Random Nappy

Jen, 19, Computer Science, California. Random stuff including art, study, planning, and crafting.

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Late Easter doodle? I have been playing around with watercolor recently. The bunny and the green/yellow egg are colored with watercolor while the background is colored with tombow dual brush.

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First complete drawing using the Ipad Pro with Apple Pencil. I am really liking the pencil brush in Procreate. Anyone has thoughts on how I should name this drawing. 

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I’m feeling so tempted to get McDonald’s happy meal in Venice!

They have Pokemon toys this month...

[studyblrforbeginners]

Can we as the studyblr community stop glorifying staying up until 3am?

Want to know the downsides?

It’s bad for your health

Your brain can’t process the information you’ve studied (so an all-nighter will most likely do more harm than help you succeed)

The quality of what you’re working on will go downhill if you don’t take breaks

It is bad for your health!

Go to bed on time and give your brain and your health a break. Take care of yourselves!

[tomi-letters]

9.12.2017

how fun! i visited taiwan in november with a pal (๑･̑◡･̑๑) and am currently in japan visiting relatives. i’ve been so caught up in the travelling that i haven’t had time to think about the year…and oh how fast it has passed! can’t believe it’s december already aaa and 2018 is just a wink away :’)

[fuckyeahyoga]

[randomnappy-blog]

Quick drawing session after hackathon.

[kimi-studies-blog]

Think. Plan. Execute.  I saw this on reddit and felt so inspired.

[nowyoukno]

[fangirling-so-hard-rn]

Crows are scary They

use tools

Can be taught to speak (like parrots)

Have huge brains for birds

like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee

They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things

they are scary smart at solving puzzles

some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies

they can remember faces

SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT.  They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows.  Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag.  But the nice guys with masks they left alone.  THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight.  THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.

They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.

Guys I’m really scared of crows now. (q) 

[doctormemelordmd]

Yeah but have you seen this 

[stultiloquentia]

A colleague of my dad’s lives next to a lake, and looked out the window one morning to see a duck trapped in the ice. A crow swooped down. “Oh hell,” she thought, expecting carnage, because crows are opportunists. But the crow chipped at the ice with its beak until the duck was free.

[warwyrd-deactivated20170724]

Idk of this counts but a few crows saved me from a magpie swooping attack once ,they’re bros who can tell when magpies are being unreasonable and need to chill

[reallymisscoffee]

I love crows so damn much. When I was fifteen, I hit a pretty serious bout of depression, to the point I was in my room for months. Well, a family of crows made a nest in a tree outside my window. There were two parents and two chicks. One chick was healthy and strong. One was weak, and had a caw like something being strained. It sounded more like a rooster crowing and so my parents jokingly named him ‘Buck’.Well… months passed and Buck’s sibling was taught to fly. His parents focused on the sibling because the sibling was strong. The father stayed behind to try and teach Buck, but I saw him try to fly, fail, and crash to the floor. His father helped him back up into the tree.

Every day, I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him. He was small and gangly and he couldn’t caw right. His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship. So I made a deal with him. I told him that if he could do it, if he could fly, then I could find the strength to get up. Well… near the end of the season, after talking with him every day, I finally saw him get out of the nest. He went to the edge of his branch, braced himself, and jumped… and just before he hit the ground, he soared back up into the sky. I cheered harder than I ever had before.

That winter, Buck left the area. I was crestfallen. I felt like I’d lost a friend. But I was so damn proud of him. 

Cut to the next spring? I’m walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound… a broken caw. I look up, and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head. He stared at me and puffed his feathers, then hopped down in front of me and cawed again. I was so damn thrilled, and I told him how proud I was of him. He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree. 

That summer? I heard two broken caws. One from Buck… and one from his chick.

Cut to ten years later? We have a family of crows who all have a very distinct caw and they come here and spend every spring, summer, and fall on our property. Buck still greets me every spring.

[ruggie-bucchis]

that last reply made me wanna cry. that’s so beautiful.

[avianawareness]

Don’t forget the Russian Crow SLEDDING DOWN A ROOF not once, but twice. 

