{kaleido, a study in curiosities}

month

March 2011

82 posts

Anonymous asked: HOGWARTS SCHOOL
of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmistress: Minerva McGonagall

Dear Ms.Charmaine,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Um, guess who has a paid job again?

YEAH, ME. I’m not short on cash or anything, but I’ve definitely felt guilty this year. I’m never at my place, wasting - oh - $460/month! A very expensive back-up plan. So I was looking through part-time job listings on the Career Center during my daily internship search and saw that the Cinema Studies program was hiring for a student assistant. The duties were varied and a mix...

Yes, I did just pull an all-nighter for a project...

But I cared enough about my stupid-sounding voice to make something more genuine, shoot some cool scenes that Chris helped act out, and spend four hours editing the damn thing into three minutes of an “autobiography.” As my Gateway chapter closes and I finally enter the upper-ranks of the journalism school, I find tonight oddly funny. During fall quarter, I was so frustrated and...

““Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be...”

– - Desiderata, Max Ehrmann (via rachelkoppes) —- I’m not much for poems, but this is the kind that truly speaks to me - especially on a late night like this one.

fuckyeahpackaging: My starpack entry Chī, [chee] which means ‘eating in’ in Chinese Takeaway meal packaging for two I don’t usually criticize packaging design here, but what kind of audience is this targeting? It’s so bland and completely stripped of Asian culture. I’m all for minimalist design, but this is so misrepresentative of the food contained by this takeout...

“Perhaps we don’t like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size,...”

– Sufjan Stevens (via lovedesignlife) —- He always knew what to say.

http://New Pokemon Games Sell 1.08 Million Copies... →

Guess all the people whose posts appeared on my dash weren’t alone.