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Happy Birthday, Pedro Flores
Pedro Flores, an Filipino American immigrant who is known as the “Father Of Yo-Yo”, was born on this day in 1896. So I made a quick drawing to celebrate his birthday. The yo-yo (also known as the bandolore, incroyable, l’émigrette, and the quiz) had been around for centuries, but Pedro created a new method of…
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Earth Day Trixel Art
Happy #EarthDay, y’all! Here’s some trixel art I made a few years back in Hexels Pro that I thought was a good fit for today.
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Mike Hale’s art for “Responsive Counterweight” tutorials
I’ve been developing a style of yo-yoing that blends counterweight style (or “5A”) with modern responsive (or “0A”) play. I’m really happy with the style and the unique way it feels, so I’ve been publishing a series of tutorials on Youtube that help teach the basics. I’ve published full playlist of those tutorials here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1g-GXFBtDQdtP-p0w4UYpfEiPLt-n42B…
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Getting A Yo-Yo Shout-Out in The Middle Of a Graffiti DVD from 2005
Bench Warmers was a documentary-style series of DVDs about freight train graffiti culture in the 2000s. These “Magazine DVDs” primarily focused on the art of writing on trains, but the series also featured interviews, stop motion animation, underground hip hop, and musical performances. In “Bench Warmers Volume 3”, they even featured a few minutes of…
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#SidewalkFriends: Christy’s Slide in the Sky
A drawing of a bald man with a big bushy beard. He has a serious look on his face and he is holding a photo of a beautiful white cat.
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Visibly Mending My Blackbird Raum Shirt
One of my favorite t-shirts had some holes in it, so I finally took some time to repair it. I’ve long been a fan of r/VisibleMending on Reddit, but didn’t know how to go about doing a visible mending project myself. I asked around and ChurchHatesTucker had a great suggestion to use a buttonhole stitch…
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