I’m trying to force myself to be more engaged with the world, which can be difficult to do when you’ve got the imaginary pressure of “must write something brilliant” when really you just aren’t feeling brilliant at all. Instead, see all of these other brilliant things. 1. Modern Art in Cake Caitlin Freeman makes awesome …
Tag Archive: art
Oct 31 2010
John Paul Miller: ATTN: Pharynguloids
I went to the Cleveland Museum of Art over the weekend — it was really fantastic, I highly recommend it. There were a lot of cool things on display, but one thing really caught my eye and made me think of PZ Myers. There was a special display about a jewelry artist named John Paul …
Apr 22 2010
Video Games as Art
Poor Roger Ebert has created some sort of Internet Firestorm by claiming that Video Games aren’t art. Everyone is pissed off at him, which is really quite silly. But it’s interesting. PZ Myers posted in agreement with Ebert, and now there’s extreme craziness over there as well. Seriously, 3000 Comments at Ebert’s page and over …
Apr 07 2010
How I feel today
Reminds me of the first time I saw Star Wars, which was when it was re-released in theaters. I went home and cried afterwards because I was overwhelmed with how awesome it was as a film and how tragic and awful it would be to be any of the characters. It was that movie, and …
Jan 20 2010
Maleficent
It seems that Tim has a hankering for SLEEPING BEAUTY… but not really… You see, he’s going to tell the story from Maleficent’s point of view. In fact, it’ll be called MALEFICENT. She was always the most interesting character in that story, but we never knew why she hated those three little fairy wenches… or …
Oct 22 2009
Photoshop Liquify Tool: Makes everything better
Seriously. I could stare at this for hours. I mean, I have to actually use the knowledge to fix my painting, but you know, it’s kind of cool that I can just fix it on the computer instead. And make an awesome annoying animated gif, 1998 style.
Sep 18 2009
Because When People Steal it Pisses Me Off
I’m re-posting this here because I think it deserves a wide circulation. I’m really anti-stealing, but to steal a piece of art that someone has spent hours and hours creating is maybe the worst thing you can do. Artist brute_force; had the following steampunk monocle stolen from him at Dragon*Con. It’s a one of a …


Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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