Philmont Photos

I went to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico this July, where I went on a 10-day backpacking trek in the backcountry. It was a very valuable experience, and I wanted to post some of the better photos that I took.

I love Philmont so much and I really, really can't wait to go back someday!

~Naddie

Modern Art (a parody)

I would like to enlighten your lives a little bit by sharing some top-notch modern art that I created. I feel within my soul that these are a vivid look into modern society and almost everything that plagues the minds of mortals today and throughout all of human history.

An Eternity Passes While We Wait for the World to Fix Itself

Emptyness of a Human Soul

The Mental Prison Created by a Cold, Impersonal Consumer Society

The Torment of a Dying Planet

Life altering and soul wrenching, is it not?

~Naddie

White Queen portrait

I've been drawing again. The scanned picture really doesn't give you an accurate idea of the shading or of the details, but here it is:

(I'm sorry that the graphic had to be so big that it has begun to choke the right side of your screen). Yep, that's me dressed as the White Queen from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, which, along with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of my absolute favorite stories. I played the White Queen in HTT's Alice in Wonderland (which combined elements from both books, by the way). I based this self-portrait off of a photograph that someone took of me in the green room, before the performance. That's why I'm wearing only one glove and have got on horrible fake eyelashes. (Side note: I also had to wear falsies in the next play. A friend and I had a joke about me having small tarantulas on my eyes.)

I am beginning to resent my nose. It's a nice enough looking nose, I suppose, but it's an absolute nightmare to draw. I mean, there's this bit down the side where you think it should be raised, but it's straight! And in profile the knobbly bit on the end has got no outline. And don't get me started on the shading around my nostrils! In the spirit of Alice in Wonderland, I've resolved to give my nose a firm talking to. It shall go without its supper until it has promised me that it will make an effort to be easier to draw.

Fair farren,
~Naddie

So apparently I can draw...

 Remember how I made it very clear that I cannot draw anything other than the Death Star and musical symbols to save my life? Evidently that is not so. I have discovered that I do have some drawing ability. I was not aware of this fact until recently, when I started doodling absently because I had nothing better to do at that moment (don't you just love summer vacation?). And, well, while I'm not exactly Van Gogh, you can actually tell what my pictures are supposed to be.

As I said, not Van Gogh. But I think it's pretty obvious that they're supposed to be horses. While this may not seem all that exciting to you drawers out there who actually posses considerable skill, this is a big step forward for me and I'm really pleased with it.

I seriously enjoy drawing, and I'm excited with all the new artistic possibilities I can now consider.

~Naddie

Coolest. Furniture. Ever.

 

 

"Check out this awesome and stylish Vintage leather interior designed by LA Designs. I love how they have used many parts of the car to turn it into armchairs and even tables."

Found this on Tumblr. Who said furniture couldn't be art? This is the neatest combination of objects since the bunk bed ("I mean, it's a bed. With a LADDER! How cool is that?") 

~Naddie

P.S. By the way, I'm not really awake at 3:00 AM. I auto-scheduled this post. Right now, it's 7:16 PM on Friday. If I actually am awake eight hours from now, something has gone seriously wrong with my life.