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• Superheroes: Icons of Good, Evil and Everything in Between Exhibition Photos

  As of last weekend, the art show I co-curated in Albuquerque is closed but the fine folks at 516 Arts sent me some gorgeous exhibition photos and I just had to share a few of them. The show was great in person, but these photos really do an amazing job of making the setup look good. I can’t figure out why WordPress doesn’t want to include all the captions/credits on these photos… “Mr. Bends” – Esteban Bojorquez “Bik’eh Hozho” – [...]

• Milestone 1 approved – wahoo!!

  Well, it was a nerve-wracking week, pulling together my first game concept. I’ve done it informally before of course, but never actually put it together in a cohesive format. I submitted it late last night and waited until this morning with baited breath and to my complete and utter surprise, it was accepted without qualification. I’m stoked!! Now if only the rest of the milestones could go as smoothly…

• Worst…blogger…ever

  I realized today that I’ve got like, three posts since June of last year. Pathetic! I meant for this blog to chronicle all the cool stuff I have going on in my life – looks like my life hasn’t been very cool, as this sink-face will readily attest. Thankfully, that’s about to change. This month I start work on my first ever professional video game script and I’m stoked! I’ve been doing a lot of writing on my own, working [...]

• Home made holiday cards – ten years and counting!

  Yup, it was ten years ago I started making my own holiday cards. Originally I thought it was the kind of thing artsy-fartsy types exchanged with their artsy fartsy friends. The problem is, there never was much of what you could call an “exchange”. Year after year, I mailed out stacks of cards and got nothing back and then it occurred to me – my friends while artsy-fartsy, are also lazy, tech-saturated bastards who can’t be bothered to answer an [...]

• Once more…with felting.

  Well, my latest goofy attempt at being creative involves lots of dyed raw wool and a host of very, very sharp needles. I saw a talented young guy at a crafts fair in San Jose, selling the cutest little felted animal sculptures and determined that I too, needed to felt. I bought one of his little kits (an owl) and made my first felted sculpture in a felt-by-numbers kind of way. Having had a modicum of success with that, I [...]

• The Superhero Art Show is a Success!

  One of the best things that happened to me this year was working with 516 Arts on an exhibit entitled: “Superheroes: Icons of Good, Evil and Everything in Between” and in a blatantly tacky piratization of the 516 blog site, I’m re-posting here a piece I wrote there called “Notes from a Co-Curator”. The show is up until January 7, 2012 and if you are in the Albuquerque area, you should really check it out.

• Who CARES What Jesus Would Do?

  Yeah…so after moping an extended period after receiving a “don’t call us, we’ll call you” email today from another prospective employer, I sat for a while, taking stock of my life and it came to me – I make shitty decisions. For the last two years (well all my life really, but the last two years in particular) I’ve been making choices that undermine my career, my health, my relationships and my happiness and today I resolved to employ a [...]

• You’ve won THIS time, E3 but I’ll be back!

  Oy vey. Woke up to the sound of someone in the hotel room behind mine vomiting copiously. Little did I know that would set the tone for my entire day. My last day at E3 got hosed by an unexpected stomach bug. And no, it wasn’t the kind you get from drinking too many sidecars and gin fizzes. I was fine when I went to bed last night but this morning, boy howdy – it wasn’t pretty. I stiffened the [...]

• Day 1, E3 2011: short beds, sweaty crowds and Star Wars: The Old Republic

  In past posts I’d forgotten to mention one of the most unique features of my shabby hotel room–the unusually short bed. I’m only 5 foot 6 but in order not to have my feet hang off the bottom, I have to angle myself diagonally. Who are these beds made for exactly? Dwarven tourists? Anyway, I woke up this morning early and was immediately barraged with assignments. I worked for hours without eating or taking a shower, sorely tempted to make [...]