About 10 years ago I was working for a gaming company doing creature design. After work, I would go home and dissect animals in my garage. I borrowed a tiger carcass from a local taxidermist. I wanted to understand how the jaw muscles worked, so I stop motion animated it.

The muscle on the back of the head (Temporalis) bulges out when the jaw is closed. But when the is jaw is open, it depresses in like the surface of a trampoline. But not uniformly, in a Y shaped pattern.

I ended up getting evicted for stop motion animating tiger parts in my garage…..but it was worth it.

I still have hard drives full of animal carcasses reference animations today. Fun Times.

oh fuck yes

marquis magazine no. 6

My cat pestering me to get under the covers

For those who've been asking, Mordecai and Ivy acrylic standees are finally back in the shop!

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Can't help falling in love with this cluttered, maximalist apt. in Florence, Italy. It has 3bds, 4ba, 3,229 sq ft, $3,140,055. Part of the furniture , such as bookcases , shelving and bathroom furniture will remain to maintain the atmosphere of the property. The owner wants the new buyer to keep the look, so they're leaving some of the furnishings! That's dedication.

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this is such good inspiration for environment design. The background is FILLED with story

What an interesting property. It's so unique. There are 3 residences, plus several outbuildings. The 1928 build in Brookhaven, NY has a total of 7bds, 6ba, 4,000 sq ft, on 3 acres of land, $1.9m. It needs work, but the potential is amazing.

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What a fabulously colorful kitchen. Love the stool redo and the tree going thru it.

So artistic.

dnis are evitonmental storytelling because you can instantly imagine the incomprehensible hellscape someone is trapped in if they have a dni that's like dni if you:

• think irish people can't be pan
• are an apologist for season 2 scrunklepus or the knights of glop
• hunt and kill people for sport
• play frunko's quest
• think movies always have to be slimy
• think it's okay for welsh people to cosplay flugson
• don't tag bibbles or togs
• think that dutch and samoan are the same nationality
• use the z-slur
• participated in the srebenica massacre
• are mutuals with steve

Not sure if I've told this story here before, but once upon a time, I didn't really get the point of most protests happening my area because I viewed them as "preaching to your own echo chamber" in a lot of cases. Ex: I saw people do a climate march through a very liberal university campus within a very liberal city, and I was just like "Okay, everyone here agrees with you. This place has crazy aggressive sustainability goals. What is the point of this?"

Then when Roe fell, there were a lot of protests outside the courthouses in cities near me, and though those city courthouses do serve the surrounding rural areas as well, the cities themselves are all rather progressive and left-leaning, so once again I was like "Okay, what is the point of this?" but I went anyway just for the experience. We stood on a street corner with our signs. Most people driving by honked in agreement with us. A few people yelled "abortion is murder" at us out their car windows, and we yelled back "abortion is healthcare!" Cool, okay, still didn't get the point because it's not like we were changing any minds or there in large numbers (we were no threat to any power structures), and the city already largely agreed with us.

But then we got another SUV that pulled up and yelled "abortion is murder!" at us (both husband and wife this time). Looked in the back seat, and they were traveling with their daughter who was maybe 13ish. She locked eyes with me, gave me the most serious look I've ever received, and gave us a thumbs up just above the window ledge so that her family couldn't see.

And that's the day I learned that protests are not always about threatening entrenched power structures but letting people in isolated ideological bubbles know that there are other perspectives and that if they share them, they're not alone.

Timely reminder that protests have many purposes, and one of them is to steel the nerves of the youth.

And one of them is to say “this is our town.”

In our town the right wing have sometimes had protests or hosted speakers. We have one guy - one guy - who rallies the counter protests, which are always larger than any right-wing audience, and we turn up and make it awkward.

The right wing are less visible in Bristol or Brighton because they’d be afraid: if you tried to book an anti-gay speaker in Brighton you’d be laughed to death and then eaten. Why shouldn’t our town have the same protective shell of reputation? How else will they know who we are? How else are they supposed to know that our town doesn’t want them?

What makes a city liberal? What keeps a city liberal?

What is protest if not an act of making?

Protests don’t fix everything, but the purpose of a protest is more than just initiating change. It tends to shake leaves off trees, it gives people a rallying point where they can share specific information (not just morales, but how to maintain those morals) AND, importantly!!, providing a visual record of public opinion that’s hard to erase.

for example: The Women’s March during Trump 1.0. THAT kept me sane. Just the mere act of making me feel like I wasn’t nuts, that other people were just as worried as me and wanted to do something and needed to come together and prove we existed. I needed that. And I used that energy to get involved in activist organizations, learn about information sharing, learn just how much work goes into other activist demonstrations and all the tools used for applying political pressure.

But a lot of people like to reduce it to pink hats because haha “that didn’t change anything!” (are you sure? What do you think would’ve happened if nobody showed up at all? At minimum, I personally would’ve continued being an anxious mess)

Just because a tool isn’t a swiss army knife doesn’t mean you toss it in the trash. It has a purpose and its consequence can be much, much more far reaching than many give credit.

John Gilbert with his parrot circa 1926.

i gotta recreate this

I’m in Vegas and in order to avoid being overstimulated my spouse and I are pretending that we’re showing Oscar Wilde around, and tbh? It’s working. He loved Magic Mike Live

He was baffled by the Killers 20 years Hot Fuss reunion tour but ultimately enjoyed it

guys read this comic that my husband made on this topic you will really really like it

This comic is way too endearing and made me quite solemn.