Nothing gold can stay.

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Fuckfuckfuckfuck I kind of want a tumblr. I love Blogger, I've used it since 2007, but Blogger is just not where it's at. Tumblr is where it's at and I want to be where it's at. And it's at Tumblr. Well. There may be some changes coming up.

This is my life. Well, I mean, for a day or two.

You know, for being the "Mecca" of everything that's hip and cool, you would think Brooklyn's Arts Council would have a logo that wasn't depressingly dull.

Forget the mark, look at that capital/lowercase letter hash-up. What the fuck Brooklyn?

I'm not one to dish out criticism, but this is pretty terrible.

Used to working with 8.5x11 inch documents, 11x17 inch documents, but 20,520 square foot documents? Not so much.

THAT'S LIKE...THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF 10 HOUSES.

All right! Never seen them preform live but I hear it's legendary.

OH YEAH WELL I HAVE TO MAKE MY BOSS'S LUNCH AND SHE WANTS A SALAD WITH GRAPES IN IT AND SHE DOESN'T LIKE GRAPE SKINS SO I HAVE TO SKIN ALL THE GRAPES AND RAISINS. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO SKIN RAISINS?!

King guy!

I love this guy. Everything about this illustration is just right, and the setting/circumstances are just vague enough to let your imagination wander as to where exactly this little boy is and what he's doing. Such a nice illustration.

Desktop by Irma Kniivila

20 million mountains.

I was dreaming of the past and my heart was beating fast.

Marques on Black Cab!

So Just found out that Marques got his own Black Cab Session! Super proud.

We don't have a long history, but he lived in St. Augustine for a few years and was a usual suspect at the guy's house on Kieth Street, back when that was the place you went after classes and on the weekends. He was naked a lot of the time and was fond of sandwiches and paid rent for quite awhile by playing violin on Hypolita for spare change.

Two years ago he moved to NYC and has since performed with Grizzly Bear, TV on the Radio, and Dirty Projectors. He travels to England all the time and has pretty much made it as a performer.

So while I'm not a close friend, I feel like I know him well enough to be like "HEY I KNOW THAT GUY".

Found one.

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest will be the most jammin' forest EVA.

(Not, you know, because it isn't already.)

All I can think about recently is the night last summer when my family and I slept under the stars in the middle of a field in Zion National Park. Let me tell you, there is absolutely nothing like the deafening roar of silence you hear in the wilderness. Staring at thousands of stars, stationary and shooting. Just in your sleeping bag. Gets ungodly hot during the day but chilly at night. The smell of wet grass surrounding you in the morning. Ohhh so good. I wish I was back there right now.

I've spend a fair amount of time in national parks in the west (California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada) and I haven't found anything more satisfying than being completely isolated from everything I've ever known.

Even more of a sign that I need to move out there sometime soon. Oregon might be a little ways off, but a 5 hour bus ride for some national park'n would beat a 3.5 hour flight with 8 hours of drive time any day.

July 2010 has been my most active blogging month evr. Not that there's anything else to say about that, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

My friend Ashley Smith is turning a few of my robot doodles into cross stitchings! She finished the first one tonight. How awesome is that? It's always exciting to be involved in projects such as this, projects where people further simple ideas of your own. I'm anxious to see the rest.

Badabing.

Another poster! Coming right up. Hand-drawing this one, going to make some cool illustrations and letters and everything. I'm already happy with it and it's only about half done.

Is Neutraface's "N" supposed to be warped like this? It appears as if it is. What ze heck?

House Industries: Yes, those are ink traps in the text weights so it doesn't clog/get heavy in the joins at small size. Not in the display.

Ah, I knew there was a logical reason.