The binary nature of post-pubescent female identity (or, me rambling about stuff that you don’t have to pay attention to.)
By brianna | May 13, 2009
So, I’ve been reading a lot about Diana Eng and her book Fashion Geek on all the craft sites lately. As cool as it sounds (and it sounds super cool), I haven’t payed much attention to it because I don’t sew fabric. Because I’m godawful at it. Much like with crocheting, I have no idea why I haven’t the knack for it even though I’m great at something similar. Go figure.
Anyways, back to Diana Eng. One of the articles I read mentioned that she was on season 2 of Project Runway, which made me pause. When I sprained my ankle last year and was delegated to laying down and watching crap tv, I pretty much became addicted to project runway and ended up watching every single season. I think I would have remembered a nerdy designer- she probably would have been my hero. So I went back and watched season two and there she was. Kinda hard to miss when your looking for her, but kinda hard to find when your watching and Santino is doing “something wacky”.
Highlights of her short run: Her trying to explain to the judges that her dress wasn’t working because her magnet closures were having problems with polarity only to be met with blank stares, and saying that she reads more science magazines than fashion magazines. She reminded me of my mom, but younger and waaay shyer. Not as shy as me, but definitely shyer than my mom.
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The Leigion never looked this good. (okay, that’s a lie)
By brianna | May 1, 2009
I found this tutorial and decided I wanted to give it a try.
Since I have a bunch of comics that need to be used somehow, I decided to use those.
The inside boxes are made of the following covers (in descending order):
Marvel- a secret wars cover, no clue which one
Teen Titans- one given out at wizard world Boston 2/3 years ago.
Legion of Superheroes- the one where Superboy ditches the Legion for his cool new superhero friends.
Spider-Man- Free comic book day from last year or the year before
hardcore comic fans, do not fret: the comics I used were all severely damaged before I cut them up.
A lot of pics coming up
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What’s that climbing over the hill?
By brianna | April 17, 2009
Is it a monster?
IT’S A MONSTER!
yeah, so anyway, I made this little dude.
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How awesome is Aquaman? Super Awesome!
By brianna | March 14, 2009
Batman: the Brave and the Bold has just added to my ever growing love of Aquaman. For those of you who have not seen it, Brave and the Bold is basically a show about batman teaming up with random superheroes and being awesome. This show is what comics really should be: not overly silly (like JLI), but still fun.
I understand the need for deconstructionism, and I am the first to say that ‘the way things were’ was far from perfect. Still, what is the point of tearing something down if you are never going to build it up again? At this point reconstruction would look like a deconstruction of the new comic book mythos. \ I don’t want something that tells me that everything used to suck if it doesn’t give me the glimmer of hope that things could be better.
We should take away everything we learned from works like Watchmen. Let’s allow civilians to be a part of the crime fighting process. Let’s allow women and minorities with superpowers to be treated with the same respect as their white male counterparts. Let’s stop idolizing these heroes who can be-an are- just as flawed as everyone else. At the same time, we should sort through the rubble of the deconstructed old mythos to find the parts that worked.These parts are everything that BATB’s Aquaman stands for: things like the search for adventure and triumph in the face of adversity. Most importantly, the idea that people (and animals, of course) are worth saving.
Even without Brave and The Bold or Ookla the Mok, I would still believe that Aquaman is the best hero. It’s not all ‘talking to fish’ with him. Swimming underwater like he does gives him tons of advantages above ground that others do not have. I mean in order to hang out with sea creatures and destroy oil tankers, Aquaman’s got to have adapted to his environment pretty well. Here are a few things he should be able to do:
1- see in the dark- or at least have really good eyesight. There isn’t much light in the ocean, and absolutely no light in the deepest parts. Bad guys try to get the jump on him by turning out all the lights? They’ll be eating a knuckle sandwich of aquatic justice in no time.
2-hold his breath for hours at a time- unless he’s grown gills, that is. Bad guy lock him in a glass tube and threaten to start pumping noxious fumes in? All he’s got to do is take a deep breath and wait it out. Until he grows bored and kicks through the glass.
3- have super endurance- He swims underwater for hours at a time, all the while exerting himself both mentally (summoning creatures telepathically) and physically (beating up bad guys). He could go on a marathon crime-fighting spree above land with all that energy.
4- withstand extreme temperatures- it gets pretty cold in the ocean. This chart shows only the sea surface temperatures, and even those can get pretty cold. Battling Mr. Freeze in Antarctica? Totally not a problem.
5.- He was green before it was cool to be green- and will continue to be after the fad ends. He’s concerned with protecting the oceans not only for humans, but also for the marine plant and animal life. And that, my friends, is nobility.
6- Dude gets to hang out with dolphins whenever he wants- I mean, how cool is that? I bet he even knows the giant pink sea snail.
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Stuff I drew part 2: other stuff.
By brianna | January 26, 2009
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stuff I drew part 1: animals
By brianna | January 16, 2009
Exactly what it says on the tin.
I wanted to put up entire pages from my doodle-book, but the scans were too big. Instead, I cut and scaled the least crappy doodles for you to see.
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I’m feeling kind of victorian today…
By brianna | October 20, 2008
because I made myself a calling card!
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poems & junk
By brianna | September 23, 2008
blah blah ankle, blah blah grad school, blah blah writing, blah blah poems.
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Little moments of happiness
By brianna | July 16, 2008
sometimes I see something that makes me happy. I like to think I’m being rewarded in some small way for taking the time to notice small details. Usually, this comes in the form of feathers which I love), flat stones, or leaves flying through the wind that for a moment look like birds. I can bring all these things inside with me, to remember that happy moment. When I can’t take anything with me, I take a picture.
These pics are usually taken on a camera phone; up until now, I thought these moments would be kept personal and private. Fortunately, my mother told me I could upload pictures from my camera phone on to Flickr, allowing me to share my moments with you. I still don’t know how to feel about that.
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