Calgary based Graphic design, Illustration, comic, cartoon and caricature

back in time

YouTube can now take you back in time. You can go to this link and then pick a year, and see videos from that year. It’s pretty cool, check out 1903, I didn’t even know they had video back then.

funny friday

People send me jokes, all the time. Some funny, some not so much. A large percentage are blond jokes … interesting. Anyhow, here’s a bunch of play-on-words sent to me. I hope they make you go hmmm.

  • I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.
  • I had amnesia once — or twice.
  • Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.
  • Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
  • All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
  • I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
  • Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.
  • If the world were a logical place, men would ride horses side-saddle.
  • A beggar asked me for 50 cents for a sandwich. I said, “First let me see the sandwich.”
  • What is a “free” gift? Aren’t all gifts free?
  • They told me I was gullible … and I believed them.
  • Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he’ll never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
  • Two can live as cheaply as one, for half as long.
  • Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone .
  • What if there were no hypothetical questions?
  • One nice thing about egoists: They don’t talk about other people.
  • When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.
  • Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggy” until you can find a rock.
  • A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.
  • What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
  • My weight is perfect for my height – which varies.
  • I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure.
  • The cost of living hasn’t affected its popularity.
  • How can there be self-help “groups”?
  • Is there another word for synonym?
  • Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all”?
  • The speed of time is one-second per second.
  • Is it possible to be totally partial?
  • What’s another word for thesaurus?
  • If you’re cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
  • Is Marx’s tomb a communist plot?
  • If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
  • Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants off.
  • It’s not an optical illusion. It just looks like one.
  • If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn’t a horse.
  • Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?

artist or cook?

Artist John Riepenhoff has created a piece that doesn’t look like a pizza, it is a pizza. I thought that making a pizza was done by a cook. I’m assuming there will now be a pizza cook making a sculpture or a painting and calling it dinner. The Artist’s site here, the news article here.

new work

I’ve always been intrigued by religion. The icons that it has generated, the devil, angels, god—symbols of morality.

plane boring

We’ve all seen those flight attendants go through the safety dance, showing us where the exits are and how to use the air mask. It’s a boring experience. So are the videos on the large carriers, and if you’re in Canada—seeing it in both French and English can be painful. Good design considers the user of a product or service and makes a good experience. Advertisers have known this for years, you can’t bore someone into buying a product. Virgin Airlines has looked at the smallest detail of the boring video and taken the opportunity to stand out and make it an enjoyable experience. This video is an great example of good design enriching your experience and making it memorable. Boring is memorable too, but why not make things less so.