Latest Posts by foundinthegrass - Page 9
Oh! I didn't even notice. Well, look on the bright side - Okimokok 3102 sounds fetchingly futuristic. (⌒▽⌒)☆
http://carletoncolton.tumblr.com/ has sent me so many pictures of herself for reference, thank you so much! Here is another, a quick sketch before sleep, i hope you like it
HOW TO BUY LOW-COST GLASSES
If you are like me, you are low income. It doesn’t matter why, but you are and sometimes you need things to prevent your quality of life from dipping too much. Like a decent pair of eyeglasses.
Zenni Optical was brought to my attention by one of the residents at the clinic I interned at. The staff is remarkably skilled and it was my privilege to be able to work with them for 300 hours. Anyway, they serve many low-income folks and, instead of them sending them to their optician to look at frames, they recommended taking the up to date prescription and plugging it in at Zenni to get a good pair.
What you need
Your eyeglasses prescription. Get it however:
Dig it up from your paperwork
Call the last place that did your exam and pick it up
Pay for a new eye exam, decline fitting, and take the paper
Your pupillary distance
This is likely on your script somewhere. Look for “PD” and the number behind it. Otherwise, try this.
Here’s what you do:
Make an account at Zenni.
Plug in your prescription. I won’t go into the details of why and how scripts are written the way they are and how cool it is. Just plug in the values exactly as you see them. OD (ocular dexter) is the right eye and OS (ocular sinister) is the left. Sphere, cylinder, and axis for each.
It should look like this:
Now shop for some glasses and order.
Cheapest pair is about $7. Shipping is a flat $4.95 no matter how many pairs you order. Sales are often so, sometimes, shipping is free.
You can also order prescription sunglasses! Just make to order a regular pair in whatever frame, import the prescription you plugged in, and choose Add Standard Lens Tint.
I recently order my sunglasses because my eyes are going to boil out of their sockets. Took about a week. Came with a lens wipe cloth, PD ruler, and a case. Lenses are accurate and the frame doesn’t feel cheap or unbalanced.
SUPER.
(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ Wow! I might not be completely innocent of bias, I'll admit, but I think your sketches are positively stunning - and so evocative. To me, they always convey a such a heady, cogent sense of the character of the subject. I'm not sure whether it's the way you handle the details (that little birthmark!) or what, but it's working. Your love of and feeling for the portrait genre definitely shines through in what you do. Oh, and don't thank me! The pleasure's all mine. (◕‿◕)
http://carletoncolton.tumblr.com/ has sent me so many pictures of herself for reference, thank you so much! Here is another, a quick sketch before sleep, i hope you like it
So I made my boyfriend a strawberry Vader cake for his 22nd birthday (YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWAH OF THE DAARRK SIIIIDE!), and it was delicious.
But! The best part by far was how, when I shook the fruit I used to sketch out the face off my practice paper towel, it left this Shroud of Turin-like imprint behind.*whispers* Star Wars/Bible crossover AU.
That about sums up my reaction on seeing these. I managed to retain my dignity for all of about .02 seconds and then lost it. I love them! So much! Ahhhh! >//<
*ahem* Right. I'm delighted that you got some use out of my photos, kokomiko - seeing them go from refs to portrait studies was a real treat. Thank you!
Draw-a-follower thingy starts! This is Carletoncolton, who was very generous to give me some of her photos for reference and practice, i think those turned out fine ( a wanderer and a noire lady?). Expect to see more soon!
And please don’t hesitate and send me your photos, it will be a great help and i’m always happy to draw something for my followers.
Sherlock & John
ANOTHER GIVEAWAY!!
This time, it’s Mica’s “Dad, why the hell would you give me Star Trek shirts? One has your face on it. It’s creepy. I don’t care that a con gifted them to you. You’re not going to wear them? Fine. Tumblr can have them” giveaway!! Rules:
you don’t have to be following me, but it would be awesome if you did. Also, I’ll put your name in 5 times rather than 1. I know I’m not a Star Trek blog, but I do post a lot of the reboot! Because Chris Pine’s eyes are the bluest blue to ever blue.
I’m going to regret this if someone from China wins due to my college student budget, but I’ll ship anywhere.
I’d like it if it get’s a few hundred plus notes so, you know, it’s worth it.
Reblog as many times as you want. Likes count.
Don’t be a douche bag and have a giveaway blog.
Giveaway will end on August 1st like my Supernatural one.
You shall receive:
4 Star Trek shirts shown above.
They are all various sizes from S-L
If the post gets 1,000+ notes, I’ll throw in an autographed and personalized picture of LeVar Burton. Why not? I live in the same house as him, might as well make use of it.
Good luck!
