Palin's Teleprompter Joke

Hat tip to Wonkette

Finally placed register marks to class project

Finally fixed the registration problem with my 1-color band logo on a t-shirt. The design was at an odd angle, so I had to use "real-world" techniques to get it properly oriented.

First I printed out the design and aligned on a shirt on our craft-room table. You can see I had the positive aligned at an angle to form an inverted cross made of musical instruments. I marked where the center line and collar line were on the positive.

Then I scanned the marked-up positive as an image file (JPEG) using Irfanview.

I imported the image file into InDesign (File > Place) and flipped it into position. I placed register markers for the center line and the collar line. Done! *Whew*

Art .. music ... literature ... stubbornness ... joy

Found this on my Facebook page. Re-posted it here so I can tweet it.

Day of the Modem

Wicked Gelato: Closing Day ... Karen shuts off the wireless modem--for the last time...

Homework! InDesign: Build a Calendar

Building a calendar using InDesign Table functions. (I cheated and used Step and Repeat for the small boxes.)

Does this gun make me look "scary"?

Dilemma @ Java Joes

My two favorite blends side-by-side: which do I drink first?

An outline of awesomeness

 Prop 8 Respondents Brief (against Calif's Proposition 8) extract restated in outline form (because I think it's awesome). Hat-tip to Dante Atkins at DailyKOS.

Note: Link will open a PDF file.

This extract starts at the bottom of page 3:

1. Proposition 8's unmistakable purpose and effect is to
1. stigmatize gay men and lesbians—
1. and them alone—
2. enshrine in California’s Constitution that gay men/women
1. are “unequal to everyone else”
2. committed relationships are ineligible for the designation “marriage,” 
3. unworthy of that “most important relation in life.” 
2. The obligation to identify and rectify discrimination in all its forms 
1. society or the courts cannot be absolved by
1. tradition
2. fear of change
3. an “interest in democratic self-governance”
3. If a history of discrimination were sufficient to justify its perpetual existence, as Proponents argue, 
1. public schools, drinking fountains, and swimming pools 
1. would still be segregated by race, 
2. government workplaces and military institutions 
1. would still be largely offlimits 
1. to one sex—
2. and to gays and lesbians, 
3. marriage 
1. would still be unattainable for interracial couples. 
4. Yet the Fourteenth Amendment 
1. could not tolerate 
1. those discriminatory practices, 
2. and it similarly does not tolerate 
1. the permanent exclusion of gay men and lesbians 
1. from the most important relation in life. 
5. “In respect of civil rights, 
1. all citizens are equal before the law.” 
1. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 559 (1896) (Harlan, J., dissenting).

There's really no such thing as voiceless

 I tried to link back to the FB post, but FB wouldn't me. So here is the very apt quote.

Here the link to the FB account that put posted this. Kudos to them for this wonderful image.
https://www.facebook.com/WomenWhoRunWithTheMoon

Are Guns Subject to Law?

I keep seeing this graphic (the black block with white letters) on Facebook, and it's a totally bogus argument that (as usual) misses the whole point.

I Brainstorm In My Brain

Part of the reason I don't like to do formal "brainstorming" on paper; it's already worked out in my head.

Finding a lost heritage through art

http://www.theroot.com/views/black-latin-america-other-african-americans-0#

It wasn't until my sophomore year at Yale, as a student auditing Robert Farris Thompson's art-history class, the Trans-Atlantic Tradition: From Africa to the Black Americas, that I began to understand how "black" the New World really was. Professor Thompson used a methodology that he called the "tri-continental approach" -- complete with three slide projectors -- to trace visual leitmotifs that recurred among African, African-American and Afro-descended artistic traditions and artifacts in the Caribbean and Latin America, to show, à la Melville Herskovits, the retention of what he called "Africanisms" in the New World. So in a very real sense, I would have to say that my fascination with Afro-descendants in this hemisphere, south of the United States, began in 1969, in Professor Thompson's very popular -- and extremely entertaining and rich -- art-history lecture course.

School Gun Safety vs Job Creation

Child of the Pencil

Despite my best efforts, I am too much the child of the pencil, the son of the pen. Although my outlet is wholeheartedly digital, everything still begins with a written note or a rough sketch. There is no help for it: I need to make paper notes.