“Birth control and access to other types of family planning does not lead to less births, it leads to less unwanted births, impractical births and births that cost the state millions of dollars. What King is really trying to say is that women having so many options to determine when they want to have children will bring the end of society, because we can’t force them to be held captive and breed. We as women can decide when it is appropriate for us to have children–what a threat to have an educated populous with access to reproductive health technology, leading them to happier more self determined lives!”
“The project is divided into three major categories.
Survive is a primer on basic level survival in tough times. Here, you will find information on everything from how to eat on the cheap, getting through high school, living on the street, knowing about drugs, and much more!
Fight is an advanced skills section for use after you have gotten your survival needs taken care of. Topics range from use of firearms, leadership skills, good use of the internet, getting the hell out of dodge, and even petty theft if you are desperate or crazy!
Lastly, Liberate is a section on individual cities written from a free spirit’s viewpoint. If you are stuck in a small town going nowhere and want to leave for adventure, Free Cities may have some good information for you!”
I recently completed this tree illustration for Meetup HQ’s Annual Summer Picnic tshirt. The design is inspired by block printing which I’ve been messing around with a little in the past few weeks. Super pleased with the way this way turned out. This is the sixth tshirt design I’ve done for Meetup and working on a few more in the coming months.
Last night was the opening reception of my art show “Bit by Bit” with the talented & amazing Mr. GIF a group of guys that I’m so proud to call my friends. This all came together in a little over 3 hectic weeks and I just want to take a moment to thank everyone who came out and supported us. Shot out to Nikko, Nick & Gerald for providing great music all night and an awesome live performance. A big thanks to Cassie, our curator for the event. And thank you to everyone who tweeted, retweeted, facebooked, blogged and just hustled hard for us. The turn out was great and we had an excellent time. SO EXCELLENT that I lost my camera. If you found it can I have it back?? It has pictures of me and all my friends from last night :(
If you couldn’t make it last night the art will be up for the next month so stop by Northern Soul to check it out.
I can’t sum up the past 2 something years that have passed since I’ve blogged here. But to make it brief, I moved domains, been blogging over at tumblr this whole time but decided I wanted to give my main blog another try. There are still a ton of things to work out over here. The whole switching from hellojupiterart.com to ginamarr.com and then on top of that switching web hosts totally fucked up my shit and a ton of posts are either missing photos or are just missing entirely. Ah well. C’est la vie. I guess it’s an excuse to start over. So I will.
It’s sort of hard to sustain a healthy long lasting relationship with another human being, don’t you think? We carry around so much baggage and are more than happy to dump the contents of those bags onto everyone we come into contact with, when in reality we should of tossed that shit out a long time ago. But it’s much easier to hold onto it and use it as an excuse for our behavior instead of owning up to our own actions. And yes, you can be sure I am talking about myself here. I wonder if I somehow lack what it takes to hold onto someone in my life for a very long time. Am I consistently pushing people away with my bullshit and if so how can I change to keep the right people around and give them back as much as I take?
Sigmund Freud proclaimed “sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life”. And if you think about it, stepping back and really looking at that statement in a not so literal way, replacing the phrase “sexual desire” with perhaps “the desire to be needed”, can’t you see more clearly what it is that motivates you to act and think the way you do? That deeply embedded urge to be loved and accepted, I truly believe that yes, this is the fuel that drives and molds us as people. And of course there are tons of other factors that play into the very complicated matter of human interaction but I can’t wrap my head around them anymore. I’d just like to resign myself to the simple notion that if I accept the faults and imperfections in someone only then can I truly learn to appreciate the good in them and give them what they need, what they deserve.
I am creature of emotion. I experience the highest of highs and the lowest of the lows. Sometimes if I’m lucky, I can find that balance in the middle, the quiet calm without worry. Yet without fail I somehow end up disrupting the balance with my baggage, with my endless doubts and fears. Recently I’ve found a means to get that calm so now I think constantly how I can hold onto it, how to infuse it with permanence. It is becoming the most important thing I can think to do, the closest thing to magic that I have made. It is my motivation and my inspiration to be here tomorrow better than I was yesterday. And I realize now instead of focusing so much energy on how to keep it around, I should just enjoy it and let it be what it will be.
