May 28th, 2010 by Apoth
Haunted: Nietzsche and the Death of God
May 24th, 2010 by Serotoninronin
This is a paper I wrote for a class I was taking on Nietzsche. I’m essentially arguing that Nietzsche was even more Christian than he himself was aware of, sort of that he was a secret, closeted Christian. More papers to come. I have one on Borges, one on Kierkegaard, one on Sartre, one on infinite regress and belief justification and one on methodological individualism vs. holism in the social sciences (along with random old other ones). Let me know what y’all are interested in reading. Enjoy. Read the rest of this entry »
MS Paint Visual Dictionary- Part I
May 24th, 2010 by Apoth
I took some of the requested objects and created a representation of them on MS Paint, as promised. Sometimes it didn’t come out exactly as I planned. Like my image for “martyr” really worked better as “crusade” so I just did crusade instead. More will come, but here are the first 10.
Moondog
You request it, I draw it on MS Paint
May 22nd, 2010 by Apoth
It’s that simple. Make a request, and I will draw an image of it on MS Paint that will be 6″ by 6″. Multiple requests are allowed. There are a couple of rules though:
-Limit requests to one or two words
-Requests may not involve a subject and a predicate. For example, you could request “dog” or “pee” but you could not request “dog peeing”
-Proper nouns are allowed if they are relatively famous and well known, so “Abraham Lincoln” would be acceptable, but some random person, such as your neighbor, would not be.
-If your request is ambiguous or has multiple meanings, that is fine. I will just interpret it however I feel like. So if you request “sex” I could draw an image representing gender, or I could draw the act of intercourse.
-Don’t be annoying and only request things that are very difficult to express. For every abstract request I’d like five concrete ones.
I’ll post the requests in batches of 5-10.
That’s all. Post requests in the comment section.
The Great British Petroleum Oil Slick
May 20th, 2010 by Scratch Corwood
Interpreted on banjo, since I’ve run out of ways to say “We’re pretty well fucked.” in prose.
Phase Technology
May 17th, 2010 by Apoth
This is a creative project I did in a math class for non-majors (the same class I wrote this article for http://procrast-nation.com/?p=3578 ).
The project was to take one of the concepts or topics we learned about in class and to describe it metaphorically through art. The project was very open ended, and the art could be anything from a painting, to a song, to whatever you wanted. The medium I chose for my art was power-point. I made a slide show that told a science fiction story about a future breakthrough that allows humans to “phase” into other “channels”. The implications of this breakthrough are revealed as the slide show progresses. The breakthroughs and important events are listed chronologically. Pay particular attention to how the slides’ color changes as the slide show progresses.
The topic I was describing metaphorically was the idea of spacial dimensions beyond the third. For example, I explain how if there was a fourth spatial dimension, surgery would be possible without ever cutting anyone open and how storage space would be virtually unlimited.
Obviously, you need the ability to watch microsoft power-point presentations in order to view this project. Enjoy.
Edit: For those of you who really want to see the text of the slide-show but don’t have the ability to view it, I have included the text below. I will warn you though, it really should be viewed in its original medium, otherwise you will miss out on all the awesome illustrations and animations created by yours truly.
The George Bailey Moment
May 16th, 2010 by Scratch Corwood
THIS IS PART III OF MY ILLUSTRATED MEMOIR (illustrations Monday).
Part one is here.
Part two is here.
His gums. Such gums. Vast, prodigious. His teeth never stood a chance. His frame gaunt, face narrow, posture hunched, eyes ever so slightly crazed. When he spoke he gesticulated wildly, jerky and erratic. Like a marionette puppet.
Over the years we spent a lot of time, talking, scheming, making up backgrounds for the numerous town characters. He had a knack for nick-names, and it seemed like he had one for everyone he knew except me. Probably the best one he ever came up with was Hearing Aid Adam. Hearing Aid Adam was a short latino man who would show up to every teen punk show in his trademark Slayer hat covered in promotional patches and air drum with his eyes squinting intensely. Craig loved to tell one story especially. Read the rest of this entry »
Fatman Calculation XX
May 1st, 2010 by Apoth
It’s been a really long time since I did one of these, so yeah. Here we go.