*Stina

23 y/o San Francisco Bay Area native with a slighty different perspective, an odd sense of humor, and a penchant for sharing that opinion with you. Just finished college and coming to grips with the sobering fact that making your way in the world today really does take everything you’ve got.  So I’m leaving the country for at least a year, and who knows what I’ll do when my time is up, I feel very nomadic at this point in life.

Mostly this blog is for posting things that come to my mind that I just don’t say out loud all the time.  I practice a lot of self-censorship so as not to overwhelm (or annoy) people and this can pretty much be viewed as an overflow of my thought processes and a bit of stuff that I want to jot down and be able to remember later on.

I’m idiotically romantic at heart but generally enjoy Asian movies better than U.S. stories, especially Bollywood and Korean.  Some of my favorites are Lagaan, Fanaa, and My Sassy Girl.  I like Sci-Fi/Futuristic movies like Fifth Element, Star Wars series and The Chronicles of Riddick series.  I also like adventures, comedies, cult films, classic movies, and random unclassifiable-type stuff.  Some favorites are The Sandlot, Army of Darkness, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Pirates of the Caribbean series, Indiana Jones series, Heavyweights, Polly, Paper Moon, Brigadoon, Coming To America, Monty Python’s Search For The Holy Grail and a slew of other films.

I love doing crafty things. My favorite times in gradeschool were arts n’ crafts time, and computer time. It’s funny because that’s exactly what I do now. I’ve earned an Art degree with a concentration in Conceptual and Information Arts. I know, you ask, “what the heck does that mean?” I focus primarily on creating art with new and emergent technologies. I’ve done sound art, locative art (think GoogleEarth and GPS devices), Video art (my love), and gobs of other stuff.

I also enjoy painting, sewing, knitting and making t-shirt designs. I’m also learning how to crochet and embroider. I like to play video games (RPGS and Platformers, mainly), I’m very interested in Modern Art and Urban Fashion, and I like to read, occasionally; I generally prefer history and art books, and fiction novels.

So… that’s me in a nutshell I guess.