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about
sodapop.nu
This domain has existed since December of 2001 and is my playground, darkroom, chalkboard, design space, rant house, fan corner, etc. Sorry about that. I’m a blogger wannabe but I really can’t commit. I (…used to, har!) run verbage oriented websites and somehow I’ve ended up hating writing for fun. Go figure.
I would try to explain the domain name but I was thirteen when I picked it. So.. enough said.
amelia
I’m a formerly disoriented 20-something who has been making websites since she was 11.
Right now I do photography art mildly directionless ranting
I also write poems, make little signatures and avatars for forums so I can pretend that I’m cool, and some other crap, but it’s not online yet because I only have so many hours in a day and I always seem to be hopelessly behind on personal projects.
I like Japanese things, beat up things, old houses, animals, music “no one” has heard of, art, collage, ephemera, fonts, obnoxiously cute things, idolizing girls who rock, strange hair colors, Rococo, and all things weird. I’ve been told I’m “quirky”! I have a dangerous vocabulary and (hopefully) a sense of humor.
I also recently gave up trying to be a ” well-manicured ” member of society, followed my insatiable impulses and am now a de facto design student. THIS IS NEW. BUT ULTIMATELY INEVITABLE. My impulse to art is greater than.. well.. everything.
You can find me hereapple of earth at gmail dot com
I like to make friends.
design notes
Photographs in this layout were taken using a smartphone app called Hipstamatic that takes iPhone photographs like a lomo camera. Having written this, I feel like a tool. But it’s a really great way to cheaply emulate the analog feel of old photos. And on principle, however much I’d love to buy an old Russian piece of shit camera and use 120 film like
there’s no tomorrow…. I’m just too poor.
I wrote the original poem or whatever you’d like to call it (sans last line added for layout effect) while I took the photos. I meant it as some kind of serious design manifesto at the time, but obviously I’m not above making fun of myself.
The index font is Bookman Old Style because I have hopelessly fallen for oldstyle fonts lately. The lyric in the tagline is from Avril Lavigne’s Remember When. I’m actually quite fond of her endearingly careless grammar.