A little project I put together over spring break. The base is a bowling pin, and the shade is my crude approximation of an oversized fez made from construction paper. The tassel doesn’t quite resemble any common fez tassel, and the shade could use some improvements, but I am nonetheless thrilled to have finally made […]
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Doesn’t Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show resemble this endangered bird endemic to New Zealand (the North Island Kōkako)? I think he does, if only a little. Also, Kōkakos have a beautiful call.
Posted in Comparisons
Tagged bbc, birds, david attenborough, kokako, new zealand, sam the eagle, the life of birds, the muppet show
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Tarsier
A relatively simple SVG I made in Inkscape. (Trying to teach myself.) Loosely inspired by this 1927 sketch of a Philippine Tarsier:
Posted in Digital
Tagged inkscape, scalable vector graphic, svg, tarsier, tarsius, vector, vector art, vector graphic
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The Straight Story
The Straight Story (1999) was a thoughtful and well-constructed film about a man and his cross-country journey on a lawnmower. David Lynch directed it, but didn’t write it, so the things which I don’t always appreciate the lack of in Lynch’s films, like a coherent plot, linear continuity of time, and so on, were present. […]
Posted in Film
Tagged buy n fly, cancer, david lynch, old people, richard farnsworth, suicide, the straight story
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Album covers for Judas Priest’s Ram It Down (1988) and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication (1999), respectively.
Posted in Comparisons, Music
Tagged album covers, californication, judas priest, ram it down, red hot chili peppers
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