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Gone Fishing-sort of.
Posted by Harry Campbell at 6:35 pm on July 1st |
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Okay, thought I should fill out the NYT Sunday show here, with Paul and Stephen on the covers of my favorite sections. I was all by my lonesome on the op-ed page. Oh but boy what a space Brian gave me this time. Did the sketch Thursday, got approval and worked a bit towards final. There was no time for different roughs here, Brian pretty much knew what he needed and we had a lot of detail in mind. Went fishing out on the Chesapeake Bay at 4am Friday with my son and some friends, already scheduled, the raced back to my studio to finish by 5pm Friday. There were 8 articles dealing with gas prices etc.
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My boy and the first fish caught |
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What me worry about a deadline in a few hours?
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Big Brown
Posted by Harry Campbell at 10:56 am on June 12th |
The final |
Here's another op-ed piece i did recently. Always happy to drop everything, sit back and have fun with these things. Brain Rea has been great to send so many great assignments over my way in the past few years. Thanks Brian.
This article was on why Big Brown shouldn't win the Triple Crown because of the way stables treat their horses, the money involved, drugs etc. I told Brian that I wasn't sure what we had at the end but that at least it was fun to look at.
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A wet week in Paris
Posted by Harry Campbell at 4:57 pm on April 3rd |
When I'm working by myself for ten hours in the studio I'm always thinking of the next opportunity to escape, terrible work ethic, I know. Drawger doesn't all need to be work related does it? Oh, just got a message from CA that I got a piece in this year, so there it's now work related.
I just got back from a week in Paris with my family. We had to work this into the school break and took a chance knowing that March can be dicey weather wise. It's still Paris though and we stayed in a great neighborhood, very much off the tourist circuit, great market street, great food lifestyle etc. I'll have to postpone my plans for living in Europe for a year as even a week with the dollar so weak is so pretty rough. That coupled with the taxes means no more escape for a while, maybe bike touring, that's cheap. See the link to photos and blog.
http://web.mac.com/harrycampbell1/iWeb/Site%203/Harry%27s%20Site.html
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Op-Ed
Posted by Harry Campbell at 11:34 am on April 1st |
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I was inspired by Edel's recent post of op-ed material so here you go. As always I usually won't turn Brian down unless I'm not around, act of god, something like that. This is from a couple Sundays ago. I never turn Sunday down.
The subject was how extremist Islam keeps coming back stronger and stronger, and how it also kind of steamrolls more moderate islam. I was a tad apprehensive and half joked with Brian about images of Muhammad, not funny and I hope these roughs don't offend. I knew that the islamic symbol wouldn't fly but had to explore. The snake was the final. I had the image in mind of Ben Franklin's "Don't Tread on Me" snake sliced in pieces. I liked the broken sword sort of growing more and more swords but a bit of a hard read perhaps.
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Technically Speaking
Posted by Harry Campbell at 2:22 pm on March 8th |
PC World, Buyers Guide |
I was drawn to Lou Brook's post about doing so many jobs for articles about technology. Lou's work for Sound & Vision shows how these things can and should be illustrated. These articles can be so hard to build a concept around. I suppose there are a few approaches. There's Lou's masterful, second to none, vintage pop Mechanics approach. There are the countless really bad computers with arms etc. I've done that, I know.
I thought I would post a few of my technical article pieces. My approach is usually just a head on assault. Embrace the hardware, the wires, the mechanics. I love getting lost in the detail of these, the wires, the screws etc. I try to keep the concepts subtle and I guess they are sometimes intentionally literal, like looking at a manual for your DVD player. I always found those types of drawings interesting. I'm a map geek too so I guess this all makes sense. These were donefor PC World, Wired, and the WSJournal-respectively.
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For Wired. Building the perfect cell phone. |
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What the Buck?
Posted by Harry Campbell at 2:06 pm on February 7th |
My wasteful lunch |
So I'm riding my bike down to my studio around lunch time doing my part to make one less trip by car, I stop at Starbucks for a light lunch and cup of joe. I only like Starbucks because I know the coffee is always strong, and I loathe watery coffee. After finishing my egg salad sandwich and small (tall) coffee I inquire as to the recycling policy of Starbucks, answer-"we don't"-"really, nothing"-"well sometimes cardboard"
So, into the garbage goes the small plastic sandwich container, paper cup, and plastic lid. The sandwich container actually had a recycling icon on it. I should have stuffed everything in my pannier and recycled at home but it didn't occur to me at the time.
Granted, I was feeling pretty self righteous as I had just yesterday traveled by bike and light rail from Baltimore to Annapolis to attend the bike symposium and meet with my delegates about doing something, anything, to make our communities more pedestrian friendly, and thus more egalitarian. I'm ranting, I know, I'm sending this to the fine people at Starbucks.
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SLOOOOO.O.O.OW
Posted by Harry Campbell at 3:27 pm on February 4th |
My 08 folder probably has like 30 jobs folders in it, crazy busy, ten jobs at a time? no problem. Then all of a sudden I'm nursing just two.
I've been preparing myself for the impending downturn to follow the slowing economy. I've been through it before and I would be a fool to think I am immune this time.
So-I had plenty of time on Friday when our friend Brian at the op-ed called at 1:30 with this piece. Love that kind of deadline.
Honored to be illustrating a commentary written by the esteemed Jimmy Carter-and James Baker 3rd. This was on voter picture I.D. cards, a bipartisan piece.
Well, if next week is slow I'll have more time to get caught up on Drawger.
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