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Frontiers Of Technology

July 08, 2010

SOMETIMES, WE GET HIRED TO MAKE GRAPHICS FOR BIG MAGAZINES: Here's some proof, people! In the new issue of Wired, a magazine about the "frontiers of technology" from San Francisco.I made a little badge for their product test section, and then a little icon set for a medical kit they made. Here's the set of icons. Real proud of this stuff. Thanks, Wired!- - - -50 THINGS YOU NEED TO SEE: 50 Cigar Bands. Get in there. Smoke up, Johnny. Nice little presentation! (Thank you to Colin Whyte, on the other side of the country.)- - - -NEED THIS, BAD: All my big-timer photographer buddies are recommending the Panasonic Lumix GF1 as my next "around the neck" camera. You know, for traveling, shooting old logos, "party shots" at meathead dance clubs, etc.My G10 has taken a good beating. We're up somewhere around 7000 shots or something. It's hard to move on from Canon, honestly. I've been by their side since 2000 and that first S100 digi Elph. Man, I loved that thing. Still got it somewhere, too. Since then, every year to year-an-a-half, I upgrade to the new hot shit. Couple years back, I jumped out of the Elph models up to that G10. The tougher body and meaty controls was the main thing. Something that didn't feel so, uh, delicate and breakable, right?If you guys have any thoughts on the subject, do me a Kodak and send them in. Thanks!- - - -TOOL ACADEMY: Our latest acquisition, motherfuckers: Craftsman 192 pc. Mechanics Tool Set with Trifold Case. Now I can work on Big S or the van, doing more harm than good.- - - -BARNWOOD BLUES: Another one of those links that makes me go, "Fuck, I hope I live to 150 years old, just so I can have a barn someday, to work in, and make stuff in, and wait out a storm in, after I spend my whole pitiful life chasing vector dollars, only to realize I have squandered my strength away to mouseclicks." Something like that.Oh yeah, the link: 10Engines talks about Eric Sloane's "Age of Barns" book.I'd like to live on property with a barn someday. With the biggest fucking Bicentennial star on the front of it. Just think about that. Wow.- - - - HAVE YOU SECURED YER SET?: Field Notes COLORS: “COUNTY FAIR” 50 Editions! We've got them all! That's means you, North Dakota! And you too, Arkansas! Get regional, people!- - - -ON THE PLAYER:01. Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue02. Harvey Milk - Live Pleaser03. Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love04. Deer Tick - Black Dirt Sessions05. The new Mavis Staples/Jeff Tweedy song, "You are not alone."

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