DraculaClothing design contest - win a corset of your own design!

My friends at DraculaClothing are having the most amazing and well thought out contest ever, and so I thought I'd spread the word about it.

What you have to do is to design a corset for them. They are especially looking for steampunk corsets, burlesque corsets and creatively designed corsets.

You need to use this template as a backdrop for your design (click picture for full size):You don't have to figure out how the corset is actually constructed, you just need to draw how it will look like.

Post your design to http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=10418434039&view=all and click add photo, they will keep the best pictures in the folder.

If they like your corset enough to make it, you will win the corset you designed!

There will be as many or few winners as there's designs that they like enough to use, and there will also not be an end date for the contest since they are always looking for new designs. A no-stress contest. I like the sound of that.

This is the entry they posted in their blog about the contest: http://draculaclothing.com/blog/design-contest
And this is their shop, if you'd like to take a look at what they're already selling: http://draculaclothing.com/
There's also lots more photos on their Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/#!/DraculaClothing?ref=sgm

So, are you going to give it a go?

American Natives photographed by Edward S. Curtis

Curtis' goal was to document as much as possible of the various groups of Native American people, their way of life and traditions.







There's often an element of Otherness evident in the photos taken by photographers trying to document people from cultures other than their own. I wonder how much different the photos of these people would have been if Edward S. Curtis had given the camera over to the people he wanted to document, and asked them to document themselves?

beer or Coca Cola - what is the healthiest?

The poll is closed, and this is the result..


I don't know how healthy beer is, but at least most of you agree that it's healthier than Coca Cola - and come on, people drink Coca Cola for breakfast!


I personally voted "I don't know", and managed to curb my enthusiasm, so I only voted once this time to ensure accurate & honest results.

Does anyone have suggestions for what the next poll should be about?

I drew this

I drew this with a marker, and added the bits of colour and the black vignette in Photoshop. It reminds me of Art Nouveau.

I want to live in this house

badass knitting tattoo

a drawing from my sketchbook

I've never had a sketchbook with brown pages before. I think it makes the drawings look really old fashioned.

I ate this