Mystery Man

He intrigued me.

Damn I Love Madonna

hmm u think we're related?

Master chief, Halo

Heres my quick version of the Master Chief in Halo. haha! video-game characters are hard to draw!

Another Badass song

Twitter

The new "thing" to do nowadays is Twitter. Why would anyone want to know what people are doing or thinking at all times of the day? It is just another excuse for Americans to be procrastinators. But who am i to talk? i just made one! haha www.twitter.com/CarissaReneM See you there friends!

La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Mix)

I can not stop listening to this song. It makes a lonely man (or woman in my case) smile. Not to mention it makes even the most biased person of this genre of music begin a slight and almost instinctual movement which I like to call the "head bob."

To be naked is to be beautiful and free

Betty

Sometimes i wish i could live like this. All drawings done by yours truly.

Meteor Shower Tonight

I'm checking out the shooting stars tonight. 12am to 5am. should be quite a show!

Godlight

Images in the Clouds

Do you see what i see? i see an angel to the right flying in towards the sun. This is a pic i took on my way to San Destin, Florida.

Power

So apparently my mom and John Travolta are staying in the same hotel right now. She said that his request before he got a room was that the toilet seat be changed. HA!.... celebrities. Man if that was me i would request extra pillow chocolates!

This video was made in the Antwerp , Belgium Central (Train) Station on the 23rd of March 2009.

. . . with no warning to the passengers passing through the station,

at 08:00 am a recording of Julie Andrews singing 'Do, Re, Mi' begins to play on the public address system.

As the bemused passengers watch in amazement, some 200 dancers begin to appear from the crowd and station entrances.

They created this amazing stunt with just two rehearsals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k

Check this guy out!!

Justin Beever continues to amaze people with his sidewalk 3D chalk drawings.

Welcome to Palmdale

I lie on my bed with no one to talk to while the light from the outside creeps through my blinds. It's 7:30 am and my mind wanders aimlessly with no trace of stopping. Life is difficult without you. Life was also difficult with you. A couple days ago at this hour i would be sound asleep. But not today. Not this time. How long must one endure emotional pain? How long does it take for someone to realize that there is more to life than you? how long does it take for one to get over the fact that you are now living a seperate life than i? so many questions yet no true answers. Rhetorical. I hate that word. Or do i? Cant i say that i have learned an important part of life when i finally live through the answers to my rhetorical questions? Maybe no question is rhetorical at all. Any question can be answered once it has been experienced. A good friend of mine reminded me that " it gets worse before it can get better." It is like being a drug addict. He was my drug. Rehab was my decision. Recovery takes time and the thought of what adventures i will experience without my 'drug' is motivating. "The grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side." P.S- I have never spoke to a possible national audience on this particular subject but sense blogs are supposed to be pretty personal this area of interest is a big part of me. It's a beautiful day. Good morning world!

Sears Tower's new "ledge"

I survived the Ledge on Wednesday. Gingerly at first, fearlessly after a time, I stood on the glass floor of the new attraction on the Sears Tower Skydeck.

It promises patrons the sense of standing in space, free to admire the unobstructed view of a city 1,353 feet straight below.

The Ledge delivers. The effect is spectacular, even on a cloudy and drizzly day.

Would-be daredevils stand in enclosures with glass on five sides. All have visible pins and connections, so the eye has a reassuring reference point that you're in a real structure.

But it takes a certain trust in unseen architects, engineers and construction workers to take that first step overlooking perdition.

The technical team behind the Skydeck's four new glass bays, which open to the public today as part of the Skydeck's standard $14.95 admission, was headed by Ross Wimer, partner in the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, and Lou Cerny, vice president of MTH Industries in Hillside.

Wimer was involved early on as Sears Tower's ownership hatched the idea of something new and daring to give pizzazz to a Skydeck that was dated to many Chicagoans.

They talked about an open-air addition, with grates and wire mesh or a glass bay that was open at the top. "We were doing a lot of thinking about this sort of wind-in-the-hair idea," he said.

"Can you step out and feel the wind? The limitation was that your view is not as good when you're having to look through mesh."

So glass it was, and enclosed at the top so people can't loft items onto unwary heads below.

Enter Cerny, whose firm specializes in unusual applications of glass and metal. It prides itself in getting heavy material into unusual places, like the 103rd floor of a skyscraper.

He was there for the construction and the testing. They shattered glass to make sure the bays could withstand any conceivable load or wind battering.

One process involved a center punch, a device somewhat larger than a pen but which packs a pressurized wallop. Cerny said that through the center punch test, it was determined the boxes' three half-inch-thick panels could be fractured and they would still hold.

The official load limit is five tons. Each bay is about 4 feet deep, 10 feet high and 10 feet wide and will hold about a half dozen adults without crowding.

"We figured out how much weight you could conceivably put in that space, and then doubled it. That was our weight tolerance," Wimer said.

The bays are suspended from a steel frame and retract into the building using devices similar to those that move theatrical stages.

The job site, Cerny said, posed many challenges. "You're on the ground, you're getting 20-mile-an-hour winds -- it's 40, 50 miles up here," he said on the Skydeck.

Cerny said all the Skydeck work, including lobby renovations, cost more than $8 million.

-David Roeder

I want these!

Check out some of these cools pics i took in Miami

My first blog

Today was an interesting day. In fact it was quite uplifting. It started out as any other day with me waking up at 9 am to go to work at hooters where i have faithfully worked for a little over 5 years now. Of course taking after my father... thanks dad.... i do not go to bed usually until around 5 am. I stay up all night on my wonderful laptop that my very smart brother built me for my birthday researching the "unforgotten corners of the world." Anything and everything that is. Anyways, i slug into work around 10:30 am with dark circles under my eyes and thankfully fresh breath. It's Monday. I had 4 tables all day long until 4:30 pm. But my day shift today (i worked a double) was not about how much money i could make which is usually the only thing that keeps me awake. Around 2 pm i walk out of the kitchen and to my surprise an old friend who i had not seen in a couple months was sitting at a table. Now the last time i had talked to 'Ben' he had decided to move to New York and i did not know when i would see my dear friend again. Ben i would guess is in his mid 40s. Besides that he is an amazing optimistic artist! So we got to talkin as we did before he left for new york and he told me everything that had happened on his journey to find peace within himself. And by golly he found it!! He showed me some of the artwork he had done on his blog while he was away. Extremely moving! In fact here is his blog url prisk.typepad.com/. Ben inspired me to open up my own blog. It may be boring at times and i use a lot of slang and not good grammer or enough commas or too many run-on sentences but bare with me people this is just for fun! It may take me some time to figure out how to work this thing also. For instance i have no idea how to get this damn italic off. I hope you all enjoy! :-)