1539. Feel like a celebrity but the national love affair yet to start? Just plug your fave head shot into Big Huge Lab's Warholizer:
Tags: big huge labs, warholizer, pop art, andy warhol, free web stuff, art, liff, fun
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By Samuel John Klein of Portland, Oregon - Graphic Designer without Portfolio, aspiring artist who dawdled too long.
10 May 2008
[design, bloggage] Great Blog Find: Creative Curio
1538. In a missive two or three back, I featured a list of traits under the rubric "You Know You're a Graphic Designer When", and did not really go on about the blog that also, propitiously, happened to be be attached to that very post.
The blog is Creative Curio. This was the blog I was thinking I'd make this one into, except, as the header image says, I'm a way too easily distracted culture vulture. I have been devouring this over the last several days, because there is little there but good, juicy, meaty knowledge there. Amongst the stuff I found on the front page just by arriving there today:
- Using texture in the real world
- The Free People website
- Clever packaging from Yolo Colorhouse and Migros
- Typography. Because, yum, typography
- How to use scale.
And that's just on the first page.
Our suggestion: read it. At least subscribe to the RSS feed. Seriously.
The hostess is a sweetheart, too.
Tags: graphic design, design, bloggage, creative curio
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[liff] A Video For Saturday–Vintage '80s Hall and Oates
1537. A particularly neat and daydreamy video – "Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid", Big Bam Boom. If I recall, the drpping-water-on-strings motif was used in more than one video during that time. Sort of a "micro" trend.
Absolutely love this video. Sold the song to me. The sparks flying off Hall's guitar midway through the verses are a very witty counterpoint. Simple genius.
(See it unclipped-on-the-right at Yahoo! Video here. Damn API won't let me scale the dam' thing down)
Tags: Videos, Hall and Oates, Music Videos, 80s Music
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09 May 2008
[teh_funnay] Brawndo: It's Like Shaving Your Chest With Lawn Mower
1536. After the release of Idiocracy, Mark Little (the Picinicfacer that gave us the voice of Powerthirst) lent his talents to the promotion of ... Brawndo, which apparently can actually be had in reality:
Remember, don't try any of this at home ... unless you live in a hospital.
Also, visit Picnicface, if only because Evany Rosen is hot.
Tags: teh_funnay, brawndo, mark little, powerthirst, picnicface
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[liff, modern_times] Used Sport Utes = The New Confederate Shin Plaster
1535 Stumbled on via Calculated Risk, another sign of These Modren Times™: Used SUV prices falling faster than the average fraternity IQ during a beer blast:
Webb's figures show wholesale prices on big SUVs such as Chevrolet Tahoes, Ford Expeditions and Toyota Sequoias are down 17% from a year ago. Full-size pickups have fallen as much as 15%, Webb says.
"It's a challenge," says Adam Lee, president of the Lee Auto Malls dealerships in Maine. "How do you tell a good customer, 'You paid $32,000 and now it's only worth $17,000?' "
Yeah, I know. Nobody could have predicted, &c, &c.
Tags: modern_times, liff, US Economy On The Skids
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08 May 2008
[liff, biketopia] This Seems Like A Good Contest ...
1535. From another local blog, I see that the blog JohnIsFit.com is holding a givewaway for a free Fuji Crosstown bike.
A free bike? In this day of myself needing to get my fitness back on and also needing to green up my commute?
(h/t Garbage That GOO!)
Tags: Fitness, biketopia, bike commuting, pdx_bicycling
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[design] This Person Has Our Number, That's For Sure ...
1534.
You know you're a graphic designer when ...
- You are pro-Facebook because 95% of the MySpace pages burn your retinas.
- You critique every piece of design you see without realizing it (ex: “That is a horrible Photoshop mask!” or “I wouldn’t use that color scheme. A softer blue would do just nicely.”)
- You buy a CD, DVD or book for the artwork, even if you have no idea what the actual music, film or story is like. Even worse, you don’t actually watch, listen or read it, you just stare at it for hours and hug it in adoration.
- Forget the Boy-Wonder and the Man of Steel; your heroes have names like ‘Tibor Kalman’, ‘Stefan Sagmeister’, ‘Paul Rand’, and ‘Paula Scher’.
