How to understand everything and not hate yourself.

Modern Butt

2012-01-30T12:12:00.001+11:00

And the winner for most fashionable butt-shape is the 'neck pillow'

yarra city snaps

2011-12-26T16:33:00.004+11:00

I don't really like the idea of going around taking pictures when you're on holiday, but I did see three amazing things: a top-notch cumulus, a gurning otter (or something), and some dog meat with a silly name.
Thanks readers I now have 50 of you, which was a pretty nice christmas present. I'm not too cool to care guys. Thanks for your tacit validation over the years. My gift to you is increasing the font size, I just came to my senses and realised how annoying tiny type is.

2011-12-14T20:35:00.010+11:00

worst slang of the year: babin'

worst fashion of the year: pleated coats

runner up worst fashion of the year: capes (capes are finished, you ruined them for everyone when you put pom-poms on them); nude wedge high heels; wedge heeled desert boots; wedge heeled anything

worst other things of the year: no further comment.

prediction for worst cultural appropriation/fashion statement 2012: turbans

If you're going to do it, do it this way (via Joan Collins Archive).

2011-12-11T10:40:00.000+11:00

2011-12-06T18:45:00.003+11:00

Sorry for that last post, I think I may be diluting the concept of my blog. Pretty much all the time.
Just want to share things with the world. So much to give.
So many childhood anecdotes that fail to make any point about my character or anyone else's.
So much guarded prose.
So many found images and so little to say about them.

Bitten Knudsen: a person the internet doesn't know much about. People try to talk to her on her FB fanpage but she's dead now. I was trying to find out what happened to her and there were these tribute videos on youtube that her friend made. Having some gathering to remember her, and the camera just awkwardly panning around the table. It was awful

the big questions

2011-12-02T13:19:00.006+11:00

Why isn't Taylor Hanson still famous? He's fucken hot. Why were people only into him when he was like 11? That's a bit fucked up

Yeah I know he's married. Good for them. Real cute couple.

If anyone needs me I'll be working on my Hanfic.

(Yes this is actually a real thing that existed on livejournal in the 90s.)

which country has the most racist candy?

2011-11-25T09:03:00.003+11:00

is it Finland?

Australia?

New Zealand?

Is the milky bar kid racist? Is it racist to cast a southeast asian child as the milky bar kid? Is it "PC gone mad"? Do you leave comments on Stuff.com articles? Is it wrong that the white eskimos are my favourite? Is candy exempt from racism?

tips for late night reading

2011-11-25T08:31:00.000+11:00

2011-11-23T18:55:00.002+11:00

been thinking about spending all my time trying to look like a VS model and having a boyfriend who would make me wear contact lenses whenever we were in public and say stuff like 'you're not going out in that are you?' and i have no idea what i would fill my days with but i expect it wouldn't be any lonelier than this.

advertorial

2011-11-18T07:49:00.005+11:00

zinefest is tomorrow (12-5 mighty mighty). i'm not selling anything this year, but i did draw a comic for one of my bf's zines (i think it's issue 3) and i made a sweet collage for one of the cds he's flogging. and i could be all, 'god i hate what i've become, doing stuff for my partner and not making any of my own work', which i think is actually a pretty big issue for indie couples, but in my case i don't think it applies/ i don't really care.
anyway go and buy a copy of KVNT because he only sold like 3 last year and it bummed him out.

p.s. he's not selling those xmas cards but i thought they were funny.

