what type of work do you do?

getting sponsorship for, say, large-scale steel fabrications might be a different proposition than, say, getting sponsorship for dog and horse portraits.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 12:15 PM on July 24, 2008

yeah, that's kind of it. there aren't any advanced photoshop techniques at evidence, in that video. multiple layers. varying layer opacities. a gaussian blur or two.

i mean, the internet is awash in "tutorials" of limited value that will, like, help you with that perfect rain-splatter, or whatever, but they're only a supplement to basic drawing skills.

i teach figure at my university, and i'd be willing to bet you'd have an easier time... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 7:00 PM on July 19, 2008

i would say that, so long as she's using "Farmers [Farmer's, Farmers', whatever] Market" as shorthand for "Union Square Farmers Market," then the capitalization can remain and still be correct.

Kind of as if one were to write "The White Rose of Athens is a song by Nana Mouskouri. White Rose is based on a melody by Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis..." Though you drop the article and don't write out... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:55 PM on June 6, 2008

i had a pretty good asparagus dish at a restaurant, this week. it was just grilled asparagus in a crepe with some ricotta, topped with a balsamic fig vinaigrette (super easy, 1 cup figs, two cups balsamic, boil until reduced by half and puree) and baked.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 2:51 AM on May 25, 2008

you'd have to get that custom made. at least if you want a mat cut. i reckon for a 7 × 2 of 4"×6" photos, you're looking at something like 52"×12". the frame is no problem; you've got your pick from graphik dimensions or similar, but the mat is a problem, as i've never seen matboard sold at an art supply store in lengths longer than 40".

so yeah. framing shop.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 2:42 AM on May 25, 2008

well, it's kind of unclear what you're looking for, since you don't specify between "indie"-as-political/production-stance or "indie"-as-aesthetic-choice. all a pitchfork reference tells me is that you're likely not into music by women.

i've always been fond of fuck me usa. they never got around to releasing an album (i'm talking about the fuck me usa from montreal. there's another band of the same name, from england, who had a record come out last... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 2:15 PM on April 22, 2008

thanks so much for all the input, so far (up to and including the "do it CMYK, you fool" comments).

i knew what i wanted was going to be a pain (and a costly one), but i didn't fully understand the logistical reasons as to why it would be (i knew the ink-mixing would be a task, but knew little else of the printing process). if nothing else, i'll be great deal more comfortable talking to printers, now.

going into... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 7:54 PM on April 12, 2008

ooh, no, i think it's just two colors, unless i'm missing something crucial about the process (and lord knows, that's well within the sphere of possibility). one color, which would be some variation of pink and purple, in most cases (which i was calling the "background color," which may have been misleading or inaccurate), plus black. right?

the binding is totally open, and, indeed, may not even have to happen. i just knew that i couldn't... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 8:38 PM on April 12, 2008

ebay auction for a print.

i'm dubious about the legitimacy of that reproduction, however.

here's a large-scale version of the image.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 9:24 AM on April 6, 2008 marked best answer

seconding janedark, from above.

a personal favorite is tinyluckygenius aka the unicorn's tear. though i could see why the title might not inspire. it's jessica hopper (of the chicago reader, elsewhere), mostly a personal blog, but i find it eminently readable, and, when she has a mind to recommend (or dismiss) a book/movie/artist, i find that she's almost always right in doing so.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 5:26 PM on March 30, 2008

i was on klonopin for a period of several months, a number of years ago (i was 19-20, at the time). i don't remember what my dose was, but i was taking it primarily as a sleep aid, with the added benefit of alleviating some of my anxiety during the day, as well. my psychiatrist at the time (not really the most scrupulous character, in retrospect), happily upped my dose twice, as the drug gradually became less effective. it certainly felt as though i was becoming dependent on... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 1:14 PM on March 21, 2008

i guess you don't mean lake peigneur?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 1:56 PM on March 6, 2008

US citizen, living in canada. i have checking accounts in both canada (bank of montreal) and the states (wachovia), and a paypal account with access to both (i found that i could set this up using paypal.ca, but not paypal.com. weird). the only difficulty i've had with receiving money from the states is that things, in general, seem to take about twice as long to process, on the canadian side.

