check out this A+ engineering

this is clearly the pinnacle of my engineering career. once it's done i'll post the mind blowing results.

threadbanger on abc

check out this great interview with rob and corinne from threadbanger.

fisheyes and more gocco

i wouldn't exactly call it a total success, but it turned out slightly better than my last gocco effort. i made some changes to how i printed out my image and i got rid of the little stray dots from earlier screens.

i also have another d.i.y. project in progress. i love my fisheye lomo camera, but i never have it around when i want it and i rarely have enough motivation to deal with film. so, i did some searching and found this instructable on how to turn a wide-angle door viewer into a fisheye lens for a digital camera. i bought one today and messed around with it for a while. i'm really impressed so far. if i set my camera to macro and zoom all the way in (3x) it works surprisingly well. so far i've just been holding it in front of my lens, but i've already sketched up a bracket that i'll make later this week at work... i need to take advantage of working at a machine shop while i still do. 9 more days!

i quit!

so, it's almost official. i told my bosses i am leaving and my last day will be some time around the 1st of july. i am feeling excited, relieved, scared, and a little guilty... i'm not good at quitting. i'm not entirely sure what the next chapter of my life will bring, but it will certainly involve seeing some new corners of the world, visiting friends, reexamining my priorities, and hopefully do some more making. i've been exhausted and missing some of my motivation lately, but look for more posts soon and hopefully some more successes!

in the meantime, here is some of my sketches from the last week:




i guess "liveability" isn't everything:

gocco failure

printing stuff and doing stuff

i haven't put any effort into redesigning the blog, but i have done a bit of printing. this is my first foray into multiple colors. it's also my first use of the glow in the dark ink i picked up from blim a few weeks ago. i'm not sure what to make of the actual design as it's not quite an instant masterpiece, but from a technical perspective i think it's a good first crack.

made stuff/did stuff

the fruits of my make stuff/do stuff event. it's not a complete success as i'm not happy with the quality although i've pin pointed my mistake. the issue are all the little spots on the image. my mistake was converting my adobe illustrator file into a .jpg prior to printing. even though i used a relatively high resolution i introduced some small spots that are barely noticeable on the print out, but become a big deal on the gocco screen.

what i accomplished this weekend:
- i coated three screens for printing (not the gocco variety) yesterday and should be making some images later this week.
- i bought some uni-ball pins as i lost my other one. this may not sound exciting but they are way more fun to draw and write with than a normal ball point... trust me.
- i got some white gocco ink at blim, unfortunately they didn't have black, which is what i set out to find.
- i got a little water color set.

what i want to accomplish this week:
- redo my blog layout/graphics. i'm sick of this blogspot theme.
- make my new screens.
- find a good t-shirt supplier.
- kick it old skool... that's right, old skool

etsy sales count: 0
effort put into changing this: 0