I’ve been following gabcollab for a while now, but haven’t had time yet to do one. This blob is definitely the most evocative for me so far!
I am not a vegetarian, this is just some really good, should-be-common-sense-but-isn’t advice.
So apparently the world needs a list like this, judging by my dining companions from last night. When I’m done writing it I think I’ll print it out and hand it to people.
HOW TO EAT DINNER OUT WITH A VEGETARIAN:1. When the group decides to order several dinners together to share, ask if anybody…
Three days’ progress.
Yay! Junyiwu rocks!
It’s Monday. Time to start a new week and time for another giveaway!!!
I reached 1,500 followers a couple days ago, and would like to take this opportunity to thank you all and return the love. You guys are awesome!
As you know, I really enjoy drawing my favorite characters during my doodling downtime (pictured above are the Merida drawings from my last post, and a drawing of Harry protecting Sirius from dementors as per this blog post).
So, for this giveaway, I will choose 7 winners who will each receive a signed 5”x7” drawing of a character of their choosing.
Standard rules apply. To enter:
1. You must be following me.
2. Reblog this post!
Easy peasy.
I’ll be randomly picking winners out of my “Winner’s mug” this Friday, May 18th. The clock starts. NOW.
Good luck and thank you!
Guess what is in all those boxes! TWENTY 5x5” CANVASSES. (And another five 10x10”s underneath.) All of which are going to become beautiful paintings of jellyfish, cuttlefish, octopuses and squids before the second week of July, which is when my show at Katy’s Corner Cafe gets installed.
READY SET PAINT :D
I painted this to honor Maurice Sendak’s passing. If you want to know a little more about him there is a respectful and informative NYT obituary article here.
This piece is called Goodnight Maurice.
We’ll miss you.
I guess I should just give in to this Maurice Sendak kick. I empathize with this experience of childhood. In the teaching world, I am surrounded by adults who frequently voice their amazement at the resilience of children. I have long thought this is an opinion formulated subconsciously by adults to comfort themselves. I can clearly remember the feeling of knowing something I wasn’t supposed to know, and being afraid to tell an adult because I knew it would destroy them. Childhood is where the wild things are.
I got this from erikamoen, who got it from dylanmeconis.
(via erikamoen)
"You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film. … There is something very distorted about this reality that they’ve created, which is that it is OK to torture women on screen. Any kind of violence towards women in a sexual scenario is fine. But give a woman pleasure? No way. Not a chance. That’s pornography."
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Ryan Gosling, actor and feminist, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of Blue Valentine. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he goes down on Michelle Williams. (via chivalryisdead)
OH MAN, Ryan Gosling said that?? All of a sudden this meme is starting to make some sense.
(Source: snowstorminjuly, via grief-bacon)
This is interesting. I knew Paypal was guilty of some pretty disgusting policies, but this is the first time I’ve heard Etsy framed this way. People I know who use Etsy! What are you opinions/feelings about this?
Maybe if Etsy’s “crafters only” business model also applied to themselves—DIY computers made from egg cartons and lawnmower parts, internet run on hamster-wheels, office inside a treehouse—I could get behind it.
As it stands, Etsy earns around $90 million a year off their sellers, who themselves on average each earn less than minimum wage from sales of their own work. *cough* (Slave labor!) *cough*
Anyway, here they are looking like mean ol’ jerks:
In January, e-commerce site Etsy.com banned Tracy Robertson from selling goods on its marketplace after discovering that she had outsourced some of her work.
“My business is completely crippled right now,” Robertson, a model and fashion designer, wrote in an email to Etsy after the company pulled the plug on her account. “I moved my entire catalog over to Etsy and closed my personal Web site because I loved and trusted your platform so much.”
Etsy, which promises shoppers handmade items, stood by its action. Robertson had delegated too much of her operation to other people, leading Etsy to flag her items as “factory made” and revoke her right to sell on the site.
It should also be noted that Robertson, above, relied exclusively on Etsy for sales (even closing her own website), and this is always a bad idea. Don’t build your business entirely on someone else’s platform. And read the TOS.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
Following oberlin-college often makes me wish I were still attending. Oberlin students currently on campus: attend the shit out of this (and then blog about it so I can experience it vicariously)!
Come join the Edmonia Lewis Center this week as we host a series of events about Fat studies and activism.
Tuesday May 1st 4:30 Wilder 112 Student Panel about experience being fat in Oberlin
Tuesday May 1st 7:00pm Wilder 101 Viewing of the Documentary The Fat body (in)visible and discussion with the movies creator Margitte Krisjansson
Wednesday May 2nd 7:00pm Wilder 101 Marianne Kirby co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body talks basic tenets of Fat
Acceptance
Sunday May 6th Phillips Gym-Edmonia Takes over the pool to host Oberlin’s first Chunky Dunk
(via oberlin-college)
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I have been TERRIBLE about posting regularly. Sorry guys! To beg forgiveness, here is a sneak peek of the reason I’ve been gone—a track off of my band’s soon-to-be-out album, Skip! We are called Skolkis, and all four of us—plus the various people helping us produce this album—have been an insane blur of recording, rehearsing, fine-tuning, nit-picking, etc, for the past two months, coming to a head in the past two weeks or so. I’ve been designing the album art, which is fun and challenging and frustrating, and has commanded ALL of my time. All the files have to be in to the printers in the next few days, so I should be back on track with art soon enough.
We’ll be performing and selling our CD at Northwest Folklife, so come say hi! This track is called Kalla Kårår, which means ‘cold shivers’. :)