whereas a paypal-to-checking/checking-to-paypal transfer takes, maybe, four... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 9:19 AM on February 17, 2008

strictly speaking, the most "traditional" recipe would use neither, as no citrus is native to the americas. as i understand it, ahuacamolli would, pre-conquest, have been made with just avocados, tomatoes, and salt.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 7:48 AM on February 12, 2008

if my countless hours of watching cash in the attic have taught me nothing (and this is a distinct possibility), it's that there is no accounting whatsoever for what sorts of things people will people will spend a lot of money to own. (really? those 1982 royal doulton figurines of pigs in uniforms?). calling in an estate company seems, by far, like the most efficient way of dealing with this.

whether you have legal authority to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:58 PM on February 2, 2008

my cat had something that sounds similar, near the base of his tail. the vet took a quick needle biopsy, and it turned out to just be a fatty deposit, as described above. also, as i understand it (and i may be wrong, so please, don't put too much stock in this), benign subdermal tumors are not uncommon in aging cats and dogs.

but really, if you can afford the expense, it's worth it to get a quick biopsy; that's the only way you're going to know for sure. that said, i... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:36 PM on February 2, 2008

i've had this selectively, mostly in regards to breakfast foods, oddly (coffee-breath, bacon, the smell of eggs frying). it used to affect me to the point of feeling physically ill, but it's dropped off since i started smoking, in my late teens.

but that would seriously be cutting the nose (hah!) to spite the face. that said, if you want to compromise your senses of smell and taste at all costs, it does work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:57 PM on January 31, 2008

though i not-infrequently berate my boyfriend (jokingly, mind you) for "drugging the cats," in my experience, cats have a pretty long memory for perceived slights: if you've done the sock-and-catnip thing a number of times, they would probably be avoiding your besocked hand, if it was something to which they took serious objection.

i usually find myself pretty far over on the treating-the-cats-as-human-family-members spectrum, but i really can't imagine you're... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:50 PM on January 31, 2008

"my art" by le tigre (from feminist sweepstakes) isn't specifically targeted at another woman, but is an excellent scream-along for those "fuck all y'all" moments.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:34 PM on January 31, 2008

qxntpqbbbqxl: it may very well come to that. idunno, i'm kind of curious to see if i'm up to the challenge. also, if i can successfully demonstrate the crockpot's usefulness, it's less likely that his friends will use it to make drugs.

madmethods: this is the model of the crockpot. it just says it has a "hi" setting, and amazon reviews and whatnot don't mention whether it can sustain a boil. i'm pretty sure that the grill is just a grill, with no changeable... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 1:41 PM on January 30, 2008

had, had enough money to buy a crockpot as a joke. it's dry times for joke appliances, i'm afraid.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 1:43 PM on January 30, 2008

seconding the above (on preview: never mind), but i'll add that it might be worthwhile to talk to either somebody in the diversity office, assuming your school has one, or an on-campus counselor/social worker. either of those might be able to either grease the wheels or even do some of the legwork for you.

FWIW, i find it really odd that past credits would disqualify you from being considered a first-year student. it seems far more common for universities to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 1:10 PM on January 30, 2008

hmm. it pains me to suggest this, because i have family in university administration and i know how profoundly irritating it is when students do this, but, if all else fails, appeal to someone higher up on the chain. if you file a complaint with the president's office, it'll get kicked down until it reaches his immediate supervisor. it won't be ignored (at least in my, admittedly indirect, experience) because ignored complaints become repeated complaints, and the president's office really isn't... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 1:26 PM on January 30, 2008

this site seems to indicate that excess magnesium causes diarrhea and gas, in dogs. but eight pounds is a pretty small dog.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 7:26 PM on January 27, 2008

i agree that DC would be nice. In addition to everything to be done there, it's just a one-hour commuter train ride from baltimore, which has more in it to do than you might think, at least as far as art/historical attractions go. there's the BMA, the contemporary museum, and the walters (which, i assure you, is not to be missed). and there are always shows up at MICA (i think there's a round of MFA thesis shows, at the end of march). you missed the dime museum by about a year, but there's... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 10:29 AM on January 23, 2008

as far as temperature goes, expect highs in the low-to-mid eighties. i'm not sure where you're from, but, coming as i do from florida, that's falls within the range of what i would call "cool."

having zero firsthand and almost no second-hand experience of pregnancy or pregnancies, i can only imagine that this sort of an event will be unpleasant for your wife, and, by extension, you.

the sore feet and the walking... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 7:23 AM on January 19, 2008

The only problem with St. Pete is that you'll have to drive through Tampa (my hometown) to get there. Which may well cause you to turn the car around and high-tail it back to Virginia.

