If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

This site houses my personal lowbrow art. By day I am gainfully employed, so this is an outlet for my more esoteric ideas.

I post extensively on topics of personal intrigue: Art, Animals, Ethics, Equal Rights, Dualism, Psychology, Sexuality & the Subconscious - the same things that drive my art.

In reference to the “Nightmare Girls” name - it’s after a project, an ongoing series, portraits of beautiful and intense women.

While you’re here, satisfy your morbid urge to gaze in my gallery.

I can understand protesting fox hunting, but to partake in eating the same breed of dog that the Queen fancies?

Yes, it garners media-attention to the issue, but you are fighting savagery with savagery. You are as barbaric as they are.

I understand the creature was previously deceased, but we don’t eat dog in civilized culture!

Yoko Ono took a bite too. Bunch’a savages in this town.

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How individuals interact with others can be revealing of sexual appetites and “promiscuity.” Supposedly, those who are overtly friendly or antagonistic have far more partners.

A bizarre quote from the article:

Patrick Markey says it’s particularly interesting that warm people tend to be promiscuous, because in some ways, it conflicts with the moral thinking that promiscuity is bad.

Warm, friendly ppl participating in an activity thereby makes it good?

Personally, I question who quantified and defined “promiscuity” for this study, their basis for comparison.

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In studies, deriding women caused doubt, lowering the math scores of competent women as they second-guessed themselves. This proved to be true across all people facing stereotypes, even white men.

I firmly believe in this. One must mind the poison that leaves their lips. Further, the bile others expel can affect your potential.

Whether you accept their words or not, they occupy an area of consciousness that could otherwise be focused on enhancing the task at hand.

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This part particularly strikes me:

The essence of a lie implies in fact that the liar actually is in complete possession of the truth which he is hiding. A man does not lie about what he is ignorant of; he does not lie when he spreads an error of which he himself is the dupe; he does not lie when he is mistaken.

from Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre.

It clarifies the mechanics of deceit. Applications are limitless.

The picture shown is an ancestor of jellyfish, which I’ve always thought were beautiful. I love how they’re blacklight-reactive. This isn’t even the wildest of the bunch, you gotta see the slideshow!

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