- You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.
- Seeing someone use Lens Flare and Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure.
- You look at the clock and see it’s about midnight and think ‘I’ll go to bed now’… and you actually go to bed about 2 am.
- When you know what “kerning” is and you really, really like it.
To this we add:
- You see Stephan Sagmeister naked in a book, and you're no longer surprised by it.
Read the whole list here. Just about all of it applies to us ... H/T to Kat on the InDesign Talk list, who comes up with funny stuff on a regular basis.
Tags: design, graphic design lore, teh_funnay
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07 May 2008
05 May 2008
[art] Tom Peterson: Anima-Tergum Sufferer
1532. This is a way fun, funny, clever, witty, and cool YouTube short:
It was developed by a Briton by the name of Tim Hodgson, and is a mockumentary done in straight-up deadpan style whose joke lies in the fact that just one person in the film is rotoscoped. This becomes the joke that our single rotoscoped character suffers from a skin condition that makes him look like a cartoon.
One might ask what rotoscoping is. Despite it being vastly enabled by modern tech, it's actually quite an old style, with Max Fleischer (creator of Betty Boop and Popeye) being credited with creating it (and getting a patent on the first rotoscope).
In that time, rotoscoping involved making a film, projecting it on the back of a glass, light-table style, and then tracing and coloring a cel laid upon it. The original rotoscopes were quite large, as can be seen in the patent diagram at right.
Today, you can use any variety of software tools on the most modest systems to create rotoscopes; here's a tutorial by a fellow who used Photoshop (which will also enable you to create the movie of it ... ). Of course, you're working on a frame-by-frame basis, so you'll be spending a lot of time to create a few seconds of film, but that's the way the great animators have done it.
It looks pretty exciting, is what we think. It's a great effect, and really entertains when it's used creatively, as Tim Hodgson did.
Wasn't that adaptation of A Scanner Darkly done in a rotoscope style? See? It's really got visual and emotional weight. You want to watch!
Tags: Tim Hodgson, animation, rotoscoping, YouTube, short films, mockumentary
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04 May 2008
03 May 2008
[us_politik] We Endorse!: Ace Jackalope For President
1529. We must admit, we've been feeling pretty disillusioned by the politik lately, as sad at the state of the media as the viciousness of the supporters. Quite frankly, we were about to check out of the whole thing.
Then, we found Ace:
Ace Jackalope is one of us, we feel. Cute, sincere, and will only serve one term if the food in Washington DC sucks. He is cooler than us (well, everyone pretty much is, really, but nevermind).
We don't know why nobody else has turned on to Ace. Well, we have. We at The ZehnKatzen Times enthusiastically support Ace Jackalope for President of America! Read all about this clever little fella here.
Tags: Ace Jackalope for President, us_politik, teh_funnay
[net_life] Of Course, We Knew They Were Totes Good For It...
1528. Yesterday, the Pizza Hut card arrived courtesy the folks at MyDamnChannel.com ...
The why of this is rather amusing. Recently I mentioned that I was drafted into the first class of MyDamnChannel "Co-Cons" and we had a little meet about a week back. What was cool about it was that they tried to make in an online pizza party by contacting local purveyors and having a cheese number delivered about the time of the online conference.
Sadly there were hitches. In NY, ya see, they just do this over the phone; here on the Upper Left, they demand credit card imprints (sort of an East Coast-West Coast hip-hop battle, except no battle, no hip-hop, add pizza delivery and credit card. Other than that, just the same).
Unnecessarily long story short, the pizza was a non-deliverable. But MyDamnChannel is a channel of their word, and perforce a $20 Pizza Hut card arrived just a couple days ago. Via DHL, which is, like, quite classy in the context.
Hats off to MyDamnChannel.com; I am a permanent fan now.
Also, You Suck At Photoshop is up for a Webby, for which voting has been closed and will announce on the 6th, because that's wicked funny; and the Big Fat Brain boys, who were profiled in Time, has the same profile posted at The Night Feed here.
Tags: Big Fat Brain, MyDamnChannel, Big Fat Brain, Webby Awards, You Suck At Photoshop
01 May 2008
[web_life, pdx_life] Stumptown Mollusca
1526. This looks like fun, and should be interesting to follow ...
Cool logo too.
