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The FML Unicorn power

Bad tattoos are bad indeed, once it’s on your skin you’ll never get rid of it, so if you don’t want to live a moment that will end in the FML moderation machine, so guys, please think about it twice. The warning part being over, we can now make fun of people who screwed up their tattoos! Sometimes it’s because of their initial idea (having a cat on your belly, with your belly button representing its asshole), or when the tattoo guy made a big mistake like when some guy ended up with, instead of “I love my mum”, a nice hearted “I love my cum”. Last chance, before you end up going to a doctor who will burn your skin for 1.000.000$ with a laser. And we’re not exaggerating to scare you, today’s illustration should do most of the scaring (and funny) part. Guys, let us introduce you to our artist of the day, Noa Liberman-Plashkes ! Noa   is 26 years old. She lives in Tel Aviv, Israel with her husband and their pets – a dog and a cat. She’s been a graphic designer and Illustrator for 6 years now. She went to Shenkar College for Design which is one of the biggest colleges in Israel, and studied Illustration for 4 years. She works part time as a graphic production artist in a Post Production Company who makes most of Israel’s TV commercials, and part time as a freelance illustrator, creating illustrations for animation design, magazines and various print publications. Ah, we feel like we’re repeating ourselves, but yes, today’s artist loves her job, and she wishes she could do freelance work all the time, she loves working in Post Production as it’s pretty interesting. She wishes she could learn how to model in 3D, and brushes up her animation skills whenever possible but she just doesn’t have the time. It’s a hard life. Some Projects she’s working on at the moment: Animation Design for stories for the children site Speakaboos and the animation portal Aniboom , doing a weekly illustration spot in a green living section of an Israeli paper, and lots more. It comes and goes. Noa doesn’t run a blog (not an English language one, at least), she prefers using micro-blogging social networks like twitter, which steals most of her free time (seriously, ours too), but she does own a DA account and a website, that you’ll find linked at the end of this article. She created her website a couple of years ago because she wanted something a bit more personal than showcasing her work on flickr. What do she likes? Music, and lots of it, she loves Indie Rock, New Wave, Electro, Breakbeat and the like. She loves reading and tries to finish a book a week. She just finished reading Philip Pullman’s series “His Dark Materials” for the second time and she recommends it (as soon as we’ll finish Tinkerbell’s biography we promise, we will read it). She loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy books and movies. She doesn’t watch lots of TV other than House M.D, and Buffy the Vampire. She loves animals as well, she used to work in a pet store when she was a student. This job gave her lots of FML tales, sadly, none of them got through the moderation stage. Other than that, she spends most of her time online, reading blogs and design sites, and tries to draw for fun when she has some spare time! “-Last question before we let you go off to eat puppets while dancing to Buffy’s soundtrack, why did you choose this story? -I chose this FML because It made me laugh. Back in the day I had a good friend who ran a tattoo parlor, which had to deal with many customers with bad tattoo ideas, and couldn’t do a thing about it. The unicorn idea comes from a Perry Bible Fellowship I read a while ago. It’s a great comics strip, BTW… -Unicorn, yami. And why did you decided to take a part in this amazing FML illustration section adventure? -I decided to send an illustration to FML because I love this site. I read it daily via my pda before I go to sleep. I don’t know why, but It helps me fall asleep a lot easier. That’s all what I have to say.”     That’s all we needed to know. Thank you Noa for your great illustration, may the power of the unicorn be with you!     Here is Noa ‘s DA : http://noakrank.deviantart.com/ Here is Noa ‘s website: http://noa.null.co.il/ If you want to be the next published artist, send an email to alice@fmylife.com which starts with a hello and ends with a goodbye, including your name, age, and a link to your website/blog. If you don’t have one, attach some of your drawings. But DON’T send your illustration right away! You need first to get in touch with Alice, who will tell you what you have to do!

