I wanna ROCK!
Jun/090
So having left my copy of rock band 2 at work i started singing I wanna rock which lead me on windy path to the twisted sister music video, and boy is it amazing. The best part is the very start of the song which doesn’t start until 1:22 but the wait is worth it.
Logo Design to Existentialism (that’s right, i spelled it correctly on the first try)
May/090
Today I read an article on psdtuts.com on how to create a logo for whatever reason, the one in the article being a series of how to books all starting with the phrase “how to be a rockstar…” and then whatever the subject was. The article brought you through the whole creative process around creating a logo, everything from broad ideas like what do you want to portray with your logo to say about yourself to specifics whether it would be better to go with a logo that is just text or one with a symbol and how to even choose a name.
The original intent of looking at this site was to help inspire and guide me in making a logo for “iamsonoflars” or even just “son of lars” but the more i thought i realize this might also answer questions i’ve been having on how to define my life… and this just brings up all sorts of memorys of existentialism. To try and be brief i’ve always owned cheap clothes and often worn many free t-shirts because i didn’t want to care about how people judge me and let them define who i am by trying to dress in society’s standards, but now i’m realizing maybe i can still not be defined by society how i’m currently portraying myself isn’t the way i want to define myself. I want to stay true to me but somehow i also want to change and to figure out those changes i almost need to figure out my identity and create a sort of self branding for my everyday life.
Dye
May/090
So i’ve been conisdering dying my hair for a couple months now and a couple weeks ago i gave it an attempt. There are several lessons i learned from this “attempt”; from don’t buy RAW color hair dye because it won’t last to make sure everything is cleared off the sink cause somehow dye will go everywhere. Ok, so those plus don’t take a shower to wash the dye out because it will dye all the skin that it touches on it’s way to the drain were pretty much all the lessons i learned.
So after just a couple weeks my hair is back to it’s normal color, and i guess i shouldn’t have tried dying dark brown hair black just on it’s own so that’s why i’m giving it another shot, but this time something that will hopefully look unnatural and well different while i’m still young.
My plan originally was to attempt black hair with red streaks/ highlights but i’m not really sure how that will look and i’ve trying to do some research into things people have done already. Apparently google just likes to show off photos of emo kids (and yes i realize i might look like one) with all similar colors. I’m looking for more unique hair dying techniques.
Hit the jump to see some images i found with at least something i like in each of them.
One more…
Apr/090
So Eric Decker and I’ve been throwing around the idea to make a new pollo hombre movie now that we’ve both graduated and actually know a bit more about film and compositing and effects. This is my official announcement that i intend to make one more epic pollo hombre film,, and if my random math is correct we are on number VII. I have no idea when or how it’s going to get filmed, but first things first, play with photoshop and start to make posters to let people know, people like YOU!!! This is actually a incredibly blurry photo, i have another i took, but it might be emo, which just makes it awesome because who doesn’t like spanish with tons of teenage angst?
It’s been so long
Apr/090
So the last 3 days i’ve been trying to post things at night and for whatever reason my blog has been down so you’re entitled to a super post.
Ok, first on the agenda, talk about ineternet, check! Next, talk about one of my many side projects i’ve got going on. So I came up with the idea that it would be sweet to paint a skateboard and mount it on my wall as a form of art, then i realized maybe i should get better at painting first until i found this. So i downloaded the jpg and started sketching on top of it. Two of my friends from work are big into skateboarding and if i get this thing finished i’m going to get two printed and add wheels to one and hopefully learn a little about skating and a lot about falling down.
Nice, the screenshot preserved the drop shadow ( i searched google images for “worst drop shadow ever” and the second image was showing off different images with a pictures from behind a naked baby WTF? is that suppose to helps me understand drop shadows better?). Anyway, back on subject, the currently chinese text says horned devil from the river of death, which is the meaning of Stygimoloch, which is the dinosaur.
BTW, while searching for Stygimoloch, i found some sweet robot dinosaurs found at this guy’s blog. Yes, that is a triceratops with gatling guns on it.
That about wraps up things i was trying to do for the past, i’m going to make a new post for what i did last night but consider it apart of the super post because this isn’t that super.
There is something about this that i just don’t like .
I miss the snow
Apr/090
Chris Brennan found this sweet snow-auron, man i wish i did something constructive in the snow now that i live in no snow ville. Hindsight is 20/20.
Happy Birthday Jackie Chan
Apr/091
Ok, so i only have 20 mins left until his birthday is over, but i decided to do a quick post then watch one of the Chan Man’s movies. I also found out he has an action figure and if all goes right with ebay this time i’ll get a Chan man figure and his CD and i’ll be … HIGH UP ON HIGH! You know what i’m talking about.
Discovery of new site i’ll be checking daily
Mar/090
So, the list of sites i check everyday is pretty pathetic, it consists of geekelogie and failblog, and yes, i am embarassed to say so. But now i have one more, abduzeedo. I sumbled on this site while checking out a photo on fffffffffffffffffffffffound. But how i found it is less important then what i found, and if you haven’t clicked that first link already, then you are in for a treat. It’s pretty much a place where you can find new inspiration daily and incase you get really bored or have a really low attention span, you can spend hours looking through the 157 pages of inspiration they’ve already posted. So that was cool, but then, to my suprise, they have a sweet tutorials section with things you want to know how to do in photoshop. I plan on trying to learn as much as possible so i can apply it to work and hopefully learn a crap load because my photoshop knowledge isn’t well established.
Also, this is really tasty. It makes me wish i had soco to mix it with… and friends to keep me from drinking alone… just joking, this way no one will remind me the next day if pants make a vanishing act (has yet to happen).
I need more hadoukens in my code :(
Mar/090
Sometimes i wish coding was more like this…
…and for a bonus, the pickup line i got from my cousin…
“you know they call me hadouken because i’m down right fierce”
Coloring a sketch
Mar/092
So to kick off my projects, i dedicied to work on the idea kris and i came up with. It started when i suggested i wanted a dinosaur in my logo, (why? because as you will soon find out i love dinosaurs). So the idea of the dinosaur in the logo quickly became a robot riding a dinosaur, then making it a pirate dinosaur by adding an eye patch, and then a katana to add some samurai goodness, and why not a laser gun and viking helmet (inaccurately with horns) to top it off. So this is what the 5 min sketch looks like with 10 mins of photoshop coloring.
So while i was making this, i asked myself several questions about what i was doing. Specifically when it go to the end and i asked myself is it terrible that i want to put a dropshadow in this to soften the edges? I decided yes, but when in search of the ethics of dropshadows on the internet and i found this. And then i decided wow, maybe drop shadows are ok, it just has to be done subtly, and then i thought what would benji say, and he’d probably say no, but it’s in there anyway. Then i was going to add a sweet coffee mug stain and some tears to the image, and i decided i’m tired, if someone reads this and wants me to make it better let i will, but as for a sketch, i think it’s pretty sweet.