my new favorite meme.

Cable Knitting!

My first attempt at cable stitch! I can't believe it's taken me so long to try it out, because it's surprisingly easy! I found a great tutorial on the four-stitch cable at newstitchaday.com. They have wonderful video tutorials that are super easy to follow.

Good morning, blogosphere! (and by that I mean that it is 12:30 and I'm still in bed.) In case any of you don't know, I've cut my hair.

I find it so much easier to exercise to music, and Neon Indian's most recent album, Era Extrana, has been my go-to working out music lately.

writer's block?

This website gives you a new picture of a kitten with every 100, 200, 500, or 1000 words that you write. If that's not incentive, I don't know what is.

Real Estate - "Days"

I can't stop listening to Real Estate's new album "Days". It is everything I've always loved in the rest of their albums and EPs, except it hasn't already been played to death on my iTunes. It does feel strange for me listening to it in December, as I discovered them in the summer. They have such surfey guitar riffs, and a really relaxed feel, which makes me long for summer days on Martha's Vineyard. (where, being from New Jersey, maybe they have been.)

It seems I'm not the only one who feels this way, either. As NPR writer Stephen Thompson said in his "First Listen" article about the album, "Real Estate doesn't take long to set a tone of wistful, rose-colored nostalgia on Days, its second album of reverb-y beach-pop."

Finding any shared files of a band simply called Real Estate can be a little tricky, so here is a link to a downloadable zip file of the album. (the slow download is free.)

Untitled from Annika Davis on Vimeo.

This is a video I made recently for video art class.