this is a comic about missing my mom.
This is beautiful and true, and I want to share it with the world and tell everyone, “getting by is okay.”
Sometimes that’s all you manage, and that’s alright.
So, I got bored today and started messing around with the Up Goer Five text editor, which challenges you to write using only the top 1000 most common words in the English language. Here is what resulted.
Long Walk in the Stars: The First Show
(for people who need it explained in easy words)
This is the best thing that’s happened to me all day.
Okay. I would TOTALLY watch the shit out of this.
EDIT: Apparently, the woman that animated this works for Disney Animation. Give me a well done, hand-animated film over computer animated any day of the week. Don’t get me wrong. I love the stuff Pixar puts out. But there is something magical with traditional, hand animated films that computers just can’t capture.
This is a joy to watch. It gives me shivers—the good kind.
(Source: vimeo.com)
COPIO!
I’ve posted this guy’s stuff before, but here’s some more. I love it, and it reminds me a lot of a personal style that I really enjoy but haven’t done much with the last couple years.
(My sister has seen some of his portraits and demanded to know if I drew them. My sister doesn’t truck much with creepy, line-wrought portraiture, but I do. I think it’s great.)
(Source: copio)
Meganeura
… a genus of extinct insects from the Carboniferous period approximately 300 million years ago, which resembled and are related to the present-day dragonflies. With wingspans of up to 65 cm (2.1 ft), M. monyi is one of the largest known flying insect species; the Permian Meganeuropsis permiana is another. Meganeura were predatory, and fed on other insects, and even small amphibians.
Controversy has prevailed as to how insects of the Carboniferous period were able to grow so large. The way oxygen isdiffused through the insect’s body via its tracheal breathing system puts an upper limit on body size, which prehistoric insects seem to have well exceeded. It was originally proposed that Meganeura was only able to fly because the atmosphere at that time contained more oxygen than the present 20%. This theory was dismissed by fellow scientists, but has found approval more recently through further study into the relationship between gigantism and oxygen availability. If this theory is correct, these insects would have been susceptible to falling oxygen levels and certainly could not survive in our modern atmosphere…
(read more: Wikipedia) (images: T - illustration by Dodoni; B - photo by Hcrepin)
Oh my word. This is beautiful. Is this real? Someone tell me this is real.
(via scientificillustration)
Love, love, love.
The other night, after dark, I walked down to the front door of my apartment building.
Sitting there on the porch, fat and brown and bumpy, was a toad.
He was tucked away in a corner, just in front of the door, surrounded by gnats and spiderwebs. I crouched in the doorway next to him and watched and cooed and giggled every time he nabbed a fly.
It was delightful. I probably could have sat there all night watching him.
(via inkbatts)
