Great Caricatures

President Barack Obama
Originally uploaded by robotalphabet

Recently, my friend at KALAMAFRAZ has been researching caricatures. A while back I came across the work of Mark Hammermeister on his flickr page, robotalphabet. There you will find some wonderful caricature work in vector as well as other traditional illustrations. I especially like his Tommy Lee Jones.

Have You Ever Wanted to Fly?

It's been a while since my last blog, but now that the holidays are over and life is resembling what passes for normal, I'll try to be more consistent with blogging. for starters I should probably get off of my ass and make a new banner. But in the mean time you should really check out this video that reminds me so much of my favorite dreams, it's scary. Like most people I have had one of those ultra realistic flying dreams which are among my favorites. In this video, these guys are doing it for real. I got this video from Rae's coworker, Karen.

BTW, happy new year and all the best in 2009!

Guardian Challenge 2008

I know a few people who have been waiting a couple of weeks for some of these photos to be posted. The problem being, that between German class, side projects and my full time job it has been difficult to find the time needed to go through the 3000 or so photos. I hope that those interested in these photos understand. Mostly because I have seen what these people can do at the event. Seriously though it was a great event and all competitors did an outstanding job..
See some of the other photos at my flickr page here.

From The Man That Brought You Peace Train

Wow it's been two weeks since my last posting . That is the longest break since I started the blog therapy blog. I guess it's because I've been pretty busy as of late. Yesterday I wrote my German level 3 test and other projects are wrapping up so I should be posting more regularly. In the mean time, I found this interesting video of everyone's favorite Muslim, Cat Stevens . I can't believe that this is from the same guy who wrote "Peace Train".


Also, I've been reaquainting myself with one of my favorite late eighties, indy band, the pixies. If you're not familliar with them, check em out.
Enjoy.

3 Months and Counting

I celebrated 3 months smoke free this past weekend by attending the Guardian Dojo Challange . There I took about 2000 photos and some video with the help of Rae and my brother. I have two friends from college who are members of the Guardian Dojo who performed very well in thier fights. I have the upmost respect for anyone who competes in these tournaments. In sadder news, Debby the Polar Bear was euthanized today. Debby was the oldest polar bear on record. Video of Debby can be seen on youtube here.

Mitch Mitchell 1947 - 2008

Rock and Roll lost another great drummer. Mitch Mitchell, one of the few drummers that could keep up with Jimi Hendrix, passed away last Wednesday of natural causes following an 18 date tour called Experience Hendrix. Mitch represented the last living member of the trio, "The Jimi Hendrix Experience", R.I.P.
Above is Mitch performing a drum solo in Sweden in 1969 and below one of my personal favorite drum tracks from Mitch, "Catfish Blues" as seen on youtube.

Mona Marley

I found another fun thing to do from creativepro's wackey website of the week. This week it was for a site called megamonalisa.com where you get to redesign the mona lisa. There are many good and some really bad ones. I had fun whipping this one out. See it posted with the frame on the website here.