Have gotten off track with the letter illustrations. Here’s D.
Author Archives: Jesse
West Wing and House of Cards
Curious how Netflix released The West Wing on watch-instant a month before their series House of Cards premieres. Using content as advertisement. Sneaky… And smart.
Gumption Traps
I’m almost done with Robert Pirsig’s Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I’m finding it to be extremely relevant, despite being written 40 years ago. Just came across this wonderful line:
“Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody’s in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country.”
The line seems out of character in this book, it’s not an anti-progress manifesto, a great deal of it is devoted to extolling the virtues of technology. But for some reason this line captivated me. I think it just captures really captures the essence of a lot of what has been bothering me about our culture. Which is not to say there aren’t a lot of positive changes happening. But there’s a certain satisfaction when you learn that someone else is bothered by that thing that you felt was just gnawing away at you.
Chatsworth’s Senior Photo
I recently got my first DSLR, a used Canon 30D. I was playing around a bit with it this weekend. My sister wanted some photos of her friend Chatsworth, so we got a senior photo style pic of him. I combined it with a stock photo to create this:
I want to be on a mountain. Still need to edit photos from my trip to Tuscon, but here’s one of them.
Tucson
I’ve been wanting to use Illustrator more, so I’m starting a new project inspired by Typefight. I’m going to work my way through the alphabet, creating an illustration for each character. The idea is to mess around with different styles and effects, learning about Illustrator in the process. I cheated a bit on this first one and used Photoshop as well, but the basis of the Illustration came from AI. Anyway, here’s the first in the series (you guessed it: A).
