One of my best art teachers over the years told me once that she does one self portrait a year, and it’s a good way of staying in touch with where you’ve been/you are/you’re going. Wanting to explore Live Paint and the Blob Brush in Illustrator today yielded my first self-portrait in going on 5 years now… very interesting. Want to start another one now!
Had a lil fun at the end of my day today working through some tutorials on the tutsplus.com network, and decided to clean up my virtual desktop as countless hours of projects with no filing had caught up with me… nice to have a change. This site rocks most of the time for graphic design tutorials with an emphasis on quality and depth… I learn a lot whenever I dip in (and without tooting my own horn, I am in Photoshop and Illustrator more than I sleep on a daily basis). Kudos guys! It’s only 9 bones a month and you get access to a ton of high res files and step by step info for Illustrator, Photoshop, Web Design, Flash, Audio, etc. etc. I use PSDTUTS and VECTORTUTS the most.
Here’s one I had fun with in roughing out some wallpaper for my dual monitors at work, it deals with using the Average command in Illustrator, custom art brushes and multiple strokes on one object to get a hand drawn effect on type or any shape:
Grizzly Bear baffle me. Either they are walking into brilliance by happenstance (rumor has it the band didn’t know how to sing when it formed) or they are so beyond me that I cannot put their theory and composition together into some sort of logical system. I guess I feel like they are Animal Collective-light in the chaos category. I have moments of glimpsing the structure and just when my brain latches on, I lose it… it’s like waking up from a nap and trying to explain a dream around the breakfast table as it falls apart in your mind, and your friends just stare. Nevermind. Pass the milk.
I am more of a Department of Eagles fan (a Daniel Rossen side project), but I will say I walked out of the show with two vinyls for Veckatimest and the first single, my mind opened, and my inner musician in knots.
Openers Here We Go Magic were a pleasant surprise and were quite intense, focusing on the beauty of one chord at times for minutes while an undulating bass beat ebbed and flowed. Their lead guitarist was all over the place but formed a great skeleton for the vocals to lay on top of.
And for the icing on the cake, I had my iPhone 3G[S] poised shooting “Southern Point“, the opening track from Veckatimest and first song of the evening set when about 30 seconds from the end of the song security swarmed and kindly informed me I could not shoot video within the hallowed walls of the Fillmore. I thanked them and secretly flipped them off. Here are the fruits of my labor, oh what I won’t do for you people…
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