Tags: portland octopus, portland websites, pdx, portland news
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30 April 2008
[net_life] So That's What It's Like To Be A Co-Conspirator
1525. I mentioned that I got a chance to get with a handful of very select people to give propers and feedback to MyDamnChannel.com (which is, as of now, the coolest site on the net, even moreso than PMerc's Blogtown (yea, I said it) and have myself counted as a co-con.
Here's the incriminating evidence on their blog, The Night Feed.
I am, to be sure. so cool you don't know I'm cool. Of course, the problem with that is the part where nobody knows I'm cool; c'est la guerre, mon cher. But they do.
And the Big Fat Brain guys who rool my world? Oh, not much; just the subject of an article at Time magazine. You know, no big whoop.
Tags: Big Fat Brain, MyDamnChannel, Council of the Co-Cons
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29 April 2008
[zeitgeist] Missions Accomplished
1524. In the battle against the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, major combat operations against angry black pastors who said something impolite years ago have ended.
We can now move on to real threats against national security, such as prefab pop stars who accidentally gave away their innocence to Annie Liebowitz and Vanity Fair magazine. It was impossible not to comment after reading this article and seeing Miley do the flipflop.
Before (via EW):
I think it's really artsy. It wasn't in a skanky way. Annie took, like, a beautiful shot, and I thought that was really cool. That's what she wanted me to do, and you can't say no to Annie.
Skanky. She said it wasn't in a skanky way. Which is cool because all of us were worried that Hannah Montana would come off as skanky.
After:
I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.
Oh. Well, that's all settled then.
Manufactured pop stars: Can't live with 'em; can't round 'em up and shoot them on a one way rocket ride to the sun.
Tags: zeitgeist, power politics, US_politik, presidential campaigns, Miley Cyrus, Things Which Drive Us To Drink.
[design_tools] Easter Egg Report: Taste The Rainbow with InDesign CS3
1523. The credit for this one must be given to South Pasadena CA-based Kathleen McGuinness, who you can visit at http://www.mcgraphics.com.
- Feet
- Happy
- Lights
- Woof
- Rainbow
When creating the Rainbow style be sure to use the dropdown to create it as a stripe, not as a dash.
(NB: "Taste The Rainbow" just so happened to be an easter egg in QuarkXPress, where if you created a new stroke style and called it "taste the rainbow", you got a rainbow stroke.)
Tags: Adobe InDesign, InDesign CS3, Creative Suite 3, Kathleen McGuinness, Easter Egg, InDesign Easter Egg, design_tools
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[zk_news] Progressive Radio Host Sees PDX Clearly With Image From ZehnKatzen Design
1522.
Downtown Skyline photo joins others for rich scenic Stumptown tapestry
Portland, OR – The ZehnKatzen Times – 29 April 2008 – An agreement was reached today that grants The Russ Belville Show rights to use Samuel John Klein's downtown Portland skyline photo Portland Skyline From Marquam Bridge as an element in the design of his web page, http://radicalruss.com.
The photo, taken from the back seat of a car hurtling over Portland's Marquam Bridge, shows off one of the best views of downtown Portland, complete with Riverplace riverscape and a dramatic afternoon sky scattered with typically Oregon clouds but still having vast, beautiful areas of blue.
"Much of the civic beauty that is Portland can be seen in this photograph" states the photographer, Samuel John Klein, a Portland-based graphic designer, artist, and writer. "We keep hearing from acquaintances who see this view what a lovely city Portland is, and why it has the reputation it does. We, quite naturally, agree."
The photo can be seen if one surfs to the show's web page and looks on the left end of the rotating tag-line picture strip, just below the page header itself, where the image itself stands proudly aside other beautiful and famous images of Portland.
The Russ Belville Show is helmed by its namesake, who uses the nom de broadcast "Radical Russ", and broadcasts nationally via XM Satellite Radio channel 163 and locally to the Portland market from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Saturdays via Portland's Progressive Talk KPOJ AM 620, who has a fast, frequently funny, and always witty and lively view of progressive issues and the news of the day. It's also available via free podcast (you can also subrscribe to this via the iTunes store. We do.).
