Totally just deleted my quote blog.

Ugh. NO FEARS, THOUGH. It’ll soon be revived, and filled with even more quotes than before! >:]

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Just a heads up

I may or may not be deleting this blog.

Well not really…
But ideally, what I’d like to do is “archive” it somehow and start fresh. I don’t want to delete it because I’m no longer the type to run away from my past. These posts are me, whether in moments of greatest enlightenment or greatest breakdown. They are my past, and my past is mine no matter what. God doesn’t abandon a creation just because it turned out bad, and my past is the same way.

In any case, I’m looking for a new change in social networking and blogging. I have about a zillion blogs, from xanga to blogspot to wordpress, along with other accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, BlogTV (for future use), Bandcamp (for future use), Flickr (for future use), Vimeo (for future use) and others that I simply just have no idea what to do with. It feels like my backpack is getting too heavy for my own comfort, especially since I’m a pretty organized dude. I like things simple, but clearly this isn’t in my nature at all.

This is my “main blog” on Tumblr, so unfortunately I can’t name a new one as my “new main blog.” So whenever I like something, it will be liked under this blog’s name. I await the day tumblr changes this (This is the same scenario that happened with my last account, except I had a quote-book blog as my main account. It felt strange seeing this inspirational and philosophical quote-blog “liking” immature Pokémon jokes. Haha) but for now, I’ll have to look for alternatives.

My other issue is privacy. I’m still in this limbo of figuring out what I want, because in a sense I want my thoughts to be private, safe and protected. And at the same time, I want people’s feedback and just to simply know they’re reading. I want people to hear my voice, but not necessarily respond to it in any meaningful way. And Tumblr is perfect for that, because it has a reply feature and a like feature. Just people liking my posts makes me feel secure that my opinion is not crazy, which I unfortunately need a lot of reassurance on as life goes on. It’s easy for me to feel alone in the world in my beliefs.

In essence - I don’t know what I want.

All I know is Tumblr doesn’t feel like the most thought-heavy place. And it feels strange to have alternation between long-winded reflections on life and “LOL LOOK AT THIS TURTLE” pictures. I also don’t like having these multiple blogs that I try and separate into separate things… so I’m still looking for a solution.

What I MAY do is create a new blog with searchable tags. But again, I don’t want to force people to subscribe to the entirety of that mess, if they only wanna see the cool design pictures I put up or something. Anyways who knows…

One thing I know is, I have this strange conflicting need for the public to hear my thoughts, but for that to discriminate from post to post. I think I’m too much of an idealist; I guess I’m just extremely determined to look for “pathways in the rubble” in this world. If someone says something is impossible or unrealistically ideal, I become determined to find a way to make it happen. It’s hard to convince me that something’s impossible.

ANYWAY, I digress too much.

I want a separation of my small thoughts (like twitter) from my big scholarly written essays (like wordpress) and my collection of amazing designs and my funny pictures and my emotionally-influenced posts and my random moments in life and…

I want it all sorted, but in one place. And I don’t want to send all of this stuff to an empty internet void, but I don’t want the entire world to find out about it either. I want my closest friends to read it and I want strangers to read it. I don’t want to feel a need to censor myself.

So who knows what will happen. But I will do my best to let you guys know of any changes. Thanks for sticking around! :]

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Keep hope alive, Danny. There are still good people in this world, and they will be the ones that save it. Believe in them. Believe in you. Don’t lose hope because that’s when all hope is lost.