[odpixel]

this one morning i kept hearing really loud caws, i remember it was like 5am, LIKE REALLY LOUD AND ANNOYING AND AGGRESSIVE, so loud that i could hear it through a closed window, and i eventually went outside to check it out. there was a crow on my front lawn, it had an injury on its head and couldn’t fly and there were two other crows circling right above it, and they were cawing like mad. 

i tried to get close and take a better look and one of them dived super low and tried to attack me. so i went back in the house and chopped some sliced raw meat and tossed it at him from a distance.

a few more times later, very soon after, they could tell i was trying to help, and did not attack me. i was “allowed” to walk up close and pick him up, he couldn’t drink water properly so i had to dip my finger in a bowl and stick it in his mouth.

i did this few times a day and it went on for about a week before he disappeared, i thought he recovered and left, but he came back the next day and lands on me, and i see him around the block quite often, and he would come sit on my shoulder for a few minutes and then fly away again. i feel like i’ve adopted a son.

[lilith-knight]

Best birbs !!

[sencha-studies]

I was talking to my parents about how many of my friends are already getting job offers, internships, and study abroad experiences as rising college juniors.

I said, “It feels like my life is buffering, like when you get that spinning pinwheel thing on your laptop.”

My dad responded, “Yeah, but when it finally loads, it’ll be HD quality.”

So I thought I’d share that bit with you all. If you’re feeling the same way, support your friends, but keep your head down, work hard, and wait for it–your time will come. :)

[micdotcom]

Refugees unlawfully detained in airports after Trump’s immigration executive order

On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending the nation’s refugee settlement program and barring immigrants from countries with “would-be terrorists,” namely Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

The executive order went into immediate effect, meaning refugees on planes to the United States landed in a nation newly hostile to their presence. 

Though they were given permission to settle here by the U.S. State Department, after a long, complex vetting process, they are now being detained in U.S. airports, waiting for news of their fate. Read more.

[jenniferrpovey]

It’s started. Publicize this. Do not be complacent. Do not say “Well, they’re only…”

[rallyforbernie]

Please spread the word for anyone potentially affected by the ban !!!

[dynastylnoire]

booooooooooooooooooooost

[kipplekipple]

Friendly reminder that “doing your best” does not mean pushing yourself to the limits of endurance, but only doing the best you can without hurting yourself.

Further, even friendlier reminder that it’s completely fine if that means you don’t do as much as someone else.

They’re not you, and your contribution is just as valid as theirs.

[catastrophiccharlie-deactivated]

Oh wow. This is huge. I didn’t think of it like this. I’ve always seen “doing my best” as pushing myself past my limits and hurting myself to try and meet other people’s (and my own) expectations. But I never thought of it like this. I never considered my best meaning working as much as my body allows at that time. I should really just be taking 1-2 classes a semester but I feel like I’m not doing “my best” unless I’m taking 5. And I suffer physically and mentally because of it.

[chisotahn]

Additionally, your best can vary from day to day. Super important. Basically, there’s no point to beating yourself up.

[missmountain-deactivated2021101]

Kerby Rosanes

[silencetostudy]

What are Sketch Notes?

By Kevin Thorn

Basically, sketchnoting is doodling while you’re taking notes. I’ve been doing this ever since I got in trouble in the 2nd grade for drawing Dr. Seuss characters when I was supposed be taking a quiz. I’ve got a library of Moleskine sketch books littered all over the house today. I have one for Sketch Quotes (more on that in a future post), one for character development, and even one I call my ‘Sunday Sermon Sketchbook’ where I sketch in church every week.

I’ve tried converting to taking digital notes by means of various apps on my iPad. Whether it’s a well-built note taking app or an app that mimics handwriting in a notebook, I always come back to my trusty pencil. There’s just something about the simplicity of a pencil’s carbon scraping across the fibers of paper that no fancy app can duplicate.

Some time last year I Stumbled onto the Sketch Note Army’s site. Whooda thunk there was an army?! There’s a lot of great information out there (the interwebs) about doodling, visual note taking, books, communicating concepts with simple doodles, and more. I started these pages about three months ago and it wasn’t until recently that Mike Rohde’s new book, The Sketchnote Handbook came out that I was inspired to finish them. Nothing fancy. Nothing about what the research says. Nothing about theories. And certainly nothing about skill. Just plain ‘ole sketching notes.

