The Dream Team?
July 28, 2008 | Filed Under Astros | No Comments
Good to see Uncle D hanging out with The Man Himself behind home plate at in the Diamond Club at tonight’s Astros/Reds game.
Lest we forget…
July 28, 2008 | Filed Under David's Personal Life | No Comments…that yesterday marked the start of SHARK WEEK!
I’d like to personally apologize for the lack of posting; the job switch has had me very busy. I can’t wait to get back into the swing of things. Look forward to my best and worst uniforms in all of the major sports, coming up soon!
Introducing the… Oklahoma City Outlaws
July 22, 2008 | Filed Under Basketball, Design | 4 Comments
UPDATE, 08-19-08: Rumor has it they’re going with Thunder. While it’s not the worst name in the world, it’s certainly not as cool as Outlaws. When I hear “thunder” I immediately think of “thunder thighs”—and that’s not a good thing.
A while back, I made a post about the design contest over at Uni Watch to create a new brand identity for the new Oklahoma City NBA franchise. I mentioned that I wanted to do, and I recently finished my design.
You can view the full set by clicking on the picture at right.
Anyway, here were my thoughts:
- I went with “Outlaws” because polls had been done in Oklahoma City and Outlaws was a favorite. And since I love the Old West, I thought it was a pretty sweet name.
- I avoided guns not because I don’t like them—because I do—but more so because they’ve gotten kind of trite. That, and it’s possible gun-themed logos won’t sell as well (political correctness) .
- The Oklahomans also preferred black and gold as the colors. I actually like the colors together so I had no problem designing with those in mind.
Anyway, hope you like it! We’ll see if it’s good enough to make the Uni Watch faves.
Goodbye, Rice; hello, Web design world!
July 21, 2008 | Filed Under David's Job, David's Personal Life, Design | 5 CommentsWell, the time has finally come for me to move on. Today is my last day working as a Graphic and Web Designer at Rice University. I’m moving on to work 100% for a Web design company—something I wish I could have been doing 100% of the time I was at Rice. I leave with very good things to say about Rice; my move was completely made out of a desire to further my career in design. There wasn’t a lot of upward mobility left at Rice.
Either way, I’m extremely excited to join the ranks of the for-profit world. I start on Wednesday; wish me luck!
In other design news…
If you’re looking for good design inspiration, the Logopond 2008 Award Winners were recently announced. The winners look great—and then I looked at ALL the entries. Almost every single one was stellar. Some of my favorite NON-winners:
It’s a heart!
The hidden villain is cute!
It’s making the world its nest!
Seems like the Home Run Derby needs an update (followed by a quick note on the Olympics)
July 15, 2008 | Filed Under Baseball, Design | 6 Comments
Last night, being the avid baseball fan I am, I sat next to my brother and my roommate and watched the Ridiculously Over-hyped State Farm Home Run Derby. The Home Run Derby has long been a facet of the All-Star game, and it’s usually pretty entertaining.
Spoilers ahead! If you don’t want to know who wins, don’t read on!
This year brought MAMMOTH home runs. In fact, more than any ever in the history of the derby. Josh Hamilton of the Rangers (photo at top, courtesy of Sign On San Diego) just got up there and couldn’t miss, hitting 28 home runs—more than any had ever been hit in a single round in the history of the event—on his way to… losing the home run derby?
The Oklahoma City… Non-SuperSonics?
July 9, 2008 | Filed Under Basketball, Uniforms | 3 Comments
In case you haven’t heard yet, after 41 years, the Seattle SuperSonics’ basketball franchise has up and moved to Oklahoma City, the city that recently housed the Hornets for a year due to Katrina.
I’m not particularly concerned with this in either direction; here are my thoughts off the top of my head: The Sonics have some of the sweetest throwbacks ever (the late ’70s ones with the logo on them at the top right of this post, courtesy of Chris Creamer), it’ll only bring basketball god Kevin Durant back closer to his home state, typically anything with the word “Oklahoma” in it sucks, etc. But there are couple interesting things about it…
OMG SHARK WEEK
July 7, 2008 | Filed Under Television | 3 Comments
I wait for Shark Week every year and it’s finally upon us!! July 27!!!!!!!
I’ve begun a great dislike for Mike Gonzalez
July 6, 2008 | Filed Under Astros, Ridiculous | No CommentsHere is a video of the Atlanta Braves’ new-found closer-type, Mike Gonzalez: (A note: You can only kind of see it because this is kind of a new thing; heck that video is only from two days ago. But trust me.)
Really? That’s what you need to do to pitch? Wobble around like you’re trying to imitate Dice-K Matsusaka? Wow. Good luck with that. Everyone in Houston now hates it.
As soon as I get a better video of it, I’m definitely posting it so you can hate it, too.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s Internet trail
July 1, 2008 | Filed Under Movies and Film | 2 Comments
David Fincher has long been my favorite director. (That link will take you to one of the coolest blog posts about him.) Fight Club has long been my favorite movie. (And I loved reading Chuck Palahniuk books until recently when they almost became a test of who can get through them.) Anyway, Fincher doesn’t put out a whole lot of movies (that’s effectively six, not including the subject of this post), so when he does something, it’s always big news for me.
He got the reins to direct The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a dude who was born old and decrepid but then aged backward to his youth. I can only imagine how awesome this is going to be. First, check out the trailer:
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