Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, the average person (I assume: American) will make more than three career changes during the span of his/her working life.
So. Here you are, wondering where the passion went, why your job doesn’t satisfy you the way it used to, why you can’t get yourself to apply […]
Although these irresistibly indecent proposals are based on real events, their specific details have been altered, added or left out for dramatic purposes. All characters in this post are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, tyrants, and sweatshops, living or dead is purely coincidental.
1. The typical job posting
We are looking for an energetic individual to […]
If it wasn’t because of those three happy ladies who got on the train with a yard sculpture, I would have never known that the Utah Arts Festival was going on this weekend in downtown Salt Lake City. We went yesterday… Too early to see any performing art, but late enough to catch the full […]
While Joey is currently consumed by the thought of replacing a large percentage of our randomly yellow grass with large beds of water-wise plants (i.e. xeriscaping), I am experiencing some kind of weird devious urge to grow plants. Not only grow them… The actual urge is to grow plants from seeds or pits, and bonsai […]
For a long time I’ve shied away from attempting to create what I consider “difficult” vector art. I think the tool is hard to master, and the thought of it used to remind me of my very old failed attempts to convince recruiters that I could become a consultant… With the difference that as bad […]
If I have ever painted a decent watercolor portrait, any of its goodness can mostly be attributed to the lessons I’ve learned from “Painting Watercolor Portraits That Glow” by Jan Kunz.
I’m not a professional artist, so whenever I paint I need photographic material as a reference. One of the key lessons I got from understanding […]
Exhibit A
Uniandes (college)
My friend Beatríz and I discover that our favorite burger place on campus, where we usually camp between classes, rents games, and hey! we didn’t know each other played chess… We rent a chess set and start playing.
A few friends start coming from class, and noticing we’re playing, stop at our table. Of […]
This morning, as I downloaded the log files for my sites I realized that today’s date is 06.06.06. I thought “Hmmm three sixes… I think that’s the devil’s number”. I googled 666, and sure thing it’s called “the number of the beast”. Scared, because every 666 link in Google has a devilish title, and I […]