Archive for June, 2008

Hellavetica- hand drawn font
Friday, June 27th, 2008

Helvetica is tearing our country apart. Some people love it, others not so much. Critics say that Helvetica is overused (in fact, you may have seen it on Nestle Bars, American Airlines planes, or Crayons), but I love it’s elegant design and nostalgic appeal.
So I created my own hand drawn version of Helvetica that [...]

Nerdcore For Life in SF
Friday, June 27th, 2008

Nerdcore For Life, the documentary about nerd and geeks and the hip hop that they make is finally coming to San Francisco! Although I haven’t seen it yet, I do know that several of my (Drown Radio’s) tracks where used for the soundtrack and my interview made it into the film. w00t!
The film will only [...]

iPac
Friday, June 20th, 2008

This illustration is either a "hellavant critique of consumer culture" or an excuse to draw kitsch.
Possibly a little from column A and a little from column B.
Mike and I were brain storming yesterday morning about a flier for an upcoming nerdcore show and I said that since the show was the same day that [...]

Craft Out Loud
Monday, June 16th, 2008

Introducing the LOL-let! The worlds first wallet featuring my patented “laugh out loud” technology.
You see the secret to the LOL-let is the appliqued (and embroidered) two “L”s and one “O” which are guaranteed to generate generous gobs of giggles and guffaws. [guarantee only valid in some scandinavian countries].
LOL-lets are available through my Etsy site or [...]

Matt Mahaffey playing with himSelf
Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Check out this recently uploaded video of Self’s Matt Mahaffey playing a one man band version of AC/DC’s “Back In Black” on drums and Omnichord. I’ve never heard an Omnichord run through guitar distortion before, but the effect is extremely rocking. After I watching more live Self videos, I realize he’s been using them for [...]

Not all of ideas can be winners…
Thursday, June 12th, 2008

but I was really hoping that pan fried cracker-cheese-sandwiches would go into the “good idea” annals of history.

WWTC?
Monday, June 9th, 2008

With the Apple’s highly anticipated World Wide Developers Conference starting today, the question on everyone’s mind is, of course, “When Will Twitter Crash?”. In a recent blog post, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that Twitter expects site traffic to increase up to ten-times it’s daily use as real time news starts to leak from the [...]

It’s official, Cupcakes have Jumped the Shark!
Friday, June 6th, 2008

Based on the fun we had creating the Fail flickr set, I’ve created a new flickr group with a whole new meme. Cupcakes Have Jumped the Shark is an open group for anyone to post illustrations of cupcakes jumping over sharks. Any style is accepted, but color illustrations are preferred. So far 9 artists have [...]

Me Gocco Pretty One Day
Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Saturday night I attended (and performed) at Scott Beale’s Laughing Squid Lucky 13 Party. I got there early with my friends Irina and Mike to do the soundcheck and get ready for the show. During the down time, Mike and I decided to print some inserts for my mini-comics and hand them out during the [...]