great image.

Bring on the Kool-Aid

Gloria surprised me with an early birthday present this afternoon. She bought me an iPhone. After several months of watching me rewind every new iPhone commercial on tv I think she got the hint.

Now, I've messed with a few people's iPhones before and obviously I thought they were an impressive piece of technology. But after a full evening of really getting into the thing and seeing what seems to be only a fraction of what its capable of, I have to say - I'm thoroughly impressed and I'm proud to be a late adopter of the iPhone and the cult-esque hype that comes with it. Bring on the Kool-Aid.

At first I thought the "Apps" were a bit of a gimmick, but again, many of those have impressed me as well. My favorite so far is the Shazam app. This thing literally listens to a portion of a song and compares it to a database of what has to be hundreds of thousands of songs and can tell you the song, artist, and album in less than 10 seconds. Amazing.

Been a while...

...and now its time to start putting my portfolio together. The plan is to shoot my own work. Tonight I thought I'd try some post production in photoshop with some old photos. The shadows and reflections still need work, but I like the overall look.

One can only dream...

This is pretty much the level at which I aspire to design. This shirt and so much more goodness to be found here.

Googling

Gotta love the ol' Google image search. Here's the number 1 result for Pete Lawton. The caption says I'm third from the right.

In the style of...

I had a photo assignment to take a pictures in the style of another photographer. I was given Irving Penn, known mostly for his studio portraits. Many thanks and doggie treats go out to Mr. Willie Nelson for all of his cooperation.

Past, Present, and Futura

Came across this little gem from first quarter today. The assignment was to make a poster displaying the history, weights, price, etc. of an assigned typeface.

Printed

The other day, Gloria brought home this sweet t-shirt I designed for her school. Actually, I shouldn't say I designed it. More like assembled some other people's graphic elements in the style of some other people's design. Either way, the school sold over $1000 more worth of these than they did for last year's "I [heart] DE" shirt.

Self Portrait 3

Shooters.

Finally took some pics of some finished work. Here's my Shooters packaging from a couple qtrs. ago.

Self Portrait 2

Nothing conceptual here. I just think its nice to have a simple visual record of what you look like from time to time. No fake smiles or goofy faces. Just me.

Self Portrait 1

I'm taking a photo class at the Circus...figured I could really use the practice. We're going to have an ongoing self-portrait assignment. Two per week. One literally showing ourself, one as a representational. I don't know if I'll be putting up all of em, but here's the first.

Stuff white people like

My wife just told me about a website she heard about on the radio this morning. I'm almost embarassed at how many of these I can identify with, minus things like standing still at concerts and veganism. >>Stuff White People Like<<

throwin bones

i've been meaning to throw ol' Charlie a bone on here for a while. he did the same for me on his bloggidy blog this afternoon so i figured now would be a good time. anyway, theres quite a few blogs that i visit on a regular basis, but this one has made it past the bookmarks drop-down menu and into the ranks of the bookmarks toolbar. thats serious.

check ch check check check a check it out.

and he's totally into graffiti. such a major graffiti artist. he'll tag like anything. you should totally ask him to do some graffiti for you cause i bet he would do it in a heartbeat probably for free.

widgets are stupid.

reworked my Landry Lounge widget to have that retro feel of a laundromat. i think i like the new one better.

blogged.

Sent my Dories pdf to TheDieline and the guy that heads up the whole operation, Andrew Gibbs, was nice enough to post it for the whole internets to see.

HDR: first try

After researching a little (ok, alot) I thought I'd give HDR a try when hanging out with my buddy Jonny the other night. I'm not gonna go into the details of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, but here's the basics: you put your digital camera on a tripod and take atleast 3 photos. One is at the correct exposure, one is over and one is underexposed. Using photoshop, you combine the photos in order to get the most detail possible out of your shadows, highlights, and everywhere in between. The top photo is my end product. The bottom is what my camera said was a correctly exposed image. Check out Flickr for some awesome, good, and really terrible examples of HDR photography.

Fetch!

Fetch!

Illustration for my publications class.

Deathmatch: weeks 5-6

a 2 week challenge here. create a serif version of helvetica. barely and surprisingly took the W. check it.