ArtLung: Archive: 2016

01-Jan-2016

Archer eating pizza and being expressive is everything.

01-Jan-2016

Javie is sleeping in the New Year

01-Jan-2016

My amazing sister showing Fletcher his reflection yesterday. Trip almost done. Sigh.

01-Jan-2016

craft store adventures with mama

01-Jan-2016

I asked Jayden about the Niners & he shared that he played T-ball and got a trophy then he went and got it. Super good boy! Jayden looks on. So happy to get to visit with @sallyalexis & Jorge

01-Jan-2016

My cousins the Camarillo beauties! What a wonderful trip this has been.

02-Jan-2016

Entertaining Fletcher yesterday morning

02-Jan-2016

I miss them already.

02-Jan-2016

Strong probability we spend the night in Philadelphia. Let’s see.

03-Jan-2016

Fletcher yesterday with Aunt Leah! Still amazed we made it home yesterday. Thankful for a great trip and my great partner.

04-Jan-2016

Fare thee well, Santa, it was a great holiday. This is new from my Aunt Jeannine.

04-Jan-2016

Home Depot Cat is camera shy and gives affection only as needed.

05-Jan-2016

Pen container upgrade! From peach can to fancy thing

06-Jan-2016

Sir Thomas Hat & NO DOGS 9AM-6PM. From a few days ago.

07-Jan-2016

New Bot Thursday! It’s Plex from Yo Gabba Gabba who I learned about from Godson Archer. Let’s go to work!

07-Jan-2016

My favorite Christmas gift was from Leah. This sign. ❤️

07-Jan-2016

Sunshower @ Work is pretty

07-Jan-2016

arcs, rancho bernardo

09-Jan-2016

boooooooooks

09-Jan-2016

futzing with ink

13-Jan-2016

Now playing: “The Jean Genie.” Plus well worn LP Hunky Dory. #slackerradio

14-Jan-2016

SEP 68: mom & dad before they were mom and dad, driving a vw bug cross county, stopping everywhere.

14-Jan-2016

Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand #slackerradio #thebeatles

15-Jan-2016

Roger Corman Presents: The Chicago Dog That Ate Cleveland!

15-Jan-2016

Crawford/Eddy Family Dinners are Dog City. This is 3 of them.

18-Jan-2016

Carmel Mountain Branch Library #YarnBomb. Late getting out here but really cool.

19-Jan-2016

Stairs bravery from this morning.

22-Jan-2016

Jojo found me and my lap. This meeting bores her.

23-Jan-2016

Captain BB-8 by local artist Mark Kessler. Lovely sculpture showing at Villanous Lair!

23-Jan-2016

Posting this Aliens toy in honor of the midnight movie at the Ken tonight.

23-Jan-2016

KEN///ALIENS///NOTGNISNEK

24-Jan-2016

I consider buying Mazinger Z & Great Mazinger every time I see these but they’re not my style. From yesterday.

24-Jan-2016

Village Theater in Coronado is a class act. “Let’s all go to the lah-bee!” Saw Carol. Lovely and delicate.

26-Jan-2016

it me

27-Jan-2016

Great performance by @theyoungwild this afternoon @slackerradio 🎸

27-Jan-2016

From this morning.

28-Jan-2016

San Diego is number 10 in the US for avocado consumption. Lunchtime.

28-Jan-2016

Downtown for Proops. I’ll be 46 this year still unclear how to dress.

29-Jan-2016

Seattle bound in the morning. See you in a week bots!

30-Jan-2016

I got an earlier start than I really wanted. Seattle-bound.

30-Jan-2016

Then I met Josie in Monroe WA.

31-Jan-2016

When Josie comes home.

31-Jan-2016

Puget Sound starts here.

31-Jan-2016

Monroe vignettes.

31-Jan-2016

Monroe vignettes, Part 2.

02-Feb-2016

“Far over the misty mountains cold…”

02-Feb-2016

Colbie is circumspect.

03-Feb-2016

Stellar moss game.

06-Feb-2016

Outside cat hurriedly says bye

06-Feb-2016

Football meatloaf is fun.

06-Feb-2016

San Diego, 2016. #BladeRunner

07-Feb-2016

SDFD, on the case. Yesterday.

08-Feb-2016

New Bot Monday! Planet Robo Danguard Ace (惑星ロボダンガードA (エース) who I met in 1978 in the Philippines and became a Shogun Warrior in the US when I got home. Great design.

11-Feb-2016

Data joins the bots! One of the most asked-about absences from my collection has been added. #StarTrek

13-Feb-2016

I didn’t mention I donated packed cells the other day and it was very high tech.

13-Feb-2016

Dave. From a week ago. Quite a nice fellow indeed.

13-Feb-2016

Alison & Rick & quail eggs. From last week.

14-Feb-2016

Happy Valentine’s & Anna Howard Shaw Day to my Partner❤️Leah!

15-Feb-2016

REMEMBER, these come from TREES

15-Feb-2016

BOOM

15-Feb-2016

Sunny Manhattan. Beach.

17-Feb-2016

Time to go to work. #bb8

17-Feb-2016

Buddies! New Bot Wednesday includes BB-8 meeting Artoo.

18-Feb-2016

It’s Patsy! Plus some other comix.

20-Feb-2016

Only David has this much fun with a plastic cup at 7 in the morning.

20-Feb-2016

Still.

20-Feb-2016

Photobombing Mayor McCheese.

22-Feb-2016

Enforcement Droid 209 comes from RoboCop (1987). ED-209 is incompetently designed and hilariously deadly. New Bot Monday has never been scarier.

01-Mar-2016

B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot joins other 50s & 60s style bots for New Bot Tuesday!

