…when I noticed that the author/illustrator was, low and behold, JOE FENTON! I thought, “Wait…when did I do this?” But I didn’t do this. There’s another illustrator out there sporting my identity. That might be a bit too strong of a statement. But there is another guy out there illustrating his heart out, who happens to share my name. I actually see some striking similarities between his style and mine. I found some more of his work at www.joefentonart.com. I thought about contacting him to see if he wants to team up. We could be twice as prolific.

I’m not much of a gamer, but this new game, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, looked pretty gnarly. Michel Gagne is a genius and one of my favorite artists. I think I’ll stick with reading his books for now, but if this game hits the iPhone, I’m all over it.

I’m reminded of 1992 when our neighbor, Boo said “This computer has a ‘modem’! If you put one in your computer, our computers could talk to each other.” This thing’s really caught on, eh! And now I’m officially in.

I’ve also been having a lot of fun exploring my cartography techniques, creating facility maps for LinkedIn. Not only am I a contractor, I’m also a member.

These project have really been testing my technical, vector, crispy clean design skills and approach. But I am steadily laboring to find a convergence of these corporate clear pieces with a more whimsical, personal, illustrative characterization. This year I think I’ll get there, Oh I’ll get there.

I really wanted to publicly thank HOPE worldwide and LinkedIn for being graceful and appreciative companies to work for. THANKS!!

Our little Millie rode the wave into her first birthday. Thanks to all the family and friends that came over last weekend for our rubber duckie fiasco. Millie loved it! It was a riot watching her dig into her first little cake with strawberry frosting in nothing but a diaper. The thing I’m most happy about is that my wife and I were able to keep the little bugger alive for a whole year. And I’m definitely falling more and more in love with her.

I did the card design on a little, spur-of-the-moment Photoshop adventure with an integration of on one of Tim McKenna’s spectacular shots of the legendary Teahupoo break.

Today was my first official Father’s Day! Millie, with the help of Momma, made me some awesome gifts. An edible, Cheerio necklace to keep me energized on my big day and a shirt, made so well, I thought it was store bought. I love my creative little ladies and am feelin’ proud to be a daddy (just like the real guys).

I’m putting them up here a week after the event because I was unable to find reliable wifi all week. Hey, what do you expect from ‘a blog of chance’? But the event was pretty awesome. We met a lot of great educators and a banjo player, while promoting the cause of effective and fun emotional education.

This is also my first test post sent for my iPhone’s WordPress app. Time to get back to sellin’.

Katreen heard the voice again…
This time it told her to write this song for Mother’s Day and submit it to the Ellen show. Our friend Rob had some music that has been playing in his soul since he was a teen. He was kind enough to offer it up for my wife to lay some beautiful lyrics over. Let us know what you think of it.