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Disney Princess Zodiac | The Mary Sue
Virgo Aurora! (I would have also accepted Belle.)
arts  personal 
8 weeks ago by epersonae
» How to be a fan of problematic things Social Justice League
"here are my suggestions for things we should try our darnedest to do as self-confessed fans of problematic stuff" - acknowledge, don't minimize, respect.
writing  arts  society  gender 
11 weeks ago by epersonae
Stranger than fiction
I'm thinking Yllarath (character in new campaign) looks a bit like this.
gaming  arts 
11 weeks ago by epersonae
Green (not Soylent) Death Art | The Order of The Good Death
Ashes put in a cork urn, plant a tree inside. This is what I want.
personal  arts 
february 2012 by epersonae
A Day in the country : impressionism and the Fr...
book from the 1984 LA County Art museum. Yay archive.org!
arts  personal 
december 2011 by epersonae
Scrapscallion - deconstructed Barbie jewelry
I want the shoe bracelet. I kept a pair like that (in pink) long after I'd gotten rid of all my Barbies. It was one of my early fidget-objects.
weird  arts  personal 
december 2011 by epersonae
Less Human Than Human: The Design Philosophy of Apple | The Awl
"For someone who thought that taste was connected to originality, one can't help noting that Jobs's taste was derivative in the extreme" Excellent essay on Jobs, some of the midcentury industrial designers, and William Morris.
arts  misctech  design 
november 2011 by epersonae
How Justin Bieber did not ruin Steampunk | Oakwright
"I would like to address my fellow Steampunkers: Stop being dicks." Very heartfelt post, really.
society  arts 
november 2011 by epersonae
Shortpacked! by David Willis - Math
"This is Lucy. Lucy loved to watch Teen Titans every week on Cartoon Network from 2003 to 2006." On DC spitting in the eye of people who very easily could've been fans.
gender  arts 
september 2011 by epersonae
The “Gray Ones” Fade To Black | Sound On Sight
"The Internet, Netflix, DVDs, dozens of cable channels…my students had incredible access to a virtually limitless library of movies, yet almost every day I went into class it was like I was speaking in tongues to them." reminds me of my mother, in a good way.
arts  history  personal 
august 2011 by epersonae
The Last Psychiatrist: My name is NotMichaelBay, and I just fucked your girlfriend
"The article below is a fake interview intended as parody. I did not actually interview Michael Bay. The article is written entirely by me in the spirit of humor without any malice or ill-will towards any of the people or institutions named within." Also, ridiculously funny (and vulgar, obvs)
funny  arts 
august 2011 by epersonae
Caren Alpert Fine Art
beautiful microscope photography of food
arts  photography  food 
july 2011 by epersonae
A Flock of Lawn Flamingos, by Pat Murphy
"Live Oak Estates was a pleasant little townhouse development in a pleasant little California town. I lived there peacefully enough, until Joan Egypt moved in and everything changed."
writing  arts  urbanstudies 
july 2011 by epersonae
Kind of Screwed - Waxy.org
"Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses." the whole story.
copyright  arts  photography 
june 2011 by epersonae
Don't Make Me Steal
some of the pricing particulars are odd, but in general, I'm with this. I'm more than happy to pay (a little) or use the library if it's easier and better.
security  arts  library  misctech 
february 2011 by epersonae
We still feel that these books have merit. | MetaFilter
actually, some interesting book recommendations, both in the original list & in the comments.
to-read  writing  arts  library 
february 2011 by epersonae
The Social Network, Where Women Never Have Ideas
"It makes you wonder why the filmmakers tried so hard to create a world so hostile and diminishing to women"
facebook  gender  arts  webdev 
october 2010 by epersonae
copperbadge: THE .DOC FILE OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK
"I have heard the servers singing, each to each." honestly? I like this better than the original. :)
arts  funny  blogosphere  ezrapound 
september 2010 by epersonae
Obama can learn from 'Godfather' - POLITICO.com Print View
helps me get the metaphors that I finally saw (most of) The Godfather during my recent vacation.
