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nerdy Pencil sketch, text added in Photoshop I was reading about eugenics last night, and made a little discovery. John Harvey Kellogg was apparently a big believer and proponent of this faulty science (he was also a believer in some other faulty "sciences," but is nothing compared to this). Eugenics is the idea that humans can control their own evolution through selective breeding. Generally, it's not a good idea to treat people like domesticated dogs. This dangerous, flawed idea led to such things as forced sterilization, laws prohibiting mixed race marriages, and immigration restrictions in America. In Germany, however, the Nazis took it to an extreme (as they were known to do). The influence of eugenics can be seen in most everything the Nazis did, but my interest really comes in where Hitler started. Institutionalized disabled children and adults were the first to be targeted by the Führer in a program called "Action T4." The mentally ill, developmentally disabled, and the physically handicapped were gassed, poisoned, or just left to starve. When families asked about their missing loved ones, they were told that they had died of natural causes and had already been cremated. Okay, getting back to Kellogg... He was a pretty early supporter of eugenics. He started his Race Betterment Foundation in 1906, and held conferences on the subject at his famous sanitarium in 1914, 1915, and 1928. He had huge influence in his time, and I just wonder how much this seemingly benign eccentric contributed to the future evil done in the name of eugenics. |
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moody Enid, Hi-Fashion Doll (it actually says that on the box) Made completely in Adobe Illustrator 2008 I'm really pleased with this one. I've been playing around with more of Illustator features. I only used Photoshop to add the watermark. The rest is vector. |
sick Adobe Illustrator 2008 A third vector illustration of a toy from Cardboard Spaceship |
anxious Adobe Illustrator 2008 Vector illustration of a toy from Cardboard Spaceship |
uncomfortable pencil sketch in sketchbook Stage one of my Katie McCarron project. |
blah   "Victorian Ladies" Valentines The Graphic Design Club on campus will hopefully be selling these (and other) Valentines in the coming weeks. Photos from DustyOldStock. Fonts from DaFont. Also, Happy New Year and visit my newly redesigned website! |
blahThis is a little lemon-lime guy a created for one of my package design projects. And now for something completely different... I love YouTube. Someone on there is posting full episodes of a British comedy I watched all the time as a kid. Check out one of my favorite episodes of ( Are You Being Served? ) |
busy| I can't scan anything right now... so, here are a couple of my recent favorite youtubes |
accomplished
So, my painting class took a field trip to the art museum, and I actually got to go! I've been going to that school for four years and had no idea they had an accessible van/bus thing. My teacher was good enough to not only deal with the bureaucracy of getting it, but also driving the damn thing. Anyway, I was really taken with the painting above. Apparently SLAM has the largest public collection of Beckmann paintings in the world. This one was, by far, my favorite. The faces and the hands the and the colors and the brushstrokes - it's amazing. You should see it in person if you ever make it out there.
contemplative
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nostalgicAfter: My grandmother, c. 1927 ( See the Before ) |
antsy
Project for my packaging class (still in progress). It'll probably get ripped to shreds on Thursday :D If you are at all interested in package design, you have to check out The Dieline. |
thirsty Grand Marquis de Sade Done for a class... I might take it into Flash and try to animate it. And for something completely different... ( check out the first red leaf of autumn! ) |
blah| Classes started again on the 20th. I only managed to keep up daily entries for a few days after that. From now on I'll try to update every weekend. To catch up, since I started school I... ( Went to class )( Saw some friends )( Ate a heart-shaped potato )( Drew some stuff )( Saw a squirrel )( Went to an MDA Telethon and saw... )( Saw that Tara's owl is still being held hostage )( Took some photos of flowers )( And tried to keep my cat from destroying my room ) I'm a busy girl. |
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