July 2004 Forty-two posts

• 29-Jul-2004
  Let’s look at some headers! For some time I’ve been making headers for this site. Tonight I redesigned that page to include thumbnails for the individual headers. I strive to make some kind of artistic something with these. I sometimes succeed. Looking back, there are some really nice ones. I made these thumbnails with webkit2png – an awesome command line...

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• 29-Jul-2004
  iTunes Smart Playlist: “where song title contains “dead” I swear this is not morbid. Already Dead – Beck Better Off Dead – Randy Newman Daisy Dead Petals – Tori Amos Dead – They Might Be Giants Dead End Job – The Police Dead Flowers – Townes Van Zandt Dead Girls Of London – Frank Zappa Dead Girls Of London – Frank Zappa Dead...

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• 29-Jul-2004
  Oh Snap! Cory Doctorow went OFF on Gizmodo! …on BoingBoing: Ebook column that gets it all wrong

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• 28-Jul-2004

  
  Leah Peterson’s Latest Work Oooh. Leah painted last week and came out with two really wonderful paintings — in a style that combines some of her “trees” work — which she used to sell as individual prints — and some of her abstract, large canvasses. On Saturday she was interviewed for a documentary and enjoyed herself quite a bit....

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• 28-Jul-2004
  Al’s got photos! I like Al’s latest gallery: upwards

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• 28-Jul-2004
  Comic Con Post on San Diego Blog Continues to Grow I keep updating this thread. So many tasty links! San Diego Blog — Con: More. More. More

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• 28-Jul-2004
  Exposing oneself to others ideas One of the cool things about having family here last week and before was being exposed to their tastes and thoughts. My sister’s boyfriend D. has some really cool tastes. Here are some of them: James Kochalka’s American Elf is one. He has an interesting pitch for supporting his site: American Elf: the Sketchbook Diaries...

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• 27-Jul-2004

  
  Stray URLs from Comic Con Schwag Okay, so here’s where I do the traditional “go-through-my-con-crud” and extract the pearls and throw out everything. It’s always fun for me. It’s better than my old technique — which was to packrat it all for years and never look at it again. And it begins… Design Studio Press has awesome books about concept design....

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• 27-Jul-2004
  Titan Magazines So I’m going over the crap I picked up at Comic-Con, and found a promo for Titan Magazines. You know, they have monthly and bimonthly magazines for fans of tv shows. The titles are: Alias, Angel, Bufffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Smallville, and Stargate SG-1, and a catchall magazine called Dreamwatch. At first I was...

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• 27-Jul-2004

  
  Joe as Star Wars Toy At the Con the Star Wars people had a booth where you could pretend to be an action figure. For those of you wondering what I would look like as a Star Wars toy, wonder no more.

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