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I took a 3-weekend Adobe Creative Suite course at the Montclair Art Museum, a couple of years ago, specifically to learn InDesign. Of course, that weekend was cancelled because of a snow storm. Here are the gems from the Illustrator weekend.

Jimmy and I were together at the time and he joined me for the class. His stuff was just as awesome, and obviously we were in the middle of re-watching X-Files on Netflix then.

Do NOT ask me to explain the Arby’s one. I have NO fucking clue where that gem came out of.

“Two Cocks and a Clock” #art

I made a temporary tattoo of the comic sans + dropshadow version of my sister’s first tattoo because I’m an asshole/the best.

I got to work early, so I compiled some of my favorite Rdio album release covers from today.

MONDAYS, AMIRITE?

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The never-before-seen letters and illustrated envelopes of Edward Gorey, iconic mid-century illustrator of the macabre, who influenced everyone from Nine Inch Nails to Tim Burton

Love Edward Gorey. I’m wearing my Gorey cat pin today!

I remember the first day these went up. I was living in Freeman Hall. It was, I’d say, Fall 2004 or Spring 2005, way before they rebuilt that entire area in front of Kasser. Jimmy used to pick me up and bring me back down to his mom’s in Toms River (1.5 hour drive, bless his little heart).

One evening, it was dark and foggy as we were driving up to the Red Hawk Parking Deck. We saw people just standing there. I was like “What are those people DOING?” thinking that it was some sort of bizarre performance piece with no audience that the Theatre majors were putting on - this was before flash mobs were invented by Howie Mandel, after all. As we drove by, though, we realized they were statues. THE END.

Brandon Bird will always be my favorite artist as long as he keeps making stuff like this and anything with Briscoe & McCoy.

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Happy Tuesday.

jimdoran:

I made a tiny diorama in an iPod Shuffle case.

Jim made a tiny diorama in an iPod Shuffle case.

This 8-bit art creator has been a slooow work in progress. I’ve had the bittersweet fortune of being busy as all hell this past year, and I haven’t touched it for several weeks. By posting about it here, though, perhaps I’ll be more motivated to redesign and add all the features on my 8-bit laundry list.

The title of the page came from a comment I read somewhere accusing 8-bit of being trendy. Which is like calling techno trendy, in my opinion. The grid is made of div squares using a PHP loop generating boxes, with CSS rules changed using jQuery and user controls. That may be completely reworked in the near future, although it may not. Who knows? Not I.

Play around with it in the meantime, though, and send me screenshots if you make something cool - like my pal Chimp’s Fonz and Starry Night, created during the early stages of this thing’s creation. 

I love bears and/or dancing.

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