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New Shop and New Cute Goodies

Tweet artTOPSY.com is a pet project of mine, it’s finally live and I wanted to give it some extra love.

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Freebie Programs To Fall in Love With

Tweet For those designers and artists out there who may not exactly be swimming in money (that is to say, most of us), it seems like the only resource out there are the free ones. Mucking through those however, can make even the strongest will snap. Below, you will find a great collection of tools

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The Amityville Horror: Terror, Luxury, and a Pig Named Jodie

Published on June 9, 2010, by in Art, Strange, Writing.

Tweet The actual Amityville Horror house if for sale. While the story itself if debatable at best, as the Lutz family may have made up everything in a bid for fame (by may have, I of course mean they did), the DeFeo murders however were very real. The house on 112 Ocean Avenue (different address,

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BP: The Comedy Of Errors In Photos

Published on June 2, 2010, by in Media, Writing.

Tweet BP’s comedy of errors in fixing the leak is having a lasting effect on the environment and economy.  With their many flawed attempts at fixing the leak, they may be doing more harm than good.  The wildlife and sea creatures in the areas effected are dying and creating an alarming and lasting environmental tragedy in the area, while the ocean environment itself is being irreparably damaged by both the leak itself and some of the more questionable

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American Able: Sex Sells (and Makes a Point)

Published on May 22, 2010, by in Art, Design, Writing.

Tweet Image © Holly Norris If you have been around long enough you have seen the American Apparel advertisements. With a heavy voyeuristic 1970’s era porn feel, and hyper-sexual imagery. They also manage to work in a whole ‘real person’ manifesto to their campaigns, all purporting to use everyday employees as opposed to models (which has of course been proven false time and time again, but no

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Revamping the Zombie Doll Tutorial

Published on May 16, 2010, by in Art, Awesome, Design, Writing.

Tweet One of the most popular instructions on this website is my Tutorial on How To Make a Zombie Doll.  While I’ll confess that I’m still kicking myself for not using a better image (I’m working on a revamped version that will be posted soon), there are some other things you can make depending on what you keep in the image.  By covering up certain parts, below are just some

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Do You Pay It Forward?

Tweet I received a message not to long ago from a fairly disgruntled fellow blogger.  In short, they wanted to know why the bigger names out there don’t ‘share’ the market.