look at me and tell me if you've known me before

2011-11-16T18:02:00.006+11:00

there are three issues i would like to address, being: seizures, actors, and the transhumanist project.
to my mind these are closely linked, seizures being not inherently terrifying but a kind of physical metaphor for something worse. one of my co-workers had a seizure one morning, like 60 seconds after we got out of her car (she gave me a lift that day). and i was scared and everything, but it's just medical, just blood and convulsions which are pretty organic and non-threatening. i would be scared to have a seizure myself, but i've had a lot of memory loss from drinking which i guess is not that different, so maybe it would suit my repertoire.
then actors. you know that factoid that people throw around about the south american tribe who won't have their picture taken because they believe that it damages their souls or something? probably misquoted, but that's in the spirit of these things (these vaguely racist trivia about 'lost tribes'). a similar level of suspicion operates in my mind regarding actors, possibly in a similar vein (i don't like having my picture taken either, but that's because i have trouble recognising myself). maybe it is my congenital inability to lie, but if someone is an actor, how do you know if they are acting or not? a bad actor is ok, but what if they were really good, just acting at you all the time. and the recurrent sense that a person you meet has appeared to you before under a different name, in a different role, maybe several times.
which brings me to the transhumanists. i wrote about them for school a while ago, twice, and hopefully again soon. i can't generalise about the entire movement, but a significant number of them would consider it theoretically desirable to take someone who is dead, scan their brain with like an electron microscope or whatever, then reproduce the entire system on a computer. fucking terrible idea.
you see now right? i'm afraid that any rupture of consciousness, real or perceived, could be permanent. like a dead man on a hard drive.

2011-11-14T19:08:00.002+11:00

open to submissions (testimonials, reviews, anecdotes, clip art)

2011-11-13T19:34:00.003+11:00

this scene has a corpse at the end, just so you don't get scared.
half the people who commented on it were only interested in the sexy wet hair/nipples. my favourite part is the carpet. the idea of having carpet underwater and also water stains on wallpaper. the paper is peeling off. the idea of terrible water damage on expensive interiors. weakened plaster and mould blossoms. maybe a theatre with like sham pasteboard scenery, all sodden and damp upholstery.
maybe i was allowed to play in too many derelict places when i was little, see:
gore railway station (abandoned)- attracted 'vandals' (ruth harris, n.b. i have never heard anyone else use this word in this sense); when it was demolished the rats headed for our house, a real plague
pile of tires behind firestone - probably pretty safe i guess
small brick building with really deep drain - we had a blast dropping stuff down it, but i lost some tacky necklace near there and was heartbroken. forever.

2011-11-12T11:42:00.003+11:00

i've been mentally cataloguing all this great life advice, thinking i should do a blog post about it. like how to use suncream without getting acne, and how to never pay for a uni textbook. however i just really want to push my new blog ("this blog is great" - Natalie) so maybe i'll integrate it into that. a photo of the sky and then some life advice, how does that sound.

incidentally, my primary daily photo competitor j. blandford usually sucks but really nailed it with this one shot of a sharp-suited man on his knees outside a jewelery shop. jealous

2011-11-09T16:33:00.002+11:00

i wrote a book about wearing neutral colours. it's called 'neutral territory'. now i just need to format it, illustrate it and get it printed - in time for zinefest - but do i give a fuck about zinefest - probably not. so probably the book will never surface.

bono will tear us apart

2011-11-07T17:29:00.000+11:00

2011-11-03T14:57:00.002+11:00

if your heart is free to crush on people on the internet, then take a look at this
http://www.kier-cs.com/

the state of Maine

2011-11-02T13:29:00.006+11:00

90% of the land in Maine is forest. it is known as the pine tree state.

Maine is the only state to have zero cases of serial murder.

Maine is the number one exporter of blueberries and toothpicks.

The most populous city in Maine is called Portland - not to be confused with Portland Oregon, which was named after Portland Maine.

The official state cat is the Maine Coon. these damn giant cats that i'm obsessed with -

oh kitty you so silly . oh yes. you can't be a baby kitty. so fluffy kitty.

