NEIL GAIMAN: Make good art
A cartoon created from an excerpt from his speech and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia - truly inspiring. You can watch the entire video here.
And it continues… My coworker brought to my attention today that when you Google me, Google asks you if you really mean the porn star.
I couldn’t make this shit up — I’m not that good a writer.
I see this, and I automatically think, What who said? And what did they say?
Paranoid much, Jocelyn?
You Are Beautiful (by La Melodie)
Source: Flickr / melodyyys
If only my life were this exciting offline….
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, “You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I’m not your agent and I’m not your mommy. I’m a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?” And I really, really don’t.
Aaron Sorkin (via thatwasnotveryravenofyou)
It is so comforting to know that even Aaron Sorkin feels this way, because it’s how I feel every. single. time.
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Amen!
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Source: wejustdecidedto
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50 SHADES OF BLACK
(from black coffee to high yellow)
African American Sex Symbols & the Complexity of Skin ToneMy latest art piece is fashioned in the style of a book cover. Its title (most certainly) and its subject matter (very loosely) are the result of a creative play on the very popular contemporary novel Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James.
Now that the art/cover is created, it’s time to write the book. This is where you come into play. While this subject could very easily lead to a book written by a sole individual, I am interested in a conversation…in a dialogue. I’d like for that dialogue…those contributions from you to be the basis of the manuscript.
Share with me your responses to this piece. It may be in the form of quick comments, reflections, essays, personal stories, anecdotes, memories of things you heard your mama say about Billy Dee Williams, etc. Over time, I’ll organize, synthesize, group, copy and paste these comments into a document with the goal of ultimately producing a FREE downloadable e-book of your contributions to the topic. It’s a book written on the Internet by Internet users. Just like any other piece of art, it’s open for interpretation.
Who knows how this will go? I don’t. I don’t even know if it has ever been done before. But I am very curious what you have to say…and something tells me other people are too.
Let’s talk.
50 SHADES OF BLACK
(from black coffee to high yellow)
African American Sex Symbols & the Complexity of Skin Tone
Conceived and Designed by Carlton Mackey – Written by You
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What a cool project!
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Stuff about Minneapolis: Cheap Twin Cities
Thanks to everyone who came up with answers for “What are some free/cheap things to do in the Twin Cities?”. All the replies were terrific, my man Ed Kohler used the word “wad” in his submission, and even WCCO”S Jason DeRusha chimed in with some great ideas (He left out the word “wad” though)….
There. Now I have my summer all planned…
Source: stuffaboutminneapolis
dlgr:
Taking place in England the owners of the yard slowly kept adding sections to the contraption so when the squirrel learned one section and got the nuts, they’d add another section. It took over 2 weeks to get to the final product you see in the video.
this is freaking fantastic XDD
This is so cool - even for a dirty little rodent!!
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Source: thedandyunderworld
