bloggibindoggins.

spuds.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:50:00 +0000

casual friday.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:10:00 +0000

hipster marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:58:00 +0000

so, i don't like throwing around the term "hipster" because i've never really been supplied with a good definition of it. is it skinny jeans? stretched out ear lobes? hoodies? beards and thick rimmed glasses? is it all about fashion? or does it go deeper than that?
when I saw this dude pop up in the "people who enjoy drinking from a mason jar - sippy cup" slide show, i knew i was getting closer to understanding the term. Note: if you keep watching images from this slideshow, you'll see a biker sitting on his hawg, drinking out of a straw that's been put through the opening of a cuppow thing. seriously.

Yet another branding...

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:49:00 +0000

well, here's another logo that's taken the chunky simple font overhaul. looks way more like a fast food joint now.

updated logos.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:02:00 +0000

So there's several re-branding campaigns out there as of late. I didn't really think much of it until the ebay one. I would love to see the design charges for each of these jobs. I can only imagine what kind of b.s. is involved in talking a corporation into accepting a "new and improved" version of their logo via helvetica or arial font. I'm all about simplification generally. A "less is more" kinda thing, but these choices all seem generic. No sense of history or story or concept behind the decisions. Just simplification for the sake of simplification.

Catch-22 and Corporal Klinger

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:36:00 +0000

Disclaimer: To preface this little bit of rambling, I wish to warn that I will be using the word "crazy" here to describe a generic type of mental disorder. In each case described, it seems that the situation itself perpetuates the nature of the disorder. The only proper layman's description for the resulting state of being in each of the following case is "cracked" or "crazy" - as in, "It's enough to drive a person crazy."

To experience a conundrum akin to the origins behind the phrase "Catch-22" is a bit maddening. If the story behind Catch-22 is unfamiliar, I'll attempt to summarize wikipedia's entry. Essentially, it's a circular problem: if you admit you're crazy, then you must not be crazy because you know you're crazy. The logic is that a crazy person wouldn't know that he/she is crazy. Catch-22 has a character (Orr) who would prefer to be discharged from military service (flying more missions) for being crazy but if he admits he's unbalanced, then his superiors assume that he must be sane for knowing the difference.
The character of Corporal Klinger on M.A.S.H. presents the same type of story (with a bit of a difference). He was acting crazy and his superiors accepted it because they recognized the game he was playing. It was a bit too flamboyant, I suppose. He was trying too hard. They had called his bluff but he wasn't admitting it. That may have proved he was actually crazy. He didn't realize his bluff had been called. Or maybe he did and just didn't want to admit it to himself. It's fair to argue that in each character, Orr or Klinger, the pressure or stress (PTSD) related to wartime experience is more than likely the cause of their initial psychosis - which is then perpetuated by the "Catch-22" situation.

This type of conundrum can also present itself in subtle manifestations. It's a bit like Schrodinger's Cat in that a problem/issue can exist and cannot exist at the same time. For instance, one person (A) claims that another person (B) has caused him/her harm but doesn't want to discuss it. There's no resolution in sight because person B doesn't know what the issue is about and cannot work to either make amends or alter his/her actions to possibly rectify the situation. The issue can/will never be resolved if person A will not reveal the origin of the issue to person B.

The issue is real and is not real at the same time.

I like to believe that the legendary Hatfields & McCoys were a little better off for knowing were their shared animosities originated.

These ruminations (and more) have been taking up head-space for the past several weeks now and will hopefully find a bit of a landing spot here. Bill Donovan, a fellow graduate painting student, told me once that it takes the action of saying an idea/something out loud for it to attempt to become concrete (or real). (Like testing the waters.)

Conviction, conjuring ideas into tangible things, sharing thoughts, conundrums, moving forward while being pushed back - but then pushing forward again, trying to attain simple goals but failing or not ever having time to accomplish goals because of exterior circumstances - these are all things swirling around in there right now.

Book Cover for Matthew Vollmer's "Inscriptions for Headstones" on Outpost19

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:38:00 +0000

Check out Outpost19's promo for Matthew Vollmer's new collection of "Inscriptions for Headstones." Matt asked me to do the cover and I was able to put a few concepts together for him to choose from.

Montana 1. Livingston

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:49:00 +0000

ray ray never was the same.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:07:00 +0000

chuck norris.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:50:00 +0000

Michio Kaku

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:19:00 +0000

I suppose when you host a leading theoretical physicist in a gym, you can at least have a quasi-laser effect for the stage background.

Thanks for all of your mail.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:13:00 +0000

Awesome to have to dig through tons of someone else's mail to find one piece.

Need to get back to this forum.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:35:00 +0000

Facebook is not that good of a bookmarking application. It gets bogged down in comments. I've been using Evernote, which syncs well across platforms. But lengthy articles reposted to reference later seem better here. This photo is a bizarre experiment in syncing a phone app with this.

Hot phone.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:22:00 +0000

Phone's getting hot. I just downloaded a new blogger app for the android and now it feels like i could cook on the back of it. Frustrated that some apps allow ads and such and so, I'm trying to hunt down the most recent culprit for spam. I think it may be "blogger-droid" which I downloaded a long time ago. So, I'm about to delete it to see if this official blogger app takes care of it.

classic pie in face by mr. marbles

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:14:00 +0000

rupert murdoch - under investigation for hacking cell phones - gets a pie in the face from a comedian who calls himself "johnny marbles." mr. marbles just made one more fan. image and story here.

two options for signage.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:25:00 +0000

this

or this.

2011. new thing.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:00:00 +0000

new website front.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:56:00 +0000

link to honeycomb patterns

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:28:00 +0000

get 'em here.

some references

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Wed, 25 May 2011 21:11:00 +0000

http://ubersuper.com/origins-of-the-worlds-most-important-typefaces/

http://bonfx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/19-top-fonts-in-19-top-combinations-chart.pdf

http://www.as8.it/handouts/mixing-typefaces_U&lc1992.pdf

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Sun, 22 May 2011 07:07:00 +0000

Whaddawehavehere?

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:34:00 +0000

the wolfman

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:29:00 +0000

after looking at kirk douglas on this dvd cover, i felt i had to change the title.

nazca lines via google earth.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:49:00 +0000

gotta have google earth to see these.
click here.

acer h233h LCD monitor. volume/sound issue. fix.

noreply@blogger.com (Brandon Buckner) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:53:00 +0000

okay, so i feel like an idiot after spending the last 20 minutes looking online, through the user guide, and even through the cd user guide that came with the monitor to no avail. i have an extra monitor (which is a widescreen monitor) to use with my laptop here at the chocolate shop for design - or the occasional movie/tv show viewing as we take a break between batches of product. it came with a stereo 1/8" cable for audio as well as an audio input on the back, so i assumed, it must have speakers inside. i checked various forums online which said that they were decent sounding 1.5" speakers. i could not get a single sound to come out of them at all... but was determined.
so, after looking over the 1/8" audio cord for crimps/cuts and then checking my output on my laptop several times; i came across a post with the solution to my problem. and it turned out to be in a not so obvious spot.
(or was it?)
HERE'S THE FIX.
it turns out that you do not have to scroll through any menus to get the sound to work. you just have to push the arrow buttons to adjust the volume. (pushing the little blue arrow to the right turned the volume up and pushing the one to the left turned it down.) seems so obvious, but i just assumed they were navigation arrows; not volume arrows. they are dual purpose arrows i guess.

i found this nowhere in the literature for the monitor. just kept reading "for audio in (optional) models" and wondering if i had one w/o built-in speakers. so, if it's too loud or not loud enough, just try pushing the arrows. duh.