Important Business Meeting Notes

Just some of the weirder sketches from my notebooks. ...the sort of random stuff I doodle when I am in long, back-to-back meetings.

RallyON! Poster Series

Here is a quick and simple series of posters I just did for RallyON 2012, an event Rally hosts. We are having the reception at the Boulder Theater so these will be placed around the theater, like 11x17 concert posters.  

Proper Utensils

It was never Eve's curiosity that wrought shame upon man. It was religion's imposition ­- a loaded assertion, unfounded and deadly, pressed to the temple with a threat of damnation. It could bear as cruel a fate as could be fathomed. 

But it promised something great, albeit enigmatic. It promised salvation from the symptoms it imposed. It promised enlightenment while stifling wonder and choking curiosity with useless faith. It shackled it's victims to poisonous, self-flagellating ideas that ought to have died long ago. It breathed hate with irrational certainty while bathing in the blood and sweat of its victims, believers and heretics alike.

So the people continued to let it feed on their suffering, unwilling to question their predicament or wonder honestly, fearing that they too might reap the almighty wrath that their own flock imposed with enlightened vengeance. Man became ruled by a tool he had created. The tool could be wielded in many ways, but it worked best to hollow out good men, leaving empty husks which were more easily manipulated and shaped.

Stupid Is

People often say it is important to respect each others beliefs. Nobody is right, and nobody is wrong. Let's all just get along.  Coexist and whatnot.

I am all for coexisting, but this idea that nobody is right and that all beliefs are equal is clearly untrue. Some beliefs are more true than others, and while I think you should have the right to believe whatever you like, that sure as shit doesn't mean I need to respect it. I can criticize you, and you can criticize me. 
If you take that right away, you open the
door to the worst kind of idiocy.

...Like conservative republicans such as Rick Santorum:

“Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that’s OK; contraception is OK. It’s not OK. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”

“We’re the ones who stand for science and technology and using the resources we have to make sure we have a quality of life in this country and maintain a good and stable environment.”

“Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?”

“I think the Democrats are actually worried [Obama] may go to Indonesia and bow to more Muslims.”

The level of blatant hypocrisy and outright ignorance we allow into our politics is disgusting. No matter where one stands politically, I can't imagine how you could justify thinking as primitive and fragmented as this. But here we are.

PIPA and SOPA: Stuff You Should Already Know

If I had more than a dozen unique viewers in a given day, I might consider going dark. That is not the case, so I will just post this video. If you don't get what all the fuss is about, it should clear things up a bit.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.