tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317663422011-11-27T18:30:57.140-05:00A look at the world through the eyes of an aspiring artist and writer.Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.comBlogger2761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-56299182415580326712008-11-13T14:21:00.003-05:002009-01-14T14:03:21.834-05:00

Update: New blog: A Certain Lack of Focus is up and running! See above for most recent updates.Ok, you may have noticed over the last few weeks that my blog has been moving around a lot. The problem is that I've recently decided that, as much as I enjoy the ease of use in blogger, I want a bit more freedom when it comes to design. I temporarily moved hosting over to my website, but if anything

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-82979297613796849622008-11-11T17:27:00.002-05:002008-11-11T17:33:44.945-05:00

Sorry I missed posting yesterday... it was after eleven when I got home and getting showered seemed more important at the time. This page was fun to draw, though I had a hard time initially getting the arms rendered, because the train was jumping all over the place."Even after it started to fade, I kept getting comments on the henna. For some reason, I kept forgetting that I had henna, and it

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-78204873549971066102008-11-09T21:15:00.002-05:002008-11-09T21:21:02.830-05:00

This page was one of my favorites to draw because of all the weird little details necessary to show the space on a train room. My first grade teacher would be proud."The first night on the train we stopped for no apparent reason in the middle of nowhere. For about an hour. I had a bit of Harry Potter PTSD. I was sure dementors were boarding the train."

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Illustration Friday folks, "Wise" is the next post, further down. This drawing kind of makes Matt look like an old man, but I'm happy with the line work at least. He moved half way though so I had to guess in a few parts and ended up just giving up on his hand."We did a lot of reading on the trip. We also brought some travel board games but didn't play them. Sometimes it's hard to tell if

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-37995004582501365112008-11-07T17:00:00.006-05:002009-10-26T00:06:52.114-04:00

This is the first time I've participated in Illustration Friday in AGES. This week's topic is Wise.When I saw the topic I immediately thought of the faeries from my novel. This is a sketch of a character called "the Master," who resembles the devil, which is not an accident. Really though, the character is more bitter and desperate than truly evil. In spite of everything, I've gotten to quite

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-30458263560859639972008-11-07T11:09:00.000-05:002008-11-07T11:10:19.457-05:00

This one's a little sappy, but it's sincere."I was warned that much of America is a whole lot of corn, wheat, grass, dirt, empty fields, grazing fields, scrubby plants or flat barren rock. Montana is boring. Kansas is horrifically boring. Nebraska, Iowa, Idaho, Utah, it's amazing how many states are supposedly empty. There are many, many flat patches, but it seems like they go by quickly.

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Here's the next page. The oval shaped thing in the upper left corner is supposed to be a pair of chocolates on a doily. Ah well.This one says: "Apparently, getting married is the best way to get lots of free champagne, wine, and best of all, chocolate."So true. Matt and I decided that we would be on our "honeymoon" for another year or so, just for all the free stuff.

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-58731848936994504282008-11-05T13:06:00.002-05:002008-11-05T13:15:07.851-05:00

Here's page 3. For blogging this is probably a better way to orient the page, but not so much for journaling. You can click on the page for a bigger image."On the wedding day, Matt and I didn't really have much time to enjoy our wedding cake. This cake was actually pretty tasty: yellow/choc. marble, Irish cream filling and normal buttercream icing. So we brought it with us. The first two

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-91785318443366702792008-11-05T12:13:00.003-05:002008-11-05T12:17:17.110-05:00

So Cool.

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Ok, well, I'm not gunna get a tattoo, because I'm not a tattoo person, but it occurred to me that as commemorative tattoos go, today's election seems like a pretty good reason to get one. So even though I'm not going to get one, I went ahead and designed one:One of the big objections people have to tattoos is, "what will you tell your kids?" It seems to me that this is exactly the kind of tattoo

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I think I was trying to be a bit too clever with this one, but it was fun to draw. For our honeymoon we took a train from Cleveland to Chicago, and after a few hours went on to the Empire Builder, all the way to Seattle. We had just enough time in Chicago to get sandwiches from a chain called Potbelly (YUM) and a cheese/caramel corn mix from Garrett's, which just barely lasted us through the

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-57729295344857220772008-11-04T13:59:00.003-05:002008-11-04T14:01:05.318-05:00

At 11:00 am, I cast my vote for change.

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I don't wanna, you know, push anyone in one direction or the other (snort) but really? Is anyone actually still planning to vote for this guy? Really?Photo from yahoo. Thanks to Sundry for finding it.

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Well, Matt and I are back in town. The honeymoon was awesome, and I'm still feeling a little lazy from the trip, so rather than go over it all at once I'm going to post a page at a time from the journal I started keeping over the honeymoon. I'll talk about the trip in detail as I go.I've been wanting to start a journal for a while, the cool visual kind like you see at Pen in Hand or Lost in

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-8952640590411045462008-10-20T01:28:00.002-04:002008-10-20T01:29:59.519-04:00

And this is one of the big reasons I haven't been blogging much lately... I am now married! Check back in a couple weeks for photos from the wedding and honeymoon.

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I just heard on NPR that Senator McCain has requested the Presidential debates be postponed on account of the economy. He has also requested, on account of a stomach ache, that he be excused from gym.Senator McCain, if you are elected in November, will you also postpone the Presidency in times of economic crisis? These debates are so essential exactly because of the current state of the economy

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-76853018618303542772008-09-21T19:17:00.011-04:002008-09-21T20:52:48.139-04:00

If you're following my blog at this point, you probably know me in person, and you probably know I've been on a diet for a while. One of the curses in any diet attempt is the pitfall of eating out. Especially while traveling. It seems like even when you think you're being good, you gain weight while traveling.Probably that's because you aren't being as good as you think. Things that seem

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-31236908606900204882008-09-06T23:39:00.007-04:002008-09-07T00:46:28.063-04:00

Earlier today I was listening to Weekend America on NPR. There was an interesting segment, a short amusement driven piece, about something called Wangston's Law.Wangston's Law states that: Humans should not waste their time discussing any question that can be answered by a robot (google, wikipedia, etc.)This "law" is actually invented by some guy (not named Wangston) who pulls it up at parties

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-31027665880384448562008-08-29T15:55:00.003-04:002008-08-29T16:06:06.334-04:00

At Aunt Sharron's, the summer I turned five, my cousins found some baby mice. I thought at first they were toy plastic pigs, because mice are born without hair. We showed Aunt Sharron, we thought they were sweet and I hoped to keep them for pets. Instead, she threw all the babies- far younger than me- over the fence like the garden snails. I knew without asking that this was not to send them

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Dear Jim-I think you've been hanging on these last couple years more because you knew so many people loved you than because you really wanted to. That'd be like you. I don't know how many times my parents called me and said, "Jim's not doing so well, they don't think he's going to make it through the night." And every time, you surprised them, you pulled through with a polite, "no not right

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-52930310306052047222008-06-13T00:42:00.002-04:002008-06-13T00:52:16.516-04:00

I wanted to share this photo just because I think it looks sort of poetic. Not that I know anything about poetry. This is from Crocker Park, a development that had the potential to be cool but is just kinda lame and trendy instead. You can click on this one for a larger view.

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-90547905365721123882008-06-05T23:53:00.008-04:002008-06-06T00:46:38.964-04:00

In the last few days, many of the media mouths, even on my favorite news source, have been criticizing Hillary Clinton. It's not even really criticism so much as it is a fatherly shaking of the head, a "we expect better" sort of voice. And really that's so much worse. If they ever wanted to prove that there was a bias of sexism, they've succeeded.I've been a stanch Obama supporter since the

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-45522241801522239242008-06-01T23:42:00.001-04:002008-06-01T23:42:49.600-04:00

My drawing today is the first peek at my new webcomic Not Quite Magic. I'm hoping to get this going in a few weeks, once I've (I hope) built up a few comics so I can be sure to always post on time. I'll be posting every Monday and Wednesday and every other Friday. This un-inked drawing will be one of the Friday drawings, which aren't necessarily related to the main story line (you'll see once

