Illustration, Inspiration, SVA & Bluecanvas

Monday, 08.15.11 at 5:36 pm
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The MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at School of Visual Arts was recently featured in Bluecanvas Magazine. As part of the collaboration, I was asked to be part of an informal (and documented) conversation about storytelling, illustration and the graduate program itself. (Vimeo link)

79 Ways to Eliminate Your Enemies

Wednesday, 05.18.11 at 7:36 pm
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How do you save the world? Stop the robots? Kill the deadly Beast of Caerbannog? You do it with a Holy Hand Grenade or with a shark with frickin’ laser beams attached to its head. weLoaded features 79 fictional weapons from various pop-culture sources including television, film, video games and comic books.

Viewpoint Perspective Trickery With Photoshop

Monday, 09.20.10 at 10:57 am
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One of the sight gags planned in the World Without Photoshop video was to make MacBook Pro’s look like shiny aluminum “CopyBook” scanners. We needed to replace the keyboard and trackpad with the guts of a flatbed scanner. The image you see above is straight off the camera. The illusion of a scanner bed is […]

How Could We Not Post This?

Thursday, 09.16.10 at 10:43 am
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CHOP (preview) from Peter Buchanan-Smith on Vimeo. Via notcot.org.

A World Without Photoshop

Friday, 09.10.10 at 4:58 pm
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Last week we set forth upon the internets (YouTube) a fun little short film/project envisioning what the daily life of a creative team might be like if Photoshop had never been invented. The project started off the exact same way the video does: with somebody, as designers or photographers frequently do, asking: “Can you imagine […]

That’s One Nerdy Trio of Prints, Harry!!!

Wednesday, 02.17.10 at 5:40 pm
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A bunch of new prints suddenly appeared on chopshopstore.com and are even nerdier than a whole boat load of robot icons. Nerd Rider (left) is actually the original version of a tshirt that has mysteriously disappeared from our collection due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control. The Craftsman (center) was inspired by the video game World […]

149 Celebrated Icons of Science Fiction Print

Friday, 02.05.10 at 12:12 am
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Tshirts are great. You can print on them, put them over your torso and they help keep you modest and warm. The only real issue with them is that they are not the best canvasses for the smaller details. Most of the icons designed for Chop Shop’s SciFi, Horror/Fantasy and Rock Music series of tees […]

The Chop Shop Etsy Store on G4

Friday, 01.29.10 at 12:21 am
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Game Trailers – E3 2010 – AOTS Exclusive Pretty excellent inclusion of Chop Shop on the most recent episode of G4tv. While our own site remains our central focus, we do make our products available on both Etsy and SupermarketHQ to reach a larger audience.

Egads… That’s a Whole Lot of Scary Celebrities

Sunday, 12.13.09 at 12:34 am
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Since these iconic tees started appearing in our shop and filling all our shelves, we always thought it would be most excellent to see them gridded up on large sheet and served up for a wall.