02-Mar-2016

Whiteboard heaven #slackerradio

02-Mar-2016

Friendly face from Saturday.

04-Mar-2016

Bad Guy Day with Bots: ED-209, King Joe, Terminator, Imperializer & chibi Mechagodzilla!

05-Mar-2016

Wild Saturday night!

07-Mar-2016

Miramar, earlier.

10-Mar-2016

Me, WALL-E & Doreamon wish Diana a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

11-Mar-2016

New #dogsofslacker entrant! Welcome Eddie!

12-Mar-2016

David & Animals picture/texture book.

14-Mar-2016

Well played, Sprouts. $3.14 pies for Pi day.

15-Mar-2016

No thank you.

16-Mar-2016

Even from inside a doctor’s office San Diego can’t hide how beautiful it is.

17-Mar-2016

Eddie in the Ecom scrum! #dogsofslacker

18-Mar-2016

Today’s Top 9 Bots. Next time I see them I’ll be 46.

18-Mar-2016

Second String Bots of the Week

19-Mar-2016

Açai brunch…

20-Mar-2016

Yesterday was tops. Tomorrow’s even better. 46 here I am.

20-Mar-2016

The Aquaman collection at Comics Toons n‘ Toys is lovely. Not for sale.

23-Mar-2016

Onward.

23-Mar-2016

Sprinkles.

24-Mar-2016

Love the yarn bombing on display outside the Rancho Penasquitos Public Library

24-Mar-2016

The world needs more yarn bombing than is available.

25-Mar-2016

Here’s to cuties.

25-Mar-2016

This book mysteriously time-travelled from 1983 to the Ecom office of where I work.

25-Mar-2016

Change with NO Expectations #cmsandiego

26-Mar-2016

Brief stop at Simply Kids Anime yesterday yielded no robots but I got to see plush superdeformed pink Bats.

26-Mar-2016

Petting the wolf in Far Cry Primal is fun right David?

26-Mar-2016

Blast From The Past in Burbank sure has some fun stuff for the middle-aged toy nerd. I walked out with the fellow on the left: Getter Liger. A late birthday gift to myself and quite nice. I already have an Iron Giant and for the price that little Cylon didn’t bowl me over. Such nice things!

26-Mar-2016

Also not purchased but quite nice: A Fembot from Austin Powers & Bishop from Aliens.

28-Mar-2016

Birthday mug. Birthday robot. Getter Liger acquired this weekend.

29-Mar-2016

Getter Liger & the other Getter Bots all have great machinder designs but I have a hard time keeping their names straight.

30-Mar-2016

Light outside the condo in the morning can be glorious.

02-Apr-2016

Dad & Leah. Talking cars.

03-Apr-2016

The longer hair is growing on me.

05-Apr-2016

Spring iceplant

05-Apr-2016

The other night at a family thing we watched some old videos. Particularly enjoyed my cousin Michael & his pop Lee.

06-Apr-2016

Commander Crawford, Ship’s Doctor for of USS New Orleans ’84-’85. Just another of his many adventures.

06-Apr-2016

From the Engine Room #ussmidway

06-Apr-2016

The reason I carry a white pen, apparently.

08-Apr-2016

Career Day. @cchsdons let’s see how this goes.

08-Apr-2016

Now here’s a good omen: I was driving down Mira Mesa Blvd and caught this little robot out of the corner of my eye. Love it!

09-Apr-2016

Beverages with attached vegetables are the best move this morning.

09-Apr-2016

Seeing Jennifer Simpson in her native habitat organizing creative folks and being witty last night at Dime Stories was a real treat.

09-Apr-2016

Doors

10-Apr-2016

From Easter. David: incredibly chill with this furry situation.

10-Apr-2016

Ex-cat throwback photo.

11-Apr-2016

Street paving is impressive. Two old guys were just watching. 3 if you count me.

12-Apr-2016

Skeumorphism has limits. Color is a backup.

14-Apr-2016

“PLEASE!! NO” scared woodwork at Von’s. From the other day.

14-Apr-2016

The most pinkest time of the year.

16-Apr-2016

Bread & Cie are not playing around.

16-Apr-2016

SPACE BATTLE SPACE ROBOT was too tall for the collection, regrettably. Pretty good for a drugstore robot though. I believe I’ve made it clear I’m always low key robot hunting. Thankfully the rules for collecting are strict and I’m picky.

16-Apr-2016

What I saw at Record Store Day. Folk Arts Records is great. If only I had a record player.

18-Apr-2016

WARNING 8-O

19-Apr-2016

Still room for more stickers

20-Apr-2016

My Dad eating proper tortilla chips and talking with erudition and humor. Favorite. From a few weeks ago.

21-Apr-2016

Pirates skunking Padres 11 to 0. Dismal but a lovely night for a ballgame.

23-Apr-2016

DO NOT MOVE THIS ORGAN

23-Apr-2016

Grand Master Bear

26-Apr-2016

w/Bella @ 4.5hrs old

26-Apr-2016

Bella.

27-Apr-2016

David tests out the amazing busy book Leah made

27-Apr-2016

facetime with Mama & new baby sister

28-Apr-2016

Sharing my earbud for a few minutes to satisfy David’s curiosity. ?uestlove on Fresh Air.

29-Apr-2016

bienvenidos bienvenue welcome

30-Apr-2016

Babybella age four days.

30-Apr-2016

I bought a wallet with Carrie Kelley Robin & out-of-retirement Batman on it because of my adulthood.

01-May-2016

Yesterday. Holding sleeping Isabella. Infant people are amazing.

01-May-2016

Simpler than you think.

01-May-2016

North Hollywood Cat.