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I just reached page 200 in my novel! I think I'm finally getting close to being finished. Right now I'm working on the climactic scene, which is more because I'm skipping around than because I'm actually that near the end. I expect the finished book will be about 250, maybe a little longer. There are a few scenes I'm putting off writing, either because they're difficult for me (the beginning

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I just had the best idea ever. Ok, technically NPR already came up with something similar but I wrote most of this post before I read the whole article so I'm posting it anyway.Heard on the news just now that McCain is hosting several vice presidential candidates in his home this week. So it got me thinking. What are they going to do be doing? Will there perhaps be unpredictable tests of

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-22323190920539598142008-05-18T16:43:00.003-04:002008-05-18T17:15:23.668-04:00

A professor's retirement party yesterday evening was held at the Lit in an old building in downtown Cleveland. Matt and I got to ride in a freakin' sweet old freight elevator (operated by a cool looking middle aged hippie) to get to the party. Here are a couple photos:This one is looking up from the second floor but it actually looks deeper (higher) because there was more light.This is on the

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I was re-reading the Harry Potter series the other day, I think thats third time or so I've read the final book (I've read the others more obviously). Whenever you reread something you tend to notice things that you missed the first (and second) time around, and I'm certainly picking up on mistakes that I managed to miss in the first place. That's not to say I didn't find lapses in logic in my

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-62516327600792590842008-05-09T00:50:00.003-04:002008-05-09T00:53:32.335-04:00

The Slate did a feature where readers sent in their scenarios of possible ways Hillary could win the nomination. Some of them are pretty funny, but this was my favorite:"Hillary appeals to the Supreme Court, which, based upon a 2000 ruling, decides that the candidate with fewer votes wins the election. —John Kirkbride"Awesome. Go here to read the rest.

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I am OFFICIALLY done with ALL my classes. Ok, maybe not officially until the grade comes in, but I don't have to go to any more classes! I am exactly 1 credit short of my M.F.A. *happy dance* Which doesn't actually translate to the amount of work I've got left... about another third of a book, 50 plus pages. *slightly slower happy dance*

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-14678864003842691042008-05-02T14:52:00.004-04:002008-05-02T14:55:13.882-04:00

Things are winding down, I should be back to blogging in about a week. Until then, here's a link to the Vindicator website which I FINALLY got designed an online: www.csuohio.edu/vindicatorIt's not exactly finished... the pictures are largely unlabeled not because I'm going for some ultra-cool minimalist look but because it was 5 am. The labels that do exist aren't haphazardly slapped on the

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-74764045641809047002008-04-23T22:04:00.002-04:002008-04-23T22:06:20.654-04:00

So if there's anyone out there actually still reading my blog you've probably noticed that there's not been anything to read lately. Please forgive me and come back in a couple weeks when I'm done with end of the semester and end of the Vindicator (for me) stuff. I'll be back. (not intended to be read in a Schwarzenegger voice, if you imagined a Schwarzenegger voice, stop it.)

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-9342440988356946222008-04-15T22:29:00.004-04:002008-04-16T00:40:30.901-04:00

Because we all know how much I love stupid quizzes...77% Geek24Bring it on.47(OK, but seriously, asparagus is not a color, I call bs.)57%Or something.291 WATTS Body Battery Calculator - Find Out How Much Electricity Your Body is Producing - Don't tell the matrix.32Personally, I think this disproves the above geek percentage.47I might not have done ALOT better on this one... but this really was "

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-65691695635204733762008-04-15T18:37:00.002-04:002008-04-15T18:41:37.748-04:00

Here's another teen drawing for your viewing enjoyment. In color no less! A real rarity in my work from then OR now.So this one was actually drawn in crayon. I'm guessing I was about 16 because I think that's about when I was playing with color more (eventually I'll get around to scanning some of my less angst-y work that's in colored pencil). Click on the picture for a larger version.

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-25849858497878353472008-04-15T18:22:00.003-04:002008-04-15T18:26:36.349-04:00

I realized I haven't posted a phone picture in a while so here's one I found amusing for, oh, so many reasons.This is from YSU campus, where I'm taking a non-fiction class. For those who can't read the fine print the sign says: "Only The Rock May Be Painted. DO NOT Paint Adjacent Surfaces."

