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Friday, August 29, 2008

perspctv has some really amazing visualized data and web 2.0 widgetry swirling around the upcoming election. Maps, charts, timelines all pulling info from news, blogs and twitter. Pretty cool stuff.

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Friday, August 15, 2008

IlloFri: Sail

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Pencil sketch with 'ink' and color in photoshop. Based on a woodcut of Columbus's boat the Nina.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Putting out the fire with gasolline

The SF Chronicle reported today that several countries are racing to claim oil and gas resources opened up by receding arctic ice. When I hear things like this I think of Spalding Gray's line from Swimming to Cambodia: "Mother Earth needs a long, long rest with no people."

Other similar headlines:
Choking Man Scarfs 12 inch Sub
Heading 60mph Toward Brick Wall, Driver Hits the Gas
Coyote, Teetering on Ledge, Grabs Anvil

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Friday, August 08, 2008

IlloFri: Poof! (Not Posted)

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Some shameless Photoshoppery here. Very little actual drawing. Just a lot of messing around with filters and layer effects and such. I was stumped for what to do for this word. Poof seems to connote transformation or sudden disappearance. And I wasn't quite sure how to do that in a single image. I guess I could have done a sequence but that somehow seemed like cheating.

Edit: Phooey. Played to long on this and missed the posting window.

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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Darwin

Been working a bit on my Photoshop drawing chops. Still getting used to drawing with the tablet. This is the first time I got really excited about the process because I could feel the potential. If I could just get more control over my line, I think I could emulate the wood engraving look that I love so much. The combination of the variable line width from the tablet with the ability pull the whites back out by switching to the eraser could afford some very exciting drawing possibilities. And of course corrections and changes are a thousand times easier than in wood engraving. Even scratchboard lacks undo, save as, and history palette.

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