Been Deleted Speaks

After a not so nice night’s slumber, I’m dressed and ready to go to yet another day of the grind. I’m looking forward to the weekend because A.) I won’t be around the cubicle of social awkwardness for two days and B.) The NHL Center Ice package should be bringing me some games. I have to get through a “review” at the job before any of this begins though. Anyhoozle, on to it.

I will be trying to get a big amount of some illustration work done tonight. Progress will be posted soon. I’m also going to be wrapping up work on a site, most likely over the weekend, and should be live shortly afterwards. More work will be posted on my portfolio too. I’m sure I’ll have some blathering about that afterwards too. Promises, promises.

Recently I’ve been dealing with the fact that I’m not getting into much new music anymore as I guess that either I’ve become bland/bored/old and just don’t get the “new” wave of music or all trends have become overdone, overplayed and lacking any thought and creativity. Most likely it is me becoming old. Think of it as Karma for razzing people for being old about ten years ago. But still, to make me happy, I think of it as idiot kids have taken the reins and there is no place for me in the scene. The fact that I haven’t been to a show in just about a year proves to me that I might be done with any sort of scene. Bring on the old age and hermitism. Talk about a square peg trying to fit into a round hole.

That is all for now, until next time, COURAGE.

Andrew Shannon has some pretty solid work. I came across this image via ffffound.com, and fell on to his site. Check him out.

Aaron Turner is a cat with some mad skills. I’m sure you’ve probably seen his work whether it be in the medium of art and/or music. Either way, check it out.

I’ve made some adjustments to www.beendeleted.com today. A bit of fall cleaning, I guess? More to come here shortly as well. In the process I’ve had a few ideas for new illustrations to be created here in the very near future. I believe I’m going to be off to bed here shortly. More to come soon. So, until next time…courage.

Matt Furie does some pretty sweet illustrations, a sort of jim henson on cough medicine type feel. A favorite of FecalFace.com as well as other sites. Worth a checkski outski.

The delete has been keeping a low profile this week, and pretty much every week for the past thirty-one years. I keep expecting to be in the middle of something exciting at work with everything that is in town and I’ve only seen minor, minor things.

The freelance projects have been keep me out of trouble as well as making progress on a 6 month project that will hopefully materialize a bit more in the next few months. Sounds like it is some sort of spy shit eh? Well, I guess you’ll just have to wait.

This weekend we’re heading north to Wyoming and Montana and won’t be back until tuesday. Nice! I’m sure I’ll probably write more before we head out. That is all for now, until next time….COURAGE.

I picked this up during lunch today, a nice collection of a lot of illustration showcased in this artist’s monthly staple. Buy it, unless you don’t like things that are awesome.

I’ve managed to hook up a lot of time to work on the freelance that I’ve got going on at this point in time. I’ve still got a fair amount of work to do with this bad boy, but it is coming along. Speaking of illustration, Tomer Hanuka owns it.

It’s been a fairly laid back weekend for the deleted crew. Nothing too exciting, just staying out of the rain and enjoying the time that we’re not at our day jobs.

I can’t believe the the DNC is just a week out. I think that I will have the capability to set up a homebase work station for those days and will not have to try to go through the madness to get into the office. We’ll see though. I’m really interested to see what the city is going to be like with the sudden surge of peeps. Maybe I won’t even notice a difference.

Gomedia is continuing it’s series on mistakes made by designers in the music apparel industry, though it really can be applied to any facet of the design industry. Oh, if only I would had read some of these before painting myself in a corner.

After the week of revisiting my metal roots, I’ve now have repurchased a Carcass album and two Danzig album. Oh the humanity. It has been nice. Though I wasn’t able to attend the funeral service for my friend yesterday, I was there in my head.

In other news, A Brand Above is an awesome Canadian design firm. I really like the collection of identities as well as the illustration work. I came across this via the newly redesigned surfstation.com. It is quickly trumping my daily interwebs peeping schedule.
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Steve Schofield puts out some pretty nice portraits, don’t you think? Well I do, and this is my blog so there. I came across this via the recently revamped surfstation.com. I’ve recently been doing a lot of research for a project at the day job that management has dropped upon me. So I’ve been looking up info on the War of Stars, some folks call it Star Wars, whatever. Anycrap, that is it for this entry.

I came across Stephen Balleux via designiskinky.net. Pretty interesting work, but my favorites, of course are the distorted figures in the suits. Go figure. Well, it is off to the grind again. Until the next time, COURAGE.