Awesome ipad mod

iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

The moped and ceiling ones make me kind of nervous, but maybe it's super duper velcro?

Musical Architecture

I would love to visit any of these buildings.

I guess it's pretty unrealistic to ever have a building like this in the city, what with the space you'd probably need and the tenants of that building getting sick of the noise...but I love the idea of retrofitting silos this way.

so much love for this

so much love for this

These are some pretty awesome installations.

It feels like they've trapped a moment in time. Also, strawberries? Love it.

I think David Shrigley is cool

Staple Town

This is just gorgeous.

Book art

Familiar Cat

So i was combing through cuteoverload, and saw this post. I thought to myself "i have seen this disapproving cat." Very recently. It's a photo by Corey Arnold, who has a print hanging in the White Box at the White Stag right now. Awesome.

Outlet covers

These would fit in nicely in the illuminating the deer show http://www.likecool.com/Socket-Deer--Design--Home.html

Manga Planters

nice cross of comics and gardening

Getting so burnt out on things this term.

Pork Parfait

tasty

Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop

Children's drawings rendered out as fine paintings http://thechive.com/2010/04/06/moster-engine-brings-childrens-drawings-to-life-11-photos/

not so luminous deer...

UNCIRCUMCISED IN AMERICA

The article is certainly interesting, but the editorial illustration with it is awesome.

Take that, Arial !

As funny as banning a font sounds, this is actually a pretty inventive way to save on ink usage:

http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/03/26/can-green-it-be-simple-changing-your-font

Yay Oregon

Found at the Oregon Culinary Institute

http://gizmodo.com/5502706/salt-and-pepper-chess

Tasty Gold Paint

http://www.theurbangrocer.com/2010/03/24/the-deli-garage-esslack-food-spray/

Crayon Chinese Zodiac

If she didn't leave the Crayon base, you might never know that these were carved from crayons. Gorgeous use of those bold waxy colors.

Pizza Box

A simple addition to a pizza box makes it a very useful thing.


I like things that are more than what they seem, and product redesigns that I could actually see making a small but real impact.

Craft

Found these while looking at google image search for embroidered text. I like 'em. They've got that whole intersection of tech and craft, and just that touch of awkward stalkerness. Mostly I like the tiny envelope.

Music video recreates famous works of art

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

Like it.

from the interwebs

Ze Frank

Every once in a while, it's worth it to go back and visit the pearls of wisdom of Ze Frank.

For designers/artists, this one, I think, it pretty important.

I don't know how many times i've felt this way.

This is from xkcd.com

Have I thought about punching you in the face? Maybe.

Une Carte Postale.

It's hard to keep this blog as updated with my work from my main site, It would be nice if I could just set this one to take feeds from my wordpress and post them. And i'm sure there is a way if I just had the gumption to do it....It's just easier to post stuff to katesessions.com than blogger. You'll have to click on them to see the full image since the size breaks blogger's template.

but, failing that, lookie these things I made these. It's a project i'm working on for the UO Portland Library. It's going to be a postcard/comment card to advertise newly purchased books.

Hilarity will ensue when they have to make decisions about which book is the feminine book, and who gets the swim trunks. Also notice, it's so...subtle, I put my deer logo in the stamp!

What has been seen can't be unseen

And I warn you, it's awesome.

While looking over google images for inspirations for this postcard i'm working on, i saw this and it scares me yet delights me.

Regretsy

Regretsy catalogues all the WTF things that people post on etsy. Kind of a FAILblog, but for DIY and craft.

http://www.regretsy.com/page/2/



It's terrifying.

It's not what you think

this is some hardcore stuff.

Scraggly Draft

You know, because we're talking about beards here? Oh my. It must be late.

Hair Portraits of The Presidents

From the NY Times.

I see beard stuff everywhere.

T-Shirt Animation

Stop Motion T-Shirt War - Watch more Funny Videos

Amid all those disappointing super bowl ads

A low budget, but stunning PSA.

So what does your demographic look like to stock photographers? If you're into gaming at all, looking at these photos is just damn hilarious. Anybody who games at all would run the other way if they saw these photos in an ad.

