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It's so sad. 😔

The hardest abandoned building shoot of my life.  On May 31, 2007, I brought someone on a first date to Hudson River State Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY.  (Yes, asylums are a not-unusual first date location for me.)  Walking towards the sprawling Kirkbride-plan asylum, I smelled something like a BBQ - and assumed some other travelers had brought a grill and were cooking on the roof of Admin or something.  But when we got into the basement, the smell was stronger.  That seemed odd, but I didn’t put two and two together.  Then we climbed up into the Male Ward tower.  I looked out the window.  My jaw dropped.

About a half-hour before we parked and started walking in, there had been a terrible lightning storm which we waited out in the car.  Apparently, during this storm, lightning had struck the century-and-a-half-old asylum’s roof and it caught fire.  When I looked out that window, I saw the roof of my favorite ward in the entire building completely ablaze.  My date wanted to leave the burning building.  I wanted to stay.

I stayed inside the asylum for three and a half hours, photographing the fire as it crept closer and closer to the ward I was in.  All of a sudden, the tower began to rapidly fill with a dense, acrid black smoke.  I packed what gear I could, accidentally leaving behind a blanket my late grandmother gave me, among other things.  I held my breath for over a minute as I blindly climbed down five flights of stairs, got back into the basement, and made my way towards the exit.  And that was my goodbye to the Male Wards.

The only analogy which seems fitting here are the three times I’ve sat by the bedside of a dying loved one as the life slipped out of them.  This was truly a tragic occurrence, because it wouldn’t have happened if the lightning rods hadn’t been taken off the building.  It was over a year before I went back; when I did, I found burnt-up scraps of my grandmother’s blanket.

To see this larger, or to buy a print, head on over to my new SmugMug gallery.

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How to make your own realistic talking Donald Trump puppet.

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What would you and your friends do if you won the lottery?

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Really wanted to draw Toriel & Frisk together!

If you want to use it for something, you can go to my dA for a bigger version

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Unicorn flight!

RARE cut scene-“Unicorn Fight!” 

On Gravity Falls, we often have to cut stuff we like for time reasons. If we go a minute over length, the channel will stick us in the man-sized freezer with Walt Disney’s frozen head. But as every now and then these once dead scenes can rise from the grave and live again on the internet, like highly GIF-able zombies. 

Enjoy this rare clip of the cut “Unicorn Fight” from “The Last Mabelcorn” with the lovely temp voice talents of Matt Braly and Alex Hirsch

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Ugh! Change passwords and stuff if you use the same on multiple sites (which I don't).

Patreon Hacked, Entire Database Dumped Online

Strange, I don’t see much of this on my Dashboard. In case you missed it, yes, Patreon has been hacked, and unfortunately it’s looking like they pretty much scored everything that was stored in their databases and it has all been posted online. You can read about it here, but here’s the gist of it:

Passwords (encrypted, but there some buzz going around that they might be decrypted with the source code)

Private messages

Email addresses (hence if you use the same password for several accounts, they will know which email address to try it on)

Who you’ve backed

Shipping addresses

Tax Forms (Also supposedly encrypted, but…)

DMCA Takedowns (for creators that have had them filed against them)

You may want to take some steps to mitigate the damage, but really for the time being that includes changing your password ASAP, and doing so if you use the same one at different locations. And if you’ve been anonymously backing any creators, prepare to have that data publicly available. And supposedly, Patreon does not store complete credit card numbers.

That said, if anyone is still supporting me after this breach, thanks! For the time being, my Patreon page will remain open, but we’ll see what the future holds.

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Motswari King by Mario Moreno

Kruger National Park, South Africa

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So cute! 💞

Model sheet of a new character for VaniOtter on Twitter, and other places. This is Oreo, the skunk! When’s he’s pigged out, he is “double-stuffed” [jazzhands] Cute lil beady-eyed, heart-booty skunk fella, I had a ton of fun drawing him!  

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😨 What?

family portrait by Cristina Corduneanu Via Flickr:

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=^. ^=

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Yes!

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*snicker*

“fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak restaurant chains stronger”

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Hehe! 😇

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Cute!

Coloured up the incredible inks that I commissioned from henrieke-g of Musketeer-Magnus!

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I approve of this. 😸

Every day at the Steven Universe office.

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So this is basically Set. (and this took far, far too long for how lazy it turned out; also wish the loop could be more seamless, but ah well)

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