Everything you say is a blatant affront to my existence

A vague reference to the new Never Sleep Book.

This is a blog post about Bud Rodecker. He works at 3st. I live with him and his knockoff Modernist furniture. I've been going to the office for the past few weeks doing some basic freelance for Thirst. It's been an excellent learning experience. Especially discovering client text edits that reverse previous edits every step of the way. Joy.

In response to some instructions from Bud today, I I came up with an excellent Designism:
Cut wrists, not corners.

Let me show you what I'm working with

The past few weeks have seen me working on a few different web projects. I am putting the final touches on an artist portfolio site for my old painter professor Jen Dietrich. She does really amazing, textural paintings dealing with the themes of Americana seen through the lens of barns, baseball, and Kennedy. Her "Earthly Flesh" series is especially inspiring to me.

When not painting or teaching, Jen is also a filmmaker. I've been helping do a special site/blog for her documentary on Philip Pearlstein, entitled Not Made in Heaven, which is a reference to an article Philip wrote for ArtNews on figure painting in the age of Abstract Expressionism. I really like the simplicity of the film site I'm doing for them. The content is still being shuffled around somewhat.