I'm doing stuff.

Fun Stuff...

2009-11-05T10:24:00.000-08:00

I have admiration for Google and their fun nature. It really never ceases to put a smile across this sullen face of mine when they pay tribute to a special day or occasion. Keep it up Googlers and Nooglers! (that's what they call their new employees, while making them wearing propeller beanies.) Haha, so good!

Wine anyone?

2009-11-04T14:27:00.000-08:00

Quite amazing the things we figure out how to do...

Great concept! Inspired...

2009-11-04T14:23:00.001-08:00

I miss being creative...

2009-08-05T16:17:00.001-07:00

Was digging through my old stuff and found these fun concepts that the client loved but they never went anywhere due to budget and media buys. Ah, money, getting in the way of fun again.

Art directed some photography...

2009-08-05T16:08:00.000-07:00

Big up to the main Bill Furnish aka Furndog! Great guy to work with and I forgot how fun this shoot was and how great the shots came out.... Check them out...Eh, their new site could use the same love... Haha. Maybe I'll try to mix myself up in that.

http://www.parknewportapts.com
http://www.parknewportapts.com/Apartments/module/photos/property%5Bid%5D/3825/

I like bodyboarding....

2009-08-05T16:05:00.000-07:00

This is from May 09... First wave of the set, first wave in the water at Wedge, Kind of a weird shot, or angle but it's still fun. Courtesy of Tom Cozad. www.newportsurfshots.com

Painting...Coming Soon!

2009-08-05T15:48:00.000-07:00

Nick Williams took this photo. I'm doing another painting of this style for him.... Soon to come, Attack of the 50ft. Woman!

Another great and inspiring piece...

2009-01-28T11:08:00.000-08:00

The final product is a mind-blowing 24″ x 36″ screen print with an edition of 100 and a price of only $60. It took him approx six months to ink... Quite impressive and inspiring, or maybe daunting is the word I'm looking for haha.

http://www.anville.net/

Some inspiring (and hilarious) wallpapers...

2009-01-23T13:26:00.000-08:00

Just for fun, here ya go...

my new little signature...

2009-01-23T13:23:00.001-08:00

courtesy of wacom...

Final Progress (I think...)

2009-01-23T12:56:00.000-08:00

I think Oris is finally finished....

Eh, either way I'm happy with him, enoji.

Postscript Addition...

2009-01-21T11:27:00.000-08:00

Today is that beautiful girl's birthday. Her name, Alicia. But people around us have coined the term Alizide. Although silly, and tabloid inspired, I love my friends. I also love Alicia. I bought her a fine piece of jewelry, and delivered flowers to her office, and am taking her off to dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse for a meal not easily forgotten. So she can beam that beautiful perma-smile around the room for everyone to see. Amazing.

Progress...

2009-01-21T11:14:00.000-08:00

I have been doing my best to stay busy. Unfortunately my blog suffered a little around the last quadrant of the year. As far as things go, my boss/AD/good friend got fired just after my last entry, and I met a new girl. Who happens to be the love of my life. Along with my workload doubling, my flash class (in which I got an A and learned stuff) and beautiful young girl hunting me down like the moose that I am, my time filled up rather quickly. Please accept my dearest of apologies. Forgive me Aaron for I have strayed. Below I have a drawing I never finished and with some new found time on my hands I ventured to start drawing, illustrating and painting again. I love the arts, and sometimes, although on a whim, they love me back, periodically. Some progress is being made. Check him out. His name, undetermined. This piece, unfinished. Back to work...

Why Hello There...

2008-09-24T15:29:00.000-07:00

I love MC Bess! I need to draw more.

http://www.mcbess.com/

Examine, explore, invigorate.

Anoter favorite and great book...

2008-09-24T15:25:00.000-07:00

This is an excerpt from the book
"How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer"
(Allworth Press, Publication Date: October 17, 2007)

http://www.graphicdefine.org/issue4/whatruselling

This is a great interview with a great designer and its a good medium to examine and envision why you're off track and how to get back on track as an artist. Some inspiration goes a long way with me.

A really great article / What are you selling, really?

2008-09-24T15:23:00.000-07:00

What are you selling, really?

If you're a creative business or cultural enterprise, you are selling goods or services to customers, whether it's graphic design, fashion, architecture, music, or books.

But what are you selling, really?
Or to put it another way, what is it that the customer is really buying from you?

It's often the case that there is a difference between what you think you are selling and what the customer is actually buying. Customers are often buy into a lifestyle, a feelgood factor, or a 'story'.

The most aware businesses fully understand what the customer is buying from them.

For example

http://www.graphicdefine.org/issue4/whatruselling

Revelation: The truth is a B!tçH....

2008-05-07T15:43:00.000-07:00

Everyone in 'the arts' should read this and pass it along accordingly:

Every day, there are more and more Craigs List posts, and other forum threads seeking "artists" for everything from auto graphics to comic books to corporate logo designs. More people are finding themselves in need of some form of illustrative service.

But what they're NOT doing, unfortunately, is realizing how rare someone with these particular talents can be.

