The sad and slow strangulation of PHP Brainfag
posted in Home Jabber on September 28, 2006
You may have noticed a certain lack of enthusiasm in updating ye olde Brainfag. It's a multi-tiered disinterest. For most of this quiet spell, I've been insanely busy with both webjobs and illustration (becoming a lame excuse, since it's a constant thing).
I landed a small job with McSweeney's (! not sure what publication as of yet), painted a new cover, backcover and inside cover (as well as a few inside illustrations) for the new album "13 Cities" (which kicks ass by the way, excited for it to come out early next year), drew a Mercury illustration, the new Papercutter inside and back inside covers, a card illustration for Ezra's new thang (still working on that) ..
Aaaand on the web front: an online donation form for Literary Arts (as well as a new slick, one-page checkout inspired by Panic's), a new comics community site/mailing list comixlist.com, the online Zinester's Guide to Portland pdxguide.org, a site for Bill Daniel (not wholly my design, I just worked off the fantastic original by Gilbert Guerrero), facillitated the spread of yin yang art at moritzco.com (now THAT'S all my design beotch, word), as well as some XHTML/CSS templating working with Peat Bakke, and a few other sites almost finished. Whew. Been a craaazy month.
Add to that we're leaving for Korea in a few days, and the fact that I've been mad sick, assumedly from stress. But now I'm better, and we're leaving soon, and I'll be off the computer for a month taking photos and drawing.
I'd been hoping to move over to natebeaty.com, but I think I'm going to just keep natebeaty.com my fancy illo/photo portfolio site (with BIG 1024x768 layout), brainfag will continue to be my blathering station, and clixel will get a makeover to be a more fauncy web-portfolio. And all will bow to the power of Django soon enough, because Django kicks ass. And PHP is like, so over.
Been drawing people on the bus a lot lately. Getting my chops ready for Korea. Attaching a few doodles to this post.
4 comments on this entry
Nate-
Congrats on all the STELLAR work! Your Mercury Illustration looks awesome. I'm sure you'll get more work out of them! The sites look good too...
I like the idea of keeping your blog here, your illustration stuff at NB.com and web work at Clixel. You are a three headed monster of productivity!
You totally need to make a "Carnet De Voyage" for Korea! Jackee just spent a week in Peru and she was drawing the whole time. We all want to live vicariously through your drawings...
Have fun on your well earned break!
and are all those new photos taken with yr new 5 billion dollar camera? cause they look like they were taken with a 5 billion dollar camera.
hot tones, mofo.
razor pixels giggling the rods and cones in my baby blues and making them holla, holla, hoo-ha, hep, hep, yo.
O & good luck in the land of kim-chee & brilliant cinema.
dont be ill, ok?
ok, then.
ps: i've decided you should come for mardi gras & witness the utter & absolute apex of our dastardly decadence. that would be fine & quite fucking fun, i tell you.
have a great and safe trip bro!
all those images from overseas happen to be friggin amazing. what a weird vibrant jumble, huh?
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