I would very much like to go to Maine.

free shit round 3

2011-10-31T12:40:00.002+11:00

a) fujifilm camera , not working
b) tin, spring catch

free shit round 2

2011-10-31T10:38:00.003+11:00

let me know here or via FB if you want any of this junk.

a) bendy-style desk lamp
b) decrepit hazardous-style desk lamp
c) wall street-style toy phone
d) brothel-style wipe-down vinyl wallpaper (~2 rolls)
e) jarvis cocker-style fake glasses (i just stood on these and broke them so forget about it)
f) 2005-style sunglasses

free shit round 1

2011-10-31T10:18:00.003+11:00

let me know here or via FB if you want any of this junk.

a) phone/ charger. works
b) fake tan OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS DOING IN MY HOUSE I'M SUPPOSED TO BE AN INDIE. medium/dark
c) ringbinder dictionary
d) photography paper with possible water/mould damage. give your CALH photos a real unique look
e) headphones. don't work

suxday

2011-10-30T18:32:00.003+11:00

1. your bf/gf is unlikely to be staying over
2. you probably had a really crap dinner
3. nothing happens on the internet on sunday
4. you feel obliged to bore yourself to sleep because you have work in the morning
5. i once got really shitfaced on a sunday
6. and took acid
7. then when i went to work the first thing i said was "oh no i'm still high on acid"
8. at least i'm not doing that tonight

new blog

2011-10-24T07:17:00.002+11:00

so i put myself on probation with this one, because my track record with new blogs is pretty terrible (remember those 2 sweet weeks of hell hot jews? yeah neither does anyone else) but i've been posting every day with relative ease so i guess it's time to Go Public.

http://capcitysnaps.blogspot.com/

guess which one is my lecturer

2011-10-22T12:37:00.004+11:00

Source

thought processes while 'working' on film essay

2011-10-20T14:17:00.002+11:00

god this theory is meaningless

i feel like they were using it to bestow legitimacy on previously overlooked directors

which is admirable but shouldn't you just not be an elitist c'nt in the first place?

pauline kael sounds like a bad bitch

ooh she was jewish

and a single mum

this lady is awesome

am i a sexist?

or at least oestro-centric

gyno-centric

3/4 pictures on my wall are women and the other is baby leo

maybe i just 'relate to it' more

god this pasta is horrible

2011-10-17T09:34:00.000+11:00

there is a blog for stuff like this, but i don't think they accept submissions

2011-10-16T16:07:00.002+11:00

Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon broke up, but more importantly, their daughter appears to be Chloe Sevigny

2011-10-14T11:06:00.000+11:00

2011-10-14T10:15:00.000+11:00

this is you in 15 years

2011-10-13T14:55:00.001+11:00

animals that look like other animals

2011-10-13T14:46:00.003+11:00

2011-10-12T16:06:00.000+11:00

2011-10-10T11:23:00.001+11:00

have i finally found my niche?

2011-10-09T16:44:00.003+11:00

i mean all the tumblrs of 'people holding cats' have either topless girls or sensitive boys. totally vulgar. these are the professionals

tv hits new world metro edition

2011-10-09T15:47:00.003+11:00

Intuition

Ray of Light

HOT: the x files; going fucking insane when you lose your keys
NOT: the consequences of using shampoo; the consequences of not using shampoo

life plan

2011-10-05T08:22:00.005+11:00

1. Use status as str8-A tertiary student to springboard into a better job
2. Use better job to springboard into a better flat (THORNDON)

3. Get one of these (the cat not the man [the man is nice too but i already have one])

2011-10-03T18:08:00.006+11:00

lowered expectations/goals (having a washing machine)
friends are less noticeably depressed
excessive time spent on administrative tasks
more talented but less inclined to use it
a bold new isolation
visible loss of skin elasticity -
rigorous skincare
most correspondence abandoned
cheaping out on clothes
no haircuts
not noticing when people are speaking to you
buying big to save big
no circulars but the sign always falls off
less inclined to drunken magnanimity
fewer (0) reasons to go out

2011-10-02T16:44:00.001+11:00

from his christian teen network page. last one i promise -

except for this picture of dane rumble with underage girls

STOP THE PRESSES

2011-10-02T13:41:00.003+11:00

Ethan Williams, the guy i posted about below, was a victim of internet predator Natalia Burgess!

what the fuck is this about??

