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  1. I’ve just put up a new portfolio.

    In an effort to not get carried away, I set a couple constraints before starting:
    - 1 day
    - 20 images
    - 1280x600 each

    I wound up cheating on all three, but only slightly. Most of the code was reused from Hessian, which is a style I’m hoping to perfect over time.

    Lots of new stuff’s been posted. Much of it from my time with Girlfriend. I’m going to keep the tumblr portfolio around, but as a process log instead of a public face.

    pieratt.com

  2. This shirt was labeled as ‘Boys’, but forget that noise.

  3. Though credited to “Penelope Ashe”, it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady. McGrady’s intention was to write a deliberately terrible book with a lot of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book fulfilled the authors’ expectations and became a bestseller

    Naked Came the Stranger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Culture hacking. Nice.

  4. (Source: modelsandstuff)

  5. Thus it was hoped to acquire powers of insight and of creativity impossible on the merely galactic plane.

    Star Maker

    “merely”