More old stuff. Opinion, no pictures… Perhaps I should’ve stuck with pictures? My own personal hell would be designing graphics for a committee made up of people who have dabbled a bit themselves with drawing pictures… Socialized art. Socialized design. Shirky describes it in his new book, though he doesn’t use those words. Downplay quality …
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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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pair of socks
Nuts. Yesterday I did errands and completely forgot to stop for black embroidery thread. These things are pretty creepy the way they are.
Group shot
Just for giggles, I combined the shots of the last four lions that I drew: The lion for the Millennium Science Building, the one for the the Office of the Physical Plant, “Shut Up and Draw” for my own failed Web Conference presentation, and as a waitron for the Hershey Research Concierge. This lion obviously …
opp lion
I haven’t needed one of these guys in a long time. I’ll have the layered version as a download on the old lion page within the next few days.
branding
One of the work related newsletters that I still subscribe to pointed me to a new web page for a group that I’m familiar with. We are completely unaffiliated, but their mission is still a part of me. I checked out the site and it’s very professional. It’s an attractive WordPress layout incorporating web fonts …
carcasses?
Currently skinned out and laying on my work table.