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I hope you enjoy the blogs below. Some are simply places from which to draw inspiration while others are actual characters you can download onto your mobile phone. Enjoy and don't hesitate to send me some of your blog favorites. (linda@metrolinda.com)

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deepblog.com

All Kinds of Stuff
johnkstuff.blogspot.com

Animation legend John Kricfalusi, creator of "Ren and Stimpy," began posting "All Kinds of Stuff" in February 2006, and already gets nearly 5,000 visitors a day. On it, the guy behind the most influential cartoon of the past 30 years tells readers everything they ever wanted to know about real cartoons. But his site draws more than just cartoon fans — it draws filmmakers, entertainment execs, and entertainment lovers of all kinds. John created the Internet's first Flash animation, "George Liquor," and invented the system that Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network use to make cartoons today..

boingboing
http://www.boingboing.net/

Co-founded by Los Angeles Writer and Illustrator, Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing attracts more than 2 million unique visitors to its site each month, and has over 3.3 million RSS subscribers. By Comscore's measure, Boing Boing is among the five most-visited blogs on the web. It is truley a directory of wonderful things.

Cartoon Brew
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/

Each day, Cartoon Brew brings the latest news and trends in animation to nearly 5,000 different artists, entertainment execs and cartoon aficionados. Animation authorities Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi — both of whom are recognized historians and published authors, with long experience in the animation industry — cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary and classic animation from around the globe, CGI, advertising, design, anime and industry/business news.

laurice parking / life in (re) design
http://www.lauriceparkin.com/

Hi, I’m Laurice – Welcome to my blog coming to you live fromBrooklyn, NY. In my time, I’ve held quite a few different titles: journalist (Vogue, NY Daily News), design proprietor (Swank 20th Century Modern), design studio owner (521 Design) and most recently cancer survivor. Although it may seem strange, it is this last title that has inspired me to start this website. Cancer pushes you into a very strange, removed world and forces you to find beauty and hope in the everyday. This blog is a small way for me to reconnect with the real world again and the things in which I find both beauty and hope: design, art, new ideas and the creative people bringing it all to life. I’m continually amazed and grateful that great design and art can elevate the everyday to another plane. I look forward to the reconnection.

Mojizui
http://www.mojizu.com/

Mojizu.com is the premier resource for characters artists online . Mojizu.com is quickly being recognized as the place to go for aspiring and accomplished artists alike. Computer Arts magazine recently published an article professing that "full marks should be given to Mojizu." Mojizu is for the people who create characters and people who just love them, from experienced artists to casual doodlers.

The Proceedings of The Athanasius Kircher Society
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/

The Athanasius Kircher Society was chartered to perpetuate the spirit and sensibilities of the late Athanasius Kircher, SJ. Our interests extend to the wondrous, the curious, the singular, the esoteric, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the plausible and the implausible — anything that Father Kircher might find inspiring if he were aliv

psfk.com - ideas, trends and inspiration
http://www.psfk.com/

PSFK is a lens of changes in cultural behavior that influence all of us. We offer a set of trends sites contributed to by over 50 people across the globe reporting on trends in music, fashion, technology, advertising and youth. Our site readers tend to be slightly older (and wiser) media, design & advertising professionals.

Lifeclever
http://lifeclever.com/

LifeClever is a terrific 'life hack' site -- a collection of tips for design and life that's among the favorite sites of Merlin "43 Folders" Mann. LifeClever's straightforward practical advice helps both designers and non-designers learn how to design, work, and live better — from a living room to a resume. LifeClever is helmed by Chanpory Rith, a designer at MetaDesign whose interaction and branding work includes projects for Yahoo!, Symantec, PC World and Four Seasons Hotels.