19 september 2007 :: 9:02 pm est

keeping busy or at least trying to. I'm tired of the way this website looks. its a complete snooze fest. i'm beyond its level. don't believe me? check out those new pieces. one's rejected mewithoutYou design (that's like number 5 or 6 for them). and the other is a website layout i did with dane for a photographer and friend named, brae howard. she's awfully sweet. hopefully just like her web identity.

20 august 2007 :: 6:10 pm est

i was fooling around on photoshop and i came up with this weird image of a flower made out of tongues. the latest addition to portfolio is the fruits of that idea. as you might be able to tell the tongue flower blossomed into a cat demon / demon cat. in a couple days i just might hate it. so don't get to used to it.

16 july 2007 :: 6:48 pm est

tour has been over for a couple weeks now but i have not been able to stop moving. right after the tour i had a week in upstate new york with my family, then less than a week later i met my family in vermont for my cousin's wedding which i just got back from last night, then in 4 days i'm going back to my parents house for a wedding in my hometown. after that wedding i get back in town for only 3 days and then i'm off to meet up with manchester orchestra in atlanta for another tour with them and colour revolt. it never ends. well it will end in mid august when I can kick back for a good two months. by the way i've since grown to hate that mewithoutYou shirt. it just ain't right. do i keep it up or do i tear it down?

29 may 2007 :: 9:47pm mdt

after a two month hiatus i am back on tour and loving life. not that i wasn't loving life in philly (in fact i was having a total blast up until the time i left), it's just that now i am loving life across the country in some of my favorite cities with some of my favorite people. today i'm salt lake city, beautiful and weird conglomerate of architecture everywhere, surrounded by even more beautiful mountains. it's a small crowd with not much bussiness at the merch table so i decided to leave an update on the ole website. mewithoutYou finally accepted a design that i made for them. its a bit goofy and faux yellow submarine-ish and its also completely uncharacteristic of my style. it was fun to make and it stretched me in terms of my illustration. i'm just happy it's being printed.

4 may 2007 :: 5:40pm est

saw spiderman three last night with some friends . . . wow, what a dissapointment. i could not for the life of me figure out what the director wanted the tone of the film to be. matt allison called it "spiderman 3: army of darkness 2." enough said about that. aside from that downer, i just did my first technical calloboration with my buddy toothless george. it's a button design for his new band called the percocettes. he emailed me an image to me for a button and while i thought the idea was great i thought it could be taken further visually. so i sent him back my take on it. this is essentially whant you see on the website today. i'll probably have a better way to display the project on this website in a couple weeks. i've got a cool idea, you'll see.

21 april 2007 :: 6:12pm est

wild night last night. i didn't see it coming. word up to the million other random people i met last nite. i needed it too. i was in a funk, so adventures with new peopleto after hours bars was much needed. if only i could get my "creative chi" back now. i was going bonkers with makin' new stuff; sounds and pictures, and now i've hit a wall. well not a wall, more like a wooden fence. it's not as bad as wall. i can see the other side. anyway this update is basically for two things 1) the rejected mewithoutYou hoodie design from last november, that i still really like and just decided to throw up there and 2) the new ad at the bottom for my boy, Heneghan's feature animated film

16 april 2007 :: 6:33am est

dear lord! this is the first update all year. i have certainly not been busy with design work.i have been super busy touring with mewithoutYou (as usual), brand new, sparta, and aloha. aloha by the way is the best band we've ever toured with. my favorite album of their's is "here comes everyone" you should buy it. i have also been busy making music of my own. it's going slow, but i think its showing promise. check me out. the new piece up on this page is a logo for the album. it probably won't be the artwork because i want my buddy linnea to have that "honour."

16 december 2006 :: 5:36am est

i went out to pearl on south street the other day to buy a new sketch pad and some markers. i've been drawing in it everyday, trying to keep the juices flowin' to the brain's creative centers. it's been really good for me actually. i'm trying to push myself in new directions and become a better illustrator (as if I was ever one). oh, and my shirt is available on crystal city clothing here.

2 december 2006 :: 0:00am est

i've been doing a lot of shirt designs lately. i like doing it, i enjoy being limited to a certain amount of colors and trying to use shapes more efficiently and creatively. i don't think i can do any more web design by myself though. if it's web design that you seek, then go to pengull.com and talk to dane. i'll do the front and he'll do all the stuff i can't handle like making it work.

30 september 2006 :: 0:00am est

it's been a long time since there's been a decent update. i'm still working on re-working the site. just trying to get things to run smoother and look sleeker. things have been okay, getting jobs here and there, touring with mewithoutYou, doing merch, drinking coffee, eating eggs, making pins, the t-shirt game, you know how it is . . . i'll be back on top of this design game in no time. is that new logo design offensive to anyone?

25 april 2006 :: 6:54pm est

oh dag, real quick! i've made some small changes to site, the most noticeable being the new colors and images. the website should load slightly faster now. this website sucks by the way, it may look alright in places but, look at my source code and you'll think differently. in fact don't look at my source code at all, it's embarassing. i'm not ready to redesign this site just yet but i'm working on it. one of my goals for this summer is to become a better web designer, we'll see how that goes.

you should check out electric heat and fatoe, those guys are where it's at, i am put to shame by them. also I can't stop listening to "the queen is dead" by the smiths, that album is so good. ok that's enough, i've gotta get back to working on my film now.

