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Public Domain For The Win!

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Magpie

Today I started a new website, Public Domain For The Win, in which I will dump public domain etchings and woodcarvings and general graphic goodness as high-quality tiff files. This is one of the main resources I use personally for … Continue reading →

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Butchering A Fawn On Sunday

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Magpie

Yesterday my friends returned to the house with a roadkill deer that they’d already skinned. Being slightly into taking gory photos, I decided to photograph some of the process of butchering the dead creature. (As an aside, the omnivores pictured … Continue reading →

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Skinning a Mouse on Thursday

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Magpie

It was raining today, so I didn’t really feel like going anywhere. Fortunately, my friend decided to skin the mouse that the cat had killed. I took pictures of the process. Note that these pictures are not for the squeemish, … Continue reading →

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No Media Kings

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Magpie

I’ve been buried 10 tabs deep into No Media Kings, the self-publishing resource site run by Jim Munroe, an anarchist sci-fi author from Canada who I am embarrassed to have not heard about before now. There’s tons of information on … Continue reading →

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How to crochet with reused plastic bags

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Magpie

Today I had the pleasure of meeting a friend of mine’s mothers. One of them pulled out a bag she was crocheting, and told us with pride that she had made it from reused plastic bags… in this case, newspaper … Continue reading →

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