week 43 (+8) Fitness to Survive the Apocalypse

43

-George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States. (<--This is why the apocalypse is nigh and you need to get ZombieFit! lol)



I think in the past I've mentioned my interest in Parkour. Anyway I was on this site called Shrink Geek when they brought up an alternative exercise program called Zombiefit. The tag line for their program is "Fitness to Survive the Apocalypse" and somewhere in the back of my mind I heard banjos playing and thought hipster apocalyptic nuts with a side order of LMAO cool-ness.

Watch this:


Now tell me that does not look fun and very VERY awesome!

What a interesting and fun way to get fit (and get away from your flesh eating neighbors XD).

Are we Human or are we Dancer?

This is a great song and it was filmed in Southern Utah!

In the song it says "Are we human, or are we dancer?" this was taken from a disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson meant that the US was making people afraid of stepping out of place and following their own beat. He was saying that people were only following the steps they were taught, and were also taught not to change them.

So very sad when people feel the need to play the puppet master and pull others strings in the dark, thinking the rest of the world can't see them acting as a puppet master.

Even sadder when people do it to their loved ones. I pity and feel remorse for such cold and unloving people. Even more for the people that are made to jump at the whim of these people.

I'm human! Flawed but very much human! No one pulls my string from dark places.


-Official music video shot in Southern Utah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6r4KT8-VX0

-Song:



I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind
And sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes
Clear your heart...
Cut the cord

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance,
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye
Wish me well..
You've gotta let me go

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Will your system be alright
When you dream of home tonight?
There is no message we're receiving
Let me know is your heart still beating

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer

You've gotta let me know

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human
Or are we dancer?

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Are we human
Or are we dancer?




Interesting that even Disney has the answer to this message...
But I'll get to that later. Night ALL MY FRIENDS!

Eclectic design and style

So if I was not such a BBW I would soooo be very much more strange, odd and extremely eclectic in my own scene of fashion.

Sure I dig mainstream but I also like to mix in things that stand out a tad more.

So anyway while I was looking for real life inspiration for the design and dress of my steampunk charter I came across these really neat and yes odd pants that are sweeping the underground fashion trends in the East and West.

I give you the "Tobi" pants sometimes called 'SteepleJacks'.

What are tobi though? well to quote Lastwear they are:

"....the Steeplejacks are based on the style of pants worn by Japanese construction workers known as Tobi pants."

Such as in this picture:



From this there has steamed a moment that is touching the niche markets and the hip trend setting waves of people (ya know the people that start the trends and fads or such).

Some examples are as fallows:

These are from a hip trendy shop called Shigoto.








These are less modern in their design but still none the less cool! Less baggy to compared to the hip version. Made by a guy called Marcus Stratus aka Weerd on DA or also he has a Etsy shop.




Weerd got the pattern for the pants from Lastwear Though he changed it a lil bit. Lastwear is in between what Weerd does and the hipsters in that they maintain more of the original design but also try and make then a tad more modern as well.










So what do you think? I love them and if I had the $150 to commission some from either Marcus or the Lastwear crew I would. Or the wallet biting $210-352 from Shigoto. But that is like buying name brand from places like Abercrombie & Fitch. OUCH!

Oh well. I still dig these awesome and yes eclectic pants!

Patch Poll 3.0 - Plz vote or comment!

So here I am again looking for some opinions on my patch WIPs and now the placement of the UCI and how you like the text I have chosen or if you have another that you think would work better.

Remember this is suppose to be a Steampunk-ish designed patch. And is suppose to have the feel of an olde (yep old with a 'e' if ya know what I mean) map or parchment or a book.

First up is the idea that sprang from my head and after working up the patch and trying this element out I just today decided that it was not going to work. Its a little bit to modern and doesn't meld well with the patches. I might try to fool around with it more free hand with pencil and try to get it working better with the new font and design. ...but for now it is scrapped pending a re-engineering (with similar format that is).



Am I the only one that feels that the above is similar to what a University emblem would look like? Hmmm.... I think it is. Thus to modern. *le sigh* I really like this idea. Oh well.



On to some examples of the final patches and the wording on them. Remember that the circle ones are going to be a circle patch (just on square 'paper' for ease of working with them). The half circle one will be a rectangle patch.

Design one (1) examples:

A simple design which would work well transiting to a patch.




Design two (2) examples:

More complex and I just like this one more. Very eye grabbing in my POV. (Yes Craig I know you think that is it to complex but I will try it anyway and see what the company says lol.)






Design three (3) examples:

The half patch or rectangular patch. Kinda fun might be made side project while working with the full ones. I dunno if I will get this done but might in the future but vote on it any way plz.





^ALL THE DESIGNS ABOVE ARE JUST EXAMPLES OF THE TEXT PLACEMENT^



Now onto the text placement options. I have lines in red shades place on the WIP patches with numbers next to the line. I would like you to give me the patch you like and the number line that you think the text would look good on.

EXAMPLE: I like patch 'A' and line 3!

If there is not a line on the place that you think the text looks best then say something like:

...I think it the text would work best and look good next to line 3!


Patch 'A'


Patch 'B'


Patch 'C'



Like last time plz leave comments on your ideas or your rants. All verbiage is going in to see how these are received and in working to improve them more.

Yes I'm odd, we have established this as well as my never growing up ^_^ MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yay and your done (...if you voted or commented that is >.>)!

Who is ready for H1N1?

And the dreaded H1Z1!

I frakken am! Bring on your worse!





LOL I have waaaay to much fun with my camera!

If by now you dn't know....

....that I L-O-V-E hats then you have not been paying attention to my head for the last several years ^_^.

So anyway I was up late again last night when a random show came on the HD PBS channel (KBYU 11-4) and it was a crochet program. Ehhh, okaaay whatever, boring but I left it on in the background anyway. And they had this segment about these university boys that had started a program in Uganda, Africa to teach kids how to crochet.

Anyway they take the hats (beanies!!!) that they make and sell them here in the US and all the profits go back into helping the Ugandan people!

How cool is that!?

So anyway I think that my next few beanie purchases are going to be through their online store!

Check out their site Krochet Kids International and online store!

Such a good cause and hey awesome hats so how can you lose!?





Anyway random WoW (World of Warcraft) YAY-ness for me! I got the "the Noble" title on two of my characters and almost on another character! YAAAAAAY! Also it is Children's Week coming this Firday in WoW and that means another title for lvl 80s and AWESOME pets for the rest of us! Three new pets!!!




Also I have been feeling very very good compared to how I have been feeling in the past quiet awhile. I think both Shaun's DP manual and Paul David's blog and book "At last a Life" have really turned me in the right direction and helped me! ....along with the anti-anxiety meds that I am on.

I am function a ton better and feel less unreal at times so that is progress... even if it is slower then a glacier sliding South it is still moving in the right direction!

Pass it forward! ---->

Love this web comic! It rox my world ^_^

If your not reading "What Mormons Like"

...then you are taking yourself to serious.

From their mission statement: "Helping Mormons Laugh at Themselves Because They Feel Guilty Mocking Others."

You have to be able to laugh at yourself lol plus it is good clean fun to start each morning. Give it a go and get laughing.

*goes off chortling to self*