Today’s Found

It’s been a while, a little too while…

Sara got me a print of this Chad Hagen piece that had been making the rounds:

I get the general method of how he constructed it, even if I didn’t match it aesthetically:

I had fun constructing this, it was akin to playing with legos. Today on Reddit someone asked, “If your twelve year old self saw you today, what would he say?” He would probably say that that thing was pretty cool. Then hopefully he would get a realistic sense of perspective on his age and enjoy the hell out of being twelve.

Maybe being 25 isn’t that much different.

In supplement, here’s a shot of the print framed and lit:

I’m particularly proud of that lighting solution I’ve concocted. I’m sure it will make Ben proud.* Especially when it falls down in the middle of the night electrocuting my right foot.

*I believe this is one of Ben’s clamps, too.

Today’s Ffffound: Helvetirock

Most of my 5 minutes was spent finding and installing Helvetica. It doesn’t come default? It doesn’t come default. “Use Arial,” says Microsoft.

Damon sayz use Akkurat instead. I only use fonts that don’t sound like countries and/or one of their exotic animals. Just kidding, I’m not fontist-I’m cheap.

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This was mostly meant to act as a reminder that I have a ton of photos to flickr-ize, Right after I figure out life.

Today’s Ffffound: Noodley Master

Right, so this is rather simple but I went for it because A.) I wasn’t in the mood for something complex and more importantly B.) because I think it’s hilarious.

If you’re unaware of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, aware yourself.

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Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. Ramen.

Today’s ffffound: Channels

This one is pretty straightforward, but more than 3/4 of my time was spent wrestling with Photoshop’s gradient system. Every gradient I made looked more like a donut and less like a gradual progression of color.

1. Pay attention to both colors at the ends of your gradients, the color affects the gradient even if it’s set too 0% opacity.
2. Use clipping masks when working with vector shapes and gradients or other non-solid color fills. Using pixel based selections and fills will bite you in the ass when you need to resize the whole document.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

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Today’s ffffound: Kobun Voodoo

I’ve been trolling through my photos lately for these ffffound pieces. It goes something like this:

Fuck. I have a lot of photos. Can I post photos from 2006 on flickr? Would anyone care? Wait…no one cares now. Perfect!

So there, expect old photos, made new again, on flickr.

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*look at that, Kobun was on flickr.

Today’s ffffound – The Gateway

Original is ze top, mine is ze bottom.

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Today’s ffffound: Ink

Sleep or ffffound fun? I’m keeping this going while the novelty is still warm.

No context for this one, just the found page.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

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Also, I desperately need real fonts. I’ve got the fonts I used up there, Wingdings, and a broken font that only makes boxes. And Helvetica.

Today’s ffffound: ffffog

Putting the Highlandtown photos to good use with today’s ffffound.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

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Today’s ffffound: graphn’ circles

It’s about 2:49am, but fuck if I’m going to a Friday out stop me from making crappy art copies!

Originally I wanted to use this but it wasn’t going well. I’ll return to it later.

Instead I went for the easiest shape in the universe: circles. Circles done by Bridget Louise Riley, who until this posting, I didn’t know about. Thanks ffffound!

What I like about my drawing is I ended up making offset circles instead of perfect geometric inlays. Take that, graph paper. 

Original on top, mine on bottom.

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Today’s found: Cassini and Saturn

I would suggest stopping what you’re doing and viewing these photos that the satellite Cassini took of Saturn and her rings. They are astounding. I want to travel to space more than anything.

I only spent 5 minutes on this one.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

Source from Boston.com’s Big Picture
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