A guy on the street handed this to me the other day. I guess I don’t understand what Nicholas Cage has to do with scaring people into being Christians? Is he the woman at whom I am looking with lust in my heart?

I’ve been all but ignoring Photoshop since Lightroom came out, which is probably good, since my photos tend to look more natural that way, but it’s made me forget how much fun Photoshop is. I’ve lately gotten back into retouching, and Nina has been a good sport about the fact that for most of at [...]

So here’s a quick gallery I threw together after sifting through all the photos from Seaside. The only really fun thing photography-wise was when we first arrived, we decided to check out this kitschy aquarium on the beach front. Typically when people go to this sort of exhibit and get photos, they’ll produce one of [...]

I went to the ocean today. It’s a bit of a landmark in a couple ways, one of which being that I haven’t seen the ocean in almost exactly two years, the second being that it’s the first time I’ve actually left the Portland metro area since I moved here. Nina and I have been [...]

Today was the last day of analog broadcast television. I’m always for progress (like when is the government going to step in and force cable companies to upgrade infrastructure so we can get some decent internet in this country?), so when I heard about the forced upgrade however many years ago I thought “good fucking [...]

Comic I drew at work today with the world’s shittiest pen.

I don’t “do” a lot of news. I think it’s because last election cycle I completely overdid it. A year ago I was media engorged — a fat, bloated, quivering sack of election coverage — and then almost literally as soon as I saw the announcement that Obama had been elected, I was over it. [...]

Yesterday at work I came up with a brilliant idea for a line of t-shirts. Basically, you take a bunch of standard “state” shirts and mix and match the pictures and text. Example. A picture of a sunset at the Grand Canyon. The shirt says “Florida.” A picture of a hula dancer in front of [...]

During our shoot today, another guy showed up and distracted Ben for an hour or two by talking about the comic industry or something, so Kyle and I were trying to brainstorm new things to shoot. He came up with several creative ideas, but then I volunteered: “What if you just wailed your head around [...]

I spent most of this weekend hunting down the pieces for and assembling a DIY beauty dish to attach to my flash. I got my instructions from a Strobist link to a Dave Tejada construction of some rando on Flickr’s beauty dish. It’s comprised of a $4 14″ terra cotta bowl (Home Depot garden), a [...]