“I can’t believe it’s taken me five years to get this posted. It’s certainly a work in progress and missing lots of things, but it’s a start. The key is a little misleading and, as the timeline gets closer to present, there is a lot of missing of areas. For example, Writing/Print includes phtoography and other visual media. Broadcasting includes all transmitted media (including the telegraph and telephone) and all massmedia (with the exception of print media), such as television and film. There are still, probably, a lot of mispellings, too.”

“A few years ago, I was hitting a roadblock in my personal work when a series of drawings I was making seemed increasingly to be leading me toward etching. Sketchbook in hand, I drove to the nearest art supply store, thinking someone there might be able to advise me on materials.”

“Next year, Microsoft plans to release six new font families designed for high readability on-screen. Consolas, in particular, looks like it may be the text-editing font I’ve been yearning for (but why isn’t there a numeral 1 in the sample text?!?). Don’t believe the Mac-compatibility FUD in the article — OS X handles Windows fonts just fine, and I can’t imagine that Microsoft wouldn’t bundle these fonts with all their Mac products (as has been their practice for years now).”

“The Rubber Frame was a comics exhibition in October 2004. Actually, it was two gallery exhibitions, along with an accompanying book of essays dealing with comics and culture. One of the shows, American Underground and Alternative Comics, 1964-2004 (curated by Todd Hignite at the Des Lee Gallery in downtown St. Louis) included a wall-size mural done by me. Here are some of the gory details from the mural’s creation and it’s short life.”

“Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Monday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation.”

“I am a Macintosh user who has just acquired a Nikon D70 digital SLR. Most of my photography experience is with film-based equipment; I have no experience maintaining a collection of digital photos. The software bundled with the camera seems questionable, and iPhoto drives me nuts. What do other amateur (or professional) photographers use to manage their photographs? Will iPhoto do the job? What habits should I develop? What software should I use? Any tips or tricks to help ease me into the world of digital photography?”

This site allows you to create anthropomorphic (and other) designs from typography using Univers, Bodoni, Future and Helvetica.

“I have given several press interviews in recent days, all more or less along the same lines: someone’s been assigned to write a story about people being fired for blogging. Recent pieces from AP and CNET are pushing this spin, going on and on and on about the risks. Except for, it’s all a bunch of BS. For most people, blogging is a career-booster, both in your current job and when you’re looking for your next one. This fragment includes, among other things, Ten Reasons Why Blogging Is Good For Your Career.”

“Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves segmenting images into regions and tracking these regions across image sequences. Neither of these tasks can be performed reliably in practice; consequently, colorization requires considerable user intervention and remains a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive task.” (Thanks Waxy!)

“In October 2004, I travelled to Ethiopia for a two-week solo sightseeing trip. I’d been advised against bringing my camera, but as an amateur street photographer, leaving it behind didn’t seem like an option. In predominantly Muslim communities, photography is shunned, particularly photographing women, which is completely understandable. Consequently, at many times during my trip, there was so much to see, and no way to capture it, except through words. Hence this site — a place for all the moments I was unable to photograph. If you’re a photographer and find yourself unable to pick-up the camera to shoot a certain situation, I’d be interested in hearing your story and possibly including it on the site.” (Thanks kottke.org!)

“Hypulp documents the influence of the internet on print design.”

“Okay, so a few people asked me how I do image transfers, so I thought I would show everyone. There are lots of different ways to do this, I think there are several threads on craftster about different techniques, but this is just how I do it. What you will need: A photocopy or laser printer printout of your image, a piece of fabric, a spoon, and a transparent blender pen.”

“Drawn! site is a multi-author blog devoted to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing. Its purpose is to inspire creativity by sharing links and resources. Albert Einstein said, ‘The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources,’ but what the hell did he know anyway?”

“As you may have noticed by reading the site in the past year, I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about companies…how they succeed, why they fail, how to approach them from a holistic sense so they make sense on a human scale and not just from a business perspective, that sort of thing. In deciding to start my own little company of one, here are a few things I’ve run across that have influenced how I’m approaching it.”

“I recently found myself in the position of wanting to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire in a week, and I figured there was a decent chance that the person who owned it wouldn’t be renewing it. Upon consulting the WhoIs registry on the current owner, I discovered the guy was a bit of a domain shark and didn’t seem to be around anymore.”