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Small gouaches
Jun 27, '17Had to be the most beautiful day
Jun 25, '17Went up to Canada with Nancy and her friend. Stopped at the grocery, got the guac stuff and some burger meat.Chased a few house wrens away. Cleaned the cottage up while the girls made guac. Went surfing at Pleasant, watched Nan and her bud get sweet rides. Got a ticket there and almost towed but […]
Me and Griff back in the old days
Jun 24, '17In defense of “Code is Poetry”
Jun 17, '17Just watched Boone Gorges break down the ubiquitous motto. If not poetry, what is code? Gorges suggested craftsmanship, architecture, bridge-building, collaboration, engineering. None of those is text. Each of those has associative materials that could connect a perceivably banal thing with beauty: wood is craft, steel is architecture, mathematics is bridge-building, software development is collaboration […]
Sketch
May 25, '17I have the app, I’ve played with it, made some icons, and I still don’t get it. I think folks who use it a lot aren’t fluent html/css coders. For me, it’s a lot easier to do the things people say Sketch shines at directly in code. Do you use Sketch? Do you consider yourself a […]
The most beautiful soft rain
is falling outside my Lyons office window.
WP font
May 22, '17Who’s down to make a font for WordPress? I am! I’ve brought this up before. It makes sense to have a custom font for your brand; Youtube just did it. WP has such a strong brand that its own font just makes sense.
Mystery Meat Icons
Apr 23, '17Icons are everywhere. As the contexts within which we interpret content become more unpredictable, so does our reliance on iconography to communicate ideas and messages. The use of iconography has exploded as dissemination of information must reach a multitude of user contexts. Icons can summarize universal ideas and complex actions with a few shapes. Icons […]
Meadow Glen barn
Mar 22, '17The best cole slaw recipe
Feb 15, '17I only post recipes that I make up and are simple, easy, and cheap. I’m a terrible cook because I’m impulsive, lazy, and AADHD. However, this one usually works: Half a cabbage, cut up however you like it. I sliver mine with a razor sharp Global. 1 TBs Sesame Oil 2 TBs Rice Vinegar 1 […]
New MacBook OLE Keyboard thing
Feb 10, '17Finally figured out a reason to like this thing. I stopped using function keys for years, once it became necessary to hold FN to modify them so you weren’t, like, turning the volume down. Sure, you could set it up so they would behave normally, but then you had to hold FN to, like, turn […]
Dumb comic
Feb 05, '17Birds
Jan 21, '17Jones Beach gouache painting
Jan 12, '17Loyola Marymount
This is for my Uncle Billy. He’s not feeling too great so I’m sending it to him.
Small gouache painting of lakefront
Dec 31, '16Canoes
Dec 29, '16Small gouache and graphite on arches paper
An old monoprint
Dec 16, '16Digging through my old stuff, and thought this was nice:
Studio window
Dec 14, '16I have a bunch of birds that hang out in the trees outside my studio window. I got my good camera geared up with a zoom lens and I try to take photos when I see them. Still getting used to the camera, so expect improvements over time. Here’s the latest: