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Say Hello to Our Fall Issue
September 2, 2014 | by The Paris Review
You may recognize the distinctive hand behind our autumnal cover art—that's Chris Ware, who's interviewed in this issue about the Art of Comics:
I just figured there must still be various ways to make art "about" something without making it bad or sentimental. Comics basically seemed a way toward this goal for me … I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense—of space and of being in a body—in a way no other medium can quite so easily, or at least so naturally.
Then there's our interview with Aharon Appelfeld:
My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich—rich in human behavior, rich in feelings, rich in sensations. I nourish myself by those nights. They nourish me.
And in the Art of Fiction No. 225, the Nobel Prize–winner Herta Müller discusses her early fascination with plants ("They knew how to live and I didn't"), life under Ceauşescu, and her approach to the sentence:
I'm not hungry for words, but they have a hunger of their own. They want to consume what I have experienced, and I have to make sure that they do that … The language knows where it has to wind up. I know what I want, but the sentence knows how I'll get there.
There's also an essay by David Searcy; the final installment of Rachel Cusk's novel Outline, illustrated by Samantha Hahn; fiction by David Gates, Atticus Lish, and Alejandro Zambra; and poems by Karen Solie, Stephen Dunn, Maureen M. McLane, Devin Johnston, Ben Lerner, Frederick Seidel, Linda Pastan, and Brenda Shaughnessy.
And finally, a portfolio of letters between George Plimpton and Terry Southern, circa 1957–58, in which Southern writes of this magazine, "[its] very escutcheon has come to be synonymous (to my mind at least) with aesthetic integrity, tough jaunty know-how, etc."
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The Ultimate Example of Everything, and Other News
August 27, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, on the New Museum's current show, "Here and Elsewhere": "So many of today's iconic images are made in the Middle East … For visual artists working from the region, this surfeit of spectacles poses a challenge. When everyday life—at least as it is experienced via a computer screen—regularly throws up these images of terror and drama and the technological sublime, how can a photographer compete?"
- Ben Lerner at the Met: "What interests me about fiction … is in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light."
- Things that—according to the students and faculty of the first Ashbery Home School, a new writing conference in Hudson, New York—John Ashbery is "the ultimate example of": "surrealism, realism, hyperrealism, distance, proximity, translation, tradition, the grotesque, the beautiful, the blind, the all-seeing, the old, the young, the queer, the hetero, the hedgehog, the fox, the human, the alien, the bric-a-brac in the cupboard, the masterpiece on the wall, painting, cinema, architecture, life." (NB the author of this list describes it as "incomplete and incompetent.")
- A brief history of the problem of sorting, classifying, and otherwise categorizing things: "It is tempting to think making categories is a straightforward scientific enterprise, and that debates will be clearly settled once we've amassed enough data. But the history of science shows this not to be the case … The nature of scientific categories is not merely an empirical issue; it's also a philosophical one, and one affected by self-interest and social forces."
- Today, in posthumous gifts: more than three thousand of Doris Lessing's books are to be donated to a public library in Zimbabwe, where she lived for twenty-five years.
Originals and Remnants
June 10, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
The poet Susan Howe is seventy-seven today. A few years ago, she and the musician David Grubbs collaborated on "Frolic Architecture," a series of multidisciplinary performances that sprang from a book of her collage poems by the same name. Harvard has posted a video of the performance, which is quietly, insistently disruptive. As it progresses, prerecorded shards of Howe's voice seem to fall into her live voice, and Grubbs fills the space with incidental sounds: insect chirps, gravel and snow and leaves variously underfoot. The performance seems at once to take on weight and ascend into the ether.
Howe remarked on the collage, and the process of recording it, in her 2012 Art of Poetry interview:
I am an Americanist. There's something that we do, a Romantic, utopian ideal of poetry as revelation at the same instant it's a fall into fracture and trespass. Frolic Architecture cuts itself to bits. It could be that because I am a woman, bullets are more like blanks. What fuels the poems in that collection is the sense of epic breaking into shards.
I've heard the recording of your performance of Frolic, and you actually speak—sound out—its fragments and phonemes, those shards. You treat your work as a score.
Collaborating with the musician-composer David Grubbs has brought vividly home to me how acoustic a seemingly collaged and visual work can be. Several years ago our first collaboration was for a performance at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, and was based around an early poem of mine called "Thorow." We collaborated again to produce Souls of the Labadie Tract. The work I have done with David has influenced the course of my later poetry by showing me a range of contemporary music with which I was unfamiliar. It also restored my earlier interest in Charles Ives. I love the way Ives's musical use of quotation throws connectives to the winds. His work is Romantic and iconoclastic at once.
And in the journal Lana Turner, Ben Lerner wrote with typical acuity about the performance:
I assumed Grubbs had digitally manipulated Howe's voice in order to mimic the fragmentation of the collages. And Grubbs did often and artfully alter her voice, but it turns out that many of the sounds I thought were digital slivers weren't. It simply did not occur to me that Howe would be capable of reading such diverse phonemes and even smaller linguistic particles in real time with such precision. But she is: I have never heard a person pronounce "nt" or "rl," for instance, so exactly. Howe can render even the most distressed text acoustic … Howe's recorded voice—sometimes digitally cut up, sometimes left alone—alternated or overlapped with the live performance, and Grubbs had made sure that there was little or no perceptible sonic difference between what was digital and what was happening before us; when I shut my eyes, I couldn't tell. This blurring of the boundary between the live and the recorded was a deft way to indicate how Howe's poems are at once originals and remnants.
What We're Loving: Real Struggle, Real Soul, Real Tennis
May 23, 2014 | by The Paris Review
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle—judging by the half that's been translated into English—is a tough book for a critic to grapple with: a six-volume autobiographical novel that can spend fifty pages describing a teenage beer run or a second-grader's first day at school. The book was a sensation when it appeared in Norway, five years ago; since then it has fascinated (and puzzled) many readers in America, from James Wood and Zadie Smith to Jonathan Lethem. Volume Three is my favorite so far, though no doubt the effect is cumulative: I've never read such a vivid depiction of ordinary child abuse—the legal, non-sexual kind—from a child's point of view; I have never seen a writer evoke the world of child's play so vividly, or the view from the back seat of a car on a long drive. Not everyone feels the love. In The Nation, the irascible William Deresiewicz dismisses My Struggle as a "giant selfie," wishes Knausgaard wrote more like John Updike or Saul Bellow, and chalks up the enthusiasm of his fans to narcissism: "The spectacle of a fellow author's self-revelation . . . has obvious professional significance." It's rarely a good sign when a reviewer vents his spleen on other readers. For a corrective, see Ben Lerner in the London Review of Books. Lerner notices all the same things as Deresiewicz—Knausgaard's use of cliche, his digressions, his seeming lack of form or invention—then tries, brilliantly and persuasively, to explain why they work. Lerner places My Struggle in a long tradition of novels at war with novelistic convention, a tradition that he associates with the avant garde and that others might call realism itself. Agree with it or not, this is actual criticism. As Lerner writes: "It's easy to marshal examples of what makes My Struggle mediocre. The problem is: it's amazing." —Lorin Stein
On Wednesday night, I had the great pleasure of seeing an interview with D'Angelo, perhaps the most gifted, elusive artist working in R&B—he's ascended into the pantheon with Sly Stone and Prince, visionary but inscrutable. With 2000's Voodoo, D'Angelo made what remains the definitive soul record of the past fifteen years, a languid, earthy tour de force that borrows in equal measure from the church and the street. Since then, he hasn't released a thing; he's scarcely even performed in public. So his appearance on Wednesday had a sense of anticipation: would he announce a new album? He didn't, but he was such a gracious, remarkable, casual speaker that it didn't matter. NPR has posted a transcript of the conversation, which was held before a sold-out crowd at Brooklyn Museum. It touches on his adolescence in Richmond, Virginia; his painstaking, deeply hermetic recording process; and his gospel-inflected approach to songwriting. Nelson George, the interviewer, put it best when he told D'Angelo, "You're one of the few people who has mystique, you know that. I mean in the age of TMZ and all that stuff … there's an aura still about your career. It's very unusual today for anybody to have any mystery left." —Dan Piepenbring
I recently unearthed a 1999 LRB review by Edward Said of a tennis anthology edited by the novelist Caryl Phillips. When I think of tennis, I don't think of Said (nor do I imagine Phillips, for that matter)—all the more reason to give it my attention. I also have a vested interest in tennis. My father grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and played near the West Side Tennis Club (the club wouldn't let Jews join, but he did see early professionals such as Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, and a sixteen-year-old Chris Evert play there); his father played competitive tennis into his early nineties (the pool of players in his age group was quite small, as you might imagine); and I grew up watching tennis matches on television with my parents and trying to learn the sport myself. Though I only sometimes watch Wimbledon or the US Open now, I can tell the stakes have changed. As Said bemoans, tennis has largely lost its amateur class, and its league of professional players are "technical specialists" ruined by commercial interests. Federer is lovely to watch, but his recent dominance of the game was boring. The women's game, Said points out, retains its "human pace" and "inventiveness." That no single woman dominates the sport makes the matches more fun to watch, more exciting, more … sporting. —Nicole Rudick
In 1934, Oscar Reutersvärd pioneered the modeling of "impossible objects," two-dimensional figures that project a three-dimensional object when viewed from a particular direction. The puzzle game "Monument Valley," available on both iOS and Android, is built on this optical illusion—a sort of architectural Sudoku. It allows the player to interact with the isometric environment of dead-end paths and trick doors, moving the game's protagonist, Ida, through gaps that seem to defy logic. The game is one of the most beautiful I've ever played. It's like, as many have noted, an M. C. Escher drawing brought to life. The game designer Ken Wong told Wired, "We hope players will stay engaged for the same reasons they might enjoy a walk through a museum or an art gallery." —Justin Alvarez Read More »
What We're Loving: Antrim, Glynn, a Massive Sugar-Woman
May 16, 2014 | by The Paris Review
In the last few years one of my favorite novelists, Donald Antrim, has devoted himself to short stories—not as finger exercises, but with a combined intensity, delicacy, and feeling for tradition that set him apart from any writer of his generation. This morning I finished the galleys of his long-awaited collection, The Emerald Light in the Air, and immediately started reading them again. What is it about Antrim? He writes as if prose were his native language: his sentences have the matter-of-fact pathos and absurdity of dreams. Also, they are often very funny: "An Actor Prepares" remains, after fifteen years, one of the funniest short stories I have ever read. Nowadays the comedy is quieter and darker, with protagonists who struggle to remain within the ranks of the worried well. It's all up-to-the-minute (you could write a paper about the evolution of cell phones in Antrim's work), but his themes are the Chekhovian classics—ambivalence toward the life at hand; yearning for the life that might have been—and he evokes unhappy love with a sensuousness and a subtle, plausible magic that recall Cheever at his best. —Lorin Stein
Go see Kara Walker's massive installation, "A Subtlety," at the doomed Domino Sugar Factory. The space was once a warehouse for unrefined sugar that arrived from the Caribbean. Now, the air is sticky with molasses; it drips from the ceiling, staining the floor and the factory's newest resident, a thirty-five-foot sugar-woman in sphinx form, naked but for a headscarf and some earrings. She presides over thirteen boys of molasses and resin who labor on the concrete. And she watches, and whatever she's watching seems not in this room, seems elsewhere, ahead and behind and beside us. —Zack Newick
Since the death of Thomas Glynn earlier this month, I've gone down a rabbit hole of sorts: I've tried to locate many of the author's obscure works, including an 1,800-page unpublished manuscript on the first 150 years of the Dannemora prison, a much shorter history of New York State, an array of short stories, and the occasional essay (don't miss this great 1975 profile of Frank Zappa from Modern Hi-Fi & Music). Glynn self-published A Child's Christmas in Chicago in 2002, and while the title may come across as more sentimental than most of Glynn's oeuvre, think twice after reading the novel's opening line: "Hey, it's Christmas for Christ's sake." With a touch of the raconteur Jean Shepherd and the voice of a young Gulley Jimson, the story is a mix of oddball characters, whimsy, and the kind of heartbreak that only the Christmas season can bring. —Justin Alvarez
It can be a real relief to read something that isn't stylized, or even something badly written, after reading Proust, which I have been doing on and off this week. In his excellent essay on volume three of Knausgaard's My Struggle series, Ben Lerner celebrates Knausgaard's unquotability and his sloppiness. Moreover, Lerner provides the best answer I've yet read on what Knausgaard's writing does to us, and why we're so obsessed with it, why "we can read it compulsively while being uncertain if it's good." —Anna Heyward Read More »
Relive the Revel
April 11, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
We're still recovering from Tuesday's Revel, where some five hundred people gathered to honor Frederick Seidel with the Hadada Award, presented by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Lydia Davis presented Emma Cline with the Plimpton Prize for Fiction; Roz Chast presented the Terry Southern Prize for Humor to Ben Lerner; and Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, and Uma Thurman all read from Seidel's work. We could say a good time was had by all, but why not let the pictures tell the tale? It was a spectacular evening. You can read accounts of the fun from Page Six, Women's Wear Daily, and Guest of a Guest. Be sure to take a look at all the photos here, too. See you next year!
