No updates lately because it has once again come to the point where I no longer like my website design. Took about 6 months this time, which is better than before. I have two projects that need attending to before I can revamp though, so in the meantime here are the two updates:

1) “Quick Brown Fox” won the Double Take derby (surprise!), if you haven’t seen that already.

2) “Apparently, Death Has Cooties” achieved a new high threadless score for me with a 2.35. Yay. Threadless likes cute and morbid I guess.

I am dying to get my new work out to shirt sites instead of just resubbing old pieces, but those two projects mentioned really need to get taken care of first. Ugh. Well, three projects if I count learning how to cook for a gluten-free diet. Efffffffff…

(copied from Kontain)

I now understand why people have offices for work.

On my Monday/Wednesdays I have a 5-6hr break between classes where I just chill downtown. Because of this I actually bought a little macbook (I feel like I’ve gone to the darkside) so I could work. BEST IDEA EVER. During my break today I got so much done regarding internet chores. When I’m at home I’m usually too busy to maintain all of my pages and accounts on various sites and networks. Too many distractions. Today I managed to clean up a huge amount of email I’ve been meaning to sort/read, cleaned up my myspace, read a number of articles I’ve been meaning to, etc. Coming home after the second class I feel totally ready to create (art, music, whatever) instead of feeling obligated to work on said internet chores. Friggin amazing and it feels great too.

Only have a few more tasks to do before I can catch up to that clean slate. So awesome.

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This means I’ll finally be able to get those other shirts done, and get my music up and everything else like:

• Site Revamp
• DBH, Threadless, and more subs
• Updated DA work
• Revamped myspace
• Flash Shorts
• Music

Looks promising.

Aside from a really cool design of mine being rejected this week, starting to get bored with woot again. Crap. Gotta find some more motivation somewhere. They’ve just dashed my goal of getting an HM every week too.

Another crazy theme, but not a lot of time to really get into it. Went with two variations on Ghost In The Shell.

Oops.  Almost forgot to post this one.  Theme of the week was exercise.  I wanted the treadmill entry to do well but it clearly did not have the kawaii power of the fox.

Last week’s bloodthirsty bunny shirt came in first with a print!  Thanks to all for the support!

If you missed the initial sale, you can still pick one up here: http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=8143

The theme “individuality” could not be more wrong for the woot derby.  As the weeks go by it has become more and more of a target market exercise instead of a design contest.  Not that there’s anything wrong with this.  These cutesy animal shirts are more fun than the shirts sold at Baby Gap, Babies R Us, or any number of baby, toddlers, or children’s retailers.  I know if I was a youngin, this trend would totally rock.  It beats the traditional girly wardrobe I had as a kid.  Not that I don’t appreciate the cute now, but being pigeon-holed into designing the same cute every week gets old.  If anything I suppose it’s a challenge, like designing for an employer or client you don’t particularly like.  That’s okay!  Challenges are good.

This week’s entries!:

Last week was Woot’s now-quarterly Big-Do-Over derby.  I had one entry which did not fare well, as was expected.  It’s doubtful that it will get an editor’s pick either.  This week is heartbreak-themed, which means plenty of kawaii, sappy entries.  I have two up.  The one with lightning was a collab with elwayman02.

While I’m here…

I was on a roll and decided to sub two more designs.

Right now the plan is to sub my old woot designs that are mildly appropriate for the Threadless crowd, and go from there. Even just testing the waters with the designs I’ve submitted has given me good ideas for revamping those pieces.