Monthly Archives: January 2012

This is my favourite nail design I’ve done so far. The outer half of the nails are painted with (a single layer of) OPI Austin-tatious Turquoise and the inside half are painted Designer, De Better from OPI’s muppet collection. I think it creates a neat metallic effect where the blue almost looks like a shadow because of the curve of the nail. I then did a french tip sort of look overtop with Warm & Fozzie which is probably my favourite of the mini muppets set I got for Christmas (although I haven’t tried all of them yet so I might change my mind.) The overall look is very sparkly. Tumblr taught me how to hold the nail polish bottles.

PRETTY 🙂

A note on followers

I try to refrain from telling people to follow my blog, because I don’t want to badger my friends or focus on that sort of thing on my blog. I’d rather talk about art and philosophy and the goodness of things.

It still makes me happy to get new followers.

However, it makes me even happier to hear about friends or classmates who read my blog without even my knowing, whether it’s for prof quotes, or to check up on my life or whether they like the articles or poetry I sometimes I post. I think this is because it reminds me of a network of people who care about me and/or value the ideas and thoughts and images I put out here. It just gives me the warm and fuzzies 🙂

I must admit though, what pleases me the most is when someone whose blog I read and opinion I respect follows my blog. That can light up my whole day, because, as much as I love sharing things with the people I already know and care about, I also love creating content that speaks to people who haven’t met me, and the possibility for new friendships that creates.

So thank you.

Why is there something instead of nothing?

We are unable to propose the existence of nothing, because nothing is impossible for the human mind to comprehend in a similar way to the fact that infinity is impossible to comprehend fully. Human thought and analysis, as I understand it, is based off of the sensory inputs we receive.

Even when comprehending non-material ideas such as justice and mathematics there are strong roots to physical examples and phenomenon. In fact, even if you were to come up with a completely nonphysical example, I would argue that the sensory inputs we have received throughout our lives have influenced our thought patterns enough to play in to the analysis of that given question as well. I would furthermore go on to argue that we never really deal with ‘nothing’ even in the lesser extent of absence of a certain thing. As we define the absence of something through the definition of that something itself, and if there was not the something, we would have no measure of it, and therefore would be unable to deny it’s existence.

At the very least I can tell you that I have been unable to imagine nothing, even in the extremely limited capacity of the end of my own existence, and that my attempts to have been both frightening and unfruitful. They led to my attempted understanding of time and how anything can really exist in this strange flux of the universe.

However, despite my failure to answer your question, I can tell you that I am extremely appreciative of the fact that something does exist, and that for me, at least, that is enough.

Um, could an ordinary superpower be loving books? I usually have a book with me everywhere I go. I enjoy sniffing old books. Bookstores make me happy.

Yes, definitely!

When I got the idea for drawing Ordinary Superpower comics it was really a combination of two ideas. One was something I read a long time ago, that I don’t even remember the source of, about a boy who wrote stories about people with, well, ordinary superpowers. An example would be having a pinky finger that could turn invisible or was really strong. I honestly don’t even remember if his characters made use of the abilities or if they were sort of useless. The second idea was really just the belief that people are more significant than they realize. That the little things matter. I think that there are two very prevalent viewpoints in our society. One that there are so many people, and that they are so small in the course of everything that they don’t matter, that nothing really matters.

The other is that size, and durability are not really the measures of worth. That small actions can have huge impact or that changing a single life is of huge value. The butterfly effect would be considered a real world example of this phenomenon. I prefer this viewpoint, in which consciousness and life and creativity is considered beautiful and precious despite the abundance of people that have been and will be and I’ll tell you why. I don’t think it’s a question that we’ll ever really have an answer for, and instead of fretting about what is right in cases such as these, I think we should believe what makes us the most inspired, productive, happy human beings possible. After all, even if we’re wrong, we stand more to gain by believing, and trying, and being than we do fretting about the inevitable. I think this makes an incredibly strong argument both for optimism, and against fate.

However, back to your original question, I think loving books is a valid and valuable attribute to celebrate. And my comic really does come down to celebrating things that may be overlooked (in a lighthearted and visually pleasing way.) Reading can open up a world of possibilities, and help create more thoughtful, understanding and empathetic people. It’s really an incredible thing humans have created, that allows not only the passage of information efficiently from person to person through the passage of time, but for many of us to feel slightly more understood, and less alone in this infinite universe.

I was going to wrote a post about all the things I want to do this term that I haven’t started doing yet but then I realized that writing about what I am going to do and write about is still too much time for tonight so I just played games on google plus and watched youtube videos with my roommates and now I’m going to bed.

To make up for just telling you about what I’m going to do instead of doing anything here’s a pictures from the page a day calendar I made my boyfriend for Christmas. Love you Adam.

Goodnight!