Photo Courtesy Foodie Crush What makes for a top-notch dining experience? A six-course harvest dinner with Epic Brewing beer pairings combined with an outdoor mountain-side festival table is a good place to start. This past Labor Day weekend we treated ourselves to such with the Wasatch Mountain Table at Solitude Resort. While everything was excellent,… Read more »
From the Inspiration Archives
Fading Summer
Labor Day has traditionally marked the beginning of the end of summer. With the leaves changing, don’t let this fading summer pass you by. Song credit: Magpie in the Morning by Neko Case
Boyhood & The Black Album
You’re feeling things, that’s good… You’ve got to hang on to that. When you get old, your skin get’s tough. Mason Sr to Mason Jr in the film Boyhood We treated ourselves to a Monday night movie last night with Richard Linklater’s latest, Boyhood. Go see it if you get a chance, it’s well worth… Read more »
Jason Isbell on WTF With Marc Maron
“I had to write things that scared the shit out of me… I won’t take something out because it scare’s me to put it in, I think that’s bullshit, that’s lying to people… You build an audience that way that’s very similar.” “Exactly. If you’re honest and you’re vulnerable then like-minded people find you.” Jason… Read more »
Link Wranglin’
It’s been a bit since I’ve done a good ol’ fashioned link dump. So here we go with a few odds and ends to make your day more interesting, or at least brighten it up a bit. Starting from above is a short edit I made last weekend featuring the Neko Monster and yours truly…. Read more »
Less Filler, More Killer.
In order to avoid losing its place atop organizations, design must deliver results. Designers must also accept that if they don’t, they’re not actually designing well; in technology, at least, the subjective artistry of design is mirrored by the objective finality of use data. A “great” design which produces bad outcomes —low engagement, little utility,… Read more »
Do it Better or Differently
It’s 2010… everything has been done before. All you can do is something someone else has done before, except do it better or differently. From Michael Winterbottom’s 2010 film, The Trip
This One’s for Frank
After returning from that ordeal to resume work and rejoin the internet, everything seemed like trivial bullshit—because it was. Disingenious money grabs highlighted themselves. Haters’ words lost their put-on quaintness and looked like hatespeak. Bad content looked like noise, loud promotion looked like desperation, and all speed was stupid. And it was startling how often… Read more »
Moto Mood Board
In an effort to show my work, above is a mood board, or collage of some reference material for an illustration I’m working on. Mood boards are useful for not only establishing a sense of style and direction, but for providing technical guidance. Read why I am documenting my process and showing my work.
Show Your Work
A lot of people are so used to just seeing the outcome of work. They never see the side of the work you go through to produce the outcome. Michael Jackson Austin based (seems to be a theme) writer & artist Austin Kleon has been a huge inspiration of mine. His most recent work, Show… Read more »