amanda mello

Wedding ready. (Taken with instagram)

Sometimes you have to get ready for a wedding in a public restroom. (Taken with Instagram at Chicago Botanic Garden)

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We grew up with the Internet and on the Internet. This is what makes us different; this is what makes the crucial, although surprising from your point of view, difference: we do not ‘surf’ and the internet to us is not a ‘place’ or ‘virtual space’. The Internet to us is not something external to reality but a part of it: an invisible yet constantly present layer intertwined with the physical environment. We do not use the Internet, we live on the Internet and along it. If we were to tell our bildnungsroman to you, the analog, we could say there was a natural Internet aspect to every single experience that has shaped us. We made friends and enemies online, we prepared cribs for tests online, we planned parties and studying sessions online, we fell in love and broke up online. The Web to us is not a technology which we had to learn and which we managed to get a grip of. The Web is a process, happening continuously and continuously transforming before our eyes; with us and through us. Technologies appear and then dissolve in the peripheries, websites are built, they bloom and then pass away, but the Web continues, because we are the Web; we, communicating with one another in a way that comes naturally to us, more intense and more efficient than ever before in the history of mankind.

Piotr Czerski (via azspot)

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everydaypants:

ahem…….

so I went ahead and did a kickstarter for year one? help me out? reblog like crazy?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/433544158/year-one

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/433544158/year-one

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/433544158/year-one

I guess I should describe the project, for re-blog purposes. Whoops. As some of you might know, I’ve been working on my first novel-length comic book for the duration of the past year. My book is called Year One, and through weekly vignettes, illustrates my entire first year living in Philadelphia, after a significant move from Chicago. In some pages, my weekly activities are illustrated. In others, just a pertinent conversation. Year One was drawn in real time, finishing 2-3 pages as every week went by. I’ve spent hundreds of hours working on this project over the last year and am very excited to get it out into the world in the form of my very first book! Prior to this project, the longest comic i had ever drawn was 6 pages long. Year One is 136 pages and will be offset printed and perfect bound at 8x10 inches. It is 100% complete from front cover to back cover (and scanned, cleaned up, edited, edited again, and sized for printing. I literally just need to hit send and fork over a deposit to the printer).

Year One uses a variety of storytelling formats to give an overall glimpse into a year in the life of a late twenty-something year old, trying to figure out her place as a young artist outside of the post-college years. It is lighthearted, somber, lonely, funny, and quiet. It shows the number of people who come and go throughout a year, new love, old romance, loss and grief, and more generally, the search for a sense of self.

You can read it for free online at http://www.everydaypants.com/yearone but it would be way more fun for you to read it in print.

Thanks!

I’ve read Ramsey’s blogs for quite a while and was so excited when I heard she was moving to Philly. Reading the story of someone else’s experience in this city has been so interesting - we all overlap and bump into each other but our individual worlds are so very different. Ramsey and I have had a few nanny hangs now and I can confirm that she’s as delightful in person as Year One {and the blogs} led me to believe. Please consider supporting the printing of this project - it’s worth it!

We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.

Will Smith, in Parade Magazine (via antecubitalfossa)

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philosprite:

Gold

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ladyspacecake:

Whatchoo know about drive by press?
We can print from skate decks….

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Mama got herself a Big Girl press! New 5x8 on the left, 3x5 on the right. Shit just got real! Rollers should be here by Friday! (Taken with instagram)