OurGirl: uniformity and the love of rhinos

i entered design school, a freshly-scrubbed, shiny-face young lass, without thinking about appearances. in my lee jeans and farm plaid shirts (many of them short sleeved!) i completely stood out in the crowd of very serious design students. it was a sea of multilayered thrift store chic, multicolored mussed hair, and multicolored pancake eyelids hidden under darkly slashed kohled eyes. everything smelled like patchouli and slight mildew and was held together with sashes of ribbons cut from pantyhose, old skirts, and safetypins. in the zoo of exotic design animals, i was the prairie dog exhibit. every once in a while, i tried to fit in but i always felt uncomfortable. prairie dogs in spangles are, well, prairie dogs in spangles...

the blog template is much the same way. it was a uniform, it fit, it was functional, i put it on and headed out the door without a thought.

but i get what my rhino says. and i love the banner photo, 'cause that's just what this blog is. a meandering commentary path in a series of topic hills. and i'm happy he's back. one more post on my domestic overlook trail and i would have thrown myself off the virtual overlook just to see if anything interesting happened. i like having the ability to play off his posts. i get inspired by rhino.

so i have a proposal for a greek photo blog:
rhino, what if you take that plastic rhino with you and take pics of the rhino in gorgeous greek settings—but have the rhino huge in scale to say, the acropolis. like an ala magritte change in scale. then give us a story of what you did that day.

here is a site: themorningnews.org i've been digging into for the last few days, purely for the visuals. like kent rogowski who takes stuffed animals and turns them inside out and he also buys puzzles from the same manufacturer and then combines the different puzzles to make new compositions.