Photoshop Class

For the last project in our photoshop class we had to style our name. This is what I did:

Weeds Only Grow When We Dislike Them

My dorm room gets incredibly hot now that they turned all of the air units to only go on heat. We keep the window open at all times. I can hear people shouting outside my window at all hours of the night, and bugs come in our room all the time because we don't have a screen. I looked into my lamp one time to find a pile of dead ladybugs. At first, I was really annoyed with the bugs. When one would fly around me I would get angry and be all like, "How dare you fly all up in my space!" Or if a fly would land on me, the small tickling feeling that it would make when it walked around would get on my nerves soo much. But with time I realized how meditating on insects could be a great way to become aware of the way we resist the current moment, and therefore complicate our experience.

The annoyance that occurs from the tickling of an insect isn't the actual tickling thats annoying, it's the story that we attach to it. For example: say you are with a lover, and they begin to tickle you with a feather. The physical sensation that arises is actually incredibly similar to that of a fly, but we think of it as a pleasant experience because it is our lover doing the tickling. We tend to overcomplicate our experiences and therefore lose mindfulness of what is actually really happening in the now.

Kim Jong So Ill

Illustrator Class

I just finished my Learning Adobe Illustrator class. These are a couple of the projects that I did in the class.

Stiff upper lips make it damn hard to smile

It's been a rough few weeks, with an intense amount of work that's not interesting enough to post up here. In the little amount of free time that I do have, I've been able to make some art, that's slightly more interesting. I've also been able to participate in The Sketchbook Show put on by the Winthrop Society of Illustrators. It was a cool, very casual show, where we all made photocopies of pages from our sketchbook, and then hung them up on the walls in the gallery. We basically covered the walls from top to bottom with sketches. Then at the end of the show, they allowed people to take any of the sketches they liked to keep. I didn't get to stay for the end of the show, which was a shame since I had my eye on that sketch of xzibit...

Any way, here's a picture that I managed to find of some of my work in the show. I didn't manage to think about taking any while I was there. I've got a few more things to post, but there's just no documentation yet. So don't get your panties in a wad, they'll be up soon enough. It won't be another month, promise.

Treat Yoself

About a week ago was the SRSLY? Records show at the Elbow Room. Kneesmith and I made shirts for SRSLY and a couple of their bands, enjoyed a great show, and got to meet a lot of cool new people.

Here are a couple of shirts that we made:

Hello Tomorrow

Sweet Vans

Portrait of the Artist

I've got a couple of friends who are doin big things in the clothing business, and I thought I could work on my portraiture and help promote them a bit at the same time. Two birds with one stone. So just click the picture to be taken to their site/blog.

Ade Gee: founder of Cool Micer

Zach Greenway: founder of Milkman Clothing