St. Pete/Sarasota will be fine in terms of Spring Break crowds, though, as only old people vacation there. Pretty much the entire Atlantic coast is going to be teeming with young people (worse yet, young tourists--though I have a hard time imagining that St. Augustine is going to hold... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 9:01 AM on January 17, 2008

the instructions indicate that you should clean up with white spirit/odorless mineral spirits, which, although not too too toxic, probably isn't something your daughter should be washing her hands with. i mean, i use the stuff on my hands, when i paint, but i know that it isn't a good idea.

if the paint is still wet, then baby oil might work. if the paint is dry, my suggestion would be to get a hand soap with ground pumice in it (Lava is the most common brand, in the US;... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 9:39 AM on January 5, 2008

i've been on paxil and zoloft, at various points; the paxil did that thing it sometimes does to young people taking it and led to a weird stint of self-injury, and the zoloft had little to no effect at all whatsoever. i was given temazepam as a sleep aid/anxiolytic, and it worked, but it also gave me pretty severe fainting spells (i'd be walking across the living room and fall down in a dead faint with no warning, several times a week).

i was on klonopin for a couple... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 10:05 PM on January 4, 2008

winnipeg. sure, it may be blisteringly cold six months out of the year, and, yes, it's sort of in the middle of nowhere, but a: housing is absurdly cheap (like, you can buy a nice little bungalow for under $70,000), and b: though it's maybe a little bit rough around the edges (or, uh, all the way through), it has one of the most vibrant cultural scenes i've seen in any city, and certainly for a city its size.

i also really liked helsinki, when i visited there some years... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 11:49 AM on January 2, 2008

the presto salad shooter.

it would get a dig in on his vanity, and, as a plus, it's a device that seems useful without actually being functional in any respect.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 8:23 PM on December 8, 2007

ooh. or shoot for his intellect. experimental music is always good: he can't disparage the gift without looking stupid. stockhausen is recently dead: it's both timely and unlistenable.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 8:26 PM on December 8, 2007

to hear "Ice is cold and so isn't snow," i would assume you meant something along the lines of, "ice is cold; therefore, it is not snow." which doesn't really work. sorry.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:30 PM on December 8, 2007

all i can say is do not be that cashier who thinks its somehow okay to throw any small change into the tip jar without asking. this type of behavior seems to be most prevalent among fourteen-year-olds at the mall food court haagen dazs and the self-righteous, trust-funded bicycle enthusiasts who work at "anarchist" coffee shops, but if you are that cashier and if you catch me on the wrong day, i will make you dig that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 7:47 AM on November 25, 2007

so. wait. leprosy, hey?

so those armadillo races at the florida state fair that i always participated in, as a child? where we'd crawl on all fours behind an armadillo blowing on their tails to make them run faster? not a good idea?

huh.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 7:18 PM on November 1, 2007

it happens to me every month. i think it's called "paying rent."

cos man, i feel like some kind of hot shit when i see that $750 bank balance at payday: to see it reduced to $80 in the span of one day never ceases to be shocking.

i persevere by means of heavy drinking, if you're curious.

you should ask my uncle how he did in the wake of his attempt at papaya farming in hawaii (after being disbarred from a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:32 PM on October 27, 2007

i can't imagine the shelf life of scrambled eggs would be meaningfully different from that of hardboiled eggs, if you already have information regarding those.

