girl eat machine.

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XKCD makes my life so much better.

Thank gad I found this:

You can catch Karl, Saul, and I in quite a few scenes, though Saul’s close-up around 00:49 is not to be missed.

Artificial Flash Mobs Found on Craigslist For the Win?

I’m so happy I don’t have to think about bears anymore.

Despite the ursine siege on my brain, this video was fun to make…The opening scene is actually from the end of our adventure. Last minute inspiration by Nicko was incredibly well-timed to a street musician playing just off camera. Kudos to coincidence.

Another burst of brilliance by the Washington Post’s Tom Toles. (HT @stereogab)

Found this running a Google image search for “bizarre backgrounds.” I’m going to present these without context because, well, that’s exactly how I found them:

For the curious, check out this short, thoughtful documentary produced by some Yale students as their final project for a class on Intellectual Property in the Digital Age. You’ve probably seen it before in one form or another, but this film is a great introduction to some new artists involved in issues of IP (read: people who aren’t Girl Talk):

“Walking on Eggshells” is a 24-minute documentary about appropriation, creative influence, re-use and intellectual property in the remix age. It is a conversation among various musicians, visual artists, writers and lawyers, all sharing their views on why and how we use and create culture, and how intellectual property law, originally designed to provide people with incentives to create, sometimes hinders creative production far more than it enhances it.

Watch the full film as a Youtube playlist here: WALKING ON EGGSHELLS

OR click HERE to view the film in its entirety on Vimeo

I mean, seriously. You can do better.
FOUND: Delta airlines, domestic flight.

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I’ve been chewing over a series of crayon portraits of politicians for a few months now. Over the past two days, I finally took the idea a little further. I’m not entirely sure yet what will become of it/them, but I’m enjoying the work. Crayon (crayola, not conte) is a neat medium; great for building. I’m posting this morning’s round of portraits. It’s a toss up whether I prefer Obama Green or McCain Red (not to ignore The Honorable, of course…).

This post also reminds me of my need to secure a scanner.

Yeah, about that “Dear Sawa”…I’m trying to recycle pages of my art pad. On this particular page there was a half-drawn truck and, apparently, a draft page I used when writing a *giant* letter to my dear friend, Sara. “Sawa” is, of course, Big Stupid Monster from Labyrinth for “Sara.” So, that makes sense. (Ahem.)

Ruth Bader-Ginsberg. Gotta send some love to the third branch. Ruthie’s portrait is not done yet — note the demon eyes (or lack thereof) — but she’s close. She’s currently sharing a page with a rough outline for Hillary Clinton (see yellow stripe, bottom right). You can tell from her eyebrows that she has mixed feelings about it.

John McCain. The campaign trail line-up (+ Justice Bader-Ginsberg and some freak combination of Joe Biden, John McCain, and G. Dub — “Joe John Bush”*) was a bit of an accident…Although I did follow it up by adding a certain ex-governor to an updated portrait of my first crayola president. I’d like to be more creative than using this series/medium to simply rehash the ‘08 Campaign, so consider the above a warm up for a budding project.

More pictures to come.

P.S. You can take a peek at “Joe John”*  in the first image in this post — he’s on the left, winkin’ atcha. Kinda.

…Because I’m unusually prolific tonight (so much for finishing that last Feat) AND because it’s always more interesting to hear someone of note discuss Things rather than, say, me, I’m going to step aside and let Jorge Louis Borges discuss art with you.