Godspeed

Hope everybody had a great weekend. I took a drive today and just aimlessly wandered--I know, a luxury in today's economy what with gas prices still hovering around $4. I' ve been trying to shake off this malaise that's been on me. It struck me that everything I do is sedate, carefully measured, predictable, uninspiring. I have no problem with prudence, but lately I've been needing an adventure, something spontaneous. I need to jump into an open canyon, spread eagle and divebomb the world. I need to brace my feet, then launch into the air and hit the ground the running. It's who I've always been, and it's what I've been missing for quite a while. It's why I feel like progress has eluded me. I'm not fit to stay in one situation for too long. I've got to ride the wind.


Uploaded by murestargu on May 20, 2011

I've been meaning to comment on the fact that Youtube flipped the format of user video history and likes. It used to be that you could only see your most recently viewed 100 vids, but you could see an endless list of liked videos. Now my viewing history goes back indefinitely, while videos I liked (aka have archived without having added them permanently to my list of favorites) are limited to the last 100. Ugh. This kind of stuff drives an obsessive archivist crazy.

Phil McAndrew tells it like it is.

Thanks to Luc LaTulippe of Drawn! for this one!

Nick Edwards is always is always in good form.

Thanks to Ryan Pequin for having talented friends.

And this one I owe to David Apatoff of Illustration Art, for the heads up on Kent Williams.

Sakimi-chan does some awesome deviations. Her blog is similarly awesome.


Uploaded by kirstenlepore on Jan 15, 2009

1) Progress pic of my Kippery portrait 2) sketch of Brent Butt I'm having trouble inking 3) sketch of Finch Linden.

Ladder to the Stars

BirdyNamNamofficial | May 29, 2009 (via Awesome Robot)

January 16, 2010 half the month is gone just like that. I'll blink and half the year will have passed. I feel as though as I age I become more comfortable with ephemera. I will always be something of an obsessive documentarian of trivialities and minutia, but I think things have been slowly evening out through the years. I would say that my life is a testament to the triumph of the termite over the white elephant.

I now have all the things needed to fix my guitar so I suppose that will be what I will be doing this afternoon. If I can fit in tinkering with my bluetooth transmitter, maybe I will overcome the fear of permanently botching the job----or electrocuting/burning myself. Lately I have been clearing out a lot of old things on my dusty to-do list.

Three reasons to give oculoid a peek.
http://oculoid.com/mail-out-by-jainai-jeffries/
http://oculoid.com/illustrations-by-richard-wilkinson/
http://oculoid.com/moleskine-by-james-jean/

I think I've been severely remiss at mentioning the other blogger.com bloggers I blog, uh, follow. So in no particular order here is a list of people and blogs you should become familiar with, should you wish to survive the new year:

1) Mark Kardwell's Bad Librarianship
2)Asaf and Tomer Hanuka's Tropical Toxic
3) Bob Flynn's Jinx the Monkey
4) David Apatoff's Illustration Art


kinagrannis | January 13, 2011 (I have a secret crush on Emi)