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Hiatus

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Peggy: You know I need to make men feel at ease! Roger: Who told you that?

–Episode 7x12 “Lost Horizon” ( madmen-amc )

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Jimmy • Saul  

“No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.”

― Plato

(bettercallsaulamc)

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Speed Painting showing the creation of Breaking Bad fan art, featuring the Be Good Tanyas’ "Waiting Around to Die". 

Final art posted HERE.

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It's two long years, just a-waitin' 'round to die

–Townes Van Zandt

(View a speed painting video showing the creation of this piece)

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Art Update

I was able to do a screencast of my new piece... So, just as soon as I get 5+ discontinuous hours of video combined and condensed to 5 minutes, it’ll be posted. Probably tonight. :) 

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Details from “Every great ad tells a story...” The Wasted Details Series

I do all my design work at fairly large scale and high-resolution, and yet I never seem to show it more than 540px wide… Here’s a closer look.

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“Every great ad tells a story. Here to tell that story is Peggy Olson.”  — Don Draper (Season 7, Episode 7, "Waterloo")

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Details from "Raylan Givens • Justified" The Wasted Details Series

I do all my design work at fairly large scale and high-resolution, and yet I never seem to show it more than 540px wide… Here’s a closer look.

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"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."

-Don Draper (Season 3, Episode 2)

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Art Update

No more 90s nostalgia art. Plaid will be the death of me. 

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Now that I’m working on something holiday-themed, I’m adding pine trees to my shit list. 

Also: Window blinds. Three+ hours of window blinds....

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Raylan Givens • Justified

There are no shortage of anti-heroes on television these days: crooks with a conscience, mostly, joined by the occasional broody cop who doesn’t play by the rules. Raylan Givens is different than both of these types. He’s pleased with himself—and troublesome to his colleagues—in ways that should make him unappealing, but he’s just so much fun to watch... 

—Noel Murray (avclub)

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Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy

Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. I am trying to be truthful. Not a cute card or a kissogram. I give you an onion. Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful as we are, for as long as we are. Take it. Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding-ring, if you like. Lethal. Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife.

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Snow. Again. Still.

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Not looking good for the groundhog.

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– Garrison Keillor

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Lavender Evening

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— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed