Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Feb 2, 2012, 4:29 pm
2780.Maybe agitprop history might have been a bit different: Inspired by Shepherd Fairey's OBEY GIANT; Image of Bob Ross rendered from BRI Logo (via BRI): above image intended as homage only and is not for sale.
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Feb 2, 2012, 3:52 pm
2779.Here in Zinelandia producing zines is second nature; a little-known section of the municipal code stats that you have to either be creating one or planning one or you have to move to Gresham. Fortunately, the Zine Police will let you off if you just say you're planning a zine. It's like having...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 31, 2012, 7:01 pm
2778.Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily imply an endorsement of the Jefferson Smith for Portland Mayor campaign, though I do understand that he's a pretty nice and smart guy. It's my extreme joy (seriously) and a thrill besides to announce that I've sold the rights to a photo which appear...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 31, 2012, 7:35 am
2776.No monthly contracts? Infinite battery life, you say? Read in bright sunlight? Well, hell's bells, sign me the tintype up!
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 31, 2012, 6:07 am
2775.The aphoristic guide to appreciating Oregon weather … if you don't like it, wait five minutes, it'll change … has its counterpart in marketing now. Who would have thought it would be JCPenney? Back in August of 2011, not even six months ago, I noted that, the preceding February, the towerin...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 26, 2012, 4:39 pm
2774.This just over the transom: word has wafted our way that DC Comics (noted that "DC" no longer is considered an initialism meaning Detective Comics, so the corporate name isn't Detective Comics Comics, even though that's how my brain is going to parse it for a while) has relogoed again … the l...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 26, 2012, 4:09 pm
2773.Your tax dollars at work, Multnomah County (but not yours, Clackamas … just sayin') Just announced via email: the Sellwood Bridge project's webcam. Clicking on that excerpted piccy should get you to the page at http://www.sellwoodbridge.org/?p=construction-camera; if it don't, just click th...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 25, 2012, 6:24 pm
2772.The strangest search terms cause hits here. Witness: You read it right. The missive about two back titled The Bridges of Marion County turned up in someone's Yahoo! search where the terms where (ahem): marion county constipation protocol forms Yah, baby. I didn't know you had to fill out forms...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 25, 2012, 10:13 am
2771.Wanting to practice some photoshop, I found a tutorial that used layer styles, gradient overlay, and, oddly, inner glow to produce this: … that is supposed to be a calendar-page icon for a blog. Not too bad. Inner glow was kind of odd. Here's the tutorial - http://www.stunningmesh.com/2012/...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 24, 2012, 9:44 am
2770.Well, not all of them. Actually, life in the Willamette Valley outside of Portland is a very east-side/west-side thing; the side of the river you live on divides us from them. In Marion County,  which to me has always been the heartland of the valley (as well as where I first stepped into this...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 24, 2012, 7:20 am
2769.Chip Kelly, the U of O's head football coach, loves his work. Or does he have sights set higher? Say, the NFL? Oh, wait one … I guess he don't. Staying in Eugene. Unfinished business, so they say. But he made ya look … didn't he?
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 22, 2012, 10:57 pm
2768.This is the way serious typographers roll, yo. Matthew Butterick, the mind behind the blog Typography for Lawyers, has a … gentle problem … with the recent film Mission:Impossible - Ghost Protocol. And, he put it in a letter to the movie's director, Brad Bird: Inapt typography is not uncomm...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 22, 2012, 10:11 pm
2767.This via Designm.Ag on the Smashing Network, is a quick list of the 26 free downloadable PSDs the author has seen over 2011. There's some good stuff there. I like these because one of the better ways to keep learning Photoshop is to see how others construct thier PSDs. It's like watching artis...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 21, 2012, 10:41 pm
2766.Note here that I said Blighty, not blight, which is a whole 'nother issue around here. In the UK's The Guardian, writer Tom Dyckhoff has nominated his own Five Best Places To Live. Portland's number one, followed by the St. Pauli district of Hamburg, Germany; the north coast of Maui, Hawai'i; t...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Jan 21, 2012, 10:20 pm
2765.Cool: the graphic treatment of American history as a series of iconized, stress-typed graphic art 'cartoons'. It's called The Momentus Project. And here's a slice of the election of 2000: It's got great design sense, and it'll make you think. It's all at 
