Snowglobe - Teenage Queen from holycowboy on Vimeo.
Snowglobe + Antenna Shoes
My friend David Harris sent me this video that he shot for Snowglobe, a Memphis band with ties to Tim Regan. Their guitar player is wearing the Antenna Shoes shirt that I designed for Tim (if you can use a word like "designed" for a bad drawing of a surfing pizza). The idea of a piece of pizza surfing while eating a piece of pizza isn't originally mine - I've heard tales of someone with a tattoo depicting such a scene. Never seen it myself though.You can buy a surfing pizza shirt for yourself (or check out Antenna Shoe's music, which is great) at their myspace page.
The Canon AE-1 Program
Over the weekend I dusted off Abigail's Canon AE-1 P. It has a 50mm prime lens, and a fully automatic shutter/aperture setting.I think there's a light leak somewhere, a couple photos that had been sitting at the front of the roll for the last year were streaked and blown out. Other than that it takes nice pictures. I found a 24mm wide angle lens for $40 on Ebay, so I'm going to start shooting with it a little and see how it goes.
Hey, Neighbor
We're working on issue 19 of GOOD Magazine, which is going to be all about neighborhoods. In the neighborly spirit, we're asking for people to help us with the issue.There's some pretty cool opportunities there - you can help us with the cover (we're curating a studio on Society 6 for that purpose), you can submit photos of your neighborhood (we're partnering with Pictory for that) or you can just send us ideas about neat things.
The illustration to the left is something I made for the inaugural Neighborhoods post -- I kept working on it after it went up on GOOD, however, which is why this one has a bit of texture and the one at GOOD.is doesn't. Ohh well.
Ahoy
We're playing a show on Feb. 19th in San Diego. Here's a poster. We found that wooden ship on the side of Benedict Canyon Rd. on the way to rehearsal one night in 2007.The typeface is Hannah by You Work For Them.
Leafburgers
Illustration for Michael Keating's latest post on high protein wheat gluten over at GOOD.
Maybe Robots Won’t Eat You
New illustration for the final Singularity 101 post at GOOD - a reading list for futurists. I'd like to read some of these books, if I can find the time.
Bruges
Somewhere between Bruges and Ghent
Paris, Rue Soufflot looking west
The Pantheon, Paris
Grand Trianon, Versailles
From the top of the Centre Pompidou
Les Invalides
Near Rue Dauphine, 5th Arrondissement
Westminster Abbey, Henry VII Chapel
More Euro Photos
I finally pulled some photos off of my Fuji point-and-shoot.
My Grandma E passed away last week. There are 6.7 billion people on Earth, and she was one of the best.
I’m not sure what to say about her passing, other than that I will miss her and remember her forever. My sister wrote an incredibly eloquent passage about Grandma, which I’m copying from her blog and pasting below.
“As a journalist, I have met and interviewed hundreds of people. My grandmother, Marion Prellwitz Etling, surpasses any and every volunteer, political fundraiser, church-goer, hospital employee, mother, wife, and grandmother with her saintliness. I list all these walks of life because these were part of her wonderfully active existence. We lost her last night after a long illness.
I know she would object to that characterization, saintliness, but to anyone who knew her even a little bit, and even to some who didn’t know her at all, she was the sweetest, kindest, most friendly person in the world. My grandmother, in her 82 years, mastered the art of friendship. She truly knew how to care.
She cared not just about friends or family, as some do, but about strangers. She cared about relatives from Germany she barely knew who would show up on her doorstep with a half hour’s notice on their vacations to California. She cared about the members of her church congregation, the people on her Meals on Wheels route, the residents of the Lutheran Home where she was nursing director and most of all, she cared about her family.
My grandmother, more than any other role model in my life, taught me how to be among people. She taught me that a friendly smile and a sparkle in your eye can say more than many, many words. She taught me to never give up, no matter how awful the medical challenge or personal situation might be. And she taught me to imagine. Playing house or hospital or restaurant or chauffeur at her house were among the best times of my childhood.
I have made it a point in my life to spend time with my grandmother whenever it has been possible, and we talked many times about how lucky we were to have so many Sundays playing Scrabble together. I will never ever forget those wonderful afternoons, and know that no one who met Marion Etling will ever forget her.
Grandma, I love you. Thank you for being such a great part of my life.”
Grandma E
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It’s the Bliiimp
Back at work. This is for Ben Jervey's latest column at Good.is, on whether or not the United Nation's climate change process is a dead duck.
