briar waterman

Big birthday wish goes out to my Dad. Great man. I think he did this piece when he was 5 or something. It hangs downstairs in my parents house now, my Mom was wise enough to snag it when we cleaned my Grandma’s house out.

Sums him up so well. Think. Big Heart. Traits that make him a great man. Happy Think Day to you.

The last post got me thinking how easy it is to just take a link, re-post it and spread it all over. There is another level of linking that happens for me, and that is when something makes it into my journal.

For the past few years I have printed off images, clipped odds and ends and taped them in journals. I loose bookmarks, sites go down and they change. The things in my journal tend to stay with me longer. I may not always remember the site or the source, but I can usually identify the visual period that I was going through (found objects, typographic puns, vector illustrations). Patterns and connections start to build when I look back.

Things that get taped in are usually the things that influence me, where as things that I see and would normally link or bookmark don’t always have as lasting impression.

So with that in mind, I thought I would try to link to things that have made it into my journals.

First images are from the same artist as yesterday, Steve Powers, new link from his Coney Island work.

The small LED clocks with the individual digits are from Jonas Damon Design.

Both got some ideas cooking for a number project. Started on it last night, hope to have some images up soon.

Playing around with a different header size. Experimenting with having some animation in there too.

Wanted to link out to some people who I look(ed) at almost daily and provided the fuel to jump off with this:

+ mav at port2port. Great photography and letterpress.
+ draplin Wears his heart on his sleeve in the best of ways.
+ jason zada’s old blog. It looks to be down, but I used to read it all the time.

There are a ton of others that I visit, but those 3 pop to the top.

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Steve Powers - nice mash-up of sign painting and modern life.

Howdy,

Kick things off here. Not really sure where this is going to go. Going to chase out some ideas about numbers here….calendars, clocks, others. Also was going to throw in random thoughts on food, music, whatever.

Let’s see where it goes.