i paint irony not art

I was just poking around on Facebook, as is totally customary during winter breaks, and noticed a particularly dazzling facebook photo. Apparently, according to the little copyright autograph on the side, it was made at Befunky.com. I went to the website, and it has some brilliant free ways to make pictures look like comic book sketches . . . → Read More: Artistic Inspiration

What does it mean to be a cultural intellect? How does knowledge exhibit social status, privilege, and in any case, importance? I’d like to point back to a rather unlikely source…Flemish curiosity paintings from the 1600-1700s. Rather unexpected…but nevertheless it can possibly be connected to the emergence of the music “mash-up”, the likes of GirlTalk and . . . → Read More: I’d Like to Thank the Academy: theories on climbing the intellectual ladder

Instead of looking at what types of classes I like and (fingers crossed) molding them in to a job post-graduation, I am going to categorize by the end result (top goal/job/personality trait) and what types of requirements or preparations I need to reach that goal. Of course there are problems with this (since I am close . . . → Read More: Goals and How to Reach Them: The Pyramid Theory

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Number 3: (not really…I was forced, for comparison sake)

Number 4:

I’m beginning to see a pattern: short, chunky, fun, bob-ish. And I know Maggie G isn’t the most attractive of beings, but her face (shape) is probably the most similar to mine of all the actresses on this page, and I thought that was a . . . → Read More: How Should I get my Hair cut?

. . . → Read More: Bloody hell of a job, Radcliffe. But wait…

an article by the NY Times on the extensive extra work that Equestrian Olympians have had to put in to making sure their horses don’t die from exposure to unsuspecting toxins before they compete in Beijing. Sounds like more of an advantage for the uncontaminated (note: immune) horses than Natalie Coughlin’s spacesuit technology swimsuit, but then . . . → Read More: Pollution, Powerplants, and Ponies

. . . → Read More: i approve this message, because I think it’s totally hot

I’m not going to play prim on this one: if I ever get afraid of growing old or unsure of how to stay cheery and confident in the face of all hell and evil, watching Meryl Streep dance around in overalls to ‘Dancing Queen’ will never fail to serve as a pick-me-up. And don’t try to . . . → Read More: Thank god for Meryl Streep

you know it's big when there's an indie film mockumentary.

The fetish of the closet secretary has never been more apparent in my life than when I typed “office high heels” in to my Google search engine less than 30 minutes ago. Next to the images of Manolo Blahnik’s, Jimmy Choos, and knock-offs on eBay, . . . → Read More: SEE: Office Heels

. . . → Read More: Could you define moustache?