Windows Error iPhone Wallpaper

Got me one of them thar new iPhone jobs. This is the wall paper that I made for the thang. Right click on that mo-fo and save it if you want to use it too. Can’t remember where I found the image.

Hue Test

OK. do NOT try to do this early in the morning or  if you have a hangover or if you are at work and you have shit to do. Seriously. All you have to do is drag-and-drop the boxes and place them in the proper hue order – from one end box to the other. I scored an 8 on my first go around on my laptop screen (go MacBook!) which is pretty awesome for a 40 year old (0 is the best score, 1464 the highest). I am going to try it on some other screens to see if I fare better or worse.

Link

UPDATE: Got a big frickin’ ZERO the second time thank you very much. Go forty-year-old eye balls!

Howdy!

Well, here I go again. Yet another freakin’ redesign of bigplastichead.com. This time, it has to stick for a while or my wife is going to slit my throat for spending so much time on the computer. Hopefully my dog will begin to recognize me again. That would be nice.

Throughout my ‘career’ on the interweb I have had a total of about ten different sites. It started off with just wanting a web portfolio of my photography. I learned some Flash and made some swoopy-loopy Flash site that would make anyone looking at it nauseous. After that I started blogging. I even had a blog that recorded all of the letters I wrote and sent to G.W. Bush telling him what a screw-up I thought he was. (Over two-hundred letters and he never wrote back. I guess I can’t expect him to confirm me as a friend on Facebook now either.) I now blog at Big Plastic Head. And now here too. WTF am I thinking!?!

I’ll tell you. This is the more personal, artsy-fartsy site rather than a common scrapping of the internet for things that tickle my fancy. This is the site that will feature my photography and design work. This is the site that I will send clients too that will collect and show my work. I still may link to some outside goodies but they will be on the more photography/design/art theme because there is really some amazing things going on out there. And I am trying desperately to get involved with that…

Super Sweet Obama Buttons

Dig these awesome election buttons for Obama. Super cool.

(via BB-Blog)

Over 40 – August, 2008

Two backpacking trips this month: One to the great Trinity Alps, one to the mediochre mosquito infested area around Diamond peak. (I gotta say I really miss the backpacking in my home state.) I made up some new business cards from Moo and Karen’s tomatoes have been going ka-razy! Check that pesto too! And peaches from the candy tree! Ya-hoooo!

…and a co-worker quit who shouldn’t have had too. Goddamned shame if you ask me.

Why America is F*cked (Graphically at Least)

(Whole lot of appropriate swearing in the video above. Might not be safe for work if you work in a cube.)

I have been meaning to post this. I have watched it about twelve times. This is a little rant by Aaron Draplin founder and proprietor of Draplin Design Co., North America. He is a designer with a passion for industrial designs of the past and and the designs of blue collar industries. He has a great eye. He knows what has heart and what doesn’t. He has a Dachshund named Gary. He swears like a sailor and damn him if he isn’t 100% right in this video. I am thinking that all designers should make a video like this and fight the idiots who can’t see the art or intrinsic value in a professional designer and have the idea that designers just push a bunch buttons all day without skill or talent. I deal with this crap all day.

Way to go, Aaron. Drop shadows, not bombs.

Cassette Tape Museum

Holy awesome collections, Batman! tapedeck.org has a huge collection of analog cassette tapes that can be browsed by brand, time length, and quality. I was a vinyl guy back in the 80’s so whenever I would get my new Oingo Boingo or Surf Punks LP, I would immediately record them to cassette so that I could “rock out” to them in the car or whatever portable device was around. Usually I did it on this little guy right here or possibly this one. I had freakin’ boxes of ’em. Don’t see your brand? Submit your own!

Awesome Woodccuts by Paul Roden & Valerie Lueth

Check out this beautiful series of limited edition woodcuts by Paul Roden and Valerie Leuth for sale over at Tugboat Printshop. I want the one pictured here but I have five or six prints that are waiting to be framed right now so it is a bit hard to justify. Will one of you go buy it and get it framed real nice and then invite me over to dinner so I can steal it from you? Thanks in advance!

(Via OMG Posters)

Newsweek’s Visions of China Blog

Speaking of cool Olympic photos, Newsweek has a great blog going right now written by photographers at the Beijing Olympics. It is called Visions of China and is chock full of great photographs and insider information on what it takes to get just the right shot. Here is a great post about getting the finish of the men’s 100m. I also like this photo documentation of how Vincent Laforet packed all of his gear for the games.

This is kinda cool, too.

360º View From Olympic High-Dive Platform

I have to say that I have spent more time exploring this 360º view from the high-dive platform at the Water Cube in Beijing than I have watching any actual Olympic competition. It’s true. I spent about three minutes exploring that pool yet I have watched 0.00 minutes of this years Olympics. Someone please tell the government how unpatriotic I am. kthxbye

(via Gizmodo)

The Peloton

The Peloton is an awesome set of photographs (however presented in a website with crappy navigation) from Timm Köelln . The cyclist on display have been captured moments after they crossed the finish line of the grueling 2005 Giro D’Italia that runs around 2,100 miles. Koelln set up a tent at the finish line and as soon as the riders crossed, they would get off their bike and walk into the tent to immediately be photographed capturing some wonderful emotive portraits. If you were to tell me they were long lost Richard Avedon portraits, I would have believed you.

(via mathowie at Metafilter)

Cruising to Hubbard Glacier

This is a time lapse video of a cruise we took last month to Alaska. We sailed through Yakutat Bay and onward into Disenchantment Bay and right up to Hubbard Glacier. At about the 5:13 mark you can see some glacier pieces calving off into the water. Shot with a Canon G9.

Google Maps has a nice satellite image of the glacier.

More of my photos from the trip here.

Music:”Si, Paloma” by Sun Kil Moon

Exit Seattle

We took my parents on a cruise to Alaska last month. Here is a time lapse of us leaving the port in Seattle.

Over 40 – July, 2008

Holly crap we went on an Alaskan cruise! Crazy, I know but there ya go. Another trip to Eureka was accomplished as well. Backpacked the Rogue River trail which I would like to refer to as the Poison Oak trail. That shit is the worst.

Exploding Banana Face

William Lamson does some crazy beautiful stuff. I love it.