BOOK OF GRAY

I’m going to that Thing in the Dessert. I took five years off for various reasons: because of the expense, travelling, and hospitals. I’m pretty amped to be back! Unfortunately, the darling wouch is not making it this year for political and school reasons, but she’s been behind me to go, and has spent the last week in sweatshop mode making me some new clothes. *muah!*

Even though I’m Not sure where we’re camping at, I’m with PLAN-D, and my understanding is that we’ll be around 7:00ish – 7:30ish and B. Where are YOU staying?

We’ll have a bright purple/ orange flag and a spiral tarp covered dome. A few campmates headed up today to claim some real estate.

So, over the last few weeks, I decided to make some pendants to give out to people. I’ve got about 30+ of em, many not shown including a bunch of ice cream cones for the ladies. Look for me!

I MUST TRY THIS GODDAMN PEPPER.

When I die on this planet I hope its from eating this awesome piece of fruit. GIMME GIMME GIMME

I stumbled onto some pretty awesome paintings done by David Choe that are on the walls of Facebook HQ: I’m awful jealous.

Welcome to the little off-shoot blog section of my portfolio. It’s the one found at http://www.bookofgray.com. This site (dementim.com) used to be the full artistic portfolio of my work, but I’m in the process of migrating over to the other URl. I felt that the name I came up with over there more closely resembles the themes I’m exploring in my work, and, well, telling people how to spell dementim became annoying.
My name is tbSMITH. I’m a painter, graphic designer and artist from the SF Bay Area. I am also the creative director of my own freelance design company. This will be the repository for the images of my work in progress, tutorials, and all of the stuff I appreciate or hate.

As I flesh out this area, by all means, come back and visit. Cheers!

Piece of shit Internet Explorer.

I've been working on a prickly problem for about 1.5 days, and, being as how this is the framework of the new site I'm creating, until I get past this hurdle I can't continue. The entire problem is in Internet Explorer's rendering of overflow divs.

My goal is to have a fixed height gallery extending outside of the viewport with my entire gallery. Images are all on the x-axis that creates a horizontal scrollbar that extends off the page to the right. Closeups and alternate views will be shown via a modified lightbox script.

Firefox? OH, BEAUTIFUL. Comes out lovely.
Internet Explorer? Refuses to cooperate. Damn program produces an easily unseen scroll bar at the bottom of the page, making it impossible to plan cross browser design for the remainder of the site.

Sometimes I miss the usefullness of frames.
And goddamn is this problem really pissing me off.
I'm thinking of scrapping the whole experiment.

Seems there are dozens of user groups out there where people have encountered the same problems with IE's shitty css rendering. Makes sense now why horizontal sites aren't more widespread.

Yes, you could say this is an apple ripoff…

But I made this yesterday. I'm making another version for a print ad that's to be done before heading off to rEvolution on fri.

Anywho, that's the style the client wanted.

That said, I'm thinking my skills are not entirely being put to the bestest of uses. Anyone have anything more “edgy” they need assistance with? I have a slight gap between contracts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELyco68w5ks
This video totally rules. Excellent colors, energy, composition and forward momentum. I cannot wait for SGM's new album. I'm really considering buying it off their site; they have a limited edition 4-color screenprint for those that pre-order.
Once we move I'll have actual space again, time to collect some new art!

Lots of stuff I've been meaning to do but have only been frustrated today enough to do them.

- Configured eva's login and info for her wordpress blog she's starting. She's my wordpress test subject because I have some ideas I've been meaning to start. Sorry to say but livejournal just doesn't have the capacity for true blogging and promotion.

- Configured SPAM ASSASSIN because my needlemedia email is getting freakin clogged. I don't know why it's taken me this damn long. mostly because I also…

- Configured my red blackberry pearl to accept all of my work and personal email accounts. I trashed my four year old trusty but beat up nokia last week after my falling into the fountain debacle. Tim: welcome to the 21st century. There's a 1.3mp camera on this thing. And email. And webbrowsing. And predictive texting. And games. When did all this technology happen?