Well, here I am, writing a post for my near dead blog. Any of you that still check this thing I appreciate the loyalty but you might want to know that this blog is going away for awhile. I just can’t find much drive anymore to sit and blog my thoughts. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I sit in front of a computer at work for 8 hours a day 5 days a week. Anyway, sorry if this is disappointing, but on the bright side I am going to try very hard at getting my art back on track so this blog will probably turn into an “art journal.” So if you want to check back monthly hopefully I will have art up for viewing. Feel free to comment and or buy anything you like. Goodbye for now.

I know I blogged about this just 4 or so blogs ago, but I think this needs major attention. My friend Randy as some of you already know started his own company and is making some stylish bags for men. Anyway, he is now taking pre-orders online. If you have some money and want to look like a badass then take the link below for more info. Thanks!

Order Today! 

Its 1am, no wait 2am. Great. I know I need to goto sleep but I can’t. I feel tired but my brain is awake. Forcing my fingers to type. Pause. Thinking of what to say. Trying to grab clever thoughts in my head to attempt to write something funny. Especially after that “sad” blog entry before this one. Hm. Ok, this is what I got:

Time change sucks.

I know, that was hilarious, but that’s all I got right now. No wait. I might have something here. Nope. I don’t. I got a better idea: To help me get to sleep I am just going to type what randomly pops in my head. Some of it may logically follow the one before it, but don’t count on it. Ok, here goes:

Banana Nut Muffins, Munchkins, Apple Pie, Food, I’m Hungry, Cheese, Fuzzy Mice, Computer Mouse, Electricity, Shivers, Beanies, Speakers, Bed, Window, Stuff in my Room, Time Change, 2:18am, Frolf, Hamburgers, Driving, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Fluffy Monsters, Hugs, Barney, Punching Bag, Gym, Climbing, Falling, Hurting, Running, Jumping, Verbs, English Class, High School, Waste of Time, Lockers, Notes, Haircut Appointment, Change Oil, Get Groceries, MOW YARD, Buy Lawnmower, Moving in 2 Months, Hire People to Mow, Spend Money on iPod Instead, Music, Bass, Fish, Swordfish, Sushi, Hungry…AGAIN, Bed, Comfy, Cool, Soft, Inviting, Tired, Sleepy, 2:26am, Bye…

Today felt empty. I guess it is kinda surprising how much a little flicker in the change of a routine can side track you. I mean, I am not one for absolute routine. I think having spontaneous fun is awesome. But I will admit that there are certain parts in my life that I like to be routine. For instance, I like to climb at least two times a week. I like going to work and getting paid for design. I like hanging out with friends to watch certain shows. And above all, I really like hanging out with my little brother on Sundays and seeing him have a good time. Unfortunately today for reasons I have yet to figure out he was unable to hangout today. And I guess what I am trying to say is that some things, while they may sound or look routine are in fact not. They are a part of life that keeps us going. Keeps us focused on what really matters. And I guess I found out today that a big part of my life that matters is hanging out with my little brother every week and when that doesn’t happen a piece of me feels empty. So my advice to whoever is reading this is to ask yourself, “Is there a part of me that feels empty?” And if there is, find out what was there, and try and fill it. That’s what I am going to do.

You know what sucks? Don’t answer, that was rhetorical. This sucks: Getting all excited about competing in a bouldering event on Friday and seeing what I am made of.

no wait, that isn’t what sucks, that is what is cool, ok, start again.

What Sucks: Getting up in the morning and getting soooooo excited about being able to climb after work that I intake nothing but carbs and vitamin C into my body, AND THEN realizing that the wall i want to practice climbing on before the competition is CLOSED.

That’s what sucks. And now I sit here. Teeming with unbridled energy as if I my heart was shot with adrenaline and had outlet to expel it. RAWR!

*Clears Throat* Excuse me. Jeez, I wonder what I could do with this energy right now. I guess I could:

• Take a trip to Montana…ON FOOT…while towing a trailer full of pregnant pigs.
• Beat my dog in a rawhide chewing contest.
• Be a replacement for an industrial grade saw at a mill with only a butter knife and a can-do attitude.
• Dig an olympic size pool in my backyard…and all of my neighbors backyards too.
• Take my dog on a walk…to Columbia.
• Channel my Chi into an alternate source of renewable energy, and then “Carpet Shock” everyone who opposes me.
• Chew a piece of gum out of existence.
• Plunger all of the water out of the Arctic Sea…from my toilet.
• Fidget to a point of spontaneous combustion and then fidget to a point back to spontaneous re-creation.
• Find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop.
• Run fast enough to catch up to the speed of light and tell him what a dick he is waking me up in the morning before my alarm goes off.

