Airline Colors
Airline Colors
I’ve been flying more than usual lately. Sitting in airports, you get a good look at airline branding. For as much money as they must put into the marketing and collateral of their brand, so little of it stands apart from its competitors. I suppose this makes sense when all they’re really trying to do is appeal to the largest audience possible, and this will always involve snoozers design. I had to go a bit out of the way to try to find airlines that didn’t use only red, white and blue (thanks Lufthansa). Feels good to return to some more "studies."
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Bird 2: Rock Pigeon
The indefatigable Rock Dove a.k.a Rock Pigeon a.k.a “Pigeon” a.k.a a lot of awful names. The quintessential New York City bird is up for today’s small part of the large Birds Of Brooklyn poster set I’m working on. I hope you’ll keep tagging along as I uncover more of the avian element of where I and so many nature lovers call home (even though we should be living somewhere a lot more natural if we’re honest with ourselves). Thank goodness for Prospect Park.
Hard To… Open Stuff
There are things in this world made by nature and made by humans that are not suitable for humans. This is a look at the things that are hard to open.
Stuff Kids Can’t Open:
1. Jam. Jam is tough. It confuses the would-be opener with its stickiness and promising aroma. Adults can typically use logic to get around these distractions.
2. Eggs. Anyone can open eggs, it’s just the usability afterwards that matters. This is where kids fail with eggs.
3. Gym Membership. No gym that’s worth going to is going to let a kid get a membership, so be sure to ask the gym if they’d let a kid off the street sign up for one before you do.
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Stuff Both Adults and Kids Can’t Open:
4. Milk Cartons. Waxy paper paired often with a dire need for its contents makes the carton a hard thing for anyone.
5. Medicine Bottles. No complaining here because this is an important one. I’d rather everybody die than have kids be able to open my medicine bottles better than me.
6. Green Banana. We know this is the best time to eat one, but the bananas know this too, and won’t give up the chalky goodness easily, for anyone.
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Stuff Adults Can’t Open:
7. Kid’s Piggy Bank. Adults can, it is however not advised, especially if it’s a kid you have some responsibility to. Loose-moraled kids will later break your piggy bank for concert or school supply money.
8. New Technological Device. I’m not saying adults can’t do computers, I’m saying they can’t do computers that were released after the year they got a real job.
9. Hot Dog Buns. They make these things for people with dagger fingers or adults with kid-sized hands. Kids can’t even keep them clamshelled, but at least they can get their dog in there.
Hair Brain
I believe my hair is gaining majority control over my brain. Evident after shampooing twice this morning, one application on top of the other, already lathered and shaped to my daily specifications. I need to haircut shop. Which celebrity’s photo should I take to my lady?
Prints!
Get all the fab four. Put George in the dining room, Paul in the den, or all of them in your quiet place. A set of four 8"x10" giclee prints (300gsm, 100% cotton, bright white, matte). What a present... to yourself (or someone else). Get 'em here!
March - Hellboy.
Continuing the 2015 calendar project, this month we have the incomparable style of Mike Mignola. By far my favorite comic artist and writer. Here we have HB and Kate Corrigan enjoying a bowl of ramen at Chuko in Prospect Heights Brooklyn, the location of my girlfriend's and my first date.
Rejected Tracks - The Sloest
This is one of many ‘rejected tracks’ in the Prescription Strength Hugs (my music-making moniker) archive. I recently stumbled upon this one and am not sure why it got axed, as I quite like it. Dug it out and illustrated the instrumentation and lyrics (which I typically hate displaying, but again, kind of liked them). Please enjoy.
A new mix for the season. The previous soul mix was pretty great, but this one folks, phew. I also got pretty obsessive (shocker) about sweetening these old vinyl rips, seeing as though they were flat as all get out. Nothing fancy other than that, just ten excellent soul songs from the 60s & 70s. Please enjoy.
Screenshots of the video project I recently completed, in which I drew many, many buildings.
Night Before Le Tour
The Tour de France begins tomorrow. This will be the first year I watch with any interest. I recently read the book It’s All About the Bike and it got me seriously into the idea of long tours. Learning about how these multi-day races began and what those first competitors suffered through made me look with a pretty critical eye on the modern Tour de France - with its teams of mechanics, daily massages and limit per day. In the old days (some hundred years ago), these men would ride as long as they possibly could (in extreme cases, up to three days without getting off the bike). They were often drugged up and half-crazed and some people died, so I suppose this had to be addressed at some point. Learning a little more about the course I’ve decided the daily set stages and all the pampering of the riders at each day’s finish line does not detract from the challenge of what must be an excruciating 3 weeks. So, I’m pretty excited to see some serious bicycling. I think also, they pee on the bike. Here is what I imagine each competitor will be dreaming tonight.
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