Pete.com

Starting trolling one of the many "funny picture" websites out there. This one is called Pete.com and here a few of my found favorites just for kicks.

A Mechanical Dream

I have a friend from high school who by the end of senior year was getting quite into wielding. I got a sweet pair of earrings out of his beginning experiments. As he advanced his ides became more complex and I can only hope that one day he gets as good as

Pierre Matter

. Although this mighty whale boat is my favorite. I have a particular fondness of the use of asymmetry in many of these pieces and I feel they give the art a particular "gravitational" quality as though physics was present in the context as seen through the extended angles and movements that it brings.

Hilarious Posters from Hilarious People

Today on Stumble I found a site showcasing the most hilarious posters from the Rally to Restore Sanity hosted by my favorite television personalities Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. Although I was unable to attend the rally myself due to lack of funds, I watched the entire special as the rally took place. It was one of the most successful political rallies in decades including rallies against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm not sure if that makes me proud or upset only that I hope it becomes annual and I can go next year to make my final assessment in person.

If I had gone I probably would have made this sign too.

Stumble Finds

This video reminded me of when I was young and my father would ask me what I wanted for dinner. Being an indecisive child I would always respond with the thoughtless "I don't know" to which he would respond- "Well then well have a rubber band sandwich and make it snappy!" At the time this made me think of tiny band members made of rubber being demolished by my father's hunger for puns- I enjoy this visual more although the nostalgia makes it sweeter.

New layout!

I went ahead and gave this page a long overdue overhaul before I start bringing all of my images onto the page. I am also considering keeping this solely as a semi-professional blog and creating a Deviant Art account for an online profile. In keeping with my new motivation to be professionally aware through the internet I've also set up a specified professional networking profile through LinkedIn as way to promote and reach out. Recently I have rediscovered StumbleUpon and consider it a valuable waste of time and invaluable resource for inspiration and have added my profiles link of the side bar of favorites. I have also added Fab! to the list as a new place of internet inspiration.

Art from 2010-2011

Realized that I have not updated in quite some time and I should really start utilizing this blog more often to promote myself shamelessly. Since I have no motive to promote myself at the moment because I have no damn time for freelance work due to college, I'll just upload some of the things they have been keeping me busy with the past three years.

Drawing- Fall 2010- Crushed Paper Bag

I highly suggest this exercise for anyone who wishes to go out of there minds. :)








First project from my Illustration class

Chose to illustrate a "Hermit Rowboat"- see it?

Winter- 2011


A "mysterious" bathroom

Done in colored pastel pencils

Drawing I- 2010

Final Project for Photoshop

I decided to do the extra credit project and make the following photo into the younger looking version shown above. I started off by using the clone stamp tool as well as the patch tool to even out her skin tones and reduce wrinkles. I then used the brush as an overlay and brightened the colors of her hair and skin. After, I used the magnetic lasso tool to create sharper lines around the woman and pull the image onto a new canvas. I then used the liquefy filter to try and smooth out the image. I then used the smart blur filter to add a finished touch to her face. I used the Smudge tool for the smoother hair. To finish I used an overall blur to smooth outthe entire peice and added the color to the background.