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since 1999 this has been the personal website, blog, archive, message in a bottle, calling card, digital garden, rough draft, and curriculum vitae of me, joe crawford. hi.

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07-Feb-2012

Richard Gate (and jQuery) Richard Gate is my brother-in-law. I’ve mentioned him once before. I put together a website for him in February 2007. I think it’s a great little site that does precisely what it needs to. It introduces you to an artist’s work. I worked with him this week to provide something interesting on the main richardgate.com...

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22-Jan-2012

Duck Man! Duck Man! from Basquiat

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14-Mar-2011

Ray at Night and Other Delights On Saturday night Leah, Alexandra, Tamara Leeper and I went out to Ray at Night, an art walk on Ray Street here in San Diego. I mentioned attending Ray at Night in 2003, but I’m not totally sure what year I first went. They’ve been putting it on for almost 10 years. Before we went...

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28-Jan-2011

Receipt Poetry, 1999 https://cdn.artlung.com/soundmedia/realpoetry.mp3 to go ch’ bg’ grr sul grr fuh-fuh md’ lmon see shk tax

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28-Jan-2011

“Art” I’m not sure what I think of these now. They’re interesting graphic designs, and definitely I used what I learned from them when I made my headers. I’m not sure they qualify as art. Untitled, 1997. Untitled. 11 June 2000.

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28-Jan-2011

Askew and Askance, 1992 Since I’ve known how to draw or create, I have made self-portraits in words. I always include down the places I have been, and where I may go next. I also include how I identify myself. (this was made on a Mac and used to be part of the non-professional part of my portfolio, I’m...

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15-Jan-2011

The Best Life A Pot Can Have Joe Bennion has a beautiful post over on his blog: The baking dish. It’s about different ways to work. Here’s the crucial bit: …he and I work differently to get to the same point. His approach involves a series of thumbnail sketches and maquettes, from which one is chosen to be executed full scale. I...

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06-Apr-2010

Pre-Gaga Gaga. Deleted: The first time I heard of Lady Gaga it was from Krisztianna. At the time I thought her fandom of Miss Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was delusional or maybe even ironic. As it turns out, Lady Gaga actually has quite a lot going on for her. She’s worked hard, and for many years to...

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22-Mar-2010

Chatroulette: Merton, Ben Folds The wonder serendipity that was part of the net I remember now gets YouTubed and shared back with the world. I wrote about Chatroulette last month, here’s some wonderful video that is internet + piano + video + flash-enabled randomized connected chat. It’s a wonderful selection. Note: there are swear words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfamTmY5REw I still like...

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16-Feb-2010

Playing around with deformed images The other day the super-cool Pinguino was asking about the effect you get when an image does not download properly. I had wondered about it before, so I opened some images, tore out a big chunk of the underlying data, and looked at them. The first is what it looks like when a GIF is...

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07-Feb-2010

TED TALK: Tom Shannon Leah, I think you will like this one.

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18-Jan-2010

Jacob Lake Campground At Christmastime, which Leah and I spent in Kanab, Utah with family, I drove south towards the north rim of the Grand Canyon. I took a few photos on the drive. Kanab’s elevation is 4,970 feet — there was a very slight amount of snow on the cliffs near Kanab and lingering in the town...

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20-Oct-2009

It’s Readers That Matter From Exclusive Interview With Ashok Banker! Where can we find more info about you and your work? From me directly. I follow a one-on-one approach to marketing. That means I wait for a reader or prospective reader to contact me, whether through Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, my blog, etc, and then I interact directly. It’s not...

art philosophy social-media writing
30-Oct-2008

Vampirella like Rio by Nagel Terrific Vampirella drawing by Cliff Chiang, who has a fun blog. It’s an homage to Rio, of course — by Patrick Nagel. Nagel was among my inspirations when I was a teenager. The technical craftsmanship, the acute graphic design sense inspired me.

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29-Aug-2008

Animation: Initial energy lost in final product This is a problem in all the arts, I think. The energy of a a musician’s demo is higher than the final recorded song. A sketch is more fun than a final drawing. It’s acute here in the storyboard and the final rendering from the new film Bolt: Funny commentary from Cartoon Brew:

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28-May-2008

Last.fm Wallpaper Generator Cool tool! If you have a Last.fm account, which I do, you can generate an image with the covers of the music you listen to: Last.fm Wallpaper Generator. It’s out of date since I don’t have Last.fm turned on these days, but it’s not a bad representation. found via the excellent Kill Ugly Radio

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13-May-2008

After Action Report: SIGGRAPH, Petersen Auto Museum, Chris, Canter’s Last night I went to the SIGGRAPH LA event at Petersen Auto Museum. It was a terrific event and there was much inspiration and food for thought. I met my friend Chris Greazel there. It’s always great to see Chris. Apparently a touch screen “Minority Report” type interface for visualizing accessories has increased sales of...

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11-May-2008

Misc, Art, Mother’s Day It’s been a long while since I did a full wrap up of what I’m looking at and reading. So here’s some miscellaneous stuff I’ve read and thought about and watched and listened to. Tom Bickle asked some really interesting philosophical questions today: How entitled?: What’s in a name? Surely, any communication carries with it...

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09-May-2008

Process These photos of Drake Brodahl’s process of making some art are inspiring — PUMML: Process. It’s almost like a how-to. It definitely gives me ideas. Maybe it will inspire you too?

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30-Mar-2008

New Ronny Vardy Etsy Store Hey Cool! There’s a new Ronny Vardy Etsy Store and I made a note of it. I’ve been a fan of her work since 2001 or so. Since then, I did this strange thing many years ago and started a Ronny Vardy Fan Site. I can only update sporadically, but I enjoy when I can.

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14-Mar-2008

Joe Bennion’s Pottery I’m a sucker for seeing how things get made — “how do they do that?” So seeing photos over on Rick’s blog of Joe Bennion throwing some of his pottery — well — I was blown AWAY! Really wonderful to see the work being done. And Joe has even more photos over on his blog....

art photos
13-Mar-2008

How to Dial a Telephone (1927) It occurs to me that if rotary telephones were put in back service they’d have to repeat this public service message. You can put your SIM card in a rotary phone, you know. Portable Rotary Phone – Black. And here’s an art piece that represents a USB rotary dialer. If i used VOIP I would...

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09-Mar-2008

Leah, Painting Leah has been doing some painting and it’s pretty great. Here’s a set of paintings that are for sale:

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21-Jan-2008

The Figure 5 in Gold The Figure 5 in Gold: Charles Demuth’s Art & William Carlos Williams’ Poem This has been sitting in draft mode for a few weeks now, and now here’s the real thing. I think the first time I ever saw this painting was when I was in the 6th grade in New Orleans. It struck me...

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