Well, i think it is about time for me to finally focus back on my website and crank it out. I am going to take my sweet time, but come next week I will be free of freelance for the most part. Anyway, I am telling you guys this because not only is this my site going to start changing, but this blog is going to go half and half. Meaning that basically that there will be posts on here that are random BS and then there will be development posts where I tell you the reader about what I just added. In addition if you are feeling up to it you should comment on the development blogs to let me know how my design is shaping up. Thanks guys and I will uh, “comment-talk” to you soon enough.

Here is a shameless plug for my friend Randy’s website I made for his up and coming company. You guys will have to let me know what you think of it. Keep in mind that this is version 1 of the site and there are still some bugs (that I will fix tomorrow). I think it came out pretty sweet for 2 days of work. Oh ya and if you are a web nerd like myself you will really like the php and javascript used in the gallery section. HTML powers unite! Form of: A Web Nerd! Woo!

Check the coolest line of men’s bags here:

www.baronmodeste.com

Check the LAMEST line of men’s bags here:

www.bluefly.com

Incase you don’t have the time to take the links, let me break it down for you really quick. Baron Modeste supplies bags for men that: NOT ONLY look awesome, function well, and are of high quality, BUT also don’t risk the wearer into looking like a cross-dressing gypsy who just lost his fuzzies in a farming accident. While the grouping of bags at Bluefly look like a grouping of womanly designed bags for men who want to get beat up in dark alleys. In other words, Baron Modeste’s bags aren’t feminine. Grow a pair Prada.

So I thought I would share with you guys some ridiculous advertising I saw on the way home today. I passed an apartment complex with a huge printed banner outside that said and I quote:

“The Service Here is Legendary”

Legendary? Hm. Interseting. Let’s see if the dictionary agrees.

leg·end·ar·y /ˈlɛdʒənˌdɛri/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[lej-uhn-der-ee]
1.of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a legend.

Crap. Now I need to look up Legend. There is a point coming.

leg·end /ˈlɛdʒənd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciat[lej-uhnd]
1.a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.

There. So in other words this apartment complex is stating that the mystical tale of their service will be passed down from generation to generation until finally their lame slogan will be accepted as true(ish). Ya, I can see it now, My son, Ryan Davis the XVI saying, “Once upon a time in a world not so different than ours a man came across a complex with service so great, so amazing, that every man and woman was treated like royalty. A place with covered parking all the way to the door. A place with a pool filled with bottle water and dolphins. Where there was a hot tub that was actually hot. A place where if anything broke it was instantly fixed. Where rent was cheaper than a pack of gum. Where all the walls were sound proof and filters sucked neighboring cooking disaters out of the air. A place where the gates actually worked instead of being broken in the open position. A place with helicopter flights to any destination. A place of wonder, a place of magic!”

Ya. Campus Corner Lodges. Your service is legendary. Just like Unicorns are real and Centaurs graze in my backyard on rainbow berries. IDEA! Stop playing Dungeons and Dragons and THINK HARDER. Maybe, uh, “Voted Normans Best Apartment Complex” or “Superior Service” would have worked better. Just a thought…

Well I think it has been, wow, I don’t know, probably 3 months since I wrote in this. I just approved 339 comments as spam and 1 as real. I don’t know who reads this anymore. I also don’t know why I am NOT in bed right now. I mean, in the last 48 hours, I have spent 26 of that doing design work. And on top of that I only got 9 hours of sleep total in that time. I should be clinically dead. But I am not, I am up, writing in this blog I started awhile ago. I can’t promise all zero of you readers that I will be blogging regularly again. Because obviously I cannot keep that promise. What I can tell you is: I will randomly pop in from time to time to try and be funny. So, if you are still out there, and still check this barren wasteland of blogless drivel, then to you I say: “Hey, I’m back, but only in small doses.” Now I am going to go crash hard. After I write one quick post.

My boss sent me this link the other day to one of the coolest digital photography sites out there. The site isn’t so much cool for its design, but rather the extensive information on the dry dark room (photoshop) and a new style of digital photography called High Dynamic Range or HDR for short. In essence you take 3-5 photos at different exposures and combine them together in a blend to create a photo that mimics more of the visible light spectrum our eyes can see and a camera cannot reproduce. Basically, they are sweet images. Here are the links for more info and the gallery of a photographer who seems to be really awesome at HDR photography.

Click Here For More Info

Click Here For An HDR Photo Gallery