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Happy Mori As a safeguard against future actions of loss and clumsiness, as recorded in the prior post, I have decided to manage all of my primary bank cards, transportation and identification within a cunning leather-based iPhone and card holder from the Korean-based media accessories company, Happy Mori.
CAFFEINEI am currently under the suspicion that my organic “shell” is harboring.. an uninvited cold.
Winter SemesterSpending many, many hours of classes on the wintery Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser University has never been one of my favored recollections as a student.
Basics
- 18.Dec
- Sitting and Watching
More interesting is what you see when you sit and watch yourself. You learn to step outside yourself, and act as an observer. You see your thoughts, and learn more about yourself than you ever could if you were rushing to take action.
- 15.Sep
- How to Break Your Bad Financial Habits
1. Define your problem.
Before you can make any progress, financially or otherwise, you need to define your bad habit, and figure out how you would defeat it.- 15.Aug
- A Day in the Life of a Minimalist
Zen Habits, an insightful series of articles on how to achieve simplicity — in career, relationships and design — amidst the daily chaos of our western culture and lifestyle.
- 13.Mar
- The Art of Giving Advice
Giving ‘good’ advice has always been a bone of contention with me.
CameraLove Lifestyle
- 28.Dec
- Jenny & Andrew’s Summer Augustine Wedding
Earlier in August, I was fortunate enough to witness the beautiful wedding of two very loving people, Jenny Thai and Andrew Nip!
- 18.Oct
- Yeah, I’m done with models
I want to take photos while talking to someone about their life, and have it not need to be for a portfolio, have it not need to revolve around any particular pose.
- 20.Sep
- Cinemagraphs
A Cinemagraph is an image that contains within itself a living moment, that allows a glimpse of time to be experienced and preserved endlessly.
- 22.Nov
- It’s Not the Camera, It’s You
why is it always the question of “WHAT CAMERA ARE YOU USING.”
Conferences
- 13.Jan
- HTML5 Vancouver Meetup Canvas Edition
These are a few iphone photos from the January 2012 meetup of HTML5 Vancouver, featuring Dave Shea (mezzoblue.com, csszengarden.com and author of The Zen of CSS Design) speaking about drawing with HTML5 Canvas.
- 16.Nov
- Web Standards Live-Streaming Conference
This year’s theme is focused on HTML5 and the Open Web Platform.
- 21.Aug
- Design and Nerds in a Hive
The diversity of the group enriches the design process and propels discussion far beyond the prescribed parameters of a project.
- 18.Aug
- Launching A Party : Grow Conference
Where I attended as a daytime-setup volunteer and socialized with a few people from A Thinking Ape.
Essays Literature
- 30.Nov
- Explorations of the Vagous Spaces
Oldest free-standing residences within Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway’s fictional city.
- 25.Oct
- Dreaming of the Reason: Freud and Shelley
A Literary Criticism of Freud’s The Dream Work & Shelley’s A Defense of Poetry
- 16.Oct
- Hardy’s Penultimate Tess and Casual Savagery of One Day
In spite of its comic gloss, One Day is really about loneliness and the casual savagery of fate.
- 12.Jan
- Systems of Authenticity
Reading is the result of an organized experience.
- 12.Sep
- The Simulacra, the Simulation and the Subtext
The art of a simulacrum is to feign what one does not possess.
Drawings and Illustration Literature Research
- 16.Dec
- The Ghost in the Shell, noted
What makes a human being “human”?
- 04.Dec
- The Litany Against Fear
The litany against fear is an incantation used by the Bene Gesserit throughout the Dune series to focus their minds and calm themselves in times of peril.
- 30.Nov
- Explorations of the Vagous Spaces
Oldest free-standing residences within Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway’s fictional city.
iPhone Wanderlust
- 15.Nov
- How Can We Know the Dancer From the Dance
Participating with the first Instameet+.
- 29.Oct
- When they ask Why, Say You Did it for Love
When you’re trying to figure out who you are, you cannot be held back by who other people think you are.
- 04.Sep
- Save on Meats and Photowalk
Wandered for a skip and hop to the recently renovated and delicious diner Save on Meats for a luncheon photowalk.
- 01.Sep
- She Sells Seashells by the Seashore
September is a little odd month: the heatwave of summer sunshine continues into a misty fog o’mornings with whispering breezes at noon, followed by the crunch of sidewalk leaves and ocean roars late in the afternoon. These are a few of the little subterranean cities that populate the seashore.
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Eliz Sarobhasa is a university student and candidate design researcher from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Her main focus is interaction design and the principle of linguistic relativity (also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis): the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers are able to conceptualize their world, i.e. their world view, in addition to the syntax of artificial languages.
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