Tags: ZehnKatzen, Samuel John Klein, ZehnKatzen Design, ZehnKatzen Photos, The Russ Belville Show, Progressive Radio
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[pdx_politik, teh_funnay] Portland Political Season Trading Cards, Series 2008, #5
1521. #5: Beryl McNair.
A note on style: While the other cards have been adapted from pictures of vintage baseball cards, this one is intended to look more like a modern card. The readers experience may be different, but our experience is that womens professional sports, as a marketable commodity on a par with the men's pro leagues, is a relatively recent development (and still somewhat on the bubble ... the WNBA is still playing, though sadly not here in Portland (who else misses the Fire?)) Consequently we feel that a sports card for a woman player would be most believable with a more contemporary look. This particular adaptation is 100% original, and takes its cue from the high gloss quality production levels we typically find in the modern sports collectible card.
Tags: Portland Political season, pdx_politik, Beryl McNair, Portland Mayor 2008
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28 April 2008
[liff] I'll Bet This Is Because I Made Fun Of Redding On April Fool's Day.
1520. News Item: Rash of Mild Temblors Shake Oregon, Chico Enterprise-Record.
Sorry, y'all. Won't happen again.
Tags: irony, earthquakes, subduction zone, Juan de Fuca plate, The Big One (Oregon), earthquakes
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[pdx_politik, teh_funnay] Portland Political Season Trading Cards, Series 2008, #4
1519. #4: Christopher Rich.
Tags: Christopher Rich, Portland Mayor 2008, pdx_politik, teh_funnay, satire
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27 April 2008
[liff, music] I Haz A Bass Guitar
1518. As I said, I have a short, shameful musical confession to make. It's not the following bit, though; this I am quite proud of. The shame comes later, so stay with me.
Some years back, in hopes of joining that number (even if only as a hobbyist) I got a bass of my own. It's a beautiful little blond-wood "P-Copy" (which is a bass geek's way of saying "it looka like a Fender Precision) which was apparently made by Harmony. That's her on the right.
Here's the shame part. The confession. Though I've been her keeper for many years now, I still don't know how to play her. That's right. I've promised and promised and promised myself and her we'd hook up and I've never followed through. Oh, every now and again I'd relearn how to tune her and then practice a few scales but then I'd get distracted by necessity or some bright shiny thing.
The shame grows deeper. Though I know she's a Harmony bass, I don't know what model she is. Now, I do know something about Harmony; at one time it was the biggest manufacturer of guitars in America. Most hobbyists and a great deal of pros played Harmony products. Harmony still exists, more of a niche company now, but they're still there.
But that's right; I brought her home and not only didn't get serious about playing her, I never even really got to know her very well.
The bass guitar is a beautiful thing, and I have done her a disservice by neglecting her so. To have a bass is an honor – maybe one that anyone with the proper coin can have, but an honor nonetheless – and I have not up to now been acting very deserving of the honor. I may indeed soon begin getting serious about playing her. But first I want to get to know her the way I should; I want to identify this one.
I am at this point putting out a call for help, to anyone wise the the lore of the musical instrument. Can anyone clue me into what sort of a bass I have here? Follows some closeups.
Here's the headstock:
The Harmony logo is properly done, in the proper place and attitude, and complete with the "Est. 1892" tag line. I purchased this bass in 1984, I think it was, and the original Harmony company had been relegated by the end of the '70s. Could it be possible that Harmony licensed the name out?
Here's a closeup of the body:
Tone and volume controls, two staggered pickups, and a thumbrest there on the left at the edge of the scratchplate. If you look carefully at the end of the fretboard there, between the A and D strings, you'll see the access too the neck tensioning nut (which I usually see in pictures on the headstock adjacent to the nut).
Here's the back of the headstock:
Note the little sticker there at the bottom of the headstock. Here's a closer view:
It reads "ST65N", which I think may be the model number. But I'm not sure about this; the Harmony H65 wasn't a bass. So I don't know what that sticker's supposed to be telling me.
To bring the proceedings toward their close, here's the back:
Not a great picture; somewhat blurry. Note thedark stripe down the middle of the neck; it is an inlay that no doubt closes in the neck tensioning bar. There is a metal plate there at the neck-body junction that probably houses something somehow.