2011-10-01T10:51:00.003+10:00

sneaking into flying lessons?
ripping off a grand of stationary?
posing as a reporter at top model auditions?
kind of awesome?

here he is

and here

oh my god this is too funny

2011-09-27T17:20:00.001+10:00

2011-09-24T08:18:00.001+10:00

russian honeys

2011-09-22T17:55:00.003+10:00

Turns out the version of Pictures at the Exhibition that we know and love is actually an arrangement by Ravel. And Mussorgsky was some sad alco.
Anyway here it is. You may recognise the horn line in Promenade from a finance company ad. The whole suite reminds me of school orchestra rehearsals, but i still enjoy it.

One of my favourite things is finding out that people have talents I didn't know about, like when Wigram hero Jim Anderton saved a man's life by using his wife's scarf as a tourniquet (truth). Similarly impressive, Alexander Borodin not only wrote Prince Igor but was also a behemoth of chemistry. All I remember is that he discovered the Borodin reaction. I can't remember what the Borodin reaction is. Oh what could have been if I had pursued chem

2011-09-22T16:50:00.003+10:00

i always thought my dad looked like George Harrison but i guess not. maybe i got confused by the names as a child. G. Harris/G. Harrison.

pussy magnet

2011-09-18T15:26:00.001+10:00

liam

2011-09-15T17:40:00.001+10:00

if one of the things you are desperate to do in life is be on an oasis tribute album, i may be able to help. contact me to find out how serious i am (the answer is 'very').

2011-09-14T16:13:00.010+10:00

i started a tumbler earlier this year which was fine when i had school holidays.
however the main disadvantage of tumblr is that if you can't post say, 5+ items a day, you needn't bother. this is difficult if you're posting original content - although i was posting found images, i spent on average at least ten minutes trawling bebo to find each one.
i stopped bothering after a couple of weeks.
anyway in the short time that i was maintaining it, i built up a pretty big picture collection which is still rotting there. god it's terrible. my interests are just too esoteric for this life.

new boyfriend

2011-09-14T15:37:00.000+10:00

lost another damn follower

2011-09-12T16:36:00.005+10:00

you know i really bend over backwards to give you whatever rubbish i think of and also to hide fake celebrity nudes in the archives (check if you don't believe me).
jesus what do i have to do? post pictures of daria?
how about this dubious reality television show, Meet the Natives? members of a cargo cult* in Vanuatu go to england to visit prince phillip. white people learn from their simple wisdom and youtube commenters marvel at their white teeth and "natural grace".
i found this like an hour ago and am still awash in wtf, but if i figure out how this exists i'll post about it. how about you follow my blog so you don't miss it.

*possibly not actually a cargo cult. if there is one thing i am committed to, it's the facts.

descriptions of food in books

2011-09-11T06:13:00.002+10:00

"... the aspect of those monumental dishes of macaroni was worthy of the quivers of admiration they evoked. The burnished gold of the crust, the fragrance of sugar and cinnamon they exuded, were but preludes to the delights released from the interior when the knife broke the crust; first came a spice-laden haze, then chicken livers, hard boiled eggs, sliced ham, chicken and truffles in masses of piping hot, glistening macaroni, to which the meat juice gave an exquisite hue of suede."

The Leopard, Tomasi di Lampedusa

2011-09-09T07:41:00.000+10:00

hot blogs

2011-09-07T16:58:00.004+10:00

I am so boring that I like looking at photos of things I see every day IRL (with fucking stupid captions)

and I am pretty excited that an authoress of "dark, gritty, sensuous Regency romance" lives in the same town as me

Ég elska þig

2011-09-06T18:09:00.001+10:00

part two of a diptych

2011-09-04T17:25:00.002+10:00

Diptych 2 by The Bookhouse Boys

this sucks but it's finished at least.

2011-09-02T09:30:00.000+10:00

Родина-мать зовёт!

