Trey Piepmeier
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Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.
Kate Beaton is wonderful and she does the most expressive drawings. Just look at this (from Strange Tales II).
Hilarious. And simple. Simply hilarious.
Here’s the artist. (photo source)
Then there’s Jesse Thorn. This guy. (source)
I know him mostly from Put This On, a video podcast about menswear that used to be good. They seemed to have lost their sandwich, but that’s another story.
In any case, here’s an interview Jesse did with Kate that I found quite enjoyable.
Kate is amazingly talented. I got the opportunity to see her in person at SPX last September (Here’s an unfortunate picture of yours truly meeting another comic book hero to prove it).
She’s one of those people you realize are much younger than you are so why haven’t you done amazing things like they’ve done? You’ve had more time!
Anyway, go listen to that interview. What a voice, am I right? Cute, super-talented, and a low, sultry (if somewhat fried) voice. And she manages to do all this while Canadian.
Over the mountain, the ominous cloud, coming to cover the land in a shroud, hide in a bushel, a basement, a cave, but when cloud comes a huntin’ no one’s a save! (oh… safe)
- Finn: What are you doing?
- Jake: Eliminating desire from my heart. It helps pass the time.
There’s probably another poster that Adventure Time is paying homage to that I am unaware of.
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I’ve ever had grew out of work itself.
A computer simulation of what happens when two spiral galaxies collide. At various points, the simulation stops to show a comparison to pictures of actual galaxy pairs in the midst of this process, as seen from the Hubble telescope. In a few billion years, the Milky Way might undergo this process, merging with our largest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy.
Meaningful uncertainty is often a crucial component of real choice.
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Posted: 10:47pm
It's been fun, y'all. You can always find me at treypiepmeier.com.
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Posted: 9:24pm
Beard smash! Surprisingly hard to get his pose. I'll settle for this. @blastro forever!
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Posted: 6:51pm
Hey, I got mentioned in a rap song. I guess I'd better keep going. I was seriously considering backing out. My perfect streak has been broken by 3 shameful days now. Rap song + it's my birthday = keep going (at least for now). I've been a bit disappointed that I'm not coming up with more creative stuff to share with the whisker-crowd. I'd rather do the minimum 1 photo a week and make that one count that just post mediocre junk every day. Can I blame it on not having a good camera? Nah, that's a lame excuse. Tone is in your fingers. It's just plain laziness and not taking the time and effort to do something remarkable. Maybe I can do better.
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Posted: 7:54pm
You kids get off my yard! Tolleson-style.
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Posted: 6:52pm
Can you see it, Joker? Feels to me... like it's written all over my face. I've lain awake nights... planning it... picturing it... ...endless nights... ...considering every possible method... treasuring each imaginary moment... From the beginning, I knew... ...that there's nothing wrong with you... ...that I can't fix... ...with my hands...
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Posted: 9:16pm
Always With Me Clockwise from lower left: Keys, wallet, Pilot G-2 0.38 pen (recommended by Gruber), grandfather's pocket knife, glass of PBR, hipster PDA.
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Posted: 7:53pm
Books I'm reading #5: Daredevil: Love and War. Just an old book I pulled out of my collection to read. A collection that will soon reside on comicbinder.com
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Posted: 6:18pm
Books I'm reading #4: How to Win Friends & Influence People. It's an old book, but it's still really good. This copy belongs to my parents, and may have originally belonged to my grandparents. This edition was published in 1964, and it's the 114th(!) printing.
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Posted: 10:53pm
Books I'm Reading #3: Mindfulness in Plain English. While I haven't yet taken up the habit of regular meditation, I realize the benefits of it. I found this book from a recommendation by Mister Hivelogic, Dan Benjamin. This is another book that I've had for quite a while, but still haven't managed to finish yet.
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Posted: 6:31pm
I think I got this book last Christmas (2008). I still haven't finished it, but it's filled with some good things so far. I got the idea for my Solutions Log from this book.
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Posted: 7:28pm
My theme this week: Books I'm Reading While I would normally consider myself a fairly large comic book dork (quite a bit more so when I was younger), it's the shameful truth that I've never read all of Watchmen. I don't even own this copy: I picked it up from the library today. And I even spend most of my free time working on a comic book collecting website. You can get some spoilers for the rest of the week on my Readernaut Reading list.
