wood is good.

i have finally made my first board specific art.

i've been posting designs at popdeck for a few days now, and i finally came up with something brand new.



if it tickles your fancy, you can vote on it here.

i hope your fancy is thoroughly tickled.

another day, another deck.

i've become obsessed with popdeck.com lately. here, i've taken another old threadless design i had made that i thought would really suit a skate deck.



you can vote here, if you're so inclined.

there can be only one.

HowManyOfMe.com

There is 1 person with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

looks like i'm the only dann matthews in america.

that explains why my dannmatthews.com domain was still available when i bought it in february.

i was a little perplexed to find that 99.9 percent of people with the first name dann are female...

guess i'll have to confront my dad in a bar "boy named sue" style.

skate decks and sketches and ink, oh my.

i recently stumbled upon popdeck.com, a site like threadless where designers submit art that is voted on and has a chance to win a cash prize.

this time, it's art for skateboard decks.

i'm not a skater by any means, for those who have seen rob and big, i'm definitely more big than i am rob. but i had been itching to reuse the design i had blogged about here, so i put this together:



please help this cool community grow, vote on the design here, and join in!

in inky stinky news, i must request that you watch this sketch comedy clip from the whitest kids u know before scrolling any further:



finished?

are you sure?

if you are not, please don't scroll yet.

it will ruin the awesomeness!

seriously.

stop.

oh you did watch it?

okay.

i figure i should let you continue.

here it is!



that, my friend, is dedication. much more dedicated than my autobot sigil tattooed on my shoulder.

that is fantastic.

site update.

my personal site was built a few months ago, it started with the idea for the designs page with the moving train cars. shortly after creating that (the inception and creation took a saturday afternoon) i built the home and print pages around it. i had never been particularly happy with the print page, especially when compared to the design page. so this morning, i woke up with a new idea to match the interactivity of the design page and created the new print page. i am pleased with the outcome, another idea inception to completion within an afternoon. and just in time for something i've been waiting to blog about here for some time... but i can't quite say yet what that something is...

gold, silver, bronze... tin foil?

i recently placed fourth in a jones soda t-shirt contest... possibly.

why add possibly after a dramatic use of elipses? well, after 1st place and runner up, there are 6 honorable mentions, and i'd like to imagine that they're in order, making me fourth place.

unless they're not in order and i got third, i'll accept that. a bronze medal is better than a tin foil medal any day.

here is the design i had entered:


how could aquanet lincoln not have taken home the prize? he could have been jones soda's new spokesperson, rivaling the burger king! (despite being a different market entirely, they would battle regardless... war doesn't have to make sense [it has to make dollars! hahahahahah. {i'm sorry if that joke was insensitive, oh my! i'm into my 3rd set of parenthesis! i should probably back out now}])

to celebrate my 4th place near-victory, i command everyone to go out and purchase a jones soda green apple soda and drink and be merry and use to many "ands" in your sentences.

i have to applaud the threadless bloggers. we were directed to this competition from this blog, and after looking at last years winners, we decided to make it our mission to win this. 5 of us entered and we got the top 5 slots. super congrats to wotto for the 1st pace win.

casey and his brother figures.

for anyone who's not a fan of tim and eric's awesome show great job... shame on you.

casey and his brother are two characters who perform their own casio keyboard fueled songs on the cable access show "uncle muscles hour" these disheveled boys mix their singing with performance art, costumes and weak gag reflexes



a short while after i made my own paper figurine family i stumbled across these little guys:



not for everyone, but definitely for me!

to keep you from digging around the net for the free paper figures, here are the links:

casey
his brother
his brother's hamburger suit.

enjoy!