Tech Talk
Corel Painter, Gouche and Blender tools
Art Speak
Back in 1982, "Harry the Hat" Anderson performed a geek trick "You know about geeks? They work the midway of a circus, biting the heads off chickens, swallowing live snakes, eating ground glass - they're party commandos." by shoving a needle through his arm. As his blood trickled to the floor, Harry called the screaming spectators "a bunch of namby-pambies", insisting it was all a trick. Mimicing a violinist by moving the needle back and forth through his wound, Harry caused an even louder reaction by asking "Would you like me to play 'Melancholy Baby'?". IMDB | SNL Transcript
Posted by Dave M! on Jul 11, 2007 at 8:20 PM
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Adobe Illustrator + Painter. Screenshot from BBEdit
Geeky Web Trick: Counting Your Comrades
Ever wonder how many other iFridaynistas there are out there, like you, toiling away their talent for intangible gain? If you've got a web editor like BBEdit or Dreamweaver, here's an easy way to find out:
- Click here
- On the left navigation column, right-click to "View Frame Source", save to your local desktop
- With your favorite web editor, open your local copy in "code view"
- Search for "img src="thumbs/" (this string is unique to each artist's thumbnail)
- Click "Find All"
That should do it! The search result should produce a line like "fooNUMBER occurances of "img src="thumbs/" found ..."! For an accurate assessment, do this late Thursday night or early Friday morning. Last time I tried, there were just over 500.
Posted by Dave M! on Jul 8, 2007 at 10:25 PM
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Freshness Dating
Refurbished: Individual illustrations from the mid-1990s. Collage and background are new
Tech Talk
Vector art in pre-Wacom tablet Adobe Illustrator.
Content
Samples from my high-flying days as an illustrator for Computerworld magazine (one of my geekiest clients, under the International Data Group). Once again, real life prevented a newer posting. Hopefully the collage technique expresses a transformation of neurotic chicken-stratching into a high-tech career.
Posted by Dave M! on Jul 6, 2007 at 10:01 PM
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