meat which dreams

thenearsightedmonkey: Here is a poem Professor Old Skull wrote...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:01:22 -0400

Here is a poem Professor Old Skull wrote for her students during The Unthinkable Mind class.

After I picked myself some weird pods growing in the woods, the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:54:00 -0400

After I picked myself some weird pods growing in the woods, the clouds burst open! So I wrapped ‘em up and took them home so they’d be safe when I opened ‘em up. C:

spacebats: atompunk: weareallprostitutesandjunkies: Life On...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:08:42 -0400

spacebats:

atompunk:

weareallprostitutesandjunkies:

Life On Other Planets

The science fiction magazine Fantastic Adventures shows us a glimpse of life on other planets from their 1939-1940 issues. While the alien designs are quite strange, they are meant to illustrate the different conditions on each planet, like gravity and atmosphere. All the planets besides Earth are included, even Pluto, plus Io, one of Jupiter’s moons.

Connor is a champion, man - go read yourself this comic

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:01:08 -0400

Connor is a champion, man - go read yourself this comic

dollsahoy: elizabethplaid: thekattcameback: fer1972: Zhang...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:01:42 -0400

dollsahoy:

elizabethplaid:

thekattcameback:

fer1972:

Zhang Xiangxi creates complete new worlds inside hollow TV sets

Relative to my obsession with dioramas.

Related to what I want to do when I grow up

This, too, is forced perspective.

spikedrewthis: Oh hey look, it’s my favorite webcomic artist ever! Just kidding we’re all like...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:45 -0400

spikedrewthis:

Oh hey look, it’s my favorite webcomic artist ever!

Just kidding we’re all like this.

Seriously. Don’t touch us.

smallfury: Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) I went...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:59 -0400

smallfury:

Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC)

I went and had a look around the IPRC, which is essentially a one stop shop for those interested in the self-publishing scene in Portland. The facilities include; letterpress, screen printing, computers to use on site, an ever expanding zine library, as well as the use of typewriters, photocopiers, printers, guillotines, binding machines and anything else you might feasibly need.

They’ve been up and running for 15 years, and their space now is fantastic - sounds like it has come a long way from the days of “a photocopier in a closet”.

It is based on an affordable membership scheme, enabling anyone to get involved. They also do a lot of outreach projects, courses, and collaborate with local organisations.

Thanks to Chloe and Asher, two of the volunteers that let me wander around and distract many of their members. I left feeling somewhat envious that London hasn’t got anything quite like this to offer.

www.iprc.org

~sigh~ so glad places like this exist, thanks to hard working volunteers! Portland people, go and make some art!

What’s this? I went for a walk in the woods and found...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:01:41 -0400

What’s this? I went for a walk in the woods and found these little pods sprouting up, all fuzzy with moss. I decided to scoop ‘em all up but not after I took a little peek inside … :3

"There is little precedent for fat androgyny. Generally our androgynous icons are svelte and lacking..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:01:46 -0400

“There is little precedent for fat androgyny. Generally our androgynous icons are svelte and lacking in secondary sex characteristics. David Bowie, Tilda Swinton, Katherine Hepburn; these small-bodied, predominately white figures of androgyny have created an aesthetic with little room for deviation. This means that for those of us with bodies that do not conform to traditional standards of androgyny, we are often misread and misunderstood, even in queer spaces.”

- Fat Queer Tells All: On Fatness and Gender Flatness - By Allie Shyer (via cassket)

Well worth the whole readthrough - goooo read it!

tangledupinlace: popca: princessgeneralneeshyneesh: livelaughl...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:48:47 -0400

tangledupinlace:

popca:

princessgeneralneeshyneesh:

livelaughlovelocs:

Janelle Monae performance of Q.U.E.E.N. on 106&Park (by BETNetworks)

Impromptu Janelle Monae performance. She was getting down…no shoes and all.

Guaranteed to make you smile. Loved it!

Ok so

1) Janelle Monae is fucking perfect

2) SHE TOOK OFF HER SHOOOES AFKJADF <3

3) Janelle Monae is FUCKING PERFECT

4) SHE JUST BOOGIED WITH THE PASSION OF ALONE IN THE BEDROOM DANCING IN FRONT OF CAMERAS AND CROWD OF PEOPLE OMFG CAN I BE YOU PLZ

my heart my soul oh my god i am in love

i love love love that big girl in the striped sweater got so much camera time enjoying herself and sitting front row <3 <3 <3 perfect angel celebration

~siiiigh~ <3

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:00:54 -0400

~siiiigh~ <3

laurellynnleake: Sasha classin up the joint as Manila Luzon at...

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:26:14 -0400

laurellynnleake:

Sasha classin up the joint as Manila Luzon at our RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars finale party! The show might have disappointed (Latrilla, why did you leave us, whyyyy ;____;) but this queen never does.

bringin back this documentation of classic Sasha G L A M O U R E

Whatever She Wants: A Drag Musicale, part II! Part 1...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:01:23 -0400

Whatever She Wants: A Drag Musicale, part II! Part 1 here.