Photos by Clint Spaulding / © Patrick McMullan / PatrickMcMullan.com


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Victory!..Is Ours!
We just got done bottling our first All Grain brew and in all honestly I think we had success. Especially through our concerns on possible poor sanitation, brewing technique, and transfer to secondary and have yeast "floaties" transferred. For awhile we thought it was signs of infection, but soon found out through reassurance that it was only a minor "F-opps" up on transfering into secondary. We did have minor difficulties with our auto siphon, it would work then stop flowing, we found out that it had to be the height between carboys. We tried small samples before bottling and it tastes, smells great. :mug:
Way to go DudeBrew! What was the brew? What are your plans for secondary?
In a nutshell...the rate of flow from a siphon is dependant ONLY on the height difference between the top level of the tank and the 'hole in the tank' (which is the OUTLET of your siphon). It doesn't matter where the INPUT end of your siphon is (as long as it's below the surface)...it can be at the very top or bottom of the liquid in the carboy and it will not affect the flow rate...ONLY the difference between level in the carboy and the OUTLET end of the siphon determine the flow rate. It doesn't matter if the siphon goes up and out of the liquid to get over the rim of the tank/carboy because there is an equal distance back down once the siphon is outside the carboy...they cancel out...it's only the distance from the level to the outlet end of the siphon.
It was a Pale Ale, We used a glass carboy for secondary and transferred it using an auto siphon. I still honestly think the transfer level wasn't good enough, net time we will space it out more. When we bottled we had to have a good distance between the two and it flowed great.
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Event celebrates Emerson's authors
Eric Twardzik / Beacon Staff
• April 25, 2012
Among cheese plates and chatter, just a stone's throw from the set of
Will & Grace
, new books by Emerson faculty waited for their spot on the shelves. Last Thursday, the Iwaski Library hosted its annual Emerson Authors event to honor faculty and staff that had works published in the previous year.
Twenty books were published by 18 faculty members in 2011. These included works like
Lennon: The Man, The Myth, The Music - The Definitive Life
, a bulky biography of the Beatle by journalism professor Tim Riley, and
, a new book of poems by Writer-in-Residence Richard Hoffman.
The faculty speaker at this year's event was writing, literature, and publishing associate professor Jabari Asim. Asim has authored 10 books, the most recent of which is
A Taste of Honey
, a collection of short stories set in the civil rights era. He has been an editor and columnist at The Washington Post and since 2007 has been the editor-in-chief of
The CRISIS
, the official publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Asim has even graced the set of
The Colbert Report
on two occasions as a guest.
Asim, in a light brown suit and electric blue Pumas, read with authority and poise from a statement prepared for the event. He began with an African proverb: "Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
Asim spoke of falling in love with language in his boyhood, and consequently its use in his social and civil rights activism. He interspersed this personal narrative with accounts from other African-American writers like Frederick Douglass and James Baldwin, on the importance of writing and social change. Asim also addressed the intolerance and discrimination still present in American life.
Asim finished with James Baldwin's quote, "The root function of language is to control the universe by describing it." Asim added his own coda, saying, "My ambitions are considerably less grand. They involve researching, writing, and when I'm able, speaking for the Lions."
Robert Fleming, executive director of the library followed Asim and offered words of his own for the 2011 authors.
"What I find impressive about this group is not only their individual accomplishments," said Fleming, "but the incredible diversity of genres and subject areas they explore in this collective body of work."
Later, in an interview, Asim said that he was appreciative of the event.
"It's a really terrific way for the college to recognize the work we do," said Asim. Asim explained that the faculty are often seen as teachers first, but their writing and published work is why they are teaching in the first place.
Asim felt that the Emerson Authors event was another example of the "embrace of the creative impulse at Emerson."
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We're closing in on SC11, the annual HPC love fest that kicks off this year in Seattle on November 12th. The SC (stands for Super Computing) events are different from every other industry gathering. They are part educational symposium, with hundreds of hours of sessions where researchers present their findings and HPC experts …
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I'm surprised that its only the third such event........
It's an interesting subject though.
When I had a need to contact our SC division I was IM'ed by two of them within the space of about 5 seconds of each other... They do everything in parallel those guys.
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Melancholy and the claim for relation
- Giorgio Bordin
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Within the full range of diseases, madness has ever been a challenge for physicians, in perennial oscillation between science and magic, natural and supernatural, body and soul. The history of melancholy helps us in a better understanding of this aspect of medicine.
Melancholy has cultural and etymological roots deep in the doctrine of the four humours (Hippocrates): melancholia (literally black bile) refers to mental disturbation, and in the Middle Ages was considered as sloth or laziness: a capital sin. Until the seventeenth century, treatises primarily dealt with the relationship between disease and sin, between the humours of the body and witchcraft, between reason and passion. In the Renaissance, its aspect of sweet reflection and sorrow that pervades a person's character making him/her perceptive and introspective, became also the character of the artist, whose outlook appeared to combine elements from dreams, meditation, magic and alchemy. In his famous etching: "Melancholy", Dür
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- Melancholy and the claim for relation
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Journal of Medicine and the Person
Volume 9, Issue 1 , pp 34-35
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- 2011-04-01
- 10.1007/s12682-011-0084-8
- Print ISSN
- 2035-9411
- Online ISSN
- 2036-3877
- Publisher
- Springer Milan
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- Giorgio Bordin (1)
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A full on Radiant Orchid look? Don't mind if I do!