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YESSSS.

missssramos: “Sure, people without sight can paint and often produce stunning artwork without ever having a real sense of color. But when color temperature becomes literal, cool blues and hot reds are differentiated in a new way that permits far more creative expression. The Touch Color tablet uses thermal energy and a hand-held color wheel to create works of art. The color wheel can even capture actual colors from a user’s environment and transmit it to the tablet.” —losing my eye sight is my biggest fear. but its good to know there is amazing technology like this for those who aren’t as fortunate as the rest of us. painting for the blind! wow this is so dope.  This is the most amazing thing I have seen in a while in terms of engineering, design, and heart. Seriously. I want to embody those three by the end of my stay at Columbia. I want to have the vision to see what isn’t there, the heart to paint that emptiness with the most beautiful of colors, and the skills to make all of this possible. missssramos: “Sure, people without sight can paint and often produce stunning artwork without ever having a real sense of color. But when color temperature becomes literal, cool blues and hot reds are differentiated in a new way that permits far more creative expression. The Touch Color tablet uses thermal energy and a hand-held color wheel to create works of art. The color wheel can even capture actual colors from a user’s environment and transmit it to the tablet.” —losing my eye sight is my biggest fear. but its good to know there is amazing technology like this for those who aren’t as fortunate as the rest of us. painting for the blind! wow this is so dope.  This is the most amazing thing I have seen in a while in terms of engineering, design, and heart. Seriously. I want to embody those three by the end of my stay at Columbia. I want to have the vision to see what isn’t there, the heart to paint that emptiness with the most beautiful of colors, and the skills to make all of this possible.

missssramos:

“Sure, people without sight can paint and often produce stunning artwork without ever having a real sense of color. But when color temperature becomes literal, cool blues and hot reds are differentiated in a new way that permits far more creative expression. The Touch Color tablet uses thermal energy and a hand-held color wheel to create works of art. The color wheel can even capture actual colors from a user’s environment and transmit it to the tablet.”


—losing my eye sight is my biggest fear. but its good to know there is amazing technology like this for those who aren’t as fortunate as the rest of us. painting for the blind! wow this is so dope. 

This is the most amazing thing I have seen in a while in terms of engineering, design, and heart.

Seriously. I want to embody those three by the end of my stay at Columbia. I want to have the vision to see what isn’t there, the heart to paint that emptiness with the most beautiful of colors, and the skills to make all of this possible.

missssramos: 14” x 14” assignment for school, cut from magazines. this was fun but surprisingly difficult to find certain letters, “X” was the tricky one.  missssramos: 14” x 14” assignment for school, cut from magazines. this was fun but surprisingly difficult to find certain letters, “X” was the tricky one. 

missssramos:

14” x 14” assignment for school, cut from magazines. this was fun but surprisingly difficult to find certain letters, “X” was the tricky one. 

I love people that convince me to stop being so depressed and complicated and weighted.

God made us to be more.
Not to struggle and beat ourselves up in the process.

Like a kid, purely enjoying the thrill of weekend soccer matches with his friends and feeling the victories of winning and the spoils of the pizza party afterwards - God made us to passionately pursue life. Learn and grow, looking at the world the way a child looks at the sky-high shelves of a candy shop. This world has so much to offer, and spending a single moment upset is such a waste.

Determined to be passionate; passionately happy about life.

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Debussie by Daphne Loves Derby

I’ve been looking through these eyes
Of black and white for far too long
And now these deepen colors seem so shocking

Bless the cold cold moon
That moves the seas that makes the waves
That made this scene for me to see, be moved

Will my life be long enough
To see the things I want to see?
I believe this world is just too big for me

Every cloud that passes by is another cloud I’ll never see
Maybe I just try to hard to understand all of these things
Bless the hands of painters oh
Who have captured melon skies
Starry nights for us to see and feel
For all of time

Will my life be long enough
To see the things I want to see?
I believe this world is just too big for me

This life is just a blink of an eye
A glimpse into the world we were never meant to see
So don’t hang on to anything at all

And all the things we have
And all the people we have known
Will fade away so quickly
Into the deep

And memories of love
Will be the only warmth we have in the end

This is an MMS message. Express bus driver just stopped at a random point to pick up my mom. I didn’t even ask him to but his own kindness did it anyway. GMH. Wish there were a way to tip these mega kind people…