I shall call her Rhonda.

FREE Tattoo from Shine A Light @ the Portland Art Museum!

Last Friday, Jason Sturgill hosted an exhibit as part of the event, called "Art is Forever". Local artists were called upon to create illustrations based on their favorite pieces in the museum to be turned into tattoos for the visitors of "Shine A Light" to have the opportunity to choose from. I had to show up before the museum even opened to get on the list. But I made it! And thanks to Cheyenne Sawyer (Atlas Tattoo-Portland, OR) here is the result...

Based on the painting "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" by Robert Colescott

Santa María con Lazers.

Short collaging tutorial for Studio Foundations III.

Ave María! Ai! Ai!

These need to exist.

Heather:
Ever hear of Lady Fair Cigarettes?

Romy:
The ones that burn down real fast?

Heather:
Twice the taste in half the time for the girl on the go. I invented the quick burning paper.

Typomaniac.

So, I've been on a documentary kick lately... I recently revisited "Helvetica" and I must say, it was even better than I had remembered; though one does not have to be a complete and utter typomaniac to enjoy this film. Honestly, if you have never even thought about typography once in your life and how it affects the way you perceive just about everything around you, then you are about to get your dome blown into a bazillion little pieces and then put back together again... Oh, and the surgeons report will be typed in Helvetica.

Erik Spiekermann: Extra Interview

This guy is by far my favorite. Anyone who compares a typeface to Nazi's always wins. Here's a wee bit that didn't make it in to the documentary.

Typomaniac 

Spiekermann in his youngerrr-ish days. (unrelated to "Helvetica")

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Best. Postcard. Ever.

"Hamatsa Emerging from the Woods,  Koskimo"

- Photographed by Edward S. Curtis, 1914

Sex, Drugs, & Book Talks.

Chuck Klosterman @ Powells, TONIGHT!

Things I will not tell Chuck:

- How much I idolize him

- How many nerdgasms he's given me over the years

- How I may or may not (I so totally did...) have written him a letter when I was a senior in high school

- My urge to make him a friendship bracelet

- My dreams of spending all night listening to Billy Joel and watching John Cusack movies with him

Things I might mention:
- How he changed my life as a writer and a free-thinker

- That I have a fat doobie in pocket with his name on it if he feels like joining me after the book talk... except I won't use the word "doobie" cause thats fuckin' lame.

WISH ME LUCK!

"Every time I learn the truth about something, I'm disappointed."

Mickey Mouse Operation

Download this album, I insist.