history  arts  politics 
september 2010 by epersonae
The death of ‘right brain thinking’ « Mind Hacks
"creative thinking does not appear to critically depend on any single mental process or brain region, and it is not especially associated with right brains [or a bunch of other stuff]" - meta-analysis of 70+ experiments.
science  psychology  writing  arts 
september 2010 by epersonae
sergey_larenkov
photo compositions: modern & WWII, same location.
history  photography  arts 
august 2010 by epersonae
CSSquirrel : Comic: Kyle Weems
that's me in the hat, supposedly. ;) linked blog post is interesting. yeah, the swearing might've been a bit much.
gender  personal  arts  misctech  webdev 
august 2010 by epersonae
The Life And Music Of Samuel Barber : NPR
includes recordings of adagio, dover beach. when I was 14 I was in a youth orchestra that went to the vienna youth & music festival. we played adagio at vienna town hall. listening to it, I can close my eyes and see that night again.
arts  personal 
june 2010 by epersonae
Floating World (FacePainting)
"The Last Airbender offends [...] with its casting of newcomer/lesser known White actors over equivalent Asian actors to portray its starring Asian characters" GRAR. (loved the show, been ambivalent abt the idea of the movie. M Night Whatshisname aside, I can't imagine it w/out the voice of Mako.)
arts  society 
june 2010 by epersonae
Balkinization - Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
"The absence of any mention of copyright law in Glee illustrates a painful tension in American culture." Have never seen Glee, but imagine it would be a damn good thing if this came up on the show.
society  arts  politics 
june 2010 by epersonae
Thomas Kinkade firm seeks bankruptcy protection - Los Angeles Times
"Kinkade's word is as worthless as his artwork." hahahaha. also: "Hazlewood and Spinello sued [...] alleging that he'd used his Christian faith as a tool to fraudulently induce them to invest"
funny  arts  weird  finance  religion 
june 2010 by epersonae
Darryl Cunningham Investigates: The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
"A fifteen page (cartoon) story about the MMR vaccination controversy"
science  arts 
may 2010 by epersonae
Fake. You Are Not Dead, A Guide To Modern Living.
trippy stuff. (this is the guy who posted to AskMe about the Russian girls.)
arts 
may 2010 by epersonae
Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis - NYTimes.com
"I wish I could inflect those paired pop-sociological clichés with the requisite irony, but my air-quote fingers are afflicted with incipient arthritis." (*guy* midlife crisis, btw.)
society  personal  arts  writing  history 
may 2010 by epersonae
The Official Netflix Blog: Subtitles Now Available for Some Titles for PC/Mac Viewing
"today we have enabled closed captioning for some TV episodes and movies that you can watch instantly on your PC or Mac" (about 100 titles)
arts  accessibility  personal 
april 2010 by epersonae
BLDGBLOG: Nakatomi Space
"While watching Die Hard the other night—one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called "Lethal Theory" by Eyal Weizman—itself easily one of the best and most consequential architecture texts of the past decade"
architecture  society  history  arts  philosophizing 
april 2010 by epersonae
Roger Ebert's Last Words, con't. - Roger Ebert's Journal
His take on the Esquire article. Also: "Resentment is allowing someone to live rent-free in a room in your head"
arts 
february 2010 by epersonae
Schneier on Security: TSA Logo Contest
"I'm announcing the TSA Logo Contest. Rules are simple: create a TSA logo."
security  arts  design  weird 
january 2010 by epersonae
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | 19th Century Maps by Children
"In the 18th and 19th centuries, children were taught geography by making their own maps, usually copies of maps available to them in books and atlases at their schools or homes." fascinating. cool drawings!