02-May-2016

Dawn

02-May-2016

Emerald Knights in Burbank turned out perfect to satisfy my Batman needs Saturday.

03-May-2016

The Big Guy & Rusty are my jam. This week.

04-May-2016

Late Star Wars Day post…

05-May-2016

#handpainted #faded #typography #sandiego

06-May-2016

For our human and canine friends (this is on a multi-species water fountain)

07-May-2016

preserve

07-May-2016

power & light

07-May-2016

mija

08-May-2016

Me and Mom.

09-May-2016

Mother’s Day.

1949 1955 1960 1966 1977 1983 1988 1994 2005 These are the years that my Mom, Phyllis Crawford‘s birthday fell on a Sunday, the second Sunday in may — Mother’s Day. In my kid-memory her birthday always fell on Mother’s Day which was just another way she was perfect. But the truth is memory is…

11-May-2016

Bunnies hang out in the YMCA parking lot before dawn!

11-May-2016

To Downtown. #trolley #sandiegotrolley

13-May-2016

JACQUÉ = HEIDI 96 + DREW (the mathematics of what, exactly?)

13-May-2016

Abigail!!!

14-May-2016

Sleeeeeepy Bella

14-May-2016

Just because I’m not taking him home doesn’t mean I don’t love him. Farewell little plush robot.

14-May-2016

Scarcely a visit to Little Tokyo without a bot photo. Astro Boy is sold out.

14-May-2016

WELCOME TO JOE‘ @ LIL TOK

15-May-2016

Long time no jetty.

16-May-2016

Alto voltaje

16-May-2016

I think it’s gonna be a good week ’cause I met PITA on my walkthing.

17-May-2016

Morning bun.

17-May-2016

New Bot Day! Raideen (勇者ライディーン) hails from 1975 Japanese tv. Like many of my bots I first encountered him in the Philippines. When I saw the Shogun Warriors back in the States I was happy they brought him over but mystified why they changed the spelling of his name to Raydeen. I picked up this superdeformed rendering of him at Q Pop Shop @qpopshop in Little Tokyo. #Raideen

18-May-2016

ANNA + CEDRO + PERRO (from the other day’s walkthing)

18-May-2016

New Bot Wednesday! Another Q Pop acquisition. This is Mad Baron! He was designed by Zollmen and hails from Japan. Vinyl Artist Gacha series 3.

18-May-2016

lensflare

19-May-2016

Dishwasher Pond, from yesterday evening’s hike with Susan

19-May-2016

Art supply gift card redemption time.

21-May-2016

I <3 U

21-May-2016

Sometimes eating a French fry is pretty fun

21-May-2016

Acquired at Planet Books in Long Beach. Don’t know the name or the age but I sure like this bot.

21-May-2016

I fully approve of coffeehouses showing Casablanca. (from earlier)

22-May-2016

Dawn under the trolley

22-May-2016

Good Morning San Diego

22-May-2016

ROCK LIVES

22-May-2016

LOOPT•LOO \\\ San Diego River

23-May-2016

It’s another big week for bots! This is “ZnDc Missler” made in the 1970s by Yonezawa.

23-May-2016

Cousins

24-May-2016

Snail Crossing 🐌🐌

24-May-2016

Tomorrow’s bot will exceed all cuteness expectations. #Mecha #Jaeger

25-May-2016

HELLO KITTY CHOGOKIN (look it up) — New Bot Wednesday features ハロー・キティdriving a giant robot of herself. The paws really shoot!

26-May-2016

Current Bot Cuteness Corner

28-May-2016

Bloody Mary “Man Candy” bacon-style.

28-May-2016

Skeptical.

29-May-2016

At least the pool is open while they’re rebuilding these concrete fences.

31-May-2016

DOG BEACH🐾

31-May-2016

NO ALCOHOL NO SMOKING

31-May-2016

Stopped into @super7sandiego — super awesome shop but did not buy today. But I’ll be back! Any store with Jumbo Machinder is okay by me!

31-May-2016

I was not sullen but look sullen in this. I took a day to walk all over. This was along the SD River. Helped an older, lost couple with directions. My Spanish was terrible. I wrote out directions with my phone & Google’s help. People lost around San Diego have been picking me out of a crowd as potentially helpful for a long time. I bet they got where they were going but I will never know. Lastly, unlike C3PO I don’t ever say “No more adventures.”

31-May-2016

4½ miles from home to Dog Beach.

01-Jun-2016

I feel like I can’t go wrong with pix of bunnies living along the San Diego River. From yesterday.

03-Jun-2016

From last week, the space-age-circa-1970 Geisel Library. Even though I stupidly got a $65 parking ticket I love being on that campus.

04-Jun-2016

Libraries with Makerbot 3-D Digitizers are 21st Century Libraries.

04-Jun-2016

It only took 90 tries to get like 8 or so usable photos.

07-Jun-2016

Polling Place. I love California.

07-Jun-2016

Glowy Selfy

08-Jun-2016

GINGER 7/27 – 12/29 1996

08-Jun-2016

Joe and the camera-shy crayfish.

09-Jun-2016

Tuna Crab, out in the surf, another from yesterday.

10-Jun-2016

punk rack

10-Jun-2016

Superboy.

13-Jun-2016

New Bot Monday! Venus A [ビューナスA] is from the Mazinger universe circa 1975-ish. She’s a giant robot driven by biracial (Japanese/African-American) heroine Jun Hono. She drives the Venus Scrander that flies into the back of her head. Her hands-on-hips pose exemplifies her power!

14-Jun-2016

Laundry last night.

14-Jun-2016

Sisterhood.

16-Jun-2016

Edward! #dogsofslacker

17-Jun-2016

Home Base

17-Jun-2016

River Crossing

17-Jun-2016

Little Creatures to Some Girls

17-Jun-2016

Another one from early this morning. Trolley at sunrise.

20-Jun-2016

Puppy book, D & Grandma.

20-Jun-2016

As best as I can recall its been 17 years since I went in the ocean at Manhattan Beach. California Über Alles.

20-Jun-2016

Bodysurfed. 33rd St.

21-Jun-2016

Prep for July.

22-Jun-2016

Building the beard.

23-Jun-2016

SEND HELP #slackerradio

23-Jun-2016

Throw your hands in the air, if youse a true player #bots

25-Jun-2016

This young woman (physician? nurse?) with the defibrillator paddles is the USA.

25-Jun-2016

WINNER!

25-Jun-2016

Ferris

25-Jun-2016

D & L

28-Jun-2016

Dad sent this to me and I immediately had to post it.

28-Jun-2016

Gate.

29-Jun-2016

Overpass/163.

01-Jul-2016

Lurk/Mirror.

02-Jul-2016

Saved all my money for one of these in 1982 or so. Foolhardy purchase was disapproved of by my Grandfather. It was a great toy.

02-Jul-2016

Wookie, she’s a cutie and is 10 years young. She belongs to Sam & Lori.

03-Jul-2016

In Arizona, flowers.

03-Jul-2016

Willow Lake scenes this morning.

03-Jul-2016

Willow Lake, landscapes of a little of the “Granite Dells.” ~88° and sunny.

03-Jul-2016

BOLO YOLO

04-Jul-2016

Siblings on the 4th. Clearly related.

04-Jul-2016

Wookie, elongated. It’s been a lovely visit to Arizona.

07-Jul-2016

Ink practice continues on the bus

08-Jul-2016

Stairway (to the library)

09-Jul-2016

Ready for some Gilbert & Sullivan

10-Jul-2016

Yesterday Susan took Doug, Leah, and I to Lux Art Institute. We got to meet the artist in residence Angela Kallus. Her work is extraordinary: evocative, seemingly simple, evocative. I could not help but snap a photo. Her work must be seen in person to be fully appreciated I think.

10-Jul-2016

Prior to the excellent “Hail Poetry! The Magic and Madness of Gilbert & Sullivan,” Eli Villanueva of Opera A La Carte spoke a bit. It was a terrific show. Wonderful primer on G&S. And Soka U was a great place to see a show.

11-Jul-2016

Planning meeting overlooks Customer Support? Gotta sketch Charles.

13-Jul-2016

Bus ink sketching / evening edition

15-Jul-2016

🌈PHŌ 5🌈 @ Phō on 5th in Hillcrest

19-Jul-2016

Beards hide chins but highlight age. I’m not a fan. I do it for the cosplay.

20-Jul-2016

Ready. Preview Night. #sdcc

20-Jul-2016

No ones gonna save you from the beast with forty eyes! #sdcc #michaeljackson

20-Jul-2016

TRIPLE ROBOT SELFIES! #sdcc is a big win so far.

21-Jul-2016

”No Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of.” #sdcc #lebowski #waltersobchak

21-Jul-2016

Los Bros Hernandez. The first time I went to Con (1983) they were upstarts, now elder statesmen. #losbroshernandez #sdcc

21-Jul-2016

The Diva is so beautiful! #thefifthelement #sdcc

21-Jul-2016

Major question of the weekend is whether I’m going to buy the Black Power Droid (Gonk!) and/or The Beastie Droids from DKE Toys. Handmade, funny… #sdcc

22-Jul-2016

Q in the house. Humanity will pay for its crimes Jean-Luc! #SDCC #startrek #qcontinuum

22-Jul-2016

Selfie and remember impromptu that I added eye makeup to look sullen and omnipotent. Maybe I’m just tired? NAH. #SDCC

23-Jul-2016

Gideon Graves! The head of the League of Evil Exes! I WILL DEFEAT SCOTT PILGRIM! #sdcc

23-Jul-2016

This here is one of the many reasons I love the Con. #sdcc

23-Jul-2016

I’m not a Voltron fan but I appreciate a good robot. #SDCC

23-Jul-2016

In the overflow for Masquerade, this is costume “Banemax” mashing up, well, it’s obvious. #SDCC #bane #baymax Inspired.

24-Jul-2016

Currently have a cat on my lap so sometime in my youth and childhood I must’ve done something good.

24-Jul-2016

From my hang earlier @ Cat Cafe. Gotta go there with Leah.

24-Jul-2016

Keith Knight is giving a great presentation on race and the current moment. Look up his comics; I’d slept on his work before but he’s great. Sold out of his “TRUMP: Yes We Klan” bumper stickers on day 1. #keithknight #sdcc

25-Jul-2016

“How am I not myself?” — I❤️HUCKABEES

27-Jul-2016

Harry & Me

29-Jul-2016

I’ve been drawing like, a lot, on the bus. Mechanical pencil with non-repro blue lead is new secret weapon.

29-Jul-2016

This woman.

30-Jul-2016

Ladies, throwback edition.

31-Jul-2016

1990, Erin & Tracy.

02-Aug-2016

Wonder Woman vs Darth Vader because of course, work in progress.

04-Aug-2016

Playing the excellent “Summer” here at @slackerradio is the super excellent @cassadeepope

05-Aug-2016

Our head of IT made a Lego Batman mask for his son and yesterday I got to try it out.

06-Aug-2016

A little bit of my art used in a video

One of the joys of putting art up under a Creative Commons license is that sometimes there are fun usages of it! Watch this video: It was this piece that gets used for a small segment: Super fun to see people making stuff. It’s the best part of the web.

