The Link Drawer
Apr. 19th, 2011 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigozealLinks that've kept a space on my favorites list for an extended period of time, usually for puzzling or defunct reasons:
I was fond of the moonlit palms in one of the user icons of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bella_sol. She apparently works with stock photography, and I believe I bookmarked this with the intention of sorting through her entries later, but her gallery is either friends-only or gone now.
There's a reason everyone has a userpic from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iconzicons. I find their animated Simpsons icons particularly inspired. Search the tags; there's something for everybody. (That goes even if you have no use for icons; they're perfect little 100x100 blocks of comedy.)
I've always had an interest in color, and it meets my interest in Japan at Iromi no Yakata, a compendium of Japanese colors with their values in hexadecimal helpfully appended. So I guess that makes it useful on three counts.
Speakng of color, only the possible poor contrast of the small gemstone size against my beefy alligator hands makes me pause at picking up this blue topaz and rhodolite ring. You can see confetti collections of gemstones on tens of rings on the shopping channels, but it's rare to see the concept tackled tastefully, with colors of genuine intensity.
I'm in the Amazon Vine program (high-ranking reviewers get free preview copies of certain books and other merchandise upon request), which has attracted some understandable criticism for possibly skewing user reviews in exchange for freebie bribes. I haven't inflated any star tallies personally - most of my Vine picks have been disappointments - but I wonder if choosing The Sixty-Eight Rooms, the tale of two kids shrink down Wonderland-like to uncover adventure and mystery at the Chicago Art Institute's Thorne Rooms wouldn't have more successfully endangered my reviewer cred. I had its Vine entry bookmarked but never moved on it, possibly out of fear of wasting my picks on kids' books - stupid, as the adult selections sure haven't worked out.
I don't know what this "Pop Wonderland" is, but I've always kept around this Play-Asia artbook entry for its cheerfully blue illustration of a mermaid. I've always been partial to mermaids, and the watercolor of the blue-haired child here seems so wholesomely happy and non-exploitive compared to other loli-themed art.
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I was fond of the moonlit palms in one of the user icons of
bella_sol. She apparently works with stock photography, and I believe I bookmarked this with the intention of sorting through her entries later, but her gallery is either friends-only or gone now.There's a reason everyone has a userpic from
iconzicons. I find their animated Simpsons icons particularly inspired. Search the tags; there's something for everybody. (That goes even if you have no use for icons; they're perfect little 100x100 blocks of comedy.)I've always had an interest in color, and it meets my interest in Japan at Iromi no Yakata, a compendium of Japanese colors with their values in hexadecimal helpfully appended. So I guess that makes it useful on three counts.
Speakng of color, only the possible poor contrast of the small gemstone size against my beefy alligator hands makes me pause at picking up this blue topaz and rhodolite ring. You can see confetti collections of gemstones on tens of rings on the shopping channels, but it's rare to see the concept tackled tastefully, with colors of genuine intensity.
I'm in the Amazon Vine program (high-ranking reviewers get free preview copies of certain books and other merchandise upon request), which has attracted some understandable criticism for possibly skewing user reviews in exchange for freebie bribes. I haven't inflated any star tallies personally - most of my Vine picks have been disappointments - but I wonder if choosing The Sixty-Eight Rooms, the tale of two kids shrink down Wonderland-like to uncover adventure and mystery at the Chicago Art Institute's Thorne Rooms wouldn't have more successfully endangered my reviewer cred. I had its Vine entry bookmarked but never moved on it, possibly out of fear of wasting my picks on kids' books - stupid, as the adult selections sure haven't worked out.
I don't know what this "Pop Wonderland" is, but I've always kept around this Play-Asia artbook entry for its cheerfully blue illustration of a mermaid. I've always been partial to mermaids, and the watercolor of the blue-haired child here seems so wholesomely happy and non-exploitive compared to other loli-themed art.
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