Posted by Latoya in FOTD, Spring 2014 on March 14, 2014
It's been a busy week. On Wednesday night, I reconnected with an old friend that I'd lost touch with for 5+ years, and we spent 5 hours chatting – I guess one for each year missed! Then last night a bunch of my favourite people at work got together to say goodbye to one of our much-loved coworkers, who is moving on to bigger and better things. Let's just say, we had some SERIOUS fun on a school night! ;)
Thankfully, work is at a standstill due to a crash in our system, which happened Tuesday night and won't be repaired until Sunday. While I spent Wednesday getting tasks done that I'd been putting off for a while, Thursday was a complete waste of a day – we're in our fiscal year end, and it's pretty much the WORST time this could happen, because we have SO much do to and can't do any of it. So, that fact combined with my party-fun-time last night meant that I took the day off today – whoopee! And also, thank goodness because I needed to get this post up today and I was getting rather delinquent…
The lovely ladies of the Beauty Envy Bags got together and decided it was high time to do a Radiant Orchid-themed post. As you all know my obsession with this shade, this was a no-brainer for me! But which products to pick…? In the end, I decided to go with two more affordable options, just to mix it up, as I tend to have expensive taste! I showed you Essie's Splash of Grenadine last month, and professed my undying love for the shade (that feeling still stands – it's definitely in my top 5!); today I'll capture in action L'Oreal's Color Caresse Shine Stain in Stubborn Plum – which looks a lot more like the perfect orchid tone than plum to me!
I have three of the Shine Stains now, in quite different shades, and they're one of the few drugstore products I'll go for – I love the YSL versions, but at $38 a pop, they're not something I can justify in owning several, and the formulas are close enough that I get my fix through L'Oreal. During my whirlwind spree of acquiring ALL THINGS RADIANT ORCHID, Shoppers conveniently had a 'Spend Your Points' event, and I used 40,000 of my points to get $85 worth of product. I was $10 short of my goal, and so Stubborn Plum came home with me.
Sephora sent me a few pieces from their Radiant Orchid Pantone Collection, and the Rush Luster Cheek Sweep* ($31CAD) was the perfect compliment to the lip stain. This cheek palette is really gorgeous! The formula is smooth for all three shades, and the orchid colour makes me drool. I paired it along with the lightest luminizer, and the glow is really something else. In daylight, it borders on shimmertastic, but for this time or year or in the evening (or if you just like to get your glow on!), this trio is great!
For the eyes, I did my usual liner flick, but added depth by using a violet shadow in my crease and on my lower lash line. I loved the way this turned out – I really should do it more! I've gotten quite lazy with my makeup application, and usually just go for the flick and skip shadow, but it makes such a nice impact with a little something extra. The products/shades I used were: YSL's Eyeliner Effet Faux Cils in Cherry Black (great and long wear but wish the colour was a bit bolder), Inglot Eyeshadow in #325 (first time I'm wearing this!), and Maybelline's Volum Express 'The Rocket' Mascara (which I'm not sold on).
I snagged a sample of Benefit's newish Hello, Flawless brightening foundation, in 'Toasted Beige', and I quite like it. It's got good coverage without being too heavy, a nice consistency, an SPF of 25, and the shade is actually pretty close, which is a challenge for me – I find my skin tone really is *neutral* and most foundations are either too yellow, pink or orange.
Underneath the foundation, I tried out RBR's Original Skin Primer*, which I got when I tried their new Nocturnal Ink liner. I found it VERY heavy on my slightly oily skin when used with a moisturizer, but used AS the moisturizer, it's pretty good! It dries to a matte finish and doesn't feel greasy at all – but it is a thick formula and I can see it being best for those with normal to dry skin.
A couple tools of the trade that I wanted to mention are the MAC #217 (which I bought in NYC, and wish I had gotten on that train sooner!), and the ELF Studio Complexion Brush* ($4.95CAD), which NPC sent for me to try. I was not a fan of the brush initially, thinking it was much too floppy for setting/finishing powders, but one day I tried it with a very pigmented blush, and VOILA! Instant success. I used this with the Sephora + Pantone shades above, and it worked beautifully to buff the shade into the skin and bring out that glow. A steal at $5!
The finished look! I'm overall pretty pleased – as I mentioned, I've gotten pretty lazy with my makeup lately and it's either cat-eyes or bright lips for the most part. It was fun to do the whole 9 yards, with primer and foundation and everything (I rarely wear either). Sometimes you just gotta go all in, ya know? :)
See what the other gals have cooked up in their Radiant Orchid posts!
What do you think of tone-on-tone looks? Do you go all-out with your makeup every day, or save that for special occasions?
*Products were sent by the PR company/brand for my unbiased consideration.
Disney Ariel Collection by Sephora: Kiss the Girl Eau de Parfum Review
Funny things can happen when you get a new roommate and you move all your things aside to make room for their stuff….back in May when my now 'old' roommate moved in, I had to make space for all the things a 50+ woman might bring with her. While she didn't have a ton of stuff, in an effort to make her feel comfortable and at home, I rearranged and shifted many of my own things to give her space and a place to put her extra bits and bobs. Now that she's gone, I'm slowly spreading my things out again and putting them 'where they belong' so to speak. Lo and behold, I found a product I had meant to review ages ago! – and which happily is still available on Sephora, so, I shall review with abandon :)
Let me make it clear that I am in no way a fragrance blogger. While I wear perfume every day (the only real 'scent' in my fastidious anti-eczema routine), and I know what I like, my ability to recognize certain notes is limited, and I find it difficult to judge a fragrance on it's merit without letting my personal views get in the way. Having said that, I am going to attempt to fairly review Kiss the Girl ($70CAD), the limited edition fragrance that is part of the Disney Ariel collection by Sephora. Bear with me, folks!
First of all, one thing I can state with confidence is, this bottle is GORGEOUS!! Truly, I feel like keeping this displayed on my dresser simply for it's stunning aesthetic. Beautifully cut glass that catches the light just so, with a small, unobtrusive 'A' for Ariel on the front, and a pretty aqua metallic band around the base of the topper. This kind of simple yet classically elegant design will get me every time! Even the box it came it was lovely, with silver designs upon a deep sea green background. It's the little details, right?
