Pumpkins

We went to the Dallas Farmer's Market on Saturday to get some pumpkins to carve and got some good pictures as well.

 

Laura looking a little too excited about wielding a knife.

Laura's spooky graveyard.

My monster and mad scientist.

IF - Spent

His life was spent – as were his two coins.

(I thought I would keep today’s drawing in theme with this weekend’s festivities.)

IF - Racing

 Nothing to heat up the blood like a traditional polar wolf race across the tundra.




And with a little color:

The Value of Manual Labor

I present Mike Rowe from the TV show “dirtest jobs” giving a TED lecture on America’s misguided view of vocation.  He also talks about castrating sheep.  Its long but well worth it.

Paul Graham on Suburbia

”Why do people move to suburbia? To have kids! So no wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant nursery, an artificial town created explicitly for the purpose of breeding children.

Where I grew up, it felt as if there was nowhere to go, and nothing to do. This was no accident. Suburbs are deliberately designed to exclude the outside world, because it contains things that could endanger children.

And as for the schools, they were just holding pens within this fake world. Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done.”

From an essay by Paul Graham about nerds that you can read in its entirety here : http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

IF - Spooky

The Hogwart's house ghosts: (from left to right) Bloody Baron, Nearly Headless Nick, Fat Friar, and the Grey Lady

And the spooky inverse version (because inversing makes anything spooky).

Brazil - Graffiti

We noticed an unusally large amount of really artistic graffiti when we were in Brazil.  So I started taking pictures of the walls when I could.