Wood Working Project: Fishing Rod Holder

January 15, 2012

While walking through a familiar sporting goods store I came across a fishing rod holder in the shape of a ship’s wheel. I wanted it desperately but had no need for one that could hold that many rods and costs what it cost. So, I decided to make my own.

First, there was the matter of [...]

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Illustration Friday: Messenger

December 30, 2011

Wow, it has been a long time since I posted something on Illustration Friday and boy did I miss it. This week’s topic was Messenger and immediately I thought of Mercury. Then I thought of how much everything has changed in the last few decades.
I did some thumbnails of a foot race between email, twitter, [...]

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Fuzzy Memories: Christmas Pt. 3 Conclusion

December 26, 2011

Shortly after Ike fell ill and died Mike followed the leader over the rainbow bridge. Saddened by our brief relationship with our chameleons we wanted to bury them but our father, the smartest smoking moustache I knew, told us the ground would be frozen since it was winter in Ohio.
The smartest smoking moustache I [...]

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Fuzzy Memories: Christmas Pt. 2

December 25, 2011

After a few weeks of feeding them meal-worms and watching them do just about nothing, the smartest smoking mustache I knew (a.k.a. dad, but as a child all I could associate with him were his moustache, glasses and his brand of cigarettes – Winstons so from here on out he will be referred to as [...]

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Fuzzy Memories: Christmas Part I

December 24, 2011

One Holiday season my younger brother and I had somehow managed to talk my mother into buying us pet lizards from a local pet store. This memory seems to be so far removed from reality as something that my mother would do that I had to write about it and speak with my siblings as [...]

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