I Ripped This Right Out of a Library Book!

Ellie Fredricksen was supposed to complete wall 2, but if you remember, we called an audible mid-Jack. That means she’s the last portrait...

I Ripped This Right Out of a Library Book!

Liam: Year 8

I’m a little late getting this out, but I think Liam forgives me. Even if he doesn’t, he’s been shooting fake fireballs since seeing it, so he’s...

Liam: Year 8

Jack Skellington Has Been Blown to Smitherines

I’m going to make this short, since there’s still a chance Jack will make the last wall. But after some serious internal...

Jack Skellington Has Been Blown to Smitherines
I Ripped This Right Out of a Library Book!

I Ripped This Right Out of a Library Book!

Ellie Fredricksen was supposed to complete wall 2, but if you remember, we called an audible mid-Jack. That means she’s the last portrait in the line-up, but we still need to go back and paint another duo. So why Ellie? We had three main goals with this portrait. First, we wanted to bookend with another [...]

Liam: Year 8

Liam: Year 8

I’m a little late getting this out, but I think Liam forgives me. Even if he doesn’t, he’s been shooting fake fireballs since seeing it, so he’s at least been inspired. We shot all of the green screen shots at Grandma and Papa’s (thanks for not painting over our studio) and all the post production [...]

Jack Skellington Has Been Blown to Smitherines

Jack Skellington Has Been Blown to Smitherines

I’m going to make this short, since there’s still a chance Jack will make the last wall. But after some serious internal struggle, I’ve decided to axe the Jack and Zero project and replace them with another beloved duo. The deciding factor, for the many of you who’ve stopped by and heard some of the [...]

Ragnar: 2010

Ragnar: 2010

So… I don’t know. I don’t know what to say about this. Part of me doesn’t even want to create a post for this, but I can’t not. The Ragnar is now an experience I look forward to every year and so I have to give it its due shout. But this year sucked. Not [...]

Browser Wars

304|250 It’s about time for another tech article, yeah? That Mac/Linux/PC article is pretty archaic, and in truth, I never asked Warren if I could post it anyway. So what’s next for this sorely neglected category? How about Explorer vs. Safari Vs. Firefox Vs. Camino Vs. Opera Vs. Shiira Vs. Omni Web Vs. Chrome Vs. [...]

Linux/Windows/Mac

177|250 The following is part of my response to the still charismatic and occasionally witty Warren Hull. He wondered how my Mac experience was faring in comparison to my life long PC use and I responded with an unusually long email. Since the question is not a new one, I decided to post the important [...]

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment marks the end of my “must read” list, as far as Dostoyevsky is concerned. I may pick up The House of the Dead or The Idiot somewhere down the road, but as of a few hours ago , I’ve closed the last chapter I plan to read of his for a long [...]

Notes from the Underground

I’m finding that the more I think about Notes from the Underground, the more grumpy I become. I remember back when reading Brothers Karamazov, I called Carlos and said, “This book has no plot.” He kind of chuckled and responded, “It’s not really about the plot, Travis.” It was one of those, “dang it, I’m [...]

I Was Too Making a Dollar a Minute!

Our family’s love for Br’er Bear goes back before our little Poppleton family started. My Dad has loved Song of the South for as long as I can remember. He would read us the stories of Uncle Remus in a deep, southern voice and when the film played in American theaters for its final run, [...]

The Audacity of Hope

For the first time in my voting life, I actually believed I was going to be torn between two great presidential candidates. There was a moment there, though brief and anti-climactic, where it looked like Mitt Romney was going to take the GOP. Barack Obama had somehow one-upped the Clintons, and had California (land that [...]