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I'm fascinated by people's creative spaces. I know some people only work/create in public spaces like coffee shops or bars. Still others prefer to move nomadically around their homes, laptops a-sail as each project takes root in a different room. Me, I'm one of those who only successfully works in my study, so I try to spend some time designing the ( Read more... )

I've just about web-designed myself crazy, these past few days, as there are too many stressors these days for me to corral them all. So, taking a break from it, I've got a gin-and-tonic, a ready ash tray, and this meme from merlusyne. Here's the rules:

• Put your iTunes (or any other media player you may have) on shuffle.
• For each question, press the ( Read more... )

Sure, everybody has different types of hobbies and interests that they pursue when trying to relieve stress or otherwise occupy their minds with something other than all the SUCK that's going around ( Read more... )

From my tyrannical Regime to yours: thanks for the year-it's been a good one in the world of despotism.

From "The Early Years": photo-journalistic lot 3457 (declassified)


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In case you missed it over at io9, Apocalypse-partner "R" sends this link along:

40,000 Hungry People Descend on Colorado Farm Seeking Free Food.

The couple decided to open their farm to the public for gleaning after hearing people were stealing food from local churches. But they had no idea that the response would be so huge.
So why not get ready ( Read more... )

Latest cover design:

Mark Teppo's [The Potemkin Mosaic] (Farrago Press, forthcoming)-the ink-and-paper translation of The Oneiromantic Mosaic of Harry Potemkin.


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My good friend and All-Star Player on Team Farrago, Paul Jessup, has released a trailer for his forthcoming surrealist space opera, Open Your Eyes (Apex Books, 2009):

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I'm stoked!

Originally published at Darin Bradley.

The following was written by my wife. I asked her to let me reprint it here because I think it sheds a very telling light on the perspective of a mixed-race American regarding the election of Barack Obama as our next president.

In the biz, we call these sorts of things paradigm shifts. They are rare treasures:

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My latest cover design:

Low-res flat for Polyphony 7, edited by Deb Layne and Forrest Aguirre, forthcoming from Wheatland Press in February '09.


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