After a while, you can get a feel for what a color will look like just by reading the 6 letter and number combination preceded by # that you use in web design known as the hexadecimal color value. Here’s how (after the jump):
I created a banner in Adobe Illustrator, a pretzel cart in Google SketchUp, and then laid out a presentation with Adobe InDesign to show to the client.
Pretzel cart mockup 1
Pretzel cart mockup 2
Pretzel cart mockup 3
I haven’t drawn anything in a while, so I spent the day at work doing some drawings on my iPad. This is probably the best one from that day.
I made this from tracing a photo using SketchBookX for the iPad
A mosaic of a nude from painting I rendered from a photograph I took.
My work Lego Nude – which is, well, a nude rendered in Legos – won the People’s Choice Award at the Del Mar Fair. But, it didn’t even win an honorable mention with the judges.
So I’m going to interpret that result as demonstrating that I am too cutting edge for the establish hegemony, and chalk this up as further validation of my status as the preeminent post-post-modern art genius.
I also have had another work of art from my wallpaper series on display of a pigeon on a coffee table at Caffe Trieste that I call “Trieste Regular.”
My work will be was on display at the 2011 Del Mar Fair now through the end of the fair on July 4th.
Pointing out that yes, I did in fact get the People's Choice Award on the 3rd day of the show.
Showing off my painting at the Fair.
I participated in a Photomarathon on October 17th. Here is the page of photos from everyone who participated.
We had to take 12 images on 12 given topics, in the same order that the topics appear on the list given to us on the day of the event. The 12 topics were:
And here’s what I came up with:
1. Inside Out: I started out the day with an oil change. I paid an extra $25 for this oil system cleaner. I think I was ripped off.
2. Infected: While I waited for the oil change, I went to the mall and tried to find the grossest thing I could in a toy store.
3. Flavor: A barbeque at my brother's house. That's him in the background, and he made this sauce. That's my girlfriend Vanna Whiting the sauce.
4. Drama: Why cry over bad wine?
5. Twenty Six: After the barbeque, we went to Stone Brewerey. My first time! I only had 26 cents for the tip, but my brother had a friend that worked there, so we used the employee discount (half off) and that ended up being the tip.
6. My Secret: The back yard of the brewery has an amazing secret garden! You can't see it until you get inside, and in fact the brewery itself just looks like an office building with a large parking lot when you first pull up.
7. Seeing Double: These were really strong beers imbibed at the brewery. I was seeing double by the end of the night.
8. The path: Still at Stone Brewery, there was this beautiful path that went over a river. I think there were Coi fish in it.
9. Highs and Lows: After we left the brewery, it was on to a night club. High-brow mixed drink vs. low-brow Pabst.
10. Bird's Eye View: There's a bird in this poster. See it?
11. World in Motion: At the club, things were spinning in motion.
12. Self Portrait: Me with my phone with my phone.
I have to teach taught a class next week in Flex, so I had to study up. For a project to do in class, I made a photo gallery based off the book I am using Learning Flex 4. I populated it with my photography. Take a look.
Logo I designed for Argent LLC
This is the 4th or so time I’ve designed a logo, and again, it wasn’t the job description. I was just making a web site. It’s pretty cool though.
The company does asset protection, which is to say, they make it so people that have a bunch of money keep their money.
Argent is the silver color used in family crests.
I used a shield to reference a coat of arms and to symbolize trustworthiness and protection. The color argent shows up in crests usually as white, so I employed a lot of white in the logo (the grey background is not part of the logo).
I wrote a blog post about Evernote.
It’s a thing that lives on the web and organized the junk drawer that is your mind.
Wrote this little thing to get my Flash chops up.
So I had to teach a class today on Flash. No biggie, right? Wrong.
A lot has changed since the 90s. ActionScript 3.0 won’t let you put scripts on buttons anymore. Which makes a lot of sense, because I was always loosing where I put my scripts (part of the reason I abandoned Flash so long ago). So it’s a little cleaner, but now everything has to be a function. Meh.
Here’s a little project I did to learn/remember how to make buttons do their thing. You click on one thing, it goes to another frame and stops. Click another thing and there’s a little animation with sound. And click one other thing and it links to a web page.
Hello. I’m just blogging to tell you that I blogged. I’ll probably I tweeted about it too.
Here’s the article. It’s about a new thing that lets you crowdsource or be crowdsourced. It’s called AirRun and it’s an iPhone app.