history  gis  arts  academia 
january 2010 by epersonae
Bad Transcript: Star Trek (2009)
"The scene ends quickly, before we start wondering why the slightly damaged Romulan ship doesn't start firing on the escape pods." funny...and almost makes me feel bad about having enjoyed the movie. (spoilers, obvs.)
arts  weird 
january 2010 by epersonae
crazy...creative...it's a fine line
cupcakes of games...both electronic and not. awesome. weird, but awesome.
weird  arts  gaming  food  misctech 
january 2010 by epersonae
Fleegle's Blog: End of the Year Miscellany
amazing story of the Queen Susan Shawl, a group knitting pattern project based on a museum's archive photo.
crafty  arts  history  blogosphere  library  academia 
january 2010 by epersonae
The Battle of Pelennor Fields « Miss(ed) Manners
IN CANDY. "Behold, the White City of Minas Tirith is under siege by one of the largest, and certainly the tastiest army ever to walk Middle Earth."
weird  arts  food 
december 2009 by epersonae
Olympia Film Society - ALL FREAKIN' LORD OF THE RINGS
All-night event. Will need IV drip of coffee, but am so very tempted.
local  olympia  arts 
december 2009 by epersonae
American Social History
mmmm, all kinds of cool arts/history stuff!
arts  history  reference 
november 2009 by epersonae
Artists' Book Collection Record Display "Flowering Time"
Pretty, and for some reason makes me think of one of the characters in my nanowrimo project.
arts  writing  inspiration 
november 2009 by epersonae
Pimp My Bookcart 2009: Steampunk - a set on Flickr
need to post to FOL site, but also need to find good explanation of steampunk to go with it! :)
local  to-do  library  arts  olympia 
november 2009 by epersonae
The Cat and I
A lovely little graphic novel serialized online.
writing  arts 
october 2009 by epersonae
100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words - Ars Technica
"The anxious rhetoric around new technology is really quite shocking in its vehemence, from claims that the player piano will destroy musical taste and the "national throat" to concerns that the VCR is like the "Boston strangler" to claims that only Hollywood's premier content could make the DTV transition a success."
society  politics  arts 
october 2009 by epersonae
Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - io9
"Since the days of Un Chien Andalou and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, filmmakers have reached beyond meaning. But with this summer's biggest, loudest movie, Michael Bay takes us all the way inside Caligari's cabinet. And once you enter, you can never emerge again." awesome, awesome review. I might actually get this movie when it comes to Netflix. ;)
funny  arts  weird 
july 2009 by epersonae
Owl Tattoos
I have wanted to get an owl tattoo for about 15 years. might go looking for a design.
personal  arts  tattoo 
july 2009 by epersonae
Engrave Your Book | Welcome
only 1 of the artist designs is to my taste, but I love the general idea, esp the card pocket. this could be my new wallet! (in the future)
writing  arts  gifts 
june 2009 by epersonae
adafruit industries | laser etching services
neat! (via mathowie's photos of MeFi logo etched on his laptop) y'know, mom used to know how to build a laser....
arts  weird  opensource  ipod  misctech 
june 2009 by epersonae
‘The Cranky Copyright Book’ (Joe Clark)
"There really is a way to look at copyright that is not a form of apologia for dying “content” industries, like the music business and Hollywood studios. This new way also has very little to do with “free culture,” Creative Commons, and the teachings of gurus like Lessig and Michael Geist." I'm sort of curious to get Joe's take (enough to throw in $5, even).
politics  society  writing  arts  misctech 
june 2009 by epersonae
Travel Posters - a set on Flickr
beautiful early 20th century posters from the Boston Public Library. (aka: most beautiful library I have ever been in.)
history  design  travel  arts 
june 2009 by epersonae
Photojojo » The Best Free Photos on the Web (Where to Find Them and What to Do With Them)
museum/gov't sites (I swear I remember a few crazy gov't pic sites in addition to these, like the dept of ag or something.)
reference  photography  inspiration  design  history  arts 
may 2009 by epersonae
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