High-Quality Artwork Prints Available!
If you’re looking for some of my original art or your favorite Steam Powered Giraffe illustration- look no further than the Print section of my gallery!
Included are bigger versions of many of the art booklet illustrations from Album 2 plus some exclusive SPG Art.
Take a look!
Is there any way to, like, elect what KIND of notifications you get on the google+ Cav thing? Because I wanna know about the hangouts, but I don’t particularly want my inbox flooded with random posts from people that aren’t relevant to me!
THAR SURE IS!
Toggle off the bell icon…
Woo-Hoo, now I have SPG on my G+ too :D :D
It’s raining here is San Diego and this pigeon doesn’t want any of it…staying under our porch.
it never rains in california unless you’re a pigeon and you don’t want it,It pours man it pours.
Those are incorrect tags! It never rains in California. Especially not Southern California. This is the land of sunshine. And the clouds occasionally spitting and sneezing on us that gets mistaken for rain sometimes. And we just don’t talk about our deluges. They don’t exist. Especially not to people outside of So Cal.
¬_¬
Those tags are from the lyrics to a song by Albert Hammond entitled “It Never Rains in Southern California”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyC7WnvLT4
The first tag is a play on them. Read them with the melody in mind.
Thanks for noticing internet. :/
I totally got the play on the lyrics because I was a teenager when the song came out! Go Me!
Antibullying idea clicks
By Kevin Cullen | GLOBE COLUMNIST
JANUARY 22, 2013
via bostonglobe.comA couple of weeks ago, Amanda Palmer, the musician who became famous as one-half of the Dresden Dolls, logged on to her computer and did something we all do but are loath to admit: She typed her name into the search engine. She calls it ego surfing.
The first listing was a link to a blog item that bitterly criticized her. The critic called her a fake communist. Whatever that is. Intrigued, Palmer then typed in “Hate A…” but before she could type Amanda Palmer the auto-fill completed the name: Amanda Todd.
Palmer had never heard of her, and assumed it was some sort of celebrity who would typically draw the ire of Internet trolls. But she Googled the name and found out that Amanda Todd was a 15-year-old girl from British Columbia who killed herself last fall after being relentlessly bullied.
Palmer searched some more and found a video that Todd made, using flash cards to articulate the loneliness and despair she felt. It kicked Palmer in the gut, because it reminded her of a video she had made, employing the same flash-card device. The difference is that Palmer’s video was art; Todd’s was a cry for help that went viral on YouTube after she committed suicide.
When she was growing up in Lexington, Palmer was the artistic and eccentric type — a younger version of what she is today — and she got bullied.
“But when I got home, it was over,” she said. “There was no one harassing me on Facebook, or sending me hateful text messages.”
The Internet and social media are tools that bullies use so that victims have no respite, no downtime. But like a lot of artists, Palmer thinks counterintuitively.
“The beautiful paradox of the Internet is that we are looking at the symptom and the cure at the same time,” she said.
So she put it out there on her blog, www.amandapalmer.net/blog. Who’s been bullied?
“I want to hear your stories,” she wrote, “and more importantly: your coping mechanisms.”
She could not have imagined the response. Hundreds and hundreds. Many were from victims of bullying, but even more were from strangers offering a kind word to those who revealed their torture. A young woman named Shannon wrote about being harassed in high school by a boy named Austin. He made remarks about her weight, her haircut, her makeup. At lunch, he called her a cow. He would purposely bump into her and say it wouldn’t have happened if she wasn’t so fat.
Then, one day, Shannon found out that Austin had killed himself. She went home and cried for the boy she had hated. She began to believe that Austin had bullied others because he had his own problems. She regretted that she never had a real conversation with him.
“When I would get those mean messages online, I would instantly retaliate with something equally terrible and soul-crushing,” Shannon wrote. “After Austin, I didn’t do that.”
If Palmer’s blog became something of a virtual therapy session, she knew that some of the people writing needed professional help beyond an online support group. Palmer tweeted out a suicide hotline number, and a high school girl saw it by chance. The girl sent Palmer a tweet thanking her, saying she saw the number at a moment she was contemplating suicide. The girl’s tweet to Palmer triggered tweets from others with words of encouragement, phone numbers for professional help, even songs to listen to.
This has all proved Amanda Palmer’s thesis, that a cyberspace infected by mean-spirited trolls is peopled by greater numbers of those who traffic in empathy, phone numbers, and good music.
“This to me is the only way out,” Palmer said. “You can enact policies and school the teachers and make laws but nothing will fix the problem except people talking to each other and being compassionate.”
I collected all the posts of the finished dolls, a FAQ, a size chart, and a couple of other informational posts in there so it’s a bit easier to navigate than my general Steam Powered Crochet tag in case anyone has any questions.
Also feel free to shoot me an ask! I’m happy to answer questions. <3
These are aDORable, every one :D
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Congrats robot enthusiasts! You got us to 1 million hits on YouTube! Not only that, CBS contacted us in anticipation of becoming a semi-finalist for the Grammy gig contest- so keep voting for us! Who knows…maybe it isn’t as far fetched as it sounds.
You can vote 10 times per day I believe, by heading on over to our nomination page: http://bit.ly/Rx9Ybt
Regardless of if we win or not, February is looking to be quite exciting. Our Valentines Weekend show just got a lot more special with all of the fan help getting Honeybee 1 million views. Be sure to reserve your tickets soon for February 16th, and we’ll see you this Friday for the SPG Hour!
www.steampoweredgiraffe.com
So I played this video and after it was over, I was doing some other stuff and suddenly I realized W was whistling Honeybee and she’s totally unfamiliar with the song! ;D
A big giraffe that smokes. Vote for Steam Powered Giraffe to perform at the Grammy’s! VOTE ON FACEBOOK!
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Does anyone know if the SPG hoodies will have zippers?
Because I’ve been needing a new jacket because my Coldplay jacket is really worn out and I got it like, four years ago and if the SPG hoodies have zippers on them, then I’ll be set.
Hot Chocolate Fudge yes they will have zippers on them. None of this “pull over” stuff.
They will come in a female and regular cut.
I only get things I will like.
Sorry, no SPG beer koozies, ashtrays, or coffee mugs peeps. :/Actually if we ever have “mugs” on our official website store…they’ll be called Hot Chocolate Handled Cups to appease my loathing of coffee.
I abuse my power and no one in SPG stops me. :(
But I mean come on…I think almost everyone will like zippers on the hoodies! Then you can wear and show off your SPG t-shirt and lanyard under your zipable hoodie :3
Man, just when I thought he couldn’t make me ♥ him more, David Michael Bennett makes me ♥ him more! Hoodies with zippers! Hot chocolate not coffee :D
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re-upload of the lil’ Spineraptor ‘cause I forgot his tie last time c;
the hat was too difficult for my current level of patience -n-
ahhhhh too much adorable
I WANNA TAKE IT HOME
Eeeeeeeeee ♥
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Me and my baby love saturday nights
Do you?
Yeah but Saturday Night Live hasn’t been that funny lately…
I mean it was “OK” with Andy Sandberg Kristen Wiig on it last season, but this season has been pretty “meh”. I still watch it every Saturday (DVR) and cringe whenever the guest band plays and the audio mix is missing some of their instruments/mics on stage.
Lotta good/funny people still on there…but you know…
SNL has always been hit and miss for the most part.
But I want to like it.
Every once in awhile you get one of them “gems” though. :)
Saturday Night Live has been dead to me since the passing of the Original Cast >.>
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