Alexandra Gallant-Lee
@alexandragallant.com
Ali “with an i”
Artist, Web & Graphic Designer, Nature & Science Illustrator, Award-Winning Cartoonist, Science Communicator in Medicine/Life Sciences in Boston, Bicon, She/Her, Buffalo Always
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It’s one of those things that I had my eye on for years, wanting to go, so I feel so lucky, have this one last chance to catch it, can’t pass it up.
Yes, rereading it, I regret using many of those words in such close proximity to each other.
Oh yes it is and not only that, while I was down there visiting my parents, I went to a Christmas party with them and someone showed up to the party also dressed as the beaver.
Also, I’m pretty sure that going to that place is what prompted my dad to immediately decide to move and now they live in a different state. He went inside a Buc-ees and said “Nope” so hard he moved house.
It was my nightmare. I went to the largest one in the world. Left about 5 minutes later. Almost got hit 4 times just walking from the parking lot to inside. 100 gas pumps. ONE HUNDRED.
Inside it’s like a gift shop at a Disney Park meets a Cracker Barrel meets a gas station.
Just got a pass, very excited for it, have also never been to Portland before either.
I once had a grown man tell me that the way you knew a good clam chowder was by the grit and I am just thinking “sir, you are eating sand and pretending it’s a delicacy”
But perhaps…
People honor grit.
Oh, at least ten times a day. My favorite trick for coming up with palettes for art is just to look at weird nature. If it somehow works in nature it’ll probably work on a page.
About a year ago, I found a folder of old LiveJournal icons I had designed, so I decided to turn it into a zine with some little essays about the design and aesthetic trends at the time.
You can snag a digital copy for $3 on itch, featuring dozens of icons, to give you a little blast from the past
Iconic by alexandragallant
A zine about design, aesthetic and LiveJournal icons from the early 2000s.
alexandragallant.itch.ioFor keeping track of what you’re doing - Toggl is nice because it shows you where you’re spending your time, you can even have it do it passively, so later you see, OK in Photoshop for 45 min then web browsing for 15. For actual project management stuff, been using Todoist (& it can work w Toggl)
Oh my god, I need it, I need it now. She is going to be a force in this show and I cannot wait.
Sometimes I randomly think about people who were born around 1870 or so and what that must have been like, growing up with no electricity and traveling by wagon to being able to fly on a plane towards the ends of their lives.
They’re gonna call it Speak-EZ, or some shit, too, watch.
Bro, you should really just try some weed. Also, gotta get a fresher cultural reference if you’re gonna be a tech futurist.
Children are never people to them, only whatever is most expedient, whether it is prop, accessory or pawn.
all the VC Qanon extremists in silicon valley love these child-abusing shitheads. they like to frame themselves as somehow being in favor of having children, when they're really in favor of driving their own children to self-harm or death if they ever show the slightest sign of independent thought.
I can tell you how to be better at scams, you just have to fall for my scam first!
This whole thread, I also grew up around there and it really is a terrific place, something I really appreciate getting to experience for my childhood, especially after having moved like 20 times before landing in Buffalo.
I’m sure this list is going to get mocked, but let me just say that as someone who for a long time tried to deny he was from Buffalo (Cheektowaga is a suburb), I’ve come to appreciate that it was actually a great place to grow up, and which culturally punches WAY above its weight.
Accidentally fell down a rabbit hole of people who want to become life coaches trying to start easy businesses and being scammed by other people selling life coach coaching, effectively, just scams all the way down.
Curious about what people’s favorite robots would be in movies/TV from the 90s and earlier…
A couple more, these aren’t really for anything, mostly just an exercise for me, the gelli plate is very relaxing and very satisfying as a printmaking method, it’s so low stakes and also involves a lot of paint, makes it easy to play around with so many different things.
Decided to lean into it with this next one, what a cute couple.
The skull clown thing is so outside my normal art stuff, I both love it and also it is my nightmare
I have a gelli plate that I had been doing image transfers from magazines with, I made a bunch of little prints that I’d been meaning to do something with, so I finally did these mini paintings. The last image is an example of what these sort of things start out like before I draw/paint over them.
in that it’s something you pay attention to not bc it’s narratively interesting but bc it is a real wtf.
I know I always completely checked out during that stuff lol, anything on earth besides like Wormhole X-Treme, what an episode lol, so I get how you missed it, it was probably boring then, but now it’s like “wait this is interesting for the wrong reason”
The worst offenders for that are the shows that either need or want involved with whatever agency they’re depicting (see NYPD and Law & Order shows) and it is one of my fav sci fi shows, but Stargate was involved with the Air Force quite a bit, so it’s up there.
I have a gelli plate that I had been doing image transfers from magazines with, I made a bunch of little prints that I’d been meaning to do something with, so I finally did these mini paintings. The last image is an example of what these sort of things start out like before I draw/paint over them.
Yesterday, went to a store, saw the posted hours said they didn’t open for another hour and started to walk away and then a man chased us to be like “Folks, come on in! We are open!”
Well, you are answering a lot of questions NOT answered by your sign, sir.
It’s “suggested for you” other people who are similar to whoever you’re looking at… like a “you might also want to follow these people”
The icon keeps throwing people off, it seems like it would do something else and makes it something you’re a little afraid to click.
Yep. I found an old assignment of mine from when I was like 7, maybe, “what do you want to be when you grow up”
I wrote “indoor kid”
Living the dream
Rejecting “go outside it’s beautiful today” culture since 1980
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Just snagged it - I have been looking for one of these Minoltas for months, I had a slightly older one (an XG-7) when I was growing up, it was gifted to me as a teenager and was family lore because it had literally been RUN OVER BY A CAR and still worked. They are amazing.
These are one of my zines, it’s the sketchbook version side by side with the version that appeared in the zine. Sometimes I redraw stuff, sometimes I just clean stuff up, I like adding photos if it’s from travel sketchbooks, too.
I just wear the jacket now as a jacket 😂 it’s a great coat!
One wild thing that I love so much 🥹 is that I’m the first person that Jodie ever saw cosplaying as her Doctor, cause I got to meet her at this special BBC thing they filmed at Comic Con where she surprised fans.
I thought a spider jumped on my phone 😭😭😭😭😭 bc I had just been dusting and cleaning the curtains
It’s a whisper in your ear at the right time when you need it, whether it’s to motivate you in making a thing or to revel just a little bit more in the success of it.
I forgot about this and just jump scared myself when I was looking for a different photo
Deeply unsettled by this frozen puddle which looks like a painting of a nightmare
Cannot believe it wasn’t even a year ago that I made this… I was sure it had been. It’s wild, since then, after making this on a whim, I turned it into a full length comic, it won an award and now it’s in a bunch of zine and comic collections in libraries all over the country 😭
“Why did you get started building websites?” “To spite one specific guy, mostly.”
Trying to get better at portraiture and likenesses so I’m doing a bunch of movie posters, just as a little treat for myself, just trying to figure out if I want a certain theme for picking the films, since I’d like to do films across a wide range of years, too.
Started calling my cat Audrey Hepcoat because she loves sleeping on a jacket.
Ooooh just got a lovely bit of petrichor from the rain, getting hints of it on the breeze.
Looking back through some old Comic Con photos, getting excited to go again, some of the cosplayers continue to blow my mind years after the fact, like that Fifth Element duo, just incredible.
I’m almost always the only person in a creative role in the room full of scientists at literally every meeting I’m in. I used to be known as “won’t shut up about comics”, now I’ve got a new thing to not shut up about and it’s this stuff.
It was way more fun being excited about comics in science.
the argument in my sector (science), that "it will only replace the boring parts of your job, leaving you more time to do the interesting work", shows a profound lack of understanding of the different jobs people do in science, and which ones will be replaced because they're considered "boring"