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Blockbuster Nostalgia
You young folks have no idea what you’re missing.
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My Mall Dream
When I was little, I used to fantasize about being locked in a mall after closing time. Of course, for this to work, none of the individual stores would be locked and there would be no security whatsoever. I’d get to spend the night going from shop to shop, getting anything I wanted for free.…
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Digital Art
A friend of mine sent me a link to an artist on fiverr who can take a photograph, such as this one, and transform it into a digital watercolor, like this. That’s pretty nifty, for five bucks. I love the result. I’ll probably have him do some more in the future. But this made me…
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Hippie Peanut Butter Feeds My Soul
Behind every small-scale enterprise is someone who is so desperately in need of money that they’re willing to get creative. I can’t help but admire and, frankly, relate to that, so I try to support these enterprises whenever I can. If I have a coin, I won’t hesitate to drop it into the hat of…
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How I Found my Artistic Side
In a country that prizes consumerism über alles, and a culture that defines success strictly by the amount of money one makes, is it really such a big surprise that the first thing to go in the primary schools are the art programs? I mean, how many parents dream of their kids becoming starving artists?…