Justin Johnson's almost daily web-log

Nov 24

Nov 23

We made it into “Volume One”!! … an indie paper from my hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In my opinion, way cool. Those are my PEOPLE. My frozen, delightfully-accented, Green Bay Packers-loving people.

Also, that’s a pretty awesome headline. (thanks to my little bro for sending them the tip)

Nov 22

willw:

adamngoodshot:

FX Guide has an exhaustive look at the visual fx work on District 9, including these great before and after stills from several vfx shots in the film. It also gives insight into director Neill Blomkamp’s style for running a set.

lonelysandwich:

“True Stories from Famous People” on Nickelodeon (1987)

Celebrities used to be so accessible. Above, a veritable who’s who:

Having never had cable as a kid, Nickelodeon was like a sweet forbidden fruit that I could only taste if I made the pilgrimage to a friend’s house. Every second I could get was pure bliss. Seeing this takes me back to just how magical it was whenever I was lucky enough to sneak a couple minutes of programming.

“You’re gonna charge $400 for that? Aren’t you from India? What’re you going to do with $400?!”

(via clientsfromhell)

Best new Tumblr I’ve found in a while. Particularly heartbreaking for anyone who’s had to work freelance before.

nostrich:

So. Original plan: collect some data, make a totally sweet-ass visualization of it, print it, frame it, give it to Heather on our wedding day. Nice, right?

As ever, it didn’t quite work out.

For one: Illustrator is really hard. This looks nothing like it does in my head. Had to make a lot of compromises. Two: I didn’t finish it in time. Partially related to the previous point, partially related to me not having this idea far enough in advance (about 3 days). Three: No privacy while Heather is at home! And she took a day off work during those 3 days! Making my deadline effectively 2 days! Having never even used Illustrator! Without even owning a copy of Illustrator!

So. Yeah.

Regardless, I kind of like how it turned out. I had a much better idea in mind (two, actually) for the timeline portion, but I wasn’t able to get a good enough grasp on Illustrator to make it happen (see point one).

Now I have a year before our first anniversary to get better at Illustrator and make a way better version depicting our first year together.

Click to see it big, by the way.

You best believe he’s not going to forget what day their anniversary is with this kind of attention to detail.

Nov 21

Engagement ring part deux! Returned the original and let her pick one out :)

Nov 20

Ohmygosh, Sam and Elaine, thank you for the cupcakes!!! You can get anything delivered in nyc in an hour, I swear.

Our first big INTERNET NERD SOCIAL EVENT as an engaged couple last night. We’re the album photo, haha!

Nov 19

I did a fun interview with NewTeeVee earlier this afternoon about how the whole proposal went down.

Yes, I was in the room with her at the time, it wasn’t just an “internet-only” thing. Read all the lovey-dovey, dramatic details here. (thanks newteevee!)