Hi everyone, on March 1st I opened my own etsy shop, BEadETHICAL. Right now most of what I'm putting up is stuff I've had around for a few years, but I've got a few new AR/Veganism themed items up, and more in the works. I try to use a lot of second hand & recycled materials, fair trade, too. And of course, no animal products ( Read more... )

I've stumbled across a startling art exhibition. This project, PIG 05049, takes one pig and illustrates in a very sterile and frank kind of manner where every bit and piece of the corpse goes. Here's the description from the artist's website ( Read more... )

Edit: Be aware that many art supplies (including paper and ink) are NOT vegan, and may have ingredients such as animal hair, animal fat, rabbit skin, carmine, gelatin, bone char, ox gall, etc. I learned this when I first became interested in doing fine art a few months ago, and now that I have some Christmas money to get started I have contacted ( Read more... )

Show me your favourite AR artwork...be it an inspirational tattoo you've seen, on canvas, online, something you've done, whatever.
I've got two blank canvases here and I'm needing inspiration besides Nick Baxter's tattoos.
[Obviously I'm in no way going to copy, I just need some sort of inspiration as alas, Im not an arty type]
TIA  dudes.

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Here's my WTF of the year for 2009 (yeah, I'll call it in May, that's how fucked this is). There's no gruesome animal violence in this video, but there is a whole lotta stupid ( Read more... )

Okay. So Veganism is epic, in itself, but what would make it even more epic? A vegan vampire. One of the leading ladies in my book I am writing, is a vegan from the UK who developed a spirulina based shake that has cultured white blood cells and crushed vitamin b12.

Character bios (and slight sampling from quotes) can be found here.

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I read about the idea of moss graffiti a few months ago, but hadn't found a very stable resource or very "set in stone" advice. But I cam across this place, and was thrilled. Except of course for hideous sight of buttermilk. Ugh. Substitutes anyone? (I'd prefer the tried and true ( Read more... )

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Here's some art I did on my computer .


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i just realised the other day that all watercolour paper (at least everything sold at the store i was at) had gelatin sizing, and was wondering if anyone could recommend a brand that didn't use sizing ( Read more... )