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kayzig: coelasquid replied to your post: I just really wish I’d known ‘biopunk’ was a… ...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:23:40 -0400

coelasquid replied to your post: I just really wish I’d known ‘biopunk’ was a…

Ahahaha look up “ribofunk”

You mean this? o: It definitely LOOKS interesting! I’ve been having fun thumbing through the genre/trope, as it has lead me to look into Carnosaur and consider it as a read, along with letting me know that some amazing people decided to make a movie called Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl.

Because that’s just basically the closest thing I’d imagine we’d get to a live action Darkstalkers.

Ahahahah, Oh my god, Vampire Girl VS Frankenstein Girl is hilarious because it’s the Tokyo Gore Police team making a super token high school teen romance. I saw it while it was still on the festival circuit. It’s like every teenage girl anime ever stuffed with super gratuitous violence.

Though uh, when they started screening it to international audiences the director requested the festivals to preface it with a disclaimer about the use of blackface in the movie and how they were trying to use it to parody Ganguro culture in Japan, and not to insult actual black people so head’s up on that front!

mensfashionworld: Aiden Shaw by Hans Feurer for GQ Style...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:14:41 -0400

mensfashionworld:

Aiden Shaw by Hans Feurer for GQ Style UK

It’s like if the Dude got his shit together.

PEOPLE OF TUMBLARGH!

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400

sweetjellieesmiles:

I need your help!

I just bought a love bird- rumored to be a month old and a female- but everything is uncertain!

I am having an ultimate freak out, because I have no idea how to tame it as I did with Blouie, my budgie! As soon as I let Ray (lovebird) out if her carry case- she flew and fled from us- I managed to catch her as she flew into the laundry room and used a plastic bag to net her in(and yes- I feel terrible!). I believed she wouldn’t fly as she was quite calm when I placed my hand inside her carry cage and also let me pet her, unlike Blouie’s first time coming home where she would just run away from my hand. In case any one does bring up the subject of the two birds not getting along- I perfectly understood this and will be getting a cage for Ray (my love bird) soon along with a few items and also- to have her wings clipped. I do know she should eat a lot of other kinds of food but I would like to know what she SHOULDN’T eat and ways to bond with her aside from the whole millet spray technique- which I didn’t even use on Blouie. I know birds all have different personalities- but I really have no idea how to start with my lovebird, especially after the scare that females aren’t tamable! Any help will be greatly appreciated!

- love from: Bird newbie

A lot of people recommend starting to let them out with just one person (preferably the one you want them to bond with the most) in a small, private, closed-off area like a bathroom or something. Some place where there isn’t enough stuff to overwhelm them or other people to scare them, and not much for them to hurt themselves in. They will bite at first, if you’re afraid of being bitten lovebirds are probably not the pet for you.If they have a space in their cage that’s like, their very special protected little space (like a paper bag or a plush tent or something else they like to hide in), don’t uproot it to dig for them if you want to play. It’ll just stress them out and make them behave super aggressively.

I saw the other person who replied to this said they don’t normally recommend wing clipping but I’ll put it out there I am very much in favour of it, because it’s as much for the bird’s safety in a home environment as anything else. All of the people you see talking about their birds flying out open windows never to be seen again is kind of incentive on that front (though open windows are dangerous even if your bird’s wings are clipped!) If you’re an experienced owner you can try raising a free flighted bird, but if you’re a beginner there’s a good chance it won’t end well for you or the bird. In my experience lovebirds with clipped wings bond to people faster as well, probably because they’re a little more dependent on your good will. I remember when Axi could fly he would start getting really cocky and feral and getting into things he shouldn’t be, but after he had his wings clipped he’d ride around cuddled up into the crook of your neck. Remember that if the wings are clipped the bird shouldn’t be completely unable to fly! It should flutter down towards the ground without being able to gain altitude so it can land without hurting itself. It’s not a bad idea to get a vet to show you the proper technique the first time, just so you know you’re doing it right!

You probably want to get the lovebird in his own cage ASAP! Lovebirds have uh… kind of a bad track record for being horrible to smaller breeds if they’re left alone sharing a cage with them. There are all sorts of horror stories about lovebirds snapping budgies’ bones, or even killing them! They’re very territorial birds, it’s probably not the best idea to leave them alone in a cage with smaller birds they can push around.

You shouldn’t have too much of a problem taming a female as long as you’re not trying to breed her, as far as I understand. I only have experience with a (probably) male lovebird (he was never officially tested), but they say for companion birds their sex doesn’t really matter. If you have a breeding pair, they won’t really have any interest in being friends with people because birds aren’t really like dogs and cats, where they can have their babies and still be your best pal at the same time. Birds are sort of like that friend who stops hanging around with you once they start dating someone.

