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Seldom do I make a new years resolution. But when I do, keeping one is even more of a rarity. I’m happy to report that in the year of 2012 I kept a promise to myself. My 2012 New Years Resolution was: In 2012 I will sell a piece of art to a complete stranger. [...]

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This whole thing started with an idea for a Turducken Illustration and turned into a full blown info-graphic for Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving! And it was promoted as a Visual.ly staff pic! http://visual.ly/anatomy-turducken

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This is my (late) entry for the Animation Sequence Project.

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Look what I found while cleaning up my drafts folder. It’s some exploratory stuff from the Bison project. If I remember right, each square was rotating based on how luminous the pixel underneath it was.

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This image seems to be popular on the internets. It was the output of a generative experiment in Flash a few years ago. I recently got a call from a production company that wanted to use the image with their logo. The Flash files are long gone so I relearned how to draw it with [...]

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So I was pleasantly surprised to get a message from Bascamp Hotels in South Lake Tahoe a few weeks ago. They liked some were interested in collaborating after seeing some previous work on the blog and wanted to see if we could work together to create some interior visuals. Their logo incorporates the California bear. This kid of reminds [...]

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I’ve been pecking away at my first real Processing experiment. The application will build an image of a Trout from assets I created and it will pull colors from the ColorLovers API to create different looking fish. I’m using this handy little library. I want the end result to look something like a field guide painting. Here [...]

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Really ugly fish parts, applying tint inside of Processing.

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So with bison in my rearview I look forward at my next project. The idea is pretty straightforward: Generate a fish illustration based on a data set. A bit about the inspiration: I grew up fishing in a creek. We would pull out an occasional catfish or bass, but we caught more Bluegill / Sunfish than [...]

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So I was asked back to speak at Flash Camp STL this year again! Sorry for not telling you, it was all kinda last minute. My talk was on Adobe Edge for Flash Designers. I actually built a lot of my presentation in Edge. CHECK IT OUT. We also did a little demo with this [...]

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