Well. This just helped me identify certain feelings I've been repressing for aaaaages. *cough*bottommiddle*cough*
if this post gets 5k notes ill make this picture into a shirt
Reblog this and I'll send your URL to BC
I’m filling a notebook with the URLs of the Cumber Collective to send with the Relax the Real Project. Reblog and I will include yours!
Hi all! I’m writing a paper for “Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present,” an academic conference being held next month in London. http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/ies-events/conferences/SherlockHolmes
Anyhoo, I’m writing about slash in the fandom and would love to include some data from...
So, TV ratings are complicated, unwieldy, and truly loathsome things. It’s hard to explain how they come up with the numbers, what the difference is between the numbers, and how they’re actually relevant to broadcasters in any simple terms.
I’m going to try.
Before I start with the incredibly...
You are cordially invited to Save NBC's Hannibal
Hi all,
I have created a petition encouraging NBC to pick up Hannibal for a second season! http://tinyurl.com/d3trcah
If you need more Hannibal (or just more Will in his tighty whities), please sign and share!
Hi everyone!!! This is an art supplies giveaway for me reaching an amount of followers I said I’d do a giveaway at!
Here are the things you’ll be getting, as you can see from the photo!
6” by 10” Sketchbook for both wet and dry media
A bottle of ink, you pick the color, I’ll order it from a specific site
A fountain pen that comes with the ink from the same site
11 colors of Cotman Winsor & Newton watercolors
3 brushes
A drawing of a subject of your choice to go on the first page! You might want to check my art out if you’re unfamiliar with me to see what types of things I usually do
And that’s that. I don’t use any of those watercolor tubes anymore, as I’ve replaced them each with higher quality tubes, so I thought: why not give them away? And I like the fountain pen I’ve been using so much that I think I’d like someone else to try it, too. I’ve also replaced the three brushes I’ve included here, so I don’t need those, either. And a drawing for good measure.
Here are the rules! Please follow these:
No giveaway blogs. I want more people to actually see this and have a chance at getting something; a lot of artists don’t have a lot of money…
Reblogs enter you, and a Like helps. You can’t just like - but you can do both to double your chances of just reblogging (if it falls on someone who liked it, I’ll check to see if they reblogged it)
I’ll be checking the blog that wins to see if you’re an active blog.
You gotta use these after they arrive! I obviously can’t enforce this, but I want to see people not being timid! Make art! That’s what these are for. I know a thing that stops a lot of people is being scared they’ll mess up and waste expensive supplies… but if this is a gift, that shouldn’t matter!
This ends on May 24th. If I send an ask and you don’t respond within 2 days, I’ll ask the next person, and so on.
I will ship anywhere. I’ll pay the shipping.
I think that’s everything. Have fun!!! Good luck!
Things you can do to help Hannibal immediately:
1) Sign this petition 2) Send an email to NBC 3) Join the NBC Peacock panel 4) Boost ratings by watching Hannibal on Hulu.com! You guys are awesome! We can get this done~ First fan campaign to start soon. All ideas are welcome
Even if it did, something tells me people would still just elect not to tag.
I wish real life had Tumblr Savior.
ATTENTION SHERLOCK FANDOM!
Hello! My name is Carolina and I’m a Literature major currently working on an oral presentation about modern adaptations of earlier literary works. One of the examples we chose is the show Sherlock, and since there is such a big fanbase for this show in Tumblr I thought it would be a good idea to conduct an online survey to further our research.
The survey is completely anonymous and made up mostly of multiple choice questions, all very easy to answer. We need to obtain at least 50 replies to draw any sort of conclusion, so please answer if you can. The only requirement is having watched the show; if you think you can’t answer one of the questions, you can simply skip it. However, please try to answer them all honestly. It will take you only a few minutes and my research group and I really appreciate your help.
HERE IS THE SURVEY.
Please reblog & share; the more replies we get, the more accurate we can hope our results to be!
Kickstarter time!
Currently I make resin skull jewelry which I’ve been selling in my etsy shop Skullery for a few years now. I’d like to expand and start producing a line of silver and bronze jewelry. I’ve spent the past 6 months learning how to make them and producing the examples you see here (and there’s more on the Kickstarter page).
Now I need your help! The equipment I need to cast these pieces isn’t cheap, so I need enough people interested in my work in order for me to buy the tools I need and start production.
I’d like to spread this as far as I can, so this post also doubles as a giveaway! Reblog this post to enter, no need to follow me, and when the project ends on June 1st I’ll pick three winners randomly for a bronze crow claw necklace, a bronze fox claw necklace, and a silver mini sparrow necklace (check out the project page to see them!). The first winner will have first choice, and so on. I have these pieces already made so even if the kickstarter isn’t funded you’ll still get them. And if you back the kickstart and win we’ll make sure you don’t get the same thing twice if you don’t want to.
