makes me picture him as Fabio. I mean, I've seen his pics so I know he doesn't actually look like that but somehow I feel like he looks like fabio. does anyone picture me as a little orange bird from my profile pic lol?

I went to a dentist today and they said that I would need $3,000 worth of work done - that I had 5 cavities, needed costly gingivitis treatment , and needed a crown on one of my teeth (which is also redonculously expensive). This seems a little excessive as I've been to another dentist and my teeth never were THAT bad. I mean I've had some fillings but nothing major. They told me that the old silver fillings I have are all outdated and because they shrink and expand with temp they are more likely to get cavities around them, so they want to take out the five i have and replace all of them. Oh and to top it all off I went in there for a cleaning and they didn't even clean my teeth!!! They used some laser thingy to find the cavities, which I've never seen before. I researched this later and found this leads to some "grey area" in diagnosing cavities - you don't actually have to see a cavity, this laser thingy just indicates that conditions are good.

I also find it hard to believe that all of a sudden i have all these immediate pressing problems (they dont want me to wait) when I have no pain and i've never had anything like this happen before. Granted, I havent been to the dentist in about 2 1/2 years, but this seems excessive. I need a second opinion! I am sure there are probably some things that need to be done, but i honestly hope after I see somebody else that it won't be THAT much. I am flat broke!

is finally up and running! Granted, there are probably some kinks in it that I have not looked @ yet... but I'm proud of myself for finally getting it mostly finished. The teaching and design links aren't up yet, btw, so I know that. You can order prints of my stuff too, they is 4 salez... if you likez my work then you can take a look and see what I have. I did a screen print last weekend of the
dandylion that I subbed here some time ago, which looks pretty rad... yeah if you want a print of that (on paper, not on a tee) check out my site!

My site!

This is based on one of my FAVORITE Edward Lear poems.



There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared! --
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.

There used to be this AWESOME 60s print of this when i was a kid in my pediatrician's office. He had all kinds of cool stuff that I wouldn't mind owning, btw, such as a silver rocketship that hung from the ceiling and these funky bird sculptures that looked very dr. suessian. I have no idea where he is anymore, except that he retired. I cannot find the print of it anywhere, so I had to do a Jillustration version of it.
This drawing is by no means done - I still have shading on the hat to do, birds still need some color, and maybe the beard needs highlights?
Also, I am thinking maybe I should add the poem somewhere on the shirt, perhaps a bird on the back holding a note written in cursive? I'm not sure.

What do y'all think? I'm gonna post this in crits later, I just want to see what everyone thinks - is it rawking as a tee, or does it need to be just a print? I am slowly growing to like it more the more I look at it :)

I've been seeing lately people using this high res nice big tee for their subs, and I've seen the same pic on more than one sub - here and here for example. It's not in the sub kit. Where are you getting that pic from and where can I get it??? Or at the very least, does anyone know of places i can get nice, high res pics of tees on which to put my designs? thank you much!

I'm looking for some good books to read. Let me say that I generally read really interesting nonfiction books, such as
Salt, Your Inner Fish, and The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, books that will teach me something really interesting that I didn't know about, or a rather interesting and/or inspiring true story. I find true stories way more interesting than most contemporary fiction (stories about middle aged people's boring lives so they start having affairs or a midlife crisis, or some author -i.e. jodi picoult - who the first time you read them you think they are really good then you read more of them and you realize that they are writing the same book every time with only the characters and moral dilemma changed). I do like nonfiction if it's obviously never gonna happen in reality, like Harry Potter, or something sci fi dystopia, like The Road which probably won't happen but is still really interesting to think about. I hope that makes sense. Any suggestions?

So I am way excited about my armadillos and their trampoline. YAY!



I am also excited about this one. I love birds and I love ridiculous costumes, and I think there should be a shirt that has both of those things :)

anyways, that's my shameless self promotion blog o' the day. please vote nice things for them whenever they're ready for votation! I will heart you forever!

i love this but why no hoodie?? I would wear it even more often if that were the case!

I love doing band tees and posters!!!

If you're in or around champaign, come see the show. they rawk!

oh my goodness this is fantastic. hooray for parrots!! i'm so glad they printed this.