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-27711864169352592012008-04-14T18:26:00.004-04:002008-04-14T23:00:17.560-04:00

Here's another teen drawing to chew on:The age on this one is pretty easy to guess because of the hair on the central figure. I was obsessed with spiky hair my senior year of high school (right up until after graduation when I got mine spiked and the style lost all charm) so my characters tended to have spiky hair. I would have been 17. By the way I would like to both BRAG because notice that

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-21953256394027226772008-04-11T12:34:00.002-04:002008-04-11T13:03:03.090-04:00

Today's IF is "Fail." I was surprised at how few of my teenage drawings fit this tag since I was generally pretty negative. Going back a little ways: I believe I drew this one when I was fourteen. If you're coming here from IF you may want to check this post to get an idea of what I'm doing.This is from a large (11X17) sketchbook (hence some of the darker areas... my scanner's not big enough)

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Another drawing from the teen years. Not even going to venture a guess on age (I'm too lazy to go back and check which sketchbook it's in right now) but I know it was high school so 15-17.I should mention at this point that because I was picking out drawings for a paper on depression, the drawings I'm showing you right now are really the darker more twisted ones. I've been trying to mix in some

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-25761078193574331552008-04-09T00:36:00.002-04:002008-04-09T00:49:41.701-04:00

Ok, so at the time this one didn't strike me as particularly screwed up, but looking back I think this might be one of the more alarming things I drew as a teen.You can usually click my images to see a larger version... with this one it might really be worth it to see some of the detail. I'm not sure how old I was when I drew this, I think it goes with a storyline I was working on in highschool

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-37009155546418994522008-04-08T23:14:00.003-04:002008-04-08T23:29:14.603-04:00

Here's a picture I took on the way to Jackson last weekend (or so). I took the picture because the clouds looked so cool, it's kind of hard to see, but they looked solid, like pyramids.My art listing blog has hit a slight hitch because google shut it down. Apparently they think I'm a robot. Fan-freakin-tastic. I don't feel too bad since apparently they also confused the coyote lady for a

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-42427383782628976472008-04-08T00:09:00.002-04:002008-04-08T00:14:36.790-04:00

Ok well treehead actually but the pun was too good to resist. Another drawing from my teen years.Just a head's up (ha) that I'll be a bit sporadic in my posting for a bit (shocking I'm sure). I've been inspired by this blog to make a directory of art blogs. I'm working on coding now and hope to have it up by the end of the week. (we'll see how that one goes...)

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Another installment of my teen drawings. This one I think is a little more recent... I'm pretty sure I drew it when I was in college rather than high school, so I'd guess I was eighteen or nineteen.

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Well I haven't drawn anything in a while for my "drawing of the day" thing, and honestly I don't know when I'm going to get back into that. Soon I hope. In the meantime, I was writing a paper yesterday on teen depression and wanted to use some of my old high school sketches to illustrate a point. I'm in the process of scanning in all my old sketches (that'll take a while) and figured you guys

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-2131184880500918342008-04-02T20:21:00.005-04:002008-04-03T01:17:10.291-04:00

Some of you may remember a stunt I posted on by Improv Everywhere a couple months ago. A group of I think 300 agents infiltrated Grand Central Station in NYC and froze simultaneously for five minutes. If you haven't watched it yet, it's surely worth it.Well a couple days ago REM posted this video, which IE was calling a shameless ripoff.I guess it kind of is. I mean they're obviously doing the

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-89834094717427518602008-03-31T21:42:00.009-04:002008-03-31T23:42:28.574-04:00

Yeah, who knew I could put those things together in a title? So I've spent the last two hours plugging ages of faeries for my novel into a spreadsheet to see how things break down. It's been shockingly helpful.There are a couple of tricks with my faeries that make figuring out character age difficult. The first trick is that the faeries age at about human speed during childhood, then at around

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-83965686959817298672008-03-28T16:43:00.008-04:002008-03-28T17:19:56.963-04:00

Because everyone knows a small child would MUCH rather admire a prettily wrapped gift than, you know, open it, I decided to have some fun with a birthday gift for Matt's (and soon my) niece. I probably wouldn't have bothered except that it was one of those multiple book gift packages that looks all weird and asymmetrical when you're done. Plus I had some time to kill that I could have easily

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-61986791467248065412008-03-27T00:01:00.001-04:002008-03-27T00:02:05.120-04:00

Because that's just freakin' sweet.

