kid at heart

A friend of mine on Facebook was able to attend the Last Jedi premiere in Los Angeles last night with some friends of his from the Rebel Legion and the 501st, all in costume, including a young woman who was dressed as Rose Tico. Kelly Marie Tran saw her while she was walking the red carpet, and this was her reaction to seeing someone dressed as Rose. According to my friend, there were tears all around and it was a very emotional moment. Representation matters, you guys, and it is so important. These photos made me emotional just seeing them, and I was given permission to share them with the rest of you here.

Brand Identity for Legend Fun by Stella Shih

“Branding, interior design and signage for the Legend Fun board game store.”

Stella Shih is a freelance graphic designer based in Taipei, Taiwan. She works across branding, print design, illustration, packaging and product design.

Team work makes the dream work!✨

CYPHER PT.3: KILLER [full animation]

Twilight 

Unfortunately, that glass ceiling you are bumping into is your growth as an artist and illustrator. And growth takes time and a lot of practice. You admit that your art needs work on the fundamentals, style consistency, and color theory. So, work on the fundamentals, style consistency, and color theory. Create every day. Take classes. Read articles. Go to cons and networking events. Talk to others in the industry.  Ask peers and mentors for honest critiques. Keep plugging away at those fundamentals.Growth isn’t a straight line. There are going to be times where things click and you are learning in leaps and bounds. There are also going to be times when it might feel a lot like you are banging your head against a wall (or a glass ceiling). You need to keep working on those weak spots though. The more you grow, the more likely you are to find clients and work. 

Agent Cmd+Z

170414 J-Hope’s Tweet

잘 다녀왔습니당~ 내 영원한 형제들과 🤙📸✌️ #홉필름 pic.twitter.com/dmCpkcvLq4

We’re back safely~ Together with my eternal brothers 🤙📸✌️ #HopeFilm

An informal study of vowels of exclamations of disgust, pain, terror, disbelief, and surprise, by Kayeon Yoo on the CamLangSci blog. Excerpt: 

I collected data from a total of 21 informants representing 12 languages: three for Korean, four for Chinese (two from the North, two from the South), two for Japanese, one for Cantonese, one for Vietnamese, two for English (one for British, one for American), two for French, one for German, one for Swedish, one for Greek, one for Bulgarian, and two for Polish. I made phonetic transcriptions of the informants demonstrating the sounds to me in person or by audio recordings. When this was difficult, I relied on self-reports. Most self-reports were from those who had received training in phonetics and I often asked follow-up questions to make sure the phonetic symbols chosen were appropriate. Finally, I observed each language directly myself, except Swedish and Greek, at least once. Putting aside tons of methodological limitations which still remain, here’s what I found.

If you want to know which languages use which vowels, I’ve summarised that in the table at the end of the article. But for now, look at the diagrams below for the aggregated results from all 12 languages for each type of surprise. (If you don’t know how to read a vowel quadrilateral[2], see Endnote 2.) A small circle on a vowel quadrilateral represent a response containing a rounded vowel, and a small square represent a response with an unrounded vowel. I must say that the exact positions of the dots are rough impressionistic representations as I haven’t made any acoustic or articulatory measurements. The arrows indicate vowels consisting of more than one quality (which phoneticians call diphthongs, triphthongs, etc.), such as [aʊ] in house. Blue arrows show diphthongs and triphthongs which start with an unrounded vowel and end with a rounded vowel. The vowel in house would thus be marked with a blue arrow going from [a] to [ʊ] as in the diagram for pain. Yellow is for diphthongs and triphthongs going from an unrounded vowel to an unrounded vowel; white is for those from a rounded to an unrounded vowel; finally, purple is for those from a rounded to a rounded vowel. Multiple answers from the informants are all shown on the diagram, but when there were more than three identical answers, they weren’t marked more than three times for reasons of simplicity. The big square dot in ‘terror’ indicates that most answers were either [a] or [ɐ̞].