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runningbeautiful: onwardsanddownwards: searchingforbliss: A...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:29:01 -0400

onwardsanddownwards:

searchingforbliss:

A preview of my workout routine next year haha

I have four cats! Perfect workout for me :-)

poor Sheldon. He doesn’t know what he’s in for.

SI on the Fly!: MicroVisions

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:27:36 -0400

SI on the Fly!: MicroVisions:

societyillustrators:

MicroVisions is now on display on our Second Floor! This is one of our favorite annual exhibits. It gives illustration and fantasy lovers from all over the world a chance to snag an original piece for a good cause.

Artists featured in the MicroVisions Exhibit have generously donated their time…

buzzfeed: stop what you’re doing and look at this.

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:43:25 -0400

buzzfeed:

stop what you’re doing and look at this.

mediaite: Imagine A World Without Hate

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:16:20 -0400

mediaite:

Imagine A World Without Hate

SI on the Fly!: The Society Does Not Censor

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:40:03 -0500

SI on the Fly!: The Society Does Not Censor:

societyillustrators:

After much delay, the Society of Illustrators’ 54th Annual of American Illustration has reached the US and is now available in our Museum Shop and online. We wish the delay in receiving Illustrators 54 was a simple printing error or even a problem in customs, but the story goes deeper.

So this happened on a project I’ve been working on…..

During the month of February a group of illustrators and myself...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:38:06 -0500

During the month of February a group of illustrators and myself will be creating an illustration per day on the theme of love.

I am really quite excited to be part of this and am hoping it will break my 5-year hiatus from art. Working at the Society is great, but it really puts pressure on me to create good art when I’m surrounding by such talented colleagues. I think sharing this art on a blog with people I admire so much will force me to follow through with it. It will be interesting to see if my confidence builds in 28 days.

You can check out my first illustration on the Month of Love blog!

Many thanks to Kristina Carroll for organizing this and to Jeanine Henderson for creating this awesome header!

Django reference to Roy Rogers

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:36:05 -0500

Django reference to Roy Rogers:

Tried to post this over the weekend but failed. I was, and still am, obsessed with horses, so when I saw Django this weekend I knew immediately why Tarantino had Django pick the palomino in that one scene, and then there was the thing at the end.

I saw Django last night and was probably the only one in the theater who got this reference

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:42:15 -0500

I saw Django last night and was probably the only one in the theater who got this reference :

Because I love horses.

thereconstructionists: American cartoonist and author Lynda...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:35:02 -0500

thereconstructionists:

American cartoonist and author Lynda Barry (born January 2, 1956) is as much a storyteller as she is a visual philosopher. From her 1999 graphic-novel-turned-off-Broadway-hit The Good Times Are Killing Me, exploring the interracial relationship between two girls, to her long-running, deeply empathic weekly comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, Barry’s instantly recognizable works are invariably imbued with equal parts humor, irreverence, sensitivity, and wisdom.

In 2009, her graphic novel What Is, published the previous year, received an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. But perhaps the most remarkable quality of Barry’s work is precisely its defiance of reality — the whimsy and wit with which she blurs the line between the real and, to borrow Sartre’s term, the irreal to peel away at some simple truth or grand complexity of what it means to be human.

Learn more: Wikipedia | Books | Literary Jukebox

For Christmas this year I wanted to get @alphacolin something...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:17:07 -0500

For Christmas this year I wanted to get @alphacolin something fun and unique. And with help from Clay Rodery I was able to do that!

Clay created this awesome portrait of Colin. I wanted it to look like a graphic novel because we’ve been getting into some awesome comics lately.

I really enjoyed working with Clay. It was really fun to see him go through the process, and I’m happy to report that Colin loved the art! He’s currently using it as his avatar and it makes me smile everytime I see him post something.

My Grandmother

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:52:50 -0500

The New York Jewish Film Festival will be previewing the documentary “The Art of Spiegelman” on January 21st and 22nd. Art Spiegelman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and artist known for his powerful comic Maus which tells the story of his father’s experience during the Holocaust. This book is really important to me and I really hope to go to the screening.

While attending an all-girl Catholic school, my art teacher gave me a copy of Maus because she knew it would be important to me. I was around 15 years old and was a shy, Jew(ish) girl who preferred to paint and draw on her free time instead of going to parties and socializing.

In 1939 my Grandmother was 15 years old and I imagine she was the same shy, introvert that I once was. But instead of going to school she was emigrating to America from Vienna, leaving behind her parents and separating from her brother who went to England. This is my Grandmother a few years before she made the trip:

There was an unspoken rule in my family that you didn’t bring up the past. From what I’ve learned, my great-grandparents were killed at the Dachau concentration camp. My great-grandfather’s name was Max and my great-grandmother’s name was Cecilia. Max was known as “the handsomest man in Vienna.” I don’t know what they did for a living or much else except that they sent my Grandmother to New York City before the nazis occupied Austria.