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I'm currently reading How to Make Webcomics which Matt picked up for me at the comic shop the other day (because he rocks). It's by the authors of PvP, Phables, Starslip Crisis and Sheldon. It is about, wait for it, creating web comics. I'll do a full review (maybe? unless I change my mind?) once I finish it, but for now I just wanted to make a note about wording.Something that I found

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-82874802096984717142008-03-26T14:30:00.004-04:002008-03-27T00:02:36.586-04:00

Remember my post from a little while ago about words in real estate?So, when I go to sell this place, think I should mention the view of beautiful landscaping?

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No... we still haven't managed to get out all the Christmas presents. We're horrible.Anyway, now that that's established, I wanted to show everyone my latest adventure in gift wrapping. I've been getting more adventurous about wrapping gifts which translates to: sometimes I really really want to waste some time. This weekend I needed to wrap up a big flat gift for a friend of ours. Initially

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-28671585391630482622008-03-24T00:05:00.000-04:002008-03-24T00:06:51.337-04:00

This is what I had for dinner last night.I chose this as today's picture because I wanted to make you all jealous. In retrospect the photo didn't turn out nearly so delicious looking as the actual meal but believe me, it was good. Matt does most of the cooking and he's always (since I've known him) been a good cook, but I swear he gets better every day. This was Greek potatoes from our Healthy

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-54344569077653595332008-03-23T23:44:00.003-04:002008-03-23T23:49:37.777-04:00

This week's Illustration Friday is "Pet Peeves."So my take on this was going to be the cheesy pun of: Hey it's my PET Tricky and she occasionally IRKS me and gee why are cats always going so high and knocking paintbrushes off my shelves? kayuck kayuck.But instead I decided to go with the theme of how the hell is it that after four years of training in art I still can't draw a damn cat?

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-86836552747812854302008-03-23T19:13:00.002-04:002008-03-23T19:17:03.982-04:00

Found this old phone photo of Matt sitting among the boxes shortly after move-in in July.It looks much better here now. Or at least less like we just moved in. Ok, mostly it just looks like we're slobs now instead of having just moved and I'm not sure that's better, but we're finally starting to make progress. I can see whole chunks of the carpet now!

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Ok, if this is for real it's both the weirdest and the coolest thing I've ever heard. Go read it before you go any further.Did you read it? Crazy yeah? Talk about science fiction (or Greek mythology depending on your preference). Except when you just look at the physical facts I guess it's not all that weird. Biologically he's a she, as he points out he never took any steps to change his

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-39120378613233363282008-03-21T18:21:00.003-04:002008-03-21T18:40:53.437-04:00

A while ago, before Matt moved in here so REALLY a while ago, we printed out some photos and left them in the car. We forgot about them and recently found the resulting images:Ok I've got these tagged as a drawing so people can find it when they want to look at my artwork (though obviously these were not intentionally created) because they're so cool. I'm fascinated by how the colors have

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-78472800677305082382008-03-19T22:15:00.005-04:002008-03-19T22:20:00.955-04:00

Saw this on William's blog and just had to spread the love.The video gets a bit wonky toward the end for some reason, but it doesn't matter. This skit just never gets old. Except when it gets really old. My literarally (not a word) inclined friends ought to enjoy this especially.