As far as food goes, Avocado is a biiiiiig no, even a small amount of it can kill birds within hours. Chocolate is also poisonous for them. It takes a lot of chocolate to kill them, but a little can make them very sick. You should avoid feeding them junk food, anything overly sugary or salty is bad for them, but in the same vein don’t freak out if they get into a bag of cheetos when you aren’t looking because they’ll probably be fine as long as it’s not happening all the time. Axi would try to eat anything unguarded, which included chocolate, coca cola, milk, raw beef, chicken wings, pudding, candy, chips, all that stuff, and he managed to survive to the ripe old age of 14 and die of natural causes.

As long as you’re patient and kind to them, and spend as much time with them as possible, I’m sure you and your bird will have a long happy life together! Good luck!

Oh nooooooooo it’s an eight month old lovebird trying to...

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:48:00 -0400

Oh nooooooooo it’s an eight month old lovebird trying to preen and feed his two week old baby siblings ;n;

one of those weeks

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:36:16 -0400

one of those weeks

cola graveyard: Draw Your OC Taking the Walk of Shame Day

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:34:15 -0400

cola graveyard: Draw Your OC Taking the Walk of Shame Day:

kayzig:

chainsma:

miss-lol:

prawnlegs:

sephiramy:

jamfisher:

sephiramy:

anderjak started it. :U

If yesterday was “Draw Your Friends’ OCs Having Sex Day” then this is the only logical conclusion.

So either REBLOG IT and add your own, or at least tag your own post with “draw…

So, this happened. At least Eleanor’s walk of shame is in some killer shoes.

It’s. Still the right day to upload this somewhere. ~~But seriously, if Sage wanted to sit around all morning and explain to your wife what her husband is doing in bed with another man HE COULD HAVE MARRIED HER.~~

woops guess I could have put it in the actual tread.

Wanted to doodle something for Sephiramy’s Walk of Shame...

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:29:39 -0400

Wanted to doodle something for Sephiramy’s Walk of Shame thing.

Birds reacting to dubstep is my new favourite internet thing.

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:47:57 -0400

Birds reacting to dubstep is my new favourite internet thing.

Just reminding everyone that Gideon Emery has a youtube account...

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:41:00 -0400

Just reminding everyone that Gideon Emery has a youtube account where he does things like record ducks swimming in his apartment pool and sing croony love songs over them and make fun of news anchors and sing a capella songs about breakfast foods.

adriofthedead: tanatot: aspidelaps: bronzebasilisk: doublemax...

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:10:00 -0400

adriofthedead:

tanatot:

aspidelaps:

bronzebasilisk:

doublemaximusart:

I want to explain something here. These two .gifs are the first flash animations that I had ever made. I did these during my first semester in college in a computer animation class back in 2010. I had no idea what Flash even was.

Now let me just ask you something: Which one looks like it took the most time?

Our assignment was to experiment with Flash on our own, get used to the tools and settings and that sort of thing. I decided to go frame by frame and observed a gif taken from Treasure Planet. The result was that first gif you see up there.

I turned that first gif in to class the next day…and got a failing grade.

“This is not the proper way to use Flash” my teacher said. “Too complicated. This is not what people want to see. No use of tweens. Zero points.”

I was heartbroken to get a zero on my first assignment, so my teacher decided to give me a second chance. “Animate a running stick figure with tweens” the teacher said. So I did. I turned in that 2nd gif you see, and got an A.

To this day I am appalled by the way I was treated. To all of you animators out there, I recommend learning on your own. It could save you time and money. If you still choose to go to college, then that is fine too. You do what you want, just don’t let ANYONE try to downgrade your creative capability.

Okay just reblogging this because I’m seeing all these responses from students who didn’t follow their teachers instructions for their assignments and then got poor grade, and seem to think it was because their teacher was some sort of an ass or something.

No.

I’m sorry no. You didn’t do what they asked, you didn’t follow the assignment, you got an F.

Yes it sucks that you put a lot of work into tracing that gif, but that wasn’t what you’re teacher asked you to do.

And I’m sorry but your teacher’s right. If you’re trying to get a job for flash animation, damn straight a company is going to want to see that you know how to use the program and it’s tools. That means understanding how to use the specific animation tools in flash, like tweening. That doesn’t automatically mean making shitty stiff animation. If you really want to amaze you’re teacher, make amazing animation while fallowing his assignment.

From the sounds of it the teacher wanted to see you practice and experiment with tweens, and you didn’t, so you didn’t get points. That’s it. That’s literately all that has happened here. There is no personal assault on you or creativity as a whole. The fact you think that getting an F for handing in a traced copy written animation means he’s trying to stomp out creativity is… kind of telling in of itself.

