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My new distraction: Draw Something for iPhone. My favorite part: Taking way too much time to draw something where a stick figure would have conveyed the message. For example, my drawing for the word “Obama”: This is what I did for “alone”: Feel free to add me – the username is jennifurret.
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A new godless comic book
June 15th, 2011 
Jen Blag Hag reader Marjee Chmiel is working on a fantastic comic called Luci’s Let Down. Written by Marjee Chmiel and illustrated by Sandra Lanz, *Luci’s Let Down* is about the alienation that creative and skilled professionals face in corporate culture, a culture that too often devalues craftsmanship and holds profits over principles. It’s also about [...]
I know what I’m doing in 4.5 years
March 29th, 2011 Jen You and your committee may be the only people who read your PhD dissertation (well, if you’re lucky) – but you can still enjoy is aesthetically:From Street Anatomy: A long-time Street Anatomy fan and soon-to-be doctor, Stephen, recently sent in this image of an anatomical heart made up entirely of the words from his dissertation. [...]
Guess what I now own?
September 10th, 2010 Jen The first two issues of The Atheist comic:The covers are cool enough, but the story is kind of neat: When your fears are beyond belief you need a hero beyond believing. Antoine Sharpe is a scalpel on two legs – skeptical, brilliant, ruthless. A special agent with a shadowy department of the U.S. government, Sharpe [...]
New York Recap Part2: SEX!
August 31st, 2010 Jen On the Friday after my photoshoot I decided to hit up a couple New York museums. First I headed over to the Museum of Sex, which a bunch of my readers suggested to me. Man, I have no idea why you guys thought I would want to go to this place. Do I look like [...]
New art contest: Celestial soul portraits
July 31st, 2010 Jen My sister-in-law Erin has linked me to what must be the most fabulous thing to ever grace the internet: Celestial Soul Portraits! An artist will do a “magical” portrait of you by taking “normal” photos that represent “the real you,” getting “your unique essence,” and “transforming” it into a Celestial Soul Portrait (his use of [...]
Results from my modern art contest
July 31st, 2010 Jen A little while ago I challenged you guys to write the best summary you could of the painting I did at age 2 that would make it worthy of an art museum.Here are my favorites! Most creative interpretation: Chabneruk “Genius rarely shows itself in a pure, elementary form. But the early work of Jennifer McCreight [...]
lol modern art
July 22nd, 2010 Jen Yesterday I went to the Art Institute of Chicago with my parents, aunt, and uncle. I love the Art Institute. Between many art class field trips and my mom being an art teacher, I’ve been there so many times that I no longer need a map to navigate it. Definitely in the double digits. But [...]
My art background
March 18th, 2010 Jen This is a question from formspring.me. Go ask me something! Have you ever had art classes or did you learn on your own? ‘Cause you’re pretty good! Thank you! And the answer is both! My mother was a middle school art teacher (just retired), so I was surrounded by art my whole life. My bathroom [...]
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