Tonight, Kate and I are playing a game. It is called the Don’t Drink the Bacon Grease game. The first person to drink the bacon grease loses the game.
So far we’re both winning.
But I think Kate might be pulling ahead.
Version Zwei
December 7, 2009
Apologies to any Germans in the audience for brutalizing your beautiful native tongue.
Going Indie
December 5, 2009
It’s barely December, but I’m so sick and tired of this semester that I’m already working on next year. Kate was nice enough to get me Phaeton as an early Christmas present, and so I’ve been working on the art direction for my independent study next year:
This is gonna be a fun one.
Spirit of the Season
December 5, 2009
The $300 billion donated to charities last year cost the federal government more than $50 billion in lost tax revenue.
Leave it to the New York Times to characterize charitable donations as a bad thing, because they reduce federal tax receipts.
I suck at this whole self-promotion thing.
November 24, 2009
The smart.fm iPhone app is now available in the App Store, and has been for a few weeks.
Not only is it awesome, it is also free. Thanks to the smart.fm iPhone app, I’m finally learning all those stupid tiny states on the Eastern seaboard. Because I wouldn’t want to try to learn something more ambitious, now, would I?
Super-mega-huge props go to the kick-ass team at Cerego and the experience ninjas at Adaptive Path. They made this whole thing happen.
Me? I drew pretty pictures:
Which I guess is pretty kick-ass in its own right.
I Want It That Way
October 23, 2009
Speaking of Adaptive Path, these were the awesome folks who took me under their wing for the summer:
My eyes mist up just watching this video. I miss you guys!
Hot damn, I’m excited.
October 23, 2009
Smart.fm has submitted their iPhone app to Apple for approval. Their beautiful landing page for the app gives you a nice glimpse of what to expect.
I did the concept generation for the learning game experience while working at Adaptive Path for the summer. We had a kick-ass team, that included Alexa, Dan, Brian, and all the cool cats at smart.fm. They have all been chronicling their work on this project on the Adaptive Path blog.
I can’t wait to see this go live!
Outside In: Bringing The Outdoors Indoors
October 15, 2009
For my capstone project, I’m exploring ways to help outdoor enthusiasts maintain a connection to the outdoors when they need to be inside. Sadly, not everyone can work as a ski instructor, mountaineering guide or tree planter their whole lives. As these people make their way into the great indoors for the majority of their working lives, how can we make it a less alienating experience for them?
More sketches are available in the Capstone gallery at my Flickr account.
Chainsaw Hand and Toaster and Santa for Some Reason
October 15, 2009
Mark this point in history. Yesterday was the first time in my life I had ever used a Wacom tablet for sketching.
People say it takes about three weeks of concerted effort to get used to using a tablet. By the looks of things, I pretty much perfected my technique right out of the gates.
Separated at Birth
October 10, 2009
Behold: ET: The Extra-Terrestrial and the new Photoshop Logo.
I gotta hand it to Adobe. They really knocked this one out of the park. I mean, look at that gloss. It just screams OS X Aqua circa 2000.
Yes, yes. The logo is old news, but it’s newly interesting now that you can host this ass of an icon on your iPhone.
