I was kind of taking a break with this painting. My brain has been a little fried, I can barely find time to sit and concentrate. So I went for a simpler subject this time. Just an owl and a moon and some plants. Yeah, I just put a bird on it.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
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There is a certain amount of Van Gogh-ness about it. :-)
- April Russo
OK, yeah, that is pretty awesome. It completes an unfinished circle in our lives or something. - Things and stuff. - http://martwizzle.tumblr.com/post...
"In all my years of reblogging shit, this has got to be the best picture to grace the page of tumblr. I don’t know why but this picture makes me very emotional."
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
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LOL - Guy's American Kitchen & Bar - "Guy Fieri forgot to renew the domain name for his shitty restaurant, so someone else bought it and put up this menu:" - http://guysamericankitchenandbar.com/
e.g.: "Football: The Meal. $19.95. Warm broken hamburgers, served in a clear plastic bag enclosed in a larger, black trash bag. Thrown at you from 40 yards."
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
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Hm, maybe. Feedback in the form of dollars would be nice again. Or at least critique from artist peers. Just have to trust the process, I guess... - This column will change your life: Helsinki Bus Station Theory | Life and style | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeand...
"There are two reasons this metaphor is so compelling – apart from the sheer fact that it's Finland-related, I mean. One is how vividly it illustrates a critical insight about persistence: that in the first weeks or years of any worthwhile project, feedback – whether from your own emotions, or from other people – isn't a reliable indication of how you're doing. (This shouldn't be confused with the dodgy dictum that triggering hostile reactions means you must be doing the right thing; it just doesn't prove you're doing the wrong one.) The second point concerns the perils of a world that fetishises originality. A hundred self-help books urge you to have the guts to be "different": the kid who drops out of university to launch a crazy-sounding startup becomes a cultural hero… yet the Helsinki theory suggests that if you pursue originality too vigorously, you'll never reach it. Sometimes it takes more guts to keep trudging down a pre-trodden path, to the originality beyond."
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
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Noma, 'World's Best Restaurant,' Blamed For 67 Diners' Illnesses : The Two-Way : NPR - Huh? How did someplace with such a high profile screw up on something so simple and obvious?? - http://www.npr.org/blogs...
"After the food agency found that members of the restaurant's staff had spread the illness to patrons, it issued an official warning to Noma. In a kitchen that was outfitted with exotic equipment such as a Pacojet (to make fine sorbets) and a Thermomix (to combine ingredients at specific temperatures), the Danish food agency found there was no hot water tap to let employees wash their hands properly." :((( Gross.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
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Dragonflies flit among the waterlilies in the Okavango Delta. The Okavango Delta is a large wetland area in Botswana, which is in southern central Africa. The delta is one of a few in the world which does not flow into a large body of water. The dragonflies in the painting are Julia skimmers, or Orthetrum julia. The one on the left is a yellowish female, and the other one is a blue male. Julia skimmer dragonflies are found in several parts of Africa, including the Okavango Delta. (I'll admit that even I had a little trouble with the pronunciation of this title. It's oh-kuh-VAHN-go or-THEE-trum.)
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
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