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days 27-29

carl — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:59:01 +0000

Go Read My Reflections on Thing-a-Day

Jason Das — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:05:13 +0000

I guess I could reword and repost it here, but why don’t you just head over to my own blog and read my little re-cap and requiem for Thing-a-Day 2008. And you can find out what the hell this thing is:

Thanks for a great month, everyone!

Cake Shop

Jason Das — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:49:38 +0000

Phew!

farewell

voidit — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:39:17 +0000

wish good beginnings to all creative spirits!

and here is my thing for today:

and today’s theater shot:

Marty Valdez

Jason Das — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:26:13 +0000

This is dated the 29th, but it is actually my thing for the 28th (it was just after midnight when I put the date in I guess). We get one more last one tomorrow.

Day 28 - “Our strengths are uncountable”

fischbowl — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:46:50 +0000

i like russian poster style, and lately i’ve been wanting to draw a giant squid, because someone at work had a cool sweatshirt with some on it. but i opted for an octopus, and decided to mash it up with the russian poster thing. i’m not sure if the green takes away from the russian feeling, but i like the result anyway. long live the sharpie! i also like that octopusses have so many legs, and the russian text on the drawing translates into “Our strengths are uncountable.”

and so they are…

Impossible to believe

sea star — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:37:57 +0000

…I know, but here’s the evidence. We pulled into the Tacoma bus station, our last stop before Seattle, and I had to run one block back to take this photo before the bus pulled away. Perhaps it is ironic that this city is named after the longtime residents before Europeans arrived (it is also, incidentally the true name of the nearby mountain, that the Europeans renamed “Rainier”); this gun store display seems like the epitome of backwards, stereotyped thinking.

When I returned to the bus, the driver asked what I had taken a picture of. When I told him, he said “there’s a dark history to that place; that’s where the ‘beltway snipers’ got their guns.”

When I got home, I looked it up, and, yup, it’s apparently true. Shiver.

Stop the war and all the other nonsense, now!!

::: 2.28.08 ::: REAL WHITE HOUSE THEATRE

fmvigneri — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:07:34 +0000

Wintercolor 3

Jason Das — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:08:49 +0000

February 26th

breakthestars — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:34:33 +0000

February 26th

I can’t post what I did here because I’m not sure if it’s okay to post an essay from my pending application on the internet. So I want to play it safe. I submitted my college application for Colorado College (as a transfer applicant) on the 26th, and so decided to use that for my thing-a-day considering I had just finished edits on several rather creative essays that were required for it. Basically, I was asked to detail and design my own class. I had a lot of fun doing it. Those on the lj thingaday08 community should be able to see it though, friends locked.

::: 2.27.08 ::: BoomTown USA

fmvigneri — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:11:54 +0000

honestly

amberkee — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:41:08 +0000

Guess what I’m busy doing.

This is actually an image I’m using in a powerpoint presentation- I added the cussin just for you, though.

Wintercolor 2

Jason Das — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:47:34 +0000

grrr thing paint

woodlover — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:12:00 +0000

Jean-Pierre Léaud and Chantal Goya (Sort Of)

Jason Das — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:49:38 +0000

The rare lost poster artwork from the 1972 Bollywood remake of Masculin Féminin.

Thanks for the add, PeaceJam.

murmurkibbies — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:34:12 +0000

I made this “Thanks for the add” MySpace graphic for my bestest friend. She’s a school counselor and sponsors a high school chapter of PeaceJam. I’m not totally sure what PeaceJam is (too ADHD to read whole website), but I sure do wish they’d had a chapter at the shitty redneck high school I went to. I’m sure if she’s in charge of it, it’s freaking awesome.

She has recently created a MySpace profile for her chapter here.

So, Thing-A-Dayers, if you’re on MySpace, go add them, and you’ll get one of these posted on your very own MySpace profile:

You know you want one!

Now, more about that friend. She signed up for Thing-A-Day, and hasn’t posted a thing since, like, day 3. So everyone click here and go bug her and tell her she needs to post because T-A-D isn’t as fun without her!

Sunday Evening at Outpost

Jason Das — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:30:39 +0000

I created a short visit to Outpost for the express purpose of making this drawing, but the soy latte was a pretty sweet bonus. And I’ll take pretty much any excuse to visit Outpost.

Fear Not, Fail Not

Jason Das — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:04:31 +0000

makin’ beets

amberkee — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:54:11 +0000

I had some beets in the fridge and wanted to try some sort of food carving on ‘em, but there was nothing in the book I had, so I went literal:

raw cut

cooked and on salad

I also tried a viking ship made out of a cucumber from the aforementioned book:

That ugly bird head with what looks like a mickey mouse hat on was my way of trying to recreate one of those dragon/ loch ness monsters you see on some old depictions of viking boats.. not so much.

But hey, it floats in water! (without the mast which is heavy and messes up it’s balance)

My house

SeaJen — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:42:04 +0000

Long story, but I needed to make some relatively to-scale drawings of my house to take to the city zoning board. They are going to look crazy, but the issue is parking, and the relative height, width, and size of my driveway and garage. Believe me, you don’t really want to know.

Caps on the Train

Jason Das — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:17:46 +0000

Birthday Party!

Jason Das — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:27:38 +0000

For February 21st, I threw myself a birthday party. I documented it poorly … probably a couple dozen folks (including me) weren’t photographed, and those that were were photographed poorly. Oh well. It was great, you had to be there, thanks to everyone who was, and extra crazy special thanks to Isa for making all kinds of wonderful food and Olivia for baking the cake!

Apocalypse Stencil - Thing 21

fischbowl — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:43:56 +0000

This image comes from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Durer). It was conceived to be a 4 color separation using 4 stencils. Well it turned out that i only had silver and bronze spray paint when i went to view my handiwork, so the effect is rather… odd… anyway, i think it holds some promise, for when i have some other colors and with a little refinement. i’d been working on the stencils over a few days, and was excited to make my proof today… alas, it was not as exciting as it could have been with more colors.

my grandmother was dreaming to become a deep water diver

voidit — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:29:04 +0000

and i started to work on a project abandoned 2 years ago (maybe more). long way to go still, but anyway…

::: 2.21.08 ::: Mine’s Smaller Than Yours

fmvigneri — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:26:41 +0000

giant robots are coming!

invisible.co — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:25:12 +0000

Why yes, I know that bionicles are meant for 7-16 year olds and I’m … not 7-16. But I got these, and they were fun to make!!! The blue one is Takadox and the red one is Kalmah. Hee.

I photoshopped them against a vaguely threatening robot computer evil face background I found on google images. The shadows are photoshopped too.

Metal “Paper” Airplane - Thing 20

fischbowl — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:35:49 +0000

Tonight - a paper airplane made of sheet metal!

My Right Hand

Jason Das — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:34:37 +0000

As drawn by the left. I can’t remember ever drawing with my left hand before. It’s kind of creepy and I kind of want to do more of it.

Shape Wars, a print’n'cutout ‘board’ game

Christopher Weeks — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:54:29 +0000

So, I’m recovering from a quickie 24-hour flu-like bug with elevated fever and lots of pain. I was home from work yesterday and made a little game. I don’t have pictures of it yet but I blogged about it and put the PDF up on the web so anyone can download and play. (I’d love to hear of anyone using it.)

Click here for the PDF.

school you make me feel…

amberkee — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:02:26 +0000

… as in, insane.

Quit that, would you.