Britney Mania

As I struggle to pick up the pieces following Britney and K-Fed's startling break up, I couldn't help but notice she shockingly made a typo on the front of her webpage. When will this pain end?

New Husky Stadium Plans

See anything missing in this artistic rendering? Where's the F-ing track???

And where the *^&$@ is this soccer stadium where the track will supposedly be moved to? I don't care about college football,but I do care about what this will do to the track program at UW and the (dwindling) number of meets they put on. Granted it was never fun jumping in the cold windtunnel down there, so perhaps putting the track out in the verdant pastures north east of the stadium (?) would be a good thing.

Since the Goodwill Games, the most attendance a track meet has gotten there must be under 5000, and the typical spring meet has spectators numbering in the hundreds so I suppose I see their point.

But I don't want this to be a step towards losing the track program at UW altogether. Although it's already pretty weak, since they only allow a certain caliber of athlete to join, and lose potential "walk-on" and b-class athletes blossoming. But that's another story... >:(

Picture archives continued...

here's a great picture dad took of mom, spring 1965 at Greenlake. The negative was never printed until I found it and did it a few years ago. Unfortunately it has lots of scratches and schmutz from years of not very good care. But still a beautiful shot of a beautiful lady:)

Cartoon for Libby

Oh yes! I remember now! I did a little cartoon for me boss, who is coming back from surgery. And of course I somehow have this rep now that I'm "Mr. Parrot Crazy Guy" so I like to play it up.
The yellow horned fellow is an actual xbox360 icon that Libby created. The x's originally meant they were to be replaced by various eyes and mouth versions I think.

A new post!

yes, I'm still alive. Dad, you guilted me into it:) So...what was I going to post about. Crap.

house paint'n

We're in the home stretch. This weekend was the final push and we performed admirably. I can't say enough about how appreciative and grateful I am for our friends who helped, including Chris, Rich, Angie, Lee and Tara. With Shelly kickin' in with dining and odd job assistance. Add to that our parents and parents-in-law, and that's why we're basically done after only 2 weeks. And we thought we could get it done in a week, HA!
I was a little concerned about the extra white border around our windows, making them look smaller, but in fact they look just fine and newly magnificent.

house painting

In case you're wondering, Suzy hasn't posted a blog post for awhile because she's slaving away at the house. The painting, or should I say prepping, is going moderately well, although we still haven't put a drop of final paint on the house, only some primer. And it's been almost a week! But everything is almost sanded down. Parents and parents-in-law have really stepped up to the plate and saved our bacon, and for that...we worship them, love them, and are grateful.

But oh no! It's going too far! We've decided to rip our porch off:



Tina hired these contractors to rebuild the hot tub deck, so we're using them to rebuild the rotting, sagging mess of a porch. Right now it is terrifying however...Watch that first step, it's a doozy. Must go back to work...

Flaming Turkey

An interesting variation on Flaming Hammer, just in time for thanksgiving:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ehHOqQBWEz0&search=flaming%20hammer

I'm thinking a flaming turkey on my leg would be a good first tattoo, with flames reaching up my back.

Badger II

I give you...Badger!:

Badger

Here's a Badger illustration I did for a High School mascot (and why am I randomly capitalizing?). It's in the style of a high school artist doing a fighting badger, rah rah rah!
ps Good Egyptian bumper stickers:
"Three cheers for the sun god! Ra! Ra! Ra!"
"Ank if you like Egyptology"

pps Blogger has taken away the ability for mac users to put pictures on their blog posts. So you'll have to imagine what the badger looks like. It's really neat though.

hand farters of the world, unite.

It's apparently called "manualism." I need to practice more. This guy is pretty good, but he needs to work on his pitch control.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8258651219221373365

Even God doesn't like George W. Bush

"Bush met with the Starr family for about twenty minutes at the King County Airport. At about 12:40 p.m., he bypassed a waiting limousine and walked the tarmac to Air Force One, accompanied by a small group of aides and security. Before he got to the plane, rain began to fall in sheets, soaking the president as he continued to wave to well-wishers."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003066167_webbush16.html

Getting a little creepy

Checking Zillow.com, they now have planes, helicopter and satellites circling our house, so we can see what we look like from different angles. Mowrers, please bring in your trash can. And yes, I'll take care of the moss problem on the roof.