The notes of the fragrance even at first spritz are very soft and clean. The top notes of bergamot and wet cucumber are refreshing and uplifting, which is boosted by the addition of an 'ozonic accord;' a concept I know nothing about yet can somehow agree with when I sniff my wrist – somehow like being high up on a mountain breathing the cold air. The middle notes boast water notes, wild lilac and starfruit, and while I can get a hint of the lilac, the starfruit completely alludes me. Finally, the base notes of white musk, warm sandalwood and velvet ambergris (which apparently is produced in the digestive system of sperm whales, and as it ages it loses its fecal odor {awesome} and turns into a sweet, earthy scent) ground the scent and give it a touch of sensuality, so as it dries down it loses it's sparkling quality and feels a bit more romantic rather than squeaky clean.
Though the soft, gentle quality of the scent (which lasts and last, by the way, due to the sperm whale concoction) ensures its easy wearability, the scent is still not my kind of jam. Though I actually had no problems in testing it – which can be a trial when a fragrance you don't favor is overbearing, as can often be the case – and even came to appreciate its clean yet alluring 'prettiness', it's too bright and oceanic for my tastes. Give me a good vanilla-heavy, gourmand scent any day and I'll wear the crap out of it. Green, feminine scents make me somehow feel like I shouldn't be wearing white on my wedding day…I dunno if that makes any sense but that's just the way of it!
What sort of fragrance do you gravitate toward?
Disney Ariel Collection by Sephora: Mermaid's Song 4 Piece Lip Gloss Set
Posted by Latoya in Lips, Sephora Brand, Summer 2013 on July 18, 2013
I've been meaning to post this for ages but, well…you know. It's been busy. Also, I was unaware that this hadn't already come out on Sephora until this week when I realized it just was released! So in a way, I'm not late…right!?
Anyway, Sephora has come out with another themed collection, this time around The Little Mermaid and Ariel, the fiery red-headed mermaid who wanted to be human so she could
make time be with Prince Eric. Today I'm showing you the gloss set from the collection, Mermaid's Song ($46CAD), with four shades – Mermaid, Red Head, Dream Girl, and Sea Witch.
Left to right: Red Head, Sea Witch, Dream Girl, Mermaid
The shades in the set are based off of various items within the story; as follows:
Ariel's sister's darling shells (Mermaid – courageous coral)
Ariel's iconic red hair (Red Head – rich red)
Ursula's earrings (Sea Witch – bold berry)
Ariel's pink dress (Dream Girl – perky pink)
The texture of the glosses is quite nice – its smooth and non-sticky, but not so slick that it wears off within an hour. It's not long-wearing, but honestly I don't mind reapplying gloss as a general rule. None of the colors are particularly pigmented, though they are semi-opaque – especially Sea Witch and Red Head – so you do get some color. On to the lip swatches!
Overall, I really like these! I will say, I'm not a huge fan of the packaging…it looks a bit cheap to me, and I favor wand application to the squeeze tip, but the glosses themselves are easy to apply, comfortable to wear, and look pretty on. I'm surprizingly favoring the vampiness of Sea Witch and can't wait to wear it with a bronzed face and mega-lashes. I would say, if you're a big Disney fan and a fan of The Little Mermaid in particular, this is a nice little set that covers a decent range of shades and is definitely worth a look!
What is your favorite Disney movie? Do you like themed collections like these?
*Products were provided by the PR company/brand for my unbiased consideration.
April's (Partial) Wish List
I feel like I've been waiting on Sephora's semi-annual VIB sale for months…it's been a good way to keep my spending in check, because I keep telling myself to hold out until the sale, but DAMN – can it get here already!? I've got a little cash socked away in a drawer (literally…well, maybe not in a sock, but definitely tucked away in a drawer!) and I've written and re-written my shopping list for the event. I've been hovering at about 4 items for awhile, but I'm getting antsy and the list is slowly creeping up to 6-7 this week, as I'm thinking I should just stock up on all the items I know I'm going to buy there in the next couple months…urk! We'll see how it all pans out. In any case, the items below I am definitely (I think…maybe…probably) picking up whenever the heck the sale starts:
1. Comptoir Sud Pacifique's Vanille Coco mini atomizer $24CAD – The last time I was by the store I spritzed a bit of this on, and god knows I'm a sucker for vanilla and coconut-type scents! I'm trying to break into the more 'adult' fragrances (especially since I've been reading Denyse Beaulieu's The Perfume Lover and becoming terribly entranced by the whole history of fragrance), but this will be my guilty pleasure in the meantime. At $24 for a small spray, I don't feel too bad!
2. NARS Light-Reflecting Pressed Setting Powder $39CAD – For ages I thought I was going to go for one of the new Hourglass Ambient powders, but I realized I need a real setting powder that will control shine more than I need extra radiance. The last powder I bought was in 2010 (I KNOW…IT'S CRAZY), and it was also NARS – the loose powder, which is why I am going for the pressed because JEEZ GUYS I just want something new already! Loose powder is terribly economical but oh so friggin' boring for someone who likes change!
3. BITE Beauty High Pigment Matte Lip Pencil in Quince $28CAD – I mentioned that this was a contender for my upcoming fuchsia lip purchase, and I'm fairly certain this is what I'm going with. It is a beautifully saturated color and exactly the shade I have been looking for. The only way I might get swayed from buying it is if one of the YSL Rouge Volupte Shine's catch my eye…which could happen. We shall see!
4. Boscia Tsubaki Beauty Oil $55CAD – I just added this to my list tonight while browsing through the online site for facial oils. The Tarte Pure Maracuja Oil I have is still going strong (a whopping four+ months later! Color me impressed), but I know my fickle self will want to try something new when the time comes. This is the same price, has wonderful ingredients with nothing to aggravate my skin, and it's something new so hey – it fits the bill quite nicely.
5. Tarte BB Tinted Treatment 12-hr Primer SPF30 $41CAD – I'm on the fence about this one; it's been getting great reviews and I took a sample home a few weeks ago to try, but it's really too dark for my skintone to wear it right now so I don't have an idea of how it works for me yet. I think I'm going to grab a sample of the next lightest shade and play around with them a bit to see how it fares.
