This Just In

Dear Kerby,

Do you still go to the store to buy music? Over the past few years I have been looking for places to buy records from. I am not talking about the thrift store. If you did not know by now, they make new records. They are not as easy to find a CD. Where I live I know most of the good places to try any find something.

Ever since I got my record player I have been an online shopper of records. I found that the selection is great and the prices can be low. FYE, Hot Topic, Urban Outfitters, and Amazon are among the place I look for new releases. I do not have a problem with Amazon. If I find the record one day it will continue to be sold months later when I can purchase it. This is not true with Urban Outfitters. That store is always changing. They do not keep an album long. Plus, they have some music when you walk into the store but not exactly what you see online. Best Buy has hundreds of records online but sometimes I like the thrill of going to the store and getting one in my hands.

I think I am one of those people who likes everything of the days gone buy. That was such a simpler time. Everything was made to last for years rather than months. Don't get me wrong, I use new technology all the time, this is the world I am living it.

Talk to you later, Bluelaugh

Running Through My Head

Dear Kerby,

Most of the time I have ideas and do not know what to do with them. This time it is once again how I want my house or own place to look. These are thoughts that always run through my head every time I see something I like.

Make the photos on the wall black and white or sepia toned.

Paint the walls dark brow. Maybe even use bead board.

Nice kitchen light over the table. I know I have shared this style before.

A nice, sleek square sofa. Something like this one.

Mid-Century side table. This is the exact brown of the walls. Love how the legs lift it off the floor.

I have also seen a few pieces of inspiration here and there that I have in my mind but am not quite able to share. One of them includes the idea of wall mounting the and framing it out. Not quite worked in a media center but I know I would like one to match the nice side table I found, something with legs.

A lot of places have nice ways of hanging prints by not just framing them out. Think poster sized prints of everyday snapshots (B&W/Sepia). Don't think of too many prints, just a few big ones. The place is to be clean and uncluttered with not a lot of accessories. In a way I always think I wanted to do this or something there of.

Talk to you later, Bluelaugh

Seriously Considering

Dear Kerby,

Over the past few days the idea has come back up. It keeps popping into my head. The idea of making some merchandise. Talking about shirts, posters/prints, coffee table books, or anything people might want to buy with the bluelaugh brand connected to it. Don't think of it as me putting a cheap little 5x7 piece of art on an economy shirt. That is the kind of thing an inexperienced person would do.

Talk to you later, Bluelaugh

Full or Half

Dear Kerby,

Sunday, after thinking about new business card designs I quickly whipped some out. This happens to be one of the several that made it into final upload for print yesterday. This is one of the new ones that I will be excited to see, not that the others are not great. Can you tell what this design is? It has nothing to do with trees. Unfortunately, three of my seven designs stayed the same and so did the back of the cards. It has been a few months since I purchased my last pack of fifty.

To me it is a challenge to come up with things to do with my full or half logo (seen on this card). Having a set of rules inspires me more. Not having rules makes it harder, I always think. Having to not alter the logo form its original form which means scale proportionally, keeping same colors and noting can be added or subtracted to change the feel. Working with such a small canvas make it even more fun. This time four new designs were added with most of them being a nod to vintage inspiration.

Talk to you later, Bluelaugh

Off White

Dear Kerby,

The first snow fall we had looked a little like the image on the right. Shortly melted. Everyone freaked. They keeps saying that we are going to have a snow like last year. This means more time off of school if anything like this happens. I know how many people still ha to go to work in that bad weather. Global warming has done some weird things to us and so had evolution. What do you think?

I hope that soon I can do more great photography like this image. It need not be summer. Over the summer I had a developed style that I made my own when digitally developing. That style no longer exists since I had computer problems. Some time soon a new style will be found, maybe something close to what was used previously. Not too sure what style I want to use but I know it will not be the one you see on the right.

After attaching the Holga lens to my DSLR fun came to be as noted above or down below. That lens is so fun; even more so now that I have a set of lens attachments. What can they not make for a Holga? I am sharing my dog photo because it uses rule 5, 6, and maybe 8 of The Ten Golden Rules of Lomography. Love this vintage inspired look. It is now on my list of developing styles to consider. What do you think?

Just to leave you with a little more inspiration. Hope this year is a do whatever is on your mind type of year.

Talk to you later, Bluelaugh

New

Dear Kerby,

It is now 2012. A new start and a new computer. I waited a while to get mine fixed. I missed it a little bit. Now that I have it back it is not so bad. I have been doing more computer than TV and more music than TV.

Since I a long period of time off I had time to think about a continuation to a previous letter (Top What?). My new list include: Must Sing and Must Dance.

Must Sing to Songs/Artists (in order)
1. Kimya Dawson
2. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
3. Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
4. Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
5. Good Riddance - Green Day
6. Aerosmith
7. Yellow - Coldplay
8. Feels Like The First Time - Foreigner
9. Amy Winehouse
10. Closing Time - Semisonic

Must Dance to Songs/Artists (in order)
1. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
2. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Lepard
3. Jump - Van Halen
4. ZZ Top
5. Hey Ya! - Outkast
6. Ain't That a Kick in the Head - Dean Martin
7. (Everything I Do) I Do For You - Bryan Adams
8. How To Love - Lil Wayne
9. Break on Through - The Doors
10. Tom Petty

Maybe later on will be seeing some new lists. Do not get your hopes up though. My whole life is not to analyze and categorize music. Most times this is how random iTunes or any other playlist happens.

You can see I like music because I got three new records for Christmas: Bon Iver - Boniver, For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver, and No Better Than This - John Mellencamp. I must be classified as a collector because I have records and not CDs or mp3s.

A friend of mine purchased a Lady Gaga CD any listened to it over and over again in the order it came in, he does not like random play. I purchased the same Lady Gaga on vinyl and when he had listened to it he though he knew the order of the songs. Turns out that they slipped some different songs in as a bonus. For me, I did not know the difference because I never heard the cd. Even when I get the record it comes with digital downloads or extra goodies most of the time. When they decide to add an extra to the package I never notice the price going up.

Talk to you later, Bluelaugh

What House?

Dear Kerby,

Lately I have been looking at design element for a place that I do not have. You can even check it out via Amazon's Wishlist. My list has to be update because I feel some of the places no longer sell some of the items I had wished to purchase.

some of the items I have been looking at recently include:

• light fixtures
• sofa
• wallpaper
• decorative frames

It takes quite a while to find what exactly I want but thanks to the internet I know it has been produced. You have to do your research. Do not buy the item the first time you see it, in most cases.

Barn Light Electric Right style; wrong color.
Vintage Baroque picure frames in solid colors. Do they make them big enough to frame out a tv if I have it wall mounted?

Talk to you later, Bluelaugh