Some updates...

Assignment 1

swipe!!! (stuff i like)

Just a note... I guess a lot of this stuff is kitsch... I don't want to be cynical about it, though... there are aspects of all of these that I really enjoy. I'd like to learn some of the techniques these artists use...


Emre Huner


Kathryn *Evil* Welteroth
http://www.elfwood.com/~elizakate31/Thunder-horse.2714731.html


Edmund Dulac



Keiichi Tanaami


Piotr Kamler


http://thereisnoafterlife.info/heaven-wouldnt-be-heaven-without-animals.html


Alexandr Skarlinski



i couldn't figure out who did this... this picture is all over the internet...



also can't track down artist... http://www.desktopcollector.com/tour.htm



http://www.theliquidimage.com/samplpages/kidsfantsy/pages/unicorn.htm






David O'Reilly
http://www.davidoreilly.com/2008/09/octocat


Math Wrath
http://www.mathwrath.com/



Barbara Brouwer
http://www.elfwood.com/~nespa/elemental-unicorns.3535053.html



not sure where to find out who designed this...



G. Hurst
http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/152067



http://twitter.com/newmoticons




Tricia Cline http://www.triciacline.com/sculptures.htm




Math Wrath http://www.mathwrath.com/

a blanket made by my brother's roommate's grandma--need to get her name from him

Text for first assignment

I need words, but I don't need this (<--) word. I need love, but I don't necessarily need you. To learn where things break is to learn what they are. To learn where friendships break and don't break is to learn what they really, really are.

I can't tell if this is entertainment for you and me--if entertainment has to be a part of it--if entertainment is the main factor, without our even knowing it--if entertainment simply is everything, explains everything.

I can't tell if this is entropy for you and me--if entropy has to be a part of it--if entropy is the main factor, without our even knowing it--if entropy simply is everything, explains everything.

We've all broken things. To tell a story is to put pieces back together, for better or worse. Some stories are more fragile than others... some are ugly, or some are easy on the eyes. Some are about breaking things. Some are conspicuously, aggressively, in-your-face broken. Some pretend that breaking is fixing. Some pretend to be whole when they're really in pieces. Some really are whole while they're still in pieces.
Everyone has to put Humpty-Dumpty together again. Therefore, I will awkwardly tell a story!:

Entropy and Effort
Effort vs. Entropy
Extropy and Effort
Entropy and The Opposite of Entropy
Entropy and Work
Entropy vs. The Opposite of Entropy
Work vs. Entropy
Effort vs. Work
Friendship vs. Effort
Friendship vs. Entropy
Friendship and Entropy

sorry, but Awkward is Awkward