Jamie's Blog

For a friend’s birthday in 2004, we made him Magic the Gathering cards. I got a lot of help from an online forum, misetings.com, which I think became misetings.net and now http://forums.goodgamery.com/. I made an entry back in 2004 about the birthday, and recently updated the link to the cards. The trickiest thing was finding a good template (and modifying it) and spending time to edit some of the more complicated pictures. The flavor text and card abilities were really fun to write.

For our nephew’s 1 year birthday celebration, I worked on an image that would emulate a famous baby-food maker’s logo. We printed the image onto a mug using CafePress, a popular custom vendor, which will print your images on just about anything.

Here are the results:

For Candy’s birthday, I created a vector image in Illustrator by tracing a photograph and modifying her pose a bit. Then, I cut out the image and made a pop-up birthday card.

This image was printed and cutout to create a pop-up card.

Candy Image Original File

This birthday card template features radial text around a portrait of June. This was done in illustrator. The font used was lost at the time the image was generated, hence the collapsed radial text.

Birthday card template

June Birthday Card Template (PDF)

One of my first vector drawings. It’s of my wife, Lisa.

Lisa Vector Profile

For my friend Peter’s birthday, I created a calendar using our friends as models. The introduction page is a trace of a Precious Moments statuette.  The other pages are traced from pictures of friends with random backgrounds and stylistic choices.

Sample pages from the calendar follow. These were done completely in Adobe Illustrator.

Happy Birthday to PetezMaru.

Peter’s 2004 Birthday Calendar

Lorangen and I recently submitted logo designs for http://www.gaginang.org . This is hers:

And here is mine, it is a rip-off of Lorangen’s (since I suck at design Ko would be disappointed]):

Congrats and props to evyphang who I believe placed high in the vote.

Originally, these were done in color with Illustrator. Unfortunately, I don’t have the originals. These were scanned with a black and white copier. These images were created for flyers and shirts.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BabaGoO!

An excerpt from Yankang’s autobiography: “My mother always wanted a panda. When she didn’t get one, she was upset…so she dressed me as a panda till I was five…”

Yang in Panda Suit

Tell me, does htis look like he’s in a panda suit or that he’s getting eaten by a panda?

Currently Playing:
Phantom of the Opera – Sarah Brightman
Asiankissez stole my song.. so i am now playing Watch Out Now – Beatnuts
AsianKissez didn’t like that song either so here’s a song from My Sassy Girl, a Korean film.

Is there any doubt that Andrew Lloyd Weber is the shit?