within the timeframe of a week or so, i say just reheat them when you're ready, and if they have the consistency of a rubber shoe sole, decide based on that whether or not you want to continue eating them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:23 PM on October 27, 2007

i second marine epoxy. because. you know. it's specifically made for the purpose of waterproofing things that are going to be fully submerged in water for long periods of time. that said, i would have thought that a few coats of polyurethane would have done the trick. but what do i know from craft porcelain?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 4:15 PM on October 9, 2007

now, if you can't trust the licensed hairstylists in your area to not mangle your hair, just what makes you think it could possibly be a good idea to take a whack at it, yourself?

find someone licensed. in the mean time, though, have you tried some of the non-permanent curl activators and whatnot that they sell at the drugstore? i'm not, in fact, asian, but my hair seems to be of a similar length and cut, and it's fairly straight and coarse; out of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 9:29 AM on October 3, 2007

@dirtdirt

you might very well know this already, but if you're using tape to mask on fabric, i find that it's a good idea to run a bead of clear acrylic/silkscreen fabric gel over the edges of the tape to avoid bleed-under.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 9:10 AM on October 3, 2007

okay, so if the idea of including a photo in some kind of academic application is so horrifying, why did Brown require me to submit a headshot with mine, back in 2002?

because rhode-islanders are some shallow, shallow bitches. that's why.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 7:40 PM on October 1, 2007

please don't listen to whomever it was who suggested 1300-1500 calories per day. no nutritionist worth their salt-substitute would ever recommend you go that low. 2000 is a reasonable target (i was always told that ten calories per pound you weigh is a reasonable goal for healthy weight loss--now, if you've lost fifteen pounds and you just don't know it because you haven't weighed yourself, it may be time to readjust slightly).
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:51 AM on May 26, 2007

opryland is horrifying. go only if your tour group has an interest in highly-coiffed old ladies in christmas sweaters (i counted 132 in under two hours, when i was there--to be honest, i don't remember seeing anything else).

and i disagree entirely with the first characterization of the country music hall of fame. it's a wonderfully designed and laid-out museum with tons of great things to see and hear.

the best thing to do, in my opinion, is to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 9:30 PM on May 6, 2007

in response to the first comment: Tampa International doesn't have duty free shops in all of its terminals (there's only one that i can think of, though there may be more), and the airport is laid out in such a way that, to get from one concourse to another, you would have to pass out and back in through security, which of course you can't do if you don't have a flight to catch ("i need to get to terminal C so i can buy booze to smuggle onto a cruise ship" probably won't get you access)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 9:24 PM on May 6, 2007

re: kellydamnit

word. i would not put saran wrap in a 200-degree oven.

tin foil's gonna be fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 12:30 PM on May 2, 2007

it's partly because it would be useful to retain a US phone number, but I'm also just curious to see what my options are before I try and negotiate a release from contract with Cingular.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 10:47 AM on April 23, 2007

"If you're marrying her solely to get her into the country, she will likely get deported when that's discovered."

eh. i had a painting professor in college who'd successfully married three women so that they could get US citizenship. and he's gay. i'm not sure how he went about pulling it off, but it's apparently a workable course of action, in some cases.

not that i would encourage it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 7:01 PM on April 22, 2007

i have one. they rather unexpectedly approved me for a $4000 credit line (i'm a decidedly unemployed recent art school grad; the only other credit card i've ever had has a $500 limit) with no monthly payments for, if i recall correctly, six months. i got it mainly so that i would be able to buy an emergency plane ticket, if the need came up, and i keep the card in a safe place (that is to say, "not my wallet"). not being a credit expert (clearly), the drawbacks that i've so far... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 6:58 PM on April 22, 2007

i don't think the current version of itunes for windows supports a firewire connection, actually. did you just recently upgrade? i used to use firewire on my XP machine, and then one day I updated itunes and it did precisely what you're saying. the usb cable, however, works fine (and it's not an issue with the cable--i still use it to charge the thing, sometimes).
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 11:39 PM on April 21, 2007

teaching positions are indeed scarce (i'm starting my MFA in visual arts this fall, but i'm already reading up on job postings in the chronicle [of higher education]). you can most likely look forward to a couple years of living in adjunct-professor limbo (at least in the US).

i cannot speak to the job situation in Mexico, but, in the US and Canada, i can say that you'll likely receive preferential treatment in a number of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wreckingball at 10:12 PM on April 16, 2007