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Posted: 2:02pm
Hangin' with Djangles, the Django Gorilla. @Phil is a master Djangorillamaker.
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Posted: 11:35am
Excited about what came in the mail today.
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APOD: 2010 May 6 - Northern and Southern Owls
A look at the fate of our sun. 2 light years is a big area. 2,000 times the size of the diameter of the orbit of Neptune.
APOD: 2009 November 6 - Ring Nebula Deep Field
It’s odd that something so utterly gruesome could be this pretty. It’s like driving by the rotting corpse of your neighbor’s father on the side of the road. This is the fate of our sun in another 5 billion years or so.
APOD: 2009 June 8 - Possible Jet Blown Shells Near Microquasar Cygnus X1
This is an annotated picture of a black hole with all sorts of interesting stuff happening around it.
APOD: 2009 April 11 - The Big Picture
As I’ve said before, it’s hard to place in context the amazing pictures you see of deep space with the sky you see every night. This helps.
APOD: 2009 February 9 - Anemic Galaxy NGC 4921 at the Edge
It’s cool to see three very distinct regions of space in a single picture. The focus of the picture is the large galaxy, but you can also see “nearby” stars in our own Milky Way as well as even more distant galaxies behind the big one in the picture.
APOD: 2002 January 21 - Volcano and Aurora in Iceland
I can’t imagine what it must be like to live somewhere where you can see things like this.
APOD: 2008 November 14 - Fomalhaut b
Since I got interested in astronomy as an impressionable young man, I’ve understood that most stars probably have planets around them. It’s been really rewarding to watch the progress over the last few years as more and more planets have actually been observed (for the most part indirectly—until now). I even understood that to directly observe a planet around another star, the exact technique used in his photograph would have to be used.
This planet is 3 times the size of Jupiter and 14 times farther away than Jupiter is from our sun. It’s also a mere 25 light years away (basically in our cosmic backyard). That means it is an enormous (probably uninhabitable) planet really far away from its star, which is very close to us. So it’s probably about as easy to visually observe as any planet in our immediate neighborhood. It’s an incredibly important step in the exploration of our galaxy, but there’s still a ways to go.
It’s amazing that so much has happened in this field in such a short time. I would not be surprised if within the next decade or so we observe a planet that is a potential target for an interplanetary mission.
It’s an exciting time to be alive.
APOD: 2008 October 17 - An Extraordinary Voyage
Apparently dumping trash into the atmosphere and taking video of it is APOD worthy. Who knew?
APOD: 2008 September 29 - A True Image from False Kiva
This one’s been making the rounds on Tumblr, so I thought I should make a place for it on the APOD Log. This is an amazing picture.
No PhotoShop here. Astrophotographer Wally Pacholka took this single exposure photograph at False Kiva in the Canyonlands National Park, Utah. He admits to being concerned about mountain lions as he waited in the dark cave to capture this beautiful view reaching from inside the Earth to infinity. (via Neatorama)
APOD: 2008 September 19 - Companion of a Young Sun like Star
This is big news. An actual photograph of a planet in another solar system. Within the last few years, they’ve found scads of planets around other solar systems, but I’ve never heard of there being a direct photograph.
From APOD:
this picture likely represents the first direct image of a planet belonging to a star similar to the Sun.
Does that mean there have been other direct images of planets around non sun-like stars?
In any case, this is incredibly cool.
APOD: 2008 July 28 - SDSSJ1430: A Galaxy Einstein Ring
This is some crazy, relativistic stuff right here—gravity bending light into a circle. The computer generated images of the individual parts are especially cool.
APOD: 2008 July 23 - High Cliffs Surrounding Echus Chasma on Mars
This is the kind of APOD I like: nobody really knows what’s going on here. This one is also great because I was sure it was an illustration. Nope—it’s a photo from the Mars Express orbiter. It really looks like an illustration in a science book from the 50s or 60s.
APOD: 2008 July 15 - Gas and Dust of the Lagoon Nebula
Pictures like this where they remove the stars are really striking. If most of what was removed was foreground stars, I suppose this gives a more realistic view of what it would be like to be closer.
APOD: 2008 July 14 - Changes in Angular Mars
I had never thought of this—since Mars is further from the sun than we are, we never see Mars (or any other planet further out than we are) in a crescent phase.