22 april 2006 :: 11:27pm est

i've been cooped up in my room lately working on two programs, final cut and photoshop. i've been doing so work on my senior film (now titled "last nite") and the crunk alms album artwork. i've noticed that i really spend a lot of time meticulously picking and fine tuning almost anything that i feel strongly about when it comes to my work. the weekend before this one, alex gann, my brother and i finished up recording and mixing the crunk alms record and i just couldn't leave it alone. even after mixdowns i'd still be trying to tweak things.

with my film i've just been going nuts editing it. it's a much more complicated piece than it may look in its final form. when you're going back literally cutting out one frame (1/30 of a second in this case) you can't help but feel almost foolish, but it seriously makes a difference.

i may have been too picky with this crunk alms artwork though. i spent well over 18 hours on it 9 of those hours were spent tweaking and refining images, trying to make things more symmetrical. its nuts, but i think it came out pretty well. in fact i think its one of the best things i've ever made.

i need to get back work on my film, but all i really wanna do is design stuff for the crunk alms cd release show and a shirt for mewithoutYou.

11 march 2006 :: 2:50pm est

well it's absolutely gorgeous outside in philadelphia today, so i decided to spend it inside doing some maintenance on the site. i cleaned up the source code that got all scrambled for some reason, it's not perfect but it's better than what it was. the site also now, for the first time ever, looks consistent across the span of safari, explorer and firefox. i don't know how it looks on navigator though, but i'm not gonna download it to check, i'm sure it looks okay. who uses navigator anyway?

in other news, i'm busy for the first time in months. this week i shot about 25% of my senior film and i landed three design jobs. i love how the work piles up, right when the weather gets nice; new work to come. i hope it rains soon.

ps - you should listen to my friend caleb.

3 february 2006 :: 5:22pm est

there's a new poster up on the site. it was commissioned by joshua grace at circle of hope up in fishtown. he wants to start having bigger shows with better promotion, so naturally he came to yours truly ;-) there is 4x5.5 version i did, but you really only need to see the 11x17 one that's on the site. they're essentially the exact same design, just one is squished and manipulated to fit it's smaller dimensions.

you'll notice the illustrations of a deer and some moose, all those were bought through clipart.com. it's a pretty nice service if you use clip art, photo objects and the like. i signed up for a week which was $9.95 and while it was unlimited downloads I still didn't exactly get my money's worth. that's the only part that sucks. I should've just run out and bought a book of royalty free nature illustrations.

21 january 2006 :: 7:15pm est

i just realized how absolutely terrible this site looks in internet explorer. i mean it is bad. for you ie users i am very sorry. i had no idea how bad it was. i haven't been on explorer in a long time so i had no idea. i'm working on making this site a lot tighter and also cross platform friendly. in the meantime though, get firefox. all this means though is that in the near future there ill be a new and faster site design with cascading style sheets. and who doesn't love those?

no new work at this time, but that's my own damn fault for not being on top of things. expect a lot more crunk alms work in the near future. also you should check out my good friend ethan harper's daily comic on his xanga page. he has a wonderful line technique. here's the link. cool runnings, peace be the journey.

15 december 2005 :: 6:27pm est

i haven't updated the site in a long time because i haven't done any design work in two months. i've had jobs but i've had to either turn them down or put them off because i felt like i should concentrating all my efforts in school. the only problem with that is that i wasn't concentrating hardly any effort in school. it was just a lose lose situation and yet somehow . . . i won. what a bizarre semester, bizarre and unproductive.

the new piece i just put up, is pretty cool i think. i might do a series with those images of the girl coming out of the picture frame. the reason being is because, well it didn't turn out exactly the way i wanted it to. i mean i like it a lot but i let myself off a little easy. i feel that i need to push myself a little more in the way of illustrating. anyway, i hope you hate it.

14 october 2005 :: 2:02am est

i think i got an internship today with eleanor from pushmepullyou design. that should be fun. living, laughing, loving learning. bigger better things to come. but for right now i was just hired by daniel gauthier at goat films to do a crest for his website. i haven't had a lot of experience making crests but apparently dan liked the one i made for my brother earlier this year. my brother's crest isnt on the site anymore, so i guess you can tell how i felt about it. but it's a paying job (thank god) so i'm going to do my best. let's roll.

wow . . . look at the time! i just spent the whole evening working on this site. i like the new design. something still doesn't feel right to me. maybe i just need to get used to it. or maybe I just need to get some rest. i need to have stuff prepared for tomorrow but, i know i'm gonna just sleep in, go to the gleaner's cafe and then go to class empty-handed. there is no way i am going to make it this year. i know that if i keep going about these this semester (and the one after it) the way i am going about it now, there is just no way anything good can come of it. and yet, i do not seem to care. i feel as though nothing matters. here's to apathy.

7 october 2005 :: 3:25am est

this site still has a lot work that needs to be done to it. some images are at too low a quality and i'm not sure how I want to pull all the content together. i'm not sure how I want to market myself on this site either. basically, all this stuff's gonna change again. but if you want professionalism and class check out a real artist at pushmepullyoudesign.com. that's eleanor grosch's work. she's pretty much the greatest ever.

also my friends leanor and stephen till have started a clothing company in their little yellow house in denver. check them out and maybe, I dunno, buy a shirt at their site, asizetoosmall.com. also at that site is jonathan allen till's work. he's also professional and classy. i have so much to live up to.

28 september 2005 :: 11:44pm est

i've busy lately. well at least i feel busy. it just seems like there is a lot on my plate. i have all this accumulating school work with my senior thesis that i don't know what to do with, i have to redesign a flyer for tea, design another flyer for the basement party, find new bike, finish up this website, and somehow fit in a sufjan steven's concert tomorrow night. life can be hard, but i know i have it easy. that irritates a little bit. why should I have it so nice? i need to find time to make sample designs for potential clients and send them out, see if they bite. i really would like to get this freelance ball rollin'. i'm tired and school doesn't help.