So that's what I've got on the brain and the items that *should* come home with me sometime this month. However, I am tempted to also grab the burgundy YSL mascara and the Hourglass lippie I noted last month and still haven't picked up….yikes. I'm going to try my best to keep it together and keep it under control. Wish me luck!
Do you have a wish list ready for the VIB sale?
Make Up For Ever HD Foundation Event This Weekend at Halifax Sephora!
Posted by Latoya in Events, Foundation, Make Up For Ever, Sephora on September 6, 2012
Heads up guys – there's another Make Up For Ever event going on at Sephora this weekend! With fall just around the corner, its a perfect time to get matched for a new foundation and MUFE has your HD shade – I guarantee you can find one to suit your skintone perfectly (there are like, 26 shades, so if you can't – I'll eat my hat!)!
They're also offering a free gift with a purchase of the foundation, so if you've been thinking about it, now's the perfect time! And while you're there – check out some of their other fabulous products, like their liquid liners, eyeshadows (pencil, powder, and cream), blush, lipsticks…so many goodies to choose from! :)
MAKE UP FOR EVER: An Education
Posted by Latoya in Events, Make Up For Ever, Make-up, Sephora on April 27, 2012
I really wish I had become a beauty blogger earlier.
Seriously, the amount of pleasure I get from having a legitimate reason to read and write about beauty on a consistent basis is probably the best thing I ever did. I've always had this passion and enthusiasm for makeup and skincare that seemed to require reasonable containment, as I haven't had any friends as
obsessed interested in it as I am. The past couple years have totally changed that! Not only have I found others who share my feelings, but I've had opportunities to learn more about the world of beauty than I ever would have. This past Thursday was one of those times.
When the PR rep for MAKE UP FOR EVER Canada decided to make the trek out to the East Coast from Montreal, she got in touch with me to set up a meeting at our Sephora here. I was super-excited, as MAKE UP FOR EVER is fast becoming one of my favorite brands (partly due to her!), and I was really looking forward to meeting her, as our correspondence over the past 7 months has been nothing but a pleasure (which is NOT what I envisioned interactions with PR to be – colour me pleasantly corrected!).
The meeting was designed not only for each of us to put a face to the name, but also as an education session with one of their fantastic makeup artists to explain a bit more about the line and it's origins, vision, and product formulations. And oh my, did I ever learn a lot!
Let's just say that every single product is like the MacGyver of makeup.
Each one can be used in a multitude of ways to produce different effects, looks, and textures. Mixing the HD concealer with a frost-finish Aqua Cream turns it into a matte product. Primers can be mixed with foundations to sheer them out. Any of the Aqua products can be mixed with others to create a waterproof formula. The HD powder can be used as a dry shampoo (I am SO trying this the next time I straighten my hair!!). The possibilities and combinations are endless.
I consider myself fairly well-versed in the ways of makeup, but I was enthralled at each new trick I learned, and found myself asking question after question, dying to learn more. I really appreciate multi-tasking products, as it means you can get more with less out of your collection (and they're GREAT for taking on trips anywhere!).
A few other interesting tips I learned:
- To get the most natural look, use a large stippling brush when applying the HD Microfinish Blush (remember, only a light touch is needed!), then buff it out with a kabuki brush
- Mix blush with foundation to get a more sheer, toned down application
- The HD Invisible Cover Concealer 'sets' after application, to blend seamlessly into the skin
- The Aqua (re: waterproof) products are to be applied directly to bare skin (even without primer) to get the longest wearing effect
- Dab Aqua Cream(s) first to your hand, rubbing to warm up, then apply with a synthetic brush
- You can mix Aqua Creams together to get new shades and textures
We also had a demonstration/application with the HD Invisible Cover Foundation ($46CAD) and Concealer ($33CAD), as well as one of the Route Artist lipsticks. They were able to choose my concealer shade based on the shade of foundation I matched to, according to a handy chart they have (available online), which was super-accurate. I was amazed at how the makeup artist was able to apply the concealer with the flat side of the brush parallel to my undereye, and just pat the product in without needing to use her finger at all. It kept the product density intact so I had the best coverage, while still looking blended somehow. She said you *could* add powder if you wished, using a very small amount of the HD Microfinish Powder, but said it wasn't really necessary. I found after wearing the concealer for a few hours, I got slight creasing, but I think if I used a Q-tip to gently swab directly under the eye after the concealer was applied, that wouldn't have happened. Otherwise it lasted at least 6 hours without fading, or use of powder (it was applied around 4pm and I washed my face at 10pm).
On that topic, I asked her how to avoid that whitish cast some people were experiencing when using the HD Microfinish Powder ($35CAD). She explained that you need only the smallest dusting of powder – a good rule of thumb was to lightly tap your kabuki brush (or powder brush) into the cap of the powder to pick up the right amount to dust all over your face. It was tiny. But it was all that was needed to get that diffused, airbrushed look to the skin. So keep that in mind if you've been scared away from using this product!
I think I asked so many questions that I took up more time than was allotted – we had to skip over a few of the products as they had another appointment arriving. However, there were a couple other notable products that they mentioned:
- Rouge Artist Intense in shade S43 Moulin Rouge ($22CAD), a creamy, vibrant red that was created for the cabaret of the same name – check out Temptalia, for shots of this wearable-for-all-skintones shade (MUST.BUY.).
- HD Elixir ($43CAD), a glycerin-containing serum that boosts the skin's hydration by 520% in 15 minutes, and which smoothes and brightens the skin and prepares it for a flawless foundation application (particularly HD).
All in all, it was a very productive session, one that made me terribly eager to get home and start playing with all my MAKE UP FOR EVER products in totally new ways. Between the makeup artists knowledge and the PR rep's enthusiasm and generosity (I did leave with a few new treats!), I'm fairly certain the have a convert for life on their hands. The biggest indication to me that MAKE UP FOR EVER has really got the goods? The fact that even though I get sent lots of goodies here and there from the brand, I still make a point of buying new items from them on a regular basis. There's just so much to try (and consequently love!).