06-Aug-2016

Flowers Hello Summer Flowers

06-Aug-2016

Saturday Night Adventures

07-Aug-2016

8 of David from my camera roll.

09-Aug-2016

Miss J is ready to be let back in. Please.

10-Aug-2016

Fletcher, in the morning.

10-Aug-2016

Of course I miss working with my bots. Luckily there’s a robot or two belonging to my nephews here.

11-Aug-2016

Phyllis Crawford, 1971. My mom.

11-Aug-2016

Dad & me.

11-Aug-2016

Cousins. On Archer’s Birthday.

12-Aug-2016

Fletcher & me.

12-Aug-2016

Pop-Pop showing family photos to Fletcher <3

13-Aug-2016

Vanida, Kel, newly baptized Fletcher.

13-Aug-2016

Godmother Vanida & Fletcher James.

13-Aug-2016

Fletcher! Plus Vanida & me.

14-Aug-2016

Made it to North Carolina just in time to jump in the Atlantic and hastily snap mediocre pix of awesome people.

15-Aug-2016

Atlantean

15-Aug-2016

Legos wake up

15-Aug-2016

At sunset thousands of minnows breaching and beaching. Half expected to see what preys on them too.

16-Aug-2016

Can’t decide which pic of Joanie is best… all 3?

16-Aug-2016

Vacating joyfully.

17-Aug-2016

Nephew is a generous contortionist.

18-Aug-2016

Summer in NC

19-Aug-2016

Pop Pop and Fletcher playing with limes.

19-Aug-2016

Joanie bodysurfing 🌊🏊🏻

19-Aug-2016

Neen & Kel!

19-Aug-2016

Leah, Fletcher

20-Aug-2016

Deck.

20-Aug-2016

Fletcher through the kaleidoscope

20-Aug-2016

Gosh the art accompanying this Ghostbusters sports car looks familiar eh @whitaker.becca ?

20-Aug-2016

I already miss you Dad. <3

21-Aug-2016

Javie slept in the bed with us last night. Here she is saying goodbye. Farewell Falls Church!

22-Aug-2016

Any trip I take may contain robot shopping. It seemed like our Virginia/Outer Banks trip would be an exception until on a whim I took us to the Virginia Beach Antique Mall where “The Toymeister” has a huge toys and collectibles section upstairs. Many robots and other toys, well curated, well cared for. Star Wars, vintage, TMNT, sports, action figures, dolls, Marvel, DC, it’s an impressive store well worth a visit.

22-Aug-2016

Quote of the Day

Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of…

23-Aug-2016

New Bot Tuesday! Gort made his debut in 1951 in the classic film The Day The Earth Stood Still. Pictured with fellow 1950s-era robots. Klaatu barada nikto!

24-Aug-2016

I’m pretty sure this is what happens when my Dad wants to try out “drinking from a glass” early on my adorable infant Sister.

24-Aug-2016

Just talkin’ bout Mechagodzilla, Hello Kitty, BB-8, wind-up toys, and robot collecting with Summer.

25-Aug-2016

Patriotic fireplug

26-Aug-2016

Jeff Stone and me. He was my absolute best friend in Alhambra. This is 1977. We both moved away and he is completely untraceable due to a common name. Great memories.

28-Aug-2016

Springfield Punx has a lovely rendition of Eleven from Stranger Things

28-Aug-2016

From tumblr: This image has been removed at the copyright holder’s request.

29-Aug-2016

Exhortation of the day in the @slackerradio offices (also a great station)

29-Aug-2016

Oh look I’m posting and old

Nobody reads blogs anymore. Nobody blogs anymore. Nobody writes anymore. Except people do. Kottke does, still, and regularly. But in the corners of the blog world old favorites still blog (e.g: Tony Pierce, Suebob, Peter-Paul Koch, The Militant and many others). I know this because I follow things in my RSS Reader, powered by Tiny…

31-Aug-2016

SHRIPP! Adam Warren on sound effects in comics

I love Adam Warren’s work so much. His comic Empowered comic manages to be satirical and yet dramatic, ridiculous and yet science fictional and superheroic. He also has a penchant for cyberpunk and pop culture, which is wonderful. Quote of the day is from him on sound effects, contemplating his work on Empowered Volume 2,…

31-Aug-2016

Halloween. The past. Me with Gene Simmons makeup, a cape & white flat cap (?) and my little sister as the cutest Wonder Woman ever.

31-Aug-2016

EMILY LOVES NO-EXPRESSION JOE. I think. #notMe #sandiego #sidewalkart

02-Sep-2016

6 Months to another March MODOK Madness.

Sigh. Our final days of MARCH MODOK MADNESS 2016. Repent! Catch up with what it’s all about at marchmodokmadness.blogspot.com. I submitted one back in 2012 (here). I need to do another one in 2017.

02-Sep-2016

Skadi ended back in May

One of my favorite webcomics, Skadi, ended back in May. It’s a wonderful world we live in that artists can publish their own work for readers to see and read. It’s sad when what they make ends, for whatever reason, but it’s also the way of things. Things do end. I don’t want to get…

02-Sep-2016

Swag time. #slackerradio

02-Sep-2016

Raph Koster: Augmented Reality is an MMO

This insight is important. Quote of the day (well from July), from Raph Koster: AR is an MMO (writing about the incredible popularity of Pokémon GO: I’ve said this before, but in the wake of the viral success of Pokémon GO, it needs to be said again. Augmented reality is just a virtual world, an…

02-Sep-2016

Shannon, Nanie & Me at the Skyline house of course. Early 1970s of course.

