Realism can be achieved by suggestion, and one of the joys of painting is the balance between the material properties of paint and the illusion of light, air, and depth.
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Momma’s Gone City blogger Jessica Shyba has taken an adorable series of photos of her adopted two-month-old puppy Theo cuddled up and napping with her toddler Beau. They are best buds.
We found Theo tucked together with his two siblings in the back yard of the Santa Cruz SPCA. Big Bird-as he was named at the shelter-was the shyest of them all to meet us, though he bounded instantly into Beau’s lap as soon as he entered their pen. The look on his little furry face was enough to seal the deal for me, we had met our newest family member.
On his third day with us, Theo fell asleep on Beau and I as I rocked him down for his afternoon nap. I was practically howling at the cuteness-and nearly woke them both up. Each day, Theo meets us at naptime and waits patiently for Beau to fall asleep. By that time, he’s also sleepy, so when I hoist him onto our bed, he stumbles over to Beau and plops right down on top of him. And there they sleep, entwined, for at least two hours.
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Chiro the Corgi shakes his fluffy butt while waiting for his owner to throw a ball in this funny video by Man Taketyan.
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Chris Pattle has constructed Simpsons characters completely out of CSS.
We've come a long way from #cccccc and the Simpson No-Nos.
Tags: Chris Pattle CSS The Simpsons web development1. A polemic in favor of Texas and against the stability of tech jobs.
2. James Bessen at The Washington Post reviews *Average is Over*. I agree with him that numerous decades later, things will be fine. Kevin Drum responds along different lines.
3. Reihan on ACA and Medicaid reform.
4. A good criticism of Chetty on economics as a science.
5. One overview of the new jobs report. And how much has sequestration hurt the DC-area job market?
For “Proyecto Pyokko,” freelance photographer Sophie Starzenski of Buenos Aires, Argentina shot selfies in a mirror showing her pregnancy’s progression. She describes the project as “40 weeks and a mirror” and ends it with a photo of her and her little baby boy Simon.
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Now that Horse_ebooks as we knew it is dead (or alive, depending on your viewpoint), the Internet is convening to pay tribute to the Dadaist masterpiece. At Slate, Will Oremus opines that the feed was “pretty great” even when it was a spambot, while at The Globe and Mail, Navneen Alang argues that it’s “more wonderful today, not less.”
Sir Patrick Stewart shared a photo on Twitter of himself standing in New York City’s Times Square with Sir Ian McKellen and a furry human-sized Elmo.
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A determined and feisty sheep tries to teach a young bull how to headbutt in this video taken by MrLive123456 on Terceria Island.
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WinCo is an Idaho-based grocery chain that frequently beats Walmart on price while providing health care benefits for any employee working over 24 hours a week as well as an annual pension.
Tags: business Walmart WinCoWhile all of these factors help WinCo compete with Walmart on price, what really might scare the world's largest retailer is how WinCo treats its employees. In sharp contrast to Walmart, which regularly comes under fire for practices like understaffing stores to keep costs down and hiring tons of temporary workers as a means to avoid paying full-time worker benefits, WinCo has a reputation for doing right by employees. It provides health benefits to all staffers who work at least 24 hours per week. The company also has a pension, with employees getting an amount equal to 20% of their annual salary put in a plan that's paid for by WinCo; a company spokesperson told the Idaho Statesman that more than 400 nonexecutive workers (cashiers, produce clerks, and such) currently have pensions worth over $1 million apiece.
One of my first lettered covers for group sketching games, done with a gold paint pen. |
“Ten Thousand Days” is a dark comedy short about a man who believes he is cursed to die on his 10,000th day, but when the day arrives things don’t go as planned. The film was written and directed by New Zealand-based filmmaker Michael Duignan.
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