Also you’re incredibly lucky you didn’t get a warning for handing in that copy written trace. If I had done that in my school I would have gotten in deep shit. I would be happy he let you re-do the assignment and then move on and continue to do creative stuff on your own time. You’re teacher is there to teach you how to use the program, not to personally support or ”downgrade your creative capability.”

Tell ‘em like it is, Chronidu. I do not think OP is being truthful, in the fact that it is fairly obvious they’re not sharing the whole truth, ferreting away important key parts like, oh idk.. the fact that they were supposed to be LEARNING FLASH and not LEARNING TO TRACE GIFS.

This comparison is apples to oranges, and depending on the lighting. That second animation is crap if you’re trying to think of it as remotely comparable to even the copied skill of a disney animator, its true! If someone were to be grading it based on animation quality, it would certainly fail. However it is composed entirely of tweens, and if you’re grading if the person understands how to use tweens, then of course it is A material. Congrats! Gif #2 conveyed that you understood the material being taught and so it got you a passing grade! I agree that you should be thankful you even got a second go.

Art school has a technical side and is not devoted entirely to “make this picture look super pretty with methods you already know.” Your assignment was a technical one, not an artistic one. Why would you expect anything BUT an F when you did the exact opposite of what you were supposed to do?

Art school is as much about building experience and connections as it is about learning skills. You can technically learn anything you want on your own, but you will have 0 credibility and you will be flying blind in to an industry that you absolutely do not understand. Art schools don’t just teach you how to be a better artist, but a better worker. Good work habits, team cooperation, understanding what employers want, and making sure you have the technical skills you need because SURPRISE, raw talent won’t get you by.

Please don’t give the toxic advice of “fuck schools do it on your own!” What if your foolish ass actually IMPRESSES upon someone?? You’d be costing them an actual opportunity by whining about your ego getting chipped at 3 years ago. People could learn to be an incredible animator on your own, but if they don’t have the developed work habits to fit in to a studio environment, nobody is going to want them in their studio. If they even give you the time of day! After all, you’re not really going to have anyone to speak for you that is mildly relevant to your interests, or even know the people who let word out that there is a job opening to apply for.

Ways to be successful in art school:

Make sure you actually do the assignment when you do the assignment.

Pay attention to the details of what is wanted from you. This isn’t artwork for you, after all! It is artwork for your education!

Time spent means nothing when it comes to turned in assignments, only outcome and how it compares (and preferably exceeds) with what was asked of it.

Check your ego at the door, because if you’re so attached to your work that you’ll let something like this fester for 3 years, it is going to get very battered and bruised (and you are not going to thrive in a professional environment, so best learn now.)

Remember you are there to learn how to be a Professional Artist. Not a better artist.

Ways to do terribly in art school:

Think time spent should mean anything for your eventual grade.

Ignore the assignment and just make something that you like to turn in.

Hold on to failed assignments like battle wounds and thinking you must have been treated terrible instead of learning from it and moving on.

Expect that any amount of request or constraint on the technical side of how you produce a piece means the end of creativity in said piece.

Treat artwork you make for school like personal projects and not demonstrations of learned skill.

Think that because you were “being creative” you are infallible

There you go guys now you ACTUALLY learned something today.

fucking all of this thank you

thank

you

everyone needs to read this ^

I wish I could print this out and staple it to the forehead of every person I’ve met who’s ever been “ABLOO BLOO BLOO ART SCHOOL STIFLES CREATIVITY”. You go to art school to learn shit, not to play the tortured artistic genius act

I may be self-taught but even I know the benefits of attending an art school. I wish I could have had the opportunity to do so when I was younger, but that’s a whole other story

There’s this insufferable cocky period that almost all art school kids go through before the real world deprograms them (And sure, I’ll include myself in this) where they hold onto the fundamentals that teachers handed down to them on subjects like “what makes a textbook-good character design” or “what makes a textbook-good piece of acting” and that sort of thing, and get hypersensitive about criticizing things that are not technically perfect to the specifications that they have been convinced by a trusted mentor are “the way it’s supposed to be”, offering unsolicited advice to anyone who will listen.

Sometimes they enter the workforce with this attitude and believe the project they are working on is not up to par with The Way It’s Supposed To Be, and take it upon themselves to improve the show and bring it up to their lofty, narrow standards for what makes cartoons “good”.

And then they get fired for not following directions.

On the subject of Flash, though, as much as people talk shit about it, it is a remarkably accessible tool that you can learn to do professional quality work in after a day or so of actively familiarizing yourself with the tools it provides and how to exploit them. Once you understand how tweens and symbols work, you can start using them to efficiently make some impressively traditional looking stuff in a pretty remarkable timeframe.

