This afternoon, on a whim, I decided to take photos of textures and shapes around the house that I could use in some of my digital art. Here are a some of the more pleasing results:
| August 26, 2003 10:07pm | 
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There are even more creative slogans where that came from.
| August 25, 2003 12:40pm | 
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I started a week of detoxification today. It begins with two days of fasting then moves on to five days of very restricted eating. I've heard that such a detox, particularly the fasting period, can make one grumpy. I have no freakin' idea what those idiots are talking about. [grumble]
| August 24, 2003 09:51pm | 
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Matrix styled Ping-Pong
weeee! gonads and strife
I'm a cow
just 5 More Minutes
trogdor the burninator
Do you have any favorites you think I should add to my list??
this list is mainly to facilitate me downloading these great gems to my hard drive. still, enjoy at will.
| August 23, 2003 08:56am |
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"Were both your parents retarded? Because you seem like a special girl to me."
-- Nerve's Pickup Line Contest
via steveo
| August 22, 2003 12:41pm |
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"We'd better put my copies in a bag otherwise if I got in an accident they'd fly all over."
after paying for copies with a ton of change...
"You've just saved me from drowning. If I had fallen into a lake with all the change I would have drown."
If I hear much more of this optimism I think I might be depressed.
| August 21, 2003 09:50am | 
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"Homer - a drinking town with a fishing problem."
I heard this for the first time yesterday. It's obviously not a new perception of my home town.
| August 19, 2003 03:10pm |
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A counselor I saw today used the phrase "woefully lacking" in an explanation. Woefully lacking? As in, you are woefully lacking any shred of personality? I swear the man had cue cards somewhere because he sounded just like a textbook on interpersonal communication. "Ok, so what I hear you saying is..." "Hmm, thank you for sharing." "I see. So you believe that I'm an emotionless automaton without a single independent brain cell in this expansive crater I call a skull? Fascinating..."
| August 18, 2003 10:23pm |
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Don't tell anyone, but after four months of bitching about my new morning job... I think I might actually like it. Sure it's huge pain in the ass sometimes, but overall, it's not that bad. Thanks, God, for giving me this instead of a job rotating the grease in the McDonald's fry vat.
| August 18, 2003 12:09pm |
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What an Asian man does with his short little needle.
| August 18, 2003 12:01pm |
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Yesterday I decided to redecorate my bathroom in flourescent fuschia pink. Of course, I didn't know that I had decided that until after I finished coloring my hair...
keep reading... | August 17, 2003 02:03pm |
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My wife and I have been married 12 years today. We've been through a lot in that time and honestly we're closer now than when we started. From the beginning we agreed that we didn't always have to like each other, but that we would always love each other. There have been many moments of dislike through the years, but we've made it through. I'm so glad that I married this woman. I'm in it for the long haul.
| August 17, 2003 09:20am |
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While adding text to a customer's document, I noticed the following misspelling:
"telephone calling cad"
how very bostonian of me.
| August 15, 2003 01:48pm |
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A customer just came in who stank terrible of cigarette smoke. It was as if he bathed in it for hours. After he left I'm finding that I smell like smoke now too. I was never closer that 2 feet to this guy and his stench crawled it's way over to me. Suddenly the character Pig Pen, from "Charlie Brown", doesn't look so bad.
I can't stand smelling like this so I just used our lysol bathroom freshener on my clothes. I may smell like some bastardized version of a "spring waterfall" but at least I don't smell like a walking cigarette.
| August 15, 2003 08:44am |
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The owner of my place of work wanted me to design some tickets for his wife. Yesterday I gave him a proof. When I came in this morning, I discovered that he worked on my computer yesterday afternoon rearranging all the elements I laid out... If he wants changes, that's cool, but I should be the one making the changes especially since I get paid based on the time spent on a project. Also, our policies state that all desktop publishing work must go through me. He'll be in shortly and I'm going to have a talk with him about it...
and furthermore - 8:44am: he doesn't seem to think it's a big deal and assured me that we'd still be charging them for that time. I take that to mean that my fee will be applied even though he did the work. I will bill it accordingly. what a putz.
| August 14, 2003 08:09am |
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The owner at my work frequently sings a single line from some song: "tiiiii-ny bubbles..." That's all he sings. I hear it a couple times a week. Does he not know the rest of the song? Is this something he made up or worse, some cute thing he was taught as a child to warn those around him that he just passed gas? ...
I suddenly don't want to know.
| August 13, 2003 08:18am |
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"I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"
--Jacobin Mugatu
| August 11, 2003 06:01pm |
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This is digital manipulation taken to scary levels. I'm both incredibly impressed with this guy's talent and incredibly horrified at what the media is doing to warp our expectations of beauty. In the end I'm just disturbed.
| August 11, 2003 08:14am |
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We came, we set-up, we saw, we gigged.
| August 9, 2003 10:05am |
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Do you like my category icons? They are from an awesome font made by pizza dude called Squareheads. Believe it or not there are tons more great faces included in that font. It kinda makes me want to make up a bunch more categories just so I can use them.
| August 8, 2003 01:52pm |
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Something I created in Photoshop using brushes from various sources. It represents the pain I feel from having my sister torn from my life.
| August 8, 2003 01:35pm |
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If the three movies, the nine short animations, and the video game just weren't quite enough for you, now you can add some 30 online comics to the list.
There are some genuinely brilliant comics in this lot that give even more insight into this cult-like dogma we call The Matrix.
| August 8, 2003 03:44am | 
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I got home after work this morning and flung myself into bed for a 4 hour nap during which, I was told, my little dog decided to play leap frog with my organs and body parts. I don't remember a thing. Evidently I was a might bit tired...
| August 7, 2003 05:49pm |
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Today is brought to you by the word:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
And by the sentiment:
wtf?
| August 7, 2003 12:07pm |
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So do I watch that season finale that I've been dying to see for the last few days or do I take a nap? I'm dead tired and have a lot of work ahead of me tonight... but I reeeeally want to see that episode. hm. I think that sleep wins out this time, but only because I know that I have time to watch The Gift tomorrow afternoon. Nighty night.
| August 6, 2003 02:51pm |
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trailing associations
tp: nose: eye: blue: brown: wood: sweet: end: start: red: orange: bottle: water: wet: over: under: bridge: river: wet: dirty: work: tired
| August 6, 2003 11:14am |
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I think I figured out why I don't feel like I've had a summer. This is the first summer that I'm not a part of a traditional church. During summers churches plan barbeques, Father's Day events, July 4th celebrations, etc. All of these things serve as landmarks of summer. While I'm 300% happy to be in a non-traditional home church now, I hadn't realized how much organized church gave me seasonal anchors. It's a very odd thing to without after spending my entire life in those settings.
| August 5, 2003 10:26am |
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I'm all grrr-ish today. I didn't get as much sleep as I would like and then had to deal with a couple annoying customers at work. I was going to run errands this afternoon before piano lessons, but instead I'm gonna do the vegetable thing at home and try to purge this pissy mood. Grrrrr.
| August 4, 2003 12:52pm |
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Yesterday I and some friends spent 6 hours cleaning out a garage. While this should have been a loathsome task, we had a good time together and threw a lot of stuff away which was very cathartic. I slept 12 hours last night and still feel exhausted. My body isn't very excited to continue the project today, but my mind is excited to get it all finished. Guess which one will be complaining tonight?
| August 3, 2003 12:25pm |
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New Blog Design: stoked
| August 2, 2003 03:15pm |
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I just finished reading the four issue mini-series, Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things written and illustrated by Ted Naifeh. I totally loved it. It's about an attitude heavy little girl in a world of beasties, crawlies, and all sorts of magical happenings. It's kind of a fairy tale world from a generation x perspective. The story, however, is less fanciful and more jaded than even your modern day fairy tale. The art is breathtaking. It is dramatic, dark, and impeccably polished. Naifeh portrays this gothic, mystical world in perfect detail. Character expressions and attitudes come across clearly. This art not only works in black and white, it really thrives in it. The colored covers tell me that this could work in color, but I'd almost hate to see it. This is an artist/writer who does both incredibly well. It was artfully done in all respects.
Naifeh wrote a follow-up mini-series, Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics. The trade paperback comes out in September. I can't wait to read that as well.
Rating: 5/5
| August 1, 2003 04:05pm |
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