Video clip shot on my phone of the beginning of Hell’s Bells:

*UPDATE* More pix from Naylor and B-Load. [click to continue…]

“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
— Thomas Edison

From Creative Sparks, a list of words to aid you in your next brainstorming session. Mix, match, whatever:

action
altercation
backward
bitmap
blueprint
blur
border
brush cartoon
childlike
collage
compete
condense
conform
contrast
crisscross
crop
crows
crude
cultural
cut & paste
damage
deform
doodle
drop shadow
embellish
emboss
era
expand
extreme
fade fill with…
form with…
fragment
frame
gradation
ghost
glow
graffiti
graphic element
halftone
handcrafted
highlight
human
imae within
incline
interlace
intricate
label
line break
linework
link
linocut
mask
material
minimal
mixed fonts
mixed size
mixed tone
mixed weight
mood
motion
multimedia
multiple outline
nature
negative
novelty
odd
ornament
out-of-register
overlap
paint
pencil
perspective
photo effects
photorealism
posterize
punctuate
repetition
realism
repeat
reverse
scientific
sequential
shadow
shape
signage
silhouette
sketch
speak
spiral
splatter
split type
stamp
stencil
symbol
tessellate
threshold
tilt
time period
tonal
transluscent
type element
type with…
typewritten
varied baseline
varied orientation
universal symbol
word puzzle
words within words

Let me try:

Crudely embellished fragment sketches overlap childlike out-of-register cartoon doodles with extremely intricate nature symbols contrasted with scientifically inline human perspective.

See? Good exercise.

Downtown Los Angeles today. A guy playing his saxophone on 6th between Olive and Grand.

“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
— Blaise Pascal

“(When you speak,) Use plain, simple language, short words, and brief sentences. That is the way to write English. It is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.”
— Mark Twain

It’s certainly got its hands full. Knock ’em dead, tiger.

A swatch of PANTONE 14-0848 Mimosa. Pantone, which provides color standards to design industries, specifically cites mimosa, a vibrant shade illustrated by the flowers of the mimosa tree as well as the brunch-favorite cocktail, as its top shade of the new year, but the company, in general, believes the public will embrace many tones of optimistic yellow.

From Mason Street School in San Diego County. The schoolhouse still stands to this day, with the Instructions to Teachers and the Punishment Guidelines posted on the outside wall. Dating back to the 1800s.

The Instructions to the Teachers:

It reads:

1872 INSTRUCTIONS TO THE TEACHERS

1. Teachers will fill lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks each day.

2. Each teacher will bring a scuttle of coal and a bucket of water for the day’s use.

3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs for the individual tastes of children.

4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes or two evenings if they go to church regularly.

5. After ten hours in the school the teacher should spend the remaining time reading the Bible and other good books.

6. Women teachers who marry or engage in other unseemly conduct will be dismissed.

7. Every teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reasons to suspect his worth, intentions, integrity and honesty.

8. The teacher who performs his labors faithfully without fault for five years will be given an increase of 25 cents a week in his pay — providing the Board of Education approves.

The Punishment Guidelines:

It reads:

Punishments

1. Boys and Girls Playing Together: 4 lashes
2. Fighting at School: 5 lashes
3. Quarreling at School: 5 lashes
4. Gambleing or Betting at School: 4 lashes
5. Playing at Cards at School: 10 lashes
6. Climbing for Every Foot Over Three Feet Up a Tree: 1 lash
7. Telling Lyes: 7 lashes
8. Telling Tales Out of School: 8 lashes
9. Giving Each Other Ill Names: 8 lashes
10. Swaring at School: 8 lashes
11. For Misbehaving to Girls: 10 lashes
12. For Drinking Spiritous Liquors at School: 8 lashes
13. Making Swings and Swinging on Them: 7 lashes
14. For Waring Long Finger Nails: 2 lashes
15. Misbehaving to Persons on the Road: 4 lashes
16. For Going to Girls Play Places: 3 lashes
17. Girl Going to Boys Play Places: 3 lashes
18. Going to School with Dirty Faces and Hands: 2 lashes
19. Calling Each Other Liars: 4 lashes
20. For Wrestling at School: 4 lashes
21: For Weting Each Other Washing at Playtime: 2 lashes
22. Scuffling at School: 4 lashes
23. For Going and Playing about the Mill or Creek: 6 lashes
24. For going about the Barn or doing any Mischief about the Place: 7 lashes

November 18[XX]

There are a few comments I could say here that’d probably get me in trouble. But I’m curious: how many lashes am I in for if I call the Board of Education a bunch of douchebags for misspelling gambling, lies, swearing, wearing, and wetting? Before you do the math, give me some time to throw a few rocks through their windows for ignoring the serial comma.