Some artists look for inspiration in otherworldly places, while others use whatever is around them and make the most out of it! Brazilian architect, urban planner, building technician, and art lover Felipe de Castro turns everyday objects, places, and foods into unusual architectural designs. In his wild imagination, a face mask transforms into a hospital, a microphone is a hotel, a sandwich becomes an oddly-shaped building, and a stamp turns into an Apple office.
The 33-year-old artist based in Rio de Janeiro has liked to draw since he was a little kid and now he teaches students and professionals the techniques of perspective drawing. He has had a very vivid imagination since childhood and used to imagine household items in different scenarios, but started bringing his wild ideas to life only a few years ago.
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The Neil Gaiman Reader were chosen neither by an outside editor nor by Gaiman himself, as he did with his earlier collections. Instead, apparently, the book was edited by the internet. In 2019, Gaiman invited his readers to name their three favorite Gaiman stories, and the result – from nearly 6,000 responses, we are told – was this selection of 52 short pieces, ranging from short sketches to major novellas, supplemented by five excerpts from novels. It probably says something about Gaiman’s popularity that so many readers would be familiar with his short fiction, but then his short fiction has been more widely visible than almost anyone else’s over the last quarter century or so (in addition to appearances in earlier collections, some 15 of these stories have been published in standalone chapbooks). Fortunately, the result is as varied and rewarding as if Gaiman himself
12 Worst Free Agent Signings Based on Fantasy Value Since 1990
SI Fantasy analyst Michael Fabiano recaps the worst free agent signings that led to awful fantasy results in the following years
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Mar 11, 2021
The 2021 free-agent period is slated to be one of the most exciting maybe ever. With many big names likely to change teams, we are certain to have plenty to analyze and discuss in the coming weeks. Before that all goes down, however, let’s take a look back at how free agency has affected fantasy football in the last 30 years. Earlier this week, we looked at some of the best free-agent signings based on fantasy points. But with the good comes the bad, so now it’s time to take another trip down memory lane (or maybe it’s misery lane) and look at some of the worst free-agent signings since 1990.
The Odyssey Writing Workshop has announced that its summer 2021 classes will be held online. The six-week course is normally held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester NH, though the 2020 session was also held online due to COVID concerns. Odyssey director Jeanne Cavelos said,
Odyssey brings together adult students of all ages from across the globe. Many may not have the opportunity to be vaccinated by summer. If one student tests positive, it’s likely that at least a third of the students and possibly all the students would need to be put into isolation for ten days. This would be extremely disruptive for the workshop. Each student would have to remain within a separate apartment, with three meals a day left at the door, attending the class online. Imagine if, two weeks later, another student tests positive and more students need to be put into isolation. Odyssey is an intensive, demanding program, and putting that additional stress on students would make it very difficult for th
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In the soft brown of early morning, my brother’s penmanship was always sharp against the rising sky. Other scribes handled their quill-spears with more grace, perhaps. My brother looked as though he was warring with the horizon, the ribbons of ink rising like jagged smoke from the tip of his quill-spear. But what he wrote was clear.
Now he has gone.
They say that from the cities of the Brittle Terrain, a full day’s journey behind us and away from the horizon, it is difficult to see our writing at all, impossible to make out the names of God we scribe onto the sky’s parchment. Yet from where we work, at the edge of the eastern horizon, where the sky rises up from below in a continuous wave, the vertical columns of script do not begin to fade until they’ve reached the level of the lowest clouds. At that height, the curling loops and slanting lines of our worship finally blur to become a rising braid of ink. I try to imagine how it looks from the cities, the ink o