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June, 2010

  1. You know a design is popular…

    June 23, 2010 by Collin

    … when two different sites “borrow” it for their posts/articles. Even if it doesn’t really fit.

    While we were watching the new Alice in Wonderland tonight, Heather decided to try to find my “Alice” design I made a few years back for Illustration Friday by doing a Google image search. She didn’t find the design:

    … but she did find my old, original “Fizzle & Pop” masthead:

    … being used by two different sites. The first was placed in an article on someone named Jill Stanek’s blog from May of 2007. She appears to be the type of person… Hmm… Let’s just say I find her intolerance annoying and leave it at that.

    The second is on this page a ways down. It’s a slow moving page and a ways down on the right, so I took a screenshot for those unwilling to wait:

    The site itself appears to be about military strategy.

    I have no real problem with these people using my design without asking. As large as the internet is, it’s bound to happen and not everyone can just make what they like when the mood strikes them. It’s just really weird seeing something I made so long ago, and looked at so many times back when I posted with some regularity, used for these two things.

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    In other news, she found a few sites mentioning a couple of my t-shirt designs. I made #9 (my favorite number, actually) on a list of the “Funniest Unofficial Star Wars T-Shirts” at Teenormous.com. I’m #12 AND #36 on their list of “The Best Zombie T-Shirts“.

    My “Kill Brain” design was favorably reviewed at www.best-tshirts-ever.com. Browsing around the site I found they also reviewed my “Portal” design here.

    Fun stuff.

    —- EDIT —-

    Dave over at www.best-tshirts-ever.com commented and asked for a list of my shirt designs. I’ve sent him an email, but I may as well post them here too in case anyone wants to take a look at them. Like I told him, in hindsight I’m no longer that keen on some of them. But here they are, frogs and all, sorted by submission date, first to most recent.

    Brainbow - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_486cdd2d5af6e
    Zombie Day - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_486cdde0704f2 (printing)
    Zumby - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_486cde5d6f94b
    PaWN3D! - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_4875070a8e4b1 (discontinued)
    Dead Color - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_487fb85c9d447 (printing)
    Dance w/Death - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_487fbf7badae8
    Bl(Fr)ogger - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_4880ed563e4e7
    Master’s Voice - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_4884b9868bd4a
    Monster & Kitten - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_488ca9ba989d8
    Gamer Party - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_48a0c00b3eb4e
    Gnu-Bee - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_48a0daa7b4115
    Kill Brain - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_48a5e0a9c1dd5 (printing)
    Cooking Mama - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_48a9cc8e5f4e5
    Goth/Sith - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_48ac273be55e9 (printing)
    Flash Bang - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_48c920cc6a8ed
    Virtual Ops - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_49063a4a8d50c
    Fitting In - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_4929d27f08863
    Boo Buster - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_492b4054823a6 (printing)
    Jolly Ninja - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_492b42ed2596e
    Commuter - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_492b723446af1
    Character Building - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_49a43ff045366 (printing)
    Portal - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_49d6a852961b5 (printing)
    Bwains - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_4a775d696342d (printing)
    Jaws - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_4be0e69065a36
    Zombie Power - http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_4beb721b7de67

    25 designs so far.

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  2. Blog? What blog?

    June 15, 2010 by Collin

    Oh right! This blog.

    I haven’t forgotten. Honest. I’m just busy during the day, and when I get home I don’t feel like sitting in front of the computer any longer than necessary.

    When I find myself with a bit of free time I tend to fill it with games. Lately it’s been Red Dead Redemption on the Xbox 360 (also available for PS3). Man, it’s blast. I haven’t gotten this into a game since Fallout 3.

    I’m pretty sure Heather hates it.

    When I first heard about it, I figured it would be another failed attempt at a western themed FPS, and I didn’t give it another thought. Then I started picking up on rumblings through the net that it was a game that shouldn’t be missed if you like open world (sandbox) style gameplay, and the wild west. It’s made by Rockstar, of Grand Theft Auto fame, and many people like to call it GTA on horses. Many people are stupid.

    That’s not to say the game is perfect. There’s a fair amount of glitching throughout. One random event had me chase down a horse thief for a shopkeeper. Instead of blowing him off the horse, I lassoed him, hogtied him, and put him on my horse. When I tried to find the horse he stole, it was gone. I took the guy back to the shopkeeper, but he was gone, and when I turned around the thief had vanished from my horse. Another time the train pulled away from a station and left behind a man, sitting in mid air. So, more annoyances rather than game breakers.

    I will say that I find it enjoyable in ways that I haven’t found any version of GTA enjoyable, and it really is a gorgeous game.

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    I recently stumbled across an article about a hoarder that has me really thinking about how I live. I have crap in my closet that I haven’t looked at since I put it there when we moved in. When we first looked at this house it was so spacious, we thought we would always have room. Now it’s getting kinda scary. Not with towers of piles waiting to crush you if you bump them, but certainly the seeds are there. I’m going to have to buckle down and figure out what “treasures” are really “trash” and get them the hell out of here. Figure out what I can live without and then do so.

    It’s not going to be easy. Every time in the past that I’ve gone through my crap in an attempt to thin it out, I’ve later found myself needing something that was no longer there. Just yesterday I found a need for a USP Zip drive that I used to have, but I got rid of it some time last year. Annoying. But I can’t keep going like this. It’s stupid.

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    It’s looking like my Pacman Jaws design will go to print. The only question now is what version. Due to many comments asking for it, I’ve updated with a pixelated ghost version:

    Jaws @ SplitReason.com
    Jaws design @ © SplitReason.com

    and have requested further comments before handing over the high-res artwork. Brian at SR said we’ll give it a couple more weeks and see what happens. I expect it should be printed by August, but the timetable is all up to them.

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