Catchphrases

2008 03/21

CatchphrasesFor the period of 1 year I kept track of my catchphrases. It came naturally, I simply recognized when I was saying something so much that it reached a “catchphrase” level of over-saturation. From there, all it took was a simple excel spreadsheet, some free time, and a willingness to admit that I’m utterly pathetic.

2005 06/01 – “Gay.”
2005 07/23 – “Deal with it. Rock and Roll.”
2005 09/06 – “Heh-Heh. Allllriiiight.”
2005 10/14 – “Booyakasha!”
2005 10/22 – “It was cool, but can you imagine doobie-in’ your funk?”
2005 11/22 – “Hulk SMASH!”
2006 01/01 – “Booyakasha!” (again)
2006 02/01 – “COME ON!”
2006 04/08 – “Oooooh, Racist.”
2006 05/10 – “Fact!”
2006 05/29 – “Snakes on a Plane.”

Catchphrase Timeline Illustration

That’s it, a full year in the life of D. Co’s catchphrases. Looking back on it, I’m amazed that I said some of that stuff with great repetition.


The Greatest Movie Poster in the History of Man

2008 03/21

Used Cars

I can’t even believe this exists.


Polaroid Photographs

2008 03/04

We continue mourning the death of polaroid instant film, a format that was used for exactly none of these photographs.

But what if it had been…

Migrant Mother - Dorothea Lange - 1936Nude (Charis in Doorway) - Edward Weston - 1936Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - Joe Rosenthal - 1945Flag on the Reichstag - Yevgeny Khaldei - 1945VJ Day, The Kiss - Alfred Eisenstaedt - 1945Einstein’s Tongue - Arthur Sasse - 1951The Seven Year Itch - Associated Press - 1954Oswald Shot by Jack Ruby - Bob Jackson - 1963JFK Jr. Salutes JFK - Joe O’Donnell - 1963Burning Monk - Malcolm Brown - 1963Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston - Neil Leifer - 1965The Saigon Execution - Eddie Adams - 1968Apollo 11 Bootprint - NASA - 1969Abbey Road - Iain MacMillan - 1969The Napalm Girl - Nick Ut - 1972The Haunted Eyes of a 12-Year-Old Refugee - Steve McCurry - 1985The Unknown Rebel - Jeff Widener - 1989The Plight of Kosovo Refugees - Carol Guzy - 1999The Falling Man - Richard Drew - 2001Abu Ghraib - 2004The Power of One - Oded Balilty - 2007

…continued from Polaroid Paintings.


Polaroid Paintings

2008 03/04

Since Polaroid announced the death of instant pictures, I’ve become fascinated by them. There’s something tactile and unassuming about a picture framed by that cheap plastic.

Some art student is going to tear me a new one for this…

But who cares.

The Arnolfini Wedding - Jan van Eyck - 1434The Birth of Venus - Sandro Botticelli - 1482Vitruvian Man - Leonardo da Vinci - 1492Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci - 1506The Artist’s Mother - James McNeill Whistler - 1871A Girl with a Watering Can - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - 1876A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat - 1886The Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh - 1889The Scream - Edvard Munch - 1893Light Iris - Georgia O’Keefe - 1924American Gothic - Grant Wood - 1930The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali - 1931Guernica 1Guernica - Pablo Picasso - 1937Guernica 3Untitled (Green Silver) - Jackson Pollock - 1949Orange and Yellow - Mark Rothko - 1956Big Self-Portrait - Chuck Close - 1968

…continued in Polaroid Photographs.


Ransom Note

2008 01/16

Ransom Note

They offered money in response, but I wanted doll hairs. I was very specific about that. Honestly I was just happy that I got to use the ransom font, but now I’m 2 scarves richer. Which brings my grand total of scarves to 2.

Download the files to make your own notes here.


Postcard Slideshow

2007 08/30

Watch it

No, I don’t print them out and use them as actual postcards. But I totally should, because otherwise I’m doing these for no good reason.


Bad Cop, Mountain Lion

2007 08/12

Bad Cop, Mountain Lion front cover

For a graphic design class, I whipped up a published version of this silly novel I’m writing. It centers around a maniacal body-builder slash hard-nosed detective who has to learn to “play by the rules” to get along with his new partner, a paper-pushing adult female mountain lion.

Bad Cop, Mountain Lion back cover

It’s a comedy.