Sometimes I look at pictures from the camp and wonder, “are you my family?” It’s horribly sad and depressing, but then I think of myself living in this city and working and thriving and I can’t help but think we won.

When my Grandmother passed away, a few years before I moved to this city, we found a bunch of her photos. I was looking through them one day when I had to do a double take. For a moment I thought I was looking at myself. Here she is on the right, and there I am on the left:

The resemblance is pretty crazy and really cool. I’m glad I look like her. She was a survivor. And I’d like to think that my ancestors would be pretty proud.

SI on the Fly!: January Brunch and Lecture Event!

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:11:29 -0500

SI on the Fly!: January Brunch and Lecture Event!:

societyillustrators:

The Society of Illustrators would like to invite you to join us for an elegant brunch buffet in our historic Hall of Fame Dining Room this Saturday, January 12th. Indulge in savory and sweet selections from Banana Brûlée French Toast to Farfalle Pasta with Smoked Salmon Cream Sauce surrounded by…

societyillustrators: This past Friday we presented awards for...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:23:26 -0500

Eleanor Davis

Emiliano Ponzi

Victo Ngai, Kyle Steck and Illustrators 55 Chair John Hendrix

societyillustrators:

This past Friday we presented awards for the first half of Illustrators 55. Congratulations to all of our medal winners in the categories of sequential, institutional, uncommissioned, and moving image.

Gold Medalists

Eleanor Davis, Victor Juhasz, Emiliano Ponzi, Victo Ngai, Pieter Van Eenoge, JooHee Yoon, Ariel Lee, David Chai, André da Loba, and Caleb Wood.

Silver Medalists

Jonathan Burton, Keith Negley, Mark Ulriksen, Marc Burckhardt, Joseph Ciardiello, Chad Grohman, Aya Kakeda, Jonathan Campo, The Brothers Hilts, and Chris Silas Neal.

A year in (workout) review

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:26:46 -0500

During 2012 my average mileage was 4 miles a workout. I burned (not the same as lost) 14 pounds, or 275 donuts. 82% of my workouts were a night and I averaged 10 miles a week.

Right now I’m putting together my workout schedule and I’m totally pumped about how this will change by the end of 2013!

wnycradiolab: explore-blog: Introducing The Reconstructionists...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:45:48 -0500

wnycradiolab:

explore-blog:

Introducing The Reconstructionists – a yearlong illustrated celebration of trailblazing women across art, science and literature, who have changed the way we define ourselves as a culture and live our lives as individuals of any gender.

Yes, please!

Love love love this!

Getting back into training

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:56:45 -0500

I’ve got some exciting races planned for 2013 and am slowly getting back into my regular training program. Yesterday Colin and I ran around our neighborhood and covered the Williamsburg bridge, then ran back. All in all it was about 6 miles with two steep inclines on the bridge. Below is a picture of my view (I try to stay in the middle of the lane because I get vertigo if I look at the scenery around me).

Today I took it easy and covered 2.5 miles, but added some ab work to my routine to help with my core. I tried out ReachYourPeak’s new 6 minute workout and can tell you that I definitely struggled through it. The reverse jumping jacks were the most difficult for me because my legs still hurt from yesterday’s run, and the planks made me shake. I think with practice I’ll get better at it but right now I’m a little slow because I don’t know the correct posture.

This year I have four big races planned: The 200 mile Ragnar Relay in Cape Cod (May), the NYC Tri (July), the Baltimore Half Marathon (October), and the NYC Marathon (November). I’m really looking forward to all of these races and am planning on chronicling my progress here. It’s a way to keep me motivated and to find new tips and techniques while sharing my own.

reachyourpeak: 1st video of 2013! Want to really target your...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:20:59 -0500

reachyourpeak:

1st video of 2013! Want to really target your core? Try out my Ab Attack video! You can do it on it’s own or do it at the end of a workout. Regardless, it’s important to work your core just as much as everything else, so don’t neglect it!

Let me know what you think =)

I did ur 15 min workout 2 days ago & I still hurt! Can’t wait to try this one!

There’s a cat in this picture

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:02:57 -0500

There’s a cat in this picture

roxannameta: ……….. YES

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 08:57:05 -0500

roxannameta:

……….. YES

"I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of..."

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:32:15 -0500

“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.”

- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via bookmania)

#1 reason that I love distance running
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Agreed
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