Lip-syncing! Gender-bending! Murder! A gay ole time! Blending classic drag performances, theater, and film noir, Whatever She Wants is sure to please. Whatever She Wants tells the story of Veronica—an aging singer whose star is on the downward bell curve of success—and Jayne—a young upstart with nowhere to go but up, and no morals to get in the way. For one night only, witness the Main Street Museum transform into the Foxtrot Lounge, and the men and women of White River transform into the glorious drag queens and kings of a bygone era. A benefit for Tranzmission, prison book project. BYOB - Dance party to follow.

Staring the enormous talents of:

Sasha as…Veronica Loy
John Jacob as…Jayne Summers

………Also featuring:

Celeste as…. Emcee
Nancy as….. Sugar
Jess as….. Monte
Renee as…. The Chorus Boy
Matt Bucy as…. Gertie

Jennis Li Cheng Tien, wish to be invisible, 2012. More in this...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:01:35 -0400

Jennis Li Cheng Tien, wish to be invisible, 2012. More in this series here!

lenachandhok: starshipzineship: paddymacjr: Really, the New...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:35:01 -0400

lenachandhok:

starshipzineship:

paddymacjr:

Really, the New Yorker magazine? Marvel Entertainment drew that image? Not Jack Kirby and Don Heck? Really?

Sure, your art department was happy, having ironically depicted the goofy, clunky, first comic book appearance of Iron Man to illustrate the review for the new-fangled, shiny, 3D movie version of the hero-robot. Sure, the legal department cleared it because, yes, a court of law has upheld the fact that a corporation created this art. But your massive fact check department let an attribution like this slide?

When every other week your back pages feature an “illustration” or two that’s nothing more than some Photoshop fun with stock photos, the person doing the shopping gets credited as well as the people who snapped the pictures and the syndicate who bought them. Why couldn’t the same respect be extended to one of pop culture’s most tragically under respected creators?

A couple years ago a Harry Bliss cartoon appeared in your caption contest which was an homage to Kirby’s cover to Tales to Astonish #39. It features a typically lumpy and dumpy Kirby monster scaling the wall of an apartment building, and a typically upper-middle class New Yorker cartoon character talking on the phone and sipping red wine, completely unaware of his impending doom. There was a bit of a tizzy when the denizens of the internet pointed out that the cartoon was based mostly on a Kirby drawing, and Kirby wasn’t credited. Although I think an “after Kirby” note probably should have accompanied the new drawing, I’ll never begrudge a cartoonist for appropriating existing work. Especially when the very meat of his joke is taking a hokey comic book monster and putting him into the context of snooty, high-brow Manhattan everyday life. But this is different. This straight-up is a Jack Kirby drawing. Of Iron Man. Illustrating a review of Iron Man 3. With no credit.

The New Yorker has done so much for comics. You give cartoonists who think in terms of one-liners a chance to actually make a career of it. With the influence of Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman, you’ve helped to legitimize alternative comics among the literary elite. Please stop treating Jack Kirby, who those few of us who are more interested in comics than in superheroes call “King,” like nothing more than a finger in the hand of the corporate master he once served.

DISCLOSURE: I know some people who work at the New Yorker, and happen to be madly in love with one of them. I’ve also been madly in love with the magazine ever since I was a little boy flipping through each issue once it arrived in order to find all the cartoons, swears and boobs within.

Hear, hear!

Preach it, Paddymac

Well said.

airfortress: Praise the sun. Oh, I am so into this.

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:01:20 -0400

airfortress:

Praise the sun.

Oh, I am so into this.

Part I of photos from the incredible Whatever She Wants: A Drag...

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:19:00 -0400

Part I of photos from the incredible Whatever She Wants: A Drag Musicale! Co-written and co-starring SASHA STEINBERG, cartoonist extraordinaire! who you can follow on tumblr for more more more!

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Lip-syncing! Gender-bending! Murder! A gay ole time! Blending classic drag performances, theater, and film noir, Whatever She Wants is sure to please. Whatever She Wants tells the story of Veronica—an aging singer whose star is on the downward bell curve of success—and Jayne—a young upstart with nowhere to go but up, and no morals to get in the way. For one night only, witness the Main Street Museum transform into the Foxtrot Lounge, and the men and women of White River transform into the glorious drag queens and kings of a bygone era.

May 11th, 9pm. 5—20 dollars. A benefit for Tranzmission, prison book project.

BYOB - Dance party to follow.

Staring the enormous talents of:

Sasha as…Veronica Loy
John Jacob as…Jayne Summers

………Also featuring:

Celeste as…. Emcee
Nancy as….. Sugar
Jess as….. Monte
Renee as…. The Chorus Boy
Matt Bucy as…. Gertie

Colombian photographer Leo Matiz. The Fisherman, Columbia. 1939....

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:01:29 -0400

Colombian photographer Leo Matiz. The Fisherman, Columbia. 1939. Gelatin Silver Print. Edition of 30. 20 x 24 inches.

panoptic: Kolam (via Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is OK) Kolam...

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:31:33 -0400

panoptic:

Kolam (via Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is OK)

Kolam is a rangoli traditionally composed of geometric lines and shapes, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. It is drawn by south Indian women with rice or chalk powder in front of their homes.

deviatesinc: Barbette, 1926 photo by Man Ray

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:08:06 -0400

deviatesinc:

Barbette, 1926

photo by Man Ray