Da Chip

I know I usually stick to my own work on this blog, but I have to plug something else now. Da Chip is a collection of Daft Punk covers, played on classic video game systems. It's all kind ofrad, and you can download it here.

Pinky

Productive week! This was just a funny little image I had in my head for a while now. Luckily, I have a bunch of tiny frames, which means I can get a silly idea and just make it happen. No need to add any more.

Personal Space Invaders

Heres the latest piece I was working on. I don't know why I keep getting drawn to these romantic-bordering-on-mushy images. At least this one is a little cynical.

TIES!

These are the newest project I'm working on. They are going to be available for sale at my table at Crafty Balboa! Hope to see you there.

Date:	Sunday, August 2, 2009
Time:	11:00am - 5:00pm
Location:	The Fountain on Passyunk Ave
Street:	Passyunk and Tasker
	Philadelphia, PA

Zelda and news a-plenty!

I once passed a flower shop in a pretty hick town in Washington state that had a big sign out front declaring "FREE ROSE FOR ANY LADY NAMED ZELDA!" I thought it was the least generous promotion ever.

Anyway, here is my latest piece, just in time for valentine's day. You can see this and the Ms. Pacman Triptych as part of a group show at Gleaner's Cafe and Gallery in Philadelphia, located in the Italian Market at 917 9th street. Both items are for sale and will be available for sale online if they don't sell during the show.

Also, the good people at lifemeter posted an entry about my work. Check them out, they are pretty awesome.

Ms. Pacman Tritych

It's been a while. I almost wish I could say that the reason for the delay was that I was working on this piece the whole time, but that would be a big lie. The truth is my life was thrown off course for a bit, but it's back on track now.

My goal is to have all pieces framed from now on. There are other exciting developments in the work, but I'll get to those when things are a bit more solid. In the mean time, it's just good to be back.

Weighted Companion Cube

While it has been a faithful companion, your companion cube cannot accompany you through the rest of the test. If it could talk -- and the Enrichment Center takes this opportunity to remind you that it cannot -- it would tell you to go on without it because it would rather die in a fire than become a burden to you.

Still, you didn't have to do it in record time, you heartless bastard.

Q*bert

I love that Q*bert swears. The slightest thing goes wrong and he just turns into a sailor with Tourette's. I ended up going for the cartoon-y representation of Q*bert, rather than build he has in actual arcade play which is more like a perfect sphere, just because the eyes are too goofy of a detail to skimp on.

100% Mario Kart Action

I came home this weekend to find that my roommates had left a pedal car they had found on the street in the middle of the livingroom. I happened to have some stick on moustaches as well. I knew what needed to be done. I know it's not an embroidery, but more of that will be coming soon.

Oregon Trail Hunting

This one took me forever for some reason. I think part of it was just because it was quite bigger than the others. The previous pieces are all 5 by 7 inches, but too much was going on in this to be that restricted, so I went for 8 by 10.

On to the game. Oregon Trail was a game I really liked. I also thought I was a genius when I realized I could just buy less food in the beginning and just hope that I shot enough food to survive. The thing that always disappointed me was the fact that no matter how awesome of a hunter you were, there was a strict limit to how much you could bring back. You couldn't make multiple trips, and for some reason, no one else from your party came with you to help carry back meat. To ad insult to injury, the animals that were the easiest to shoot were enormous, and almost always above the threshold of what you could manage to carry back. To this day I have the depressing image seared in my brain of millions of rotting and decaying pixels cluttering up a digital expanse of prairie.