My Parents Were Awesome
There goes your afternoon: My Parents Were Awesome is a great little Tumblr featuring submitted photos of parents when they were young and (most) without kids. It’s a really strange but awesome display of fashion, time, and love of some of the people we love the most. Found via Quipsologies
Family Meeting : I’m selfish, but I’m trying not to be
(or, why I really don’t shop at Wal-Mart)
As you know, I usually don’t write a lot about my personal life, really for no reason other than this is a place for cool links of pretty things and not my Diaryland page from 2001. BUT, I came across an article at GOOD about Wal-Mart and it made me think of something I thought...
To the Cinema! : UP
I can’t write anything here that hasn’t already been said by people much more qualified, but this movie was AMAZING! My sister and I watched in in DIGITAL 3D (which is actually pretty freakin’ amazing in itself, bTW), over the weekend. We got the glasses. I had some twizzlers. And cried pretty much through this...
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Illustration Thursday:
6 Vintage Illustration Sets on Flickr
I ran out of time putting this together yesterday, so here’s this week’s Illustration Thursday: Vintage Illustrations, especially that from the 1950s-early 1970s, are some of my favorite things. The style, the use of line work, the color, printing process-it’s just all awesome. Anyways, I’ve put together a list of some of my favorite vintage...
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Sesame Street Animation @ Hulu
Over on Hulu, you can watch a bunch of Sesame Street clips, which is sweet. But what is even sweeter is that they have a BUNCH of their animations, which just totally made my days. These where always some of my favorite parts of the show as a kid QUESTION: Does anyone else get this...
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Illustration : Charley Harper
Probably most famous for his various illustrations and painting of wildlife, Charley Harper was an American artist with a great sense of modern style. Old Navy, of all places, recently had a whole collection of toys and games using Harper illustrations, including a coloring book, matching game, and animal/letter cards. I fortunately picked them up...
Merry Christmas, Chia Pets.
In a classic time when the “Clapper” was still something you could buy via a toll-free number and Empire Carpet ads still featured real people, the Chia Pet was really that gift that supposedly everyone got, but no one really wanted-like an 80′s equivalent to the fruit cake. However, one small Hoosier always dreamed of...