Via Ffffound!
Photo by me!
I’d like to tell you about a group called Carrotmob. What Carrotmob does is approach a bunch of small businesses and ask them to use a percentage of profits from one day for environmental improvements. The business that promises the largest percentage gets mobbed by customers on the agreed day. Carrotmob Minneapolis is rallying people to shop this Saturday at Guse Hardware at 4206 Bryant Ave. S. The store is using 100% of the day’s profits for environmental improvements! I’m guessing you must need something from a hardware store – numbers for your mailbox, buckets, a nail? Come on by. There will be music and fun. And nails. Thanks to my friend Sarah for telling me about this.
My goodness. Wouldn’t this be a cool thing to do to your bedroom? (Until you wake in the middle of the night, startled by the deformed creatures hovering around you.) Again, found on Ffffound!
I’m imagining that some of you out there are art-makers. I just so happen to be looking for art donations… I’ve been working with Ampersand Families here in Minneapolis. They work to find homes for older foster children. There’s an event coming up, Cache at the Casket, for which Ampersand is the beneficiary. The event will include a silent art auction, and we’re seeking art donations. Please shoot me an email – andrea (at) somethingsiknow (dot) com – if you might be interested in donating a piece of artwork. Thank you!
Now, this. This is wonderful. I found it on Fffound!
Makes me think of Where the Wild Things Are, which I am very excited to see. Yeah – I know everyone’s excited to see it.
Image by ieganai.
Some things that have happened: P and I exhibited at a book festival. I slept for 14 hours straight. It snowed.
I believe that this is an album cover, and I quite like it. You can find out more about it right here.
I was at the bank yesterday when a man with a bandana over his face walked briskly in the door. I knew right away what was going to happen. He pulled out a gun (or what looked like a gun), and started yelling at the teller to give him money. The bank was pretty empty at the time, and I was the only person standing out in the open, at one of the podiums where I had been filling out my deposit slip. I was really close to this man, and I wanted to get far away as fast as possible, while drawing absolutely no attention to myself. I walked slowly backward until I could duck behind a little wall. The whole time, the man kept yelling at the teller to give him more money, more 100s. And then he ran out. Bank employees rushed to lock the doors behind him. It was such a relief to hear those locks click! Then people started crying.
What’s really sticking with me is the yelling. The man was extremely on edge – scared, desperate, tweaked out – and you could hear it in his voice. I think it would have been awful if someone had jumped up in an attempt to be some sort of hero.
Photo by my dear friend Claire Becker. We had no such sun here in Minneapolis today.
I recently came across this quotation by Wendell Berry: A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. I rather like that.
Sadly, I can’t tell you who created these enchanting images. You can see more on the Unicorn Diaries site, though.
Goodnight moon. Sleep well.
Now that’s a nice cover, eh?
Adam’s show last night was fantastic. He’s really good! It’s enthralling to watch someone do something that they’re really good at.
