A Budding Young Expert

From the Great Chicago Blizzard of Groundhog Day, 2011.

More photoshopping, and a quote that I fancied. I like this piece on several levels, and not just because it’s pink.  Mostly it’s the French Press.  This might be my favorite piece of coffee equipment, and the one that I really cut my coffee-drinking teeth on.  Regardless of how many other ways of brewing I cycle through, the French Press always has a prominent place in my lineup.

Hold Your Horses.  My ongoing project to practice and learn photoshop is turning out to be great material for a children’s book.

I don’t normally think of Oklahoma in this way anymore (as home), but the other day I had this idea and put it together on my flight from Chicago to Oklahoma City.  How quaint!

I finally gave Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” a read earlier this year, and cannot express how impressed I was with it.  The morality that she dealt with in her representation of a creator/creature relationship haunts me still. Go buy a copy.

I took a passage from the first chapter and used a displacement filter in Photoshop to shape it to a picture of the smoking skull that frequents my fireplace mantle.

Birthday Gift on Flickr.

Queen. What an amazing band. Some of my typography from earlier in the Spring.

Coffee Should Be on Flickr.

I recently went through a phase of being totally obsessed with typography. This was my attempt at creating a larger, more involved work that other practice attempts that I’d done.