Still here in Austin, TX with a quick update. While there are not any official webcomic panels or events, I have managed to meet up with Rob and Kris from Explosm / Cyanide and Happiness who have been great to bum around with. Currently we’re all huddled around a table at a bar working on our respective comics, drinking beers (because that’s how we roll). Seriously, why aren’t more bars conducive to this sort of thing?
Anyway, SXSW has been fun (as you might imagine). Of course the other big news is that the infamous “Beard Shirt” has finally launched, and will be in preorder for a short while at a lower price. MORE INFO HERE »
Since starting up HilariAwesome.com, there are a series of shirts I knew I wanted to do straight away. Kinda like how Pixar planned out their first 5 movies in one big lunch meeting, here is my Wall•E. The best shirt ever. Based on this comic, here is a shirt for people who have beards, love them, or just like awesome shirts.
Speaking of awesome, I cannot take full responsibility for this shirt. Fellow beard enthusiast and amazing illustrator Bryan Prindiville is the hand that actually drew the final product. How amazing is that?
Right now the shirt is in PREORDER, which means that:
It’s cheaper.
It will take a little longer to get it to you.
Ordering it helps me order more.
You are in on the ground floor of awesome.
It helps me afford a better bottle of scotch to “pay” the illustrator.
It’s not often I get sent links to ACTUALLY The System seen in the wild. Still, it happens every once in a while when some die hard Systemics set their minds on it. Here’s 2 quick cases.
First up is from Systemic Corey, who sent this in the other night. That’s a print of The System 347 (unlicensed but I’ll let it go) on the wall of his college design lab. LINK »
Next up from Systemic Scott, showing off his HellVetica shirt (from HilariAwesome.com) in true form: on his scooter. LINK »
Got any pictures of things that look like The System, or ARE IN FACT The System? Send them my way at systemcomic at the gmail dot com!
From Systemic Brian comes this series of columns over at The Slate all about signage and wayfinding. It covers how standards were formed (Interstate vs Clearview even) all the way through Step 5 so far, about exit signs and their varied forms. If you’re at all interested in the design choices that get made with this stuff and what a large undertaking such a key part of our traveling infrastructure is, I definitely suggest you check out all in the 5-part series. Part 6 will be up by the time you guys see this as well, with something about online maps based on the graphic.
Part System in the Wild, part Google is Scary. All interesting stuff! If you like it, check out other videos by The Beast File. I can’t find a web page for this project as a whole, but there’s plenty out there easily Googled. (See what I did there?)
Lost 365 (via Systemic Manima) is an original piece of artwork devoted to Lost every day for a year. This is from Jin’s piece on day 32. Yeah, so far they’re on day 32. LINK »
Thanks to Systemic Justin for posting this one to his Twitter account. It shows the Tokyo Crowsswalk symbol going for a walk. More artsy than funny but the ending is pretty great. For more size / view options, here’s the original website as well as the Vimeo post.
I’ll be down at SXSW Interactive Festival starting Thursday in Austin, TX. Expect many a-tweet from the ol’ Rosscott account while I’m there. I tried to get on some panels and the like, but it looks like I’ll just be chillin’ with my friends and attending panels, seeing what I can see.
How about you? Any Systemics in the Austin, TX area? Whether you’ll be at the festival or not, let me know if you’re around. Drop a line on Twitter or in the comments.
Thanks for those of you who wrote after the post I put up the other day. The emails and other comments have been awesome, and I’m glad to hear from people. I haven’t answered all the emails yet but I will for sure.
How’s it going with the RSS ads? If the stats are right we’re off to a good start making $2.00-$3.00 / day. Doesn’t sound like much I know, but it’s a profit. Combined with a better ad campaign that might actually start to add up. Stay tuned. Feedburner tells me we got 1,700 subscribers to the RSS (or as I like to call it, the RoSS feed). That’s awesome!
Oh and finally, an article popped up on BoingBoing today all about RSS feeds. The article is on posting full-text feeds vs. introduction-only feeds that drive traffic to the site. It’s got links to my main Mann and Daring Fireball, as well as some other interestingness. Read on if you like! LINK.
Last fall a group of CCA architecture students, led by Landscape Architect David Fletcher and Rebar art and design studio shared a meal together at a local taco truck for a class assignment. Our research seminar explored San Francisco’s food and wastesheds. Our premise was that a seemingly simple, familiar food like the taco truck taco could provide visceral insight into the connections between the systems we were exploring.
Turns out it was pretty tough. Big twist, right? Anyway, there was a talk that we already missed, but the chart is still sweet, even at the small size it’s shown. If anyone finds more about the talk let me know. LINK.
