T-shirt graphic designed by Danny Simon for the Hobosoul. If you want one of these Tshirts they are only $10 or $15 if you need me to ship it to you. Super rad design, and it all benefits the Hobosoul to raise funds for their feature film.
Hand screen printed by me in my garage. Printed on gray shirts - all sizes, mens and womens shirts.
Here’s Dave printing the first run live at last weeks event…
Heather and I found these on her laptop the other day. These pictures are from September 2006.
Question: If a dirty sanchez is applied as a small mustache, like a Hitler mustache, is it called a Shitler?
Note: If you didn’t know what a dirty sanchez was before this post, I’m sorry that I’m the one who has informed you. Personally, I’m embarassed that I actually know what it is. Nevertheless, the question above did occur to me, though it’s cleverness does not excuse it’s crudeness.
Note #2: Apparently I am not the first person to think of the term Shitler. Found on Urban Dictionary.
Note #3: Keeping with the crude, has anyone else seen that unofficial video at for Zune? It’s nuts! Check it out if you got the stomach for it. It’s beautifully shot, truly, but extremely inappropriate - Warning: Involves fat naked man painting in an unorthodox fashion. Found Via Not Cot.
I think might get in trouble with the wifey for that last one….
I’m going to China in January on a business trip. I’m visiting our manufacturing facilities in hopes to better educate myself as a product developer dude.
“It’s not bad to own fine things that you like. What you need are things that you GENUINELY like. Things that you cherish, that enhance your existence in the world. The rest is dross.
Do not “economize.” Please. That is not the point. The economy is clearly insane. Even its champions are terrified by it now. It’s melting the North Pole. So “economization” is not your friend. Cheapness can be value-less. Voluntary simplicity is, furthermore, boring. Less can become too much work.
The items that you use incessantly, the items you employ every day, the normal, boring goods that don’t seem luxurious or romantic: these are the critical ones. They are truly central. The everyday object is the monarch of all objects. It’s in your time most, it’s in your space most. It is “where it is at,” and it is “what is going on.”
If you have time, watch this video below. This guy, Peter Schiff, accurately predicts the recession and exactly how it’s going to happen back in 2006. It’s seriously unbelievable that he was treated like a nutcase for the things that he was saying. Literally, the other guys in suits are laughing at his face. Guarantee you that if Peter Schiff writes a book about economics it’s going to be the next best seller. Wow.
Saw this rad chair today. I’ve never seen one exactly like this before. It is really comfortable too. I think that if a chair has the angles, contours, flex, and rigidity in all the right places than it could be made of the harshest materials possible and still be comfortable. It’s also interesting to note how this chair retains it’s minimalism without being static or boring.
An interesting find indeed.
The back support is bolted on through a rubber cushion - so the back support actually flexes a little as you lean back.
1. I stopped by parents house this morning on my way to work. I pulled up in my big blue van, but there was already a big blue van in front of the house. It was kind of amusing because the owners of the other blue van were on ladders repainting the trim on the house. My assumption is that they were definitely a little confused when I pulled up and then walked straight into the house.
The competition: But I definitely have cooler rims…
2. At least 3 days a week I spot an “Oversized Load” on my morning commute. I try to take pictures every time I spot one, and I got a good one today…
Another weekend full of fun and fancy events and projects, set to the dramatic background of the smokey haze covering most of LA and Orange counties.
We had a wonderful event on Saturday night, and I’ll be posting some pictures in the days to come.
The sky was crazy looking on Saturday day. The onshore ocean breeze was fighting off the smoke filled santa ana winds directly over our heads. It was like a Mark Rothko color field painting…
For example: Seal Beach, San Gabriel River mouth on the left.
Mark Rothko:
Our friends in Yorba Linda sent over these photos…
Scary stuff. We’re glad that everyone is still okay.
I made a major revision in Xmas Tree Project. Basically, I didn’t like how hodge-podgy and junkyard-like the E-Waste Xmas tree was turning out. I originally wanted to use primarily salvaged materials and weld them together, patchwork style, in hopes to bring them to a beautiful resonance. I realized that the frame I constructed to hang all the E-Waste on was actually saying more than the E-Waste itself. Basically, my design was distracting. The work was competing against itself, which isn’t a good thing unless you are doing it on purpose. If I was fabricating a chair that needed to accentuate and highlight the upholstery on the chair, I would make the structural elements as minimal as possible - or at least make sure when your eyes passes over the chair you don’t think “Gee, that’s is beautiful fabric, too bad it’s on that ugly chair.” Juxtaposition isn’t always the best design principle.
The juxtaposition will lie in the content of the piece, it doesn’t need to come through in the way I use my materials. In this case, I found my structure to be distracting.
The old Structure:
It’s a fine object on it’s own, but as a substructure it doesn’t really work. Especially because the substructure is supposed to represent a Xmas tree. Too much texture. Not iconic enough.
Here is my new solution:
A thousand times better. Lighter weight. And it will serve as a great structure to wrap all those mother boards on. It actually looks like a tree, rather than that old piece of junky brewster. Implied form. 9 feet tall. I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me, and I won’t be making as much money on the project, but at least I’ll be happy with the end result.
Watched American Movie last night. It’s about an aspiring filmmaker from Wisconsin who is trying to work on a feature film in the mid-90’s. It’s a documentary, and it does a great job of reinforcing my belief that real life is far more bizarre and interesting than anything we could possibly make up. Basically it chronicles the story of Mark Borchardt as he manages to get everyone in his life involved with helping out on his films. There’s even one scene where he gets really frustrated with his mom for not holding the camera right. Good stuff.
Here’s a clip from the film:
In kind of reminds me of some of the craziness that goes on in the movie Gummo. Well, Gummo is a lot crazier actually, and it’s not a documentary - but it takes an interesting look at folks who live in the rural areas of America. Here’s one of my favorite scenes:
