faint.idea is the detritus of half-baked projects of one Katherine Valdoria. It's the typical vanity domain of your ordinary twentysomething doll-and-pony-loving artist geekette. If you would like to learn a little bit more about me, here is a list of sixty nine miscellaneous facts about me, last updated in October of 2008. Further down this page are my personal projects. If you would like to contact me, please sign the guestbook or send me an e-mail.

Last update on 16 October 2008
I either uploaded or took down all the non-links
and also updated my factoids thing, but not by much
Just talking about the new job (see below)



In the meantime, I've been crazy busy with the new job. I'm a (Lego) Robotics instructor for Vision Tech Camps at the (yet to be realized) San Diego office, and also the general go-to-girl... I've so far taken care of training, equipment and materials acquisition/management. On the side, my co-worker and I plan to develop a website showcasing some of the kids' work, which hardly leaves time for my poor neglected empty Etsy store. I know there are people who juggle many things, but I personally like to sleep at night.



    Music


    Photography


    Mixed Media


    Short Film (.wmv files)

      Bells For Her (April 2005) Co-directed/produced with Maria Anjarwala, Huong Ly, and Van Tran. Starring Huong Ly. Music by Tori Amos.
      Dusk (April 2005) On the transience of memory and personal history

    Performance

      Nature Pieces (December 2005) On the experience of data through transformative mapping





    Personal

      On-going Life Documentation


      Fun Stuff

        Let's Play Dress-up!

          Halloween 2007 When I first moved in with some friends, we threw a combination belated housewarming/early Halloween party. I dressed up as the Wicked Witch of the East, mid-squish.
          Comic Con 2008 My boyfriend and I dressed up as Wario and Wapeach. You know you are/are dating a hardcore geek when you dress up as a fictional video game character.

        Custom Dolls


        My Little Custom Ponies

          Tuxie penguin pony for Emi

      PonyStars (owns my soul)

        You must understand: My Little Pony was my very first toy, or at least the toy most prominent in my memory. My love for the ponies reawakened in adulthood when they released the third generation of ponies, and later, the 25th anniversary editions. My real-life pony collection was getting a little overwhelming, even with the limitations I'd imposed on myself just to collect the Unicorns, Pegasi, and special limited editions. Then, Emi introduced me to PonyStars, a Massive Multiplayer On-line game centered on the breeding of magical ponies. This mostly fulfills my desire to collect, without completely cluttering up the apartment.

        My Weekday Ponies live with PositivAmb and NegativAmb.
        My Weekend Ponies live with YunikoNeko and NekoYuniko.

        Yes, I juggle four accounts. And I'm not ashamed of it. Sort of.

      Neopets I've been playing Neopets longer than PonyStars. I used to be terribly addicted, but now my Aisha and Blumaroo are almost constantly put up in the Neolodge.

      my del.icio.us links Tag clouds are awesome!





    Graveyard

      Homepages


      Miscellaneous


      Still Navigable

        Nostalgia Childhood photographs
        Drive By A-Go-Go (circa 2001 - 2003) Snapshots from a moving vehicle
        Mixtapes (circa April 2005 - January 2006) Memory by aural association
        So. Not. Happening. (circa 2005 - 2006) The lame comic strip I used to draw/write. It lived longer than I expected it to.
        Beyond Ramen (3 January 2008 - 16 March 2008) My boyfriend and I resolved to learn how to cook by trying to cook a new dish every week for a year. This fizzled out shortly after I got bronchitis and we figured we knew enough basics not to burn the apartment down when preparing a meal slightly more complicated than cereal or spaghetti.



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    katherine@faintidea.net


    my e-mail is not a link and must be copy/pasted and the spaces removed