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Application of La Coquetterie Masthead

This is a mocked up magazine cover for La Coquetterie, a self realized fashion magazine focusing on haute couture.

Main Street Cupcakes Promotional Poster

A promotional poster for the local cupcakery, Main Street Cupcakes, located in Hudson, Ohio. This features hand drawn illustrations and hand drawn type later re-vectorized.

Main Street Cupcakes Mini Booklet Mini Poster Proof Sheet

This is a booklet designed for a local cupcakery as a promotional item. The booklet details the story of Main Street Cupcakes and goes through the narrative of a single day of making cupcakes. This features hand drawn illustrations, hand drawn text, and original copy. It opens up to a fold out poster displaying a map to Main Street Cupcakes in Hudson, Ohio, as seen below.

Michael Jackson ‘Beat It’ Jacket | Zippers

Illustration, A dynamic view of a legendary piece of clothing. This was created for a song I plan to release for Halloween as a tribute to Michael Jackson and his song Thriller.

Typographic Re-imagining of Doris Lessing’s “Briefing for a Descent Into Hell”

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shanetron:

hot off the presses | just exported the file

Method Actors - You Will You Will
I filmed most of the footage for this video, designed the logo, as well as handled programming, editing, mixing, mastering of the audio with Ben Cureton.

logo for VAMP consignment, somewhere in Colorado.

Originally Posted on August 11, 2011.

The first poster never got posted up, so I decided to make it look as if a reprint and a reconstruction was ordered quickly. On the original post, I promised a new poster the next time, as this is becoming a ‘thing’.

Originally posted on August 1, 2011.

“My band, Cities & Years (with Ben Cureton), is playing a show in a week. Even though we’re opening at 8 PM on a Tuesday, I put us on top of the flyer because that’s how excited I am about us finally unveiling what we’ve been working on, for over a year, to other people. Our set exemplifies so much of how I’ve been feeling that there’s no way to disconnect me from it, to the point that I feel intertwined with it.

That’s not even a strong enough statement.

I guarantee it. I stand behind it 100%. This music is my Black Card, my Centurion American Express. It’s my private concierge to get me to where I want to go. And, it’s not just me. It’s me and my best friend. We decide everything together, and the way it works, and where everything goes. It’s a team effort. And it works.

It’s made explicitly to be enjoyed.”

Originally posted on June 21, 2011.

I feel even stronger about our work now than I did then. I’m full of myself, and maybe I’m getting a little big for my britches. Whatever.

“Temporary design/illustration for facebook photo. no ampersands… yet. I’ll post a link to it when we have 25 “fans” (aka: 25 facebook friends who “like” us). We’re planning to have a show soon, and we’re super excited for it. SWAG.”

Originally posted on March 11, 2011.

I never ended up posting that link. Well, it’s

“I connected to this line very early on as far as the timeline of my appreciation for Purple Haze goes. Around the same time I connected to this record, I lost my best friend, and I connected with the sentiment of living for those who aren’t here.

I enjoyed typesetting this in Mr. Eaves, and connecting the images to the words as appropriately as possible.

I wish my homies could watch me live Happy Days like Joanie and Chachi”

Originally posted on January 20, 2011.

Originally posted on July 14, 2010

A redesigned cover for my first EP, Smoke & Mirrors, originally ‘released’ in January or 2009

Originally posted on December 17, 2009.

Apathy and disenchantment meeting my mind that has it’s own way of connecting things.



I redid the Obama logo, as I couldn’t get the original ‘depressing’ and ‘heavy’ enough to convey how I felt (and nearly two years later, still feel).

I went 3-2-0. It was cool, except the part where i forgot i took a claritin earlier in the day (i know it doesn’t do anything for me), then broke down and bought the medicine the works for me (allegra d, even though i hate buying it because i just get the worst looks from the pharmacists), and took it without thinking of the medicine i had already taken and ended up in antihistamine purgatory. i worked through it.

I began feeling terrible match one.

0-2 against a bant deck, with voice of resurgence. don’t play cards during their turn. just don’t.

i ate chipotle during this match, then sucked down a rootbeer. then ate altoids mints so i wasn’t the worst.

2-0 against an aristrocrats deck with aggressive creatures. she couldn’t get the mana to play the right things the first game, and the second game she didn’t have enough things to play.

it was during the second match they handed out the boosters just for entering. the first featured 4 cluestones, but had a foil debt to the deathless. forgettable rares. the foil debt to the deathless makes me want to make a 3d card out of it.

2-1 against a banty deck. close fun games.

this is around the time i stopped feeling super shitty.

2-1 against another banty deck. this guy was a super serious guy that didn’t look like he has enjoyed magic in a while. hatefully playing games whilst jaded is one way to go about it.

1-2 against an aggressive black red deck. i just lost too much life too fast to wrath stuff away properly, nevermind drawing a sphinx’s revelation. one game was really funny because he was waiting for me just to get to 5 life, and i was at 6, and had run out of all of the silly ways to hold his creatures back (azorius charm and feeling of dread), and chump blocked his boros reckoner with a spirit token that took me to 5, then he just played burn spells to murder me.

i ended up 10th place out of 28, and was at 7th just before game 5, which was really cool. the shop prized out to 16, giving me a pack. more cluestones, and i don’t remember the rare.

there’s a cash tournament tomorrow, and a lot of the people i played against are playing tomorrow. unfortunately, it’s early. fortunately it’s free. so if i lose, i didn’t gamble it, and if i win, then it’s free money. except you know. but insert odb quoute here if you feel so obliged to so.

i cannot wait until the next cycle to draft.

$120
no!
$160
no!
$180
no!
$220
no!
$300

and it’s not even on sale yet.

i went 2-2-1.

Is there anyone worse to play than the person with headphones in, listening to music? Besides the person who drops without saying so, giving you 50 minutes to kill? I won’t be returning to this particular store.

GPOY.

My girlfriend is making me get another pair of jeans. I’m thinking of back to Naked & Famous Black Power Stretch. Or another pair of APCs if I can try on the fit of whatever is skinnier than the Petits. New Cures? They don’t make them in black though. bummmmmer

skinny412:

very important

i went 2-3-0 in FNM with a further evolution of the deck from last week (an esper deck), which is my best record yet. This week’s store was smaller than the last one I went to, but made up for it with incredibly friendly people playing a variety of different decks I haven’t played against, with solid, even, match ups.

Anecdote: I asked the shop owner if he had any Lingering Souls. He did not. Someone had overheard me asking for the Lingering Souls and said he could help me out, and then told me to find him after my transaction. I found him, and he asked me if I had any trades. I did not, as I had traded every last unused rare recently. He asked if I had any cash for trades. I did not. So, this guy told me he was just going to sell them to the shop to sell to me and he’ll just take store credit. HOW NICE IS THAT?

I went 1-2-0 in Dragon’s Maze prerelease. Dragon’s Maze is making me really excited for M14 and the next block. I can’t wait until Modern Masters to draft again. I dropped out at 4:20AM. Draft format for this block seems to go so slow!

synecdoche:

best author

This Friday I played a modified version of what i played last week. I went 1-5, with three matches going to the third round, losing two of those. Whenever I played a control heavy deck, I was out controlled. Having a counter countered is so silly but trying to bluff an opponent is so fun.

The new place I went to costs $7, but you get two boosters for just playing, and of those, your choice between what’s in the current block.

So, about two months ago I got back into Magic: The Gathering, after about 14 years of not playing. I’ve been frequenting local game shops for their magic events, and though I haven’t been doing so well, I’ve been learning a lot, and above all, having a good time and fun.

i played a miracles deck last night and went 0-2-1, with yet another bye. it was more fun and more competitive than the control/mill deck i played the week before, that yielded me the same results, 0-2-1, and a bye. It’s always the first match that gets the draw, then the next two are losses, then the bye. I can’t wait to break this cycle, even if it’s all losses. As well, I’d rather play and lose than have a bye. It’s so annoying to have a bye at the end of the rounds.

I’ve been going to different stores and experiencing the different cultures and metagames at each of them. Last night I played nothing but control decks, either with milling on the side or burn on the side, everyone had a trade binder and everyone used spindown dice. The week before, more so creature decks (only one mill deck), no one had a trade binder, and everyone wrote down the score.

There’s so much more going into a Magic game now than I remember during Mirage/Tempest/Urza’s Saga, and it’s a lot more fun because of it.

“Is Community A Postmodern Masterpiece?”

YES YES YES YES YES

Oh good, I’m Mr. Glass.

mattpayton:

Who gives a shit about a new Pope? This will actually have a huge impact on my life!

I’m very angry/despondent over this. How else do people read the internet? I’m not going to visit each site and try and trudge through everything to find what’s new. Has no one thought of the effect this will have on the neurotics who for some god forsaken reason need to know that they haven’t missed anything that’s come down the pike? 

May god have mercy on my soul. 

UPDATE

Or as this commenter put it ever so brilliantly: 

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of people on the Internet: people who have no idea what Google Reader is, and people who are really super bummed it’s shutting down.

Do most people really, like, manually type in “t-h-e-a-w-l-dot-c-o-m” and hit refresh every so often to see if there are new articles? Mind boggling. I mean no offense to people who have legitimately never used an RSS reader before, but I can’t imagine keeping up with more than about three blogs without one.

most important vehicle

riffermadness:

Go Bills.

yamborghini:

Made this Dipset playlist. 7 hours of hot fish grease that powerful music. I see the DipSet worship at an all time high so I gotta give you the scriptures in it’s entireity covering all the eras. Cam’Ron aka Camuel Jackson, Juelz Santana The Prince Of Zamunda, Un Kasa aka Taliban’s Most Vividest Author, Jim Jones AKA The Ghetto’s Advocate, JR Writer AKA The Dominican Prince, Hell Rell AKA Ruga Relly. Run a plane into a building to this shit juheard.

born to run 8 bit