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Now this is just fun.  Surfing around the internet (does anyone even use that terminology any more?  It’s so 1997) I came across this art exhibit that has come and gone from Arario Gallery in Seoul.  It’s a larger than life recreation of famous cartoon’s skeletons.  I don’t know what it is about this that is so very appealing, maybe its a little bit tongue-in-cheek morbid (Bugs Bunny looks like the freaky rabbit from Donnie Darko), maybe because it takes our favorite characters out of fantasy land and turns them into reality. Or maybe it’s just funny to see museum-sized skeletons for something goofy like cartoons instead of typical dinosaur bones.  Who knows!  All I know is I’ve been coming back to this site to look these sculptures over for about a week now.   My favorite, Tom and Jerry, are shown below.

Mr. T pities the fool who doesn’t love Pack Rat Magazine

This will be a real quick blog, no pics to accompany it I’m afraid. I acutally found this quite some time ago and meant to share it earlier. Craft At Home has a section to their website called Craft At Home’s Tribute to Dumb Crafters. I, personally, got a huge kick out of reading some of these flubs that these crafters made, such as embroidering a back pocket closed, accidentally cleaning paint brushes off in tea, and doing an elaborate gift wrap job on a mistakenly empty box!  It’s only funny because we all make these little errors…it’s only human.  I don’t have any specific mess ups of my own that come immediately to mind, but I’m always trying to cut corners to save some time and obviously things go awry so it ends up taking more time in the long run.  Oh!  I just thought of one.

Meghan did this! 

In undergrad, I beaded a necklace using a new wire I wasn’t familiar with. Rhodes scholar that I am, I decided to wear my new creation to my badmidton class.  When I stretched to hit the birdie, the strain of having my head pulled back busted the wire and beads went all over the gym floor.  (cue slide whistle).

Pack Rat Magazine won’t tell your heart, your achy, breaky heart.

I found this sweet site full of uplifting comics that I wanted to share with you. Called Bird and Moon, the title comic describes a night when one lonly bird rendevous with the moon and finally finds a friend. Author and illustrator Rosemary Mosco is based in Toronto and claims she’s new to the comic world, but she handles sequential art like a pro. Even for someone like me (who fears and avoids birds), her comics are refreshingly minimalistic and touching.

The moon has to go home, and I’m sad too!

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So, I think that maybe this is a leak, and we aren’t suppose to be able to see it without buying the March issue of Vanity Fair, but I came across a spread in their most recent issue that I just had to share with you. Based on Alfred Hitchcock’s most beloved thrillers, Vanity Fair has reshot some of the most iconic moments from his films with the leading ladies and gentlemen of today’s Hollywood. I just love it. Even though I’ve seen it here, I also bought a copy so I can pour over the glossies. Just lovely. Here are my favorites below.