I'm just OCD enough to like to divide all the random stuff I collect into categories, so in addition to my personal Tumblr blog I've created two new ones for particular subjects:

Lettery  is for images and links related to type, typography and lettering


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To explain the convoluted paths of internet that led me to Lorenzo Papace and his band Ödland would make this post incredibly rambly, so I'll skip ahead to the conclusion: Music! It is enjoyable!

(Side note: This is also a perving-on-aesthetics post, because Lorenzo Papace's other work and general existence are eminently stalkworthy in ( Read more... )

Random design thing: Google's home page today is in honor of Josef Frank's 125th birthday. Look how pretty!


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Friday update, whee!

Um, I've been delinquent with them. But no more! Am determined to return to normal discipline of--something. If it can't be "job-having," at least it can be Friday-updating.

Oh what what what have I been doing this week:

Tea units: 46? 302? must keep better track, idk
Pastry/chocolate units: 6.5
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Okay. I'm experiencing a slight blargh imbalance due to strange inability to add any sentences to my fic WIPs. I intend to remedy this tomorrow WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. Just as soon as I decide which one to work on first. *is gripped with indecision*

In the meantime here are things that are not blargh but are in fact DELIGHTFUL.

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Oh dear friends, I owe you (and myself) a writing snippet from Friday but I am Dead from the Excess Failyness of this week! I will now console myself by telling you about something I discovered this week that was NOT faily, but is actually interesting and useful!

TinEye, a reverse image search engineHow it works: You upload an image file, or ( Read more... )

Icons Part Three: I swear I don't know when I made all these icons!

Set A: Undersea Creatures (aka Tentacles!)
Period: Vintage
Keywords: fish, jellyfish, tentacles, sharks, underwater
Terms and Conditions: Please feel free to save and use! Only don't hotlink. Comment, maybe?

Total Icon Count: 11

Teasers:


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Today's featured procrastination method: Icons!

I have a bad habit of making icons to postpone other tasks. Then I hoard them like a hoarding person! This batch uses images I collected for a project on Domestic Interiors in Art.

Periods/Styles: Renaissance, Regency, Victorian, Romantic, Impressionist, Pre-Raphaelite
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I'm reading an online discussion about the Wiener Werkstatte and the Bauhaus (this is art history stuff that doesn't need to be meaningful to you, btw) in which two guys are getting into a bitch fight over the "relationship" between Joseph Hoffman and The Bauhaus. Things are getting testy, and then this happens:

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December MiFu Update, Day 18
Caffeine units: 1 coffee with milk, 2 black tea with goat milk & honey
Chocolate units: 1 oz chocolate-covered ginger (not enough!)
Procrastination methods: I swear none of it was voluntary!

Actual writing: Nothing yet today except this post and a few comments. :{ But it's only 7fortysomething and I'm determined ( Read more... )