That's her. If I can get her identified, then maybe I can make up for keeping her in the dark all these years. So someone help me please!
And I do intend, soon, to learn how to play her. I'm not one of those "bucket list" types; I always thought naming a list of 100 (or however many) things to do before you die just sets you up for hating yourself on your deathbed if you didn't get the whole list checked off. Better you identifiy your passions and chase them as best you can; if you go after what you want, you really can't say you've completely failed.
But if I was a "bucket list" type, playing a bass in a band on stage at least once in my life would be right up there near the top. I don't know if this is around the corner or a few years down the street yet, but, one way or the other, I'm going to do it.
Tags: dreams, music, bass guitar, Harmony guitar, Harmony bass, p-copy
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26 April 2008
[liff] Embarrassing Musical Confession
1517. I have an embarrassing musical confession to make ...
... tomorrow.
(No, it's not that my iPod has Terry Jacks' "Seasons In The Sun", Sweet's "Little Willy", and the Partridge Family's "I think I Love You" and a Rick Springfield song on it. So let's just sweep that aside right now.)
Tags: zehnkatzen, liff, music
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[art] You'll Dance To Anything ...
1516. When we heard that there's an orchestral Organ work designed to last 639 years, we thought that our calendar was off by about 25 days.
But then we heard it was composed by John Cage (who is currently decomposing), so we thought, well, yeah, of course.
639 years is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" (at 18.3 minutes) played 18,365,096.3 times, or "American Pie" (8.5 minutes) played 39,538,972 times.
More or less.
So, let's make sure we save the planet because, well, think of the children who won't hear the last note played in the year 2640. Because, yes, they really are performing it. The Wikipedia page (second hyperlink above) has samples of hours 1, three, six, and nine of the first part of the first session. Yeah, people actually attended this.
Tags: music, john cage, words sort of fail us here
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[pdx_politik, teh_funnay] Portland Political Season Trading Cards, Series 2008, #3
1515. #3: Kyle Burris.
Seriously, we can't help but like Kyle. Hustling for those few last-minute signatures he needed to file (because he's broke) and asking Sten, Francesconi, and Saltzman for sigs takes the sort of guts we need a bit more around here these days. He's an anodyne for the stress-filled, typically slick, serious-to-the-point-of-despair campaigns we've had to endure for the past few years. Honestly, the fella doesn't stand a chance, but we think his chutzpah and irreverence hits it out of the park.
Tags: pdx_politik, teh_funnay, Kyle Burris, Portland Elections 2008, Portland Mayor, Portland Oregon
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25 April 2008
[pdx_politik, teh_funnay] Portland Political Season Trading Cards, Series 2008, #2
1514. #2: Sho Dozono. Also see important message at the end of this post.
I'd also like to give propers to Jack Bogdanski who linked to the Sam Adams card and was a good sport at the good-natured dig I made in the "You Don't Like Him If" section. If anyone comes over here from bojack.org, then welcome and thanks for stopping by. Linkback perforce installed in the blogroll by way of thanks.
The traffic I'm getting now is staggering compared to what I had before. Never underestimate the power of a Bojack blessing.
Tags: pdx_politik, teh_funnay, Sho Dozono, Portland Elections 2008, Portland Mayor, Portland Oregon
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24 April 2008
[net_life] MyDamnChannel Reaches Out And Touches Me
1512. I've made a big sloppy unsecret of the fact that I am an enthusiastic consumer of content from MyDamnChannel.com, particularly the bit on the Big Fat Brain channel, which is the stupid-funniest thing I've seen on digital video in a long time.
Well, we have a date. A MDC operative got in touch with me via email today and invited me to what they're calling an inagural "Channel Co-con" meeting tomorrow at about noon. It's a get-together where we're all going to give our opinions of what we like, what works for us and thus-such on MDC.
Here's where it's getting interesting ... it's an online pizza party. MDC is located in New York, and with me square-in-the-middle of the creative class here in PDX, it's going to be hard to get a slice, particularly as I can't afford air-fare. So they're going to buy me a pizza too. Have one delivered to my address.
Seriously. This is so insane it's unsane. And I got invited and you didn't, so, suck that.
