As I noted yesterday, Chase is a terrible influence. He is an enabler.

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Here we go—

• 22:03 Chase is going to be a bad influence on my blogging style, I know it. #

When Flickr started hosting video too, the first thing I thought of was something that was essentially a still picture (subject not moving) that existed for 3-10 seconds. Or like in La Jetée, when all of a sudden it’s not a still image you’re seeing. That’s pretentious. Anyway, we have a thing that can take video now, so you will have to deal with my excitement.

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• 18:41 Okay, the collected short stories of Hemingway is not a small book. How do I keep misplacing it? #
• 18:54 Okay seriously. Is there a clear and logical explanation/walk-through of classifying folktales? AT, ATU, whatev. Or a list of common types? #
• 19:49 @jemale—Thanks. That's all I could find too. You'd think, with internet magic, there would be an interactive program. #
• 19:51 @jemale—I was vainly wishing for something like what the Library of Congress has tinyurl.com/55djez which isn't much more, but still. #
• 20:21 Okay, here is where we see if I totally screwed up the site redesign or not. #
• 20:58 So, the new site is up, but now my Wordpress won't work. Assballs. #
• 21:28 Aha, imagine—a FAQ that actually, clearly, solves and explains a problem. #
• 21:57 And with that, my new portfolio site is pretty much up (minus a couple things). From folkart to constructivist. #
• 21:58 Retro-constructivism. Neo-retro-constructivism, if you're going to be picky. Or whatever. I barely went to school. #
• 10:26 Okay world, so apparently you think dudes who wear 2XL tees don't want foppish, all over prints? You are making this difficult. #
• 10:38 @Frenden—Where are they from? Design By Humans has good sizes, but I'm having trouble finding other places. #
• 11:35 Huh. The airbrushed shirt style now tends towards hip-hop, not wolves. #
• 12:38 @LibbyBulloff—I vote not. Never let what you do for work touch what you are. #
• 13:23 @Iron_Spike—Holy shit, that is too rad. Now you can have tiny armies of your own and rule them as a God. That's your favourite thing! #
• 15:07 @strangehours—When they are long enough to be pinned aside, but short enough for forhead fringe, they're a good thing to have. #

I’ve up and redesigned my portfolio site. It’s in a style that I like, but other people might hate. Eh. My business cards are now obsolete, but really the stylings I had before are, like, a precursor to the style there now, y’know—art historically (faintly, I’m sure, but I don’t mind). Anyway, if you see something broken or stupid, let me know.

Below is a screenshot of the opening page. I likes it.

There’s more tinkering to be done (the “Shop” button does nothing), but pretty much there it is.

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For some reason, there is now “Street View” of the Forest Grove/Cornelius area on Google maps. Here is a view of our “Downtown”.  It is a block square, pretty much.  If you look behind you, you may find one of our three (or four) bars and a lotto place. We also have two wine shops where people with these mythical things called “A Living Wage” go to booze it up. 

I am one of those horrible people who leaves hair on the shower wall.  Lately, I sort of started arranging it, like in a wreath or frame shape.  My idea was that there were some interesting arabesque shapes happening there and maybe I’d take a picture of it and extract the patterns.  So today I finally got around to doing that.  Below is a mirrored image, colour-altered, of a month’s worth of hair on my shower wall.

Then, since it’s my day off and I’ve nothing better to do with my morning besides swear at a sewing project, I started digitally painting on the image, and just fucking around.

Jesus, what a waste of time. But hey! Hair was the texture and that is kind of rad.

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Previously.
And before that.

I went on a walk today, getting ideas for a possible typology.  I ended up with some pictures that have nothing to do with the actual project.  Directly, anyway.

There’s more at the set, of course.

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My twitter is not dumping into my LJ, which is a bummer, because you are missing out on absolutely nothing interesting.  Here are highlights though!

• A customer I emailed at work recognised me from the Internet
• It has been confirmed that I have stupidly long arms, longer than co-workers who are taller than me.
  
• Chase's thought: The better our Batman movies, the worse our state of politics.
• Robots happen.