New Site Coming Soon
So, my goal of having a new site up by the end of summer isn’t going to happen. Classes start on Monday and I’m still in the ‘Why isn’t this working—all of the code looks correct’ phase of designing. Plus I have to make some choices regarding whether or not this blog stays or if I change it to something else. Regardless, there will be changes coming soon, I’m just not sure when.
August 21, 2010 at 11:03 am | Design, Random | No comment
Fashion Shows and Random Old School Treadmill Thoughts
So, there’s a fashion show coming up, and I’m doing some design for it. Not fashion design, but designs for t-shirts and various other media (perhaps thongs, hats, cups, who knows). It should be a good time. Check out the sweet card artwork above. It’s on November 14th at the USF Tampa Marshall Center. Be there or be square.
And, randomly on the treadmill, I started thinking about really REALLY old stuff from 6th and 7th grade. I think it might be a sign as I start brainstorming my new site. But it was really random stuff, like Bilbo the Rabid Walrus and Newbus: the Dumbest Slug on Earth. I’m not even sure how they would play into my site. Yet.
Revisiting childhood sounds like a pretty good idea for a theme.
October 23, 2009 at 12:07 am | Art, Branding, Design, Random | No comment
Zombieland and Sweeney Todd
So, both movies were pretty GD awesome. Zombieland was kind of like an American attempt at zombedy much like Shaun of the Dead put a uniquely British spin on the genre. It’s not subtle. At all. But it was definitely a fun movie, even for those who may not generally go for the Zed word. Partake in the awesomeness of Zombieland and Sweeney Todd
October 3, 2009 at 10:51 am | Random | 2 comments
Dear Blog
I suck.
I don’t mean to leave you just kind of hanging out, forlorn and lonely on the internets. We’ve had a tumultuous time together: I’ll get excited about you and write steadily for a couple days, and then I’ll get busy and will forsake you for months. Then I’ll come back and write feverishly before losing interest/drive.
Again.
So, how about we make a deal? Once a week? Fridays sound good? Awesome. Now that I have a research direction, you and I may be spending more quality time together.
XOXO
Phil
September 29, 2009 at 10:45 am | Random | 1 comment
TLaD of Rick Astley: Days 07 and 08
HOLY CRAP—THERE’S A FREAKING SPROUT!
That’s right, loyal reader, Rick Astley has totally started sprouting. The first picture is from Day 06 (yesterday) and the second picture is from today. Somehow the little bugger mustered enough courage to finally break free from the soil and spread his joy to the rest of the world. Of course, Xena’s probably getting ready to bloom, but that doesn’t matter because Astley’s totally in the game.
Whoa! And I just watered him and there are now THREE sprouts. I have bore triplets!
Wow, I definitely need a better hobby.
April 30, 2009 at 4:24 pm | Random, Uncategorized | No comment
Holiday Inn and the Life and Death of Rick Astley: Day 06
So, I’m not sure if Florida is just overly behind the times or what, but I noticed yesterday that one of the local Holiday Inns that I passed on the way home from work had a new sign, printed on a vinyl banner, wrapped around the old sign. To me, that said “New and in-progress” but after doing a little searching, it looks like this re-branding has been going on for quite some time. So, for some of you, this may be old news. For me, though, it was quite a shock. Partake in the awesomeness of Holiday Inn and the Life and Death of Rick Astley: Day 06
April 28, 2009 at 5:19 pm | Branding, Design, Random | No comment
The Life and Death of Rick Astley: Day 05
So, the first thing I did this morning was water Astley in the hopes of nursing the seeds back to health. There are no sprouts yet, even though Xena is sprouting like the freaky Amazonian she is. I think it’s because Astley is just a late bloomer. He’ll totally be that small kid that winds up being huge in high school and goes on to be a professional wrestler or body guard. I’m so proud thinking of it right now.
I also aerated the soil, because I may have packed his soil too tightly. And then I think I drowned him shortly afterwards. Perhaps he’s a swamp sunflower. I sure hope so.
April 27, 2009 at 5:39 pm | Random, Uncategorized | No comment
The Life and Death of Rick Astley: Day 01
So, my co-worker was kind enough to pick up a couple kits for growing flowers in tiny pots today. Why? I’m not sure. What I do know, though, is that she’s growing a Zinnia named Xena: Warrior Princess and I am growing the more manly-looking of the two, a sunflower named Astley. I had originally planned on calling him Rick, but realized that the CEO’s name is also Rick, and decided to use my better judgement. Check out day 01 after the jump.
Partake in the awesomeness of The Life and Death of Rick Astley: Day 01
April 23, 2009 at 5:01 pm | Random, Uncategorized | 1 comment
Random Technical Illustration 002
So, continuing my technical illustration kick, here’s my sweet slide-phone, complete with awesomeness.
March 12, 2009 at 10:58 pm | Design, Random | No comment
Lou Dobbs can Derelique my balls
Those of you who know me know that I do not like to talk politics. It’s just one of those things that I don’t like to do; you can have your opinion, I’ll have mine, and we’ll all be friends in the end. However, tonight will be a short tirade atop my (short) political soapbox.
Four or five days a week I run on one of the treadmills at the gym, and I specifically choose to run on the treadmills connected to a television so that I can focus on something other than how much I hate to run. Since my limited channel selection consists of ABC News, FoxNews, CNN, ESPN and the Lifestyle Family Fitness Network (hip-hop and bad techno music videos combined with commercials for Wal-Mart and propaganda for how great Lifestyle is), I watch CNN unless I actually like the song on LFFN. Since this generally occurs after work, I usually catch roughly one-half-hour of The Situation Room before I listen to about 5 minutes of Lou Dobbs during my cool down. However, tonight traffic was bad and I started running at just the right time to catch about 5 minutes of TSR and almost a half-hour of Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Don’t get me wrong: it’s good that Lou Dobbs is on CNN because he gives a pseudo-liberal news station a shot of conservative watch-dog-ism. However, he really REALLY pisses me off and tonight broke the bank for me.
Among his general douchebaggery, Dobbs tonight focused on an item currently passed by Obama that made me want to punch the monitor in the hopes that he would actually feel it. The thing of which I speak is of course the plan to assure health care to 11 million children in the United States. Now, one of the major drawbacks is that the plan will allegedly make it easier for illegal immigrants to get health care as well, and Dobbs and his evil little correspondents keep pointing this out. However, the also point out that the American people will be footing the bill for this health care through raised taxes. HOWEVER AGAIN, their sound bite let it slip as to where those taxes are being raised: the tobacco tax.
The correspondent then played a clip in which an opponent to the bill talked about how Obama claimed that he wouldn’t raise taxes for the working class, but that in his first two weeks he has now raised taxes on the lower classes who I guess happen to use more tobacco. Of course, Dobbs jumped on this, echoing that Obama is raising taxes and explaining how Americans are now funding illegals’ health care. All I can say is this: Are Lou Dobbs and the people who support this viewpoint f*cking retarded? How is this a negative?
Obama is telling people that smoking is stupid and he’s doing so by allowing people who are consciously killing themselves support the health of our children. And if illegal immigrants can get to it easier, that’s fine by me; I’m not paying for them. Neither are most of the educated individuals in this country. Now, if you smoke, I’m sorry. If it was decided that I’d have to pay a tax every time I fired up my PS3 I’d be pretty pissed as well, but I’d still do it, just like people are going to keep smoking. It seems like there’s some sort of correlation between the number of people who smoke and higher education. Maybe putting money into schools to stimulate the economy in the long run isn’t such a bad idea. Then people could afford health insurance for their kids so that tobacco users don’t have to pony up the bill.
And don’t get me started on the NEA funding. I know a lot of artists and—bless their souls—I wouldn’t trust most of them with infrastructure projects that my life depends on every day. If throwing $50 billion at them keeps them from building the overpass I drive across on my way to work in the mornings, then I’ll gladly give them my tax money. It’s an odd reference, but in Max Brooks’s World War Z he actually talks about trying to rebuild society after the zombie hordes nearly wipe humanity off the face of the earth. In the book, many of the characters refer to the years it took to teach people how to live without modern comforts because, in general, many people are not physically capable of meeting the demands required for many blue-collar jobs.
Give people jobs they can do with the understanding that not everyone has the ability to quit their office jobs and go build a road. The only reason it worked in WWZ is because it literally became a life-or-death situation. Luckily, we have the chance to fix the problems before it gets to that point.
Life-or-death situations, I mean. Not zombie outbreaks. Although I’m prepared for that, too.
February 4, 2009 at 10:20 pm | Random | No comment