i work at kickstarter and play the ukulele, sort of.
If you’re in NYC on June 6th and thinking about possibly running a Kickstarter project, come to the second Kickstarter Open House! Kickstarter staff and successful project creators will be around to hang out and chat about whatever project ideas you have, big or small. Our first event in February was a blast, so we’d be thrilled to see you in June!
The last event filled up crazily quickly and was a lovely time, so RSVP, come by and have a beer on us.
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Went to sleep under a mosquito net in a cottage in the jungle, woke up to something furry and purring—a cat had climbed through the bathroom window, up the stairs and nestled quite confidently into the bed. She and her entire feline family weren’t the only creatures that tried to burrow their way in to the chalet (our hearts?). We had a host of moths, giant spiders and even a couple of frogs, one of which was found staring at me while I brushed my teeth.
We took the underinflated mountain bikes along the dirt path (past grazing horses and a nervous donkey) to the beach town and back, stopped by the supermarket and tried cooking Brazilian food. The water stopped working the next day. We got a ride in a buggy from a mystical old lady to the bus stop, and then took on a six hour journey to São Paulo, which is probably the exact opposite place of where we were before.
Leaving for the airport in 35 minutes to fly back home, where I hear it’s going to be 80 degrees(!) though not particularly tropical.
Bye Brazil!
I’m on a tropical island that’s overrun with friendly stray dogs (and a disproportionate dachshund representation). There are no cars allowed and the crabs come out at night. We hiked through the jungle to a beautiful beach and hiked back when it was getting dark. Yesterday I ate fish stewed with bananas for dinner.
Açaí is a strangely delicious Brazilian berry made into a sweet frozen pulp that locals consume in shocking quantities. It has a weird but tasty olive oil-y flavor and it turns your lips purple.
After some caipirinhas we ran into a supermarket and, as annoying foreigners might do, grabbed one each of various tropical fruit that we’d never seen before. Ringing them up, the cashier looked perplexedly at a weird green one and a small red one and (presumably) asked us what they were in Portuguese. Gestures of confusion. The old ladies in line frowned at the fruit and shrugged. A boisterous man kept shouting “Maçã! Maçã!” but they definitely weren’t apples. A small crowd gathered. The fruits were passed around and sniffed. Still no one knew the answer.
Eventually the cashier added a reasonable couple of reais to our bill and we took our mysterious little friends home.
What Will the Facebook School Look Like?
Mark Zuckerberg walks into a middle school classroom. The students, in rare form for their Super Important Visitor, pick their noses in silent expectation. Zuckerberg shuffles to the front and turns to face them. He coughs and peeks at a notecard.
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“Metro station ‘landsberger allee’. The hostel is just outside the metro station u cannot miss it ;) so kiss and see there! :)” This was one of the French people I met in Berlin on a free walking tour. I went halfheartedly clubbing with them.
“Mon nouveau numéro de tel est le 0613229413 c’est moi jessy” No idea who Jessy is.
“Caique is going to be there in 5 min ;) good night” I locked myself out of my Berlin Airbnb.
“Good morning dude ! You should begin to pack your stuff and dial 1023 on your mobile, should be a free number, to activate the international option” My Parisian friend Emile saves my ass on numerous occasions.
“How bout that coffee i run out of money?” No idea. Did not respond.
“Nicole, let’s hook up tonight ;-)” No idea. Did not respond.
“Par le chat” No idea. Did not respond.
“Salut sa va bien moi sa va tu fait quoi la” No idea. Did not respond.
“Vous avez dépassé la date limite d’utilisation de votre compte: Compte Bon Plan.” Merci, Orange.
See you tomorrow, Brazil, for some new confounding adventures.
A quick editorial cartoon about the intersection of self-pity, entitlement, rape, territoriality, misogyny and fear of women. You see it all over the place online in the form of Men’s Rights Activists (of whom there are a few reasonable non-misogynists), Men Going Their Own Way, Pick Up Artists, and dudes touting the “Red Pill”, because The Matrix is a good movie. Look any of these up if you have the stomach for it. These are extreme examples, but watered-down forms of these ideas are everywhere.
In lurking their blogs and youtube channels for a while, I’ve noticed that beyond the standard patriarchal chauvinism there is this deep fear of women - what they will do to me, how they will reject me, how they will use me, how they are changing society in a way that does not favor me, how they are making men into something I don’t like, how they are making themselves into something I don’t like, that they won’t give me what I want, and that they won’t give me what I think is rightfully mine. This goes beyond fear of feminism- this is fear of women at its purest. And that, to quote a puppet, leads to anger and hate. It’s sad.
I am a feminist. I think there’s enough ice cream to go around, but it does mean those of us with 3 scoops might have to give one or two up. Also, The Matrix is a fun movie but probably not anything you should be basing a philosophy on.
Check out this amazing and hilarious short animation about ice cream and male entitlement called “But I’m a Nice Guy” by Scott Benson. Also be sure to check out his other beautiful work in his demo reel.
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Inspired by Anita Sarkeesian’s Video Game Tropes vs Women, I wanted to pitch a Zelda game where Zelda herself was the hero, rescuing a Prince Link.
Clockwork Empire is set 2,000 years after Twilight Princess, and is not a reboot, but simply another iteration in the Zelda franchise. It just so happens that in this case, Zelda is the protagonist. I’m a very big Zelda fan, and worked hard to draw from key elements in the continuity and mythos.
This concept work is meant to show that Zelda as a game protagonist can be both compelling and true to the franchise, while bringing new and dynamic game elements that go farther than being a simple gender swap.
Hope you like it!
(via femfreq)
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Thursday 6 pm Office Drink Recipe
Cut the grapefruit into quarters and squeeze it with your bare hands into a glass because your office has a lot of things but it doesn’t have a juicer. Add the Wild Turkey until it seems like the right amount. Add one more splash. Drink and continue working.
This Brazilian Portuguese phrasebook I bought is actually incredible.
Lucky Break. 2012. Illustration for children’s poem collection ‘Chocolate Chips and Rocket Ships’ by John O’Mara.
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MoCCA Meetup!
If you like comics and are in Brooklyn, come to our pre-MoCCA meetup at the Peoples Republic of Brooklyn tomorrow night (4/4) at 8pm. We’d love to see you!
I’ll be there tonight. Come say hi.
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In about a month I will be on a tropical jungle island in Brazil.
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