I posted this around the social web last week, so here it is here. My story is that I “discovered” a missing chapter from one of the Song of Ice and Fire septology, narrated by a new point-of-view character. Here it is!
I’m on so many blasts right now. Yesterday was my first time at Boston Comic Con. I’m in the midst of grading twenty-one papers for a class I’m helping to teach at Harvard Extension School. I just figured out that a sequence of three small paintings I’m wrapping up is [...]
design nerd glee!
design nerd glee!
I just learned that PANTONE is teaming up with Sephora to create a make-up line. Then, I learned something even more exciting: the entire collection revolves around the 2012 color of the year, Tangerine Tango. I’ve written in the past of my deep and abiding love for Pantone and the [...]
what made me happy this week
what made me happy this week
Things! This week has been cold and miserable and awesome. Read on to see what I’ve been up to. Every year before Valentine’s day, my office requests donations of unused or barely-used toiletries and cosmetics, which they donate to the Cambridge YMCA’s women and children shelter. This week I cleaned [...]
another new year
another new year
I’m going to use my birthday to set a goal for the year: to create 34 pieces of art in my 34th year.
hello, new year
hello, new year
Resolutions are for suckers and to-dos are for aspirants. I’m scheduling action items for throughout 2012. I’m getting things built, published, placed, and pushed through.
best hot cocoa
best hot cocoa
I’m not a fan of cold weather, despite being NY-born and New England-raised. I shiver. I whimper. And when I get home, I often turn to an old-fashioned warm-me-up. And today was the first day of 2011 cold enough to require this treat. One of the greatest things I’ve learned [...]
this time of year
this time of year
oh, christmassery. I love love giving presents, and I’ve been told that I am particularly good at it. I am totally the kind of person who keeps multiyear spreadsheets of gift-giving ideas. But I’m so bad at actually making the effort of going out and doing the shopping—especially when it’s [...]
last week was…
last week was…
all about FOCUSING. I’m spinning my wheels between three sprawling creative projects: my enormous graphic novel, a shorter 5-20 page comic I’m writing/illoing for a book competition, and my ss/ss triptych. Plus I just picked up a freelance web gig kind of by mistake. Now I need to slow down [...]
last week I…
last week I…
Skipped the family affair to attend my friends’ Sixth Annual Weird Thanksgiving. There were two birds: turkey and emu, and everything else was potlatch. I learned that “dressing” is midwestern for “stuffing,” was reminded how incredibly witty everyone I know is, and discovered the cardgame “who beats who?” (and realized [...]
ttibtil: Mad Men Meets Mad Max
ttibtil: Mad Men Meets Mad Max
This installment of Things That I Bought That I Love celebrates an Ann Taylor pyramid stud bracelet that is the apotheosis of my mad-men-meets-mad-max style direction! The pyramid stud watch is Kenneth Cole, scored on an unbelievable sale (I didn’t believe the shop girl when she told me the price, [...]
news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
So, I finished my thesis project. It’s portbou1940.com: a hypertext narrative examining the death of German-Jewish social critic, philosopher, and dialectical historian Walter Benjamin. I’ll be working on revising the written thesis this month, and turn it in next month; the official conferral of my masters degree will be in [...]
