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Today I launched my first four designs on my threadless artists shop and overhauled the branding for Cool Stuff https://cool.threadless.com #threadless #coolstuffiwant #artistshop #graphicdesign #graphictee #graphictees #illustrations #branding

#coolstuffiwant #graphictee #threadless #artistshop #branding #illustrations #graphicdesign #graphictees

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DIY Crystallization with Borax Tutorial from Stuff You Can’t Have.

I’ve seen so many Borax crystal DIYs using pipe cleaners and string - but never larger objects. Growing crystals with Borax bought at the market is so cheap, easy and relatively quick.

You can also crystallize photos HERE, fabric HERE, and shells HERE. All photos are from Stuff You Can’t Buy.

perpetualthoughts

neato!

#crystals #art

Thorn is settling in quite nicely

#hedgehog #thorn #hedgie #new friend #pet

cheaphalloweencostume

my sleeping pills just kicked in heavily and im genuinely on the verge of tears because i for some reaon remembered a misprint in a 1980s newspaper that switched the captions between Far Side and Dennis the Menace

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this happened twice

perpetualthoughts

The snake one is oddly perfect

#far side #best comic ever #dennis the menace #funny #comic #lol

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Ira Khroniuk

#pretty #watercolour #flower #leaf #plant #Art #illustration

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WE ALL KNOW THAT EMOTION

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UNMUTE THIS

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I’m the dog

emeraldbriar

My emotion right now is this dog.

luxgalador

@lunablakemusic is this not your dog?

perpetualthoughts

8:30am classes be like

#funny #dog #vine #awake #sort of

micdotcom

Watch: Bernie Sanders just delivered what may be the defining speech of his career.

#politics #bernie sanders #freedom

allthecanadianpolitics

As a woman I can’t vote Conservative… By Siera Vercillo

The Canadian federal election is on October 19th, 2015. Please vote.

#politics #vote #canada #election #feminism #women

Just got a new batch of cards in time for Made In Canada! :) ____ Etsy: Made In Canada OCAD U is in Butterfield Park (100 McCaul St) and the Inclusive Design Center (49 McCaul) at OCAD University on Saturday September 26th from 10am – 6pm. Find out more at http://on.fb.me/1Qgvb2c ____ #cards #greetingcards #illustration #hedgehog #foal #donuts #diamonds #etsymadeincanada #madeincanada #artmarket #market #craftfair #ocaduetsyteam #etsyca #etsy #etsyteam #ocadu #ocad #handmade #torontoart #toronto

#toronto #ocad #artmarket #ocadu #greetingcards #donuts #foal #etsymadeincanada #handmade #illustration #ocaduetsyteam #craftfair #etsyteam #diamonds #cards #torontoart #etsy #madeincanada #etsyca #market #hedgehog

bulbabutt

Here’s a question that no one ever has a good answer for: why are cashiers forced to stand? Who decided people need to stand for 4 hours straight between breaks when they don’t MOVE?

rozalynpaige

Would it really hurt if they had, at least, a stool?

camwyn

According to the owner of the drugstore I worked at for two summers in college, cashiers sitting on a stool doesn’t look professional.

I mean, you know, we were college students and high school seniors and middle-aged adults who were wearing clean T-shirts or polo shirts and shorts or jeans, but standing up for four+ hours made us look professional somehow.

animatedamerican

… pardon me while I fume

actuallyclintbarton

Yup.

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Customers threw the biggest shit fit when one of the cashiers was sitting on a chair behind the register (because she just had knee surgery, and wanted to get out of the house/make money), BECAUSE IT DIDN’T LOOK PROFESSIONAL

perpetualthoughts

Funny timing I was just thinking about this at the grocery store today. :(

#cashiers #unfair #professional #dumb rules

Would love to read those papers you mention in your reblog! Got a citation? - Emily

First of all there is this piece which mentions (among other things) how in the modern day and age people are expected to brand themselves in order to succeed in their careers and social life and how people who have the social capitol to do so may wield it over those who don’t in a violent manner.

