jacobmake

The inactivity on this blog is a special kind of irony. Summed up nicely by our friend ZeFrank:
If you don’t wanna run out of ideas the best thing to do is not to execute them. You can tell yourself that you don’t have the time or resources to do ‘em right. Then they stay around [...]

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A co-worker and I were recently drooling over some of Jonathan Harris’s more recent work. It made me realize that the projects I talk about here (and occasionally engage in) are very disconnected and hobby-ish. They do NOT form one cohesive body of work. They are more about the journey of trying different things almost [...]

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Just a little while ago I made some comments about Chuck Close’s process. Since then I’ve revisited Joshua Davis’s site and downloaded his presentation from 07. For those that don’t know Joshua Davis, he is an artist that takes design elements and uses random math in Flash to position things, generating a thousand new compositions [...]

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The TwitterFace project is getting close to finished. I’m modeling this project after an old school NES game. Recreating some of the NES experience has been one of my main tasks. It’s been a lot of fun creating an 8-bit avatar, which I will post soon. I found the perfect font. And now I’m trying [...]

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Okay, the holiday season is over, I’ve become accustom to the sleeping patterns of a newborn and I have just finished up on two freelance projects, which should lead to a return of activity here.
After the TwitterFace project is complete, I’m thinking about going analog on the next project. I have recently obtained a high [...]

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I believe this to be an appropriate venue to announce my greatest personal “creative” achievement to date.
World, meet Ella Grace Heberlie.

The purpose of this blog is to document my own creative process. In hindsight, I may have been driven to this effort due to a personal prenatal circumstance. Perhaps it was an attempt to hold [...]

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Stoney brought up an interesting point with the inaugural post for jacobmake. He told me in person,
“Music or Art. Use your hands & get away from the keyboard.”
It dawned on me that all of my projects push my comfort levels in some respect, but in the arena of fine art and music, I’m amateurish at [...]

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Welcome to a conversation about inspiration, process and execution. In this personal experiment I will be examining my process of creation, or lack there of. Too often I leave my ideas unrealized. This will be a place to document progress of my personal projects, and a way to keep me accountable for progress with these [...]

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