DAY 2

Jelly Gummies

Jelly Gummies is an art blog filled with Sketches and experiments by Scottish artist, Sam Lyon. It is a blog full of wobbly, jelly-like, bouncing, gummy gif’s. These Jelly Gummies are a lot of things at the same time, they’re cute, weird, shiny, and you’ll want to touch them but at the same time, want to put them under a glass to prevent it from trying to poison you, while at the same time wanting to take them home and use them as a pillow. These jiggling, fleshy gifs are able to channel Flubber, sea cucumbers and floppy, rubber, sausages (which can be bought at any store that doesn’t usually sell meat products), all at the same time. From a technical standpoint, there’s a reason only one of these blogs exists, the Jelly Gummies all have a very over- pronounced face-crease, stomach bulge which are so goo like it would probably take someone hours to create and perfect. However it appears that Sam Lyon has created a winning and hilarious formula for creating them, he has said that he first picks a picture of a dog or a person’s face and runs them through programs (Sculptris and blender) to see what works and what doesn’t. But when did Lyon first create them and why? In an interview with the website, Giphy, Lyon said that he had begun creating them at the end of 2012 and had learned how to through trial and error. As to why, he says he does it for fun.

Citation 
Sam Lyon. Squeeze My Nugget. 2014. N/A. Http://jellygummies.tumblr.com. Web. 25 Jan. 2016. <http://jellygummies.tumblr.com/post/130056827848/squeeze-my-nugget>.   

Giphy interview (http://giphy.com/posts/artist-interview-sam-lyon-aka-jelly-gummies)

DAY 1

My Miserable life

For those who think FML isn’t depressing enough and those who enjoy hearing depressing stories from other, anonymous people, to make you feel better. My Miserable Life: a compendium of suffering is a website for people to tell they’re miserable stories about their miserable life. The website is split-up into different sections depending on what age you are or what your living condition might be. Angst-Ridden Teens is for people my age (13-19), terrible twenties is for those who may have just finished high school and are now finding out how fun and bright the real world is. Forgettable Forties is for those people that have overcome their angst and terribleness, and are now wishing to forget (other categories exists but I can’t view them at this time as the website is blocked on school computers).  Here’s example of a story which can be found on the website:

"My mother died when I was 8 from giving birth to my brother. I could be living in beautiful Florence, Italy, but I was immediately put up for adoption in the "good old" USA. I was raised by these fosters who constantly gave their blood-daughter everything free, and me nothing. When I was in 2nd grade, a pencil was thrown into my eye, and now I have an eye "disease" that disqualifies me from the military and has left me with bad vision and color blindness. My girlfriend was killed by a drunk driver when I was 16. I've never been to a university because of the bad grades I had in school from depression when she died. Nobody ever lets you live that down. I have an Italian last name, so Spanish people hire me and harass me because I'm white. Low blood sugar makes me feel like my veins are constantly on fire. I've dropped all my "friends" in this state because they're lying and think their "act" works on me, only when I get tired of playing them back. I went from $15 an hour at age nineteen down to $7.50 at age 23 and up to $9 an hour at age 26. Oh, and I live in a one-bedroom apartment with do-it-yourself furniture."