Some not so low budget,low budget art.

Ok, so I spent the last two years battling my wife and everyone else's pressure to upgrade my phone to some kinda smart phone. I've used the same old clamshell style forever. I loved it; it worked-- it dialed out, it received calls…I could even text on it.
 Well, the inevitable day of the upgrade finally shows up, and we (my wife and I) head to our local cell phone shop, where I come to find out that the phone I so dearly love isn't available and hasn't been for a couple of years. So I tell the guy at the counter that I'm really not interested in paying a couple of hundred bucks for a phone. That's when he tells me that I can have an iphone for free.
 Free??? Really???
I guess that fits my budget. So I get this Little Black Box of Distraction home, plug it in and let it charge. I'm a photographer, and I've heard some neat stuff about this iphone thing, so while it was charging I decided to look some stuff up. Needless to say, I was a little blown away by the amount of stuff I found on the interweb. My favorite site for using the iphone as a creative tool was written by a guy named Justin Balog http://www.hossedia.com/iphone-photography-tutorial/ . Tons of cool info and some really good work. I found it inspirational and educational.
 So now to the point: after being super resistant to the whole Iphone craze, and after a little playing around, I've discovered that the Little Black Box of Distraction (henceforth known as the L.B.B.D) is quite a fun little creative tool. It's pocket sized, travels anywhere I do, and still confuses and baffles me.
                    Here are some of the images I've created since adopting this thing.

 

 

 

 

 So stay creative my friends, and do what you can with what you have.

-Terrier One

                                                                       

Whiskers of Wondercon 2012

As a steely eyed Con veteran, I've seen many a strange costume and read many an odd comic.  And most of the pictorial efforts that you'll see dredged up from peoples lack of creativity usually consists of hot girls in assless costumes, or dozens of semi candid shots of celebrities who just wish that the GWC (Guy With Camera) would just fuck off. 

This year I decided to look at Wondercon through a different set of eyes.  The eyes of the beard.  It's the new bicep you know.  After all, a person can take a costume on and off, but facial hair is a commitment of time and effort that rides underneath your nose long after all of the comics have done been sold and all of the grease paint has gone down the drain of your hotel shower.

And so, I present:  The Whiskers of Wondercon 2012!

 

 

 

 

 

Stay fuzzy my friends,and remember men don't grow facial hair,facial hair grows men.

-Terrier One

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