Thanks for taking a look! If you cant back the project but want to help, spread the word! <3
I follow a lot of BBC Sherlock blogs, and I'm seeing so many fancy manips and gifsets from Hannibal that I'm curious...
…how many Sherlock fans are (or have been) fans of NBC’s Hannibal or the Harris novels it’s based on? REBLOG FOR SCIENCE.
So let me tell you about the shittiest parent on the motherfucking planet.
I work at a grocery store and this man comes in with his 11 year old son. He buys a pack a cigarettes and a two cases of beer. The son was holding a two dollar drawing pad and placed it on the belt and I guess the dad didn’t notice it at first but when I was about to scan the pad he asked where’d it have come from and turned towards the kid and asked “Did you put that shit up there?”. He told me to put it back and then told his 11 year old child that he “ain’t paying for that gay ass notebook.”. So I looked at the kid, who was close to tears and saying how he ran out of paper at home and my heart broke. So I gave the pad to him, for free, and told the dad I would take care of it. I gave the kid some tokens for a game outside and said I would look forward to buying some of his drawings and paintings when he’s all famous. He kids face was so priceless and I thought everything was good. But then, about 10 ten minutes after giving the kid his notebook, I walked outside and saw this. The drawing pad all ripped up and tossed on the pavement. I could only imagine what happened in the parking lot, but I know that that poor kid heart is fucking ripped apart, just like this pad.
I’m fucking horrified that there are parents like this, who, just because it’s not masculine or gender specificthey won’t let their children follow their true passions or explore interests that lead to their happiness. Even more so, I’m horrified that parents don’t care about the fine arts anymore because it doesn’t have job security. Since when did it ever matter to a child if their passion makes them money or not? Parenting is about supporting whatever makes your child happy. Have some fucking consideration for your child’s wants not your homophobic and anti-art ideals.
Jobasha, of Jobasha's Rare Books, if you please?
i want to draw something
give me a name of a Morrowind character and I’ll try to draw them
DISNEY HAVE STOLEN MY ARTWORK
I don’t know what to do. I am so upset. Can anyone help me?
My painting was created back in 2010, (see it HERE) and since then so many people have expressed their love for it, not just on tumblr, but in many places. At least 9 people had it tattooed on their bodies. It’s one of my favourite images I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways.
Disney have used it on a cosmetics bag HERE (look at the back) and they have produced a Tshirt HERE with a really similar design clearly modeled from my painting
I’m so mad because I have no chance at getting Disney to do anything about it. I had so much respect for the company and now I am just SO upset and disappointed.
Any help, advice or signal boosting would be amazing. And thank you so much to the kind person who messaged me about this.
YEA! about time too :)
I’ve a few large prints lying around the house. so.
rules:
must be followin’ my blog, this is a thank-you for the moral support from my followers over the past year
each reblog=1 entry (“likes” will not count; nor “giveaway blogs”)
make sure your ask box is open
i will ship to the ends of the earth >8)
event ends on 15th of April, midnight, Pacific Time
in the meantime, feel free to use the “tumblrlove” coupon code for anything in the “print” section of the shop :)
Alright, kiddies, it’s that time again. Giveaway time! This giveaway is kind of sort of celebrating my approaching 30,000 follower mark, but really I just want to get rid of my leftover con merchandise. If you want to see my other tees just head on over to my RedBubble!
Here are the rules (please see before reblogging!):
This giveaway will end on August 1st, 2013, so you have plenty of time!
You can only reblog once. I repeat. ONCE. If you reblog more than once, it’s not very fair to the other people who want to win, and plus Tumblr doesn’t show multiple reblogs, so really it decreases your chances of winning.
Likes do not count.
You do not have to be following me, but it is always appreciated!
Please, for the love of god, have your ask or submit page open! I need to be able to contact you through tumblr!
I do not have any other sizes besides these, so please don’t ask. These tees are what I had leftover from my last con.
I will not do specific button requests, you get what I pull out of my magical button box. They’re all great though, don’t worry.
I might throw in some bookmarks! You’ll have to wait and see!
There will be three winners, each chosen at random with a random number generator.
Each winner will receive one tee (out of the three shown), three random buttons, a hand-drawn doodle of choice, and a handy-dandy business card (those were leftover too I want to get rid of them jusT TAKE ALL OF MY THINGS).
If you are chosen as a winner, and your ask/submit pages are not open, I will choose someone else. If you are chosen and your ask/submit pages are up, you must respond to my contact within 24 hours or I will choose someone else.
I can ship world-wide, and I will pay for shipping. Customs fees are a bitch, but I will do it. Just know that it might take a while for your package to get to you! I’ll let you know when I’m sending them out!
The winners will get to choose their tees, first come first serve to whomever replies to me first! If you do not get the tee you wanted, I can always send you just a drawing by snail mail and I can choose a different winner of the tee!
Happy reblogging! If you have any questions just ask!