A Styracosaurus skunching Jack Tenrec’s Cadillac.
Mark Schultz dinosaur madness!
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The reason you love sneakers changes as you grow. Some people follow players and cop the signature shoe. In high school, it’s a style thing. And when you get your first job, you buy every Jordan in sight just to make up for lost time or cheap parents. But when you’re a ten-year-old, there’s one reason you buy J’s: to jump higher.
Eddie Huang. Fresh off the Boat, pg 43Eddie Huang speaks the truth.
I went through every stage he mentions here.
In 8th grade it was all about the Penny Hardaway’s.
In high school it was about coordinating my kicks with my outfits, and searching for a pair that stood out, that no else had, like my North Carolina blue Cortez’s.
When I was pushing in shopping carts at Winn-Dixie and finally starting to earn my own scratch, it was greed. Buying as many kicks as I could swipe my debit card through at Champs Sports.
And yeah, at 10 it was all about the dream of jumping higher.
Now J’s are all about being the only pair of kicks that don’t aggravate my corn.
One.
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Blaise Matuidi has many admirers. Us and Carlo Ancelloti among them.
But he also has a surprising fan boy.
Pep Guardiola.
At first glance, Blaise doesn’t possess the ideal qualities of a Pep Guardiola player. His technique on the ball can be clumsy. His passing range is limited. Yet Blaise still managed to leave an impression on Pep.
Former Clairefontaine youth coach Francisco Filho shares the story:
“We had just finished a tournament in Las Palmas. We won. Pep Guardiola was there, on holiday. Alongside his brother, who was organising the tournament, we dined together. He saw our match and he said to me: ‘When I will be manager (he was still playing in Qatar at the time), I want a player like your #6.’ Who was it? Blaise Matuidi.”
Shout out to Get French Football News for originally sharing the story.
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For a writer I associate so much with writing from the subconscious I was surprised to discover Ray Bradbury’s outlines for the Martian Chronicles.
The handwritten Martian Chronicles outline.
Typed version. The first four chapters match the handwritten version exactly.
I’m astounded at Jonathan R. Eller and William F. Touponce’s dedication to the research and cataloging of Ray Bradbury’s fiction writing career.
But it’s like Mr. Bradbury says:
Everything I do is a work of love. If it weren’t, I wouldn’t do it. I would like for people to say of me, ‘Bradbury’s books are all his children. Go to the library and meet his family.’
We’re fortunate they did.
From: Ray Bradbury the Life of Fiction. Jonathan R. Eller, William F. Touponce. The Kent State University Press.
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Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and
hospitality:
But then the soul’s wealth-which is candor and
knowledge and pride and enfolding love:
Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer
than wealth?
Expression of speech..in what is written or said forget
not that silence is also expressive,
That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as
the coldest may be without words,
That the true adoration is likewise without words and
without kneeling.
Walt Whitman for Monday…
From: Leaves of Grass 150th Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics), pg.157
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Who doesn’t love a glimpse into an artist’s sketchbook?
It’s like reading a diary.
It’s like reading a journal.
It’s like reading a MIND.
Noah Van Sciver was open enough to let Frank Santoro and us take a peek.
Have a watch:
And the full interview:
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If you find yourself searching for a specific topic on a blog or site more than twice then this short cut will be helpful.
Say the topic is dinosaurs, navigate to the search bar, type dinosaurs and click “search”.
Once the query finishes, save the query string to your bookmarks.
PRESTO.
All posts tagged “dinosaurs” will be located in one query string, updated and available to you when needed.
It’s a simple short cut that makes returning to specific topics quicker.
You got this…
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It’s difficult to tell the difference.
Both practices are rapid movements of the pen, marker or pencil, attempting to capture a form quickly.
A tag though is made to be seen. It’s intent is to pay homage to the creator.
Gesture drawing is an exercise. Their intent is to loosen up the artist, and then hit the wastebasket.
It is only action, the gesture, that you are trying to respond to here, not the details of the structure. You must discover – and feel – that the gesture is dynamic, moving, not static. Gesture has no precise edges, no exact shape, no jelled form. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.
The Natural Way to Draw. Kimon, Nicolaides, pg 15A reminder: Don’t fret. It’s fine to go through reams of paper:
Feel free to use a great deal of paper and do not ever worry about ‘spoiling’ it – that is one of our reasons for using cheap paper. I notice that students working at their best, thinking only of the gesture and not of making pictures, often throw their drawings into the trash-can without even looking at them. A few should be kept and dated as a record of your progress, but the rest may be tossed aside as carelessly as yesterday’s newspaper. Results are best when they come from the right kind of un-self-conscious effort.
The Natural Way to Draw. Kimon, Nicolaides, pg 18
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