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Where does your cat go when he’s missing, and what would you do to find out?
Rumpus contributors Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton went all the way, employing kitty-stalking gear like cameras and trackers to peer into their pet’s secret life.
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Dmitry’s spontaneous cab drawings had such great composition and confidence. You could almost feel his grimace in so many of his lines.
...moreHappy Birthday, Susan Sontag. You would have been 80 today.
Here is an entry from her collection of journals and notebooks, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh. Also, check out Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton and Maria Popova’s fantastic collaborative illustration, Susan Sontag on Art.
...moreBig news from Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald and artist Wendy MacNaughton:
Pen & Ink, the duo’s Tumblr devoted to tattoos and the stories behind them, will be made into a book!
The book promises favorite classics along with never before seen pieces.
...moreRumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton has teamed up with Maria Popova (of Brain Pickings) to illustrate selected excerpts from Susan Sontag’s diaries.
The artwork is available on Etsy as an 11×14 print on heavy cotton rag paper with razored edges in a limited edition of 300, signed and numbered, bearing a hand-stamped inscription on the back.
...moreLast night, Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton went behind the scenes with NPR to create “live illustrations” of their election coverage.
Check out some of Wendy’s NPR illustrations at “Election 2012: What Radio Looks Like.”
Below are a few we think are particularly cool:
...moreArtist Wendy MacNaughton diagrams the stages of human communication over the course of a lifetime.
...moreArtist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton illustrates Robin Sloan’s San Francisco situated New York Times piece.
With her signature wit, MacNaughton breaks down arm signals for S.F. bicyclists. Study up after the jump:
...moreRumpus contributor and artist extraordinaire Wendy MacNaughton is profiled in Japanese art and design magazine DPI.
Check out the featured drawings — you can find our own Isaac “Motherfucking” Fitzgerald across the page from Joan Didion.
...moreArtist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton kept an illustrated diary of her “short, no frills” road trip through Death Valley for AFAR Magazine.
Join MacNaughton for the opening of her ExtraOrdinary show at The Curiosity Shoppe (855 Valencia Street) tomorrow evening.
...more“Pen & Ink,” a new project from Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald and artist Wendy MacNaughton, is all about tattoos and the stories behind them.
Check out the Tumblr. And consider sharing your own tatted tale?
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Artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton’s flowchart helps us answer the ever-present question:
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20×200 released a limited edition print of artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton’s drawing, “To Do.” It’s available for purchase! Take a closer look after the jump:
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Artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton illustrates last night’s Sugar Party in San Francisco:
...moreWhat happens when hip people reproduce? “Babies are the New Black,” is Wendy MacNaughton’s illustration for 7×7. Because babies can be as hip as you want them to be!
...more48 hours of grueling magazine production never looked so pretty. Here is the making of Issue 2 of Longshot Magazine, as illustrated by our columnist Wendy MacNaughton.
...moreWhat kind of caloric encouragement do writers need to get through a day?
Snack choices are among the most important quotidian decisions we make, and often we’re consistent with the ones that work best. Our very own Wendy MacNaughton charts the snack decisions of authors in this beautiful graphic for the New York Times.
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Rumpus contributor and artist Wendy MacNaughton has posted a couple of outtakes from her fantastic “Meanwhile, Mission Bartenders” piece. Check ‘em out.
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Wendy MacNaughton’s visual blog provides “drawings of people on public transportation on their way to and from work. Five days a week, twice a day, twenty minutes each way. And other commutes to boot.” The effect is somewhere between the chillingly under-acted and over-costumed TV series Mad Men, a song by The Zincs, and drunken half-memories of watching Slacker.
