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tearingdowndoors: Untitled | Coyhand

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tearingdowndoors:

Untitled | Coyhand

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visualgraphic: Un-Tited

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starstruckwish: purebeachboho: xtooyoungtocare: genies: stfuz...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:53:14 -0400

starstruckwish:

purebeachboho:

xtooyoungtocare:

genies:

stfuzac:

mylips-missyours:

hnnhslvs:

Slow Motion: Camera Flash Bulb Shot at 1052 FPS

that’s the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen

This is new most favorite gif omg.

it looks like a galaxy

whoa

OMG

omg I thought it was galaxy woah

amazing

bestrooftalkever: Two bald eagles in air battle crash-land at...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:25:00 -0400

bestrooftalkever:

Two bald eagles in air battle crash-land at airport

Dude these two eagles were fighting mid-air and got stuck. They crash landed at an airport and both survived.

How hardcore is that? Look at their faces tho.

Its like “I swear to GAWD Jerry”

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Fri, 17 May 2013 11:15:17 -0400

wreckless-beautyy: i think i laughed a little too hard

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:48:59 -0400

wreckless-beautyy:

i think i laughed a little too hard

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dresdencodak: doggedlyjo: dresdencodak: Fair enough. I assume...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:28:58 -0400

dresdencodak:

doggedlyjo:

dresdencodak:

Fair enough. I assume you mean when I started Dresden Codak? I’ll break down the honest-to-goodness process of the early comics:

Draw comics in mechanical pencil on the back of my statistics homework (never turned in) and then ink on top of that with a micron pen.

Sneak into the Honors College study room (from which I was expelled for poor grades) and use their scanner.

Use a mouse and a bootleg copy of Photoshop 7 to color the pages.

Upload it to my site, which at the time was flat HTML that I’d written from scratch.

And that’s it!

reblogging this for the reminder that grades and a college degree are by no means the be-all end-all of life.

There’s some truth to this. I’d like to share some further biographical information:

I’m a college dropout. In 2006 I left school after a little over four years because I kept changing majors (physics, anthropology, computer science, then art) and it had reached a point where it was difficult for me to afford to keep going to school (I was paying my own way with various jobs).

The reason I had kept changing majors was because I was terrified that I’d picked the “wrong” career, with most of those academic decisions based around what careers seemed prestigious. I wanted to be an engineer because I liked the idea of being an engineer, then a programmer because I liked the idea of being a programmer, but I was never happy doing any of these things, and it showed. I’d always been groomed to be a good student, and for most of my career I was good at doing what I was told.

I’d always been creative, doing little projects on the side. I wrote a sci-fi novel when I was 19 (never shared it), some poems in physics class, and even some fake news stories about Popeye before I was kicked off the university paper. I also made films with friends for many years. I was told these were “good hobbies,” that once I became a respected and financially stable engineer/programmer/scientist, that I could then do what made me happy on the side. A nervous breakdown during my college career, however, made it clear that “waiting to be happy” was a psychologically unstable strategy. I couldn’t wait for someone else to grant me permission to do what I wanted with my life.

So, in 2005, during a statistics class that I would eventually fail, I started drawing Dresden Codak. I hadn’t seriously drawn in many years, but it’s something you don’t totally lose. They were pretty bad drawings, but I didn’t care. I enjoyed it and decided that doing what I really liked to do now was better than hoping I could do it later. I wasn’t looking for a career at the time, I just realized how much I loved making comics and knew that I should do whatever I could to keep making them. It took about a year for me to decided that being a cartoonist was what I really wanted. I changed my major to art briefly, but eventually accepted that paying for a degree wasn’t something that was going to help me at that point.

After that, in 2006, I took a chance and dropped out. I worked an office job full time during the day while drawing Dresden Codak full time at night. I slept about 3 hours a night, but it didn’t matter. I was doing what I wanted, and it kept me going. Then, toward the end of 2007 I found out, through Topatoco, that I had enough readers to justify selling some merchandise. To my genuine surprise, as soon as we put the store up, I was making more money than my office job (which I promptly quit). From there I packed up, moved out of Alabama and never looked back.

Dresden Codak has been my full-time job ever since. It’s let me travel the country and meet amazing people while making a pretty comfortable living, but most importantly I get to do what I enjoy more than anything else. Ever since, I make all of my life decisions based on maximizing what I really want to do, and so far it’s served me well.

Don’t interpret this as an anti-education/college story or anything like that. I just think often we expect success if we do X, Y and Z, when in reality such a thing can’t be reliably handed to you by an authority. Start doing what you want to do now, because life’s far too short to wait around to be happy.

This! I needed this.

fletchingarrows: fragmentedletters: James Hamilton - The Last...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:18:14 -0400

fletchingarrows:

fragmentedletters:

James Hamilton - The Last Days of Pompeii

so dark

llbwwb: It’s time for Animal Hour:) by I love photography.

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:10:25 -0400

llbwwb:

It’s time for Animal Hour:) by I love photography.

betype: Book Review by typeworship : The Geometry of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:16:12 -0400

betype:

Book Review by typeworship : The Geometry of Type

There are many things I like about Stephen Coles’ recent book; the bright, clean design and the accessible structure allowing you to dip in and out; but most of all, it’s the lack of fluff or filler. The content has been carefully honed to focus on the important details, which is in fact what the book is all about: the details of each typeface.

In highlighting and comparing the features that give each typeface its character, anyone exploring this subject can begin to make informed choices between similar typeface options.

The pithy descriptions describe each typeface’s origin and advise what makes each appropriate for certain scenarios and where it might fail. These are occasionally laced with a subtle humour that keeps the tone of the book warm.

The great balance of written and visual explanation means the book works well as a quick reference but has a seductive way of drawing you in to read more and examine further.

We’ll worth picking up a copy.

betype: Ray’s Words (by Good+Brave) Get inspired on Betype.co

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:20:16 -0400

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Ray’s Words (by Good+Brave)

Get inspired on Betype.co

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betype: Recreate Yourself

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:14:41 -0400

betype:

Recreate Yourself