photographer - curator - designer - model - consultant - blogger - pervert - ninja - geek I like cats and porn and rock music and wearing too much eye makeup. Taking over the world since 2004. xox, Merrick Monroe Questions? /askTumblr (3.0; @returntonothing)http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fd9ec0cae4a89000e058a477013868ad/tumblr_mnbfedLN6H1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>But a portion of the goodies for tomorrow’s launch party with Espionage Cosmetics! (at Bridge City Comics)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/51238776030http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/51238776030Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:13 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c8cf23c20ef4550f1580993623617a82/tumblr_mnad9x2dwy1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Impromptu bartending by @emceeartist during his (re)birthday soiree night! (at Gilt Club)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/51205421907http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/51205421907Thu, 23 May 2013 21:46:45 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9fc1bb0858d2f35c9165ceaaa18b1d76/tumblr_mn9wt2jF4B1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The garden of Saiho Ji in Kyoto, Japan. (<a href="http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/2162/amazing-places-to-experience-around-the-globe-part-6" target="_blank">Amazing Places To Experience Around the Globe</a>)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/51180114477http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/51180114477Thu, 23 May 2013 15:51:02 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1ebcb82a00a79e103ba5855cc9c891b2/tumblr_mn5vwoLtyf1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Current state of the fire fingers. Progress! #fire (at Rogues’ Gallery)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/51003854712http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/51003854712Tue, 21 May 2013 11:41:12 -0700fire<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ec5fcc896b4c39227ab84c36c386e9ee/tumblr_mn3zjzrDSt1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Got materials for fire fingers (and K’s 3-part staff) in the mail today! Let the crafting begin… #fire (at Rogues’ Gallery)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50920162832http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50920162832Mon, 20 May 2013 11:04:46 -0700fire<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5e41736bb81e1f9f22ed954dd978e362/tumblr_mmzb52mcJN1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Beautiful innocent lilies as castrated by @bigredhair (at Moloko Plus)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50709010923http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50709010923Fri, 17 May 2013 22:27:01 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9d99b90d7b0025d680fbd0803cb16ae2/tumblr_mmysnzJWPE1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Got the LEGO series 10 minifigures in today; this is the first one I grabbed. I love my little Medusa! She’s totally going in the snake tank. ^_^ #Lego #minifig (at Bridge City Comics)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50682512731http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50682512731Fri, 17 May 2013 15:47:59 -0700minifiglego<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a2f8cbe4604d5e4414cb1fb74ba6b9ac/tumblr_mm71ifXsDM1qhhxd4o1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/cdf8e756fe92949519b713dc87f27efc/tumblr_mm71ifXsDM1qhhxd4o3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b1a1df2e41033b049e79f71b43105462/tumblr_mm71ifXsDM1qhhxd4o5_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0fa7ff6a4b5f805e8ea8edbc7b57750c/tumblr_mm71ifXsDM1qhhxd4o4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ad7cde467e98aa636e1d96affc6562ce/tumblr_mm71ifXsDM1qhhxd4o7_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7ce736d37e064146b5516adf6b1ea941/tumblr_mm71ifXsDM1qhhxd4o6_250.gif"/><br/> <br/>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50559234516http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50559234516Wed, 15 May 2013 22:23:11 -0700gifsbloodkisses<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2f4dea9d4565858e2163d2c5a3521c95/tumblr_mmvfe9lhgv1qzn84go1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://gunshowcomic.com/698" target="_blank">Gunshow - Eating my arms and legs</a></p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50551047450http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50551047450Wed, 15 May 2013 20:08:32 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/37b4cf7615f4eba50e244fea8be9f7dd/tumblr_mmuqzofPYM1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Touched up my hair colour in the shower today, gave myself a nice manicure while I was at it. :P (at Rogues’ Gallery)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50508762286http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50508762286Wed, 15 May 2013 11:21:24 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/67ea3b6af28567c67c448fe76f197041/tumblr_mmtu7hTzg21qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>PDX PUNX (at Embers)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50481939203http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50481939203Tue, 14 May 2013 23:33:17 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9w0kfFkQA1qhcrg8o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Going to fire practice tonight. Soon this shall be meeeee.</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50453474544http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50453474544Tue, 14 May 2013 16:21:11 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4a6be7353e8b43b2059e2ed0e6f94bb1/tumblr_mmo1tjqg2h1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Raise your chevre with strawberry rhubarb jam ice cream cones in a toast: to comics! (at Ruby Jewel Scoops)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50221443432http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50221443432Sat, 11 May 2013 20:32:07 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a5354e9669d1d1eba196b7048c20d4c7/tumblr_mmmb44Iyuo1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’m shocked, to be sure. (at Marathon Taverna)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50144455638http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50144455638Fri, 10 May 2013 21:57:40 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d866672c63de27e8fc8bbbe2b8c7176e/tumblr_mmm89cYDOG1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bone mama (at Slabtown)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50140611189http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50140611189Fri, 10 May 2013 20:56:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/12b376099ee4efb37b90e90210fda64b/tumblr_mmlepmCOLn1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Started my day reading comics. Secret Voice #2, out today and available only in digital at panelsyndicate.com #comics</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50098167941http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50098167941Fri, 10 May 2013 10:17:46 -0700comics2<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a3c1bb8f472c5fded0f8bd6b3f238c68/tumblr_mmkbgyMMp61qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Steel crossings (at Steel Bridge)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50064043344http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50064043344Thu, 09 May 2013 20:10:10 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c8a622af8b05a56e467f384adc0409b2/tumblr_mmkar8RM221qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I haven’t had the opportunity to enjoy this view for a while. (at Failing St. Pedestrian Bridge)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50062889524http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50062889524Thu, 09 May 2013 19:54:44 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8cac4a9af3166f03471e80e927b4bd39/tumblr_mmjytmidSd1qzn84go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>{concrete alchemy} (at Failing St. Pedestrian Bridge)</p>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50042795851http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50042795851Thu, 09 May 2013 15:36:58 -0700“You sit in the back of the class because you’re ashamed of your hand-me-downs. You can’t afford glasses so you can’t see the board. You don’t have enough money for your own art supplies, and your school doesn’t supply them because all that money goes to the jocks, so you guiltily shoplift them. The entire machine you’re being pushed through is engineered to ignore you in favor of the elites. The athletes. The rich kids. <br/> If you choose, right now will be your lowest ebb. And right now will be the highest pinnacle of the elites.<br/> If you nurture it, if you are tender with yourself, your suffering now makes you strong in the future. It lights a fire in your heart. This fire fuels you. As the elites lazily drift from one free opportunity to the next, you’re being given the gift of hardship. You’ll have to be harder than them. You’ll have to be smarter than them. You’ll have to be faster than them. Make yourself be these things. Use the gift of the shadow you’ve been placed in to forge new and striking ways of thinking, doing, and being.<br/> The elites will become cogs in the machine. You will become a bright, silver, indestructible wrench that breaks it. You will become the creator of your own machine, and they will envy you your purity.<br/> And the money they inherited, they will give to you. And unlike them, you will have earned it.<br/> They will buy your art. They will pay you for your ideas. They will line up outside your club, behind the velvet rope you have a former athlete guarding. They will beg for backstage passes to your show. They will pay you for VIP access to your company. They will always ask themselves, “Why didn’t I think of that?” And you’ll know, “Because you didn’t have to.”<br/> Hang in there. It will happen. The present belongs to them. The future belongs to you.<br/> Love,<br/> Clayton”<br/><br/> - <em>Clayton Cubitt</em>http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50030068306http://returntonothing.tumblr.com/post/50030068306Thu, 09 May 2013 12:45:33 -0700