Link & Image o’ the Week for 24/01/2010
Jan0
Hey guys!
This week’s Image o’ the Week is from the new Silhouettes gallery on Shiggy.com.au. I really dig doing these silhouette illustrations. If I could ever see my self exhibiting a bunch of pictures in a gallery or something, it would probably be a series of silhouettes.
And the Link o’ the Week goes to SixCrayons, a design and illustration resource site / burgeoning online community with heaps of great tutorials, tips and links posted regularly (which is a lot more than I can say for this blog.) Illustrator/designer over at SixCrayons Harry Ford recently wrote a great little blog post about the slew of “best of” and “top 20″ lists that clogged our RSS readers over the new year, and design blogs that continuously blog “inspiration” posts and not nearly enough original content.
That’s it for now!
oh and this
Sep0
Lucy and I now have a photoblog thing at tumblr. It is called:
There will be photos like this posted there:
I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing yet. It’s just a thing.
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!”
Who is Shiggy?
Shiggy is Joe Sciglitano, Aussie illustrator & designer.