Pirates of Penzance: The last post

...And finally a couple variations on the theme, now that the project has come to an end. Mostly. Here's the tshirt and an ad for "Where Seattle". This project, as usual, has also included the Libretto cover, program cover, Seattle Times ad, internal magazine cover, XL poster for Barnes and Noble display, and mini 13x19" posters printed on my printer for "grassroots" advertising. I kind of like the logo type treatment on the ad. Mike the producer asked me to do a logo a couple years ago, and I should probably work on that next...

Tshirt:
Y'know, I kinda like the design of the tshirt better than the poster now. I shrunk the border to go inside more and it's a bit more dynamic. Can I start over?



1/3 page ad:


The only thing left really, is the actual decorating of the downtown Barnes and Noble display window. Last year I festooned it in flowers for Patience and put a couple old instruments in the window, along with the requisite jumbo poster. The year before was an historical retrospective of cool posters from plays-past (celebrating 50 years) featuring one of my heroes Art Chantry. This year not sure, but maybe I could be like that guy on Real People that was a professional dummy, and stood stock-still in window displays all day. That would be kind of fun I think. At first anyway.

House Painting

We WILL paint our house this summer, if it kills us. The planning has begun. Witness the glorious bricky-ness that it will be (quick photoshop hack job):

Notice also the new garage. Except there'll be lots of knee braces everywhere. Glorious kneebraces.

Hmmm...or maybe yellow:


And as an extra-added bonus, my new plan as presented to Suzy. She didn't go for it though:

Latest Shot Put News

This will affect my training plans and shot weights going forward, since I'll probably put 'til I die. Suzy can hardly wait until I'm of the age relevant to this notice, resplendant in a little red vest and shorts. 3k is about 6.6 lbs, a comparative feather to the 16 pounder I'm heaving around now. I will blow the 80 y.o. record out of the water at this rate!

"MASTERS ATHLETES: There was a change adopted by the World Masters Association at San Sebastian in the implements to be used by the 80+ Master men for 2006 and beyond. Although the change is not yet show on the WMA website due to the death of their president who controlled the website, the change was approved and therefore is in effect start in WMA on May, 2006 according to Rex Harvey, WMA Stadia Group Vice President. That change should have automatically been approved in Jacksonville. It is the opinion of the Rule Committee Chair, John Blackburn that the rule should therefore be in effect starting on January 1, 2006. Therefore as of 1/1/06 the 80+ men will throw the 3kg shot and discus instead of the listed 4 kg implements as listed in the 2005 and will be listed in the 2006 USATF book."

Pirates Poster12

Closer...Stay on Target...
Still have a couple small nits from the Producer, but this is basically it. I don't like the small text typography as much like this, may change back to the way it was before. I added some shading to the ribbons on top, and fleshed out the pirate's face a bit.

Next up is the postcard back, and the tshirt, all to be delivered Friday...So very tired. Back hurting.

pirates Poster11

In the home stretch...

Pirates Poster10

Center "SGSS" ribbon added. I was originally going to have the printer scan the artwork, but turns out I can scan each of the three major areas in myself, moving the artwork around on the scanner.

Also have started to lay the color in as blocks behind the 1-bit artwork in Illustrator, and dumped in the type. Don't worry, I'll nicefy it all up. Also need to make a rough border around the edges.

Pirates Poster9

A nice shot of my glorious, starting-to-bald head:

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Fritz: "Achtung Pierre! I'm bored. Christian's had us on his shoulder for hours. Watch me distract him and make him mess up."
Pierre: "Ho Ho, you are ze jokester, you are"

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Fritz: "SQUACK"!
Christian: "Bedwuah!" (brushes birds off shoulder)