Late-ish upload again, sorry! Happy Phycology Friday! This week’s featured friend is also a familiar one: Chondracanthus exasperatus (explanation for why I redid this in the last paragraph). C. exasperatus (common name: Turkish Towel) is a species of red algae. Its appearance may vary with its environmental conditions; for example, its blade shape can vary depending on water velocity, and its colour can vary depending on water temperature.
It also makes for a good loofah, apparently. 😝 - A while back, I drew C. exasperatus and I wasn’t happy with it (it was really rushed and I didn’t have my small brush on me), so I took my sweet time with attempt 2. I think it turned out alright! (or, at least, attempt 1 pales in comparison). I also have a pressing of Chondracanthus (shown on the left in the first photo), which was awesome—it’s always nice to be able to have the real thing in front of you. - What would you like to see featured on a future Phycology Friday? Let me know! ☺️
This spread I find cute is not yet done but it's made out of the things everyone gave me during my birthday 😀✨
A school-based art project: Acrylic on Ceramic Plate
The best thing about this project was that the material was so easy to get. One small plate like this was around less than a dollar (25 pesos for a heavy white plate ftw) from a local general merch shop. It was more quality than I expected it to be. I also bought a plate stand for this cutie.
For now, it’s sitting at the top of the piano because yas why not. I’m thinking of making more of these since it’s a lot cheaper than canvas boards hehe.
Getting offline-life together for the first quarter of the year hoping *really crossing my fingers* to have more than two months of cleaning my current messy state all-wise, really. Hello again, it has been a while my smol cave 🏠
(But I had the slightest time to pull off this little painting of a cactus from the porch while waiting at the laundry shop ☕)
Things of the week in photos 📷
The city had a special nightly tabo (market/open house) for a week where resorts, restaurants and cafes in/near the city got together and placed booths at the city hall grounds. The event was also incorporated with live music (someone played Mundo at the last day huhu) 💕
Me and my friends went out and watched Infinity War 😥
Watercolor on school notes should be a series hmm
My last bag of green tea that my aunt brought back from Japan, so far this was the best green tea I’ve ever tried huhu I turned it after into a facial scrub to commemorate its existence.
Hope your having a good week too! 🙆🌸
Today In Photos 🌞
Did volunteer work for a community mural painting in my smol city!! It is collaborated by a local women’s arts collective and a visual artist from Manila to celebrate this year’s Shark Conservation Week, and our island has plenteous of them
Also my cousin escaped to dreamland (lol) without me (lolol) but brought back my favorite teas and japanese snacks
also thank you for the good feedback of my inktober prompts and bullet journaling!! It reaaally means a lot 💕 Hope ur having a nice day/night wherever you are bc I sure had one 😃🌸
Who knew I’d go and finally witness their music years after I found them on youtube playing most of their live concerts rather than their studio recordings.
2017 was made up of panic attacks, breakdowns, severe acne, real decisions, tears, a broken heart, self-care attempts (that really helped huhu) and failures. It sucks to start the year with crushed hopes and dreams that ended me but I also wanted to feel hope again, because I know that I have the will to also do the things I love. So I started again 🌞
Because I knew I was going to be stuck for a while, I promised to myself to do the things I love just as much as I'll work hard in the current decision I've taken. And along that path, I found out that I could possibly go to an Ambitions Asia Tour. I was also shookt myself lol
I extremely saved money since they announced their event, raged my dreamz of listening them live to my journal, dog, family, and friends (and believed that she can't just like others who wanted to see concerts hmp), constantly and desperately checking promo flights from every airline, asked help to extended relatives in the city if they wanted to have me infiltrate their home for a while, etc. Everything was never under my hands and this show was a game stopper for the past months of 2017. Four remaining months of saving, singing their songs (new and old alike), praying, and more praying that everything would fall into place, 2017 ended just like that. To me, the year felt quick and I was happy for its pace.
bonus: sight seeing at Taal Lake, Tagaytay in 21°c weather, yellow suitcase for Ambitions MNL 💛
(As if I'm in Osaka in their early days huhu), the atmosphere first felt like I was one of the audience of the Yokohama concert way back 2014 (oh youtube)
Mighty Long Fall
My friend who came with me said I should've scream like others in a concert and not just sing with the whole arena. Nah man, I prefer to sit down and listen to them doing what they love, sing with the people, jump or raise our freakin hands up rather than adding noise whenever. (I did scream and gave them a big applause when they talked and all did solos huhu esp taka during clock strikes and toru and his guitar solos 💓)
MY FIRST BAND SHIRT 😭
Not only I was looking forward to see the four playing, I was also very very happy of witnessing the whole crew of ONE OK ROCK, the lighting technicians (kudos 🙌), videocam crew for an amazing job (I felt like I was watching their youtube videos but live & irl 😂), security, organizers, and esp their official photographer @julenphoto , the same guy who shoots for their instagram photos huhu 💓
ONE OK ROCK welcomed my new year with hope and that I still could do something with these little hands of mine, slowly but surely. So as long as you keep your own pace and that you don't mind everyone else's journey, you have your own and in your own speed, you can have what it takes to be who you are and finish what you've started with courage, good attitude, and ofc love. 💖
Anything they say will never break our hearts of gold.
Hopes and dreams forevermore,
-花。
original post: https://www.instagram.com/p/eRe29POGEC/?taken-by=justinnehannah
This was way back around September 2013. Glad I took a photo before it was drawn over by my little bro minutes later. Btw that’s actually a green pen lololol