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2010-03-24T00:29:00.001-07:00

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Moving to WordPress

2010-02-10T23:13:00.000-08:00

I have been pretty unhappy with Blogger for some time now. It seems to me that at least since Google gobbled them up very little has been done to improve or enhance the service. I've been thinking for the longest time that I should switch to WordPress, which is what I was using for my comic, but for one reason or another I just haven't gotten around to it. Well now they are forcing my hand. Google has decided to discontinue FTP support for Blogger which means that only Blogger hosted sites will be able to run with Blogger. Yuck. Massive yuck. That means that instead of running my blog on the front page of my site, I'd have to link off over to unlikelyattitude.blogspot or some such. Grrrr.

So now I have to figure out how to flop everything over. If things look sloppy here for the next few days (weeks?) it's because I'm working this out.

Wish me luck!

1st blog post from my iPhone

2010-01-18T14:05:00.000-08:00

I've been meaning to try a post from my iPhone for a while seeing as I've been having trouble finding time to post and since I had a moment, sitting in the car with our neurotic dog, while Andrea and the girls do some shopping in Grass Valley, I figured now would be a good time to try it out. It works fine but I can't seem to enter text in 'compose' mode. I have to be in 'edit html' which I guess is no big deal just kind of odd.

Another problem is that I can't figure out how to upload a photo. The 'upload from your computer' button is grayed out so the only option is to link to an image on the web. Looks like the Blogger/iPhone integration is totally nailed quite yet.

must post to blog, must post to blog...

2010-01-14T20:05:00.000-08:00

Slowly, slowly getting my site back into some kind of reasonably presentable shape. Look! I added some buttons...over there on the right! Come back tomorrow and maybe there will be something else to look at. Stranger things have happened.

Don't mess with the mouse!

2009-09-05T00:06:00.000-07:00

I am always delighted when a Lou Romano post graces my RSS feed. The man is amazing. His posts are infrequent at best (I should talk), but when they come, whether it's thumbnail storyboards, color studies, concept art, a personal project, or just WTF, there is something mouthwateringly irresistible about his mid-century modern, retro-beebop style that just gets me every time.

It's been a while since Romano posted anything so when I saw the Something Marvelous post, of course I went and checked it out. Holy cow! Pretty subversive for such a prominent Lieutenant in the Mouse's Army (granted he's stationed in a norther outpost of the Magic Kingdom, but nonetheless...) I was curious if anyone else thought this was a little off the charts considering the source (I mean it's great don't get me wrong, I love it but it's blasphemy coming from a Pixar guy). Google reader didn't show any comments, so I went to look at the post directly: Page not found. I went to the home page of his blog and top of the feed is a post from July about Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. Looks like the post has been removed.

Am I just being paranoid to think that Disney strong-armed Romano to pull down the post? Or did he just think better of it? Did he get a couple of voice mail messages from fellow Pixarians: "Dude, do you hate your job or what?" Maybe he got a late night visit from Goofy and Donald and their friends Brass Knuckles and Baseball Bat. Whatever the case, the full size image is still up on the blogspot server even if the post has been removed. Take look before the Mouse himself shows up on Romano's doorstep with a cannoli.

Real faces! Real People!

2009-08-30T16:01:00.001-07:00

Tangentially connected to my ongoing investigation into Clip Art Crimes Against Humanity, here's a downright funny instance of propaganda with stock photos. The story starts at about 1:06 in this clip.

IlloFri: Wrapped

2009-08-21T01:32:00.000-07:00

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More sizes of this image are available on my flickr stream.

Don't forget to follow twittering IlloFriers with the hashtag: #ifri.

Arthur in Captivity - Final

2009-06-20T03:41:00.001-07:00

Arthur in Captivity - Final
Originally uploaded by three_point

This is my street painting for the 2009 Youth In Arts Street Painting Festival. It didn't quite turn out how I expected or planned but I wasn't disappointed with the results. Drawing with pastel chalk on the ground is such a different thing from pencils in a sketchbook...or pixels on the computer!

I was hoping more people would twitter the experience. Maybe next year.

