tablets rule

i got my tablet this afternoon, and after several hours of tinkering with blogger templates for work, i had a chance to use it for evil. here is the result:

as you can see, it's not all about the tablet, but it didn't look like that yesterday. you know what they say about using the right tools for the job? totally true. i also started on something else, since i've been meaning to seriously get myself back into drawing all year. i have no excuse not to now that i have a computer's worth of color to use with something other than a trackpad and/or mouse.

this isn't one of them, but i've been remembering my dreams a lot more lately. i plan to pilfer some of the more interesting wrong versions of the real world.

summer projects

it's the summer and i just graduated college...so now what? i'm between school and career, and suddenly have all the free time in the world (theoretically. at least until my paycheck job kicks in again, filling the growing void in my checking account.).

SUMMER PROJECTS!

for my own benefit of listing, and to quench overwhelming public interest, here is a list of projects i have begun or will undertake sometime this summer:

• GETTING A JOB AND STARTING A CAREER
• building a fixed-gear bike -- done, now dolling it up with extras, possibly including...
• bike gps system! since i got gps on my exceptionally disappointing, i've found knowing where i am in the world at all times an indispensable piece of information. make has an article about some fella who converted an old pocket pc into a bike-mounted gps system. if the software doesn't exist to do turn-by-turn directions, building the damn thing and programming it would not only make me really awesome, but it would be good to have. let's hope i don't crash it into anything.
• dramatically increasing my video/animation output. now that i don't have those foolish classes i decided to take last semester (biology? what was i thinking??) eating my time and stressing me out, i need to do what i like again.
• the news, a day late, by puppets. i'm not sure where this one's going to go, and i don't want to spoil the whole idea before i start doing it, but i've always wanted to make puppets, and i'm going to use the shit out of the...
• green screen. i anticipate this being a wall in pilam. i mainly want it to exist so i can remake this video over and over and over and over again whenever i'm not practicing my track stand* or looking at apartment listings and gently weeping.
• speaking of pilam, the fast-talking, gun-toting spotter and i decided that this is the summer of science. while we're not sure what that means exactly, it'll likely involve a lot of awesome shows that i make flyers for using my soon-to-arrive...
• graphics tablet. freelance illustration, here i come.
• but before i go there, i realize that i haven't actually spent too much time outside of the philadelphia area. to remedy that, it's travel time. dc, nyc, boston, chicago...MAYBE EVEN TO THE WEST?

good ideas, bad ideas, and everything in-between!

*joke (?)