By now you know I do cards every year for my daughter’s birthday. I try to make each one relevant and featuring a drawing of both my daughter and granddaughter. This is what they look like: And this is what the card looks like- a pop-up on the inside while the outside is a package …
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Scene from the Mouse in Millheim
She stood beside the bag and swung the bat a few times and I headed out to a real mound. We never actually had a mound when I was growing up. I turned and looked at Hailey and she shouldered the bat choked way up, and looked right at me. “Let ‘er rip,” she said. …
Invention again, only real this time!
I reposted this here once before with more description. It’s originally from 2008. Now, miraculously, someone is doing it, which is what prompts this re-re-post. I wanted to share the link to the inventor’s project. Check it out on Kickstarter!. Kind of reminds me of my folding iPhone, though mine didn’t fold. I still don’t …
Doodling
Went to the park to read. Too darn windy and cold to sit on a metal bench and read, so I sat in my car. I read for a while, and when I looked up, I thought, “geez, I really should practice a bit.” So I got out my little sketch book and doodled my …
AI
This is here mostly for me, so that I can easily find these links. Well over a year ago, a designer I follow, a wizard with Adobe Illustrator. posted a series of rants on LinkedIn about AI’s destruction of the arts. I commented that it was a tool that wasn’t going away and should be …
Personal AVIF experiment
I’m trying to see if the browser supports avif. If it does, an image of a demon provided by my granddaughter displays. If not, it shows my mousetoon honey logo. Hey, they’re what I have. The html looks like this: <picture> <!– use if browser supports AVIF –> <source type=”image/avif” srcset=”IMG_2027.avif”> <!– use if browser …
Holiday windows
Every year the local high school enables students to paint holiday scenes on shop windows throughout downtown. Typical pictures are of the Grinch, Charlie Brown, or Snoopy. Year after year the same sorts of images go up, generally inspired by holiday cartoons. Last year, the Black Diamond Barbershop, which is on the first floor of …
poster fair
In the early 2000s I did a yearly workshop on preparing graduate and undergraduate poster fair posters. I did them for over five years and eventually I reached a point where I couldn’t find the time. And I thought a move to digital presentations was inevitable. I kept the material in my Penn State web …
BASD “B” (Part 1)
Read part 2 here. On May 31, there was a post from the Bellefonte School District on facebook.The district wanted to be able to trademark their “B” logo and requested the submission of a more ‘trademarkable’ letterform. They used a googledoc to convey the particulars for creating and submitting, and there’s also a link on …