03-Sep-2016

Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel

As I continue to catch up on reading RSS feeds what I have not read in a long long while, the ArtLung gaze turns its eye onto the wonderful blog Every Day is Like Wednesday by run by J. Caleb Mozzocco who in 2014 published a terrific explainer on the many, many, really more than…

06-Sep-2016

Hulu detects proxy

Something interesting. Hulu can detect a proxy service. Good on them to provide a way around it. I’m not a Hulu subscriber. I got this message trying to load a sketch from Saturday Night Live embedded in an article about comedy. Text of the message: Based on your IP address, we noticed you are trying…

07-Sep-2016

Dallas Morning News endorses Senator Clinton.

We recommend Hillary Clinton for president–Dallas Morning News Editorial Cogent, coherent argument from the Dallas Morning News. This election is really quite astounding on many levels. And for those of of you clinging desperately to the idea a third party candidate can win: you fundamentally don’t understand the game. In the Super Bowl you really…

08-Sep-2016

Oh look links from 2014 I meant to post but never did!

Since it’s 2016 now I don’t even know if all these links will work! No matter, posting anyway. Enjoy! What to Do When Your Space Helmet Fills With Water (yikes!) Sarkeesian at XOXO How CalArts Came To Dominate Hollywood’s Animation Industry The Evolution Of Visual Effects Styling And Animating SVGs With CSS This is the…

08-Sep-2016

The neat thing, well two neat things about working late are 1) this courtyard is so pretty & 2) it doesn’t happen often. (from last night)

08-Sep-2016

Pizza Declination

I did not have any. I didn’t walk over when it came. I didn’t eat any at all. There’s no plates on my desk from eating it. There’s leftovers now. [Employee X] tells me so. He asks me “do you eat Pizza?” My answer is “I didn’t have any Pizza.” The matter was settled and…

08-Sep-2016

The rough return of Cube Cat. Immersed in his phone. Work in progress.

09-Sep-2016

15 year old White House Reporter!

Charming story from my pal Dennis Wilen (who I’ve known for quite some time, here’s a 2001 blog post mentioning his wisdom) — check it out: A 15 YEAR-OLD AT WASHINGTON PRESS CONFERENCES!

09-Sep-2016

FORTITUDE

09-Sep-2016

I swear my red shirt does not indicate I work here.

10-Sep-2016

Grammie & David at Sundown

10-Sep-2016

it me

10-Sep-2016

bell

12-Sep-2016

David + Sunglasses @ Jetty (from Saturday)

14-Sep-2016

An important message from John Stumpf, Wells Fargo CEO

In today’s mailbag: To our valued customers, You may have seen news recently that some Wells Fargo customers received products and services that they did not want or need. Every day we strive to get things right. In this instance we did not – and that is simply not acceptable. So we are making it…

14-Sep-2016

Step Count

I’ve no idea what to do with this. But I use Pedometer++ and had the data export and so voila, I have a graph of my steps. See it at http://joecrawford.com/steps/ I’m using the Google Charts “Scatter Chart” visualization. And I put my code into a Github repository.

15-Sep-2016

Thoughts on being an Old Geek

I have opinions about Tim Bray’s latest post Old Geek because I am something of an “Old Geek” too. I am lucky to have found a place to work where grey hair is not an impediment. But I’m well-aware that my age may tend to make me seem less employable. But I’ve had as a…

16-Sep-2016

Sheldon Brown, Jasmina Tešanović, and Bruce Sterling

Sheldon Brown, Jasmina Tešanović, and Bruce Sterling on Septemer 9, 2016 at the The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination — a great, inspiring night of talking about robots, industrial design, activism, design fiction, the Maker movement, and much else. My brains percolating with ideas from last night. — at UCSD Atkinson Hall. Watch…

16-Sep-2016

The Six Million Dollar Ecom

16-Sep-2016

Cosplay 2016, and 2015 too.

Who dat? This year for San Diego Comic-Con 2016 I dressed up on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Day 1 (Thursday) I was Walter Sobchak, a reprise I’ve done 2 times before. I dressed as Walter for Comic-Con 2015 and for Halloween 2014. Day 2 (Friday) I dressed as Q–in his 21st century judges robes. I…

17-Sep-2016

Yellow outfit lass.

18-Sep-2016

import-external-images 500 error with Ajax

I had a pile of back-images to import recently. For some reason WordPress Import External Images” was failing to work properly on the bulk task. It worked great on individual pages but for some reason the Ajax version would crap out. Solution was to use a simple POST – accomplished by doing this in Chrome…

19-Sep-2016

Roman Numerals, Updated.

Back in 2012 I first added the Roman Numeral page, as I noted in this post. It’s ultra-simple but it’s also quite fun. I also removed jQuery from those pages. I made individual pages for individual numbers. I upgraded from the older version of Bootstrap that page uses. Enjoy.

20-Sep-2016

I give you one guess.

22-Sep-2016

That’s what the web is to me

You may have noticed that the masthead of my website has been updated with a new header. It has a nice background image that looks like this: Or rather, you would have noticed it if you were visiting my site on a regular basis. That’s okay, lately I haven’t visited often either. I do customized…

23-Sep-2016

Gallery, exhumed.

In 2003 I set it up with Gallery 1. Here’s how it looked in 2005: It’s been in a pretty ugly state for quite a while, unfortunately. But now I’ve revamped it, and that makes me happy. Check it out at artlung.com/photos/

27-Sep-2016

Vote!