Angela McRobbie. “Notes on ‘What Not To Wear’ and post‐feminist symbolic violence.“ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00526.x/full

Additionally we read a considerable amount of Slavoj Zizek’s writings. He discusses wanting a thing without a thing (ex: beer without alcohol, love without falling in love, sweets without sugar) with applies readily to virtual life (for example in the way you can “shop” for romantic partners online dating sites. Follow is a quote from “Cyberspace, Or, The Unbearable Closure of Being”

“In other words, he is asked to sacrifice himself, the innermost kernelof his being - not for the True Cause, but for a pure semblance.”

Here he is discussing virtual signifier’s in context of a consumer capitalist society ruled by objet a (the driving force of desire behind consumption - think about brand slogans like “Enjoy” or “Just Do It”). I would apply this to commodification of ourselves through virtual representations that we create in order to brand or “sell” ourselves.

My perception of your passage was also effected by the broader discussion, class lectures, and small connections made through other readings but these three probably connected most directly.

Zizek, Slavoj. “Cyberspace, Or, The Unbearable Closure of Being” The Plague of Fantasies. London: Verso, 2009.

Zizek, Slavoj. “Multiculturalism, or, the cultural logic of multinational capitalism.” New left review (1997): 28-51

#brain scoop #consumerist culture #cyberspace #virtual #virtual vs real #the brain scoop #consumerism #culture #slovaj zizek #angela mcrobbie #social media #commodification #ocad #ocadu

ehmeegee

it’s been a great and scary year

I maintained a fairly transparent presence online when I first started TBS, partly out of a feeling of necessity for fostering my new and enthusiastic audience, but in the last year I decided to take a deliberate step back from my initial approach to social media for a number of reasons. Mostly because it’s exhausting in a way that’s difficult to describe, especially to those who haven’t grown up in front of computers or with smartphones in their hands. Partly because of very real and terrifying threats to my privacy and personal security, troubling enough to make me feel temporarily disempowered - which is a scary thing to admit publicly considering, y’know, that was probably the creeper’s intent.

Creating and maintaining an online presence tends to steal one’s personal identity and commandeer it in a way that is disconcerting. You relinquish autonomy for the sake of social currency and it’s confusing and awkward, like going through puberty all over again. You start to think about your ‘personal brand’ - a thing that can be monetized by, yeah, you, maybe, but also by other people, companies. You begin to wonder - am I doing, sharing, saying things that uphold that ‘brand’? what’s the brand? and your personality suddenly dissolves into a handful of shallow adjectives: funny, quirky, dorky, cute, artsy, happy, nerdy. There you go. Package deal. You get what you pay for. You’re a marketable object to be commodified and sold for a profit. Congratulations, and welcome to your fame. I started to get a taste of this and it’s bitter, weird.

What the whole point of this post is, is that it’s a promise that I’m never going to bullshit you. While I might not put myself out there as much as I used to - primarily because of a concern for my personal safety as well as a mutual feeling like that type of sacrifice wasn’t worth maintaining a falsely overjoyed online presence - I want you to know that what I’m doing, sharing, creating, promoting, encouraging, is genuinely coming from me, without external pressure to live up to someone else’s standards of marketability.

When online media feels so fickle I stress about my future success on these platforms, and I just hope you’ll bear the growing pains with me. Don’t hesitate to be in touch, send a note, ask a question. I’m here because of you and appreciate your support no matter what. Thank you. Here’s my digital hug. <3

fishingboatproceeds

I admire Emily so much, and I think it’s awesome she’s found ways to be so honest about the challenges of a public-facing Internet life. Plus, The Brain Scoop continues to be one of my favorite shows on YouTube.

perpetualthoughts

My consumer behaviour class has in many ways broken down the way I perceive marketing and development in every sphere of live. This description is uncanily close to our chapter on virtual life and the papers I read about comidifying ourselves in the unstable job markets of capitalist consumerism. This is a good reminder that this isn’t just theory but the real experiences of people.