Making some signs for bargain bins of misprint t-shirts.

My friend Russ and his friend Marcus have an idea for a TV Show: Film Schooled.

In their words “Film Schooled puts two aspiring teen filmmakers in a head-to-head competition
to see who can produce the best film in one short weekend.”

They filmed a pilot and put it in front of an audience up a the Rave Theatre in West Chester.

Not only a nice turnout from both the teams, their friends and family, but everyone even got
to vote on our favorites and they shot the final scene and award ceremony that night.

I voted for Team Hazard.

A few more photos from the fine evening

A warning: The ‘before and after’ rollover is quite jarring.
But it shouldn’t detract from getting a sense of how tasty these cookies appear to be.
And they are delicious.

My friend Kyle from Cincinnati has been making huge batches of cookies for special events,
sharing them with folks or raising money for charities.

White chocolate chocolate macadamia, Peanut butter dipped in chocolate, cherry chocolate,
sugar cookies that sparkle like stained glass butterflies.

They’re so good, everyone’s been saying, Kyle, you should sell these. He needs some promo shots.

So I’m starting to save a few from time to time and get them home to take photographs.
It’s REALLY HARD not to eat them in the car by the time I get home.

Tina (you may know her better as SwissMiss) asked if I’d throw in a tattoo design
for a new thing called Tattly.

I said sure because I like her and thought it’d be fun.

Now I don’t have a tattoo myself, but if I did get one, my first would probably be something simple,
very likely black and white, and have some core essence to it. Something built to last.

And that’s how I came up with Mother.
Here’s a few steps of the process on how it came to be:

I took the photo above on May 17th and sent it off to Tina for review.
(I think it’s important to put things in context.)
Little did I know, a few months later she’d have the whole thing up and running,
and with a slew of awesome folks and designs on the docket.

It’s an honor to be alongside them.

Fluidic Sculpture design. That’s what Hyundai calls the new angles and creases appearing throughout their line-up.
And I’m all for it. The cars are striking (though admittedly, the angle above makes this sedan appear rather tame.)

I’m guessing that with all the fancy stretching of headlamps and tail lights, eventually we’re going to see
the two pulled so far into the lines of the car that they’ll meet at the B-pillar.

Sidenote: I finally read enough about cars to figure out which was the A, B, and C pillar.
The diagram on this Wikipedia page is helpful to that end.

Anyway, I think Hyundai as some work to do on interiors, but good on them for making reasonable cars look
good from the outside.

In other news, every time I finish a meal at Benihana, I must walk very quickly to a bathroom.
This is too much information, and I should probably know better by now, but that ginger sauce is so good.

At Music Hall this time around, and I enjoyed it muchly.
Favorite part was the closing number, Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks done super unplugged
with the crowd singing along. Pretty dang awesome really.

Tim Hecker, performing at the sixth MusicNow Festival in Cincinnati.

I’m sad I missed the first night, where Megafaun, Shara Worden, yMusic, Fight the Big Bull,
and Justin Vernon apparently brought goosebumps to the audience.

No matter, I did make it for night two and was not disappointed.

Owen Pallett

Little Scream

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