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Embrace Your Influence
Three simple words that completely changed the way I look at art. Written by a modern giant in the field of…er, writing books about making art: Austin Kleon. Fittingly enough, basically everything he says in his book Steal Like An Artist has been said before. But I’ve never seen it all arranged and packaged so […]
Nerd Alert: I Just Bought My Tickets for Marvel’s Avengers
Last week, in my post “Never Tell Me the Odds,” I confessed to the utter nerdality of having read the Simarillion in high school. But it’s okay to be a nerd, right? It’s all about the neo-nerd hipster movement. Now that Avengers is finally hitting the movie theaters, I must confess my nerdly love affair […]
“Never Tell Me the Odds”
From Empire Strikes back: C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1. Han Solo: Never tell me the odds. So…what’s the point? Well first, Han Solo is the pimp-daddy of the galaxy. (I need to get me some pants like his.) But more importantly, I think Han Solo […]
