no fear new year

happy new year, everyone.

here's to good health and good wealth,
and to a new set of opportunities.

let the new year bring no fear.

other people's xmas gifts

i have been designing and hand-making my co-worker's gifts for their children, who happen to be about my age...but, i've got nothing better to do at work, so why not.

my one co-worker bought her son tickets to a basketball game, reservations for a hotel room, and a gift certificate to a restaurant. and since everything was just paper print outs, she wanted to make a book to put everything in. this way, her son would have something to open. and i liked this idea. so she asked me to design it.

these were some things i found while doing some research:

i immediately fell in love with that second poster when i saw it.

so this is what i made. this is just the cover, i am not posting all the pages. that's just for her son to see.

i've decided i like designing in a way that looks like a silk-screened poster. i love the layering, and the transparencies, and the masking-off of areas to use blocky/chunky elements. i use the computer to make my things look as lo-fi as possible...

hot fuzz: the greater good

-intro personality description*
-certificates on wall
-400% ↑ arrest record → badass**
-moved to sarg but gets transferred
-always suspicious
-underaged drinking vs the greater good
-detective andrews
-swear box
-"you've got a mustache"
-neighborhood watch alliance
-living statue
-side-kick: dumpy, dumb
-notebook: "the most important piece of equipment you'll ever own"
-side kick steals Angel's thunder :
        "b/c we just sat thru 3 hours of acting and the kiss was the most convincing part"
-can't switch off & doesn't get it
       → the dynamic duo**(+)
-curious to know what movies they watched as research. seems a little long, not sure why.
-only way you can win is to not play by the rules
→...but the consequence is: you go crazy.
-also, ride bad-ass horse, if available
-kicking in doors
-firing guns whilst running
-police chase, shoot out
-a considerable amount of paperwork
-explosions


*dialogue went too quickly to catch everything. meant to find it online, but can't.
**no longer sure what i meant by this note.
(+) i think this meant that if you reduced the 2 characters down to a phrase, you have the main character: named "can't switch off", and the side-kick: named "doesn't get it"

well, this one wasn't exactly fair because i really like simon pegg and crew. but i don't know why the few times i've watched it, i either fall asleep, or resist the urge to. it just seems a little too long...but i can't figure out what could be taken out. it's like, you already know going in how it is going to end for the most part, and it just takes too long to get to that point. it's well done though, and it's funny. and compared to the others i've watched and have yet to watch, i know this will be one of the best. i just get bored a bit.

it gets an A-

merry merry

here's this year's x-mas card.

enjoy the abundant left-over cookies, cakes, and sweets
brought in by your lovely co-workers.
and have a good one.

seasonal depression, cure for

roughBM

i've been running through old work files,
killing time at work,
and came across these.

it was for the first big project i worked on.
a case about a guy
who was in a car accident,
and the seat belt caused
a perforation in his intestines.

but, the doctors weren't able
to find the tear right away,
they just knew blood was coming
from somewhere.

anyway,
feces,
or poop,
ended up leaking from this tear
and cementing his intestines together.
and i was lucky enough to draw
this whole process.

so these sketches,
is me trying to
figure out how best to illustrate:
intestines floating in blood,
intestines floating in stool like fluid,
and intestines cemented together.

it's a pretty silly series of drawings.
what's even funnier are the file names.

revisions

i am starting to get some work together for a show i'd like to have,
hopefully in the spring sometime.
this is a draft of one of those pieces i'd like to include.
it's all the revisions for a project i worked on, minus the text.
i'd like it to be tapestry-esque.
either a large scale print,
or if i get ambitious enough,
a fabric piece of some sort.

screwed the hooch

-exercise equipment
-ocd
-carl otis winslow
-"the key to the entire system"
-glasses
-suit jackets
-badge
-2001: a space odyssey soundtrack
-anger issues, yells a lot
-leaving for new job in 3 days, stays b/c old dude murdered (spoiler alert)
-hooch woulda been shot in a second
-hanks likes being in his undies
-dog is an alcoholic
-radiator
-drugs
-no warrent

bad bad movie. painful to watch, in fact, got up and made dinner during last 20 minutes of it. didn't have to be a cop movie about an ocd fella, and a crazy dog. the only thing saving the movie is tom hanks' yell talking...which made me laugh every time.

if this movie was on tv...would i watch it: no
rating: D

dirty notes from harry

-sunglasses...holders(?)
-note pad
-ransom note (...possibly done in kid style sgraffito with crayons...)
-no nonsense personality
-sweater vests (?)
-"211 in progress"
-"just wait til the calvary arrives"
-wrist watch
-leather elbow patches on suit jacket
-gun hostlers
-helicopter noises
-type writer
-coffee maker
-dixie cups...with handles (see drawing)
-ambulance noises
-possible names: harpo renzuli, groucho rodriquez
-map of county
-wood paneling
-binoculars (?)
-shotgun noises
-photos of victims
-plants: either fake or dead
-coat rack
-portraits of family members
-scotch tape...to tape awesome weapons to legs
-"...the girl dies." phone calls from killer
-bus pass from when killer makes them run around
-...and inhaler (?)
-ripped pants from climbing fences
-button up w/ bullet holes thru sleeve
-hospital bills
-wallet id badge

chico...not in the movie very much
harry callihan: badass
scorpio: too weird of a killer, wasn't believable, too sloppy. weird facial expressions

did enjoy 'didn't get a warrent, so he walks' route, and that scorpio then tried to use that to his advantage and had someone beat him up to make it look like harry did it.

overall solid: B+

research

movies

die hard 

lethal weapon

catch me if you can

seven

beverly hills cop

police academy

glengarry glen ross

turner and hooch

tango and cash

dirty harry

robo cop

nypd blue

macgyver

cop rock

miami vice

cape fear

reservoir dogs

cagney and lacey

hans delbruck

i drew this at work yesterday to kill some time.

not totally convinced i truly captured the creepiness of igor,

or how proud of himself he is for finding hans delbruck's brain...

but, considering this was the first portrait i've drawn in some time,

i'm pretty pleased.

i drew this because

i've been craving this movie,

and i figured if i thought about it hard enough,

my wish would come true. 

layers: work in progress

i got so bored at work today,
i started highlighting all
the answers in my word search book
on tracing paper,
and layered them together
to make these:

i'm only 4 puzzles in.
this will continue.

friz

this is beautiful.

funky butt lovin'

i guess i can post these now
since the case is over
and the guy didn't even use them!?!?

clean up

i was so tired at work the other day,
i decided to clean up
to keep moving,
so i would not fall asleep.

and i found these
little forgotten about
doodle gems


i remember writing this down
after reading an article
back when i first started 'working.'

this was a more recent cure-for-boredom.
although, i don't remember doing this.

this.

i remember 

dressing myself for work half-awake.

and not realizing until i got into work 

that i had put socks on 

over a set of tights i had on.

and my brain felt the need to draw this,

instead of taking one of the pairs off.

i've ripped one

every time i sleep for an unusually long period of time, i think of rip van winkle. so i did some research because the last time i read the story was back in gradeschool.

so.
here are some images:

and here's the wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle

rock island line

i'm going to have this song stuck in my head all day.

twist and shout

i have been lovin' some timber timbre laterly.

is it possible to give multiple thumbs up to a song on pandora?
this one'd get 7 thumbs up.

dennis and tim, amen.

i hunger

brickah brackah

niagara falls, frankie angel

i was watching the santa clause with my aunt this morning.

she asked me what my favorite christmas movie was.
after some thought,
the answer was clear:

bowling

my company is having a christmas bowling party this evening. 

getting pumped up