as " a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. [It] brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth." -- Oh my god! Words cannot express how much I am looking forward to this show. Cirque du Soleil is going to be in town during my 18th birthday, and my uncle nabbed premium seats for the whole family! (He has some online membership to Cirque du Soleil, which is why he managed to get tickets for the near-impossible seats.) This is my first time ever to a show like this, and I'm ecstatic! AHHHHH, I CAN'T WAIT. I went on the Corteo website and got some pictures:
Posted on 11/04/2007 3:30 PM Comments (8)
October 19, 2007Fine Arts?Lately I've been having second thoughts about pursuing a career as a lawyer. What's in that particular profession which would make it ideal for me? Nothing, really. I love debating, and I like public speaking, but that's about it. My uncle's a lawyer, and it seems like a pretty mundane job by the way he describes it. I would only be in it for the good pay, but even these days, getting a J.D. isn't necessarily a lisence to print money. The tuition for law schools is skyrocketing and many students graduate wallowed in almost $100,000 in debt. No thank you! My passion is in the fine arts without a doubt. I feel like I would be wasting my entire life if I didn't pursue my heart's desire. I know that sounds totally dumb and cliche, but it's true. In my drawing class the other day my professor asked me if I was fine arts major, and I told her that I was considering it, and that ideally, I would want to become a fine arts professor. She said that even though competition is fierce, I have enough talent to make it happen. Ugh, I don't know! I talked to another friend of mine who's mom is a design/drawing professor at Cornish Collge of the Arts, which is a very prestigious art school here in Seattle, and he said that his mom loves her job but doesn't get paid very much. Will I be financially unstable and fail to make ends meet if I pursue this career? Painting and drawing are basically the loves of my life, and I don't want to give them up. Yea, yea..I know that I can do them as hobbies when I get older, but that won't satisfy me. Plus, I probably won't have time, anyways. I really don't know what to do. I already know that I'm going to get a degree in Humanities and then get a second degree in English, in order for me to teach English in Korea for a few years after I graduate. My aunt runs an academy in Seoul and asked me to teach there once I was finished with college. Native-speaking English teachers get paid extremely well there, and I'm hoping to save up money to go to graduate school and get a Masters in Fine Arts. Ideally. I really want to go talk to my professor after class on Tuesday and ask for some guidance. Can anyone give me some advice?
Posted on 10/19/2007 6:30 PM Comments (7)
September 20, 2007I've been tagged! My top ten favorite bands.I got tagged by three people! So I guess there's no backing out of this one, not like I would have done so anyways. A quick thanks to unsceneunheard, robotshaveheartstoo, and lexidiem for tagging me (: Here are the easy rules. By the way, this list was terribly difficult to narrow down, so once again, I've included an Honorable Mentions list at the bottom. #10: Peaches
#9: Age of Rockets
#8: Cansei de Ser Sexy
#7: Le Tigre
#6: Her Space Holiday
#5: MIA
#4: Blue Scholars
#3: FT Island
#2: Lily Allen
#1: The Postal Service
Honorable Mention: Meg&Dia, Feist, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, New Young Pony Club, Lemon Jelly, The White Stripes, Bikini Kill, Digable Planets, Earth Wind and Fire, The Clash, The Cure, Sublime, Shiny Toy Guns, The Decemberists, The Faint, Kanye West, Keane, Azure Ray, Amy Winehouse, Zero 7, Andrea Bocceli (not really a band but whatever), and the great pioneers of Bossa Nova: Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Charlie Byrd, Sergio Mendes, Joao Gilberto Okay! I'm going to tag in no particular order hehthur, artsytypegirl, hellocouture, aidenwhore, sjsphoto, jaromehollingsworth, jiliandee, love4tragedy,
Posted on 09/20/2007 12:59 PM Comments (9)
September 19, 2007Who needs real love anyways? My top ten celebrity crushes!Alright, so lexidiem tagged me because I told him that I thought this would be fun. Hurray! I happen to LOVE filling out lists. I think it's a great way of telling people some random stuff about yourself that they never would have found out otherwise. Here are the rules: 1. You post your top 10 fantasy guys/girls. NOTE: THIS LIST IS COMPLETELY SHALLOW/SUPERFICIAL. PLEASE DO NOT BASH ME FOR MY CRUSHES OF CHOICE. AND YES, I PURPOSEFULLY MADE THIS CHEESY AND DUMB FOR YOUR OWN ENTERTAINMENT. So thank you and enjoy. PS. I'm really super OCD, which is why I desaturated every photo and made them all the same size. I'm just weird like that. I need everything to match or else I go insane, hahahaha. #10: George Clooney
#9: Marlon Brando
#8: Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance
#7: Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United
#6: John Mayer
#5: Daniel Craig
#4: Rodrigo Santoro
#3: Gerard Butler
#2: Joseph Fiennes
#1: Hong-gi Lee
He deserves TWO photos since he's my number one (: If you want to have the full experience of my lover, Hong-gi, then I suggest you watch these videos. If you don't want to/don't have time to watch the videos in their entirety, then skip about halfway and then again towards the very end for "Thunder" and about a third of the way in for "Maria." "Thunder" (The song starts out a bit slow, but it gets really good when it hits the chorus. Oh, and I really don't know what that boat is doing there.) "Maria" (One of the guitarists sings the first part, which is alright..but not too impressive. I heard that Hong-gi was sick during this performance.)
Honorable Mention: Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, Jeremy Irons, Heath Ledger, Michael Buble, James Purefoy, Eric Bana, Adam Brody, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law, Ricardo Kaka, Desi Arnaz Okay, so now it's my turn to tag people! I'm going to tag sjsphoto! michaelamisfit! jeffreydenton! carascene! scarletlark! alreadyxdead! yashialove! kasixcakes! hangbrittneycurtains! unsceneunheard! for no particular reason except that they're all nice and awesome people.
Posted on 09/19/2007 3:00 PM Comments (11)
September 14, 2007Palettes and Tubes of Oil Paintmake the BESTBESTBEST still lifes for photography. I JUST found that out. Oh my god, I'm so excited. I'm uploading the pictures onto my hardrive as I'm typing this. Ahh! I was sitting around trying to ignore the fact that I still need to finish reading The Iliad, when I turned on my camera and started taking shots of random stuff in my room. Then I took one of my used palettes with oil paint brushed all over it and everything just clicked in my head. I'm not trying to sound like I'm some hot shit photographer, because I most certainly am NOT..I'm just really happy with the results of something that started out as me just playing around and ending as a..I don't know..a revelation of some sort. I definitely need to start bringing my camera with me to art class on Saturdays. GabrielaMarie.
Posted on 09/14/2007 5:07 PM Comments (2)
September 12, 2007So I was bored yesterday,and I decided to play around with this new eyeshadow that I bought two days ago. It turned out fairly well. SO well in fact, that I took some pictures of it. Ahhh, but you can see all of the freckles that I got from the when I spent the day at the beach. Honestly, I have no life whatsoever, and aside from finishing up The Iliad before college starts up, I have nothing to do at home. How pathetic is THAT? My boyfriend's been bugging me about going out with him and watching Superbad or some other movie, and I'm just sitting on my ass taking pictures of myself. Anyways, comments on the pictures would be very much appreciated. GabrielaMarie.
Posted on 09/12/2007 8:41 AM Comments (1)
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