Category day to day

The 4 Stages of Competence | My wife read a magazine while we were waiting in the doctors’ office and found a learning model that has changed my perspective on learning. The core of the idea is that in order…

August’s Caterpillar | One of my favorite home movies

Wouldn’t it be nice to be young when everyday was a musical? Created with Halftone, an iPhone app.

This past weekend our family experienced a great tragedy. Our sixth grade science teacher passed away in an accident. I have heard about Mr. McCullaugh over and over again since he first began teaching at our middle school. Our oldest…

The chicks began hatching and so far there are four with three more starting to hatch. It looks like we will have seven new chicks in the morning. Who knows, the other two might hatch and then we would have…

During the past week I have notice a variety of issues that have an interesting connection. Paper books versus E-books, classroom versus online, and traditional illustration media versus digital media. The one thing that they have in common is that…

I have been at Treasure Mountain Scout Camp for the last week. It was a great week spent with my son and the members of his troop. The boys worked hard and were kind to one another. My son earned…

The end of a semester is quickly coming to an end. The last day of classes is tomorrow and on Thursday I will be traveling to Salt Lake City, Utah, with junior and senior graphic design students for an AIGA…

It was a great Halloween evening. We went to visit the grandparents with a flower, a polar bear, a fortune teller and something in a black sheet of fabric. There was lots of good soup and and conversation. We laughed…

The past two years have been filled with medical challenges for me. Bile duct cancer, cancer treatment and liver transplant. (Thank you to my donor and their family).  So with most of that behind me, May 1st seems like a…

Three of the four ukulele bridges popped off with the strings tuned and tightened. I designed a new bridge that gave a larger gluing area. Then one of the ukes was bumped off a shelf and the neck broke off.…

Sproing! What a terrible sound but I heard it three times yesterday. After applying all of my physics mental capacity I think that I have a solution. I will let you know as soon as I know if it works.

The morning was wonderful and the kids liked the cigar box ukuleles that I made for each of them. Here are some photos. (click images to enlarge)

This year our family is making our gifts that we are giving to each other. It has been really quite fun. I have been working on mine for several weeks. It is not right to post to the world before…

This is a video that one of my favorite students brought to motion design class one day. All these years later I still love the finger choreography.

My creative slate is clean at the moment and I am looking for the next project. I want it to be a book and so I need to find a concept and an interesting way to share the concept. This…

Just as I was leaving work this evening I noticed that I had a new e mail. I opened it and it was devastating. One of my students was killed in an automobile accident. Truly, I am not afraid of…

August’s Caterpillar**Disclaimer: A caterpillar was harmed in the making of this production.