I was going to write a funny story today, but something else came up that compelled me to write an angry story. I went out to my car this morning to get something and noticed that my drivers side door was slightly open. So, very concerned I looked in the car and at first saw nothing broken or missing.

I looked in my glove compartment and saw that my detachable radio was still there, but….my GPS was missing….missing…..i should say stolen. This really makes me upset. More than just having something stolen from your car, but the logic or lack of logic.

One should always live by the rule; if it is not your DON’T take it!!! I would never think to take anything from anyone. Not only because I don’t want to be arrested, but because I would not want anything stolen from me. Why don’t other people have that same tendency? It makes me think what is wrong with this person; where they not held enough as a baby, where they beaten, do they have a father, what are there role models, etc etc.

I don’t know what can be done, but it seems like these type of people can get away with it and don’t care. What do they care about if they don’t care about other people. They certainly don’t care about them selves because if they did they would be scared as well.

Damn.

~dzob

I was at a birthday party with my son and it was at a bouncy party palce. The best creation!!! IF you have never been you need to get a child and go. It would be a little creepy if you showed up and had no child:) It is a big room filled with all sorts of moon bounces, and yes for my 30th birthday party I had a moon bounce….and BBQ. My two favorite things!

Anyway, SO I was at this party and about 5 kids where in the moon bounce running in circles and loving it! it made me think that when do we loose that ability to have fun running in cirlces. When was the last time you heard one of your friends say “Hey dave let run in a circle for about 30 min”. The only time I heard it was when I was running track and you have to run in a cirle. But you understand!

Or when was the last time pretended a pillow was a fire truck. When do we loose that raw energy and creativity?

So I was creating some brushes the other day and I thought that many people don’t know what goes into creating brushes, so I thought I would share.

Here are some of the materials that where being used. The first shot is of a $.99 spray bottle filled with regular house paint. NO WATER ADDED.

Here is part of the set up as well as the can of black house paint.

I pored the house paint into the bottle and set up a close line with close pins, where i hung sheets of paper. I than sprayed the paper with the pain to create…..well you will see

This is a sample of what some looked like. I used different approaches to create this brushes. I stood close up, far away, at an angle, etc.

results:

In the end i created ab out 50+ sheets of paper. Now not all of them i turned into brushes, but i did end up with 31 brushes.

Here is a link to a sample of the brushes. Enjoy:) I am not giving you all of them….I have to hold something for my self.

Ok so this is another running story, maybe not as funny as the snot rocket story, but what will? I get so many comments in person about that story it makes me laugh. So anyway. I was running the other day, like I like to do. It was about 3:00 and I had underestimated how hot it was.

I started off running and no problem with the heat or the sun. AND THEN………it happened…….As i was running probably at mile 3 out of no where comes this DOG!! Now I stop here to tell you a side note. I cannot stand dogs, while I am running. They bark, run , or leap while I am running it is so annoying. The owners always say, “he is friendly” or “he is a nice dog”…ummm if we was a nice dog he would not park at me and make me wet my pants, ok?. OK! Right, so back to this DOG, all caps. All of a sudden this DOG come running, full speed, towards me and mind you this is not any dog it is a pit bull or Rottweiler! So it is coming towards me with what looks like no leash.

I am scared out of my mind. I actually say out loud, what are you doing?, as if the dog will answer me….”To eat your face, of course” But not to fear there is a fence, so the worse it could do is scare me and I move on with my life……too easy. All of a sudden the fence ends and here I am face to face with this DOG. He is running I am running and he is inches from me and I see it…..it is a glorious leash and it yanks him back, but he comes running again.

Now here is what is in my imagination; the DOG breaks the lease and I start to run faster and he runs faster and now I am in chase with a DOG who wants to eat me. Luckily that did not happen, but that lease was to long. Come on dog owner think of the people that are walking and running by.

