Scary Facts about Space: Pluto

Filed under: "it's pretty much impossible to find a good picture of Pluto."

Instead of being the lonely outcast (as some woot shirts will have you believe), I imagine Pluto as being the wild child of our solar-system family. The sun will try to neatly corral its other children into nice concentric, parallel orbits, and then here comes Pluto pulling this nonsense. That isn't the behavior of an outcast, it’s of a rebel who Does What It Wants™. (Or a stray from the Kuiper Belt, but whatever. I’m not going to get into that right now and ruin this beautiful character I have in my mind).

...I’m going to draw this next week.

It's back!

www.ayodesigns.com is now live (again)! Thank goodness!

-L

Calamity!

Ayojoy.com is down! It was the unfortunate victim of what I've come to learn is the Redemption Period for websites, which is pretty bad. One lesson learned the hard way, I suppose.

In a twist of serendipitous fate, however, the domain name I originally wanted for my portfolio was available! Make sure to check www.ayodesigns.com in the coming days!

In other news, I've decided that the best course of action to curb my compulsion to fill this blog with nothing but horrifying space facts was to limit them to one post a week. Wednesday will be the day I dedicate to ruining the public's preconceived notions about how safe and totally not dangerous space is, so be ready!

Some freelance projects I've been working on will be posted here in the coming weeks, as well, so stay tuned for updates. Thanks for following, and sorry about the site downtime.

-L

Scary Facts about space, part II

Here are two more scary space facts, in a set!
Jupiter is, as they say on the streets, "cray".


-L

Scary facts about space

I decided to update my facebook cover photo today, but didn't want it to be just a photograph of myself at some point in my life. Instead, I turned to one of my most consistent sources of inspiration: space!

I'm planning on making a few more of these, detailing the scientific inhospitability* of some of the most beautiful images the Hubble Space Telescope has graced us with. Spreading beauty and knowledge simultaneously is the best part about design!



*: There is, evidently, no noun form of 'inhospitable'. I checked and everything.

-L