Some recent news:

This last weekend I made my way to Creative Summit in San Marcos, the well-known student conference with infamously poor promotional design (at least the last couple of years.) This year's show had some really excellent student work and I managed to land a couple of pieces in it, which was nice. The speakers were all funny and relevant; some highlights were the guys from Dress Code, Lance Letscher, and Gary Panter. Also present was Gary Baseman, who was a character in his own right. While he said he was only at the conference to "mingle" he was impossible to miss, even for those who might not be familiar with his grey crew cut and iconic soul patch. The main giveaways were his t-shirt (sporting one of his very own illustrations,) the book that he carried around with him all day (illustrated by, you guessed it, himself) and the foot-and-a-half long DOLL (of his well-known character "Toby") that he had tucked under his arm the entire day. By all this adornment you could tell that either this guy was a huge fan of Baseman, or was Baseman. Or, in this case, both. His antics were quite amusing (including, but not limited to, gaining possession of a mic and introducing himself from the audience in the middle of a question and answer session, just in case people didn't know who he was) and confirmed all the tales of his love of attention. I laughed good-naturedly throughout for sure.
Also at the conference I managed to pick up a copy of Hitten Switches in the silent auction. This collaboration between Travis Millard and Michael Sieben is pretty freakin' sweet. I shall enjoy it for some time I expect. Check it out.

In other news, I received word yesterday that I'm being hired as an intern over at Matchbox Studio starting at the end of May, so that is splendid news. Also I was able to see Explosions in the Sky in concert for the second time last evening, and once again they played an excellent show. They only played (I believe) two songs off the new record, which was a bit surprising, but definitely not disappointing. I recommend that if you ever have an opportunity to see this band live that you don't let the chance slip by.

I think that is all for now.

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