Lookin’ in the Mirror

Photo by Hope

So my friend Hope posted her photography final (along with a few other pictures from earlier in the semester). Her theme was on body image and I think it came out very well. A few of the photos are borderline NSFW. This is my favorite from the set.

Living in Three Centuries

"I still chase good-looking women around.
I just can't catch up with them —my legs don't work fast enough." - 110 year old man

I ran across Living in Three Centuries on Mixx. It's pretty interesting, but I wish there was a little more to the biographies. I think it's neat that two hundred years after Andrew Johnson was born, he still has a living grandson.

Cowboy Mouth Pictures

[Semi-Random Links] Pretty Ladies, Medieval Beasties, Rhymes, and Ikea

So, I've been out of town for a good chunk of the summer, and haven't had a stable net connection the whole time. So I finally managed to catch up on my RSS feeds, and ran across a few neat things in one of my favorite blogs, Drawn!.

First up is Chad Geran's rhyme book, Do You Know What I Am?. Paul really enjoyed reading it. The words used in the rhymes get more complex towards the end of the book (chair, square, pear).

After that, we looked at the Medieval Bestiary. Paul wasn't really sure what to make of the medieval art style, but seemed to enjoy it nonetheless. I would have loved to have something like this as a kid. It lists what the medieval folk believed as fact, the allegory, and cites their sources (with the century they were written in). I found the sources to be more interesting than the general attributes, since they ranged from myths and Aesop's to reference books like Pliny's Natural History or Isidore of Seville's Etymologies.

Then I ran across the Women in Art Morph. It was really neat to see how our perception of feminine beauty changed over the centuries, along with the art styles.

And lastly, I ran across a hack for my dream room with Floor to ceiling and over the doorway bookshelves on Ikea Hacker. I've always wanted something like that since I was a very little girl.

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For Hope

tea fish song by LocoCoco shop.

I couldn't help but think of Hope when I ran across these tea drawings. They brought back memories of watching her create ketchup sketches while we were waiting for our food at Razzoo's. For those that don't know her, she's an artist and can pull things like that off.

In theory, tea drawings are pretty easy to make. You throw a used tea bag onto a blank index card and let it sit until you have a stain. Ponder it until inspiration strikes. Sketch in what's missing, scan, and then upload to the Tea Sketches group.