2011-09-01T17:46:00.004+10:00

I really love tall stuff. Cranes, wind turbines, basketball players*. Did you know the top three tallest statues in the world are all Buddhas? But that's pretty easy when you think about it. Buddhas are all squat and compact. However, check out this soviet babe:

God Wikipedia you really blow my mind sometimes

*not trying to be sassy or anything, i just never get sick of going "WHOA THOSE GUYS ARE BIG"

2011-08-29T13:18:00.005+10:00

After hiring one canadian teen werewolf movie too many, I am compiling a list of probably decent films, so as to avoid the usual compromise of "let's get something neither of us want to watch". Turns out the rating system on IMDB may be subject to certain biases ("this is definitely the best film turkey has ever made, however you may not understand the humour unless you are turkish" [10,000 upvotes from turkey, no one else has seen it]).
If can think of something I'd like you should let me know. No romance or genocide.

2011-08-28T14:08:00.003+10:00

Toner Review

2011-08-25T15:45:00.002+10:00

Q. What is toner?

A. I don't really know

Q. Can't you at least check Wikipedia?

A. What kind of hack do you think I am

Q. What does it do?

A. Makes your skin smooth and kind of tight

Q. Sounds horrible

A. I kind of like it. Makes me feel laminated

2011-08-24T07:51:00.005+10:00

Happy Birthday from BT Super for life

2011-08-18T08:07:00.005+10:00

things i achieved this past year:
-got into uni
-stopped drinking
-bought like half a dozen lipsticks

goals for this coming year:
-grow out my fringe
-start drinking again
-stop looking at stuff that aggravates/offends me on the internet
-get into those old-lady compression stockings that promote circulation.

part one of a diptych

2011-08-17T19:29:00.003+10:00

Diptych 1 by The Bookhouse Boys

there are a lot of songs i like in this (hey busta rhymes) but the standout was probably this:

god. are you feeling this? probably not as most of my traffic is for kate moss n00ds.

oak cottage

2011-08-11T18:18:00.005+10:00

My parents bought a 150 year old house to save their marriage or something . Being 12 or 13 I was willing to buy into the dream of idyllic squalor . 'local history' . My sister got bronchitis because her bedroom was too cold . I guess she didn't believe enough. I enacted some fantasy of genteel poverty ; 'I capture the castle' was probably to blame . My dad left . The floors rotted . There were rats in the ceiling . I hung flowers from the light fixture and listened to Dvorak .

Sydenham

2011-08-10T17:04:00.002+10:00

The Sydenham crimewave occured in 2004 and consisted of the murder of a woman on my paper route, the stabbing of a police officer (also female) in the park next door, and several cases of chemical burns from a substance that someone put on the women's public toilets. I was excited to be from a rough neighbourhood.
I became afraid when someone set fire to our back fence a couple of years later.

115a Lichfield St

2011-08-08T11:18:00.002+10:00

Ex-brothel. I learnt to sleep with my phone on. Some cunt stole my Anna Sui foundation during a party. It got very bad towards the end.

that london look

2011-08-04T13:18:00.004+10:00

Founded in 1834, Rimmel is the number one cosmetic brand for the congenitally pale. I imagine the light in britain is pretty similar to wellington,

so british makeup would seem the most suitable. Aside from the lightest shades of foundation available outside of the Sinister Boutique, Rimmel also specialises in fun, on-trend colours for lips, eyes and nails which you can use to deflect attention from how depressed you are.

the makeup of makeup rapists

2011-08-03T17:11:00.004+10:00

Every time I buy something by Max Factor (so 2 times) I am forcibly reminded of heir to the MF fortune and convicted rapist Andrew Luster (whose mother made this website, intended to exonerate him with powerpoint-style flying text).
The MF product design is, suitably, pretty vulgar:

meanwhile, MAC continues to make the coolest shit in the world:

BEST THINGS ABOUT STUDIO GHIBLI FILMS

2011-08-02T18:56:00.002+10:00

-having chaste romantic relationships with people who are SECRETLY DRAGONS

-all that stuff about having power over someone by knowing their true name

-monsters won't kill you

the new zealand affordable art show

2011-07-31T14:11:00.002+10:00

how do you like your noods?