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The FML Unicorn power

Hiatus Over

Okay, so I ignored this thing for most of last semester. I was swamped with writing work in my classes last semester, so hopefully things are better now. This next semester will be my last one (Yay!), and then I can graduate with my Bachelor’s in Journalism/Professional Writing. This last semester, while fairly tough, was probably the best semester I have had for learning since I started school. I took a class on sustainable communities that was invaluable to my understanding of city planning and building the future. For it, I created a presentation on Bill Mollison, the father of permaculture, and learned more about permaculture than before. I have become taken with this concept and I am using my winter break to learn more about how to live this lifestyle. Bill Mollison is from Tazmania, Australia, and operates from there. Tazmania is full of lush rainforest and many endagered species of plants and animals. The structure of a rainforest and how it grows and cultivates crops is the guiding principle behind much of permaculture. It is a form of agriculture that is more sustainable and more diverse, for those of you unaware. It includes growing many diverse crops instead of monocultures, using feedback loops to create healthy soil, plants, water, and habitats, and reusing everything several times before it becomes waste. It is much more complicated than I have space to get into on my blog, but I suggest researching Bill Mollison on your own. I was very excited to begin reading a book that my friend Andrea got for me called Urban Homesteaders , which covers many of the principles and practices of permaculture also. I will review that book when I finish reading it. Another project I worked on last semester was designing my own sustainable community. While I had fun and turned in an interesting concept, it really got me to thinking. My concept was for a city of 200,000. It involved 80% open space, and 20% building. I designed this by creating towers that held markets, vertical gardens, and apartment-like adaptable buildings. While that sounds great in theory, I started thinking about my own dreams as of late. Would I enjoy living there? If not, what will draw other Americans? I have to admit that part of me has been infected with the very American dream of buying a piece of land and building a house on it. I want to grow my own organic farm, and have goats and chickens. Living out in the country right now, I have noticed a saddening trend, as the city encroaches on us, more and more of the big farms out here are being sold to developers. 2,000+ sq. ft. monstrosities are being built in cookie-cutter form to create housing communities everywhere. It’s turning into the suburbs everywhere, and there’s no stopping it. As much as I dream about buying land and starting a farm, I wouldn’t want to look out and see that scab of humanity next door to my beautiful gardens. But with a growing population of American Dreamers wanting their big house, big cars, and yards (not gardens), how many of these will we install before we realize we have destroyed everything beautiful that we have? So would I live in a community that was similar to apartments? Yes, because in my design, there were garden plots for everyone to work in, public transit out of the town, and a wildlife area that took up 50% of the total land and allowed for hunting and camping. It is an idea I plan to keep tweaking until I get it right.

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Hiatus Over

Stephen Hawking & the Omnipotent Fishgod

In what is becoming to be one of the worst misuses of science since electronics ended up in Sammy the Singing Sea Bass, defenders of “Intelligent Design” increasingly abuse both words and the anthropic principle to “prove” the existence of God. Many of our greatest scientists have been asking why does the universe appear to be “fine-tuned” for life?

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Stephen Hawking & the Omnipotent Fishgod

Penelope Cruz’s Boobs Are A Perfect Ten

Here’s Penelope Cruz at the London premiere of Nine last night looking spectacular, as always, showing off some sweet Spanish cleavage. I love this woman. I want her to yell obscenities at my in Spanish while she slaps me around with a stocking filled with tangy lime Jell-o.

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Penelope Cruz’s Boobs Are A Perfect Ten

Christina Hendricks’ Breasts Are Heavenly

Here’s Mad Men hottie Christina Hendricks a some event called Divine Design to benefit Project Angel Food the other night.

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Christina Hendricks’ Breasts Are Heavenly

Photoshop Fridge Magnets

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British Sunday Times Writer Who Thinks New York City Pretty Much Sucks: A Formal Response

Oh, hello there, Stephanie Marsh of the Sunday Times . When you write an essay called “New York has lost its edge,” and you live here, it’s okay. When you’re writing from London …

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British Sunday Times Writer Who Thinks New York City Pretty Much Sucks: A Formal Response

The Very Best Of Cats Chillin’

Here's a bunch of cats just chillin' the fuck out. Which, yes, is what cats always do, but I'm talking about the felines who are right at the top of their game. These badasses could relax for America

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The Very Best Of Cats Chillin’

Book Staircase

This is a much cooler way of keeping a library than my current system of stacking books on the floor around my bed. Recommended for anyone who has multiple floors in their home (i.e., no one I know).

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Book Staircase

Project Runway: Someone’s in the Kitchen with Designers

Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to send a chic New Yorker to rural locations. The delusion to put him in an apron.

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Project Runway: Someone’s in the Kitchen with Designers