I recently read the infamous essay “Mary Sue, what are you?” from the Tumblr Adventures of Comic Book Girl (the site is no longer up, but she has a blog here). This made the rounds on the interwebs a year … Continue reading →

It’s design week! And my first design project is (drum roll please)… The Secret Lives of Fry Cooks. This is for the Weird Book Room design assignment. I brainstormed a number of different ideas for this assignment, most of them … Continue reading →

Today’s daily create is a lot of fun – drawing an abstract representation of your favorite animal. My favorite animal happens to be the squirrel, and I thought it would be really interesting to draw the mind of a squirrel. … Continue reading →

Okay, so I have this awesome map of the results of the 1988 presidential election: It breaks down the popular votes by county, with an inset map showing the electoral votes break down. And there are two small charts, one … Continue reading →

This weekend I visited the Middlesex Fells Reservation, which has a number of great hiking trails. We wandered onto the Rock Circuit Trail which has many fantastic rocks to climb sans climbing gear and view the park (or at least … Continue reading →

Check out the new album by Balaram Bose – Wrecking the Unsalvageable! It’s a brilliant concept album that combines American folk, ranchera, and mariachi styles and follows a young man’s journey across Latin America retracing Che Guevara and Alberto Granado‘s … Continue reading →

As a fan of Babylon 5, when I read the description of Troll Quotes, my thoughts immediately went to Londo Mollari, the sarcastic, sharp-tongued Centauri ambassador. Any script from the show could be mined for a dozen or so entertaining … Continue reading →

Well then, this was a busy week, but somehow I squeezed in the daily creates. First up was a video that teaches something, anything: The story behind this video is that in college one of my friends gave me the … Continue reading →

Riffling through the archive of past daily creates in DS106 Inspire, I came across this gem: (Source: http://inspire.ds106.us/warning-lightsaber/, originally posted: http://blog.sscanvasgraphics.com/2012/02/16/warning-lightsaber/) To me, every warning label is a story. Someone must have at one time or another done whatever crazy … Continue reading →

Five Card Story: Searching for the Chimney Sweeps a Five Card Flickr story created by Emily Strong flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by spacedlawyer They went searching. … Continue reading →

Oof, four is a lot. I enjoy going through the archive of daily creates of yore, so these are half from this week and half from long ago. Daily Create #1 (or #5, if you prefer)   What is it … Continue reading →

After watching the video of Kurt Vonnegut explaining the shapes of stories I was particularly intrigued by his comment, “Why get a depressing person?” My thoughts immediately went to Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of The Hunger Games. She begins the … Continue reading →

I had a photography filled weekend! The first of my photos was taken at the New England Aquarium, and is of a lone clown fish in an expanse of coral. I was amazed by the illusion of space that they … Continue reading →

My keychain has evolved a lot over the years, but currently I suspect it reflects what’s important to me, as opposed to its many utilitarian incarnations of the past. Two keys relate to my bicycle, a recent acquisition and recent … Continue reading →

I did my first Daily Create! It’s a tribute to the Moxy Früvous album “You Will Go To The Moon”. Created in Photoshop CS5. I switched around the colors for the blocks (working around the astronaut was tricky!), you can … Continue reading →