It’s the morning after the debate. I’ve only watched a few smatterings of it while reading a fair amount of reaction from a lot of different quarters. It seems like Mr Donald Trump is an impulsive, lying, selfish person. I guess we knew that, but he really showed if off last night. He’s a classic…

28-Sep-2016

Look E on Friars #sandiego

28-Sep-2016

WebSanDiego’s 3rd Birthday

All this looking backward means sometimes I’ll be looking at ancient stuff. Here’s something from 2002. From Charles’ website: WEBSANDIEGO BIRTHDAY (that’s an Internet Archive Wayback Machine page):

28-Sep-2016

Guard Dog. #dogsofslacker

30-Sep-2016

Morning, earlier.

30-Sep-2016

Tagged “#DogsOfSlacker”

I’m sure having a lot of fun tagging stuff.

01-Oct-2016

Currywurst, often spoken about by my dad from when he was stationed at Checkpoint Charlie in West Germany.

01-Oct-2016

hello #inktober ! 2016

02-Oct-2016

inktober 2. Batman. #inktober #inktober2016

03-Oct-2016

San Diego Comic-Con / with David Snow! Fun find from the archives. 2001!

03-Oct-2016

Kikaider (キカイダー) hails from 1972. Oftentimes I get suggestions from friends on bots I never heard of and I finally found an affordable Kikaider. Thanks @james47ag for inspiring today’s New Bot Monday!

04-Oct-2016

Inktober #3 2016 is autobiographical. The “LUNG” in “ArtLung” is from when I worked as a Respiratory Therapist.

Related: Dead Man, 1997 and PMR Bag and Resuscitation Bag, 1992.

04-Oct-2016

This Is My Jam: Archive

I added a page to archive my archived jams. It parses the exported CSV file that the site provided. As I said before, super classy.

04-Oct-2016

Zatanna! Magical superhero. #inktober #inktober2016

05-Oct-2016

Graffiti’s getting out of control. #inktober #inktober2016

05-Oct-2016

#inktober 5. #inktober2016

06-Oct-2016

Audio Packrattitude

As a teenager I taped lots of stuff off the radio and TV. Here are my latest encodes: Douglas Adams interviewed by Larry King, 1987 David Letterman interviewed by Howard Cosell

06-Oct-2016

Buster Holmes

Seeing a friend “checking in” on Facebook to New Orleans reminded me of just how much New Orleans means to me. We lived there for a few years when I was a kid. I went to several Mardi Gras. Including one during which I got lost and was found by National Guardsman. I was 11….

06-Oct-2016

Lucius Warbaby from William Gibson’s Virtual Light is today’s #inktober Bounty hunter, doleful as hell, Amerasian from a 2006 San Francisco that never was. #inktober2016

07-Oct-2016

Weddings occasionally occur at the office where I work.

07-Oct-2016

At some point I’ll do Carrie Kelly justice. #inktober #inktober2016

08-Oct-2016

New Bot, Trek’s Q & #imwithher

08-Oct-2016

Me, Raideen (sic) & Mazinga (sic). North of $200 each and too tall for the collection. Oceanside Antique Bots!

08-Oct-2016

#inktober 8 melange. #inktober2016

09-Oct-2016

“I WANT BETTY’S HUSBAND FOR PRESIDENT”

09-Oct-2016

nine inktober @artlung two thousand & sixteen #inktober2016

10-Oct-2016

Surly Penguin. concept by @starblade68 #inktober #inktober2016

11-Oct-2016

Lady Ada for #inktober and #adalovelaceday #inktober2016 I owe my livelihood to her.

12-Oct-2016

12 days running Ink Ink Ink. #inktober2016 #inktober

13-Oct-2016

Bus Inktober Caricature of Magenta Chef with the Labret Piercing

14-Oct-2016

Inktober 1, 2015

Challenging myself to draw this month. A thing I saw on wannabeanimator said draw your character as the various things each day in October. Cube Cat as a ghost!

14-Oct-2016

Black Cat! Inktober 2, 2015

14-Oct-2016

Inktober #3 2015: Skeleton.

Cube Cat is not used to Cosplay.

14-Oct-2016

Inktober #4 2015: featuring kid Cube Cat.

14-Oct-2016

Inktober number seven 2015

Self as Frankenstein’s Monster.

14-Oct-2016

Harlequin, Harley Quinn for #inktober 7, 2015

14-Oct-2016

Inktober 12, 2015: overworked edition.

14-Oct-2016

Inktober 14, 2015

14-Oct-2016

Inktober 16, 2015

Inktober day 16 drawn to an imperfect watery end.

14-Oct-2016

ARTLUNG ✒️ INKTOBER 17 / 2015

#madewithpaper / fiftythree.com

14-Oct-2016

This week has been rough. What better balm than new bot Friday? GoShogun (ゴーショーグン) hails from 1981 anime and film. The toy is from 1999 and I dig it.

14-Oct-2016

#Inktober 14. Space folk something something? #inktober2016

15-Oct-2016

A #startrek sketch for #inktober #inktober2016

18-Oct-2016

new phone who dis

18-Oct-2016

Special Service / 41 Bus.

18-Oct-2016

Cheating and behind on #inktober2016 but feeling inspired by Afropunk, Afrofuturism & Greg Tate.

19-Oct-2016

Backdated #inktober2016 quickie roughs

19-Oct-2016

Font Awesome is… Awesome

I came across Font Awesome (@fontawesome on twitter) the other day helping out a pal on a project. How had I not heard of this? It’s a rather nice web font that includes lots of glyphs. You can use them by adding their library and adding a bit of markup. I made a little explorer…

20-Oct-2016

New addition to the corkboard.

21-Oct-2016

Bolo ties, with turquoise, a speciality. Made it to Arizona without incident.

21-Oct-2016

Book of Mo— Found object, Mesa AZ.

21-Oct-2016

So @lulubell_toys is awesome. If you’re in the Phoenix area, check it out.

