what i want to do...

as you can see from my sketch book, this is the sort of thing that i like to doodle.

i was thinking about trying to do posters like this. more detailed, more... stuff to it. but the basic concept of this.

whadda ya think?

>n

sketch book crap

ok, so it's been a while.
a long while, since i've done an update.

i got lazy. then i got an iphone, and got all excited that i could snap pics and just upload nice and easy right to my blog, but well, i still can't figure out how, or if, it's even possible.

so i decided to show some of my sketch book crap.
this is going to be sort of a megapost. it's not very good, but maybe some of it is kind of funny. this is all from the past 2 or 3 months. i think i lost one book, but it's mostly the same kind of crap in that lost book anyway.

i did a posting on facebook a ways back, where it was all about "a new career!!!", just the idea of me drawing letters all the time. i still get really excited at the idea of it. but, well... i guess i just haven't tried hard enough to make this happen? or perhaps, i'm just not skilled enough at this particular craft, as much as i might enjoy it. though i do hold out hope that i might be able to draw some headlines for magazines [the few that will be left] or newspapers or what have you in the printed realm, one of these days. or i've been kicking around some ideas for posters too. but i guess we'll see what happens with that.

i did the majority, if not all of these while riding on the subway. i chose words that i thought were funny, or just ones that popped into my head.

enjoy?

sketch book crap

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i have nothing to say about this black & mild cigar.
absolutely nothing at all. really.

that new orleans copper thing is funny, to me at least, because it's very similar to that lettering that is all over california, the one in los felize, which an emigre font is based on.

i did a posting on that a ways back.
i saw a few examples in new orleans, and it always makes me smile.
[i think they owe a lot to cooper black as well, but that's another story i guess]

i've got a mega-post of a bunch of shots from the pharmacy museum that i've been sitting on. there are scores of them to get through. so hopefully soon. they really are quite stellar.

so check back soon!

>n

batch 3

more coming at you!
i love the antique store crest, but especially the cruddy looking gold blackletter type on teh window. ugh, i fucking LOVE that!

lots of crests in this town... lots of crests.

>n

batch 2

i love that top one.
the S was... HUGE.
really.

all i kept thinking of was if it ever came off and fell on a bus, an entire group of people would be eliminated by one giant S.

more tk.

and thanks for the props, doug!
the food was AMAZING!
i can't wait to tell you guys about it...

>n

batch 1

some of what i've started to edit down...

>n

and i'm sorry,

but this pic deserves its own post.

hotard?
really?

what, cum dumpster was taken?

hotard is a tour bus company in louisiana.
http://www.hotard.com/site.php

wtf?

as my girlfriend and i said, repeatedly after seeing this. well, it was more a lament that anything. we've been alive a combined 67 years on this planet. and in this time, we've been aware of the existance and usage of the two words that make up this linguistic wonder. but much to our chagrin, we never put the two together.

ho-tard.

fucking genius.

>n

this is a first...

i'm posting something that's not a sign or anything like that.
i saw this type in an advertisement online.
i really, REALLY like it.

it's got this whole bent paper thing going.
and it looks like the same font that wired magazine is using in its front of the book section.

whom ever designed this, well done!

>n

i'm BACK!

hey y'all, i'm back from new orleans. and while i go through the hundreds, yes... HUNDREDS of photos i took to separate the wheat from the chaff, let me just post a few that i've been meaning to get in there.

these are old, mostly brooklyn types. the sleds are a storefront window in manhattan. the building... who the fuck knows. all i know is that it's on atlantic ave in brooklyn, and that crest, it's on a garage door in windsor terrace. funny, right?

so yeah, check back soon for some southern deep fried cajun creole types.

>n