here are some of mom’s contractions.
Here is mom and baby.
We don’t have a name yet but I do have some stats.
born at 8:18pm on 5.26.2009
weight = 6 lbs 5oz
length = 19.5 inches
Everybody is happy and healthy.
we don’t have many pictures yet but we will soon.
and here is a video of the first time mom held the little girl.
I grew up reading Cracked and Mad magazines. And while I owe a lot of my interest in illustration and art to the drawings in those magazines, I still have a hard time not making people look like cartoons.
It seems that the fear of swine flu is more contagious than swine flu.
I decided to enter another contest over at Green Eyed Moster. This one’s theme is about the ECOnomy. So be sure to go to the contest here and vote for you favorite design (mine).
Sometimes when I’m stuck in really slow moving traffic I like wave at the cars next to me and pretend I’m in a parade.
In architecture, like most art, hierarchy is very important. I believe you should be able to look at the form of a house and have an idea about the basic layout inside. For example, the important spaces should be the larger forms. But its not just about scale, its about level of detail, position, axis, etc.
With that in mind, I drew a simple little house with a large living space on one side, and a smaller garage on the other. In the center is the main entrance. The large fireplace shows its importance as the center of the home. It says that that warmth and comfort are important to the family that lives there. People may not gather around the hearth like they used to, but it shows the idea of family gathering is of great value.
You can tell a lot about what a society values by the hierarchy in its architecture. Take for instance the background of this image. The the large corporate offices tower over the old government building that is pushed off to the side. The large sprawling front lawn, the long fence and row of trees that separate the home from the work. And it the center of it all are two antennas. Hierarchy is fun.