According to this beautiful and useful calendar I purchased in Brighton Beach, it is ЯНВАРЬ and my blob has been silent since НОЯБРЬ. But I have a fancy scanner now. Hold onto your butts!

A doodle I made in honor of Bill Murray and Bill Murray Appreciation Day on dribbble (thanks to Dan Fierman and GQ Magazine for the words). I’ve been uploading some works-in-progress and such over there that haven’t necessarily made their way over to this site, so do feel free to take a peek if you are so inclined!

One pleasant Sunday a few weeks ago a big bunch of my friends and I escaped our urban surroundings in favor of my parents’ llama farm. /// continue reading

Maybe if I repeat it in Swedish, this sore throat will fade away before the meterologically magnificent weekend ahead (jag är inte sjuk = I am not sick). Lying in bed, my brain started wandering and landed on sjuk, Swedish for “sick.” I tossed it around in my head a little and became inspired to teach the blobosphere about the sj- sound. My Swedish teacher may have explained it best as the “candle-blowing” sound. It’s somewhere between an h and a w, with a little bit of “f” thrown in for good measure. You produce a fun amount of wind – enough to extinguish a candle, perhaps – in producing the sound. Try it! fwhhh!

Here is a Swedish robot pronouncing sjuk. And six other sj- words for you to enjoy:

Did you know that the longest single-word palindrome is saippuakuppinippukauppias, a Finnish compound that means “soap cup seller?” I don’t know what a soap cup is, or if people actually sell them, but there is a word for it in Finland just in case. While the Finns – and Dutch, too – have the most impressive single-worders, I found (not wrote – I wish!) a bunch of amusing English palindrome phrases to embellish those pictures I mentioned my last post on the ol’ blob. Sometimes they’re nonsense like the above, but sometimes they fit the photo sort of perfectly. /// continue reading

I discovered this simple little trick a while back that can turn any picture into a sometimes strikingly different version of itself – a couple steps in Photoshop resulting in a seamlessly symmetrical image that, like a playing card, reads the same rightside up as upside down. I’ve built up a small collection of these and I have some fun plans to expand on the process in the future, but I thought I’d share these two recent examples that seem to fit together in a kind of ghostly-heavenly architecture motif. I can almost hear Justin Bieber Slowed Down 800% playing in the background, can you?

The question is what to do with them (something I confront a lot with my growing supply of half-cooked ideas) – these two seem ready for some spaced-out, all-caps Futura centered over them speaking importantly, but I’m not sure if I need to wait to retrofit a design project to them. Maybe some nice people on the internet would buy a print or two if I got a nice series together. I’m open to other ideas!