I love you air-conditioning, BUT....

Sketching on a Windy Night

I went sketching with friends at the Americana the other night! I felt really rusty but I had a lot of fun. Check out Stu's awesome sketches from the night!:

And boy was the drive home interesting...
                     

The Dress

Most people have anxiety dreams about terrifying free-falls, rapid tooth-loss, and the horror of leaving the house clad only in undergarments. My nightmares occasionally involve me being somewhere or doing something important and realizing that I am wearing my high school show choir dress:

 

Dancing Box Men

I knew a guy in high school who used to make little dancing box men. They were pretty awesome. If you follow these instructions, you too can make a dancing box man.

Step 1: Find a small cardboard box. Nerds candy boxes work perfectly for this.


Step 2: Open one end of said box so that all 4 flaps are perpendicular to the rest of the box.


Step 3: Dispose of the box's contents.


Step 4: Use a marker to draw a silly face and arms/legs on the box flaps.


Step 5: Yea!


For looping gifs that are actually well done (and other awesome art), see Anthony Holden's blog!

And for more more crazy-go-nuts silliness, check out Blog-o-nonsense!

Kids at the Aquarium

Chris and I went to the Long Beach Aquarium this weekend so I could do some studies of marine arthropods for a class. Aquariums are special to me. When I was six years old I decided that being an astronaut was overrated and that I should become a marine biologist instead. Obviously that didn't happen (as it turns out I'm not so great at maths), but I am still infatuated with marine life.

Since it was a long weekend, the aquarium was more crowded than usual. As we expected, there were a lot of families there. Parents of rambunctious boys--I don't know how you guys manage to muster the energy to keep up.

The first thing we saw when we approached the aquarium was this:



Inside the building we saw a lot of this:


The poor aquarium employee monitoring the touch tanks was having a particularly tough day:


Basically I witnessed a lot of misbehaving from many a hyper child (often at the expense of one or more animals). However, I also saw a lot of really well-behaved kids who were just as amazed by marine life as I was at their age. This guy was awestruck by the giant spider crabs:

"WHOA! ....WHOOAAA!...WHOAA!!"