Great New Artists

Everybody on YouTube allegedly loves Lisa Nova. I’m not sure I do. I subscribed because I saw her on YouTube Live months ago. It was the second time I have subscribed to her but I’m not so sure I’m sticking around. Sure she’s funny sometimes and she made the Twitter video which I do kind of love. But I’m suspicious that the only reason I love her is that she looks vaguely like Jennifer Saunders…I’m becoming increasingly suspect of that by the minute.

However her Twitter video deserves an article here. It plays off of the “tweeting” aspect of Twitter which kind of gets lost on a lot of people I think. I can totally identify with the Twitter is down part–only I have to transcribe that feeling to when I couldn’t watch YouTube.

After today.com has informed me that they will no longer pay me per post I have decided to leave. The moderators of today.com always say they want to get more bloggers and let their bloggers make good money here but the closer you get to the $50 you have to have to get a check the lower your pay per post rate goes until it hits 0.

I have not seen one penny from any of this writing I have done so my question to them is what would be so wrong with letting me build up my revenue a dollar a post why did they have to take it away if they’ve never even paid any of it out? As of now it’s just a number on my account and I refuse to keep devoting time that I could be using to write good articles for http://www.suite101.com who actually pays their writers.

This was just crazy enough for me to love. Paleontology and art collide with artist Hyungkoo Lee whose work was featured in an exhibit in Basel, Switzerland (the land of my people) which runs through August 31st.

The South Korean born Lee uses Paleontology techniques to sculpt what the skeletons of cartoon characters may look like. Such renowned figures of Western pop culture as Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry and Wyle E. Coyote are on display suspended from wires in poses typical of their environment in life (Tom is still unable to catch Jerry).

The stranger the better, rock on.

See the pictures at the Telegraph website.