Cavalier holiday card 2012
Two days after arriving home from 40 days in Europe, Heidi and I were married at our house in Oregon on November 11. In celebration of our legal union, it seemed like a fun idea to start the tradition of designing a holiday art card each year to send to family and friends. This year’s […]
Blackboard 9.1 y u no run faster?
It’s Friday. (Yesterday was Thursday. And tomorrow is Saturday. And Sunday comes afterwards.) (You’re welcome.) Maybe, just maybe, I’ll start using this blog more regularly again since I have become thoroughly disenchanted with the social networking landscape. I used to really enjoy Twitter and Flickr (and tolerate Facebook, etc.), but joining Google+ in June overwhelmed […]
Mascot Mashup 8-bit art project
Today marks the release of the 200th image I’ve created for my 8-bit art project Mascot Mashup. Every day I post a new famous character that I’ve translated into pixel art. No. 200 happens to be Johnny Cash (because he died on this day in 2003). Even though I attempt to tie my daily characters […]
On hiatus, with parting links
On this first day of July, I am officially putting this blog on hiatus until 2011. But you can still follow @iancavalier on Twitter or Flickr or 8tracks or Yelp or blah blah social media blah whatever. (The hiatus monkey is courtesy of Squidsicle.) Below is a large dump of random, interesting and useful links […]
Cullman Liquidation, video games and design
Let’s start with this hilarious, awesome local commercial: Cullman Liquidation is the 5th local commercial of the I Love Local Commercials series. And it is epic. Music torture In music torture news: “Musicians blast using tunes to torment.” Here’s a quote from the article: “a spokeswoman with the National Security Archives says acts whose music […]
Dogs and cats, movies, photography, Comixed
Time to continue my giant post from two days ago with more slightly sorted randomness. Dogs and cats This video is kind of awesome: Bizkit the Sleep Walking Dog. Poor dog. At last. My life is now complete: When poodles turn into peacocks (12 pictures). Sigh. Oh no: How to properly massage a cat. This […]
Photography, fruits and vegetables, technology
Photography I’ve browsed through a number of non-Flickr sites lately that have provided excellent inspiration for my own photography projects. Here are some: Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art Gallery “Rubik’s Cube Sandwich,” which I plan to make someday (but with different, more colorful fruit and vegetable ingredients) James D. Griffioen‘s photo sets, including Feral Houses […]
Movies, Microsoft, music videos, Nietzsche, art
It is time, once again, for another blog post where I loosely sort two weeks worth of random pop culture links. Movies I still want to see Moon. The Daybreakers trailer looks interesting too (it’s good to see Ethan Hawke in a sci-fi film again). I wonder when The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will be […]
Addictive YouTube videos, LEGO Arcade, Wimbledon
In light of some recent YouTube video addictions, I have made a quick list of a few videos from the past year or two that I’ve watched dozens of times (literally). The list mainly includes silly mashups, remixes and parodies of pop culture (featuring Auto-Tune, Lil Jon, etc.). Most addictive YouTube videos of all time […]
Gus Van Sant, Corewar, shell pasta, science
Today Portland-based director Gus Van Sant supposedly announced his next project via Twitter: “My next film is Dustin Lance Black’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’. It’s going to be really funny.” I am very excited to see what Van Sant does with Wolfe’s excellent book on Ken Kesey and his band […]