This was our response, in 1995, to the Seattle Weekly feature article, “Should Gays Act Like Gays?”. The Nineties were such a piece of shit decade. Good music, though.
Should Elves Act Like Elves?
Category: Pic A Day
Gutter Monks
Our bowling team needed a logo for shirts, because bowling teams need shirts and shirts need logos. I don’t make the rules, I just break them when I can.
John Wayne Pioneer Trail
Logo design for the John Wayne Pioneer Trail in the Iron Horse State Park.
Your Cards Ain’t Worth A Dime, If You Don’t Lay ‘Em Down
A less quick and simple (but still pretty quick and simple as reskins go) skin mod for American Truck Simulator. This is the Peterbilt 579 Hi Rise Sleeper.
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Here To Stay
Designing logos can be incredibly challenging. The trick for me is to spend a lot of time with the idea away from my desk where I feel pressure to be putting ideas into documents. 
Ideas have to begin in the fertile fields of imagination and be allowed to graze for a while.
It’s nice to have a smartphone on which to sketch out ideas when they come to me from out of the mists. iOS has a cute Notes application where I can make sketches with my finger. When the idea struck me to use the You Are Here pin icon as part of the logo, I sketched it out on top of a Treasure Map X and filled in the edges of the X with arrows. The idea was that the X and the <O were denoting Here and the arrows would denote Staying.
Way Too Much Fun
3D model skinning is a blast. This is just a quick job that got me trained on the tools for editing the textures in Euro Truck Simulator 2. Now we go in-depth and learn more about what’s going where and how to make the best use of it.
Filling the Reservoir With Cement
Finally finished. I’ve stared at this way too closely for way too long to be fully objective about it, but it turned out really well except for the parts that make it look like a vacation photo from Uncanny Valley. Continue reading Filling the Reservoir With Cement
Words Fail Me
I’m editing a cement pumper into an image of the Volunteer Park reservoir. The vehicle fits best into the scene if it’s flipped horizontally. That’s fine, not a problem. [Flip Horizontal] at your service.
Oops
Sometimes things just don’t line up properly. When that happens, you can throw the rubber ducky out with the bath water, or you can make a strategic edit. Today while joining two photos into a panorama, I noticed too late that the fences weren’t lining up. The fence stretched the length of the entire photograph, so I couldn’t just pick one and go with it; they had to join together. What I chose to do isn’t optimal, but it’s the best way to hide an obvious mistake so it becomes non-obvious.
Hiding the dark fence join seam in the dark water reflection was the best place to hide in plain sight. This is, by the way, the same way JPEG compression works. By taking advantage of the way the eye passes over subtle color changes, we can hide imperfections in a photo that allow us to make a file size smaller, or save us hours of editing time making something perfect that doesn’t really have to be, not for our purposes.
Let the viewer’s brain do some image processing for us. It’s one step better than doing everything in The Cloud.
Broadway and John LLR Station Mural, Part 2b
This edit involved both Photoshop and Affinity Design.
In photoshop, as discussed earlier, I added the Obeebo dance steps sculpture from further up Broadway as if it were a zen garden at the foot of the station where the Central Coop will someday be built.
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