To those who are "seeking artists", let me ask you; How many people do you know, personally, with the talent and skill to perform the services you need? A dozen? Five? One? …None?

More than likely, you don't know any. Otherwise, you wouldn't be posting on craigslist to find them.

And this is not really a surprise.

In this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified mechanics. There are SEVENTY times as many people in the IT field.

So, given that they are less rare, and therefore less in demand, would it make sense to ask your mechanic to work on your car for free? Would you look him in the eye, with a straight face, and tell him that his compensation would be the ability to have his work shown to others as you drive down the street?

Would you offer a neurosurgeon the "opportunity" to add your name to his resume as payment for removing that pesky tumor? (Maybe you could offer him "a few bucks" for "materials". What a deal!)

Would you be able to seriously even CONSIDER offering your web hosting service the chance to have people see their work, by viewing your website, as their payment for hosting you?

If you answered "yes" to ANY of the above, you're obviously insane. If you answered "no", then kudos to you for living in the real world.

But then tell me… why would you think it is okay to live out the same, delusional, ridiculous fantasy when seeking someone whose abilities are even less in supply than these folks?

Graphic artists, illustrators, painters, etc., are skilled tradesmen. As such, to consider them as, or deal with them as, anything less than professionals fully deserving of your respect is both insulting and a bad reflection on you as a sane, reasonable person. In short, it makes you look like a twit.

A few things you need to know;

1. It is not a "great opportunity" for an artist to have his work seen
on your car/'zine/website/bedroom wall, etc. It IS a "great
opportunity" for YOU to have their work there.

2. It is not clever to seek a "student" or "beginner" in an attempt to
get work for free. It's ignorant and insulting. They may be
"students", but that does not mean they don't deserve to be paid for
their hard work. You were a "student" once, too. Would you have taken
that job at McDonalds with no pay, because you were learning essential
job skills for the real world? Yes, your proposition it JUST as
stupid.

3. The chance to have their name on something that is going to be seen
by other people, whether it's one or one million, is NOT a valid
enticement. Neither is the right to add that work to their
"portfolio". They get to do those things ANYWAY, after being paid as
they should. It's not compensation. It's their right, and it's a
given.

4. Stop thinking that you're giving them some great chance to work.
Once they skip over your silly ad, as they should, the next ad is
usually for someone who lives in the real world, and as such, will pay
them. There are far more jobs needing these skills than there are
people who possess these skills.

5. Students DO need "experience". But they do NOT need to get it by
giving their work away. In fact, this does not even offer them the
experience they need. Anyone who will not/can not pay them is
obviously the type of person or business they should be ashamed to
have on their resume anyway. Do you think professional contractors
list the "experience" they got while nailing down a loose step at
their grandmother's house when they were seventeen?

If you your company or gig was worth listing as desired experience, it
would be able to pay for the services it received. The only experience
they will get doing free work for you is a lesson learned in what
kinds of scrubs they should not lower themselves to deal with.

6. (This one is FOR the artists out there, please pay attention.) Some
will ask you to "submit work for consideration". They may even be
posing as some sort of "contest". These are almost always scams. They
will take the work submitted by many artists seeking to win the
"contest", or be "chosen" for the gig, and find what they like most.
They will then usually have someone who works for them, or someone who
works incredibly cheap because they have no originality or talent of
their own, reproduce that same work, or even just make slight
modifications to it, and claim it as their own. You will NOT be paid,
you will NOT win the contest. The only people who win, here, are the
underhanded folks who run these ads. This is speculative, or "spec",
work. It's risky at best, and a complete scam at worst. I urge you to
avoid it, completely. For more information on this subject, please
visit www.no-spec.com.

So to artists/designers/illustrators looking for work, do everyone a
favor, ESPECIALLY yourselves, and avoid people who do not intend to
pay you. Whether they are "spec" gigs, or just some guy who wants a
free mural on his living room walls. They need you. You do NOT need
them.

And for those who are looking for someone to do work for free… please wake up and join the real world. The only thing you're accomplishing is to insult those with the skills you need. Get a clue.

Check out my new & improved...

2007-09-19T10:39:00.000-07:00

Skills that didn't exist before! Web Design, oh my lord what a nightmare you are. Nothing fancy just enough content and solid design to get people what they need and convey the right message.

www.foracivilizeddog.com

www.dribbleforthecure.com

www.imadeyoubuyit.com

And as soon as I get time I will be working on my site and making it do stuff!
Way more stuff than before. New AND improved stuff! So there.

Panic! At the Disco Live concert in DENVER!

2007-08-02T14:24:00.000-07:00

Really is this good every time.

If you had any doubts there it is to digest.

And they do really good covers as well....hehe.

http://fbrplus.com/?v=1-979366810-1019472003

note to self*

2007-07-30T16:43:00.000-07:00

buy longboard. go surfing more often. there's a reason you did it so often before...

2007-07-03T14:29:00.000-07:00

Check out this video: "I lived on the Moon" by Yannick Puig (june2007)

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So Good!