MAKE UP FOR EVER is truly a makeup lovers dream come true. While they have a lot of stand-out, vibrant shades that adventurous types will adore, they also have muted, wearable colors for the more subdued consumer, and the fact that all products can be used in just about any way imaginable (the HD Microperfecting Primer in Color 4 Caramel can be used on the body to impart a gorgeous sunkissed glow!) makes the brand appealling and appropriate for everyone. If you haven't already, I strongly encourage you to go check it out – there's so much fun stuff to play with :)
PS: The Sephora store in Montreal is getting their own MAKE UP FOR EVER store within-a-store – the first one in Canada!! You lucky dogs! :)
Have you tried MAKE UP FOR EVER products before? What are your personal experiences with the brand?
Mesmerizing Metallics: bare Escentuals High Shine Eyecolor in Meteorite
Posted by Latoya in Bare Escentuals, Eyeshadow, Make-up on December 28, 2011
Starting my resolutions early, today while at Sephora I picked up an eyeshadow I have been lemming for a couple months now: bare Escentuals High Shine Eyecolor in Meteorite ($20CAD), an 'iced mocha.' I think this description is fairly accurate – the shade borders on taupe, with hints of purple and bronze, while still looking like it would fit in the brown-ish family. I compared it to other shimmering metallics shades I have in my stash (UD's Smog, MUFE's Aqua Cream in #2 Steel, and the golden shade of NARS' Rajasthan, among others), and none came even close – which is AWESOME as I hate to replicate colors! With a spring-loaded applicator (supposedly to allow for easy, on-the-go application), the formula is free of preservatives or chemical irritants. It's a highly pigmented formulation that has a very intense metallic finish, and goes on extremely soft and smooth. I don't even know how I came across it, as I usually tend to look at only products I've heard about before – but it just drew me in for whatever reason, and once I tried it, I knew I had to have it!The photo above is without flash, and it's pretty true to color (on me). Below, with flash, shows off a little more of the metallic finish, and pulls out the purple-ish tones.I am super-excited to try out this color; from initial swatches and testing it has absolutely lovely texture, and pretty good staying power as I couldn't get it off my hand very easily when rubbed. It doesn't make any long-lasting claims but I think due to the nature of the shadow, it'll hold up fairly well throughout the day (
which I will update you on tomorrow after I try it out fully), which it did for the most part – through a blustery walk to work and a grueling run at the gym, it managed to stay put for a full 14 hours until I washed it off, with only the slightest creasing on my right eyelid. And that's with absolutely no primer, so I'd say that's pretty darn good!
There are 8 shades in total – most are neutral and all are metallic. I love a good shimmering shadow to ring in the New Year!!
Oh and PS – AWESOME NEWS!!!!!!! Sephora finally now offers free shipping in Canada after $75 (it used to be a ridiculous $120, when in the States is only $50). Everyone needs to rejoice!!! It's about darn time this happened, every time I'm requested to do a survey online that's my very first complaint. Hooray!! Now if they would only start selling Illamasqua in Canada, we'd be on to something :D
Review: Buxom Big & Healthy Lip Stick
Don't you just love when a lemming is fulfilled without even trying?
Last month when I attended the Sephora opening here in Halifax, I was given a goodie bag of stuff from the Sephora rep Caroline. I haven't had a chance to play with too many of the products, sadly, but today I finally tried out the deluxe-sized sample of the Buxom Big & Healthy Lip Stick ($23 CDN for 0.03oz). The shade I received is 'Sydney,' a neutral "pink taupe" color. All of the shades are named after different cities, and I think the color is to reflect the overall attitude of the city – so in this case, I'd say this color is laid back cool, which is what I think of when I think of Australia :)
The product is described as a "three-in-one lip perfector" that "defines the shape of the lips like a liner, fills them in with creamy velvet color, and then plumps them to their full buxom potential." It does not contain parabens, sulfates, or phthalates (Of course you don't want that on your lips – how do you even pronounce that?). It DOES contain antioxidant vitamins A, C, and E, and the full-size comes with a built-in sharpener.
(The Lip Stick is on the left, the Lip Polish *mentioned below* is 'April')
The stick is about twice the size of a regular lip liner, and creamier. It still feels a touch dry applying it to the lips, but not uncomfortable. Those with drier lips would probably want to use a balm of some sort first though. It goes one very easily due to it's liner-like shape, and is of medium-opacity – though I can only speak for this shade, as other, darker/brighter colors might be more opaque. After about 15 seconds, your lips feel slightly tingly, which I assume is the 'plumping' effect it claims to give. If you've tried the Buxom Big & Healthy Lip Polish – which I love (smells soo good, and gives amazing, long-lasting shine) – its the same feeling. Not at all unpleasant in my opinion, though I don't need lip plumping at all.
While the product is indeed a great multi-tasker, my biggest excitement was to discover that THIS is the nude shade I've been looking for, for ages!! There are varying degrees of 'nude' and depending on what you're looking for, it can be a challenge. I didn't want the 'brown-nude' shade that's very popular by the Lindsay Lohan's and Kim Kardashian's of the world. I realized that mistake when I bought MAC's 'Freckletone,' a "neutral peach" that I forced myself to wear down to the nub (hating every minute) because I thought it was a 'true' nude on me. And I didn't want to go so light that it looks like my lips blend with my skin. What I really wanted, more than anything else, was this:
Or this:
…which I've been trying to recreate forever, but with no luck. But now!!!!! My wish has been fulfilled, and without even trying! (isn't that always the way??)
I have been off the lip train for quite a while, wearing only balm or a very natural shade of gloss for most of the Summer (except when I was wearing NARS Wonder – hot hot hot!!!), but now I can see that this is all going to change. Since I almost always 'do' my eyes, I rarely want my lips to compete. But, I still want them to look fab! Now, I finally can give them the love they deserve :D
~Sooo cheesy!~
But true. Anyway, I think 'Sydney' would look good on anyone, it's a beautiful neutral shade that isn't too dark or too light. It might not give you the look that I'm going for – a pale beige-y pink on my skintone – but it will still be very casual and forgiving. There are 20 shades to choose from, with a great selection of colors.
I say "DO IT!" :)
Are you a fan of multi-tasking products? Which ones are your faves? And what is your go-to lip color??
Thanks for reading!
Product of the Month: Fresh Sugar Honey/Plum Lip Treatment SPF15
Presenting the grand poobah of lip balms!
