Why we do this; Best Steampunkyness; Women in Armour; Doodlers Rule; Baggy Pants Downfall, and Why Some People Hate New Things [I read stuff]

Posted on August 27, 2011 by xxxevilgrinxxx

Wherein I read things, laugh, and pass them on to you…

This, then, is for the people who frequently ask me how to navigate it, how to keep going. And the answer is: I don’t know. I don’t know what’s best for you, in terms of processing this shit.

But I do know is that recognizing it as projection, seeing it for the pitiable flails of desperate men that it is, is important.

All of their furious bravado, and the genuine threats, are meant to terrify me, of course, but I am not the one who is terrified. The men who misrepresent my life in order to justify harassing me know, in some deep down place, that they are wrong. They know that my fat, disabled, feminist self is, in truth, everything that the Patriarchy tells them men are supposed to be: They know that I am strong, that I am tough, that I am resilient, that I am smart, that I am independent, that I am brave. They know that I fuck, that I influence, that I do not yield.

And that’s what prompts their terroristic missives in which they try to mask behind their rage a derisible fear of the powerful feminine. Not that they believe that I am weak, but that they know I am strong.

Having that perspective helps. Having that perspective, for me, makes all the difference.

[shakespearessister.blogspot.com Melissa McEwan August 26, 2011]

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BladeRunner, Porbeagles, and Pantone USB’s [I read stuff]

Posted on August 19, 2011 by xxxevilgrinxxx

Wherein I read things, laugh, and pass them on to you…

Ridley Scott to direct new ‘Blade Runner’ film:

My heart skips a beat, part excitement and part fear. More Bladerunner? Awesome. Unless of course, it’s a disaster. A poke in the eye of one of the greatest movies ever made. But it’s Ridley Scott, and I have some faith.

Nearly 30 years after making the sci-fi cult classic “Blade Runner,” British director Ridley Scott has agreed to direct a new installment, the producers have said.

The new “Blade Runner,” produced by Alcon Entertainment, will not be a remake but rather a follow-up or a prequel to the original. Scott has yet to decide between the two options, the company said in a statement.

“It would be a gross understatement to say that we are elated Ridley Scott will shepherd this iconic story into a new, exciting direction,” said producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.

“We are huge fans of Ridley’s and of the original ‘Blade Runner’.” This is once in a lifetime project for us,” they added.

No casting decisions have been made as of yet, and no release date has been fixed.

[Agence France-Presse August 19th, 2011]

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I read stuff

Posted on March 2, 2011 by xxxevilgrinxxx

Wherein I read things, laugh, and pass them on to you…

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Old pics, new treatment

Posted on August 16, 2010 by xxxevilgrinxxx

Lately I’ve been monkeying around with tutorials and such, mostly adapting stuff from Photoshop (damn, how I envy you!) and I had this new brush and a cobbled together from various sources idea of how to work bokeh into my scribblings.

Bokeh is:

The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means “blur” or “haze”, or boke-aji, the “blur quality”. The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility…In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” [Wikipedia]

Ever been out at night, say at Christmastime when the little fairy lights are up and, when you kind of squint a little, everything goes into those lovely big soft blobs of light? Yeah, like that, but this time I’m doing it with a brush and a lot of cursing and muttering.

Anyway, to start playing, I looked through some old pics that I had kicking around and started to play, getting different results that, while I’m not super excited about, I think are fairly cool anyway: