Apr 05 2011
Yikes! I’ve gone a whole week between #PortraitNight posts without a real, written blog post. Oh well, blame my daughter’s preschool being out last week for spring break. Tonight’s subject is rock-and-rollist Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. I dig pretty much all the early Pretenders records, but I’m partial to the first two records with …
Apr 04 2011
So, I’m doing yet another weekly Twitter project: the Animal Alphabet (hashtag #AnimalAlphabet). Rob Ullman and I brewed this up last week, but hopefully some other folks will join in. If the project winds up picking up any real steam in the form of regular contributors other than the two of us, I might set …
Mar 29 2011
This week’s #PortraitNight is a bit of a rush job, I’m afraid; I spent much of the weekend tangled up in a not-as-simple-as-expected project setting up a digital music player stereo component. Anyway, tonight’s subject is fashion dilettante and international nasty-man Muammar Gaddafi:
Mar 23 2011
Earlier this week, Tom Hart did a great blog post over at the Sequential Artists Workshop site called “Oblique Strategies for Comics.” Tom’s got a great list there of unusual constraints (or parameters maybe?) that one can use to “kickstart” a comic. It’s posted without much further explanation, but the items on that list are …
Mar 22 2011
Tonight’s subject is philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. I was a philosophy major in college and did my thesis on Wittgenstein. I’d love to tell you that I therefore have a really solid understanding of his two most notable contributions to philosophy–logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy–but his ideas are pretty slippery and even after studying him …
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