(to be fair, there were some nice ceramics and a throughly 'fetching' dog painting, but mostly it was this.)

things i have bailed on

2011-07-29T12:15:00.002+10:00

1. canterbury university (once)
2. christchurch (three times)
3. new year's eve 2009 (watched mean girls)
4. playing in this gig tonight
5. learning to touch type
6. CALH 2011
7. learning to skateboard

2011-07-27T16:51:00.003+10:00

i left my swipecards at home this morning, so i had to call my boyfriend at 6.30 and get him to walk into town and give them to me. i felt like a dick and also i was running late and had a lecture straight after work, so i was flipping out. i ran back downtown and basically did all of my work really quick and ran between the different sites, so that i ended up finishing ahead of schedule and also completely elated from endorphines or something. which lasted all day. i should go for a run every morning, it might make me a more agreeable person.

2011-07-25T14:41:00.001+10:00

2011-07-25T14:16:00.003+10:00

the problem with dailymakeover is that i can't publish these 'looks' in such a way that other users can try them on.
the problem with pokemon platinum is the presence of three ghost-themed events in a relatively short space of gameplay. ghost pokemon fuck me off.
the problem with donna tartt is nothing, not to me anyway. she is the finest bitch who ever walked

daily make-over dot com

2011-07-24T17:01:00.001+10:00

2011-07-23T10:22:00.001+10:00

i almost bought this book today. 'unfading glory'. that's where they got me

2011-07-21T17:39:00.000+10:00

2011-07-19T16:16:00.002+10:00

hi i'm a university student i wear jeans a size too small with a really ugly wash and i go on twitter in my lectures and talk about how sexieee and famouse our film101 lecturer is and then i write dan savage quotes in the ladies' room and sometimes if i'm feeling daring i even write "VEGANS FUCK BETTER" and then i go back to the halls that my parents pay for me to live in and eat the food included in the costs and complain about it even though i have gained 10kg over the last semester so it can't be that bad, and i walk really slowly and congest all the hallways like cholesterol, and i give the stinkeye to everyone who isn't just liek meeeeeeeee

2011-07-18T11:30:00.002+10:00

despite having outgrown the harry potter franchise about halfway through the last book, i still have as much of an emotional investment in neville as anyone else. apparently he's hawt now, which seems appropriate. i liked his old teeth though.

things i have cried about lately

2011-07-17T10:50:00.002+10:00

1. demi lovato "skyscraper" video
2. diane von furstenburg on ANTM telling a girl to "continue being undefinable" but also extend her neck a little more
3. lesbian on ANTM talking about being called queer in school
4. not having any friends and being a loser

babysitters dreams

2011-07-15T16:31:00.004+10:00

Dawn Schaffer take me to California

Jessi take me to New Jersey

Logan Bruno take me to Long Island.

2011-07-15T08:28:00.000+10:00

my house is pretty cold. (it's olive oil).

2011-07-14T12:25:00.002+10:00

finished another run of my zine for auckland zinefest this weekend, this weekend, this weekend. each page is hand drawn and painted. the faces have distorted from perpetual reproduction, just as they have changed in real life or degraded in my memory. an exercise in artistic intimacy/torture. 5 bucks each.

2011-07-13T18:54:00.003+10:00

this morning i got really paranoid that the crotch rip in my work pants was visible, because i usually wear black tights underneath but today i forgot to, so there was a chance of thigh visibility. i tried to mostly keep my back to walls which was pretty awkward. it is a tradition in my family that you never fix anything properly, hence my old glasses had a lot of tape on them. now my pants have a safety pin in them.

p.s. i keep getting new followers despite only posting gross/vapid dreck but i can't see them. f. u. blogger i want my false sense of achievement

FUCK THE FARMERS BEAUTY CLUB

2011-07-12T07:48:00.006+10:00

"Are you a Lohan fan, or a hater?"

