Man the Trebuchet!

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How to be a graphic designer, without losing your soul

Guess what came in the mail today?

If you guessed How to be a graphic designer, without losing your soul, by Adrian Shaughnessy, you’re right. (Although I don’t know how you could have guessed that.)

I’m rather excited about cracking into this. Thanks to Matthew Wahl™ for the sweet recommendation.

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Two for the RSS feed

At 7am today, I had an at-first-quite-bleary-but-rapidly-becoming-rockstar-amazing conversation about art with Andrew of VsTheBrain. Conversation ranged from Stravinksi’s Riot to the Liberated Imagination to the DC Midcity Arts District.

Yeah. It was one of those good conversations.

Anyhoo, he told me about two blogs that were instant adds to my RSS feed, and I suspect you might want to add them as well. They are:

YouWorkForThem

And

Motionographer

Enjoy… I know I’m planning to.

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“Video-game ‘wisdom’ you can use in real life,” from CNN

This article on CNN is AMAZING. To all of us who had squandered youths in front of the glowing box, I offer this as a wellspring of nostalgic joy. A few highlights:

Always check behind waterfalls. There’s always something cool back there.

It’s generally best to shoot anyone you see. You usually can’t hurt people unless they’re your enemies.

There is no reason not to break anything that can be broken.

Truly, words to live by.

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Red-Eye, by The Album Leaf

I can’t exactly promise it’ll get you fired up to power through the rest of your Monday afternoon, but I love Red-Eye, by The Album Leaf.

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Explaining cubism with doodles

Here’s the best possible explanation of cubism I can offer. It’s looking at a subject (in this case, Picasso’s Guitar Player) through time, and from multiple directions. I’ve just picked out one or two of the things to look at in this painting… I’ll bet you can find lots more. (Hint: imagine you’re walking around the guy.)

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PlanetAid

You know those PlanetAid bins?

Today, I dangled upside down inside of one. My rockstar wife held my ankles as I strained my fingertips to snag the belt loop of the jeans she decided she didn’t want to throw away after all.

She makes me laugh so much. We got all three pairs out. We also scored some other sweet loot from a nearby pile o’ unwanted stuff.

Nobody else in the world to whom I’d rather be hitched.

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The tweeted Gospel

Paul Tripp says this of the Gospel of Mark:

“It’s hard-hitting, it’s fast paced; the Gospel of Mark feels very modern. It’s almost like Mark is texting his Gospel. It’s like it’s a series of tweets.”

Love that.

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Football on Facebook…

…looks like this:

• “It’s football season! Go myteam!!!!!!!!!!”
• “Snotty comment about how I’m too good for football.”
• “Will all my friends be talking about football now? Whine.”
• “Football? What’s that? Loljk go mynewbf’steam!!1!!1″
• “GAME TIME!”
• “What a stupid call!”
• “Hahaha, your team got penalized.”
• “Ironic statement about how my team never wins.”
• “Stats from the 1830′s when my team beat your team, so that makes it okay.”

And all of these have 4-10 comments from people agreeing, disagreeing, one-upping wittiness, or just making noise. …which… I suppose… I’m adding to with this blog post… rats.

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I heart this place.

A snapshot of our church, right before we kicked off a typical Sunday in a hotel ballroom. It’s crazy how fast something new can become one of the most important things in the world to you.

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