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Torill Gaarder, graphic designer and illustrator. This blog has mostly fanart, design and typography and some cool illustrations not made by me.

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INKTOBER 8: My friend has the loveliest happyface ever. Of all time. 

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INKTOBER 7: painted a random gray blob, turned it into warrior elf who regrets not cutting her hair and not wearing reasonable armour

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INKTOBER 6: that norwegian dude with the giant ginger beard from Game of thrones (Kristofer Hivju) plays in movie about beards and skiing and bros and royal babies

(I got to go to a test-screening for the movie “Birkebeinerne” and it was hella rad.)

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INKTOBER 5: Portrait of the artist trying to yoga

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INKTOBER 4: The littlest martian (with potato)

I was going to see the martian last night, but I couldn’t make it because of reasons. Planning to go later this week, Whatney is going to have to wait just a bit longer... BE PATIENT DUDE. 

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INKTOBER 3: In which Bucky Barnes refuse to wear the metal arm.

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INKTOBER 2: Drawing of the artist’s mother with new shiny smart phone and tiny arms sorry

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INKTOBER 1. portrait of the artists with weird brush pen thingie.

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Mad Max: Furiosa’s Road is my favourite movie right now, five minutes in the future, next week and for ever.

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Pacific Rim, Captain America: Winter Solider, and Mad Max: Fury Road AKA the only movies that matter

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Schmorill - Lineart Kjerstin-art - Coloring

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I put some crazy colors on this sweet crazy portrait: http://ddcreativecollective.tumblr.com/post/116677250753

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My kind of shop. As would be “used guns and books”

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Florian Illes, 1913: The Year Before The Storm

A very interesting month-by-month history of the year 1913. From the book’s description: 

It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring, and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the year the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented….It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I.

It fit in really nicely with a few of the other books I’ve read this year — its jump-cut type style reminds me of Hip Hop Family Tree and the soap opera-like tales of Rilke’s douchery reminded me a lot of David Markson’s books.

Thanks to @theunread for the recommendation!

Filed under: my reading year 2015

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I got it because it’s beautiful as hell, so of course I haven’t read it. the norwegian translators kept the original title, “the summer of the century”.

I almost didn’t recognize the english title, it’s like “DUN DUN DUNNN FORESHADOWING DO YOU REMEMBER THAT WAR AND SHIT HAPPENED IN 1914, AND SEE, RED TEXT!! THE STORM IS COMING, YOU DANCING FOOLS, just you wait” and the norwegian is like “it was a super sweet summer and we’re not even going to mention anything about how it is the year before shit hit the fan, LOOK butterflies! err... why is that butterfly calLED HITLER??!”

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A man who fights for gold can’t afford to lose to a girl. - Queen Daenerys of House Targaryen

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