I resumed work on Sketch Salad today. The community drawing buffet will be happening sooner rather than later. This one will be fun.
Video of Charles Eames introducing the then-new Eames Lounge Chair on NBC in 1956. The making-of video at the end is brilliant.
Shaun Inman gives us a nice year 2 review of his wonderful stats tracking program Mint. I use Mint on all my sites, and I’m happy to keep giving Shaun my money.
BOSTON, MA—After less than three months as a designer/illustrator for the Boston-area web company Virb Inc., Joshua Blankenship announced Wednesday that he is being asked to leave the group over creative differences. “Well, that was a surprise. We apparently just work and think about work and doing business in completely different ways and that can’t be reconciled,” Blankenship said. “It’s the situational things that lack the most merit, having just moved cross-country for this opportunity, just launched a site, etc.” Blankenship said he plans to embark on a brief solo career, while actively pursuing other positions in the greater Boston area. “I just moved my new family here, and we like it here, so I refuse to be cynical or deterred by one bump in the road. Onward and upward.”
There’s no easy way to say it, but the band metaphor seemed to make the most sense. I assure you, it was as much a shock to me (if not a tad more so) than it may be to you. Moving on, I’ve updated my Resume (you can also download a PDF) and Portfolio, and you can find me on LinkedIn, too. I have a few weeks to make a decision and I’m (very) actively looking at job boards and such. Any leads or connections would be appreciated.
Thanks for listening.
Marc Ecko bought Barry Bond’s (controversial) record-breaking 756th home run baseball for $750k, and now wants fans to vote what to do with it. You can choose to give the ball to Cooperstown, give the ball to Cooperstown with an * branded onto it, or launch it in to space, never to be thought of again. Power to the people. (I’m no Bonds fan, but I still say he’s innocent until proven guilty.)
Three Beasts is a 20×16.5″ original drawing – various Sharpie, paint pen (the silver and gold), and arcrylic paint on cardboard. It was originally posted as part of 30 Polaroids in 30 Days and if you’re interested in buying it, I can email you some close-ups photos of the illustration detail. It’s currently framed in a little clip frame, but you might want to have it re-framed for presentation purposes.
$65 + $5 shipping (through PayPal) SOLD
We’ve got a few Amateur Musicologist shirts in stock on Cottyn now.
1. Titanic 2: Jack’s Back
2. Napoléon Bonaparte 2 : Rise of The Short Man
3. The Ten Commandments 2: And Another Thing
4. Joan of Arc: Sweet 16 (a prequel, obviously)
5. Glory 2: More Glory
On Mat‘s recommendation, I just started reading No Country For Old Men, which is coming to a theater near you thanks to the Coen Brothers on November 9. You can watch the brilliant trailer in the mean time.
We use AmericanApparel shirts (mostly 50/50 poly-cotton blend) because they’re so soft and comfy on your body. They’re better than almost anything else I’ve researched, and they make more people happy than not. I’m sorry we can’t please everyone and every body type, but that’s just the way it’s got to go down.
No, we’re not doing the user-submitted t-shirt store business model. I have no desire to manage that and if you really have a deep longing to submit your awesome tee designs somewhere, I can think of one or two places for you to do that.
No, the back-end of the site wasn’t built with Symphony or Ruby on Rails. The site’s built with PHP, just like the rest of our sites. And no, I didn’t build the back-end. I’m not programming-tastic like that. Props to the Virb Inc. developers for that.
And, yes, there will be more shirts soon. Snag the Cottyn RSS Feed to find out about new shirts.
The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree in Athens, Georgia, widely assumed to have legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base in the late 1800′s. (via Paul Armstrong)
Hello, friends. We just launched Cottyn, the next member of the Virb Inc. family. Three shirts to start, more to come. I’m glad to have it out there, now we can dive into tweaking and thinking about future shirts, artistic directions, etc.
As a related sidenote: there are currently 12 other t-shirt designs taped up behind my desk. I’ve been a busy, illustrating boy. This is going to be a fun next few months. Clothe yourself!
Illustrator Kevin Cornell, who you may know from his wonderfully watercolored Bearskinrug site, has posted his sketchbook from July ’02 to February ’03 in its entirety. What an undertaking, but quite worth the payoff.
I’m just sorting through a punch list of Cottyn changes. I think we might be able to launch today. The Blankenships also managed to move all 3600lbs of our stuff into our new apartment today. It’s been a good Wednesday.
This is the most evil prank I’ve ever seen. With friends like this, who needs enemies? You can see the pranks leading up to it here.
Quote, “[I]diosyncratic dynamics among magicians make traditional copyright, patent, and trade secret law ill-suited to protecting magicians’ most valuable intellectual property…the magic community has developed its own set of unique IP norms which effectively operate in law’s absence.” Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property without Law by Jacob Loshin from Yale Law School.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
— Neil Gaiman, writer
7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People. Oh my gosh, GET OUT OF MY HEAD.
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I'm a graphic designer and sometimes writer living in Anderson, South Carolina. I serve as the Design Director for NewSpring Church. I love Jesus, my wife, Levi's Jeans, good Tex-Mex, and 8oz glass bottle Coca-Cola Classic. On good days I love them roughly in that order. Email me.