Exceive

This site asks people to draw small black and white sketches online. The idea is to collect half a million pictures, and educate people about the fact that there are 6 billion humans on the planet and rising.

The site also sells posters of the drawings, 6000 selected drawings per poster. There are three posters at this point. They cost US$17 each.

Some of the sketches are surprisingly good for low-rez monochrome mouse drawings.

Kind of a nifty concept on the art level. The connection to population growth is a bit artificial and vague, but I guess it is one way to get people looking at the information.

You draw : online drawing

Dancing Skeleton, by Adam Chase

You really should take a look at the full-size version of this - a few splashes of ink placed just right.

And while you are there, you might want to take a look at some of the other art.

My son plays bass. As in so many other things, I’m very proud of his music.

He had somebody else do his site - far more Flash than what I would probably do, but this is a band site, so it makes perfect sense. Loads slowly, but you get to hear his music.
Decade Series . Official Website
Jay Huber. Remember that name so you can say “I knew him when…”

Yesterday, I almost bought a copy of Mad magazine.

But I didn’t.

Satire is dead.

Freedom Walk, Register with the DoD. Ask for permission to celebrate freedom and thank those who serve in the military. This is not registration in the usual “getting organized, estimating attendance, where should we send the junk mail for next year” sense, this is presenting your papers and asking permission.

However, if you subscribe to a pre-9/11 notion of freedom, you might prefer to walk without asking permission. Maybe you and some friends could walk through a park dedicated to those who serve in the military - I doubt there is a town in the USA that doesn’t have one. And you might find a veteran to thank in such a place. Thank him or her for the fact that you can express yourself by taking a walk without asking permission, without having your background checked. It’s what we used to call “freedom”.

Not photoshopped.
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