Lucy realizes that her life is not really interesting in excruciating detail, so this is her homage to brevity and LOLs.
Currently, she talks English at students in Hokkaido, Japan.
(via tunah)
One of the hundreds of notes hidden around the house for her parents to find by a 6-year-old girl who died of brain cancer. (Via goodolddays)
Beautiful animation (with amazing transitions!) by Taiwanese artist Ma Kuang Pei.
Very intriguing comics from artist Yan Cong…
Mainstream Japanese manga is often too “movie-like” in with its storyline and visual perspective. The montages are too quick and it makes you rush your reading. You get the feeling you are always trying to catch up.
However, comics can give readers other types of experiences – they can make you meditate over one page, they can be read in a slow, unhurried manner, and they can make you feel that you have time to stop and appreciate the characters in the story. Overall, I want to say that there are many ways to draw and many ways to control the rhythm of a story – we should give readers all these choices.
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
Via Kitsune Noir.
I was always fascinated by stuffing things in a jar and having them grow up like a miniature world. Mine never grew quite well, degrading either to a slimy algal rainforest or crispy dried plant matter, so I’ve learned to leave it to people with actual skills for raising plants.
So let’s gawk together at the beautiful terrariums by Paula Hayes. (Via a certain chain of browsing.)
I laughed when my mom got me one of those Polaroid cameras aimed at teens several years back. I already had a digital camera then… did she seriously think I was going to run around with a big clunking Polaroid? Now Peter Miller’s Polaroid experiments are making me wish I had been more creative. (Via Hack a Day.)
Dinky bull I whipped up out of boredom.
I want Illustrator back… VectorDesigner can’t even begin to compare.
