With the welcoming of 2010, I have left my employers and new friends in CA, and have moved to Austin, TX.  A better opportunity had presented itself to me in the time of searching, and I couldn’t resist, in fact, an overwhelming sense of purpose led me to my move, and keeps me excited and enthusiastic about the future of my being, and the future of my work.

To all of those at Impulse One and 15 Rose, I hope for the best, and know you will do well with what you’re trying to do, and I am always available for help if you ever need it.

Stay tuned for more, now reporting from Austin, TX, in the year 2010…and beyond.

Dogtown now has a new park, and it is siiiiick. Opening day was a madhouse, but it was awesome to see how much this place meant to all the skaters in the area, they really respected the place and each other. It’s comforting to see how well people thrive when placed in an environment where they can be themselves without judgment from society, I guess that’s just the way all of Venice is.

One of the things that I consistently enjoy about living here in Venice is the art that is living around me. And one of the most dynamic and evolving pieces is the Venice Art Walls. These are a few panoramas I’ve put together, and I really liked how they turned out, photomerge in photoshop can easily put these together, for anyone wondering how to.

Step 1: Make Design

Obviously you need to start with you design, you want to remember that you’re making a stamp, so you can focus on clearer letters, thicker lines, making sure it’s a very clean and legible, because the stamp can leave a thick blob of ink on too fine of a design, smudging your design and leaving you upset.

Step 2: Order Stamp

You can do your own research if you want, I went with Ideal 300 from Rubber Stamp Champ because for some reason or another I thought I needed a self inking stamp, upon receiving my stamp and making my first round of cards, I can say that I will order a HandStamp once this one dries up on me, the self inking is nice for doing a lot of cards at once, but its hard to control the precision of the stamp and how much ink is being transfered, also you can’t change the color of the ink.  So I would recommend going with a traditional hand stamp for something that will last longer, then again, if you plan on changing you card design every so often then it doesn’t really matter either way, order what you think is easiest for what you have in mind.

Step 3:Draw, Stamp, Cut

Draw your outlines, stamp within those outlines, and cut according to those outlines.

You’re done, in 3 steps you have a never ending supply of business cards(as long as you have some form of thin cardboard material lying around).

Let me know how it works for you, and if you know any place I should be ordering my stamps from.

I started spinning around 6 and didn’t stop until midnight. I recorded a bit of the set, so feel free to download it.  Playing on the fly like that is always fun, but sometimes the mix isn’t that smooth, so sorry about any odd transitions. All in all it was a pretty great time. Thanks to everyone for stopping by and making the day so enjoyable.

download here

So that was an awesome way to start the day, April was super impressed (I like to impress her with things like that), and scotty already posted it up to our 15 Rose Facebook page, which means he was somewhat impressed, even if he’ll never say it, so all in all it’s a good morning so far.

Dave Chihuly is an amazing glass artist, please click through to this website to see just how amazing his work really is. We were at a showcase of his work at the Desert Botanical Gardens, and I snapped a few pics, as someone on the forums said, he did all the hard work of making them look cool, I just was able to take a few pictures of them.

Check out the rest of my set from the DBG on flickr

We had some people over, party in the backyard.

That was a fun morning on twitter, facebook, cnn.com, current, pretty much everywhere had something related to the inauguration.  Directv did the same thing that they did for the election night, allowing me to watch 8 channels at once!! changasm. But of course my favorite coverage comes from current, who always tries to make twitter more useful, and when the only commentary is coming from twitter, it’s a little easier to take then some talking heads telling me how historic I should be feeling right now.

Good luck President-elect Obama, I’m happy to see you’ve inspired a generation, lets see what you do with that inspration, and where you take it.

YES WE CAN!