Archive for the 'Art' Category

Pleading for Northern Ireland
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

My heart bleeds as I try to rip it out of Ireland. I’ve been here three weeks now, but that’s nearly irrelevant–I was attached in the first few days.

Oil Pastels
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

I decided last night to pull out the sketch pad and oil pastels and flesh out some ideas I had for my upcoming EP. I hadn’t really touched pastels in a serious way since elementary school, so it was a messy experience. Thanks to some tips from roommate Mike, the product was much [...]

Not Light Like Honeydew
Monday, August 27th, 2007

Quotations of an excellent song by a somewhat well-know artist (mewithoutYou) aside, Saturday was a pretty cool day. I woke up just after noon, did some baking, made a kick-butt salad, had a decent chat with a cool neighbor and learned I like the canceled TV series “Arrested Development”. The baking was particularly [...]

Trading time in Hell for a Mac
Saturday, March 10th, 2007

I’m being chastised plenty by the loyal, but I want a Mac in the worst way. I’ve been a PC man my whole life, but both Microsoft and the open source community are having trouble competing with the sexiness of Mac. Ok, ok, open source isn’t even in the game. After spending [...]

Go ahead, serif I care
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Not long after I began in web development back in the mid ’90s, I began to favor fonts without serifs. I found the smooth curves and unadulterated corners of sans-serif fonts to be much more cuddly than their barbed-wire formed cousins. Perhaps I liked crispness of a clean sans-serif font on a minimalist [...]