After cleaning up double blog posts, that appeared after I had made the blog disappear by trying to turn a plugin or two off and on, and then uploading a backup of posts in an attempt to fix my mistake, I realized I’ve been at this for five years now. Five? How’d that happen?

I’ve been totally neglecting this blog for some time now. Before the summer I think the posts dwindled down to barely anything, and now I have 5 posts in draft stages. Who know’s when I’ll have them ready.

I have been thinking about redesigning, changing focus, and rethinking this blog (I doubt that will ever stop), in light of what you can do on flickr, twitter and facebook – where a little effort actually gets some nearly immediate reward.
But, then again, I actually enjoy working at my own pace on the blog. I can’t tweet fast enough for the twittosphere, don’t gossip enough for facebookers, and once I get going I don’t like to be limited by a maximum number of characters in which I have to say something.

As the end of the year approaches there will be a few new things to tend to, and I suspect these might be the impetus to do more blabbing about stuff I find interesting. If there is time;)

Year Six should be interesting.

It’s not even monday – but what the heck.
Old fave Michael Gillette drew every single line of this animated promo for the Beastie Boys’ To the 5 Boroughs album.

As an added bonus – he’s begun blogging again. After discovering his blog in October 2007, and then losing track of it after January 2008, I see it’s been stocked with a bevy of illustrations. Not least his excellent set of James Bond book covers. Man, I have a weakness for Bond covers…

Nice work. Nice tunes.

The Bond Covers
Michael’s blog
Michael’s site
Shop for this series of James Bond Covers (UK)

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Mother Earth! Originally uploaded by frank-c

Here’s a pretty little ditty from Frank Chimero, a very cool illustrator who also calls himself a “tinkerer”!

Frank Chimero is a designer, illustrator and tinkerer from Missouri, USA. Inspired by the mid-century aesthetic, Frank tries to recapture the sense of optimism, playfulness, heart and charm that’s characteristic of the period. He can usually be found surrounded by many tiny slips of paper with fragments of ideas scrawled on them.