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I could write a lot about Germany’s premier musical export, and maybe some time I will, but for now I’m just playing around with this neat barbed wire / crown of thorns graphic they used for the cover of their digital-only rarities album. They use the stencil-style logo on just about all their promo material and merchandise, which is a shame because the chunkier solid style is clearly superior in my humble opinion, so here’s my effort to chunk it up. I may have chunked it up a little too far in a few places.

I'll be the first to admit that there are engines that drive what I do that are very akin to the things that drive any kind of obsessional behavior. So that obsessiveness is a tool that I use. How does anybody get themselves to do anything besides sit around and smoke cigarettes and drink beer all day? Any way that you can trick yourself into doing anything is valid.

I’m thinking about that Westinghouse sign again.

A friend of mine passed away. We hadn’t seen each other in a long time and I’ve been thinking about why.

Here’s a song by Conor Oberst that I listen to a lot.

It’s about Frank Lloyd Wright, and dreams, and how a dream kept secret in your heart is perfect forever. No one can burn it or break it or tear it down. No one will laugh at you or make you cry or make you feel foolish for hoping.

Never try & never fail. Never love & never lose.

A hidden dream can be embarrassing and the only thing that’s sacred ‘til the end.

DRAW THE ANSEL.TV LOGO IN 10+ STEPS

Stuck in geometry class? Learn to draw the timeless, iconic "A Star" insignia at any scale — on your computer with ease, or on paper in real life with slightly less ease and a few hand tools. Get your compass & straight-edge and let’s roll.

Start with a pentagon.

Connect the pentagon's points to make a star.

Connect the star's outer points & inner corners.

Add 5 points where step 3 overlaps with step 2. Connect these points to make a smaller star, continuing the lines to the larger star's edges.

Add 10 points where step 4 meets step 2. Connect them in 5 pairs.

Draw a circle connecting the rightmost pair around their midpoint.

Draw 5 circles around the midpoints of step 5's pairs with radii extending to the star's nearest outer point.

Add 10 points where step 7 meets step 1. Connect them in 5 pairs.

All the lines are in place to complete the logo. Trace the glyph (A), dot (B), and flower (C).

Color it in and you're done.

Still with me? It’s not over yet. Read more words and experience the + in 10+ on the full page over at ansel.tv.

Hey folks. I’m online once again. I turned 30, an old friend died, and it all really threw off my groove in a big way. After a few weeks of doom & glooming the future is coming back into focus, and it’s time to do some arts & crafts.

I’ve started working part-time at a neighborhood surplus store that any St. Paulite will know, where I’m meeting new pals and consuming a steady diet of cool old stuff. This logo came off an AM/FM radio tuner the size of a family-size cereal box. I’m going to try to keep doing these practice vectors while I devote more time to drawing art-type art — stay tuned for more of that real soon. Onward & upward.

I had to go to court this week.

I used to work at a self-storage rental facility, and as a direct result I was summoned by the state to testify as a witness in a criminal trial. I haven’t gotten another phone call today, so it should be over with, but I really thought it was over with a year and a half ago.

I’m adopting a looser definition of the word “daily” — I probably don’t have it in me to do a one-off every day, but when I do, my rule will be that it must be wrapped up & posted the same day I begin. Like a lot of creative types, I have a problem with starting and shelving.