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Halloween: Colonel America
After talking about it for the last couple of years, my son finally committed to being Colonel America for Halloween.
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Great news! I’m a guest at VisionCon
Fantastic news, for the first time ever I will be an official guest at a con! I am one of the guests at VisionCon in January, in Springfield, Missouri (website at www.visioncon.net). Along with Brian Keene, Mike Oliveri, Cullen Bunn and a bunch of other folks. I went last year, Read more…
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The whole last week: KillerCon, accidents, and art
It’s definitely been an interesting couple of weeks, and to start things off here’s how last week (Sunday evening) started: Out in Colorado here we call that, “turning on a green arrow”. Basically, we get the green turn arrow (everyone else gets red), we start turning and BLAMMO!, other party Read more…
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Conventions: Where I’ll be
It turns out that, despite having a new house, I do have the money to hit a couple of upcoming cons.
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Fun with Textures
I tend to experiment quite a bit with different ideas and looks, but here’s a general usage idea for textures.
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Cheap lamp + skull = anatomy reference
With a little wiring around certain parts, and a cheap lamp, BANG! Anatomical skull reference
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New Wallpapers from my photos
For my day job, we’ve used a number of my photos for computer wallpapers.
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New wallpapers of my work
Just in case anyone out there wants them (I’ve had a question here and there on it), I saved a number of my art pieces as computer downloads.
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Photos from the trip
This is sort of an entry about the trip I just went on to Texas, and sort of showing off a bit of photography, so bear with me.
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Graphic design: my red-headed step child
Most people that know me outside of family (both of you, you know who you are) know me as an artist. But by day, and sometimes even at night, I am also a graphic designer. Sometimes that means signs, or books, or even logos, which is the topic for today. Read more…
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Geeking out on the new Canon
It’s just a point-and-shoot Canon 880, but it’s a far more advanced camera than my 4 1/2 year old Kodak. It takes some pretty decent shots, and I think it’ll be a good camera overall. A few shots… This one shows off the macro ability, which the Kodak never had Read more…
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Portland, Oregon
I just returned from a very long trip to Portland, and I snapped a few pics for the website. As always, if you have any comments just let me know on my MySpace or LiveJournal. I like old signs, especially the faded ones on the sides of buildings: I also Read more…
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New wallpapers for Scratch
I created a few computer desktop/wallpapers from the art that I did for Brian Keene’s Scratch. Here they are below: Download here Download here Download here
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So I went to Yellowstone…
While we were in Yellowstone, the Tetons and Montana for vacation I snapped a few pics. Here are a few selections below for your enjoyment. The first one here is an abandoned attraction near Casper, Wyoming, that I visited as a kid. Hell’s Half Acre was always a cool stop Read more…
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Watch out for boards and nails
I’m not quite finished moving things over from the old server, hopefully that will be done this evening. Adding links, putting in art gallery pages again, all the stuff that makes moving a website so wonderful. At least installing WordPress again was easy enough.