This re-post of my November 2010 Penn State blog features some of Scott McCloud’s work, just in case anyone misses the nature of the post. It’s a reaction to the NMR reading featuring a chapter of McCloud’s book, Understanding Comics. I took the first page from McCloud’s chapter “Time Frames” and inserted a two page …
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old drawings for the Bellefonte balloon story
A friend visited recently and asked for some of the cards I had printed with balloon sketches on them. I’m just about out- it was only an experiment to see how they’d print. So I could be more up-to-date, I had to take out my sketchbook to show him some of the more recent (five …
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Clarity
From November 27, 2012; my last written post for Penn State. Three days later I was gone. The blogs at Penn State go away tomorrow, and if it all disappears, this is one I want to save. Over the holiday I enjoyed several days of standing in the kitchen both cooking and preparing to cook. …
black point / white point
From September 2012: With a prompt from Taz Tally on lynda dot com I created this file to check the printers I use to find their value range. If you retouch images and try to print them, you might find that regardless of your Photoshop skills, the images always seem to print dark or blow …
Sunday funnies- from January 2009
I think I ran this right after we were told to put a framed copy of the “principles” on the wall. Or maybe I’m confused. Not that confusion is necessarily a bad thing…
the McCloud reading
From November 2010 when our small reading group wrote reaction papers to readings in the New Media Reader. The last reading was a chapter from Scott McCloud’s classic, Understanding Comics and it was in comic format. My response, obviously, needed to be in the same comic format, so I stepped directly into Scott’s work to …
story time…
From June 2008 in direct response to activities in the office I posted this. There’s a popular power phrase that goes something like, “Do it and apologize later.” I take issue with it: it makes your apologies meaningless, and says you don’t stand up for what you believe. Do it. Explain why; and let others …
a children’s fable, with words from Lawrence Lessig
Sadly, my old blog will be going away. As the university transitions from MovableType to WordPress, everything gets dismantled. The files won’t even function as web pages. What to do? Let go, I guess. There are a few posts there that I enjoyed, though. So over the next few weeks, I’ll try to move some …
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invention through illustration 2
Just like the 35mm camera digital insert, this is an older image. In July 2007 I posted the photo with a frustrated plea for just such a device. Like an iPod touch, but with a screen twice the size of an iPod, and a screen segmented to fold so it’s protected and easily dropped in …
invention through illustration 1
The flour bag and short cigarettes aren’t real, they’re illustrative inventions. Posting them reminded me of the fun I’ve always had with this illustration type. It also reminds me that if I had a machine shop, or even a garage, I might not make pictures at all. To illustrate, you have to first understand. If …