Stuff I found while looking around
– Hand-painted walls. Yeah. Whoa:
I was immediately inspired by the idea of meticulously painting an entire room in my own freehand style. I decided to create something that looked at first glance to be wallpaper, but on closer inspection became apparent to be a non-repeating painted design.
Bon Iver is treating my bee sting with a home remedy. (Hint: kisses.)
– A Massive Field of 200,000 Clay Figures
– Photographic Specimens by Michael Mapes
– For all the Hamiltons and Armstrongs: Meanwhile in Scotland…
– America!
In an adaptation from his new book on the rise and fall of NBC’s “Must See” TV, Warren Littlefield, the network’s former president, presents an oral history of its 10-season ratings juggernaut, learning how the stars’ characters were shaped, their lives altered, and their hearts a little bit broken.
If you’re a snob about Friends just shut it.
– I lost a whole damn hour to this. I would have lost more but I didn’t put “Ryan Gosling” in the search box.
– It’s a crime that there are only 48 seconds of footage of this.
– Cami and I will be watching this all weekend: Askin’ All Them Questions, makin’ statements, asummin’?
– The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth, an interview with Avengers director Joss Whedon:
If you can watch it on television and it’s good, it’s got writers who wrote for him.
– Dance porn with a French twist.
– I’m speaking my truth and spreading the word, because it does get better:
When my deviance didn’t disappear, I weighed the possibility of suicide, sure that it was the only option for someone so soul-deep sick. I felt as though God had denied me as his child, and I wrote the note that would explain my death as a kind of gift to those whom I was sure my deviance was hurting.
– A few of my favorite recent tweets:
