Sharpie and fountain pen drawing of the Hood River bridge from last week

Here is a chunk of a piece I’m putting together for Instagram…I’m thinking of Instagram as a medium - a platform for serialized images

I have mixed feels about Malcom Liepke’s painting. I love figurative art, and his is undeniably gorgeous. On the other hand…so many of his images seem cribbed from fashion magazine covers. I kinda feel like we have enough pretty pictures of pouty-lipped beauties.

Quick photo study from the train. Sometimes I borrow faces from Uniqlo marketing emails for practice. 

Janice Sung is an illustrator with a great angular style. She was recently featured by the @Procreate team for her work on their new iPhone app.

Drawing at the riverside in Hood River, OR today

Ow! Right in my 80s.

Foggy Mirror is a web app which recreates the experience of drawing in a foggy mirror using your device’s front-facing camera.

It should work in Safari and Chrome on up-to-date platforms. Firefox appears to be a bit dodgy and Android browsers are perennially out of date. In theory Chrome for Android supports these features as well.

The effect is weirdly fun and intimate.

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I achieved this by using the new MediaDevices interface to capture video from the device camera. This video is composited into an HTML5 Canvas element, mirrored, then blurred to create the fog effect. This video is composited into a “stage” canvas which receives mouse or touch events. These events are converted into a blobby drawing. The clean video is merged with the drawing then layered on top of the foggy video to complete the effect.

The project is public on GitHub for the technically curious.

One of the fun things about making art for the internet, is that you can share the source code.

John Zoller’s makes optical abstraction.

Quick photo study from the train.

Hello! I made you a new arty web site “foggy mirror” - if you have a web-cam or smart-phone and you’re running a very current web browser or version of iOS or Android - this should be fun.

Turns out apple-mobile-web-app-capable has a different rendering engine than standard Safari.

Lanes Coder’s photography is striking, almost painterly.

Valerie Chiang takes gorgeous photos.

Fascinating article by Eugene Wei on the nature of business growth and recognizing natural limits of a product. I particularly liked his insights on Twitter.

Truck sketch for 100 Doodles

What? I’m on vacation.

I’m experimenting with using WebPack to just make a bundle without using Babel to transpile ES6 to ES5 - it’s a little insane that we continue to embiggen our web app sizes by going the extra mile for dead-ass Internet Explorer.

Oh Portland