BTW, the YSAP universe is getting extended with a new series, Sn4tchbuckl3r's Second Chance, also tomorrow on the Big Fat Brain Channel, so if you didn't get invited, don't cry. We'll get to see what happens to Donnie's friend, presumably (if I'm reading the ads correctly) in Peopleburg.
Tags: net_life, MyDamnChannel, Phebco, Big Fat Brain, Roger Leventhal, sn4atchbuckl3r
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23 April 2008
[bloggage] Update Your Bookmarks, People! Stumptown Confidental Is Now...
1511. …Lost Oregon.
Support your local Schlockstar, and visit. And link. His blogs have been an extended love song to Oregon's 20th C. past, and deserves support.
Tags: stumptown confidental, schlockstar, oregon history, oregon commerical history, oregon ephemera
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[net_life] PMerc Was Just Mentioned on BoingBoing
1510. Kudos to the Merc, whose reportage on the "Citizen Gives Cop Parking Ticket" issue was just featured on BoingBoing.
Now if they'll only post the links I suggest (note to BoingBoing: have I offended?)
Tags: net_life, PDX, Portland Mercury, BoingBoing
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[design tools] How Pixeloo Untooned Jessica Rabbit
1509. The so-far-uninomially-named Pixeloo has attracted attention with his handful of reality-tooniverse mashups, which forcibly make reality and make-believe do a really compelling dance that traipses right up to the edge of "Uh-Oh" feeling territory.
The results are both disturbing and compelling. You've Simpsonized yourself, yes? Well, Pixeloo has Realityized Homer Simpson (clickthru, but warning: you cannot unsee what you has seen).
His latest work, Jessica Rabbit, has really brought it in terms of smart Photoshoppery (compared to Pixeloo, Donnie Hoyle sucks at Photoshop). The artist, apparently sensitive to the hunger of fellow Photoshop users (such as myself) to see just how the 7734 he did it, made a time-compressed 10 minute video of the first stages of untooning her. She's as compelling as the rest of this work, but not as "Uh-Oh" feeling-inducing: Watch it:
There is poetic sense here. Somehow, knowing that mixing parts of Angelina Jolie and Celine Dion, two celebrities I've always been ambivalent about, to create the ultimate toon vamp and femme fatale, just makes such great gestalt sense. It's perfect.
The tools used are admirably basic: lasso selects the appropriate part, copy-and-paste, then the liquefy tool is used to distort the bits into their proper shape. The deal is closed by the admirable talent of the artist themselves.
Jessica Rabbit; she's not bad. She's just Photoshopped that way.
(Trivia point: The tool used here appears to be Photoshop CS2. CS3 is Da Bomb, but CS2 didn't quit working once CS3 came out ... )
Tags: pixeloo, photoshoppery, untooning, Jessica Rabbit
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[pdx_people] Julia Radlick: Tough News and Who Knew?
1507.
- Tough News: Coming hard on the heels of hearing that long time folksy crinkly-voiced outdoor reporter Grant McOmie being turfed-out by KATU, also we learn that one of our top fave weather persons, Julia Radlick, is also leaving KATU.
- Who Knew? Julia styles herself as a portrait photgrapher who is now going into it full time. Her photography blog is here: Jewel Images. This seems like a natural addition to our blogroll.
Good luck, Julia. Bonhomie, Grant.
- Who Knew Part 2… Julia brings it in more ways than one. Also an ice dancer. Her and her partner are 2007 US National Silver Medalists ... The Wife™ will love knowing that – she likes the figure skating.
Tags: julia radlick, grant mcomie, KATU, pdx_media, comings and goings
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22 April 2008
[bloggage] One More Cool Bit Of Blog Art I Found Yesterday
1506. It's called gymnastic.jpg, and I forgot where I found her, but she's cool and I wanted to share this ...
If anyone out there recognizes it, please let me know so I can properly credit it.
It's she cool? Flirty and kind of sexy. The way the warm color of the skin, face and hair contrast with the cool green of her costume, the floor, and her exercise equipment is just great. The flat colors are a popular approach right now, and the shadows and perspective give it depth.
Update… The ever-amazing Stan went sleuthing and found a bigger version of the image, which is even better:
We're still not entirely sure who created the image, but the big version is being hosted here.
Tags: web graphics, art, web illustration
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