Archive for May, 2008

My Life as an Acronym

Friday, May 16th, 2008

J is for Juicy
And like a grapefruit, I’ll squirt in your eye
O is for Outrageous
See previous caption
N is for Neglected
I do sit in my room and go crazy a lot
A is for Arty
Totally. Check out my shrits and shirt.
T is for Tender
Like a delicious baby lamb
H is for Hyper
Living room acrobatics and spontaneous fighting are my specialties
A is for Alluring
It’s the complicated, quiet brooding thing that people love so much
N is for Nerdy

I’ve owned like ALL of the gameboys, and when people refer to “the man” I always imagine him being yellow and addicted to glowy pills that allow him to devour ghosts

I don’t think this requires further explanation. I do regret that I’ve put two dumb quiz-type things in my last 4 posts, but content just isn’t what it used to be. I think my captions made it my own.

Devil Industries is a GO!

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

So after lots and lots of painful waiting, I give to you Devil Industries:

Devil Industries

You want em, I got em. The price is $20 per shirt and $2.50 s&h per shipment. I have a feeling I’ll probably be sending them in bulk to one address in Columbus for all of you Columbians who ordered, unless you’d rather have them sent to a different address. You can squibble squabble over the details. As always payments can be made by check or through my PayPal donations button. I’ll have a fair amount of extras for anyone else who might be interested in acquiring this fine piece of cloth armor. 

Thanks to Danny Solomon, whose burning desire to have this shirt made me follow it through to completion, and for his wearing of said shirt in New York City. I feel so cosmopolitan now.

Summer?

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

So here I am, at the very start of summer vacation, and already I’ve completely fallen off the creative train. It really feels like I need other people telling me what to do all the time if I expect to get anything done. I’m more other-actualized instead of self actualized, as if I have a deadline I can meet it, but when I have no such restrictions I just think things into oblivion and rarely get them done.

Things I’d like to do this summer? Well I’d like to have  reason to work more in after effects, if anyone has some kind of video project they’d been thinking about making and have never gotten around to, be sure to let me know. I’m your hookup.  Which reminds me that I should find a place to upload my project to so people can actually watch it.

If anyone needs business cards, logos, or websites, or posters, or anything graphic design oriented, lemme know. I feel confident that I can fulfill your requests.

Aside from all that I think I’m going to try to get some more Pulp Heroes churned out, and I see a wacky and wild site redesign on the horizon, because I have some new visual ideas to work with.

That image up top is my graphic design final for the semester, a delightful cover for a book called Tea & Other Ayama Na Tales. There’s a chance that my cover will actually end up on the book should the author fall in love with it, but there’s also a 16 in 17 chance that someone else from my class will have that honor bestowed upon them. In any event, I really like the way it turned out.

Oh, and I also thought I’d update you on the status of the Devil Industries shirts. I had hoped to have them with me when I got to Columbus on Friday, but it seems that the folks at Broken Arrow Shirts are a little slow when it comes to that thing we do with our mouths, and sometimes our fingers. What’s it called? Oh yeah, communicating. And you guys were probably thinking foreplay or oral sex.  In all likelihood an attempt to deliver the shirts will be made while I’m in Ohio, and I’ll come home to find that they’ve been shipped back to Iowa.

This post was not done on my new Mac Book Pro. Sorry to disappoint you, Charles. It seems that Mac Users have no concept of an all-inclusive ftp client. At the moment, I prefer the free filezilla for Windows over all the shareware versions of less good products available on the Mac. Think I’m being a Microsoft nut hugger?  I’ll be very happy if you can point me to a program that proves me wrong.

UPDATE: I proved myself wrong by downloading filezilla for Mac. For some reason when I touch the Mac, it’s like entering into some kind of mental miasma of computer retardation. I guess a guy could get use to that.