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juke.

2010-11-18T23:06:00.002-06:00

not to be bias (since i own a nissan) but the new commercial for the juke is quite stellar. i like to think my day plays out like this every day.

jumping puppy.

2010-11-12T13:50:00.000-06:00

happy friday.

(photo by tim flach.)

windy city rollers as featured league of the month!

2010-11-02T13:05:00.000-05:00

the windy city rollers get featured today as the league of the month byWFTDA. i get a little shoutout for doing all the design work for Uproar on the Lakeshore. if you haven't already planned on going, i highly suggest it. the competition is going to be fierce, fiercer than you've ever seen.

yetti on a surfboard.

2010-11-02T12:57:00.000-05:00

i spotted this MGMT poster by Todd Slater. things with waves always catch my eye, but i am in severe like with this one. note that the yetti is wearing a sharktooth necklace!

fun with invitations.

2010-10-31T22:32:00.000-05:00

the invitation i made for our annual pre-Thanksgiving dinner. i'm looking forward to getting all our old friends in the same place at one time again.

creepy space movie week.

2010-10-27T11:43:00.000-05:00

for some reason i told conor that i wanted to do a creepy space movie week. they are getting creepier and gorier. maybe with halloween coming up it will be a good excuse to scare myself, but then again, i'd like to get some sleep.

so far:

pandorum

sphere

next up:

event horizon

conor has asked me several times if i was sure i wanted to re-watch this. i only have one scene in my memory, but it doesn't include all the blood and gore that everyone keeps telling me about. i hope i will be brave enough tonight to put the dvd in the player.

on flickr - the periodic table

2010-10-27T09:48:00.000-05:00

workerman on flickr has created an illustrated set of the periodic table. i'm a little jealous.

letterpress, by apple?

2010-10-21T10:53:00.000-05:00

uh oh. there are some things that make you cringe. like seeing a mouse run across the floor as you are eating dinner in a nice restaurant. or seeing technology giants take on letterpressing. will this give small letterpress companies some serious competition?

read the article via design:related.

it's a race and i'm running.

2010-10-20T19:54:00.000-05:00

there are some days where i feel like i'm always running. and i've got to fucking win.

KNUCKLES | BLAKE - WHAT I LIKE from Paul Bryan on Vimeo.

1/8 teaspoon = a pinch.

2010-10-19T15:58:00.000-05:00

oh, how i love baking. Sweet Fine Day made the cutest kitchen conversions poster that i would love to hang in my kitchen. find it here.

"impress me."

2010-10-13T00:38:00.000-05:00

when you start to play a sport that challenges every muscle in your body and you feel like you are going to have a mental breakdown from the pain, you start to understand how far you can push yourself and impress your captains, your teammates, your friends and your fans. you also become a sucker to how impactful nike ads start to become. the newest campaign completely clicked with something that was happening in practice today.

if you wait for the right moment, you get the boom.

trip down memory lane.

2010-10-06T11:47:00.000-05:00

back in high school, i used to belong to a program called tech prep. the program was meant to integrate extra technology and skill related classes into our schedule and make us smarter and savvier for the future. i don't know how much "extra" i ended up learning, but i mostly remember going on field trips to cemeteries and sailing boats when other students couldn't (the principal at the time banned field trips and made us the exception) and that they tested block scheduling on us (we always got yelled at for being in the hallway during regular class periods). there was one class where we learned how to use autoCAD and another where we learned to sew. one of the first classes we had to take was a typing class. we had to use these massive electric typewriters that always froze when you went over 50 wpm, and we learned how to type with more than our index fingers. there are two things that i remember most from that class. 1. i was in this class as we watched the verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial on the classroom television and 2. typing "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" for an hour straight.

BIS publishers has a typeface memory game that i adore and severely want. not only does it bring back such fond and odd memories of high school, but i'm totally geeked that it is a typeface guessing game. i take pride that my friends ask me for font names all the time, so i should buy this to keep sharp, right?

sorry, i can't. i have derby.

2010-10-05T10:51:00.000-05:00

it seems like roller derby has not only taken up my free time, it has taken up my freelance time. the women's flat track championships are being hosted by my league this year, so i've been occupied making everything ready for it.

if you would like to come watch, it will be november 5-7 at the uic pavilion. for more information, visit uproaronthelakeshore.com.

five hundred twenty five million years ago

2010-09-23T13:40:00.001-05:00

Jurassic Park the Musical Part 1 from Mark Hennings on Vimeo.

one of my all time favorite movies has been turned into a musical by some awesome college students in nebraska. i'm jealous.

make sure you get to part 3 (about 20 minutes in) for "raptors in the kitchen." it is just the best scene in the entire movie.

the root of an adventure.

2010-09-22T15:17:00.000-05:00

there are days when i have an idea, but then i begin to doubt that it is a good one.

for a little inspiration, i read an interview with adventurer bertrand piccard. he was the first person to fly around the world in a hot air balloon and now plans to do it again in a solar-powered aircraft. when asked about the importance of an idea, he said, "i don’t think ideas are the most important thing. what’s difficult is implementing them. To do that, we have to learn to get rid of our certainties and habits."

i hope you feel the need to take a leap of faith.

get through the work day.

2010-09-13T13:53:00.000-05:00

i want to buy this workday recovery kit from KnockKnock in bulk and give it to my co-workers. i suspect this might raise company moral more than a quarterly meeting and a pep talk.

van damme and steven seagal.

2010-09-13T11:15:00.000-05:00

molly and i created a bike gang. we are now Friends of Van Damme & the Steven Seagal Killing Spree.

(bike flag front)

(bike flag back)

please leave a message.

2010-09-08T14:00:00.001-05:00

when donny glover isn't struggling to leave phone messages, he's rapping under the name childish gambino and offering his album up for download here.

oh troy, could you be a triple threat?

chop shop.

2010-08-25T14:41:00.000-05:00

i forgot to post this, but i made this a while back. feel free to download the wallpaper version here.

stay posi.

2010-08-24T22:28:00.000-05:00

sometimes, my friend justin russo helps me get through the work day.

learn about graboids.

2010-08-17T14:24:00.003-05:00

Monstrous Wildlife from Frank Robnik on Vimeo.

journalism warning labels.

2010-08-16T21:40:00.001-05:00

maybe newspapers should stop laying off the fact checkers. labels you could probably find handy some day, from tom scott.

in with the new, in with the old

2010-08-08T13:13:00.002-05:00

everyone is trying to reinvent retro these days, but only a select few get it right. i am in love with this editorial shoot by Mierswa-Kluska for Plaza Watch magazine.

(via wicked halo.)

must learn to swim.

2010-03-12T11:11:00.005-06:00

underwater photography by dustin humphrey

everyone has inner demons to fight.

2010-03-12T11:08:00.001-06:00

the starry-eyed kid in the corner.

2009-12-27T22:48:00.000-06:00

life as a derby girl.

2009-12-01T00:36:00.001-06:00

no, really.

2009-11-30T11:21:00.000-06:00

why some do not enjoy coconut.

2009-10-24T20:51:00.002-05:00

thanks.

2008-02-23T17:00:00.006-06:00

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