February 28th, 2010
This is the calm before the storm. So far, things are business as usual as our trips to the Pacific Northwest go: Papa Murphy’s pizza, hugs from the Thompson boys, sleepily watching YouTube clips on Doug’s giant Panasonic Viera HDTV. It’s a little before noon now, PST. Naomi and Heather are out getting haircuts, Doug [...]
February 25th, 2010
On his blog Seagulls Fly, Raoni Nery shows us what “Toy Story” character Buzz Lightyear may look like if he were an actual person. Creepy cool.
February 19th, 2010
I am hiring the shit out of these people. NorCal Internet Services Hat tip to Clients from Hell. UPDATE: In the five minutes it took to post this, their site went down due to heavy traffic (which, I assume, is anything above 20 hits). If the link above doesn’t work for you, check back. I [...]
February 18th, 2010
Well, folks, here’s the last shot in the short-lived series, taken poetically at dusk. I’ll miss you, World Trade Center photo project …
February 17th, 2010
The team at UnderConsideration just released Flaunt, a guidebook to creating a stronger creative portfolio. To those of you out there like me—newly unemployed creatives—this is potentially very useful.
February 17th, 2010
Recently, signs showed up in the men’s restroom stalls at my office asking people not to flush paper towels down the toilets. This morning, I believe I discovered why they thought the signs were necessary. Apparently, I work at a middle school.
February 11th, 2010
If you’re into these sorts of things, you’ve probably started to hear rumblings around the web development community that CSS3 and HTML5 will be “Flash killers.” At first I was all “Naw, dawg.” Then, someone brought this to my attention. It’s an Imperial AT-AT animated using ONLY CSS3 code. No Flash. No other fancy plugins. [...]
February 10th, 2010
My friend Jeremy just launched a new site that explores good songs whose lyrics are, unfortunately, not so good. He’s a funny man and his musings are definitely worth your read. Check it out! Good Songs Bad Lyrics
February 6th, 2010
Yukio Miymoto will kick your ass at Adobe Illustrator. See that camera below? It was done entirely with the Pen and Gradient Mesh tools. You can see it and more mind-blowing work at Yukio’s personal portfolio site. Now excuse me while I go cry quietly in a corner …