Philosophy is Laughter

Archive for April 2009

Another Redesign

Posted by: Jessen on: April 30, 2009

With a lot of help from my friend, Nedsferatu!

Documentary Movie Helvetica

Posted by: Jessen on: April 26, 2009

I have known of this documentary for years, but dismissed it [as I imagine many others have] based on the fact that, well… it’s about Helvetica. The font. I finally watched it last night though after hearing rave reviews, and it was actually very interesting, informative and often quite funny. Even if you aren’t a [...]

Bred to Death

Posted by: Jessen on: April 25, 2009

Pedigree Dogs Exposed: A documentary
This documentary will break your heart in the first five minutes. It has some very disturbing scenes of  very sick dogs, such as a Cavalier King Charles born with a brain too large for its head. Dogs being one of my favourite animals, it was also enraging for me. It’s about [...]

Art Post – Listen

Posted by: Jessen on: April 25, 2009

I had a bad day and I didn’t feel like drawing.

Music and Narcissism

Posted by: Jessen on: April 21, 2009

This originally started out as an exploration of the music genre electroclash…but it turned into something else and the parts about electroclash didn’t fit. I’ll save them for a different post.
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All human beings are naturally narcissists, who love their own reflections – which is not a bad thing at all, except in the case of [...]

Shepard Fairey and Plagiarism

Posted by: Jessen on: April 20, 2009

I never liked Shepard Fairey’s art. Something always seemed not quite right about it to me. While it may look good to most people, experienced artists can more easily spot a tracer or plagiarist by their technique, or rather, lack thereof. Also, they are more likely to have seen the original image that was plagiarised, [...]

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Therapy, Documentary

Posted by: Jessen on: April 20, 2009

I told my therapist today that I felt resentful that she was so nice to me… I think that was a big step… but it was very hard and I ended up leaving early.
I also watched an exciting documentary today… “The Century of the Self“…it’s about the rise of psychoanalysis and its social and political [...]

Art – Squark the Crow Man

Posted by: Jessen on: April 20, 2009

Drawn with the ink tool and brush tool in Paint Tool Sai. I love this guy, might redo him with real ink and  brushes. I used a reference photo for the face:

I realised that I like drawing animal people far more than regular people. You can be so much freer and more creative with animal [...]

Create Your Own Paints!

Posted by: Jessen on: April 18, 2009

Before buying things, I almost always try to find out if I can make it myself first – because its more rewarding to do, and usually a lot cheaper. Today I searched “DIY artist’s paint”, “create your own paint” etc. on google, and came up with almost nothing except for this one great site:

http://www.paintmaking.com/studio.htm

It has [...]


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