The top one is currently my background.

On Etsy: hoppipoppi

http://drawn.ca/2009/05/12/le-mome-keke/</p>

http://drawn.ca/?p=7451

French artist Clement Meriguet, aka Le Môme Kéké, is working on a book with sculpted clay as his medium, and has posted plenty of photos, sketches, and even a making-of video on his blog.

http://starline.tumblr.com/post/106778122</p>

Last night I dreamt I was Bumblebee fighting Shockwave.

He was much larger than I.

To Disney's credit, this was in the works waaaay before Obama was a blip on the Presidential radar ... but nevertheless, I find it ... ironic? ... that we elected a black president before we had a black Disney Princess.

I met Megan at NEWW in March - she is the cutest thing.

Please check out her site; she is CRAZY talented.

I accidentally closed the window after seeing these two, so I don't have the names of the artists or their info. I'm sorry. (Not that they're easy to find on Pixiv).

I found out that this is the guy responsible for that awesome Kitty Pride portrait.

Art in Bloom, article about the art of Ikebana flower arrangements.

Gulliver-like Springtime.

Last night Ani was having a hard time breathing: when we picked him up he was making a "broken motor/gargling sound" and sitting very still. I feel a little superstitious about even writing this down; maybe it won't be real if I don't acknowledge it publicly.

We called the emergency vet around 8:00 last night, and he advised us to put Ani in the bathroom in a box with a sheet and turn on the hot water so that he would have an impromptu humidifier. It was great advice, and he seemed much better in the morning. We still took him to the vet, albeit at 10:00 in the morning rather than the 7:00 am as planned since he was doing better.

The vet was the darling Dr. Smith, the woman who operated on Snickers a week and a half ago. Dr. Smith is truly awesome - she told us a story about reviving her Syrian hamster TWICE from heart-attacks after he worked too hard in his wheel and rolled over. The first time he had a heart rate of about 5 beats per minute, and she did heart massages and injected fluids to bring him back. The thought of giving a hamster heart massage cracks me up to no end. She loves her rodents.

She wasn't sure if it was an infection or congestive heart failure because he wasn't showing any signs of infection like runny nose or rheumy eyes. So, no antibiotics or diuretics for the heart yet until there's a clearer diagnosis, but boy is Ani tuckered.

I can't help but wonder if it's in part because Snickers is gone: they're social animals, and the doctor told us a story of one of her perfectly healthy rats who passed away within 8 hours of its cage-mate's death. It's got to be pretty boring and lonely even if Ani's only vaguely aware of why. It's like he aged the equivalent of ten years in a week and half.

So I have recently crowded my friend's page with dozens of art blogs, and I think that I'd like to cross-post some good ones here in Inspiration of the Day posts: what do you all think? Let me know if it's too crowded or if they're enjoyable.

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I just found out that Neil Patrick Harris was born in the "Heartland of America": ALBUQUERQUE.

_I_ was born in Albuquerque!

YES.

Awesome by proxy.

EDIT: HOW ABOUT NOW?


"Naani?" from "Nim" on Pixiv.
(Unfortunately, I can't link directly to his pictures because they're behind a login on the Japanese illustration site http://www.pixiv.net/.

This is a x-post from drawn.ca. This really well done, butI don't really get it. I mean, it's obvious they're breaking up and getting back together ... but I can't really figure out ... why?