Flying L

Filed Under: Illustration, Images

A blue bug with yellow outlines sitting on a rock in a black lake with wings and a wind-up key in its back.


2 Comments 06/25/08
Weird Kid with Candy

Filed Under: Illustration


No Comments Yet 06/02/08
MATC Chicago Trip ‘08

Filed Under: Life, Photos, School

Group of Visual Communications Students in front of the metal bean in Chicago

This past thursday was the annual MATC Art Club trip to Chicago. In general the Graphic Design students go, but these past 2 years Emmalee has gotten a group of Visual Communications students to come along.

ViComm students crossing a street - sam looks the most bad ass

This is my third year going on this trip, my first was while I was still in the Graphic Design program, and must have been in Fall ‘03. And now ‘07, and ‘08. This year ended up being the least time spent in The Art Institute of Chicago Museum. At one point while walking around we saw a poster advertising the Field Museum and an exhibit of mythical creatures. When Emmalee saw that she went nuts and decided we should check it out. The day was half over at this point, so most of the rest was used there. Partly looking for Issac, but I won’t get into that.

Bryan Emmalee and Sam

Speaking of looking for someone, I was the doofus who made the busses late to leave this year. The past 2 years they loaded and unloaded in the same spot, this year they had to load in a different spot and I did not catch the notice. I went to where the map said and previous years had gone. I felt so stupid.

vicomm students spelling out vicomm with their bodies

All in all it was a good trip though!

Photo Credits: 1 & 2 - Lucinda, 3 & 4: Emmalee


No Comments Yet 04/07/08
Pocket Watch

Filed Under: Illustration, Images, Life

A gold pocket watch.

Need moar time.


1 Comment 03/28/08
Easter Illustration

Filed Under: Depression, Illustration, Images, Life

A lonely egg sitting near a tree, while a group of other eggs sits off in the distance.

Yay eggs.


1 Comment 03/22/08
View YouTube in H.264 with an Easy Bookmarklet

Filed Under: Images, Internet, Media, Tutorial, video

Rather recently people have figured out some ways to make YouTube display H.246 video on the site. That method is to add “&fmt=18″ to the end of the URL. That works well, but wouldn’t it be better if it could be done with a simple click? For all those who don’t use addons like Greasemonkey or the like, a bookmarklet would be ideal.

Drag the following link up to your bookmarks bar:

YouTube H.264

Click on it when ever you are on a YouTube video page and want some H.264 goodness. Thanks go to Beermatt # for the code.

Update 4.18.08: Wow, the code in the script got eaten by my post, it is now fixed and does actually work.


No Comments Yet 03/19/08
Now with Less Color

Filed Under: Blogging, Images, Internet

Screenshot of the v0.5 of Major Delay. A Wordpress Theme.

That old theme color scheme was not doing it for me. Thus, “Major Delay” is now 0.5. Less blue, more grey. What do you think? I secretly always hated the old blue color-scheme. Then again, I don’t seem to like many things I make. For some reason other peoples stuff is easier for me to feel is good.


No Comments Yet 03/17/08
Dino Car

Filed Under: Illustration, Images

A dinosaur trying to escape a comet in a small car.

I finnaly finished something I started in May of 2006. I stopped working on it at the time because I was not happy with the way it was going. But today I went and played with it some more, and finished it up. Click it to make it bigger! Here is what it started out as.


2 Comments 03/16/08
Look Overhead

Filed Under: Illustration, Images

Overhead Projector ©2008 Bryan Bortz

I can has retro A/V equipment?


2 Comments 03/12/08
Bird Head

Filed Under: Illustration, Images

The head of a bird with a word bubble saying 'quack'

Bird head leads to this!


No Comments Yet 03/11/08