life is a single skip for joy

→ Geez you guys, I'm really disappointed with the lack of enthusiasm that my last post received. Haha. /sarcasm. Kidding, obviously. Thank you! I am crossing my fingers!

→ All Lohan jokes aside, Michael Trevino is awesome in this set by Tyler Shields. Minus that weird bloody nose one at the end. LOL. What no one had a tissue? The video was good but not enough Trevino and way too much Lohan.


→ So apparently Microsoft just bought skype and is re-naming the company "MS Skynet." You know, like Skynet from The Terminator "mythology." I sense a Sarah Connor Chronicles marathon coming on.

→ Speaking of Tyler Shields, he did finally post his blood painting along with a video. In the earlier articles about this "controversial" piece of art, he (or the authors) definitely used the term "celebrities" a bit loosely. It's a bit like dancing with the """"stars"""".

When I saw the huffpost tweet about this yesterday, I was kind of shocked at how "not weird" I found the whole thing. I think upon hearing about it at first it was more shocking, but actually seeing it? Not really. It's Tyler Shields. Do I expect anything less? Frankly, no.

→ Don't forget you guys, I've been keeping up with my Vampire Diaries cast (and miscellaneous others) gallery over at EVERY DAMN THING. I've got a "no-frills" gallery thing kind of going on. I am tempted to make it more high tech but I haven't had the energy to do the research to make it happen. There are now Joseph Morgan and Daniel Gillies galleries as well. Some people I keep up with more than others, but whatever, it's just a quick reference guide and by no means a complete collection.

→ I have my first draft done, which needs a few changes, but I hope to have my video posted tonight. Going to start working on it as soon as I'm done with this post. I'm super excited to share it with you guys!

→ So apparently!! Tyler Shields has collected (is collecting?) the actual blood of 'around 20' celebrities to be displayed as the center piece for an upcoming gallery opening. He's painting with it and maybe something else. Not sure how to react to that, but I do think it's a great metaphor for celebrity culture. Generally I'm a fan of Tyler's work, which you can see examples of below (unaltered aside from resizing, click the image for a bigger version). I think my choices don't really give you an accurate idea of his obesession with white, black, and red, sex, violence, sex&violence, and the truly bizarre, but you get the idea. See his site for more, which at times can be NSFW so I'd wait until I got home to click. I'd especially check out his portfolio (his blog has ADD) and his video portraits you can find there. He definitely has a knack for capturing celebrities in a way that they generally aren't captured.



→ So yesterday I stopped off after work to get some sushi (cause clearly I'm addicted) and this adorable server caught me making a horrified expression when I first read the news above. I explained to him what I was doing (reading tweets!) and why I was making that expression. Then later when I was checking out, he starts gushing, total fanboy mode, about how his favorite celebrity is Zooey Deschanel and how he follows her on twitter but she's never tweeted him back, and how he thinks she's the perfect woman ever. It was really cute. (Not in a stalkery way.)

→ Have I mentioned how Panera Bread has the best mac & cheese in the known universe?

Cause they do.

→ FIC REC: ozmissage, light of my light, apple of my eye, etc. etc. wrote me Caroline/Stefan/Tyler which is to-die-for. Suspenseful and really does a good job of bringing them together in a believable compelling way. Whereas I like to subscribe to the Caroline Forbes way of thinking: just add sex. Which, don't get me wrong, has its merits. But it is not this, which is just gorgeous and so in-character and perfect! Go read it!

Title: it seems that all of my bridges have been burned
Pairing: Stefan/Tyler/Caroline
Rating: PG-13 (violent imagery, character death)
Words: 2,716
Summary: It would be funny if he wasn’t one of the monsters. Spoilers through 2x17.

→ ETA: The Vampire Diaries was renewed! Yay! (Not that I was worried.)