Technical artist. Blogging since 1999.
A sketch I’ve decided to call done. A girl wearing a Marboxian tee shirt. Cool hair stolen from my ex-cow-orker Kathleen’s Facebook picture. (See? It’s not entirely evil.) The Inkscape file includes a hidden “scaffolding” layer used for blocking out the drawing.
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A quick Inkscape sketch from the other night:
What We Think They Say v.s. What They Actually Say
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Inkscape vector art (Compressed svg)
Something for the ladies? Perhaps you’ll enjoy this old favorite: A Chart of the Pressures Facing an Essentially Straight Modern Woman.
I believe in accountability. I believe that no crisis removes an American’s responsibility to uphold the Constitution. As a result, I feel duty-bound to oppose Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill granting American telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for any illegal wiretaps they may or may not have performed at the behest of the National Security Agency and the White House in the years following September 11, 2001.
Were the issue one of protecting companies acting in good faith, a cap on settlements would be proper. Granting immunity instead dismisses all present and future court cases, removing the public’s only avenue of discovery regarding the reality or extent of any illegal actions taken. Crisis does not justify barbarism.
Very little can be done by the public at this point. I’ve summarized my moral argument and sent it to lobbying group The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Stop the Spying campaign in the form of the photo below:
As a postscript, I regard Reid’s bill as another example of the spinelessness that caused me to leave the Democratic Party.
Because it isn’t enough to provide the shortest billing to payment due period of any company you do business with, Comcast gives you something more: the light euphoria of never knowing what precisely to ascribe to incompetence, policy or indifference.
Work on the Population Map continues. Below are some test renders from last night. Click for high-resolution images.
The Animation:Master project file is 5.5MB in size, culled from about 7.5MB of data. Some of the random colors chosen by the script make neighboring states hard to distinguish, which will be corrected in jEdit with find/changes. The enormous Yukon/Koyukuk Census Area in Alaska, with an average of one person every 22.5 square miles, is so close to the ground plane that it’s causing the software to glitch. The fill lighting is perhaps a bit too strong while facing west, and the key a bit dingy overall.
Griping aside, this project is coming along well in my opinion.
These were my original scribbles for the population map project. I try to work as much out on paper as I can before moving to the computer.
