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Mike Shirley-Donnelly (MSD)
Hi hello I am msd I make music and take photos and make art but also run a joint cat rescue / recording studio in southern new england with my partner Della. I'm still mourning Cohost closing, but at least I started blogging as a result??
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All posts (213)
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weird week. The skies have been smoke-filled and air-quality alerted to shit, ICE is killing civilians (again), my country is / is not / is again / wait no / yes actually at war with Iran, 97 Democrats voted with Republicans to keep supporting...
Please enjoy some camera focus adventures (and bonus flowers) This morning, one of the cats was sunbathing in the window and what struck me was the "golden hour" light that was hitting them; usually that's rad as hell and super photogenic but as it was 11am I had a bit of concern. Going outside, I found the sky a...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Hope y'all had a great weekend! Mine felt exceedingly short. You see, a bigoted, elderly politician who has done untold damage to the rights of women, queer people, people of color and our ability to have affordable healthcare in my country (to put...
What the fuck even is "Magical Insurance Bureaucrats" anyway? Compilation of a bunch of the art - this is my "tone piece" for the project more or less For a while now, I've been working on this thing called The Ongoing Adventures of Magical Insurance Bureaucrats in a World Recovering from a Failed Alien Invasion (a...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop There was a period of time earlier in this project where I was worried my blog posts would be too much pokemon all the time, and thankfully that's no longer the case as I've gotten into more of a stride. The other side of this is of course is that...
Hell yea rain gifs I mentioned in my fireworks post the other day that we had both a heat wave AND ridiculous thunderstorms on the 4th of July BUT a few hours before the big thunderstorm that happened during everyone going fucking bonkers with fireworks, we got a smaller one during the day hours that brought massive...
Why willn't thine bubble pop sooner As usual, photo unrelated. I like photos in blog posts even if they aren't relevant because I'm a photographer and I have so much goddamn backlog. Here's a cicada, aka the perfect lifeform. Emerge from the ground, scream, fuck, shed your skin and become something new, etc. Happy...
TALKIN SHIT I am not a birder (I know that sounds made up given the blog name and the constant bird photos but in my defense, the former is from my band's name and the latter is because I have a camera and I'm surrounded by goddamn birds all the time [complimentary]). Anyway, I think this thing is called the...
Up front: if you don't wanna hear me ramble about the state of the U.S. and just want cool firework photos, I get it; scroll down! This is not meant as a dig at anyone who wants to be happy about the 4th of July OR a milestone like 250 years, but as a person of mixed chicano descent who has gone a whole life plagued...
TALKIN SHIT Cardinals all the way down, man. Quick sidenote: celebrating my country feels pretty gross in normal times and these are far from normal times, so if you too are in the states: may your weekend be hopefully filled with like, barbecued food and good vibes instead of inhospitable temperatures, weird...
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