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mercurialblonde:

Finished Snake Widow.  This was the second story I wrote for Hecate Snake Diaries, and was made right after The Snake and the Scorpion, so you can see my style leveled up during those two stories which I think is interesting.  I also did caption boxes for it ahead of the writing, which in retrospect was really dumb, and it’s why the lettering is kind of more straight foward than the other entries in the anthology—there’s also a LOT more text.  

It’s also the most shamelessly about my separation of any of the stories.   When I was making it I just knew that every house felt haunted at that point, and my stomach was feeling like it was getting raped by demons of all shape.  It’s okay though, HR Giger got me through.  Embrace the nightmares, yeah?

So yeah now Hecate Snake Diaries is all finished.  I just have to figure out how to wrangle it into a manageable PDF and then set it up for paid download.  Which isn’t nearly as fun as every other stage of doing it, ha.  

I’m pretty proud of it in the end.  It’s not my first comic, or my longest(ophelia takes both of those feats) but I feel like this book ended up marking a huge progression for me as an artist, and I learned a lot making it.  And beyond that, it’s the kind of comics I like.  So I hope when I put the whole thing out, some people read it and like it.  The next one will be even better.

It’s kind of interesting, I made this book across 3 different states, 3 different houses, and various states of hope or despair about my relationship—I can look at any page here, and remember where I was when I did it—which is remarkable because it was so many different places.  Even within the same houses.

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heterochronia:

Buzludha is Bulgaria’s largest ideological monument to Communism. Designed by architect Guéorguy Stoilov, more than 6000 workers were involved in its 7 year construction including 20 leading Bulgarian artists who worked for 18 months on the interior decoration. A small, universally expected donation from every citizen in the country formed a large portion of the funds required to build this impressive structure that was finally unveiled in 1981 on what was the 1300th anniversary of the foundation of the Bulgarian state.

Buried in the monument’s concrete structure, is a time capsule containing a message for future generations explaining the significance of the building.

In September 2011, the Bulgarian cabinet transferred ownership of the monument to the Bulgarian Socialist party.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov declared, “We shall let them take care of it because here it also holds true that a party which does not respect its past and its symbols has no future”.

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darklyeuphoric:

Vintage cars descend upon 115-year-old Velodrome

Detroit has the Thunderdrome – a velodrome abandoned for decades and recently restored to host friendly races for riders of all sorts of two wheeled machines.

Budapest has the Millenáris Velodrom, “a bicycle arena built in 1896 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of when the Hungarians streamed across the Verecke Pass in the Carpathians to colonize an enlarged version of modern Hungary.”

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darklyeuphoric:

It’s interesting to consider that this predates Chris Cunningham’s experimental short film Rubber Johnny by 15 years, and was presumably created with no digital assistance.

showslow:

‘Metamorphose’

Photos by Frederic Fontenoy.

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latimes:

Prosthetics get the personal touch: Synthetic legs have become a medium for self-expression, thanks to customization made possible by sophisticated technology. It’s a bold melding of modern science and fashion statement.

Wow.

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