Of course, you need to see the rest:

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/106/1066150p1.html

Brrr

Perhaps it's a bit risque, but the design is really compelling. I hope it has a fabric lining, that thing would be freezing!


http://stylefrizz.com/200902/wonderbra-who-meet-the-hand-bra/

Mega Shark

Thanks, Mega Shark. Now I'm afraid to fly.

http://i.imgur.com/EVF94.jpg

It's been awhile since i've watched this

Paul should look at these

http://www.gossipgamers.com/pokemon-redesigned-in-traditional-japanese-style-artwork/

Celebrity Face Scultures from Phonebooks

Check the link for more phone book carvings
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/01/unbelievable-celebrity-phone-book-carvings/

77 on the 17

I'm starting a series of illustrations of people who ride the #17 in Portland. I take this bus nearly every day, and each day it seems like it's a different crowd of people. I covertly study the person, and try to sketch them as soon as possible. If they sit still for awhile, I can get more detail, but I can't control when they get off the bus. It's a really interesting way to spend my otherwise painfully long commute each day to school. I get very nervous each time that the person will see me drawing them and get mad at me! You never know how somebody's going to react. I've been at it for about a week and a half now, and I'd love to keep up or increase the momentum.

Funny enough, as covert as I try to be, the most fun is catching people watching me draw. A man watched me draw on the 17, and then got up, sat next to me, and requested to commission me to do a large ink illustration for him. We'll see if that goes anywhere, I just e-mailed him my fee.

Eventually, I will put a collection of 77 illustrations into a book format. Here's the first small bunch:

Toilet Paper

If you need some inspiration for the 77 project, check out these artist projects using toilet paper rolls.

http://thedesigninspiration.com/articles/amazing-toilet-paper-roll-artworks-collection/

I want this.

This is my kind of "conceptual" art.

http://www.brandonbird.com/highsea.html

Crayola Timeline

Gizmodo has a nice infographic of Crayola's timeline of introducing colors. Sadly, I think gizmodo is mistaken, my quick wikipedia and google search did not ever return a crayon that was named "poop"

http://gizmodo.com/5450606/what-if-computer-graphics-ran-under-crayolas-law?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

iKludge

I found this on a websites of "kludges", or jury rigs. But honestly, this is an awesome idea. I'll find an old credit card to do this myself.

Loosen up

This blog post presents a series of photographs that were published into a book called Dumped! It's pictures of people getting various substances dumped on their heads. The one thing I really liked about the set is that the artist said that it was just for fun and self promotion. They didn't set out a conceptual meaning for it. They were just having fun. Sometimes I feel a little forced in my school work to have conceptual meaning. I think I need to loosen up a bit more and have more fun.

It's 5:08 Am, please view this animated GIF

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/animated-gifs-05.gif?w=340&h=243

Paul is asleep in the screening room. I am currently taking a "break" and hanging out on digg.

Our 24 hour comics are going....well. I have 9/24 pages inked and ready. yikes!

Gorgeous Use of CGI

The video is made completely in CGI, it's just incredible. And it's nice to see CGI used so carefully and thoughtfully in this way. It's not a character animation. It has an abstract architectural focus. The score is also very nice.

It was made by one person.

Watch it fullscreen, in full resolution.

http://www.vimeo.com/7809605

Just watch and be entertained.

Little asian PC girl vs. MAC parody - watch more funny videos

This is a parody commercial in response to the Kylie Windows 7 commercials, which was part of a series of "I'm a PC" commercials, which were in response to the Mac vs. PC commercials.

When people get brand crazy about what computer they use, it makes me laugh so friggen hard at them. I'm no fanboy for either brand. What drives my purchase is getting the best I can afford and getting the most bang out of my buck. Also, I want to be able to fix it myself. Which is why I built my computer and run a dual-boot of windows 7 and windows XP.

I'll happily use either, but until somebody drops a mac in my hands for freesies, and you won't find one in my house. And even then i'd probably hack the case to have more fans.

http://www.hourlycomic.com/index.php?show=all

This guy is pretty awesome. He draws his comic, one panel per hour, answering the question "what's up?" for that hour. What he's doing, what somebody around him said, whatever. I'm not sure if he wakes himself up each hour that he's asleep, or if he just fakes those hours by doing extra comics. Maybe I should ask. But in any case, I think it's wonderful.

Paul and I are going to do a 24 hour, 24 page + cover comic challenge at the studio this Saturday. Melissa and Jenny are probably going to join us, too! It should be full of torment, tears, ink, anger but ultimately awesomeness. Anybody is welcome to walk past us and shake their heads in pity. Or to join in, if that's your thing.

Comic Book Covers

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/01/the-50-best-covers-of-2009/

This is a best-of-2009 List that of what the others thinks are the the best examples of comic book cover-art for the year. Some of them are particularly well done, and I like seeing the different styles lined up. I don't think this list really captures the breadth of cover art syles, but that's not the intention of the list I suppose.

This one's my personal favorite from the list:

I'm a very process-centric person, so comic-covers with this amount of detail really appeal to me. I can envision the physical pen strokes of the artist, instead of somebody just tracing a photograph and running "livetrace" to get colors. It's a personal preference, and I'm not trying to devalue digital process (the above image very likely was digitally rendered). I just connect with this image on a more personal level because of the hand-drawn look.