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Attempting to spice up these celebrity lives, illustrator Odessa Begay has created the Museum of Modern Tweets, posting illustrated interpretations of stars' Twitter posts each week. Her works play off poor grammar and lack of context for maximum comedic effect, turning everyday updates into surreal, vibrant scenes. The results include Lance Armstrong sitting on a couch with mythical creatures, Kirstie Alley in a bear suit and Shaq hunting down miniature versions of LeBron James with a butterfly...
...Begay, a New York City-based freelance photo editor, starts by scouring Twitter and reader recommendations with her boyfriend. She then sits down with Adobe Illustrator and takes anywhere from four hours to a week and a half on each creation. There's no blog-to-book deal in progress just yet, but Begay is selling prints of her works and plans to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an illustrator. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
Stars are frequent targets for Begay, 25, who has also illustrated several of Tiger Woods' leaked text messages to his mistresses. "Celebrities are people that the general population strives to be," she says. "They're supposed to live these fantasy lives and be doing all the stuff we wish we could be doing." So when Nick Jonas tweets that he had an "exciting day," it must be exciting enough to involve a jet pack, a pony and a bucket of money, right...
...nature of popular culture to continuously view Natives in the past tense," Begay says, adding that with such misconceptions, even well-meaning people need "a certain amount of education before receptiveness becomes a reality...
...generation is the first generation which has had the opportunity for a full higher education," Begay says. "Things are changing tremendously...