{"id":173,"date":"2009-12-13T19:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T02:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2009-12-13T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T02:34:19","slug":"hedging-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/13\/hedging-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"hedging bets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why is it that airplane bathrooms highlight and magnify facial blemishes better than any other environment?<\/p>\n

I don’t mind a bit of clutter. Some may say that I have a high tolerance for piles.\u00a0 Clutter is a sign of projects in motion, thoughts in development, moments of time on pause.\u00a0 If clutter bothers you, blur your eyes; relax them back into your head.\u00a0 You’ll find that the crisp edges of what you might have thought was a mess isn’t.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve worn glasses since kindergarten. I hid them in my desk for years, squinting and crossing my fingers that we wouldn’t have a substitute teacher that would see a scarlet ‘G’ next to my name on the roster and announce to the whole class that my edges weren’t crisp.<\/div>\n
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Do you think the owner trims these? Or does he or she hire someone to do it? If so, is there any art direction involved? <\/p><\/div>\n

My choice of glasses frames has paralleled my taste in hair styles.\u00a0 When one side of my hair was short and the other was long in sixth grade, I had two pairs of colored metal frames – one of which had classy tinted pink lenses too.\u00a0 At the start of college I went through a chin-length bob, and felt it appropriate to pair it with some frames that came with snap on sunglasses.\u00a0 As a first year design student I became acutely aware that my frames were out of date, and switched to a pair that I could only tolerate for a week.\u00a0 The heft of high performance plastic needed for the frame style and my prescription was too heavy on my nose.\u00a0 Santa Cruz had rubbed off on me.\u00a0 I wasn’t about to tolerate oppressive eye-wear.\u00a0 Roar! I’ve since settled\u00a0 into a brown and teal pair that may or may not auto-tag me with: design, designer, internet4eva.<\/p>\n

Recently, I wore these glasses into an airplane bathroom.\u00a0 Never again! They can’t leave the gate on time but they can perform pore-enlarging, blemish accentuating magic in those cramped, human-scented closets.\u00a0 I saw intricacies of my face that have never before been explored, and it dawned on me that I like living in semi-blur. “Hello, you.”\u00a0 I think people with perfect vision might also be super organized.\u00a0 Let’s talk about these hedges that belong to a neighbor of my sister in Menlo Park, CA.\u00a0 Three tiers of organization in hedge trimming, and not one Jumanji animal!? Congratulations on your eyesight.<\/p>\n

This morning a waitress at the sub-par breakfast place near our house recognized us. This first, non-acquaintance public recognition is alarming. It indicates that I live here now. I like remaining blurry because it allows me to escape, but I love focusing in because humans are bizarre.\u00a0 Is design about the balance?<\/p>\n

I run into my clutter all the time, but it’s not all Windex and streak free shine on the other side either.\u00a0 Just last week I wore my glasses to the salad bar at work and full-on smacked my face into the sneeze guard.<\/p>\n

I’m willing to hedge my bets on the blur-life.\u00a0 What do you think? Has your eyesight shaped your outlook?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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