2007-06-29T11:19:00.001-07:00

My little apocalypse pony!!!! Collect all four...

Here's the short, you be the judge.

2007-06-29T01:26:00.001-07:00

CHRIS LANDRETH - Ryan
Uploaded by isivideoblog

I can dig it...

Chris Landreth's - Ryan

2007-06-29T00:59:00.000-07:00

interesting things hes said in his short film,

that won him an Oscar for animated short but inspire me as

I have a brain and thats what happens....

"more shades of Grey than is healthy"

"we should've had children. guess it wasn't meant to be."

"we got vetoed for our costume." (genius)

I like this guy already, but I don't know about the short it seems arbitrary to the thoughts that it inspires where the aesthetic lands there is no meat, it just leaves you open to what he has to say which might explain the character design within the short, and there lies the rub?

the ever tightening seat belts of creative color kill me, what a great representation of creative block and restraint that hinder the artistic mind yet maybe help it? I guess just like everything else its a matter of perspective isn't it?

ahhhh...the clown nd the business man behind the bowler, gotta love thy references...

and then the ultimate reference of as an artist are you just another jerk out on the street begging for spare change? it's rather interesting to me personally but to each their own. Or so I'm told.

De-de-de deep in the night

2007-06-27T18:11:00.000-07:00

oh... you touched my tra-la-la.

It's finally happened...it was only a matter of time.

2007-06-14T01:12:00.000-07:00

I hit rock bottom; and loved every minute of it.

Check Officer Zide's pictures,
and the impending future of our race of
STACHE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ain't hiding it any longer!

Don't cry if you missed it; comeback tour soon to come...

Purchased another URL today....

2007-06-13T14:29:00.000-07:00

Downtime Design Dot Commie

www.downtimedesign.com

"Where boredom & creativity faceplant"

Another facet place for me to experiment with design in all realms, motion, flash, multimedia. As the name suggests it will be used for the design and creative work I do in my downtime. Get it. Got it? Good.

Keep your eyes peeled for new designs and a side of the mind like you've never designed. If my mind was a design studio this is how it would render it's self. "Get ready because here I come."

-zide

...my sentiments exactly...

2007-06-07T16:04:00.001-07:00

It's like a fortune cookie of my own creation...
Keep striving...

Come Show Some Love 4 TS and Post789

2007-06-07T14:04:00.000-07:00

...for my roommate and great musical talent, and his right hand man Taylor "stay grateful" Smith.

It's a great Friday night event, down at Hogue Barmicheal's in Newport Mesa vicinity right by John Wayne!

Come show some love listen to some new breath of music and indulge into a world outside of your own.

Heck you might just expand your mind. Hope to see you there...

BUST IT! Etnies skatepark of lake forest...

2007-06-07T14:00:00.000-07:00

WOW!! frigging sweet spot! Saw it once from of the 241, but andy just brought it to my attention how dope and sizable this park is.....good stuff once again from i am the octopus.

Go get um boys...

ETNIES SKATEPARK OF LAKE FOREST!! BUST IT!

Photosynth & Seadragon!!

2007-06-07T13:42:00.000-07:00

This is an absolutely mind blowing exploration into the technology of the future that changes the way you may view images and content in your digital world. Acquired by microsoft this gentleman speaks of things that are revolutionary in the manner of your digital information intake. He could possibly be pushing microsoft into the foothold they need to stay in the digital lives of it's consumers and users.

Please, for you own sake watch this video;multiple times if need be to understand and witness a truly amazing technological mind explain an interface that could be (hopefully) in the palm of our hands someday in the future. Stunning application and idea!

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/129

"Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar. "Perhaps the most amazing demo I've seen this year," wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007. Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images."

2007-05-31T15:33:00.000-07:00

Funny unoriginal paths of thought?

-Civil war...

what's civil about war? there's nothing proper about it. I guess we have to do what we have do though, right? discuss...

-Friendly fire...

Possibly peyote involved upon the creation of this term. I wouldn't shoot any of my friends; nor my enemies. This reminds me of ninety-nine cent marketing ploy. "Only 299.99!", but Mom it's only two bills...hahaha, the mind is a beautiful thing.

very whack thoughts, that reside in very black plots, mingling with blinking dots, that you see after the mistaken shots... the kind that come from blackouts, and sickening bouts, of friendly fire, but at the root is it just desire? ~az

I'm doing stuff dot com?

2007-05-29T14:01:00.000-07:00

After trudging along in my own little plan to create a fantabulous digital world I have discovered I was missing a major component. This blog will stand to maintain a cornerstone of my digital world's architecture . Hopefully upon creation and maintenance, I will allow myself that much further growth and insight into creating this little impalpable world; and how this world works and use it to my advantage.

All at the same time while allowing people into my world and vice versa, I hope to further my thoughts, the process derived to gain those thoughts and widen my world and the eye sockets of those in it. Or maybe just the people here in general. Anyway, we'll see.

So I'm doing stuff; so what? Yeah, big deal buddy. Get over it. :) (...jokes & stuff...)

This isn't doing stuff, this is talking about doing stuff.
Time to get to work.