rosscott:

I just read Frank Chimero’s “What Advice Would You Give a Graphic Design Student?” and was inspired to write some of my own. In no particular order:

• Getting ideas on paper frees your brain to have new ideas.
• Stop trying to have ideas when you’re in front of a computer. It never works as…

This is something I need to remember.

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michelles-demon:

remember that time “life of pi” made hundreds of thousands of dollars and all the artists that made 90% of the movie got fired without being paid

read about it here

lavenderharmony:

I don’t like the new Tumblr post page. I suffer from severe sight loss, and contrast is important when looking at things, such as reading letters, looking at labels or reading things on the web. I use a magnifier often, so I can quickly enlarge and read a bit of text without screwing with the page layout (Increasing text size works sometimes, but usually it just breaks everything)

With these new icons, I’m finding it too difficult to use. I cannot see the link/unlink buttons at all, and everything else is very faint. I cannot read tags once they’ve been typed in, and above this post now is a box which upon zooming in rather large says ‘upload another photo’, which I cannot read, and it’s difficult to figure out where the edge of this box is. Furthermore, the Close button at the bottom right, I can’t see the edge clearly, and often mis-click just to the side. I can press Escape now though.

I doubt the moderators or staff of Tumblr will see this, so I won’t expect them to fix anything, but if you’re part of the Tumblr modding community, please consider making something to replace these buttons and boxes to make them easier to see for those of us with a visual impairment.

Tumblr is becoming harder to use, and is ruining my enjoyment of it, and if things keep going this way of making things look trendy rather than them being functional, communicating with my friends will eventually become more of a chore than a passtime.

This is bad UI design - at the very least, there should be more contrast.  Light grey on white is a bad choice, and hopefully someone at Tumblr can get this reported up to the UI Design people.

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skyliting:

butterpockets:

What would happen if you cut off Wolverines head??

Presuming one could cut through the adamantium — would the head grow a new body and the body a new head?

Gooooood question.

The entire situation would require music from Queen - “Princes of the Universe”, best of all; lightning (so Storm would end up nearby), and either Gambit or Fantomex saying, “There can be only one!” (because they have the proper accent for it).

And there wouldn’t be an intact piece of glass or glasslike material for miles, making Cyclops annoyed because he has to keep his eyes closed.

And there would be no sequel.

This is actually brilliant.

stevensanders:

Getting on the DeConnick/McKelvie Captain Marvel redesign train. Kelly-Sue mentioned a Chuck Yeager aspect to the character that I don’t see much of in the fan drawings, so I thought I’d draw a picture of her breaking the sound barrier.   Five minute sketch. 

This is pretty awesome.

thehappysorceress:

Talk about a scoop! I feel a bit like Lois Lane & readers, am I thrilled to share the following with you:

When I first thought of the character, she wasn’t really much of a character in her own right..she was designed to be a pest, a less-goofy-but-still-annoying Bat-mite style…

mckelvie:

So it was just announced at Wondercon that Kelly Sue DeConnick will be writing a new ongoing Captain Marvel (formerly Ms. Marvel) series, with Dexter Soy on interiors and Ed McGuinness on covers. I had the privilege of designing Carol’s new costume. Our idea was to give her a kind of swash-buckling costume that invoked a sense of her history as an Air Force officer. Her hair is slicked back at the sides when in costume - so her Kree-style helmet can form when she needs it.

Can’t wait for the series to launch! I love Carol Danvers, and Kelly Sue is one of my favourite writers. More details here.

ubiquitousaggregate:

mhyin:

linh-linh:

bloody-sabbath:

hahaha! The homestuck one!

 OH MY GOD THE HOMESTUCK ONE

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Ghost Rider 2015 by *mephron

…I was bored and felt silly.

If you don’t read Casanova you probably should. The comic store may still be open for you to get the first trades.

stevensanders:

Pinup of Matt Fraction’s CASANOVA done for kicks. The smoke/spirals will have dimension numbers in the centers (919,918,etc) Slowly coloring it in my spare time. 

More proof that the Rachel Maddow Theory of Herman Cain As Performance Artist may be true.

kirailabs:

zerachin:

awkwardbirds:

This is the best thing to have graced my dash.

yes i’ll even post the photoset to make sure as many people as possible get to see this

….There are no words.

This is really cool.

artistjeffc:

Finally Finished. Wallpaper size. Very large.

Val Bronzebeard from PvP by Scott Kurtz.

wilwheaton:

The ultra wealthy will spend a whole lot of undisclosed money on a whole lot of ads filled with a whole lot of lies designed to dupe a whole lot of struggling Americans into believing that their number one problem in life is a rag-tag band of nose-ringed hippies who somehow managed to compel our media to tentatively begin a discussion about this, and the very modest actions we should take to begin to change it.

Related:

Critics of Occupy Wall Street have a transparent objective: They want to persuade blue collar whites and ordinary middle class Americans to turn on the movement for cultural reasons — because its optics offend these voters’ cultural instincts — even if they broadly agree with its general principles and critique of what’s gone wrong.

This dovetails with a quote from John Cole I recently posted here (to much rending of garments and clutching of pearls from the very people he’s talking about):

“The greatest hoax of the last couple of decades has been the ability of the right wing to co-opt members of the struggling lower middle class and lower class and pretend they speak for them while enacting policies that enable the super-rich. They’ve used wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion and the baby Jeebus to alienate folks from their own economic interests, feeding them a steady diet of hatred of minorites, the educated, science, and, well, reality to create a voting block of people so guided by hatred of the ‘other’ that they would crawl over broken glass to cut their nose off to spite their face.”

I posted that quote from Cole on my G+, and the self-identified conservatives are livid about it. I don’t mean this as an attack on self-identified conservatives at all. I quote it because it breaks my heart.

And not that it matters, but the same thing can largely be said of Democrats since the election of 2000. I strongly believe that if Obama and the Democrats had behaved like the populists they claimed to be when they had majorities in both houses of congress, and actually done something to hold these Wall Street criminals accountable, #OWS wouldn’t be necessary.

Now we just have to hope that the #OWS protests capture enough attention for long enough to force the Democrats (because you can be damn sure it won’t be the GOP) to enact laws and policies that actually address and correct the things we’ve all been begging them to listen to for about ten years.

This is how a movement gets started, and it doesn’t end quickly or cleanly. 

And it isn’t the job of the protesters to write the damn laws; that’s the job of the Congress, who need to work for The People instead of The Lobbyists.

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