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Today I hit page number 150 on my novel/thesis. Only about 120 pages are consecutive, and alot of the rest is page breaks and single line notes, but hey, I'm taking reassurance where I can find it. That's 51,459 words. I might actually be able to finish this! Granted that's book one of four, and getting it written is probably nothing compared to finding a publisher, but quiet you, I'm

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I haven't been following Neil Gaiman's blog for super long, but I'm RSSing it now (not actually a word, but whatever, one of my favorite professors claims anything can be a verb. Thanks Bob Pope!) and today read the MOST adorable post ever. Apparently his thirteen-year-old daughter Maddy occasionally blogs on his blog. He doesn't have separate pages for posts so I can't link directly, but go

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-79618187021553528772008-03-17T17:22:00.005-04:002008-03-18T22:45:10.979-04:00

I'm always thrilled when fantasy and sci-fi stories bring in elements that aren't normally a part of our consideration of the future. There are things we love to imagine futuristic versions of: weapons, costumes, computers and entertainment, but many things are off our radar entirely. You don't often see futuristic toilets or children's toys. We're all familiar with space ships and funky

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-23241281369658004262008-03-13T00:21:00.003-04:002008-03-13T00:34:36.867-04:00

This is so getting made into a lolcat.

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-8656574172956750412008-03-11T17:09:00.012-04:002008-03-18T22:47:45.933-04:00

If you've ever worked with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software, software designed to turn scanned papers into editable text, you may have noticed that certain letter combinations are problematic for the computer. "cl" is often read as "d," "lc" turns into "k," and "rn" becomes "m." These aren't the only combos that cause trouble but they're the most common ones that I remember.I would

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-6707746160102243682008-03-10T01:06:00.002-04:002008-03-10T01:08:37.777-04:00

The plow leaves it's mark on the temporary landscape.

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This is fairly entertaining. Improv Everywhere stages a mini-musical in the middle of a public food court.Watching these videos reminds me a bit of interviews I've seen on The Daily Show. They're entertaining to begin with, but even more so when you realize that most of the people being interviewed have somehow never heard of John Stewart and don't realize the interview is a joke. This video

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-85436252355944801272008-03-08T21:59:00.002-05:002008-03-08T22:32:36.208-05:00

Here are the promised pictures. It's amazing how much a difference it makes having space to work. I feel like I can breathe again. Which doesn't necessarily mean I'm working obviously. Right now I'm more taking pictures of my clean drawing space and feeling really proud of myself. Small steps, right?The first thing I did on Friday was finally put together the shelves for over the computer.

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Unfortunately this picture doesn't quite capture what it's like looking out the window here. I'm in a half basement apartment and it's like looking out the mouth of a cave. Good thing we don't have to go anywhere today.

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Here's a drawing I did in my illustration class about a year ago (cleaning is an adventure).This was my first (and LAST) experiment with scratchboard. I love the look achieved by good scratchboard artists, but it's not the medium for me. I was moderately pleased with this piece. Once I looked at it from a few feet back I realized I needed more line variance, but at that point it was time to

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This week's Illustration Friday topic was Garden. I already had a garden image I like so I linked to this old post. Feel free to check it out. If anyone from Kim's garden blog is visiting you might want to also check out the IF page, there are always some great illustrations on the site and for those with a gardening interest it's worth a few minutes. Here are a couple of my favorites so far:

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Ok, so remember how I said I was going to re-start real live actual honest to goodness blogging this week? Uhm... next week maybe?I've actually GOT two posts written and ready to go on sci-fi/fantasy design, I just need to draw the banners for them (yes, must. Because in my mind it's necessary). And I have tomorrow more or less free (Thesis? Psha.) but instead of blogging I'd actually like to

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Here's another of the same tree in the daylight. The ice shows up a bit light but it looked so cool in the lamplight I couldn't resist trying to get the image last night.Shame my car's in the shot. It kinda wrecks the composition. I gotta say though, considering how crappy this phone-camera is, for once it managed to do a nice job focusing on the part I wanted it to.

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Look at me, I'm posting again!Feeling a bit better, just tired. Hope to start normal posting again on Wednesday.

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-89508323442491939012008-02-28T14:47:00.002-05:002008-02-28T14:48:00.037-05:00

I've got a couple posts written and ready to go but no energy to dig up images. I've got the flu. Lovely.

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Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-36119540465771770152008-02-25T23:53:00.003-05:002008-02-26T01:11:00.642-05:00

Getting back into drawing of the day(s) again I hope. This is actually a... I dunno web graphic for the new blog theme. I think that will be more clear as I go. There should be a whole set coming, let's see how it goes.

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Matt and I got caught in a snow storm or three on the way home from DC last Monday. Aside from the fact that bad weather is always scary when driving (and I was happy Matt was the one behind the wheel) the weather did catch my attention in an unexpected way.Snow has a distinctive look to it when it's caught in headlights, or street lights. Rain has a similar pattern but snow looks so much more

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Found the link on William's website. Here's a picture of my brain according to Brainscannr.That's probably a pretty accurate picture of my brain. Matt's is also pretty good:I have GOT to start making some silly scripts like this.

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Improv Everywhere released a new video yesterday. It's not quite as striking as most of their "missions" but it's interesting for other reasons. This was the first mission by Improv Everywhere: Singapore, part of their IE Global group. If we think people in the US are potentially twitchy about large groups of people acting strangely, it's nothing compared to Singapore where they apparently

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A little while ago I posted a link to the youtube video inspired by a speech by Obama. I just ran across this video, posted on the eleventh, inspired by McCain and thought it also warranted a post.It makes me giggle. There've actually been several video spoof type responses to the "Yes We Can" video. Two that I found just by clicking around are here and here, but I think the one above is the

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Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-18300061739204565502008-02-20T11:05:00.003-05:002008-02-20T11:31:49.073-05:00

William tagged me, he said to help my procrastinating. In true procrastinating style, I'm finally getting around to it more than a week later:1) The rules for this meme are:2) Link to the person that tagged you.3) Post the rules on your blog.4) Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.5) Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.6) Let each random

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-18818690677454233502008-02-19T23:23:00.001-05:002008-02-19T23:24:17.683-05:00

Well... I'll get around to doing drawings of the day again soon...

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Back from DC. Normal post tomorrow (I promise). Hope to start with daily drawings again later today.

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Off to DC. Been prepping this week, that's why no blogs. Back to normal (whatever that is) posting next week, I swear.

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-86655338371996007192008-02-12T14:53:00.000-05:002008-02-12T15:06:14.806-05:00

This is completely unrelated to anything I would normally post on, but I'm so appalled that I had to write it down somewhere. According to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, it's ok to torture innocent people because they are not protected by that little "cruel and unusual punishment" thing. It's not punishment, it's interrogation, therefore it's fine. Apparently it's ok to use cruel and

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-45796777941095204782008-02-12T11:52:00.000-05:002008-02-12T12:12:53.071-05:00

A picture from the arcade downtown.I haven't spent much time inside, I just like the look of it.

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As with the Obama music video, everyone has probably already seen this, but I wanted to post it just in case. This is the (probably) latest stunt by Improv Everywhere, a group that gets hundreds of people together to cause "scenes" in public. You can look at their events as anything from a practical joke to an interactive work of performance art. I believe they're most famous for the blue

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-31474492289633563382008-02-11T19:29:00.000-05:002008-02-11T19:34:22.659-05:00

This week's another crazy one.While I've got a few minutes, I wanted to mention that I'll be making some changes to this blog. The theme, which is currently vaguely defined as looking at design, or looking at the way we interact with our spaces, or... well, actually it's not really defined at the moment, will be changing (I think). I'd like to start talking about design in fantasy. I'll go

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A cool bug Matt and I saw sometime last year.This is one of my all time favorite phone pictures.

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If you've been to my portfolio already, you've already seen this drawing. Go to the gallery to see the other four in the series.This is an old one... it's from my BFA thesis at ND, but it's still one of my favorite pieces and it fit this week's Illustration Friday too perfectly to pass up (plus I don't really have time to draw anything else this weekend). Hoping to get back into normal blogging

Meaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11998058358559937872noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31766342.post-91544429086378422172008-02-07T13:48:00.000-05:002008-02-07T13:50:51.395-05:00

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I realize I'm a bit slow on this one since the video came out I think on the 2nd, but I just found it and though it was worth a mention.Now ignoring the fact that I support Obama, I think this video is interesting purely for what it demonstrates. This is one of the best examples of how technology and youtube is impacting this election. Well, maybe. I'm not sure if we can measure how many

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I probably won't be around much this week; It's shaping up to be a crazy week. I'll try to keep posting phone pics.

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Because you go out with your friends, hang out and relax, eat festive foods and generally make like a weekend, then you come home and it's TUESDAY.

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