The Stuff on the Back of English Class

…or why I don’t have a 99% in the class (discounting that blasted research paper).

oh

I was writing some other post. The picture I have for this one doesn’t match the text at all. I guess I’ll make two posts absurdly  early in the mornin’.

and these guys who are like the erasersquid’s siblings!

Some of the latter ones are not in their original orientation and they look cooler that way.

You’re getting a whole bunch of art posts because I am spending my spring break off doing collegey things and really haven’t done much in the way of neat things. Somehow I think that state will persist much longer than I wish it too.

Apocalypse: Vitaly Samarin

I’m pretty sure Jade is responsible for this.
Vitaly Samarin does this obscenely pretty webcomic that updates every once in a long while because it is so pretty.
A unit of wikipedia syndrome later, I had a browser full of links to this guy’s work, all of which is really impressive.

the top of the wikipedia syndrome tree
The detail is impressive. I particularly like the …anything with wings
…how does he get the water to do that?

Apocalypse: Gerard Trignac

Went to an art exhibit at Vassar College quite a while ago and saw At The Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750: Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection ( http://fllac.vassar.edu/exhibitions/index.html ) and attended the lecture series that opened the exhibition (yeah, it was that long ago!). The lectures were generally well done and informative, though one speaker seemed completely unprepared. However, people talking are boring and pretty pictures are not and so I spent an hour or so wandering around in the gallery taking notes on techniques and the artists and their work. One picture, by Gérard Trignac,  particularly caught my eye as it was a place I’d like to play in, if it existed.

This is his site, this is the picture that caught my eye (i can haz playground?), and this is the place I want to live if I can’t have my castle. I’d highly recommend wasting an hour there drooling on the awesomeness. It’s pretty awesome.

dang! the links worked (or they did when I checked them. results may vary.)!

Motherly Instincts Gone Awry

I wonder how the joints in a jointed stuffed animal work?

This is the bear. A perfectly innocent and terribly cute bear.

Amp Part 2

(This isn’t actually about the amp, it’s about the thing it is part of now)

I decided I would go back to being 8 years old or so this morning and this is what happened…