Spooky Phantom of the Matthews Opera House

You don't find the phantom. The phantom finds you.

Having spent many a summer in this building, I do know for a fact that this place is creepy as all get out when you're by yourself. Perhaps it's the door that opens to nothing or perhaps it's just a small fear eating away at the back of your mind.

Perhaps there really is a phantom.

This is the site that I chose for my text-based project, because a theater is filled to the brim with text and text history.

Find it here: Boop

Online Productivity: When YOU Make Things Happen

From the moment that you first come online, you may notice that there are thousands of products and activities that are at your disposal. All of these things are produced by another person, and you their target audience. But have you ever stopped to consider all of the things that you create?

Perhaps you like a page on Facebook or upvote a video on YouTube. Simple things like that help to make you the producer, in an odd way. Your 'likes' are just as important as the actual views on a video, just as your participation on a rummage sale page on Facebook. You are helping the creator and being part of the creation process itself.

Yeah. It's weird.

Physical & Abstract Storytelling Devices

Physical:

• Television
• Gaming Consoles
• PC
• Videotapes / DVD's

Abstract:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Blogger
• YouTube
• Vine

Yup. There's a lot more out there, but these are the first items that come to mind.

Yass Means Yass

Yass.

Getting Inked: Human Art

The aftereffects of being inked.

When people hear the term "getting inked", they imagine endless hours of sitting in a chair and having someone sitting over you with an ink gun. Well, they aren't wrong. As someone who has been inked and will continue to do so until the day I die, I can say that with one tattoo, I've already let go of 4+ hours of my life.

Some (mostly my parents and family) have asked me how I expect to get a job if I'm covered in ink. Back in their day, just to give you a feel for old their thinking is, having tattoos in any professional field was a disgrace and was highly frowned upon. Today's society still thinks that tattoos are for punks, rebels, or whatever term you prefer, but are those of us who are inked destined to be penniless and flipping burgers? Most certainly not.

Today, more professional fields are allowing their employees and associates to have artwork on their bodies, as long as it is appropriate. Because that's all tattoos are--human artwork. They are a form of expression--a freedom of "speech". No one has the right to be turned down for a corporate job just because they have a tattoo of their grandparents' death dates on their shoulder. Most jobs require that you wear long sleeves and formal attire as is.

Everyone has the right to express themselves, because we are only human. So before you frown and point your fingers at all those "punks", remember that they too are allowed to express themselves in whatever fashion they deem fit.

Also, if you live in the Black Hills area or plan on going to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this year--check out Richard at the Tattoo Cellar in Sturgis, SD. He's the bomb.

FALCON PUNCH!

Indeed, it was I who killed Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick.