Entries from June 2007 ↓

Well, what have we here. I’m going through the cabinets to do some necessary sorting, and came across this little guy. Literally taken a lifetime ago, clinging to the object that was his very first word. “Ball.”

Check that dude out, all pimped out in his pistol hat. I’ve always had a thing for hats. What you can’t see on the vest are the embroidered letters A, B, and C, which in one way or another led to a pretty slamming version of the Alphabet Song in 1972.

“The future is uncertain, but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.”
–Ilya Prigogine

So today was “Guess Everybody’s Favorite Beverage” day. Participants resourceful enough to remember to grab something from the fridge this morning all brought in the drink of their choice; the forgetful ran out and got their representative beverage at lunch. The drinks are all now spread across the conference table here in the Design Department. A total of twenty. Each drink is numbered. =continued=

“Cheers with Wine in Dark Chocolate Cups”
Photoshop
Random wine tasting spree, 2007

“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.”
–Victor Borge

(And yes, it’s true.)

They’re talking about it.

Another one for the Awwwww category, only this time it’s true.

A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsumani waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombasa.

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I turned 21 years old in 1990. From about ‘90 - ‘93, I was an aspiring drummer in college studying computer music, working at an electronic drum factory making electronic versions of my favorite instrument. It was a good set-up. My buddy Dan, the most mechanically-inclined dude you’d ever meet, owned the drum company. We had a huge shop at the 300 block of W. 130th Street at Broadway, in an industrial pocket on the outskirts of the the shady hood of Los Angeles. I consider this an integral chapter in my formative years. The 1992 Los Angeles riots happened during this time in my life.

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RGB values,
CMYK recipes,
Lots of math involved.

And I thought I already had mine down. =view lesson=

“(Coming out of a) Surf of Fire and Blood”
36″ x 24″
Oil on canvas in the sunshine
June 24, 2007

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“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.”
–George Burns

I love this one. Which direction is our gal spinning: clockwise or counter-clockwise?

Look closely. You’ll initially see her on her left foot spinning clockwise, or on her right foot spinning counter-clockwise. Look again. Try to mentally change the direction. Ride that line and see if you can control what you see. If you find it difficult to reverse the direction of her spin, concentrate on switching her feet.

Upon careful observation of her shadow, you’ll see that she is in fact on her left foot, spinning clockwise.

Source: kisrael