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August 7th, 2007 | Posted in General
Since I’m on the subject of audiobooks and iPods… One of my pet peeves with the iPod and iTunes was the way it handled imported audiobook files. I’m talking about the ones you import from your own audiobook CDs, not the downloaded ones. Audiobooks downloaded from iTunes or from Audible are recognized and treated differently than regular music files. The are automatically placed in their own section entitled “Audiobooks” in both iTunes and the iPod, and the files are “bookmarkable”. With regular songs if you pause while listening to one song and go to another, when you go back to that first song you start… READ MORE
August 6th, 2007 | Posted in General
As an avid reader who has almost no time to read, I was overjoyed to discover audiobooks were something I could listen to at certain times when working on projects in the studio. I’ve said before that I can’t listen to an audiobook I have not already read, because the necessity of concentrating on what I am working on means I have to tune in and out of what I am listening to… and with books I have already read I can do that without having to rewind because I missed something. Actually I enjoy revisiting old favorites every few years anyway, so audiobooks let… READ MORE
August 4th, 2007 | Posted in General
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August 3rd, 2007 | Posted in General
Last Sunday I answered a mailbag question about customers sometimes getting angry about their caricature when drawing live. I mentioned that, when I was just starting out as a caricaturist, there was a prevailing attitude among the artists I worked with that the customers didn’t understand ‘real caricature’ and that if a drawing got rejected it was dismissed as a result of the customer’s ignorance rather than any fault of the artist. The customers didn’t understand how the 2 foot nose that was drawn on their face was “true caricature”. Not to put too fine a point on it, we were arrogant and thought our… READ MORE
August 1st, 2007 | Posted in General
We might be seeing this horror a bit this week…. now back to work…. READ MORE
July 30th, 2007 | Posted in General
I just arrived back from New York after a short but energetic trip to the big city. The Lovely Anna, myself and kids Victoria, Gabrielle and Tommy made the trek in part to see Laura Osnes, winner of the “Grease: You’re the One That I Want” reality TV show, perform as Sandy in the Broadway production. Laura, as I wrote last week, grew up four houses down the street from us and was a drama instructor for years with our kids during summer drama camps at the local high school. Laura with Tommy, Gabrielle and Victoria Trips to NYC are always fun but very expensive… READ MORE
July 28th, 2007 | Posted in Freelancing
Back when I was going to college at a small school in St. Paul, Minnesota called the School of Associated Arts (now the College of Visual Arts), there were three distinct groups of students… the illustrators, the fine artists and the designers. To say the three groups were mutually exclusive would be unfair, as most of us got along just fine, but it would be fair to say that among each group there was often an attitude about the validity of other groups. The fine artists were sometimes heard to call the illustrators “wrists” as we were considered by some creativeless machines that churned out… READ MORE
July 24th, 2007 | Posted in General
Right now I am trying to work ahead in anticipation of a short trip to NYC this weekend with The Lovely Anna and the kids (sans The Animated Elizabeth, she hates anywhere but her house and her videos). After getting assigned a short deadline piece for MAD yesterday, there is not a lot of time for blogging, so here is one of those cheap posts about some websites to visit: Freelance Switch- The Daily Cartoonist, which is itself a must visit concerning news about the world of cartooning, had a great link the other day to a blog called Freelance Switch. It’s billed as “a… READ MORE
