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5 years ago+2 2 0Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. (Happy Birthday!) OC
Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. is an American former professional baseball player. He played his entire 23-year major league career for the Baltimore Orioles (1955–1977), which still stands as the record for the longest career spent with a single team i ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0Tom Boomershine (Happy Birthday!) OC
Tom is President of GoTell Communications. He is an internationally known speaker and author in the interpretation of the narratives of the Bible as oral story in antiquity and in the communication systems of the digital age.
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5 years ago+2 2 0Raymond Anthony Lewis Jr. (Happy Birthday!) OC
Raymond Anthony Lewis Jr. is a former American football linebacker who played all of his 17-year professional career for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He previously played college football for the University of Miami, an ...
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5 years ago+1 1 0John Constantine Unitas (Happy Birthday!) OC
John Constantine Unitas, nicknamed "Johnny U" and "The Golden Arm", was an American football player in the National Football League (NFL). He spent the majority of his career playing for the Baltimore Colts. He was a record-settin ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0Trumpeter Plays Red Hot Jazz (International Jazz Day!) OC
Trumpeter blowing his horn. Hand-drawn, digitally rendered.
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7 years ago+1 1 0Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Happy Birthday, Mother Teresa!) OC
"Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love." Better known as Mother Teresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was an Albanian born Indian Roman Catholic Nun, who from the age of 12 after being impressed by a group of mission ...
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7 years ago+1 1 0Remembering Korryn Gaines. Happy Birthday OC
Korryn Gaines was a 23 year old woman killed by the Baltimore County Police on August 1, 2016. According to the Baltimore County Police Department, officers sought to serve Gaines a warrant in relation to an earlier traffic violation. Upon entering h ...
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7 years ago+1 1 0Trumpeter Plays the Blues (International Blues Music Day!) OC
Trumpeter blowing his horn. Hand-drawn, digitally rendered.
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7 years ago+1 1 0Trumpeter Plays Cool Bossa Nova (Brazilian World Music Day!) OC
Trumpeter blowing his horn. Hand-drawn, digitally rendered.
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7 years ago+1 1 0Hunter S Thompson OC
The quote lies in a book called Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child In the Final Days of the American Century, penned by Thompson and published in 2003. The quote was in a response to a story he tells about how when he was 9, h ...
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7 years ago+3 3 0Pablo Neruda (Happy Birthday!) OC
"I love you because I know no other way." Pablo Neruda is a poet and politician from Chili who earned the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1953. This quote is a part of one of his love Sonnets, Sonnet XVII.
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7 years ago+1 1 0DeRay Mckesson (Happy Birthday!) OC
I was literally putting the finishing touches this piece to send as a birthday present for my friend @DeRay late on July 10, 2016. Some people on Twitter sent me his Periscope to watch the #BatonRouge protests live. I watched live as he was tackle ...
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7 years ago+3 3 0I would rather be thinking about God... (Vintage Motorcycle Day!) OC
I would rather be thinking about God on my motorcycle than in Church thinking about my Motorcycle Pencil, then vector, then canvas.
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7 years ago+1 1 0Helen Keller (Happy Birthday!) OC
"The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it." This quote was in an 3-part essay Helen Keller originally wrote when she was only 23 entitled "Optimism." The full passage reads, "Although the w ...
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7 years ago+4 4 0Four Wheels move the Body. Two Wheels Move the Soul. (World Motorcycle Day!) OC
Pencil, then vector, then canvas. I drew a sketch of the engine of my 1981 Yamaha XS400 motorcycle while I was stopped on the side of the road. Years later, Gallery 788 in Baltimore held a Motorcycle Art show, and so I brought out the sketch, drew it ...
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7 years ago+13 13 0Boarder on Rail (Go Skateboarding Day!) OC
Boarder on Rail was done in prep for a cover for the magazine "Monopod". I really liked how it turned out as a sketch, and later scanned my sketchbook to create the vector. It was done hard-pencil; no sketching (I'm still trying to tra ...
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7 years ago+1 1 0West African Girl (Africa Day!) OC
Vector drawing of a West African girl. The background was inspired by a still photography piece done by Nicoolaj. This was one of Benjamin's first vector freehand drawings, using a pencil sketch as a reference.
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7 years ago+1 1 0Kerry Kleid (International Female Ride Day!) OC
Kerry Kleid opened the doors for professional women motocross riders by becoming the first woman to possess an American Motorcyclist Association professional motocross license, as well as being inducted into the AMA Hall of Fame. She applied for the ...
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7 years ago+5 5 0Sir Terence David John Pratchett (Happy Birthday!) OC
"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." Created on Day Eighteen of the Design Across America Zerflin tour. Quote submitted by Monica Obaga. Font by Billy Argel at www.billyargel.com The quote comes from Terry ...