I was digging through my old sketch books looking for shitty drawings to post (they will be coming) when I ran across my initial design sketches for this site's current design. Seeing as I plan on rolling out the new site within the next few days, I thought it'd be more timely to post those instead.

An overview of the basic site layout. As you can see, there's not much difference between this sketch and the final product. Somewhere along the line the "about me" box was lost, but the rest is nigh spot on.

This doesn't have any accompanying notes, but I assume that it must be a concept for the gallery pages (they're the only ones with the square grid).

A more detailed version of a blog entry. The social media icons were eventually dropped and the comments counter moved to the bottom. Couldn't rip everything off of Joystiq...

I fought for the longest time with what the site header should be. I'm wondering why I dropped the caricature of myself sporting my signature jellyfish t-shirt.

An idea for a full site theme. Post launch I added the circles to try and curb the gratuitous white space.

Arguably, my designs don't go through a whole lot of iteration on paper; they spend most of their time being refined in my head and again in code. This is not the best way to approach design, but designer is a title I'm trying to leave behind, so I suppose it's okay.

As promised, here are pictures of the swag I purchased over the weekend.

These are the contents of two grab bags I picked up. Nothing terribly interesting, I suppose. And the j-rap CD is just as bad as the cover might lead one to think.

This show is pretty hilarious and not very popular (that I know of), so I was surprised to see this at all.

And this is the purchase that has me seriously questioning my life. As I was unfurling it, I began to realize that I had just doomed myself to a life of perpetual virginity. Either that or I'm going to have to find a very forgiving girlfriend.

Very, very forgiving.

Continuing (and ending) my crazy weekend blitz, my dad and two oldest brothers went on a trek to Six Flags in Dallas. I and a band of coworkers had ventured out in May and I enjoyed myself enough to vow to go again (soon). A few days later while I was Skyping family, my dad was waxing nostalgic about his times at Six Flags. I decided that was reason enough to gather everybody up for a grande trip.

While there, I took about 438 photos (mostly quick sequential images), but here's the best of the bunch:

Our first stop of the day was the "Conquistador". Not terribly fun, in my opinion, but okay.

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I am currently at an undisclosed location in Dallas, Texas on my phone writing this post. I have a few hundred photos from our venture to Six Flags, but you will have to wait until tomorrow for those. Oyasumi!

Another convention has come and gone, again with me feeling that I'm just too old and too male for these kind of outings (and possibly the content around which it focuses). But that's a musing for a future post.

Today we intended to keep things short by just attending the autograph tables. My brother (whom you shall see shortly) was in the longest line of the bunch, along with what were surely a bunch of yaoi fangirls. If you don't know what yaoi is, I'm not going to be the one to teach you. While he was in the line, I decided to be an ass and get autographs from all of the other voice actors in the room, all the while casting him assholish faces.

I'll do a write up about the whole experience and the psychological state it's left me in later in the week, but for now, here's some pictures.

My signed swag

Signatures from Spike Spencer, Caitlin Glass, Jeremy Inman, Chris Cason, and Stephanie Young (not in that order)

Chris, dressed as Okabe Rintarou, aka Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma

Chris and Caitlin Glass (voice of Miria from Baccano