2011-06-22T13:53:00.004+10:00

my sister is doing a show, but is it art? all i'm saying is if picasso had sat around watching lindsay lohan films all day the sistene chapel would never have got painted!! i heAR she got $70 000 funding from CNZ too ... and whatsmore this communist graffiti (submitted via our tipline) was spotted near the planned "venue" for this "performence" ...

labour up to thier sneaky tricks again!

2011-06-05T13:04:00.006+10:00

finding things fairly poignant or something. last night we watched the other facebook movie. i have the whole break ahead, the break between semesters. i guess i'll be exhuming defunct websites a lot. kind of uncomfortable with the ongoing emotional investment i have in these places. even thinking of purchasing an external hd to archive things.
the film was good.

2011-05-31T19:48:00.004+10:00

while watching the sexy sexy internet fights on Eamonn's blog, i remembered that i have a blog also and that it once meant something to me. however i defected to tumblr after accidentally discovering the formula for success,

and now i have a book deal, just as the web 2.0 promised me. keep feeding it content everybody!

2011-05-12T09:34:00.001+10:00

I want everything to be really clean and really violent.

2011-05-03T09:24:00.003+10:00

went for a walk after school yesterday and this happened:

lost, in the hills, in the rain, with no bus money. in karori.
FACTS ABOUT KARORI:
1. it is the largest suburb in the southern hemisphere (i am not making this up)
2. it has its own microclimate
3. you should not go there ever.

2011-05-02T07:47:00.006+10:00

i made a new blog that exposes the private lives of beneficiaries, revealing/celebrating the extravagent poor choices they make with their money.

it's real this time, unlike "irodethis.blogspot.com"
i wouldn't troll you like that more than three times.

NZSL week

2011-05-01T16:54:00.006+10:00

this week (2-8 may) is new zealand sign language week. here are some things people normally say when they find out that i learn sign language.

1. how do you say _______?
people tend to be pretty curious about signing. maybe because everybody signs to some extent anyway. i think people like to guess what the sign might be for the word in question. it's often pretty intuitive.
2. deaf people look really animated/happy.
aside from signing with hands, facial expressions are used in nzsl to convey meaning. once you understand the meaning, or even that there is a meaning, it doesn't look weird anymore.
3. deaf people make weird noises/talk funny.
yep they can't hear themselves. if you lost your hearing, your ability to articulate our complex and nuanced language would deteriorate rapidly.
4. i saw sign language interpreters on tv after the earthquake, that will be you one day!
i couldn't do the job justice.
5. i once knew such-and-such deaf person, they were weird/unfriendly/unpleasant in such-and-such way.
i don't care.

i made an animated gif of people signing, it was supposed to be all feel-good and stuff, but it's not working so i don't have anything else to contribute just now. other than to say that i'm glad i enrolled in deaf studies.

this is why people look at my blog

2011-04-29T11:58:00.000+10:00

marshall mathers 35

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how to understand everything

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http://noresults.tumblr.com/
{not my blog. someone else's.}

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Got dumped last week. At least I still have my hanging fruit bowl and occasional wall-poncho. Flowers are dead though

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2011-02-12T22:34:00.003+11:00

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2011-01-17T20:07:00.003+11:00

I forced myself to smile all day today. I mean I forgot for 10 minutes here and there and I stopped once I got home, but that's still perhaps a 10,000% increase in time spent smiling. Also I wasn't hare krishna smiling, just muted enigmatic smiling. It was weird and unnatural at first and my face was aching pretty bad by 8am, but it kind of locked up after that. I noticed that more people spoke to me than usual, maybe a 50% increase. Also they were noticably friendlier to me except for that ginger dickhead who is new and probably feels insecure and is taking it out on the service staff. Way to go chump.
Anyway the results were surprising. I always thought it was fucking dumb to pretend to be happy, but my fake-smiling actually made me feel calmer overall. Composed. Sphinx-like. Perhaps I could spin it out into some bogus self-help technique.
I mean there's definately a place for death-stares, like quite a lot of places, but I probably don't need to do them all day.