It’s all about learning how to pick your battles.

hokuto-ju-no-ken: pettyartist: askcstalli: familiaralien: ond...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:09:36 -0400

hokuto-ju-no-ken:

pettyartist:

askcstalli:

familiaralien:

ondore:

ondore:

a collection of pichuX8664’s greatest hits

omg, does anyone remember the time I drew Darwin (back when he was Sciencemon) stabbing a pichu in the face? Yeah it was over this guy.

I’m glad you helped add to this moronic ass’s displeasure, then.

Oh boy— this person has the mentality of my ex-internet stalker.

People get weird when it comes to Pokemon.

I wonder if MewtwoStruckBack is the same dude who flipped out at Coelasquid

Yeah, he’s the one who said he fantasized about me being painfully murdered or something, and threatened to commission someone to draw me and Giovanni getting killed by a Mewtwo “in my style”. Honestly, I would have treasured that and hung it on my wall or something.

There’s a metal concert or something in Hollywood tonight and the streets are completely lined...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:18:30 -0400

There’s a metal concert or something in Hollywood tonight and the streets are completely lined with people with chains and black leather and goofy haircuts.

I’ve never felt like I could blend into a crowd this well before.

knot-in-the-coffin replied to your post: suicideducks said: I think if you’re going to...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:38:46 -0400

knot-in-the-coffin replied to your post: suicideducks said: I think if you’re going to eat…

Yeeeeah. I like meat. It is tasty. But I’m perfectly okay with someone else doing the killing/skinning/etc. Not because I’m squeamish, but because it’s easier and going out and killing everything I eat by hand would be time consuming

The point is more not to disrespect the people willing to do a hard, dirty job so you don’t have to. It’s like if any time a person said they were a surgeon other people would insinuate that they’re some kind of sociopath because they like to cut up human bodies and push their parts around.

Those days when you get comments and it’s honestly...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:10:05 -0400

Those days when you get comments and it’s honestly difficult to tell if they’re spam or not because really this could go either way.

suicideducks said: I think if you’re going to eat meat then you should be at least somewhat...

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:03:00 -0400

suicideducks said: I think if you’re going to eat meat then you should be at least somewhat willing to kill animals. I don’t like the idea of reaping the benefits of something I could do myself by aren’t willing to.

I was watching No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain where he’s in Northern Quebec with… I think it was either Cree or Inuit hunters to catch and eat a seal, and just like, how profusely he was apologizing to the veiwers and going on about how he’s rooting for the seal and what a sad and horrible thing they were doing, killing this animal, it was like “Okay Anthony Bourdain, quit it with the crocodile tears so PETA doesn’t send you angry letters, you just ate like 37 ducks worth of foie gras and hunting a seal is a hell of a lot more ethical than that.”

clubcapricebingo replied to your post: It kind of bugs me in Master Chef that whenever… ...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:53:54 -0400

clubcapricebingo replied to your post: It kind of bugs me in Master Chef that whenever…

That’s US Master Chef, I’m afraid. Haven’t seen/heard this dumb stuff in Aussie or UK Master Chef at all.

Any show involving Gordon Ramsay is so over the top with goofy sound effects and cutting in the American version compared to the British equivalents it’s like a patronizing parody of American culture. Whenever you see Americans exposed to shows like The F Word and stuff like that for the first time they’re floored by what a completely different person he is when Fox isn’t cutting his cheques.

It kind of bugs me in US Master Chef that whenever someone mentions hunting or raising and...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:47:00 -0400

It kind of bugs me in US Master Chef that whenever someone mentions hunting or raising and butchering the animal they’re serving they overlay it with goofy sound effects to make it sound like the person is some kind of weirdo or psychopath for slaughtering their own food.

Like hey, it sure makes you a crazy person to hold yourself accountable for the quality of life the animals you plan on eating experience.

Especially considering, you know, Gordon Ramsay makes a public display of raising his own livestock to support taking responsibility for your meal.

kwilliamsartist replied to your post: erihan replied to your post: What does cilantro… ...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:16:00 -0400

kwilliamsartist replied to your post: erihan replied to your post: What does cilantro…

That’s actually untrue. They said that in studies that having those genetic markers didn’t actually affect whether the person enjoyed it or not, so really, you it’s all in your head/you just don’t like it which is fine.

Guess you didn’t read the same articles on the subject that I did. Several scientists who cared enough to look into it came to the conclusion that there was convincing evidence that genetics can make up at least part of the aversion.

Augh It’s been a super packed week and I always feel shitty and stressed out when I post comic...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:56:00 -0400

Augh It’s been a super packed week and I always feel shitty and stressed out when I post comic pages later than Wednesday, but this one probably won’t be up until Friday. If I don’t get time to do things on the weekend I’m kind of fucked because I’m not usually home from work until at least 9:30.

I really like this Simon Belmont design just because he’s...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:36:59 -0400

I really like this Simon Belmont design just because he’s such a fluffypuff.