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Char Reed Illustration – Helping animals in the gulf

The Ugly Goat — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:39:49 +0000

Char Reed is offering the beautiful artwork above as prints and greeting cards, with 100% of the earnings being donated to these two very worthy charities:

The International Bird Rescue Research Center

The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies

It’s a beautiful artwork and a generous offer of help to where it’s most needed right now.
Please visit Char Reed’s Blog to read more about it, and help spread the word.

How a web design goes straight to hell

The Ugly Goat — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:59:25 +0000

A link worth checking out.
How a web design goes straight to hell

I can related both as a web designer and as an illustrator.

So! A note about this blog

The Ugly Goat — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:35:03 +0000

I have made the decision to change the way this blog works, as you may have noticed from a lack of updates.

Mundane sundries now go to my personal livejournal once again, here at livejournal.

However thoughts on work, art, being a freelancer, misc general interest items and videos of cute animals will be posted here. Oh, here’s one now!

So The Ugly Goat is not dead…just….uh…whatever.
Stay tuned!

You should probably see this

The Ugly Goat — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:29:47 +0000

I’m not ashamed to say I laughed. REALLY hard…

Even the dog thinks it’s tragic. I love that he stands and stares the whole time.

Worth watching

The Ugly Goat — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:34:49 +0000

An artist friend shared this with me (thankyou Lisa!), and it’s worth watching.
It’s a video on TED wondering about how we approach creativity and ‘genius’ but keep our mental health at the same time.

This is a bit fun

The Ugly Goat — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:48:17 +0000

I saw this, nestled amongst overly emotional and dark video clips aimed at angsty teenagers, and found it to be quite cute. And uniquely UNangsty and unboobular for being on a video clips show.

But then I like birds and hate teenagers. Maybe I’m biased.

Happy Happy Happy

The Ugly Goat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:40:43 +0000

I’m feeling kinda depressed today. Unmotivated with my art or work. It probably doesn’t help that I feel very tired…I feel like I’m slogging through thick molasses to get anything done.

That is, I WAS! Until I checked the post box!

This year I took advantage of Deviant Art’s free shipping worldwide offer, and ordered a bunch of little prints to use little gifts, gift tags, cards etc for people this Christmas. Had I had more money, I would’ve ordered much larger ones, but at least I got SOME, even if they are small.

And, since I was ordering and it was so cheap without paying shipping, I got a couple for me. My favourite being from artist Ravenari!

I’d have taken photos of the other things I ordered, but since they’re not all for me and some are going as gifts to people, I can’t or it’d spoil the surprise.

The above are poor quality pictures (really, my camera is dieing), but I’m VERY impressed with the quality of the prints from Deviant Art. To be honest, I was expecting slightly dodgy, but the colours are good, it’s crisp, it’s Kodak paper – all in all, a lot better than I was expecting.

So now I’m happy, and am going to go about hanging some of these up near my work space as inspiration.

A Vintage Ad Friday DOUBLE WHAMMY

The Ugly Goat — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:55:26 +0000

Boosts personality!

Writing too small to read?

“How soon it too soon?
Not soon enough. Laboratory tests over the last few years have proven that babies who start drinking soda during that early formative period have a much higher chance of gaining acceptance and “fitting in” during those awkward pre-teen and teen years. So, do yourself a favor. Do your child a favor. Start them on a strict regiment of sodas and other sugary carbonated beverages right now, for a lifetime of guaranteed happiness”

I love that there is a Soda Pop Board of America.

Also, I love that they did lab tests over the last several years.

That’s swell. Now I know it’s true. But I do have a couple of questions, if I may: firstly…you raised babies in a lab, giving them ‘sugary carbonated’ drinks? Well done on your commitment to science. But how does one raise a sugar filled baby to a well adjusted teenager (yes, they breed well adjusted teenagers in labs) in a ‘few years’?
Genius, I assume. And the miracle of science.

I know I’m sold. I’m even going to give soda to the cat!

And for those of you reading this who WERE raised on soda from an early age, it does say “Start them on a strict regiment of sodas and other sugary carbonated beverages right now, for a lifetime of guaranteed happiness“.

So if you feel this written guarantee falls short, print this image and go see a lawyer.
Then email me and let me know how you go.

Welcome to Wrongsville, population you.

The Ugly Goat — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:47:04 +0000

Another actual vintage ad I found online.
I have to admit I was gobsmacked by this one…

Yep, you’re going to prison now.

I’m Afraid of Americans

The Ugly Goat — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:01:18 +0000

I think the marriage of David Bowie’s unusual voice (it always sounds slightly broken to me) to the distinctive sound of Nine Inch Nails is just perfect.
It’s a shame there isn’t more David Bowie/Nine Inch Nails music about. I know there’s some, but not nearly enough, especially when most of what I find is not so great live recordings.