No Updates Last Week Because I Was In Florida, Sitting On The Beach, Watching White Ibises Probe The

Bird 12: Red-winged Blackbird

An east coast staple, always mistook these at first glance for the much more elusive Oriole in my homestate of Maryland. Cornell Ornithology via Wikipedia claims this may be "the most abundant and most well studied bird in North America." Go figure. 

New art for a new mix, filled with 70s and 80s pop from The Other Side. Many of these artists have become fast favorites of mine (especially Akiko Yano, Miharu Koshi and Dip in the Pool). No 80s Japanese pop mix would be complete without YMO, as described in the album art. Anyway, enjoy! Visit my site! Visit my new, pretty blog!

The Other Side - Side A by Austineustice on Mixcloud

The Other Side - Side B by Austineustice on Mixcloud

At the end of a week, sometimes you just need to get Airborne.

Puppy Bowl VIII

It’s coming… Seems like this year the Super Bowl football game is on the same day as Puppy Bowl, but don’t worry, I don’t think it’s on the same channel.

Hey, it’s Friday.

Truck Repair

Pixel art out the wazoo, folks.  It’s gonna keep coming, so I hope you like it.  I do.  Here is a little something I made for a website in case it went down… which is kind of a bummer, so I tried to make it fun.

On Mustaches

During May, my friend and I entered into a collaborative competition of mustaches. We both vowed to grow a stache and it turned out to be a good time because neither of us really needed to be seen by anybody potentially important for about the whole month*. The first few days were easy because I don’t like shaving and only do so every three days. After a week, it got pretty hard. Anyone with sparse facial hair will know the embarrassment and overall badlooks of a thin beard. It wasn’t for a few weeks that I could shave and have my face noticeably be-stached. Once this happened the hardtimes got worse, because I looked very much like a guy who is up to no good - but I powered through, growing the heck out of this rough stuff. I ended Mustache May with a serious fumanchu. Since the end of the month, though, I’ve been unable to shave it completely off. I even went so far as to allow myself a small soul-patch and it concerns me. I took inspiration from a French zombie movie where my darkened, Parisian doppelgänger had a superlative handlebar with flavor-saver. We’ll see where my facial hair takes me. For now, have a look at the evolution.

* we can argue about how you can meet someone important at any time, but this really was a long shot considering what we were doing and where we were.

Five Deadly Venoms

Pupil #2: The Snake from Chang Cheh’s (much more) story-driven martial arts film Five Deadly Venoms. One hand represents the snake’s head, the other the tail. Trying to keep the warmup game going.

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The holiday card this year, featuring our real-life clothes and seemingly fake dog.

Non-Threatening Rorshach

The character Rorschach from Watchmen is a pretty scary guy; but that is only because his ever-changing mask cooperates and swirls into menacing ”what does it mean?” formations. I prefer a mask that does not share this glum attitude towards symmetrical mood projection.