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this isn’t terribly useful, but kind of fun, a little app that tracks your mouse usage for, uh, however long you leave it turned on. this is only a couple of hours, with a coffee break at the end (yes, the big dot).

• anatoly zenkov’s MousePath: mac/pc
• via jez burrows

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muffins and watercolor, this might be turning into my lifelong work.

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some more coffee shop drawin’.

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i am behind on my sketchbook scanning, so here are some drawings from the second to last figure drawing session of the year. it’s still ‘09 on this blog!

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a drawing of a bookshelf utilizing fancy new japanese tape.

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we’re a couple of days early, but in honor of the great snowpocalypse/snowmageddon which dumped feet(!?) of snow on the east coast this weekend, winter seemingly has already arrived.

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marlow used to have my favorite breakfast, a spectacular biscuit served up with butter and jam…big, flaky, crumbly, moist, delicious. however, the pastry chef who made those biscuits left, and this biscuit was not THAT biscuit.

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it’s december, thus more naked drawings on the blog (huh?). one of the better models of the season.

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greenpoint’s own peter pan bakery where i have just been introduced to their red velvet donut, their red velvet donut WITH COCONUT!? and their whole wheat donut which sounds like some kind of delusional health-nut abomination, but in fact is possibly their most delicious invention of all (and not healthy at all)!

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this page is really just a mess, and not even a particularly good mess. internet, you’re welcome!

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it’s a short thanksgiving doodle week, doodle, doodle, doodle.

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some bamboo and ink messes from wednesday night figs. i have missed way too many figure drawing sessions this fall, as opposed to the amazing and dogged gb tran, who currently has a perfect attendance record (are you happy now? jerk).

also, special request to shake shack, please change your winter wednesday night hours to 10pm. thanks.

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i am very pleased to be part of the illustrators and designers working in the pencil factory building in greenpoint, brooklyn who have stopped being polite…and start getting real…to create a recession special poster-zine for your wall…
15 USES FOR NEWSPRINT.

More information available at www.thepencilfactory.org, heck, you can even buy one!

first 100 orders get an original drawing by one of these drunk pencil factory artists:
Kim Bost, Josh Cochran, Jennifer Daniel, Gilbert Ford, Jessica Hische, Grady McFerrin, Ted McGrath, Alex Eben Meyer, Chris Silas Neal, Zacharia O’Hora, Leif Parsons, Rachel Salomon, Joel Speasmaker, Jillian Tamaki, or Sam Weber.

*special thanks to josh cochran and jennifer daniel for making this sucker happen.

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think you’re a tech badass? oh yeah? come on then, jailbreak that iphone of yours. ooooh, it’s so precious, i’m scared, i’m scared. yeah, i thought so. (full-disclosure-illustration note: the creator of this illustration’s iphone does not have spiky hair, ride a motorcycle or smoke.)

pcworld: jailbreaking your iphone: the pros and cons, by mike keller

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more effing around with cutting out paper and taping, cutting out some more paper, etc. november, you certainly are designed for plodding and pondering, football watching too.

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a spot last week for the new york time’s education life section about parents letting their grad student child go. seems obvious enough, but these are parents who are still helping their kids get into grad school, going on interviews, etc. uh…

nytimes: letting your grad student go, by amanda m. fairbanks

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i love me some parisian rooftops.

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i started to get worried that all i did was draw in coffee shops, so ao and i decided to hop across the atlantic to have the opportunity to draw in cafes. seriously though, just got back from a lovely vacation in paris, and while i never draw as much when i’m away as i hope to, here is some wine and cheese soaked sketching (the second drawing is actually wine soaked).

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in case you are surprised by my lack of chatter, twittering, blogging this coming week, it’s because i’ll be being on vacation (wahoo!). yes, the lady and i are off on a lovely fall trip to the city of bears, paris. plenty of sketching and bloggering upon my buttery-winesoaked return.

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nothing like kicking the tires on a new season of figure drawing. some pen, some pencil, a hint of watercolor, and some ink and bamboo (good suggestion, josh). some of these are tough to look at, you’ve been warned.

was getting a lot of back poses from the models, so hello to other people in the class! (note: clothed)

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