and

since i'm keeping track of my life on this thing, i guess it's worth nothing that for the past three weeks gina and i have been doing the p90x lean program, along with trying to follow the diet. took tonight off, though, as i was feeling pretty burnt out on everything.

back to it tomorrow, so far so good.

oops

with this i decided that i'm not into doing commercial work and dropped out of the "contest" or whatever it was that i was in.

no time no time.

i'm happy with these

i think they turned out well.

ideas because i skipped yoga

this one is out of scale, everything needs to be bigger. originally the embellishment at the bottom was just embellishment, and then i saw a face in it, so i tweaked it and added eyeballs. i like that it sort of looks like there's a mustache above the nose. i was playing with the idea of what porters do (did), which is carry shit places. didn't like how my boxes were turning out. so instead i turned him into some sort of gypsy mind control porter.

the "hat" or box that says "porter" was a standard photoshop shape (as was the face) that i tweaked - in this case i cut the bottom off the police badge, flipped it, and merged it with itself.

was approached to maybe do some commercial work today (on the strength of my hbg stuff), we'll see what happens. still don't know what i'm doing, really, but i'm getting there.

oh, i'm back on bebas as a font - it's guilt free and jason likes it.

should have looked into sherpas...

got a photography idea for this weekend, hopefully i can get it done saturday. might take forever.

Untitled (kids), 2010.

i give up

i'm now on blood pressure medicine and my ear thing is still not right.

better medicine than heart attack, i suppose.

hmm

This past weekend i took an intro to velodrome sort of class at Major Taylor, where I learned a) I like bikes and b) racing on a velodrome is hard but fun.

From here I could a) start intro racing on thursday nights or b) do nothing. a requires a new bike. i love new bikes, and a track bike is the sort of affordable that i can handle.

but i've got something bigger and more involved on my plate now, a collaborative effort that i hope will make an overall improvement to my overall wellbeing, an extensive exercise effort that might be long overdue. so velodrome racing is on hold.

velodrome bicycling buying, on the other hand...

get the hell out of here.

yesterday, while visiting the doctor in hopes of clearing the unclearable, i was also made aware that my blood pressure is out of control.

this was not welcome news. the news i was hoping for was "here, i will clear the mess out of your ears and you will be normal again", not "if you have any symptoms of heart attack you need to call 911" and "check your blood pressure at your local pharmacy every couple of days, take notes, and come back to see me in two weeks".

i suppose that's how doctors work, though. they remind you that you're going to die.

not me though.

not enough this lately:



it's indiana beer week, which means gina and i are on a weeklong quest to accomplish what i'm not sure. it involves a week of drinking every evening and then putting on a beer festival (oh, 5000 or so people attending) with friends.

i am taking a break on this evening's leg.

to say that this blood pressure thing doesn't freak me out a bit would be a lie. i do not see myself as someone who takes drugs on a regular basis, regardless of my family history. i see myself as someone who instead just works harder.

so that's what i'll do.

our future, your clutter

still infected. water in the ear feeling. i can hear myself breathe. it's annoying.

over the past two weeks i've ridden my bike once. this coming saturday is the IN microbrewer's festival, and the following saturday i'll be at a track clinic at the major taylor velodrome. the clinic makes me a bit nervous, but it should be good for my bike handling skills. plus i think it'll be fun to ride on the velodrome once.

and so.

did another poster recently.


this isn't exactly original, but it's what they asked for.

this week will go down in history as the week i got strep throat and an ear infection and was incapacitated for five straight days.

i do not get sick often, and when i do i turn into a cake of physical misery with a nice emotional (OH MY GOD WHAT IF I EVER GET REALLY SICK!?!?) ice cream side.

if that does ever happen (i actually get sick), hide the cyanide pills.

*

still dealing with the ear infection. it feels like like i've got little elves pulling on my ears. i feel slighty retarded, as well. and my head is in a cottony cloud of yuck.

come on antibiotics.

Should the MLS be like the NFL and end with a tacky superspectacle, with moribund rock acts performing at half-time, while U.S. Air Force flies over their heads, the field is covered with the flag and Budweiser premiers commercials in which, say, a horse farts into a woman's face? Should the game be reshaped so as to allow commercials to be broadcast during each throw in? Should soccer competitions be redesigned so that teams/clubs play 162 games before the first relevant one, rendering most of them entirely, fantastically meaningless as in baseball? Should the offside rule be changed so that soccer games have basketball scores and the American viewer of the thumb-happy remote does not switch the channel too soon? Would it be necessary for the U.S. team to attain the world superiority of the U.S. basketball team, so that Americans can crush, say, Ghana (oh wait!) the way the U.S. basketball team crushed Mozambique a couple of Olympics ago, when Vince Carter jumped over the head of their center for a dunk and pumped his chest thereafter, because it appeared a great achievement to him to humiliate Mozambique’s players? (Indeed it did turn out to be the greatest achievement of his career.) Would the U.S. team, every time they played, have to make the world look small and underdeveloped and undemocratic and pitiful if not exposed to the eternal sunlight of American greatness?

http://www.tnr.com/blog/world-cup/75874/americans-and-soccer

no more using this font

this is boring work from someone who's bored.

last night we saw toy story 3 because hey it's a movie and it was ok. guy next to me was crying at the end. not sure if it was that good.

yesterday i rode a bike and didn't bring water and it sucked at the end.

THE END.

sketch

just an idea i had, thrown together so i've got it noted.

i see no reason why i can't turn everything i participate in into a poster.

stay tuned for the "sweaty lawn mowing after riding a bike home from work" poster.

all these people are dead anyway

today i stumbled across this.


as a result, this..


the event will feature lots of beer, tamales, burlesque bingo (probably), an old-timey strong man (probably), and more beer. since it's about half old-timey, i think the poster makes sense. i enjoy writing the small quips for each of us. be sure to click the image so you can actually read them.

the bit about hats at the bottom came out of nowhere. then i consulted wikipedia's hat entry to find some hat types. which is why they're in alphabetical order.

i wonder how they did this sort of thing way back then.

this is pretty much done

not the best thing i ever did by any means, but it was a challenge getting all the info on this thing.

maybe next time i'd use different fonts for the stuff in the middle.

this meal should be good.

next up, hbg4 event posters. more of them. probably.

Times New Roman is the new new.

haha

i like stripes and circles and bubbles and clouds

date is wrong on this one.

all this stuff is in a folder named "rip off"

quite a few ideas came out of that folder. "ideas"...

not my logo

i did do poster layout, so if that's crap it's all my fault...

old