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"Two plus two is ten. In base four. I'M FINE."
So I'm struggling with my first 2-D design project, a black-on-black grid style collage using black tones cut from magazine. I had trouble picking a design that my professor liked. Then trouble modifying a design to be complex enough according to guidelines. Then trouble retracing the desing on grid papr by having to calculate the amount of squares ( Read more... ) -
Blue hair! Gotta have blue hair!
Or, as it turned out, metallic blue-green hair. Still fun, still happy with how it turned out, especially since I've never done this before and it was done all by my lonesome.
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g'night, folks!
I had a nice frothy rant a-brewin', and then I read something really dumb by someone I really respect and I think my brain just broke.
Instead, take a gander at Step 1 in my plain to dye my hair some sort of blue-green. Right now I've taken my hair from chestnut brown to a copper blond!
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Oh, for pete's sake
ITP Doug TenNaple tries to make me look bad, fails:
http://twitpic.com/2kebg6
I had no idea personally, because I set this up here:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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Axe Cop Win: Ethan Nicolle Apologizes, Is Classy
So since my last post on the subject of Ethan Nicolle's interaction with one fan w/r/t media & stereotypes, he made the following public apology, reaching out to her:
Last week in the comments on one of the blogs, an Axe Cop reader named Keisha brought up some PC issued she had with the movie Scott Pilgrim and I kind of went off on her. It's a ( Read more... ) -
Yeah, That's About Right
A relevant cartoon/Venn Diagram from xkcd to my trying to get all my ducks in a row before classes start in a week:
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Because I'm down and stressed...
... need a little validation plus things to save to a "reminder why I'm an okay guy" folder, please comment on this anonymous love meme. You don't actually have to confess undying love or anything. Just an anonymous positive note is all that's needed. :) -
What Would You Do When Faced With Bigotry?
ABC’s show “What Would You Do” staged an experiment. They had an actor dressed as a Muslim woman enter a bakery and had the clerk, another actor, refuse to serve her. Then they talked to the customers in the store.
While I can wish that I would be an eloquent defender or something, if I'm being honest with myself, I'd probably be the guy who ( Read more... ) -
The Last Words of Satoshi Kon
Satoshi Kon, the man behind Paranoia Agent, Paprika, Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers as well as several other works died of pancreatic cancer on August 24. These are his touching, sublime and hear-wrenching final words. He was 46.
They are translated here, and what he had to say before he died was eloquent and moving.
Read what he had to ( Read more... )
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