Christmas commission for a coworker. Send me a note to request your own! Patrons get $10 off.
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Paper cut commission! @steelechainsaw
Send me a note to commission your own for $65!
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My most liked 9 images from 2017! I love you all. Thank you for hanging out and look for more and better things in 2018!
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Hawkeye Christmas Break Art!
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Captain Marvel Christmas break art!
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Fred Rogers ladies and gentleman!
Here are some interesting facts about him:
- He basically saved public television. In 1969 the government wanted to cut public television funds. Mister Rogers then went to Washington where he gave an amazing merely six minute speech. By the end of the speech not only did he charm the hostile Senators, he got them to double the budget they would have initially cut down. The whole thing can be found on youtube, a video called “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate.”
- “Certain fundamentalist preachers hated him because, apparently not getting the “kindest man who ever lived” memo, they would ask him to denounce homosexuals. Mr. Rogers’s response? He’d pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers even belonged to a “More Light” congregation in Pittsburgh, a part of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT persons to full participation in the church.”
- According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
- Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.
Always reblog MR
Hero
He also sued the KKK in 1990 when they tried to use his likeness to try to promote racism to kids
Mr. Rogers was the best.
Mr Rogers has been and will always remain a beacon of light in this dark fucking world
I’m sorry, the KKK did what?
Don’t be afraid to say hi! Or if you know an artist, share this with them! Our aim is for artists to find their audience and get their art out there!
Submit your art, get it shared and get inspired by other artists! @artist-promos
fencing coach: how are your legs feeling after that workout?
me: sore
fencing coach: [[suddenly in a Russian accent]] Good. Make your thighs big as mother Russia. You know what they say about women with big thighs, yes?
me: [[also in a Russian accent]] Can crush head between legs like watermelon.
fencing coach:
fencing coach: [[still in a Russian accent]] You and I…we have very different fantasies
Another of those posts that hit my funny bone the right way, the sort that produce a laugh loud enough for @dduane to come see what caused it.
She looked at the post, laughed herself and said “You and I remember Budapest very differently,” then went back to the new “Big Meow” cover.
The one with Rhiow the Cat, Ith the Tyrannosaur and the Hollywood sign…
Geeky Merch Giveaway: 16 prize bundles, 3 winners!
It’s that time of year again, and in true Geeky Merch style we’re celebrating the festive season with a huge giveaway. 14 sellers have come together with us to offer some amazing prize bundles, and we’re so excited to spread the festive cheer again this year with even more geeky freebies.
By following us and reblogging this post before 30th December 2017, 3 lucky winners will have the opportunity to choose themselves 4 prize bundles each. The giveaway is open internationally and winners will be chosen at random.
Please click here for full giveaway T&Cs❗️
Prize bundles available:
- 3 subscriptions to Loot Crate - one for each winner! (12 month, 6 month and 3 month subscriptions available)
- Winner’s choice of t-shirt from Yellow Dog Tees.
- An Orion Constellation necklace and a Solar Eclipse necklace from Boutique Academia.
- Console heart metal sign from Metallic Graphic.
- Legend of Zelda keyrings and wall mount from Chocobo Square.
- Your choice of three pins and/or patches from Band of Weirdos.
- Steven Universe bracelet from Plot Bunnies.
- Goats ‘n’ Scapes role-playing scenario from Espionage Party.
- Bundle of 6 mashup prints from Burning Elegance.
- Stranger Things poster and buttons set from Bruce Loves You.
- Winner’s choice of Overwatch necklace (Mercy, Genji, Hanzo or D.Va) from The Evergreen Burrow.
- The Fault in Our Stars necklace from Partial to Jam.
- Winner’s choice of t-shirt or tank top (sizes up to 5x) from NerdyKeppie.
- Winner’s choice of digital or physical card from punCraft.
Just follow us and reblog this post to enter!
Don’t forget to check out and support these awesome sellers by clicking through to their shops, and keep them in mind while shopping for gifts too! If you buy an item and then win the giveaway you can always choose other prizes. 😉
Good luck!
#PuppetHospital #SecretSanta !
I AM the dungeon master!
