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Name: Reece
Country: United States
State: New York
Metro: Brooklyn
Birthday: 3/8/1987
Gender: Male


Interests: No interests, only borings.
Expertise: I think I'm pretty good at devil's advocacy.
Occupation: Student, Entrepreneur, Graphic


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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

From Brooklyn With Love



I was trying to think of a slogan and that just popped into my head, so I used it! How do you like this? I guess it's something like a poster or an ad. I'm working on both my skills in touching up photos (despite the fact that I absolutely abhor some of the techniques I've found) and designing effective copy. Unfortunately, one can't clearly see the url on the bottom and might very well miss the t in FuriousFallout.com (assuming they can read it at all). I made no real attempt to fix that though, aside from a tiny drop shadow. It fit the color scheme and it's not for anything serious so it doesn't really matter. =)

[Revision]
So, I decided to move the stuff with my art and my girlfriend to a separate entry here and update this one.

Since then, I've dabbled a bit with pics from every shoot we've done recently, trying to get a feel for what works with what in terms of color composition (which I've never been terribly good at) and slogans (which I'm also discovering I'm not terribly good at).

I've come up with:
  [There are some errors here that are obvious to me, having seen the original shot, but for the most part only two of them would be visible to other people.]
[I only lightly adjusted this pic. I don't like the font but I wanted to finish working with it so I could move on. I may return to it later. LyricallyCharged took this shot! The way some of these came out it makes me regret coming out of the house looking like a louse that day lol. ]


[I'm really experimenting here. I dunno just trying to get a feel for it all.]

What do you think? How am I doing?


Monday, November 09, 2009

Prostitution


[Not up on the site yet]

[Not up on the site yet.]




Which of these styles do you prefer?


Saturday, November 07, 2009

Art for your body.


This is part of my ongoing effort to create ads that work, bring myself into integrity by effectively using photos from shoots and also taking my overall designing to a whole new level.

I had considered making the tag line "It's  not a party without Furious Fallout" but I didn't really want to play on the sexual undertone of the image. I also considered adding "It hurts less than tattoos." or "The ink goes on the shirt, not your skin." lol. Or "If you were Furious Fallout, you'd be all over us right now." LOL I crack myself up.

On a serious note though, this has been the most work I've done all day. I'm going to be putting in overtime tonight to get stuff done and I'll be working all through tomorrow and well into Monday. Keeping one's word is so very exhausting. I haven't crossed any of the 8 items off of my white board to do list. Better get cracking, eh? =)

BTW Avery, it seems I can't tag you. You see, your archaic xanga, though subscribed to me, isn't friends with my up to date, hip, young blog, old man.


Friday, November 06, 2009

"Atheism in itself makes no claims of any sort,

it has no actual content, so there is really nothing to defend, [and] nothing to prove."

So, if you're an atheist doesn't that make you a bit of a douche for attacking, knowing that you have nothing to defend or prove?

Pulse made into an entry for your discussing pleasure.


Art with my girlfriend in it.


In looking for other ways to make interesting and different ads that catch the eye and inspire one to want to visit my site and look at my shirts, I came across a tutorial. I never finished the tutorial because I veered off in my own direction at one part of it (as I tend to do once I get the general jist of a tutorial and can replicate it without finishing the instructions) and ended up with something extraordinary!

It's me! As a toon! Not like the kind of toons I've done before.. but like.. me.. if someone actually drew me.. with a pencil and some paper.. to actually look like me. So, I got to playing with it and designed something for my beloved girlfriend whom I sometimes find myself staring at for lack of a better response to her beauty =)



The art I do using her pics never come out right though... and I don't know why! And, immediately after realizing that, I decided, mid entry, to try to make one that was definitely good.


Ah phooey.. she was making a funny face in this.. oh well. At least our eyes look good.

What do you think? Should I just stop trying to make art out of my girlfriend?



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