Seth McFarlane found his calling...

art

This article is relevant to my interests... not only because I had recently visited Brazil and took note of some of the amazing street art, but also because it brings up several interesting aesthetic and social implications. Does street art suddenly lose it's influence and credibility when it is taken into the controlled and heavily political "art world" of main stream galleries? Take an artist like Shepard Fairey whose artwork is extremely political in it's own right, has he not gained more interest and favor because of his ability to show in galleries? Or has this made his message mere drivel on the wall of some lawyer who is suing a grandmother because her 13 year old grandson downloaded two Ramones songs? Just something to think about...

I could watch this all day...

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A Day in the Life of...

So since I'm sure many of you wish I was drawing more, posting more, or even maybe you are wondering if I really am alive, I thought I would give you a brief glimpse into what my average day is like...

7:05 a.m. - Alarm goes off (Shipping Up to Boston)

7:13 a.m. - snooze

7:21 a.m. - snooze

7:29 a.m. - Finally crawl out of bed and into the bathroom

7:34 a.m. - finish morning piss

7:45 a.m. - out of the shower, teeth are brushed, now to get dressed

7:50 a.m. - breakfast?

8:00 a.m. - on the road, traveling to work

8:45 - 9:15 a.m. - arrive at work (depends on traffic)

9:30 a.m. - Go over the calendar and events of the day with Em (my assisstant)

9:50 a.m. - Check and respond to emails (personal and work)

10:15 a.m. - Designing

10:20 a.m. - (Department Director) walks in my office complaining (Project they neglected to tell me about for weeks) needs done immediately

11:20 a.m. - finish (Project they neglected to tell me about for weeks), start working on the days jobs again

11:30 a.m. - Meetings

12:30 - checking my favorite webcomics to try and relax my brain

1:00 p.m. - lunch

1:30 p.m. - While I was at lunch (Department Director) noticed (Random working project) needed to be changed

2:10 p.m. - Jeff comes in and says (Project that I thought was done) has changed and needs to be updated

3:00 p.m. - finally back working on whatever I was trying to start in the morning

3:15 p.m. - get frustrated and start looking at design blogs to get inspired

3:40 p.m. - start harassing Em with brain spew, or sending out random anti-informative text messages to friends

3:50 p.m. - designing again

5:10 p.m. - Leave work

6:05 p.m. - get back home

6:10 p.m. - unwind

6:30 p.m. - FOOD.

7:00 p.m. - Scrubs time

8:00 p.m. - back in front of the computer working on freelance stuff

9:00 p.m. distracted by blogs and surfing the interwebs

10:00 p.m. - realize that things need to get done for work tomorrow and begin working on them

1:00 a.m. - Finally get tired of my eyes burning and go to bed

back to the top...

This is a generalization of one of my average days... but yea... i've been so busy lately that i don't remember a point in time when i technically didn't have something to do... i probably wasn't doing it right at the moment, but i had it to do....

and on the sociology front...

Not too much, but a nice little article.

...huh

So my assistant noticed today that when I hit a "creative block" I start with a bizarre hum and launch into the Oscar Mayer Weiner song. This perplexes me, one because I never noticed I did it, although upon reflection, realized I do it all the fawking time... and two, when have I EVER wanted to be an Oscar Mayer wiener? This must be some bizarre form of psychosis...