My tailoring gig for Self Edge has been crazy lately. We’ve opened online orders to our chainstitched hemming, and my work load has nearly tripled. I tailored 25 pairs of jeans just yesterday, which left my hands stained with an indigo dye, but also earned me enough to finally purchase a pair of the very [...]
I bought a Gocco at a yard sale last year and never got a chance to use it, but since I ran out of the last of my silkscreened shipping supplies, I decided to dust it off and put it to use for the very first time. All the directions were in Japanese, but the [...]
This week’s HipTrax podcast (on Wired’s GeekDad blog) features my song Weapons Grade Porpoise. The whole episode is worth checking out, it’s just the right length. This week’s theme is instrumental songs by nerds, check it out here.
Weapons Grade Porpoise is one of the instrumental’s off of my new album Me Geek Pretty One Day. [...]
Cupcakes have totally jumped the shark, but I don’t mind ’cause they are so fun to draw. I feel like I’ve been ignoring my drawing side this year, so I decided to get some practice. I don’t do much computer art, but I’ve always wanted to create a style that sort of mixes my pen [...]
Here is a comic I illustrated for a recent 826 Valencia field trip:
Scott Beale recently handed me a sticker that his friend from StickerGiant.com made. The sticker is an embroidered version of the Laughing Squid logo, and it looks great. Since there are only a few of these (10?), I was a little hesitant to just put it anywhere. Finally decided to just go ahead and sew [...]
What would you do if critics repeatedly chided you as a “misogynist”? Dave Sim, Cerebus creator and publisher of one of the longest running independent comics of all time, decided the best way to handle such a situation was to send out a form letter requiring anyone who wished to correspond with him to fill [...]
Once again it’s time for Maker Faire at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. As makers from across the globe gather in the Bay Area, it will certainly be interesting to see what effects social sites like Twitter and Dodgeball will have on how people organize throughout the weekend.
Last year I traversed the faire with my mighty [...]
My friend Paul Nathan has recently posted a video of his tour of the Distilleries Françoise Guy, one of the oldest absinthe distilleries in the world. The video follows the process from anise to absinthe. Paul has also posted a great blog about the tour on his Myspace blog.
If you live in the Bay, check [...]
