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200/365 Pieces of me


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I wanted to do something a little bit different to commemorate day 200 in my 365 toy project (this is officially the farthest I have made into one of these 365 projects). I decided to use this opportunity to give everyone a little bit of a chance to get to know me a little better by featuring some of my favorite things.

20 facts about Klein
1. Favorite films include Dark Knight, Paper Moon, Ed Wood, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Volume 1, Snatch, Devil’s Rejects, Little Shop of Horrors, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs, Full Metal Jacket, Hitman,Fight Club, American Gangster, Zombieland, Revolver, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Memento & Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

2. The last three movies I went to see in theaters were Inception, Toy Story 3 and the new Winnie the Pooh movie that we went to see just this past weekend. I used to go the theater like three times a week, now maybe three times a year- I blame netflix (I can almost always find something better streaming than the schlock currently in theaters and I can watch it in the comfort of my own home).

3. Current obsessions include the A Song of Fire and Ice series of books (and the Game of Thrones tv series) and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic tv series I don’t think I have had my interest peaked by two such radically different things at the same time before. Applejack is my favorite MLP character and Jaime Lannister is my favorite ASOFAI character.

4. I used to read a book a day, every day for about ten years unfortunately, I have a lot less free time than I used to now most of my reading time is spent reading Dr. Seuss aloud to the zilla. So far all I’ve read this year besides zilla stuff and the A Song of Fire and Ice series is an obscene amount of Batman comics, Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi ( GoodFellas is based on it) and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

5. The Joker is without a doubt my favorite comic book character, I absolutely love him. I had the goal of reading every comic that the Joker ever appeared in until I realized how many 100s of comics that really was, while I haven’t given that goal up completely but it has turned into more of a longer term goal.

6. I’m rarely on time and I’m chronically forgetful- these two go hand and hand because nine times out of ten I’m running late because I can’t remember where I put something- you know like my keys down. My phone is also a commonly misplaced item, it’s black and I have the nasty habit of putting it down somewhere in the living room where all the furniture is also black so it blends in. I just recently came up with a solution for my phone involving a bright neon orange cover that also happens to glow in the dark, I predict much less lost phone stress in my future.

7. My current phone is a Palm Pixi, I really love it and it has miraculously survived the longest of all my cell phones. It’s remarkable I’ve actually had it for over a year now, I’m normally very unlucky and they either fall apart on me or the zilla gets a hold of them and breaks them (I went through eight phones prior to this one last year). The Pixi’s longevity has led it to having the nickname Iron Pixi.

8. I do not consider myself a good photographer, I can occasionally take good photos but in truth I’m rarely happy with my own photos. I keep working at it hoping to improve my skills until I get to the point where I am consistently happy with them. While I may not consider myself a good photographer, I do however consider myself a determined photographer. When my old camera got dropped (not by me) the viewfinder as well as the autofocus went, honestly either one of those would not be a problem if the other was still working but together it was extremely frustrating to try and photograph anything.

9. My two favorite Pullips are Duela Dent (pictured above) and Clementine. My favorite stock Pullip is Papin, every time I even just see a picture of a Papin I can’t help but smile even if it’s a horrible cell phone picture of her; their is just something magical about her.

10. I’m really drawn to loud flamboyant clothing and accessories, the background in this photo is actually a hoody of mine for example (said hoody also has cat ears and a tail).

11. I have a doll room, it’s almost always in a state of chaos though as I am always in the process of trying to create more space to accommodate the growing number of dolls that live there. All told, I think there may be as many as 500 different dolls (it depends on how you define doll) in the doll room right now. The grand majority are Pullip but there are also lots of oddball stuff I have picked up over the years.

12. I’m a lot more mellow now compared to my teenage years, when I was younger I used to get into all sorts of mischief. Every now and again I’ll bump into one of my friends from back then and we’ll play the let’s catch up game, most of the time they don’t actually believe that I have mostly settled down and I’m surprised most of them haven’t really learned anything yet. They haven’t changed and are still doing the same stupid stuff after all these years or worse.

13. I can’t cook, if I step in the kitchen something is going to catch on fire- it’s an absolute.

14. My favorite flavor of ice cream is Cotton Candy. I love Cotton Candy in general, or I did until I got a mini Cotton Candy machine as a gift and glutted myself on Cotton Candy for like two weeks straight, then I kind of had my fill of it.

15. I like watching foreign movies with no subtitles bonus points if it’s a really trippy film to begin with, I recently watched Nattevagten in Dutch mostly because I have a mad crush on Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (he plays Jaime in the Game of Thrones Tv show). A friend watched the English language remake recently and offered to explain the plot but I was rather aghast, the film is much more magical when I have only the slightest idea of what is actually going on what I imagined is happening in the film is probably more interesting than what actually happened.

16. I talk really fast supposedly, I honestly think you all just listen too slowly

17. I was in a car accident a while ago, it damaged the nerves in my right arm to the point where I couldn’t feel the arm at all. Fortunately my arm was still capable of movement unfortunately my motor skills in my dominant hand got shot to hell. One of the many physical therapies suggested to me was coloring I’m not sure if coloring every really helped me physical therapy-wise but I have found it to be extremely relaxing.

18. Honestly I’m a big kid; I love toys, comic books and video games despite the fact I am 27 years old.

19. I’m not on facebook, I’ve really got no interest in it. The amount of people that ask me about my being on it honestly kind of baffles me.

20. I don’t really have regrets, I do have many unique learning experiences though.

Christopher Barson Interior Associates Project: Spout Run Residence


Image by Christopher Barson
I took the shots of this room minutes after the draperies and area rug were installed. This shot is not a view of the finished product….artwork and accessories were selected and installed months later. However, I cherish this shot because when my client arrived home on hour later, she called me on my cell phone…crying…tears of joy…she was so pleased and overwhelmed by my design and overall transformation of the space. She went through 3 decorators before she met me. I second-day-aired the red checked silk banding for the draperies ( from London) to meet her deadline…it was well worth it. She’s a wonderful client and truly beautiful person.