#giantD20 #dungeonMaster #DungeonsandDragons #laika
Sweet #Laika Christmas gift socks. 💚
#kubo #boxtrolls #paranorman #coraline
Here’s another exciting round of “I hope the internet doesn’t blow up”! Rumor has it that you use the language of MONEY you might get people’s attention faster, so here goes nothing…
Call your reps: battleforthenet.com
Fax your reps: text ‘resist’ to 50409, follow instructions
Send stern email to the FCC:
- Ajit Pai : Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
- Michael O'Rielly: Mike.ORielly@fcc.gov
- Brendan Carr: Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
(You can use my template (3rd image) if you want, just swap out the name and state and whatever else applies to your business model. Make it personal!)
pretty much yeah
my personal bullet points:
- I run a small business online
- removing net neutrality will limit my customer base
- liming my customer base is a great way to kill my business
- you don’t want to kill small businesses do you
also maybe worth mentioning: Portugal already did this. We / America can do better. (Patriotism etc.)
🚨 The internet needs you 🚨
You’re up again, Tumblr.
Back in 2015 you demanded that the FCC adopt strict net neutrality rules and establish a free and open internet. And you won.
That should’ve been the end of it. But apparently not.
The new head of the FCC wants to undo the net neutrality protections you fought so hard for.
His proposed changes open the door to your web traffic being slowed down, or even blocked altogether. You could be forced to pay extra to use your favorite apps. You could even be prevented from getting news from the sources you trust.
Title II protects consumers and democracy by ensuring all voices can be heard.
You know the drill. Here’s what to do:
The FCC is taking comments from the public, and dearfcc.org is making it as simple as possible for you to make your voice heard.
Go there now 👉 dearfcc.org ✌️
You’ll just need to provide a name, an address, and then say a little bit about why rolling back Title II protections is a bad idea. If you’re not quite sure what to write, here’s something to get you started:
I’m writing to urge you to keep our Open Internet rules based on Title II in place. Without them, we could lose the internet as we know it.
The proposed changes to FCC rules would allow fast lanes for sites that pay, and force everyone else into slow lanes. We’ve already seen access to streaming services like Netflix, popular games like League of Legends, and communication platforms like FaceTime slowed down, or even blocked. Conditions like this hurt businesses large and small, and penalize the users who patronize them.
The changes also open the door to unfair taxes on internet users, and could also make it harder for blogs, nonprofits, artists, and others who can’t pay up to have their voices heard.
Please leave the existing net neutrality rules based on Title II in place.
Thank you!
If you need more ammo, feel free to quote these experts from our net neutrality Issue Time. TechCrunch and Battle for the Net also have some good starters.
Everyone is counting on everyone else here. Do your part and tell the FCC to keep a free and open internet under Title II.
THE ONE TIME I AGREE WITH @staff
alright I’ve been hesitant to reblog a net neutrality post to my snake blog but fuck, even staff is on this boat, I hope it comes across as important
I Will Not Be Eaten
Girl. Yes.
The voices of little girls are so powerful and profound because they haven’t yet been completely eaten away at by social conditioning.
“I am a rich pie filled with knowledge. I will not be eaten.” Holy fuck my new motto.
Transcription (with original line breaks):
The true feminine
I am not sugar and
spice and everything nice.
I am music, I am art.
I am a story. I am a
church bell, gonging out wrongs
and rights and normal nights.
I was baby. I am child. I will
be mother. I don’t mind being
considered beautiful, I do not
allow that to be my
definition. I am a rich
pie strong with knowledge. I
will not be eaten.
80s freezeframe photo finish. I just love this human, and the fact we finished this race strong.
#rundisney #avengers #blackwidow #agentcoulson #shield #halfmarathon
Oh, also we quadrupled our move goals today. Heheh. #rundisney #marvelsuperheroes #halfmarathon #running #blackwidow @artofstevet
Nope. But the real story is better. Bolding mine:
The late Ruth Thompson, a cell painter on “Snow White” who later became a multiplane scene planner, recalled: “We tried everything - airbrush, drybrush, even lipstick and rouge, which is perhaps the basis for the legend because we did, in fact, try it. But nothing worked.”
The airbrush was difficult to control on such a small area; drybrush was too harsh; lipstick and rouge unwieldy and messy. Everything proved to be impractical and all hope seemed lost to give Snow White her little bit of color when the idea of using a dye was proposed.
Again Ms. Thompson: “Someone suggested a red dye because the blue day we added to give Donald Duck his distinctive sailor-blue never really could be washed off the cell without leaving a bluish stain where the paint had been applied.”
Ever since the mid 30’s when color became the norm for all the cartoons, not just the “Silly Symphonies,” all paints and inks were made at the studio. During this period as well cells were routinely reused for economic reasons, thus the need to wash them off. Apparently Donald’s special blue color was made with a dye added to the usual powdered pigments. “So we tried that.” As the women gathered around in what must have seemed just another dead-end effort, all eyes became fixed on the red dot which soon became a small glow with no perceptible edge. The hushed silence soon gave way to sighs of relief. The method had finally been found. Now the application.
