head transplants

i could barely use photoshop before this project began. i still have no idea what most of the tools do. i will say that starting with good photos helps A LOT.

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in this case, you can kill two big birds with one stone.

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+ (i realized here that i was gonna have to do a hand transplant too.)

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it still didn't feel right. a three piece like that demands a 'stache.

classic

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oh rummy

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or this one. i'm not sure which version is better.



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here's a helpful blog about photoshop that i like to look at. enjoy!

your business card is meat!

i still can't tell if this is a joke. thanks to ona for bringing this and the previous post to my attention.

your business card is crap!

your business card is crap!

driving under the influences

edward tufte is a "pioneer" in the field of information design. he teaches at yale. i've owned and enjoyed a copy of his pamphlet "the cognitive style of powerpoint" for a while, but i didn't really know anything about him until i came across his book, visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative. it's a treat for the eyes, as tufte compiles all sorts of charts, graphs, and maps from history to help illustrate his points.

attending a neil hamburger performance last september was a revelation. not because of neil (though i think he does fantastic work), but because of the opening act, pleaseeasaur. you can read more about the show i went to here (scroll down to the bottom to listen to pleaseeasaur's "business incorporated.") as a musician, comedy fan, and aspiring educator, i have always felt inclined to incorporate performance into my artwork. watching pleaseeasaur definitely gave me a shot of confidence. it takes a lot of guts to get up in front of people and make a fool of yourself.

bruce mccall has long been an inspiration to me. he has a tremendous gift for lampooning modern life. his out of print book zany afternoons, is one of my most treasured possesions. i feel that no matter what i'm working on, there is always a candle burning for bruce.

proposal

there are four components to this project:

-a semi-legitimate looking website at thewaylongroup.com

-a semi-legitimate looking office

-some power-point performances

-a short corporate video

these four things should keep me busy in the following ways:

-coming up with logos for my business and it's associated companies/charity organization.

-generating content for the powerpoint performances and website.

-finding and making props for the office and the video.

-making the video

by week five i hope to have the office set up, another powerpoint ready to go, and an outline for the video.

money, money, everywhere, and all the banks did shrink; money, money, everywhere, nor any coins to clink.

jean baudrillard on debt:
when a debt becomes too cumbersome, then, it is banished to a virtual space where it resembles a deep-frozen catastrophe in orbit. debt becomes a satellite of earth, just like war, and just like billions of dollars' worth of floating capital now conglomerated into a satellite tirelessly circling us. and surely this is for the best. just so long as such satellites keep circulating--and even if they explode out in space--the world is not affected by them, which is the best possible outcome. for the suggestion that the imaginary economy and the real one might one day be reconciled is a utopian one: those billions of floating dollars are untranslatable into real economic terms--and that is just as well, because if, per mirabile, they could be reinjected into productive economies, the result, for once, would be a true catastrophe.

h.l. mencken on money:
the chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.