Just a little note here to let yas know that I’m leaving for Berlin today. I’ll still be online and working during the typical EST workday times, but my US phone number will only accept voicemails (no SMS). I’ll have a German phone number and Skype for those in the know.
The rest of the time, I’ll be flaunting about doing Berlin-y things. A bit of travel with my mom is in store as well, yippie! Check back here and in the lifestream for updates and pics.
See you New Yorkers on May 27th!
I’m not-so-slowly and very-surely running out of hard drive space on my little laptop, which is the central nervous system of all things DZ– especially now that I have a killer camera and am taking gianormous photos. WhatSize tells me the main culprits of space usage are my old mail archives (obsessively retained since early 2005, when I first went Mac) and of course, my pictures.
So, I’m wondering: what kinds of parameters are folks using for moving things to archive versus keeping on a running machine? The OCD-pack-rat in me likes having my entire world at my fingertips whether I’m home or not, but obviously this isn’t sustainable. (…she says as she’s downloading 7GB of pics from aforementioned camera.)
Feel free to leave suggestions in the comments, to twitter me, or to drop a line.
Via Awesome — a note from someone’s mom:
When you don’t post something to your blog for a few days I get worried but then when you write some of the things you do i am really worried Love you anyways.Mom
UPDATE: Go see the whole “postcards from yo momma site“. Utter and complete hilarity. Made my day.
While we’re having a laugh, an awesome lolcat from this week:
see more crazy cat pics
For the past couple of months, I’ve been taking advanced cartooning lessons from the very talented and fun Tom Hart. It makes me feel a little bit like I’m starring in one of those “You, too, can draw this turtle!” commercials from my childhood, only because I didn’t know that you could actually take serious classes in this stuff until recently. (Tom teaches cartooning at SVA, btw.) Anyways, it’s the most fun I’ve ever had drawing.
Last night, we were reviewing some sketches I’d been working on for the first comic in a series (hopefully) to be titled “The observed weakness of gravity,” and I can’t tell you how wild and complicated combining images (over which you have ultimate and complete control) and words (see previous parens) is. My sticking point at the moment is that I tend to draw absolutely everything — elements, frames, pages — on the perpendicular. Everything lines up neatly with everything else, which doesn’t necessarily make for a totally engaging visual.
It wasn’t until we were breaking each of the images apart that it hit me why I do this: graphic design. For years and years now, I’ve had it drilled into me that every element in every design, especially in web design, absolutely must make sense in its placement and line up on some sort of grid. Even if that grid is uneven in places, it almost always exists. I’m sure the creative director of the agency I used to work for is thrilled that he’s beaten my subconscious into submission, but I’m stymied.
How does one unlearn all of this training in order to set art and stories free? Onward to breaking off the grid…
Who knew?
I’ve actually done the bike rack one — they were surprisingly speedy and nice. They came out and measured the sidewalk, which wasn’t wide enough in the end, and then emailed me to discuss other options.
Since Easter’s coming, don’t forget to check out Peeps Research.
Update: But wait! There’s more — “Ultimate Peep Show”:
Everyone has their favorite spam subject lines. I just got a new favorite this morning:
From: Laurence Huggins
Subject: edible cuddly people
Now if that doesn’t make you want LOW-PRICING M*(EDS ONLINE, I don’t know what will. It made me think of Chip & Bean.
