This was once a blog where I shared many, many things, most of which were awesome. Somewhere around fall 2009, I got a big-kid media job and no longer can keep up with this old thing. There's some good stuff hanging around here though. You should check it out.
Random Things

Well, hello. How have you been?

Look how run-down this old blog is. When was the last time someone dusted around here? Or cut the grass? Is that an old moldy sandwich over there? gross.

The Visual Message of Rounded Rectangles

Keith Lang over at UI&us I think is on to something: rounded rectangles and why we might love them more than we realize.  Looking at the history of Apple software/hardware and speaking with a professor of visual understanding, the rounded rectangle might be the best because it easier cogniatively on the eye. Very interesting stuff!...

The Font Conference

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. “Mailbox! Open Mailbox!” I know this is super old, so old in fact that I’ve watched it before, but this is good stuff: Font Conference at College Humor. Who doesn’t love a good font joke? Though, I think it was going a little too far having...

Have ever told you about the time I saw Chris Merritt?

I haven’t?  Well, I have, but let me tell you a little more: I had never heard of Chris Merritt before I went to one of his shows instead of roller skating like 10 sec before I graduated from college.  I went because all my guy friends were going, and he came highly recommended by...

Illustration Thursday : ShareSomeCandy

(marc johns) Share Some Candy is a little online space for artists and illustrators; its “a curated collective of inspiring design finds and art. the content is appropriate for all audiences – 9-99. criteria for inclusion are finds that are universally inspiring, beautiful and thought provoking.” They have all types of gooey art goodness, all...

This just blew my mind : What is a browser?

A dude from Google stood at Times Square and asked 50 people “what a browser?” Very few people knew the right answer. This puts a whole new perspective on internet users for me. I guess I’ve just always just been surrounded by people who at least new the basics of the internet, or at least...

The Beatles : Rock Band

So, like most every other American, European, Canadian, or some one with access to a radio or another human being, I become a fan of the Beatles in middle school.  I was 12 and had just watched “A Hard Day’s Night” at my grandparents with an older cousin.  And at that point, I knew that...

Speaking of UP

Lou Romano, who did some of the development and early production elements of UP, has a great post about the design process for the film, including early lighting tests, sketches, and scene mock-ups. Amazing! (Check out the site for some great scans/photos of all of the artwork.  Amazing!)

To the Cinema! : UP

I can’t write anything here that hasn’t already been said by people much more qualified, but this movie was AMAZING!  My sister and I watched in in DIGITAL 3D (which is actually pretty freakin’ amazing in itself, bTW), over the weekend.  We got the glasses.  I had some twizzlers.  And cried pretty much through this...

10 Super Cool Ampersand Gifts

A true love and adoration for the ampersand, I think, is something that separates the people who love typography and design in a healthy and sane way from the crazy, lunatic people who love type just a little more than they probably should. The ampersand is this graphic symbol that has turned into a kind...

Monsters by Mail : The Supervillain

I haven’t been this jealous of someone in a long time. Here’s a video of Len Peralta illustrating the world’s more super of villains. I know this video is in double-time, but come on! How’s he going to just whip this character up?! I can barely draw anything, let alone illustrate something awesome of my...

Must-stache

Must-Stache – watch more funny videos So things have been extra-super-to the Xtreme crazy recently at work and I’ve been dealing with some major fatigue-cold-can’t really-think-clearly sickness, thus the desert of non-posts that has become this blog. And for this, I apologize. But please, take this token of briefly funny mustache humor as a token...