First, an overall review. Fresh's Sugar Tinted Lip Treatment SPF15 feel smooth, non-sticky, with a slight waxy feel that doesn't linger uncomfortably. It keeps my lips hydrated but does wear after eating/drinking, and over time (about 2-3 hours). You only need to apply a touch to the lips to get them covered so a tube could last you probably 4 months if you were using it a few times every day. The price point is steep for a balm ($26CDN) but is worth it if you're using it as your primary lip look (as I am). Also, I'm a sucker for the sugary lemon scent (no taste) and the beautiful, substantial packaging. One thing to note is the balm does NOT hold up to hot weather – I unwittingly tried to apply it once after being outside for a couple hours, and it smushed over to one side in the tube. I righted it, and left it alone and it's fine now, so I think if you just don't leave it out in the heat/don't try to apply if after being out in the heat, it won't be an issue. Kind of a pain, but it doesn't deter me in the least from purchasing it again!
I picked up the Plum version of Fresh's lip treatment back in March and have been enjoying it quite a bit. It looks quite plummy on my lips so I usually use it when I'm doing a no-makeup look so I don't feel overdone. I felt it was on par with Jack Black's lip balms in terms of personal preference – I reach for one or the other depending on my look for the day, with neither being used more than the other.
This will NOT be the case for the Honey version of this Lip Treatment. Oh my goodness, how I love this balm!! Its a pinky-peachy brownish-leaning shade that is very neutral and very wearable. For me, the color is MLBB (my lips but better), a look which I find infinitely hard to create in almost all lip products. This plus the combination of the great formulation, and I can see myself shelling out the big bucks for this balm over and over and over again. Am I happy about it? Umm…well, kinda :P I don't love spending that kind of cash on a balm, but I haven't found anything comparable in my travels, so spend I shall. It's definitely the beginning of a LONG, rewarding obsession friendship! (The pics below you've already seen here but I'll show 'em again so you can see the comparison easier).
Fresh Lip Treatments also come in original (no tint), Sugar Rosé (rose tint), and a brand spanking new shade called Sugar Passion – a 'vibrant rouge' tint. All have SPF15 and can be purchased at Sephora (in-store and online) and at Fresh boutiques in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, as well as all across the U.S., and in London (UK) and South Korea.
Have you tried any of the Fresh Lip Treatments, or does the price point scare you away? For a 'basic' product, do you feel that the cost is ridiculous, or are your lured in by the packaging/luxury feel, as I am (what a sucker!)?


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Could you please my Wide Format Plotter project (https://hackaday.io/project/713-Custom-wide-format-plotter) to the Hacker Art list and my Network Amplifier project (https://hackaday.io/project/187-Network-Amplifier) to the Home Automation list? Thank you!
Could you add my project to the automotive list? Thanks!
Hi Jasmine,
I have submitted my project "My Off-grid Solar System Monitoring" for the Prize.
Regarding the "Design document", I think that I provide enough information in the "The Monitoring System" chapter included in the DETAILS section of the project description.
Are you OK with this ?
If not, what should I put in this document ?
Thank you.
Michel Kuenemann
Is it ok that the Introduction Video is 3 minutes instead of 2 ?
They will have so many videos to go through, I think that is why they put a 2 minute limit. I had to cut about 30 seconds out of mine to fit inside two minutes, but it's worth it and causes you to evaluate the amount of detail you need to get your idea across.
Hi, I`m wondering if my project is correctly added to the contest, because I wasn`t contacted by any community manager even though I added it more than 24 hours ago. Would be nice if you could tell me if everything is ok!
[Disclaimer: I don't have any authority!]
I did a quick look at your CalcHack project, and I don't see a System Design Document. Otherwise, I think you look good (from my point of view as another entrant). Good luck!
I didn`t get that with the system design document the first time, but now I added one. Thanks for your help!
By the way, I looked at your project, good luck to you too, and if it`ll sometime support STM32 I think it might become my favorite development tool!
Just wanted to pass on a big 'thank you' on behalf of my daughter Princess Sparkle... she is the one who had requested the extra small Sci Fi shirt. She was thrilled when she saw the package, not with one, but with two shirts, and the personalized note from you explaining that the other shirt would likely fit better. Thanks a million for helping to encourage the next generation of hackers!
No problem. We look forward to seeing what she makes. Family projects are a great way to spend time together, and really are the best way of encouraging the next generation. Good luck to you guys with Stubby.
FYI: My HaD project "FPGA Computer/Eval board" is also a homebrew computer. Please add me to that list. :)
Your project has been added to the list.
Hello Everyone. If you are going to be at Burning Man this year, let me know and I'll try to find you!
Hi Jasmine,
I'm looking to interview makers about their role in the economy. Could you contact me about it? My twitter is @skyberrys
You can get me @asiwatch on twitter, but I've emailed you too.
Thanks for the skull and the follow! And thanks for all your hard work on hackaday.io!
Thank you very much Kenji.
Hi Jasmine, I just wanted to say thanks to you and everyone for this opportunity!! I am very excited to be a part of it!
We are really excited that you are part of it, otherwise we wouldn't have featured you on http://hackaday.com/2014/06/05/thp-hacker-bio-flc/. Keep up the good work.
Jasmine, I wanted to thank you for your efforts in making hackaday.io even better. However, I did not see a reply button on your post. :-( So I clicked your name and say thanks here. :-)
Hello Hari. Thanks for the thanks. It's lovely to hear. We're glad you found us and are really happy to see your projects.
Regarding reply - We need to put the reply under all comments, but for the time being you can use the reply under the original message (in this case your original message). We will fix this soon.
Thanks for the comment on the MeArm! Was able to add it to the contest ok. Just need to make it connected now...
The Science Museum was great and the Antenna Team looked after me well. Don't know how much cross pollination there was between the V&A and science museum but it must have been great to work in that area. That said not sure I'd ever get anything done with so much amazing stuff within so little space with the Science Museum, V&A and Natural History so close together!
No worries. Glad you got MeArm in. Yes, emphasise the connectedness of it.
Yep, lunchtimes were great, and work hours weren't too bad either. It is lovely to see behind the scenes at those places. Good luck with everything.
http://projects.hackaday.com/event/2 / 6PM tomorrow at The Blind Donkey


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