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The Results of Too Shy Twenty Ten

January 26, 2010
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To be honest, donating money to the National Endowment for the Arts seems petty when Haiti really needs our help. However, I announced this promotion before the earthquake, and I promised participants that money would be donated to a specific organization. On December 25th, I launched Too Shy Twenty Ten.

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Fewer Sexy Librarians, More Talented Ones

January 5, 2010
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A Google image search for “librarians” yields many photographs of sexy bookworms. But where are the quiet ones who catalog the web? The Internet is a living and breathing creature of creativity and craft. So, who are the people feeling the Internet’s breath on their necks?

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Letting Go to Grow Artistically

November 16, 2009
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Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of reading Happyloo: Friends, Foes, and Fun by my friend Mark Mariano. A colorful and playful comic book filled with characters like Tickle, a friendly turtle, and Meatsauce, a gentle yet dim-witted bulldog who loves food, Happyloo first ran on Mark’s website from June 25, 2008 to January 19, 2009.

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The World Is Your Art Supply Store

November 11, 2009
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During a cleaning spree this past weekend, I found all my old arts and crafts supplies. In three large boxes and some large shopping bags were all the unused arts and crafts supplies that I had collected over the past 23 and a half years. Needless to say, I found a lot of raw material for artistic inspiration.

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