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Oct 31, 2011, 12:51 pm
2716.Sometime today, the world will welcome its seven billionth human being. We'll never be sure for certain exactly which one of us will be #7,000,000,000, but, odds being what they are, it'll be someone in India. If you counted out loud, at one per second, it would take you about 113 years to coun...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Oct 26, 2011, 5:00 pm
2715. (VIA) Dutch type designer Christian Boer's Dyslexie is a font which is designed to make reading for dyslexics much more possible. The font is interesting even if you aren't so affected. Dyslexie achieves its aim by distorting shapes to, for instance, make the d and p less symmetrical, which p...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Oct 26, 2011, 4:05 pm
2714.Seen on Google+ today: a person who had recently added me to one of their circles posted a sweet little story apparently seen on Reddit somewhere in which the correspondent related how he'd misparsed the famous dictum, expressed to them as Knowlege is power - Francis Bacon as Knowledge is Pow...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Oct 20, 2011, 11:44 pm
2713.The ultimate walkies: Stardog. Groovy. Since the joke is a little abstruse, compare:
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Oct 14, 2011, 12:33 pm
2712.Cheese or Font is a quick, nifty, and simple little game that throws up a word … it's either a cheese name or a font name … and then just asks you to choose. It's surprisingly difficult. Http://cheeseorfont.com
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Oct 14, 2011, 12:18 pm
2711. … even with all else being equal, it seems a game-changer, somehow, when a reporter from FOX 12 comes off so honestly. I appreciate her candor. In a time like this, when so many are hurting and the news (FOX, particularly) just kind of hang on the sidelines with a "gosh, how interesting" de...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Oct 7, 2011, 1:09 pm
2710.Some time ago (here, in fact) I rhapsodized about my humble Harmony bass. Over on the WordPress mirror of this blog (http://zehnkatzen.wordpress.com) I got a cool comment that I'm just in silly love with, so I'm repeating it here. A visitor named Victor wrote: Sweet man, She’s a beauty, not ...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 29, 2011, 10:58 pm
2709.At first we thought that this was a "Movie We'd Like To See", but the more we think about it the more we're not so sure: Actually, I rather like Alec, and Billy is to be commended for his own efforts trying to remake Portland into Indiewood. But it's just so easy to make fun of Baldwins. So, I...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 29, 2011, 2:43 pm
2708.The unassuming little mark you see illustrated hereunto is the seal of approval of the Comics Code Authority, and as of today, it's switched sides. Back in the day when self-censorship was essential to stay in business (as William Gaines found to his travail - fortunately, that guy never would�...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 28, 2011, 3:55 pm
2707.Replaceface is the project of a so-far-anonymous artist that does the old mash-up with the unexpected twist of putting modern celebrities and well-known-personalities' heads on the tops of uniform portraits of Imperial Russian Army officers done by the English portraitist George Dawe during the...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 27, 2011, 2:40 pm
2706.Sometimes YouTube's related lists and the sponsored video work together to suggest disturbing connections which may (or may not) lurk beneath the surface of This Modren World. I swear the next screenclipping is not Photoshopped: Now, you all know how these things work. You go looking for things...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 27, 2011, 2:06 pm
2705.Design humor is at its best when it's metareferential, sometimes. Via Google+ user Dustin Hoffmann (no, not the actor) and served forth from the blog of FastCompany, there's a very chuckle-funny summary of the most popular infographic cliches: That's four of them. To see the whole magila, clic...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 25, 2011, 9:50 pm
2704.(via Gizmodo) Well, iSteve didn't ruin comics, per se, but Apple, with it's dead-brilliant design regime, have made technology that was once easily renderable … such as the phone, the TV, and such - so subtly designed that, when they're used, they need almost as much exposition as a supportin...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 25, 2011, 8:39 pm
2703.Of course, the character Claudius never was as big for Jacobi as the signature character of the inspiration of this photoshoppery:
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 22, 2011, 11:13 pm
2702.Remember that ginormous luxury yacht (actual pronounciation throatwobbler mangrove) that everyone thought Ringo Starr was on that was supposed to be history-buffing Astoria? Well, it was a luxury yacht. But it wasn't Ringo's. Yet another Oregonized brush with fame averted.
