artforjerks

graphic designer and artist living in nashville tennessee www.supersuper.net

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goddamn...how did i miss this when it first came out. 

[powells]

This one goes out to all the aspiring writers out there during Children’s Book Week. Don’t forget that you have the power to write your own stories, too! http://powells.us/1qzVd8b  

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David Swailes

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so good

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Had the news on in the background and hear this: "Bull alert issued for all water". I then realized they had said "boil". I was then much less interested.

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[jillthompson]

Yeah!

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Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake.

Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration. — Jeffrey Zeldman

https://twitter.com/zeldman/statuses/804159148

[chuckpalahniuk]

"To begin a new novel, I look for the biggest problem in my life that I can’t solve or tolerate. Something that drives me nuts, but I can’t fix. Then I find a metaphor that allows me to explore the problem, exaggerating and expanding it beyond reason. I build it up to the worst scenario possible and then find a way to solve it. By the time the book is done, I’ve exhausted all of my emotions around the original problem. Whatever it was, it no longer bothers me. And typically, during the time of writing, the problem has resolved itself. It’s like magic. Try it. It will keep you alive in this world of bullshit."

A nugget from last night’s Reddit AMA. See the entire transcript here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1noxl2/im_chuck_palahniuk_author_of_doomed_ama/ (via chuckpalahniuk)

Magic

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"the devil knows how to row" (at Jacksonville Beach)

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Los Angeles

Explore G. J. Winterboer's photos on Flickr. G. J. Winterboer has uploaded 4455 photos to Flickr.

Gorgeous...

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Custom jacket design for The Secret Life of Bees. Given as a gift. Fun project that turned out sorta decent. 

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sketch

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sky while walking home from the playground with the kid.

[shellytotter]

I would like everyone to know that the teachers in the English Dept at Alamogordo HS do not agree with the knee jerk reaction of pulling Neverwhere from the Dept. library. It has been successful as a supplemental novel and since our goal is to get students engaged and encourage their thinking, this novel is a keeper — the students love it. The passage the parent is referring to is not graphic, but it is an adult type situation…a very briefly visited one. I am sorry our school administrators did not stand up and support the material the way we all would have expected them to do. Also, as much as we hate to expose anyone for not speaking the truth, this parent had publicly stated that the school was “forcing” her student to read the novel (not true), and she also stated that the school never offered her daughter an alternate selection when she objected to Neverwhere. This statement is one that we will vehemently deny. The mother is stating inaccurate comments publicly. I work with the teacher in question – a very capable and intelligent young woman that is an asset to the English Dept.- and she immediately provided an alternate novel to the student as soon as the mother made the first known objection to Gaiman’s novel. We simply cannot stand for banning a book for hundreds of students this year and in the years to come because a single parent objected over one brief passage on ONE page. Making inaccurate comments about the teacher (whom the parent chose not to even meet, but publicly disrespected her and questioned her credentials in spite of that), saying we forced anyone to read a text she objected to, or stating that no alternative assignment was offered is absolutely false. Teachers are sensitive to the needs of their students. Our students have enjoyed Gaiman’s novel for almost ten years, and it saddens us to think that our future students will not have the same opportunity. The teachers in the English Dept are opposed to any form of censorship. This situation is being handled incorrectly, it makes our school and our town appear as if we are fine with suspending the use of a book that is used by middle and high schools across the country and around the globe. We are not fine with it, and we want people to know that.

Kathy Wallis commenting in School Library Journal on the banning of NEVERWHERE at Alamogordo High School, New Mexico.

The original article reported from the parent’s point of view has gotten nationwide play, can we boost the signal on this as well please?

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watercolor and ink bug