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This past Thursday was a lovely snowy day and as the snow was falling I went out to take a few macro shots. My favorite subject was a poinsettia plant out front. Here are two of my favorite shots from the day.

Filed under: design, doodle by ramune

2I have been wanting to resurrect Pilkasiulas with my sister for a while now, but it is difficult when we are in two different places and doing two different things. So we decided to do our own thing for 2008 and at the end of the year we will see how things have gone and perhaps we will collaborate again (maybe with my brother too?). In the meantime I want to set up a shop on Etsy to sell what we have left in the Pilkasiulas “warehouse.” I have been trying to come up with a name and the winner is Rusty Cabbages. Why Rusty Cabbages you ask? Had my grandfather not changed our last name, it would still be Rastapkevi?ius, which to many people sounds like “Rusty Cabbages” . . . hence the name. I sketched out a few ideas for a logo, which are shown below. I am still not entirely sure how I will do the “rusty” part other than making it a rust color. If you have any thoughts on these as I try to develop them, let me know.

Sketch #1a: the veins would be less pronounced than I drew them

Sketch #1b: shapelier version of Sketch #1a

Sketch #2: Cross-section of cabbage

Sketch #3: Like in sketch #1a and b, the veins of the leaves would be less pronounced than I drew them

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There is a blog called Faces in Places that has had me thinking about just that, faces in places. I have been keeping my eye out for a “face” to take a photo of and finally found it. This past Friday I went to my friend’s place and he has one of those fake light-switch fireplaces. I have always thought it would be pretty amusing to be the person to design the fake logs that go into these fireplaces. Whoever designed this one was having a good laugh I am sure. If that is not a big toothy grin with flaming eyes, I don’t know what is.

Box-toothed flaming-eyes fireplace