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Things Are Good: Climaginaries: Understanding the Post-Carbon World
Fiction is an effective tool to picture how others live and what other possibilities exist for humanity. Stories like Star Trek inspire people to strive to make the imaginary real through existing science and technology, so why not do that for the transition to a fossil fuel free economy? That’s
Continue readingcartoon life: What I’m thinking
Typing live. Not a draft. I have a 23,000 year old mutation called Prothrombin 20210a. It is heterozygous to my Y chromosome. It seems to be passed from father to son. For some few thousand years. I also have CCR5delta32. It is said to be protective against the Plague. This
Continue readingcartoon life: specchio delle mie
https://twitter.com/dougsamu/status/1232429083893665793 Followed Laura when Paper by 53’s Mix was the place to be. Someday we’ll walk Milan and draw buildings and cats.
Continue readingcartoon life: What is your power and authority to rule?
https://tonyseed.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/for-your-information-how-the-canadian-government-imposed-the-band-council-system-on-indigenous-nations/ In 1890, the people of Kahnawake protested, pointing out the Canadian government’s lack of jurisdiction and its hypocrisy in opposing “hereditary” chiefs: ”Every nation throughout the world retains their own customs, rites, and ceremonies, and according to the British Constitution [there are] Kings, Queens, and Lords and Peers as
Continue readingcartoon life: Cute recycling advice
Watch “Empty, Clean and Dry” on #Vimeo https://vimeo.com/388545546 Excuse me? Do you know how big my kitchen is in this 90 year old house? My mud room is the winter back deck where I transfer the contents of smaller blue boxes crammed full, jury-rigged under a ledge. Pack all your
Continue readingcartoon life: Slogging through the cash and trash…
It seems there is no way to post an image tweet directly from a WordPress dot com free blog without upgrading to a business account for a plug-in, or using third party support. The point of the twitter feed is to distribute in narrow siloed market. The content simply, is
Continue readingcartoon life: Linocut cat
Downloaded some previous version Procreate Lino brush tools. Basically the shapes of the cutting edge, work over a sketch layer over a middle or dark tone background, make the marks. Select or mask the areas of intended separate colour, as though cutting separate registered tiles. Fill over with a textured
Continue readingcartoon life: Maybe I’ll move
Considering moving LondOntLife to Tumblr. The major following is off Twitter for the very localized cartoons, so it really doesn’t need WordPress as a storage place for the images. Clicks back to the blog are minimal. WordPress shares nicely with other social sites, but feeds only a link to Twitter.
Continue readingcartoon life: Animations. Everybody does it.
Well once you have Procreate 5, you have to make an animation. Can’t be helped.
Continue readingcartoon life: https://londontlife.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/mytitle-block-editor-aaaargh/
mytitle Block Editor AAAARGH….
Continue readingThings Are Good: Decolonize Games at the Toronto Biennial
This coming Saturday (Nov. 23) from 2-5pm you can play a game which challenges the colonial narratives present in too many games. Presented as part of the Toronto Biennial, Unsettling: Settlers of Catan uses the bases of Settlers of Catan to get players to think about all sorts of assumptions
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