Street Painting from last year

2009-06-05T01:03:00.000-07:00

Hey lookie here...photographer Paul Millholand got a super clear shot of my street painting from last year. It's way better than anything I got. My best shot had tree shadows unfortunately. The only problem with this photo is my site url is smudged and he took the photo before I signed it! Oh well.

I've started a FaceBook group for San Rafael street painters and enthusiasts, so go and join!

Every Day in May: May 31st

2009-06-02T01:33:00.000-07:00

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Here we are! 31 days of May and 31 pages in my Moleskine. A nice, poetic ending too. This spread officially completes this sketchbook, and I go out on Arthur at work. This is a very, very rough sketch of the image that I am doing for the San Rafael Italian Street Painting festival in a couple of weeks. So here I am wrapping up EDIM and moving into my next big thing and also easing back into my web comic. Like I said: a nice poetic ending.

Take a look at more Every Day In Mays on Flickr.

Every Day in May: May 30th

2009-05-31T11:00:00.000-07:00

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As my wife pointed out yesterday that May has 31 days not 30 days, so yesterday was my antepenultimate EDIM and this is my penultimate EDIM. Just a bunch sketches from random news photos + random doodles.

IlloFri: Adapt

2009-05-29T18:49:00.000-07:00

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I did this drawing of Charles Darwin in PhotoShop some time ago. Since Darwin introduced Natural Selection, the process by which species adapt to changes in their environment over time, I decided to pull it out for this week's IlloFri.

Don't forget to follow twittering IlloFriers with the hashtag: #ifri.

Every Day in May: May 29th

2009-05-29T18:27:00.000-07:00

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Almost there. This is my penultimate EDIM. The pen drawing here is a little sloppy, but I'm trying to pick up my speed a little. I'd like to get to the point where I can create a credible pen sketch in an hour or so, and not have to take 3 hours for it to look decent.

I'm also enjoying getting back to the watercolors again. It's funny though; I feel the need to have the structure of a pen drawing or a pretty well established pencil drawing to hang the color on. I should try working from a very light, rough pencil sketch or even straight into watercolor.

IlloFri: Cracked

2009-05-29T02:51:00.000-07:00

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I don't know why I like the image of the Frankenstein's monster in a tie and coat. I draw it every so often. I had no idea where I was going with the cracked concept. I just started out drawing the crack, and the rest came along as I drew it. As I was drawing this I was suddenly struck by the similarity to the Harry Potter lightning scar and the Frankenstein forehead crack. Hadn't really thought of that before.

Every Day in May: May 27th

2009-05-28T02:34:00.000-07:00

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Lunchtime sketches plus color added later. 3 more days in May for 30 days of May.

Every Day in May: May 26th

2009-05-27T03:20:00.000-07:00

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Every Day in May: May 25th

2009-05-26T02:02:00.000-07:00

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Or perhaps some fruit.

Every Day in May: May 24th

2009-05-25T04:50:00.000-07:00

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Sketching at a graduation ceremony on Sunday.

Every Day in May: May 23rd

2009-05-25T04:39:00.000-07:00

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Busy weekend, but here's my sketch from Saturday. Playing around with cracks for the Illustration Friday theme: Cracked.

Every Day in May: May 22nd

2009-05-23T01:35:00.000-07:00

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Finished from yesterday. Battling Assyrians.

Every Day in May: May 21st

2009-05-22T03:54:00.000-07:00

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Kinda cheating here. Started today, finishing up tomorrow. Oh well. A post is a post, I guess.

Every Day in May: May 20th

2009-05-21T01:43:00.000-07:00

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Random stuff from the sketchbook. Ten more days to complete every day in may. Whew.

Every Day in May: May 19th

2009-05-20T01:36:00.000-07:00

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Experimenting with water color pencils, but the scanner really doesn't capture what it looks like. The thicker the cover the less it gets it right. I think it's the pigment reflecting back?

Every Day in May: May 18th

2009-05-19T00:12:00.000-07:00

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Messing around with faces. Some observed. Some imagined. Some from photos.

IlloFri: Contagious

2009-05-18T01:47:00.000-07:00

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Every Day In May for May 17th and Illustration Friday on the subject of Contagious. I did all of those thumbnails yesterday and then ended up going with something entirely different. Go figure.