So after that scare I still had 2 more miles to run. Now my heart is beating fast and it is hot and I might have a heart attack. I run another half mile and my feet are on fire, sweat is in my eyes, I AM HOT, not to mention I am now running up a big hill, so what do it do…….I actually yell….F*UCK. Literally out loud! I was so hot I don’t know what came over me, but I said it again and this time louder. After I said it two times I had to laugh because i was thinking what the other people that where in there yard were thinking.

What would you think if out of no where this runner comes by yelling the F word? Any way that is my typical day of running story. Hope you enjoyed:)

I know i hacve not posted in a while, but I am creating a new way that I do post. Each post will have a graphic or spread design with it, so it will take me longer to post, but it will be worth the wait. Unless al of this just takes to much time:) we will see!

The full article is below and the design article is above. This is the first idea for this article more to come. Let me know as always

Today I ran my fastest mile pace ever. It was 7:53 for about 5 miles, so that I ran 5 miles in 44 minutes and 25 seconds. That is really fast for me and was very excited about it and had to share it! Even though that my regular pace is about 8 minutes per mile this pace seemed to make me extremely tired and I so exhausted when I finished and came home. 7 seconds does not seem like that big of a difference, but it was!!

What made me push my self and keep going was the music i was listening to. My high school coach, Mr. Link, told us never to listen to music as it will alter our pace and make it inconsistent, or something like that. That is in the back of my head every time a strap on my ipod and put on those headphones.

The music that really helped was some songs by the white stripes (ickey thump and Blue Orchid), Run DMC (Raising Hell (this I listed to 3 times) and Peter Piper) and Bad Religion (21st century digital boy). SO i wanted to thank the music….you guys really helped me through the tough hill at the end. When i said this is enough i must start walking RUN DMC said “king from queens from queens come kings we are raising hell in the class when the lunch bell rings….so loud like a cloud of thunder and lightning so proud to the crowd it is somewhat frightening……and bad religion said…..”i don’t believe it the way you look sometimes……the things you are offering me…… i am a 21st century boy, i don’t know how to read but i got a lot of toys, my daddy is a lazy middle class intellectual my mommy’s on Valium so ineffectual….and the white stripes said “white Americans, what? nothing better to do? why don’t you kick your self out, you are an immigrant to!”

SO thanks you!

~dzob

Here are the other comps

Here is the video tutorial for the typography brush thing that i posted last week. I am getting together a step by step tutorial, but that takes some time, so it will come a little later. Below is the video and a link for the brush file.

Brush Files: brush_turorial4.zip

Here is a new design. It started from a gift that I gave a friend recently. I changed it to say typography. I am goign to try to do more because i really like what is going on with it and everything that went into it. Later i will post the individual layers and how it was created. Let me know what you think

In this tutorial I take a text treatment and make it using masking, etc and turn it into a brush and than make a design out of that. It is amazing what you can achieve with brushes!

So, I was on my way to catonsville and it is 10:55 and I needed to be in my office at 11:00. By my calculation I was about 5 minutes away from at school, so I had no room for error. I know I could have been five minutes late, but I do not like to be.

I am comming up on the sign for my exit and it says 1 mile to go, but i was behind some jerk going 40 miles per hour ON 95, WTH!!! Side note** Sometimes when I am driving I get lost in my own thoughts and miss exits and I usually have my GPS on just so it reminds me. SOmetimes a drive past my exit to go home….another time I will tel that story:)

So I go to pass this person and all of a suddon three trucks box me in and I can not move out of this lane and now I see my exit comming up and so i try to break and go behind the truck and the same jerk that I was passing takes my spot. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!! Well I said much worse than that, but….

As this jerk, lets call him roger, took my spot I looked at him and mean really looked at him. He was old in a Oldsmobile Cutlas classic, tan, wearing a wicker hat….so I named him roger. There are a few rules that I follow when I am behind a car and one of them is never trust any one that drives an Oldsmobile!

SO I missed my exit, and that got me so mad,  and I had to drive to the next one and turn around it made me 20min late to school.

~dzob