Ear Infection
Sep0
There is stuff coming out of my ears. Probably should have seen a doctor by now.
Breaking it in…
Sep6
So for some reason I find myself a little more hesitant to post personal happenings and anecdotes on this blog. Maybe it’s because it’s all new and shiny. Maybe it’s because snippets of my latest posts are viewable on my main website, which I’ve directed a lot of potential clients to. Maybe I’m still a little nostalgic about my old blog. Regardless, I think what’s needed here is a certain level of comfortableness, so that you, dear reader, can get to know me better, and hopefully, I you.
“Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.”
So this past weekend was a bit of a shit. On top of a bunch of monetary issues that arose, my computer, a 6 month old iMac, decided it would refuse to boot up. I spent a day on the phone with Apple who graciously helped out even though I was more than past the allocated 90 days of free tech support (I stupidly didn’t purchase the Apple Care Protection Plan, although I may do so (soon as I can afford it)). They were definitely helpful, but ultimately it was the humble Google search that proved most helpful. A bunch of other Apple users encountered similar problems, and it was their hashing it out on online forums that was my saving grace. I ended up having to remove a RAM chip and reinstall OS X (after 6 or so unsuccessful attempts), and finally at 2am on Saturday night, the bastard booted up. It’s currently running on half the RAM, but thank the good lord Vishnu that all my day-tuh is safe. If ever there was a wake-up call to back up my shit, this was it. I wanna Time Machine all my stuff, but I need to partition my external HD first, which I don’t think I can do without re-formatting it, right? So I need to dump a few hundred gig of stuff from that onto something else. Hmm…
Anyway, enough geeky nonsense (for now).
I have a couple of larger blog posts planned about some technicalities of drawing and design. Will aim to put those together shortly.
In the crueltime (even more current than meantime), here’s a sweet compilation of close-up magic by David Copperfield set to Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”. As one YouTube user puts it:
“The work he does with his hands is so elegant… his hands make me swoon!”
Surely you jest, good sir!
Sep1
Two weeks without a blog post? This will not stand!
In the interim, I’ve travelled to and from the fine city of Melbourne, whereupon I dined on many a fine cuisine, and supped upon many a fine snifter of firewater. I also spent some amazing times with mine chums and families. Kindly observe myself and the missus, Melbourne-side, wearing our finest spats and glad rags:
I’ve been working on a few logos, some real, some imaginary. Here’s one of the latter:
I guess it’s for a beer. Padre Pio has been one of my favourite figures of piety ever since I realised he bore a striking resemblance to one Obi-Wan Kenobi. I once had a web-page dedicated to the similarities between the two (no foolin’), but alas, GeoCities had it deleted due to lack of views.
And if you head on over to The Krankiboy Khronicles, you’ll find a new logo I did for an old chum in San Francisco. He also takes some great photos!
Here are some sketches I did of hipster girls:
I think that’s it for now. I’ll try and keep the posts more regular!
Salut!
Who is Shiggy?
Shiggy is Joe Sciglitano, Aussie illustrator & designer.