Opinions about anything and everything from someone not qualified to make them
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Big fan of this illustrator.
It’s a giveaway! A Trinity Mothers giveaway!
I’ll be exhibiting at MoCCA festival this April and selling this print and other prints of my work. Whatever’s left over I’ll probably sell online later this year but until then, you could win this 11 x 17 print here on tumblr!
All you have to do is like and reblog this post (as many times as you want) until February 12th which is when I’ll choose a random winner, who I’ll ship it to for free.
Wow, I hope I’m doing this giveaway thing right.
I am SO BORED. Somebody do something or I’ll start shooting at a graffiti on the wall.
Can’t wait for Series 2 to hit the states.
Tumblr artist Chelsea Bloxsom created an awesome set of custom Star Wars themed hoops with her hand craft work. Check out Chelsea’s Etsy page to see more of her creations or request a custom made piece just for you!
Star Wars Hoops by Chelsea Bloxsom (Etsy) (Facebook) (Twitter)
Via: loveandasandwich
Kimber and Stormer, by Kathryn Layno.
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There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
And if you can stand me sounding even crazier, here is this: making money from art is not a human right. It so happens that technological and societal blahbity bloos have conspired to create a situation where selling songs about monkeys and robots is a viable business, but for most of human history people have NOT paid for art. I don’t want this to happen again, and I would be very sad if this came to pass, but it’s not up to me to decide. We are constantly demonstrating through our actions what we believe to be the norms for acquiring and consuming content. Right now a lot of us think that it’s OK to download stuff through illegal sites under certain circumstances, and a lot of us think it’s totally fine to use those things to make videos and put them on YouTube even though YouTube profits from it. That’s not ME saying that, that’s US saying that – we’re a nation of pirates and infringers. Based on our behavior, you would not be wrong to deduce that some of us think funny videos on YouTube are more important than honoring intellectual property rights. This kind of thing has happened before. Entire industries rise and fall as the world changes and our priorities shift. Sorry.
I believe in copyright. I benefit from it. I don’t want it to go away. I love that we have laws and people to enforce them. But if I had to give up one thing, if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the internet? I’ll take the internet every time.
Jonathan Coulton. “MegaUpload”
An interesting, reasonable statement from a man who makes a living off of selling his IP on the internet. My favorite of his points has to do with the utter failure of big media companies to make things convenient for the user. Every time I read about a movie studio delaying Netflix rentals or can’t buy an mp3 online I wonder why that makes sense. We don’t need SOPA/PIPA, media companies need to evolve.
My breakdown of Murakami themes.
Who says Catwoman has to dress like a stripper for good art?
Wikipedia Wants to Be Free for Mobile Users, in Africa
“Any customer with an Orange SIM and Internet-enabled phone in the AMEA will be able to browse Wikipedia’s mobile site at no charge, providing they stay within Wikipedia’s pages. The site can be accessed through a browser or Wikipedia widget. The partnership is part of a larger campaign by the Wikimedia Foundation to reach people around the world who access the Internet solely through their phones.” -Zachary Sniderman
This is really cool. I hope they can make this happen.
