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Last year I whipped up a quick little cover for a two volume anthology comic from Plot Twist Publishing called Impressions.

The anthology features creators from the Las Vegas valley and tales connected by a captivating portrait.

“HAVE YOU EVER BEEN LURED BY BEAUTY? A painting hangs on a wall in a gallery. A beautiful woman with hair spun of gold... No matter her form, for those that look hard enough she is exactly what they need in that painful or joyous moment. Art can change people, and sometimes people can change the course of their lives. And if lucky, the world too.”

Harlem Pride Announces Launch Party And Legacy of Pride Awards

Harlem Pride announced its 2017 launch party, sponsored by the Bierstrausse Beer Garden, on the first day of Pride month, June 1. This event also celebrates their Legacy of Pride Awards, of which the honorees will be announced later.

Tickets at this event is only $25, and the admission includes an open bar and buffet. You don’t want to miss this if you will be in NYC.

Check out the information…

@mdo:

@mdo also created Twitter Bootstrap. Primer is a pure CSS framework - no JavaScript. Currently, primer.css file is only 30.8k uncompressed!

Primer is GitHub’s internal CSS toolkit. It’s been the base coat for GitHub.com for years now, providing styles for our global typography, layout, tooltips, buttons, and more. Starting today, it’s open source.

Primer isn’t another large front-end framework, though. It’s rather limited in functionality and isn’t intended to replace something like Bootstrap. It will always be GitHub’s internal toolkit first, designed to help build GitHubby things. That said, we love to share.

Primer is licensed MIT, so you can basically do whatever you like with the source code. We’ll be a little stringent on merging new features to the project for the foreseeable future though. Longer term, we envision having a suite of Primer projects—one repository for each new component. More on that another time though.

For now, head to GitHub to view the source code and read through the docs at http://primercss.io.

Finding Vibrant Moments in High School Life with @markotto

For more bold, bright snapshots from the new school year, follow Mark Otto (@markotto) on Instagram.

Seventeen-year-old Mark Otto first started experimenting with color when he was living abroad in Hungary, away from his family and friends. “I realized the city felt a little too dark and it made me a little sad,” he says. “I started to use Instagram to showcase the few colorful things I could find.”

After he returned to Ohio this year, he continued to use photography—and minimalism—as a way to express himself. “Minimalism kind of showcases the color as the subject instead of the background,” he explains. “I'd have to say that colors are probably the best thing to happen to our universe.”

Mark makes a point to frame unextraordinary objects—things that his friends see around them every day—as a way to emphasize his particular perspective on the world. “People get to see how I see things,” he says.