Here is my playlist for July 2025.
Dull as dusk, with a skull and crossbones to bring us luck
Waxahatchee. (2024). Crowbar [Song]. On Tigers Blood. Anti- https://music.apple.com/us/song/crowbar/1721222342
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Here is my playlist for June 2025.
Sometimes a pony gets depressed!
Silver Jews. (2005). Sometimes a Pony Gets Depressed [Song]. On Tangled Numbers. Drag City Records https://music.apple.com/us/song/sometimes-a-pony-gets-depressed/78723744
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May ’25 – American Nightmare
Here’s my playlist for May 2025.
Baby it’s making me bitter, harder, fatter, stressed out
Baby your making me bitter, harder, fatter, stressed out
BODEGA. (2022). VanDoers [Song]. On Broken Equipment. What’s Your Rupture? https://music.apple.com/us/album/doers/1591482699?i=1591482713
Here’s my playlist for April 2025.
I just have to clock in and clock out
I’d be myself but I’m not allowed
How do you like it now?
Being Dead. (2024). Van Goes [Song]. On Eels. Bayonet Records. https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/apr-25-flipping-birds-to-every-tesla/pl.u-JPAZEGPtEKjMlA
Playlist Photo by Nikita Nikitenko on Unsplash
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Mar ‘25 – Cheat code
Here’s my playlist for March 2025.
You gotta roll with the punches to get to what is real
Knock down the bastards and show them how it feels
Sloan. (1998). Stand By Me [Song]. On Navy Blues. murderrecords. https://music.apple.com/us/song/stand-by-me-yeah/1600355547
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Feb ’25 – Adjustments
Here’s my playlist for February 2025.
Yeah, time is gonna take so much away
But there’s a way that you can offer time a trade
You gotta do something that you can get smarter at
You gotta do something you might just be a starter at
You better do something that you can get better at
Cause that’s the thing that time will leave you with
Jeffrey Lewis. (2011). Time Trades [Song]. On A Turn in the Dream Songs. Rough Trade Records. https://open.spotify.com/track/21KBEtrQybdzCY2acS1PAu?si=44e76bd486254e01
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Jan ’25 – Coping
I am starting off 2025 by posting my monthly spotify playlists. Here’s one for January.
Don’t worry
You and me won’t be alone no more
Car Seat Headrest. (2011). Sober to Death [Song]. On Twin Fantasy. Self-released. https://open.spotify.com/track/6kOHjAOLz9IvUiRGf72Kec?si=38eb311823b749aa
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3D Text Effect
I wanted to get some Photoshop practice in today, so I followed a tutorial on the Spoon Graphics website to create a custom 3D heavily utilizing the “Transform Again” technique.
Once again, I took the liberty of customizing the font, the content, and the color palette to something relevant to me.
Things I learned from this tutorial:
- Using the “Transform Again” technique in Photoshop
- Simulating shadows by nudging and repeating layer additions using shortcuts in Photoshop
- Manipulating gradients, strokes, and other effects in Photoshop
- Adding a grain texture to reduce the banding effect of the gradient background in Photoshop
I started out with a 3000 pixel wide by 2000 pixel wide canvas, and I used a free font from Google fonts, called Oleo Script.
Here was the final result:
“Take Care of Your Mental Health”.
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Line Art Sticker
In an effort to get back into graphic design work, and start to upskill in a field that I love, I recently took a tutorial on the Spoon Graphics website.
I took the liberty of customizing the graphic to something relevant to me, so I strayed a bit from the exact details of the tutorial. I learned a bit though and I am happy with how the graphic turned out. I decided to have some stickers created from the graphic to share with my family.
Things I learned from this tutorial:
- Manipulating stroke details (like caps) in Illustrator
- Duplicating and reflecting objects in Illustrator
- Using the scissor tool to trim lines in Illustrator
- Transforming lines into waves in Illustrator
- Using the Object > Blend effect in Illustrator
- Using the Type on Path tool in Illustrator
Here was the final result:
“The Breeze” is a cabin at Nickerson Lake in Maine.
Visit my dribbble page to see more of my designs.
Visit my website to see some of my other projects.