21-Oct-2016

Extremism in defense of commemorative plates is no vice. – Governor Barry Goldwater

21-Oct-2016

An older photo, but this is my pal Chris to whom I wish a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

24-Oct-2016

NEW BOT MONDAY: Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V. My most favorite Bot of all. ボルテス are the first Japanese ideograms I ever copied onto paper. Predates Voltron, with which it is confused, by 6 or 7 years. Famously banned by the dictatorial Marcos regime because of revolutionary ideas. Beloved by Filipinos of a certain age. Voltes V is the bot that made me fall in love with bots. Those toys are too highly priced to buy, but this one is a fine interim purchase.

24-Oct-2016

Inscrutable #inktober2016 number 18. LATE. #inktober

24-Oct-2016

INKTOBER NINETEEN. #inktober #inktober2016 Thank you waiting room guy.

25-Oct-2016

Sketchbot by @stevetalkowski joins the collection. Pencil-wielding with a bit of attitude. Got him in AZ @lulubell_toys

26-Oct-2016

Shelby getting up in my grill #dogsofslacker

28-Oct-2016

They Live is essential

Go thou and read jwz’s They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo. They Live really does encapsulate the 1980s very well.

28-Oct-2016

Leah on “Black Sheep”

It’s been some time since Leah wrote anything at length. Do yourself a favor and have a read of This One is for My Flock of Black Sheep (and Their Families), one of many good bits: There have always been outcasts because we as humans have always been in tribes. In order for tribes to…

30-Oct-2016

Sort of a hint about my “costume.” Sort of. Not really.

31-Oct-2016

I am an iPhone playing @slackerradio playing Prince. Foregoing the eye makeup. #slackerradio

31-Oct-2016

Too scary (and pretty) to eat #slackerradio

31-Oct-2016

Freddy & Me #slackerradio

31-Oct-2016

Me and a Chicken!

01-Nov-2016

Home stretch for Hil.

03-Nov-2016

No filter, but the water is dyed.

03-Nov-2016

Surface Studio Pro at @microsoftstore San Diego sure is nice.

06-Nov-2016

This daylight is not saved.

10-Nov-2016

Will I take a break from the world for a #WonderWoman cupcake? Heck yes.

11-Nov-2016

California is – and must always be – a refuge of justice and opportunity for people of all walks, talks, ages and aspirations – regardless of how you look, where you live, what language you speak, or who you love. —California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León & California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon

11-Nov-2016

Lillie.

12-Nov-2016

not all girls who like makeup grow up to be pretty young ladies

12-Nov-2016

California. Chevy. Say it again in your head, make sure to emphasize the “Ch” on this Impala.

12-Nov-2016

Lillie & Maxie

13-Nov-2016

Lille morning.

13-Nov-2016

Toadstool. This land, was made for you and me.

13-Nov-2016

Moon, super.

14-Nov-2016

Northern California, showing off this morning.

15-Nov-2016

Foggy morn.

15-Nov-2016

California, keeper of the future of the USA.

Joint Statement from California Legislative Leaders on Result of Presidential Election gives me hope. I hope it gives you hope too. Wednesday, November 09, 2016 SACRAMENTO – California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) released the following statement on the results of the President election:…

17-Nov-2016

Very pretty, but not a good harbinger for my day.

19-Nov-2016

Good breakfast.

19-Nov-2016

Monday I met Tom Bickle in person, I’ve known him online for 14 years, give or take. He lives in NorCal, 450 miles away. It was a delight to get to know each other in person. Our conversation was a bright light in a shadowy week. I hope we get a chance to converse again in the fullness of time. Reach out and be friendly, for life is short. Liberté, Liberté chérie!

23-Nov-2016

Hail to the Chief

23-Nov-2016

Free goggles and USB cable at South Mission today.

23-Nov-2016

Not really a beach day but we’re faking it. It’s great.

23-Nov-2016

Holidays means family in town and fun adventures!

28-Nov-2016

Umbrella/Beach/Niece/Wintertime

01-Dec-2016

Home. Work. Lots of history for me downtown. Ballpark in the distance. Grant in the mural upper right.

01-Dec-2016

I am happy to see this park in service again.

01-Dec-2016

The Adas Polo at Bandar was not fooling around 15 years ago. Still not fooling around. Pricey but amazing.

01-Dec-2016

Jury Duty completed. San Diego is wonderful. Imperfect. This sky though: beauty.

02-Dec-2016

LILO is new here. #dogsofslacker

03-Dec-2016

My Native Habitat

04-Dec-2016

‘Tis the season—

04-Dec-2016

Jacqui & Helene (& Santa)

04-Dec-2016

Lee & Neen (& Santa)

05-Dec-2016

Full Grey, Full Red. From last week. Downtown.

06-Dec-2016

“Cutest Couple” candidates.

06-Dec-2016

I walk lots & wear my shoes until they are overdue dead. Replaced.

07-Dec-2016

Daily reminder computers suck; avoid them. “Signage Player.exe has stopped working”

08-Dec-2016

make judgments about what judgments you make

Calling everyone who shoots something a terrorist is an error. Calling every protester a rioter is an error. Calling all news you don’t understand or don’t agree with or has error or is propaganda “fake news” is an error. Calling every politician crooked is an error. Calling every news outlet “mainstream media” is an error….

08-Dec-2016

LEAF!

09-Dec-2016

Post-party last night. Happy Holidays Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah Happy New Year!

09-Dec-2016

Gimme five Bear.

09-Dec-2016

Drain vs. Dredge

Donald Trump has said many times he wants to “drain the swamp.” Drain: cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty, dry, or drier. Dredge: clean out the bed of (a harbor, river, or other area of water) by scooping out mud, weeds, and rubbish. Given the folks he’s…