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For my last assignment in Illustration Concepts we were given an article by Garrison Keillor called "Poor America" and asked to do an editorial illustration on it. Here is mine.

Would you believe...

About a year ago I stumbled across something announcing the Get Smart movie with Steve Carell. My dad and I used to sit and watch Get Smart and Dragnet on Nick at Nite a couple nights a week, so I was understandably excited and ran to tell Whit assuming that she would be equally excited. I think her response was: "What's that?" Now the movie has come and gone and I really need to see it again before I'm comfortable saying whether I like it or not, but thanks to my brother-in-law Trent and his wife Amy I am now the proud owner of Get Smart: Season 1. I've broken away from my homework a couple times now to enjoy the nostalgia of watching a few episodes. I had forgotten how over-the-top it is and only recently learned that Mel Brooks played a part in creating the show.

Anywho, something else I'm excited about is the Kidrobot Simpsons series. My brother Rob has all but 3 of them and ended up getting some duplicates that he passed my way. Here's a crappy cell phone picture of them in their new home on my shelf. I really like Snake.

Getting some stuff off my chest.

1. When people post a comment on my blog how do I answer? Do I post a comment on that same post hoping that at a later date they will remember which post they had commented on and check to see if I wrote back? Or, do I go to their blog and comment on a random post? I have to ask questions like this here because my mom, who is my go-to for questions of etiquette, doesn't know anything about blogs.

2. When updating my "status" on Facebook do I continue to refer to myself in the third-person since it starts out with "Matt Nelson [is]...?" Because I really don't want people to start referring to me as "The Matt" a la Seinfeld.

3. Though I have heard some good music on some, I hate when people put music on their blogs because I am invariably listening to music myself and then I start getting that really bad mixing thing happening and I can't ever figure out how to turn their music off, or if you even can. No offense to my wonderful friends who have music on their blogs, I still love you I just hate your blog.

And on the subject of music:
4. Genius on the new version of iTunes. Love it.

5. Weezer's Red Album. I'm really liking it. It could very well be my favorite complete album of theirs.

Ok, I'm done ranting. My Illustration Concepts class had the project of designing a book cover for a book by Ernest Heminway. Here's mine. There are still things I would like to change (as always) but overall I'm pretty happy with it.


We also found out about our Print Exchange for this semester. It will be called "Light My Fire" and will envolve using an Intaglio process to do a matchbox cover. We're all pretty excited about the prospect. None of us have worked on anything that small before so it will be interesting to see how it turns out.