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1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

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*snaps fingers* THATS WHAT IT IS! I’ve always felt the difference but I’ve never been able to put my finger on it! Thanks so much for sharing :D

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Sunset Ring of Fire

Photographer Dan McGlaun shot these incredible images of a Annular Eclipse, viewed from Big Spring State Park in western Texas. An annular solar eclipse happens when the Moon covers the Sun’s center, leaving the Sun’s visible outer edges to form a “ring of fire” or annulus around the Moon. In an annular eclipse of the Sun, the Moon casts its antumbra - the outer part of the Moon’s umbra - on the Earth. Like total solar eclipses, annular solar eclipses can be seen as partial eclipses from locations inside its penumbra, but outside it’s antumbra.

Images via text via

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Talking Stones Elaine Ling

The 120 black-and-white images pictured in this book were taken with a 4×5 view camera, mostly on Polaroid 55 PN film. For 30 years, the photographer wandered through deserts, canyons and jungles gathering the mythology of “stones.” Across four continents, the photographer travels with her strong cultural sensitivities: her birth heritage from the East; and her philosophies from the West where she had studied medicine, and lived from the age of nine.

In trust, we place a certain permanence in stones. But their fragility is at risk of destruction by the erosive forces of Nature and the destructive forces of war. This book offers a stunning global view of a very unique presentation of natural and ancient stones.

Images and text via additional images via

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[supersatanson]

Now that’s a kickass tutorial on how to develop your hair technique!

[grimphantom2]

This is good tutorial

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Lamps Designed To Grow Plant Indoors Without Windows

German design studio called Nui Studio headed by Emilia Lucht and Arne Sebrantke have modelled a glass lamp which functions as a self sustaining ecosystem for a plant, which they claim can grow for many years. These innovative lamps thrive in windowless spaces and waterless conditions which the designers have named Mygdal plant lamp.

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Left the eyes for last cause it was my favourite hahaha :D.

Done with Windsor & Newton gouache, 140lb watercolour paper, size 1, 4 and 6 brush.

Instagram | dA

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Buddha’s Footprints Zhang Wang

As early as 1999, Zhang Wang began his photographic creation in Chinese Buddhist culture. In secluded Buddhist temples, Zhang Wang spent long time with the monks, sharing his life with them. He often got up in wee hours in the day to shoot the monastic life, or risked precarious mountains to capture Buddhist relics. He would also stay up late to peruse Buddhist texts. The fifteen years of persistent photographic creation has put him through untold hardships and difficulties but also earned him close to a hundred important honors from China and rest of the world. In May 2013, Zhang Wang’s “Buddha’s Footprints” solo exhibition was selected to be part of UNESCO’s “World Culture Convention” exhibition.

Text via images via

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by Arti Chauhan

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1,400-Year-Old Gingko Tree Sheds a Spectacular Ocean of Golden Leaves

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“En otoño todos somos ricos” -acpa-

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Embroidery as Art: Cayce Zavaglia

Cayce Zavaglia St. Louis based artist does not create portraits using a traditional medium like paint, pencil or photography. She stitches them, like with a needle and thread.

Artist begins each piece by taking photographs of her subject against a plain gray background. After selecting an image, she transfers it to fabric, draws over it in sharp detail “every line, hair, wrinkle,” she says - then starts to sew. The hair comes first, followed by the forehead, as she works her way down the face.

Describing the technique as “pointillist,” Zavaglia says she layers stitch atop stitch to achieve the desired color and subtle tone. A large work consists of roughly 80 to 100 colors of crewel wool and takes six to seven months to complete; a smaller one, made with finer, shinier thread, about six to eight weeks. Zavaglia has yet to count her stitches, but the tally is clearly in the thousands.

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Retro Game Room Version 2 I needed to patch the walls and paint, so I thought I might as well change it all up.

23 different consoles and handhelds, about 450 old games. Framemeister xrgb-mini upscaler so it doesn’t look bad on a new tv, handmade custom MAME cabinet, and a fuzzy chair and fuzzy carpet :)

A lot of work, and a lifetime of collecting!

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And no girlfriend

[8bitrevolver]

In an incredible plot twist, I’m actually someone’s wife.

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[mikedawwwson]

LONGSTREET FARM - The simpler way of seeing things is often the most likely to stick, so perhaps there are some simple truths about ourselves that I can impress upon my kids.

From the collection Rules For Dating My Daughter.

Pre-order a copy HERE.

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This is one of my favorite pieces in Mike’s upcoming book — with a really clever way of using images to show how little we are able to comprehend huge stretches of history.

Really, if you haven’t yet, why not sign up for this book on Kickstarter?

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Time magazine has got some fucked up priorities.

[fuckyeahmexico]

El Peña Nieto y el Trump bien emocionadotes de que salieron en la revista TIME sin darse cuenta que Hitler y Stalin tambien han salido en esa revista.

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James Jean

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portrait of Francisco Toledo Francisco Toledo is regarded by many as Mexico’s most important and provocative living artis

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Indeed, and he is having a fight with Oaxaca’s Government for a protected natural area (El Fortín) that is about to be sold to private interests. In the las years, he has also become a Social Activist, standing against abuse.