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enamouredI have been weaving like, almost all day. And mostly, it's because it's soothing. But mainly, it's because it's part of something that I'm working on for 3D design.
A picture, because trying to explain what I'm doing is complicated.
I'm using the straws as a loom and doing the usual over/under weave on them. When the yarn gets close to the taped off parts, I pull them up, which in turn pushes the woven parts down. The ends of the filler thread are tied off. Once you reach a point you want to stop at, you snip the taped parts of the straws off and tie off the other end of filler thread. And voila, you have a scarf.
I did this for the first time in art class in like, fifth or sixth grade. I still have my first scarf, and I was always super-sad that it wasn't long enough for me to wear.
And now I have like, seven or eight... oblong balls of yarn, so I can finally make one for myself once this project's over. Well, one or five, whichever.
Besides doing tons of weaving, I went and saw Argo this afternoon. I found out that the United Artists theater near my house does $5 twilight movies, so my new plan is to, should a movie I like be playing at that theater between 4 and 6, go over there, because that's the best price ever. Especially on weekends! Most of the theaters I frequent don't do student tickets during weekends, and the AMC at the mall only does AM $5 movies. So I like this.
Anyway! The movie was excellent. I'm liking Ben Affleck's directorial efforts, even though I haven't seen Gone Baby Gone, but I liked The Town and this one. I was randomly really excited to see that Titus Welliver (the Man in Black from Lost) had a bit part in it. I know that canonically, he has a different name, but every time I see him in something I automatically think of him as MIB or as Esau.
I have just as much fun spotting Mark Pellegrino in things too, only I get to go, "JACOB! SATAN!" Pretty much had that reaction during a point in Revolution, which I am behind in. Actually, I'm behind in almost every show I'm watching right now--I just got around to watching the season premiere of The Vampire Diaries a little while ago, and I still have to watch this week's episode of Revolution and the last two weeks' worth of Elementary. I also have the pilot for Nashville on my Kindle, because it was free via Amazon Video and because I've heard good things about it.
So: what have you been watching/checking out lately? Not just TV and movies, but books and such too. I'm mired deep in You Killed Wesley Payne, which I thought I was going to love but I'm having kind of a hard time really getting into. It's an okay book, just not as gripping as I'd imagined. Last weekend I read Princess, an ebook I'd downloaded ages ago because it was like, $1.99 from the Kindle store and it looked like it was going to be a frothy, girlie romp... and ended up being a big ol' soapy mess that kept me going "OH COME ON" at, all while I tried to read to the end.
That's all!
A picture, because trying to explain what I'm doing is complicated.
I'm using the straws as a loom and doing the usual over/under weave on them. When the yarn gets close to the taped off parts, I pull them up, which in turn pushes the woven parts down. The ends of the filler thread are tied off. Once you reach a point you want to stop at, you snip the taped parts of the straws off and tie off the other end of filler thread. And voila, you have a scarf.
I did this for the first time in art class in like, fifth or sixth grade. I still have my first scarf, and I was always super-sad that it wasn't long enough for me to wear.
And now I have like, seven or eight... oblong balls of yarn, so I can finally make one for myself once this project's over. Well, one or five, whichever.
Besides doing tons of weaving, I went and saw Argo this afternoon. I found out that the United Artists theater near my house does $5 twilight movies, so my new plan is to, should a movie I like be playing at that theater between 4 and 6, go over there, because that's the best price ever. Especially on weekends! Most of the theaters I frequent don't do student tickets during weekends, and the AMC at the mall only does AM $5 movies. So I like this.
Anyway! The movie was excellent. I'm liking Ben Affleck's directorial efforts, even though I haven't seen Gone Baby Gone, but I liked The Town and this one. I was randomly really excited to see that Titus Welliver (the Man in Black from Lost) had a bit part in it. I know that canonically, he has a different name, but every time I see him in something I automatically think of him as MIB or as Esau.
I have just as much fun spotting Mark Pellegrino in things too, only I get to go, "JACOB! SATAN!" Pretty much had that reaction during a point in Revolution, which I am behind in. Actually, I'm behind in almost every show I'm watching right now--I just got around to watching the season premiere of The Vampire Diaries a little while ago, and I still have to watch this week's episode of Revolution and the last two weeks' worth of Elementary. I also have the pilot for Nashville on my Kindle, because it was free via Amazon Video and because I've heard good things about it.
So: what have you been watching/checking out lately? Not just TV and movies, but books and such too. I'm mired deep in You Killed Wesley Payne, which I thought I was going to love but I'm having kind of a hard time really getting into. It's an okay book, just not as gripping as I'd imagined. Last weekend I read Princess, an ebook I'd downloaded ages ago because it was like, $1.99 from the Kindle store and it looked like it was going to be a frothy, girlie romp... and ended up being a big ol' soapy mess that kept me going "OH COME ON" at, all while I tried to read to the end.
That's all!
