Alright, summer, as always, has a way of re-evaluating what i've been valuing. Usually the dramatic flip of having no time to having nothing but time usually turns me upsidedown. This summer may be no exception.
I guess the main think someone needs is hope. Hope of a better life. In our society usually that means figuring out what things we can get that will make our life better. I know i might sound like I'm trying to be above american culture with at statement like that; but lord knows i've got a bookcase, speakers, and a bunch of clothes to improve my life.
Honestly, I think that stuff only works if it represents a change in your life. I've been working at starbucks for almost a year now, and i think the thing that I like best of all the money i've spent, has been the speakers i bought. The bose speakers that were way over my budget, but in reality they represented something so nice that I wouldn't have been able to get on my own, or would have felt incredibly guilty about getting. So maybe that's the real value of things...what they represent in your life.
But then again, I think a lot of life revolves around the wanting of goods more than the actual owning of them. Everyone wants to own a beautiful guitar, An amazing stereosystem, clothes, car. Not because of the actual utility value, but because what it represents. We've all done it, pictured a lifestyle surrounding an object. Dedicating your life to music because you have this amazing guitar. Photography with an amazing camera. So we save and save and save until we can afford that thing, but then we find out that it's not the object, but it's the lifestyle that we wanted.
It's sort of like antiques. People own a Colonial-Era desk that idolizes our founding fathers; especially the rich ones. The reality of the matter is that when people are paying for an authentic bostonian ball and claw queen anne desk they have this image of themselves riding a horse and defending the honor of the country through enforcing principals. People don't see slavery, famine, and the period of endentured servitude.
But then again...nice stuff is nice stuff damnit.
I guess the main think someone needs is hope. Hope of a better life. In our society usually that means figuring out what things we can get that will make our life better. I know i might sound like I'm trying to be above american culture with at statement like that; but lord knows i've got a bookcase, speakers, and a bunch of clothes to improve my life.
Honestly, I think that stuff only works if it represents a change in your life. I've been working at starbucks for almost a year now, and i think the thing that I like best of all the money i've spent, has been the speakers i bought. The bose speakers that were way over my budget, but in reality they represented something so nice that I wouldn't have been able to get on my own, or would have felt incredibly guilty about getting. So maybe that's the real value of things...what they represent in your life.
But then again, I think a lot of life revolves around the wanting of goods more than the actual owning of them. Everyone wants to own a beautiful guitar, An amazing stereosystem, clothes, car. Not because of the actual utility value, but because what it represents. We've all done it, pictured a lifestyle surrounding an object. Dedicating your life to music because you have this amazing guitar. Photography with an amazing camera. So we save and save and save until we can afford that thing, but then we find out that it's not the object, but it's the lifestyle that we wanted.
It's sort of like antiques. People own a Colonial-Era desk that idolizes our founding fathers; especially the rich ones. The reality of the matter is that when people are paying for an authentic bostonian ball and claw queen anne desk they have this image of themselves riding a horse and defending the honor of the country through enforcing principals. People don't see slavery, famine, and the period of endentured servitude.
But then again...nice stuff is nice stuff damnit.
Just go to Micheal's or AC Moore. If you can't find a frame that fit's it, buy one that is gernerously larger, buy some mat board and cut a mat yourself. Be sure to cut the window a bit smaller than you'd like. It's better to crop the image just slightly than to have a sliver of white showing around the edge.
I haven't really been to many craft stores around here, but I know the AC Moore and Micheal's back in MA both had a pretty good selection of frames. If you have a Charette nearby, they usually have lots of UMBRA frames.
good luck and be careful with yer mat knife!
-night!