Adventures In Portfolio Land

Sometimes people have portfolios to show other people their work. Sometimes they are on websites, and sometimes they are printed out!

I have a printed out portfolio. It's printed out on real paper and all that! But sometimes, you go for a job interview for the kind of work that you don't necessarily do all the time, and so you don't necessarily keep those kinds of photos in your printed out portfolio.

When that happens, you need to make another one! A temporary type one that you can substitute pictures in and out of depending on the kind of job you are interviewing for...

I had to make such a portfolio for today!
Here are some key elements for portfolio making...

A shiny new portfolio makes portfolio making more fun!

Then you take some images! In my case, they are happy portraits!

The sharper your sharp little friend, the better!

Then you cut out pictures and huzzah! You're done!

Did I get the job?
We'll find out soon enough!

Game On Solved

A few weeks back I proposed a challenge!
Here are the answers to said challenge!

RIGHT HERE!

1. Angie - The Rolling Stones
2. Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys
3. Cecilia - Simon and Garfunkel
4. Darlene - Led Zeppelin
5. Fannie Mae - Buster Brown
6. Gloria - Van Morrison
7. Izabella - Jimi Hendrix
8. Jolene - Dolly Parton
9. Julia - The Beatles
10. Lola - The Kinks
11. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
12. Polly - Nirvana
13. Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
14. Roxanne - The Police
15. Sheila - Morphine
16. Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
17. Suzy Lee - The White Stripes
18. Vera - Pink Floyd

Click the songs to hear the songs! And sometimes there are videos! Sorry for the live one(s)... Some of these songs are weird.

And the winner... IS:

IT'S A TIE! With a score of 7/18 each, the winners are Trung Ho and Melissa Di Pasquale!

That's a pretty decent score! But we have to do a tie breaker to have an ultimate winner. Or else it just wouldn't be fair... What should the tie breaker be... OK I GOT IT! Whoever is the first to guess the name I have tattooed inside my lip, WINS! You must comment on this blog with your answers to be eligible! Answer as many times as you want!

HINT: It is a girl's name, NOT my name, and it is also the name of MANY songs...

GO!

UPDATE! Trung Ho is the winner!

RandoMonday XVI

It's November!

How random is that!?

Ok, ok, you need something more random than that? Ok. Fine. FINE! Here are some pictures of eggs that cooked in this really weird way that made their shells look like wood! Apparently National Egg Month is actually in May. But I really felt like celebrating early. So I hereby dub November, Honourary National Egg Month!

If This Ain't Epic

This blog is over five years in the making...

How is that possible? Well. What you are about to see here, is the result of over five years of hoarding, collecting, searching, and obsessing. Over what?

Reese.

Some of what you're about to see will be familiar, your old favourites. Some, well, quite frankly I'd be shocked if you'd ever seen.

This collection started many years ago when my brother and I noticed that every month or so, Reese was putting out a new and obscure variation on the famous peanut butter cup. We started to collect, and things clearly got out of hand. This collection has been in a Holt Renfrew bag under my bed for several years now, and it is time to share it with the world...

HERE IT IS!

CLICK HERE to see an itemized photo essay of the entire collection, consisting of forty-five Reese products... Wow.

HAPPY HALLOWE'EN!

There Are No Words

There are no excuses for my poor blogging this month. Man. I mean, there ARE excuses! I was moving! It was my birthday! It's been a busy month! Geez, cut me some slack man!

Ok great, I feel better!

Well the month of October has come and almost gone. I moved and changed ages as you know, and now I am using this blog to fill in my ten blogs per month blog quota, and also to ramble a bit so it looks longer, and also to apologize for being such a shit blogstress this month. I'm going to go ahead and promise that next month will be full of interesting blogs all around... Let's see if I can keep that promise.

Also! I totally dropped the ball (yes, again) on my song guessing contest! The results were supposed to be up last Wednesday, the 27th, but now I am extending the contest one more week until the 3rd of November! Get those entries in!

Here are some pretty and colourful things that people sent me for my birthday!

I'd pretty much disregard this blog entry to be honest. Let's just say that last night I had a dream that a girl I went to high school with offered to buy me a pair of Louboutins if I managed to make a different variety of creamed corn each night for one full week. My head is in a scary place. Probably best I don't blog too much.

UNTIL TOMORROW'S AMAZING HALLOWE'EN BLOG!

Til then...

Sigh

Tomorrow I will officially be older than I am now.

It's a pretty weird thing when you think about it. You can't stop it from happening, you don't really want to stop it from happening. But it is weird all the same.

In honour of my impending ageing, here is a picture of a small child, who might be me when I was a small child...

I'm pretty sure this is the last time I smiled in a photo. Can you blame me? Sand and my Strawberry Shortcake doll? Sigh. Those were the days. Simple and carefree.

Ah well. Happy last day of my first quarter everybody!

Just Another Day At The Office

Some days are more eventful than others. I think we can all agree with that statement. Some days I sit at home, and some days I work for 12 hours on a fake beach beside a sugar factory in the rain with half a dozen girls dressed in tiny shorts.

This tale, is about the latter.

When it rains on a day you are shooting a TV show outside, things become more difficult automatically. The camera can't get wet, the actors can't get wet, the rest of the equipment can't get wet, and nobody likes being wet... And cold.
Common practice on rainy shoot days is to set up tents to protect the precious equipment... But tents... Only protect from water falling DOWNwards. Not water falling UP wards...?

I'm sorry, does that sound crazy? Not when a GEYSER unexpected erupts INSIDE the tent where ALL the equipment is trying to stay dry! WTF!?
The brave crew members fought the geyser and eventually managed to move all the equipment to a safer, less geysery spot. Everything got wet. Including everything. But I've never seen so many people on a crew laugh at once on a rainy day! So that was a plus. I also realized I may have written this blog a little prematurely.

Buddha was largely unimpressed. As per usual.