What Are Sketch Notes? – page 1

Note taking emphasized with doodles.

Rules:

None Really

Unleash Imagination

Creatively Doodle

Sketching notes is not about drawing skills, it’s about adding creative style and emphasis to your note taking. – NuggetHead

What Is The Best Medium? – page 2

Anything to scribe on

Loose Paper

Notepad

Sketchbook (Moleskine)

Stone Tablet

Lettering – page 3

Three basic styles:

Print – UPPERCASE/lowercase

Script (cursive)

BLOCK

Go with what’s natural and comfortable. The more you practice, the more creative you will become.

Pencil or Pen – page 4

Your preference

Pencil

Less Restrictive

Erase mistakes

Tone/Shading

Lead breaks or needs sharpening

Pen

Challenging

Must commit to every stroke

Pens don’t always behave

Good pens flow (ink) well

Tip: If you already have notes you want to convert, lay them out in pencil first. Then trace with a pen or marker and erase the pencil.

Things To Consider – page 5

Create your own visual style

Don’t have to fill page

Use symbols, icons, and picto-notes

Keep your pencil/pen moving

Make mstakes!

Homework:

Sketchnote a news broadcast

Sketchnote a narrative while people watching at a mall, zoo, or airport

Sketchnote an experience:

A book

Funny conversation with a child

Good/Bad customer service

A meeting or conference

A church sermon

Grab a pencil or pen right now a sketch the first thing that comes to mind. You know you were just inspired or you’re thinking of something. Don’t lose that feeling and take the next five minutes. GO!

I’m going to be traveling quite a bit to various conferences in the next few months (see sidebar). I intend on sketchnoting each of them with a posting of those notes here. If you’re attending any of these conferences, look me up. I’d love to see your sketchnotes!

[studylou]

how to start studying after school

clean up your desk: it’s hard to concentrate when there’s a pile of rubbish on your desk. the chance of you fiddling with things is also higher! you’ll get more done by cleaning your desk! if you’re looking for an easy way to organise your desk, check out these handy organisers!

get your books: get out all the books you need to study that particular subject. if it’s geography, an atlas might be handy.

get a notebook: if you’re in uni or college it’s a good idea to re-write all your notes for your classes that day. make them look clean and tidy. if you’re in secondary school and you’re studying for a test, summarize everything you have learned. in any case, it’s best to have a few notebooks on your desk too. here’s a 4 pack of spiral notebooks for $7.04!

grab some pens: seems self explanatory! i recommend you having an ordinary pen, a highlighter and a pencil on hand. (a.k.a. the basics!) here are some super cute gel pens!

turn off your phone: by turning off your phone, you will get less distracted by social media. sure, people won’t be able to reach you but you’ll get some peace and quiet. obviously leave it on if you’re expecting an important call!

look for a study playlist: if you easily get distracted by your laptop too, skip this step. i personally find it harder to get distracted by my laptop than my phone, so i leave it on and look for some music to study to. here’s a masterpost of some good playlists to listen to!

get a glass of water: you really need your h2o, everyone. grab a large glass or fill up a water bottle. some super cute ones: i ii iii

get a healthy snack: if you’re like me and you love snacking on things while your studying, the best thing to do is to grab something healthy. cut up some apples and sprinkle some cinnamon on them (try it. it’s amazing.), grab some hummus and some celery or carrots or cucumber to dip in it, fill a little bowl with nuts, treat yourself to a square of dark chocolate! if you’re studying during dinner time or lunch time, make yourself a nourishment bowl to nibble on. for more study snack ideas, go to pinterest and snoop around the study snack tag for a while. try out my favourite smoothie bowl too!

take a deep breath: i know from personal experience that sometimes the workload can be really scary and freak you out. the most important thing to do is to take a deep breath and to tell yourself you can get through all your work. you can do anything if you try hard enough!

get cracking: now that you’ve done steps 1-9, you can actually start studying! good luck!

[sarcasticstudies]

mildliners x muji pens