…
Among the studio’s many inkers (an extremely demanding profession), was one young lady whose training and skill was unique: Helen Ogger. Just being an inker placed one within the elite confines of this most “holy of holies” area of the Nunnery, as the Ink and Paint Department was so called (Walt had strict and quite Victorian views that the sexes not mingle at the workplace, allowing no male personnel save the “gofer” boy and the paymaster “Mr.” Keener to enter this domain of mostly unmarried women ). But Helen was in addition a very fine cartoonist and one of the few women at Disney’s or anywhere else, who could animate.
…
Such a seemingly insignificant detail (as the cheek colors) might be thought not worthy of special mention (she, as well as the other inkers and painters, was given no screen credit). But when one adds up the number of footage required to be tinted freehand on each individual cell, the hours suddenly turn into weeks and months. In fact, such a treatment was never attempted again on such a scale and even today, the publicity stills from “Snow White,” most of which do not have the added blush, bear witness to how that little touch of extra care adds to the vitality we see on the screen.
The work was done on all close-ups, most medium shots, and even on some long shots. The Queen was also similarly tinted. Hundreds of hours were needed to complete this task, arduous, repetitive and, of course, hard on the eyes. Ultimately a handful of other girls were needed to assist Helen as the clocked ticked toward the deadline.
Helen had to place several cells together on an animation board, one atop the other, just like in the process of animation, in order to get the ‘registration’ right (the spot of red just right in relation to the preceding and following ones) - all of this without any guide. She would work out her own extremes and then ‘animate’ the blush in inbetweens. Her work deserves admiration and gratitude and it is unfortunate that her contribution has remained unknown and her anonymity unaltered during her lifetime. She was paid, as were the rest of the Inkers, $18 a week, which included a half-day on Saturday and the many, many hours of unpaid overtime “Snow White” would require - all given unstintingly, (by everyone involved, it should be added), to a project whose joy in participating was its own reward.
She eventually became head of Inking and Special Effects and even taught classes in animation at the studio. She left in 1941 (apparently part of the terrible strike that would leave the Disney Studio changed forever), taking her skills with her. She died in Glendale in February of 1980. Perhaps it is safe to say that her departure was critical to the abrupt demise of this now unique effect (it was also used, though on a much smaller scale in both “Pinocchio” and “Fantasia”). None of the other inkers or painters were animators and it is this fact, not just the factor of economy nor the changing tastes, which surely must be considered a reason why such details were never attempted again. The golden age was over.
Also, here’s an interesting article about female cel painters at Disney. I am now fascinated by the idea of writing something with a Depression-era cel painter as a protagonist.
My awesome team. #halloweenatlaika #puppethospital #stopmotion #animation
Halloween costume: Wendy Corduroy #gravityfalls #imaketherulessucka #wendycorduroycosplay #halloween2017
Yeah… we made those things. These are all puppets in this picture, from the smallest to the freaking huge giant skeleton. #laika #kubomovie #kuboandthetwostrings #stopmotion #nofilter #animation #puppets #pam #portland #portlandartmuseum
You guys! Go see the #Laika experience at the #PortlandArtMuseum ! It’s freaking awesome to see some of the things we’ve done. Also giant skeleton. #portland #kubo #paranorman #coraline #boxtrolls #stopmotion #animation
I Will Not Be Eaten
Girl. Yes.
The voices of little girls are so powerful and profound because they haven’t yet been completely eaten away at by social conditioning.
“I am a rich pie filled with knowledge. I will not be eaten.” Holy fuck my new motto.
I’m doing inktober! See a process video on my patreon in the next day or so.
http://ift.tt/2ax4lqN
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#inktober2017 #swift #vauxswift #adventure #ink #inktober #drawing #illustration #drawingoftheday #portland #artistsontumblr #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram
#inktober 01 ; Hush, and shush, for the beldam might be listening.
This is pretty sweet.
Fun Facts About The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie pt 1
Reasons why this is still one of the coolest films ever.
This film is the reason I’m a filmmaker and Tim burton is my favorite director
Also a fun fact:
Tim Burton did not direct The Nightmare Before Christmas
Henry Selick never gets the credit he deserves for this movie, and Coraline (which he also directed) never gets the credit it deserves for being total genius.
Reblogging cos it’s awesome, and nudityandnerdery gave the smack down that was deserved.
