Shambot!

The Future is Amazing

Joel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:18:48 +0000

And we’re living it right now.

Here’s why:

My Grandma on my Dad’s side is not the most computer savvy person around. Actually, neither is Grandma on Mom’s side, but that’s not the point. Grandma lives in and owns a duplex. The people downstairs moved out and now she needs to put an ad out. She called me and asked me to put something together for her that looked nice and would stand out from the other For Rent signs at the college where she was going to post it.

Of course I said “yes”.

Using iChat I initiated Screen Sharing so she could see my screen while I put it together. Then when everything was looking perfect I emailed her the PDF. THEN I initiated Screen Sharing so I could see/control her computer to help her print it. After she had printed it we had a nice video chat to catch up and so she could show me the final product.

All of this has been possible through to do for awhile with various technologies but iChat pulls them all together and makes it so easy that even Grandma can do it.

Love

Bill — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:03:41 +0000

These pieces are about the five senses. And also love. For my illustration class!

I really like the idea of ‘home’. Going home, or finding a home. I think it’s always been an important theme in my work. I like drawing houses because of all the things they represent.

This series is about my home, and all the things I love/loved about being at home (in Wyandotte).

Scott Pilgrim Remix

Joel — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:14:35 +0000

Just in case you haven’t seen this yet:

bikin’

Bill — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:16:40 +0000

I was recently asked to be in a bike poster show at The Bikery . The theme of the show is Local/Euro: european-inspired cycling posters. Super exciting!

I decided that I wanted to screen print my posters, which turned out to be quite a challenge (I haven’t screen printed in about 4 years). But thanks to my good buddy Lucas of MouseSaw, it went well! He seriously is the nicest guy ever, and totally made the whole thing possible. DEFINITELY check out his work too, he is a master!

I don’t have pictures of the final yet, but here’s my photoshop file:

I didn’t manage to mix these colors, but the background is orange and the linework is a darkdark brown. I think it looks somewhat vintage/european. Mostly because I based it off this poster HERE.

I really like the simplicity of the image, and thought the typography was nice. As you can see, I was VERY inspired by it. I like the modernized figure though. Rolled up pants and a sweet tank top! The cap is a little throwback I suppose.

PRINTS WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE! I only got about 30 solid prints, so a very limited run! I’ll take some real life pictures soon.

Meow’d

Emma — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:50:35 +0000

I meow’d this meow meow and meow meows and meowed them to meow the ultimate Meow Meow Meow!!!

Basket of Summertime Puppies

Ben — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:35:36 +0000

Written by Bill, performed by Me

Lisa Frank’d

Joel — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:43:13 +0000

I found this cool desktop and spiffy icons and combined them to make the ultimate Lisa Frank Inspired Theme!!!

In Shambot news, I changed the auto-resize width for the medium and large sized images. Large now perfectly fits the width (580px) of this theme without breaking it and medium (290px) is half the width of large.

sometimes there are cats

Joel — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:33:36 +0000

Space belly rubs! Genencor will always be my hero, I dream that one day he will sweep me off my feet and take me away to the suburbs of the late 60s were he can be a retired space cat, and I, his wife space human.

sometimes there are boys

Allison — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:45:35 +0000

But they are ALWAYS such cute boys. Look at all of the these pictures I have amassed this past couple of weeks.

Great headline. GET IT? HEADline?!?!?

Emma — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:50:07 +0000

Ouch.

More than anything I agonized over whether the ‘A’ should be capitalized

Alex — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:11:56 +0000

Chance I saw a bumper sticker that made me think of you today.

Panoramania!

Alex — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:20:58 +0000

If you’ve ever been in any sort of touristy situation with me, than you’ve no doubt been embarrassed by my technique of canvasing the entire area with pictures and not deleting any of them (even the blurry ones). I even partake in the oh-so-nerdy process of take picture -> rotate 30 degrees -> take picture -> rotate 30 degrees -> etc. Well, today all the awkwardness pays off because I’ve finally found a software which turns my pieces of panoramas into panoramas. I went through the last 5 years of panorama-shots this morning and picked out and stitched together the good ones. It’s all extremely automatic, which is awesome. The software is Microsoft Image Composite Editor by Microsoft Research. Free, but Windows Only!

(many) more after the break!

Thanks!
Alex

Star Wars iPad-Briefing

Joel — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:05:30 +0000

Aussie Works it Harder

Joel — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:59:44 +0000

There is another universe in which me and this guy are best friends.

Mai 68 Posters

Chance — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:07:19 +0000

I’m excited about this post because it’s radical politics, which I like, and design, which everyone else likes. These are posters from the 1968 General Strike in France. I think they are the bee’s knees.