June 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Blogs | Add a Comment »
Slow Media is a blog with a manifesto. I like manifestos.
In this manifesto, it advocates the aesthetic of Slow, “as in ‘Slow Food’ and not as in ‘Slow Down’.” It suggests that the coming decade will show a rise in demand for the well-considered, timeless, and progressive, rather than the improvised, ephemeral, and reactionary. I’d like to think they’re right.
“Slow Media are welcoming and hospitable. They like to share.” I could get into this Slow Media idea, I think.
[via The Casual Optimist]
June 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Artists | Add a Comment »
Have I mentioned that my hot wife does some hot design?
She’s a collage artist, and her site, www.onewordprints.com, is really worth checking out. I know I have reason to be biased, but I also have an art degree.
June 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Notes | Add a Comment »
“Lord, please help me to make art that isn’t terrible.”
That was my sincere prayer today. And in case you think this is in some way depressing, I’d actually say this is a raising of standards… it’s easy to make terrible art and not care.
I’m really, really starting to care.
June 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Comics | Add a Comment »
…but I honestly feel like if I could cartoon with this level of clarity and beauty of line, I’d have achieved something. Beautiful work by Ted Dawson for the Dueling Banjo Pigs project. (Only on the internet…)
June 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Branding, Design | Add a Comment »
Some beautiful work there.
[via Visuelle]
June 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Notes | 2 Comments »
On Thursday, I’m transitioning out of a multiple-jobs scenario (one major client and lots of smaller clients around the edges) to working full-time for my main client. At this stage in my career, I couldn’t be happier about the opportunity to focus my whole creative attention on one section and crush it with excellence (Lord willing). Here’s a big shout out to my amazing boss at Lampstand Press for letting me go full-time.
June 28th, 2010 | Filed under: Comics | Add a Comment »
This is brilliant.
Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.
Jim Davis knows about this and approves.
June 28th, 2010 | Filed under: Notes | Add a Comment »
Sometimes, in our age of Twitter, Facebook, and How-Many-Comments-Do-I-Have-NOW, it’s easy to feel tragically under-appreciated by a lack of awe and adoration poured at your feet in terms of follows, likes, trackbacks and comment counts. That’s why I’m very grateful for the following thoughts by Herman Melville, written to Nathaniel Hawthorne within days of Moby-Dick‘s American publication:
… for not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. Appreciation! Recognition! Is Jove appreciated? Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of his great allegory—the world? Then we pigmies must be content to have our paper allegories but ill comprehended. I say your appreciation is my glorious gratuity.
[via Wikipedia.]
June 28th, 2010 | Filed under: Notes | Add a Comment »
Our elevator has a placard in which the management often puts sheets of printer paper with announcements. On one elevator trip, I noticed it was empty. Yesterday, somebody put this into the empty place:
Sadly, it was gone before the day was out. Either someone hadn’t seen The Princess Bride and was concerned it was an actual threat, or someone took it home to hang on their wall. I hope it was the latter.
Today, I was thinking about getting a few friends to dress up as Waldo with me and walk around in the middle of some large crowd in DC. Points would be awarded as follows:
- One point for a smile
- Two points for a laugh
- Three points for a point
- Four points for a picture
- Five points for every bystander who says, “There’s Waldo!”
Sometimes, a little chaos can be a good thing.
June 28th, 2010 | Filed under: Notes | Add a Comment »
Now this is cool.
Normally, this wouldn’t make it to this blog (since it ain’t a news source, after all), but since I already posted about Del Toro pulling out of directing the two-part Hobbit movie, it’s only fair that I close the loop and share this. Looks like Peter Jackson is going to direct the Hobbit films after all. It’s not a done deal, but things are heading in that direction.
I’m kind of stoked about this one. I think this is the best of all possible worlds: Del Toro came in and pushed Jackson creatively, did his creature-making magic, and now the man who actually gets Middle Earth is coming back for round two. Thumbs up.