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 22, 2011, 10:07 pm
2701.Happily found by one Scott Sanford, a post at the (obviously ad-supported) The Daily WTF, go scroll down to the third photo: "I was at the Mission San Juan Bautista museum and noticed this professionally printed and mounted exhibit stand," writes Tim Gustafson, "my first thought was that's odd;...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 22, 2011, 2:11 pm
2670.Apparently, as Aretha once sang, we been livin' right: As of now, the feed of this blog has been added to the aggregator Alltop, which is the niftiest thing that's happened of late. I'm in the Graphic Design topic, aber naturlich, which can be peeped here: http://graphic-design.alltop.com/ Now...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 21, 2011, 5:25 am
2699a.All credit goeth to Darrel Troxel for stumbling on this one. Placeholder text. To the experienced designer, even your regular Lorem Ipsum becomes a bit tiresome. Sometimes you're just Puckish enough to want to imbue a certain sense of style, and Klingon Ipsum and Hipster Ipsum have become dre...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 19, 2011, 3:11 pm
2700.If you love something, they say, set it free. Whoever came up with that folksy aneurysm must have had the internet in mind. Latterly, this bit of Unicorn-oriented Photoshoppery: Which I created in March, 2010, has been showing up in interesting places. The newest find? The Twitter icon for Po...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 19, 2011, 2:37 pm
2699.Occasionally someone I've never known before notices something nifty I did and gives me a warm fuzzy about it, and I'm flattered and a bit happy. This time, it was a TV theme-mashup I did some time ago … The opening to the 80s nighttime soap Dallas as seen through the stylings of the opening ...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 15, 2011, 5:58 pm
2698.That rugged Portland resident, actor Sam Elliott, is popping up here and there: Here, Facebook Presence PDXPipeline catches a uniquely gray-touseled head from the back in what we presume is the Sunnyside Zupan's market (SE Portland, they say … the only SE one I knew of is along SE Belmont in ...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 14, 2011, 2:57 pm
2697.Being an Actual Oregonian, born in Actual Oregon and All That, I can be considered to be an authority of Actual Oregon Stuff, provided you haven't Actually Checked With Anyone Else First. But nevermind that now! I have decided, having little else to share, to share my immense trove of genetical...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 10, 2011, 11:26 pm
2694.A very insightful article about the new crop of authors, many of which don't feel that they should also be readers. Apparently, the journaling quality of these works lends itself to Justin Bieber fan fiction laced with text-message acronyms. Notions of “craft” are not a real issue for thes...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 9, 2011, 10:58 pm
2693.As reported by LogoLounge.com, a major rebranding has occurred on an Australian air carrier, and it caught my eye because of its cool modern style and the whimsy beneath the style. You've heard of Qantas, no doubt … that's probably Australia's most famous airline. For about the last twenty ye...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 9, 2011, 2:03 pm
2692.This may sound odd coming from me, since I don't really even care for Project Runway, but I happen to think that Tim Gunn is one of the most fun TV personalities out there right now. The whole elegant, confident "Make It Work" thing. He's turned his personality into a pretty powerful brand and ...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 8, 2011, 10:32 am
2691.For a few posts I poked fun at Oregon 1st Congressional District Republican contender Jim Greenfield for apparently posting a website that consisted of a template and significant contributions from a Mr. Lorem Ipsum … that is, remarkable areas of placeholder text. In fairness I am happy point...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 8, 2011, 10:21 am
2690.Via the HOW Blog: Wood Type Revival is an attempt (so far, succeeding) at bringing wood type into the digital age as OpenType fonts. The way they're doing it is to print sheets on a Vandercook proof press (probably not too much different from this one) and scanning the result, then digitizing i...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 8, 2011, 10:00 am
2689.And just what is this analemma? For those that don't know, if you record the position of the sun in the sky at the same time each day and plot that, it will form a long, graceful figure-8, with an angle that depends on the time of day and the latitude. Many globes have an analemma on the Pacifi...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 6, 2011, 10:05 am
2688.I like little tools that do a lot. When it comes to creating digital text documents, I like programs that are just enough - not too much, and definitely not too little. And I know from too little. I used EDLIN. Bean is a nifty, extremely lightweight, free (as in beer) word processor for OS X. W...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 6, 2011, 2:59 am
2687.When I was a kid, there was this toy. It was in the form of a sort of crank, which was attached to a wooden block with two channels in a cross. Two sliders were in each of the cross-channels, and the handle of the crank was attached to both, and the leverage was such that, as you rotated the cr...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 5, 2011, 3:45 pm
2686.Everyone knows … Everyone knows. Don't you just love appeals to authority? Well, everyone knows that this is the city seal of the City of Portland … But we know what they seal they really use, don't they? They use this seal for the really important stuff. I'm taking something into my own...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 5, 2011, 2:56 pm
2685.While i like the TriMet rail system map and have grown to like the new TriMet empire style, it has not been lost on me that, just as the old style (which I still miss) was destined to give way eventually, this style will too, eventually, give way to another look. And I've seen the direction it ...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 4, 2011, 11:15 pm
2684.As shared on Twittah by a longtime compadré, now known by the deliciously cryptic monicker "-b-" (Twittah: brx0), he of the Cyclotram blog, this now-famous Unicorn Photoshoppery of the erstwhile Made In Oregon sign (now the publicly-owned Portland Oregon sign)  has been shared around tumblr...
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 3, 2011, 1:45 pm
2683.From the friendly folk at the How blog: I started out wanting this sort of life. You know what? I still do. Some of it anyway.
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Samuel K. posted an article on The ZehnKatzen Times - Sep 1, 2011, 11:26 am
2682.Blogger Product Manager, Chang Kim, on the new Blogger interface … It’s been a few years since we made major updates to Blogger’s look and feel, and there’s a lot more to these changes than just shiny new graphics. We’ve rewritten the entire editing and management experience from scra...
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