05/22/13
GOTHDAY

Zoom & Enhance: Level-Up Goth Photography by Paco Peregrin

World-Goth-Day

This morning, I discovered, to my delight, that today is World Goth Day!

It’s possible that “delight” isn’t the appropriate response to something goth-y, but there it is. I love me some goths, especially because they decided their favorite author last year was Neil Gaiman. They aren’t wrong.

While searching for something appropriate to put on my Facebook page to notify my “friends” about this special occasion, I found a really fun picture of Marilyn Manson in Mickey Mouse gear. I stumbled across the Internet, trying to find the source for it.

The photo is by Paco Peregrin, a Spanish fashion photographer. Oh yes: Mr. Peregrin’s work is delicious.

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His work is where I’d like mine to be: infused with whimsy, color and (hopefully someday) sophistication. The goth throwback sensibility with so much more.

Please check out his portfolio to see more! If you liked this post, I have other Zoom and Enhance artist feature posts!

05/21/13
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Toodles, Clipart from Planet X!

My company has been printing a local elementary school’s summer camp shirts for the past six years (at least). They have always looked exactly the same: hideous.

Like this:

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Every year, they wanted the same thing, with different a year underneath. The small children get the frog and the older children get the eagle.  It was, as far as I could tell, non-negotiable.

This year, finally, they’ve asked for a re-brand.

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I feel so much better now. Clean. Calm. Zen. Ready to take on the world’s injustices — for the sake of the children.

05/20/13
Dragon-Face

The secret water parks aren’t telling you.

This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “liquid.”

You know how your mom always said you’d get a cramp and drown if you swam right after lunch?

She just said that because the truth is even more horrible.

Demon-Eel

 

It’s true: fresh food in the stomach summons undersea eel-dragons with their evil skulls and long teeth exposed.

It doesn’t matter how small or inland your pool is.

Your soul is just the appetizer. 

05/14/13
Conjoined-Closeup

Inherent assumptions of the 30-year mortgage.

I turned this week’s Gab Collab blob into some very sexy blue-skinned conjoined triplets.

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Meanwhile, I’m drowning in a demon-clustering of mortgage paperwork.

The notion of “buying a house” doesn’t feel real. The amount of money involved is all hypothetical, digital — Monopoly play money — spread over 30 years.

My house will be paid off in 2043. Who has even heard of that kind of number? Will the Earth even last that long?

My mortgage people are assuming that in 30 years:

  • Earth will still exist. (Or that we’ll still be living there, at least).
  • America — its government, its financial structure, and its physical presence — will still exist.
  • Nuclear war will not wipe us out.
  • Aliens will not attack.
  • Zombies will not attack.
  • The machines will not rise.
  • The core of the earth will not stop spinning, causing us to need to re-start it.
  • Humans will still have bodies that require housing. We will not upload our consciousness into the internet and live on Tumblr instead.

That’s a lot of assumptions. But whatever. I’ll sign on the dotted line.

Give me my heezy so I can paint it purple and orange.

05/11/13
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Come one, come all, to the Slenderman dinner.

Chairs

^ Oversized Dali-inspired furniture! It’s like the Slenderman of home decor!

I liked the Blogess’ post about how her vet looks like Doctor Who.

Food-related:

This article on gym class reform gave me PTSD-style flashbacks. The current gym curriculum makes people self-conscious and wary of sports; plus, only about a quarter of the minutes are actually spent doing any activity. None of this surprises me.

In this short video, a husband animates a joke by his drunk wife. These are the jokes I tell, too. (Terrible ones.)

Hyperbole and a Half wrote a post about depression that’s a must-read.

Puppies vs. Stairs is the cutest. I was literally crying. In other dog news, Jon Stewart loves his pit bulls and it’s totally squee worthy.

And, finally, to end this on a happy note, look at celebrity tweets supporting newly-out Jason Collins. So much love.