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Math Tattoos, Class of 2011 UPDATE!
1Aug2011 - Holy crap, my 2011 calculus roster met my challenge! So here's the final edition of the math tattoo magazine with a big congratulations to those who made it happen. This time, the tattoo didn't have to be Photoshopped!

Math Tattoos, Class of 2011 edition
19Jul2010 - My Class of 2010 calculus students were awesome, but they didn’t win the tattoo challenge. Oh alright, I’ll go ahead and issue the challenge to the upcoming class as well. Let’s begin the hype.

Math Tattoos
25Jan2010 - I don't have any tattoos and never planned to get any. However, I recently promised my AP Calculus AB students that I will get a small math-related tattoo if they perform at or above a specified level on the AP exam. This magazine cover hypes the challenge even further.

Black Silk
25Nov2008 - When a couple of my colleagues were raving over Folgers' new "Black Silk" coffee blend, I decided that would be my adult film name if I ever decide to swing my career in that direction.

The 'Fro Has Got To Go
06Oct2007 - For a United Way fundraiser, I grew my hair out and offered a student the opportunity to cut it. Here's the promotional poster.

Gusher at Lusher
14Dec2006 - Promotional poster hyping the epic feud between English teacher Depp and myself. We tried to convince the students that we were really going to fight on pay-per-view. Video of our final rap battle is posted on other video/art page.

Political Product #4: Condi Floss
02Oct2004 - I generally refrain from teasing peoples' physical characteristics, but I couldn't resist the gaping gorge.

Political Product #3: Rumsfield lotion
01Oct2004 - I don't know the context of the original photo, but Rummy looks like a natural skin care spokesman.

Political Product #2: Cheney Beans
19Sep2004 - If Cheney were a food, what would he be? Here's my response.

Political Product #1: Bush Ketchup
12Sep2004 - During my Lockheed Martin days, a colleague bought a case of "W" Ketchup when some Bush-backers decided this was an effective way to express their anti-Kerry (and Heinz) preference in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election. He proudly displayed a bottle in his cubicle and sold some to like-minded colleagues. I bought a giant bottle of ketchup myself and made my own label.

It's Ya Birfday
02Feb2004 - Belated b-day card to myself. All about me of course.

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Workplace Poster #5: Wrong Tool
22Jun2004 - Ended the series with what turned out to be my favorite. Based on a comment from a product design professor in college. I made most of my models for class with hand tools in my dorm room rather than use the machine shop under the supervision of snooty grad students. Upon seeing one of my less successful models, the professor told me that I was "the master of using the wrong tool for the job."

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Workplace Poster #4: Gruntled
02May2004 - Supposed to be a play on words such as "Disgruntled" that are rendered meaningless without the "Dis" prefix. The original version turned out much more menacing than I intended, so I lightened it up.

Workplace Poster #3: What Else
10Apr2004 - As the angst over my career direction was reaching a climax, I read a book that insinuated that part of the process of finding what one wants to do in life involves defining what one doesn't want to do.

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Workplace Poster #2: Act Now
26Mar2004 - Interest rates for housing were reaching an all time low when I realized the same could be said for my career.

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Workplace Poster #1: Not An Engineer
19Jul2002 - Wanting to practice my Illustrator skills, I made this motivational (?) poster to hang in my cubicle during my waning time at Lockheed Martin. Almost two years later I would continue a series of posters with this theme.

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You Choose The 'Do
27Mar2002 - Other than haircuts, I had never altered the natural style of my hair in any way. Just for fun I hung this poster outside my cubicle in my last program at Lockheed Martin and had colleagues vote on which new style I should get. Honoring their choice, I wore "Checkmate" to work for a few days. In the months to come I tried out a couple of the others too.

Happy Holidays
10Dec2000 - A family card that stars me, me, me, and me. The childhood pics are from approximate ages 4 and 6.

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Xenon
19May2000 - Having learned most of my graphics skills from playing around on my own, I finally took a class for Illustrator. This is a final project for a magazine cover that turned out pretty well.

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Repression
23Jan2000 - Phony fragrance ad. I had just gotten my first digital camera and used this project to enjoy the wonderful luxury of not having to wait to get film developed or worry about wasted pictures.

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Don White Collage
27Dec1999 - Usually I prefer to keep my graphics projects frivilous, but as my grandfather's health was failing I wanted to honor him and my grandmother with this collage.

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Patrick + Lil' Kim
17Dec1999 - I met Patrick through volunteering with Child Advocates of Silicon Valley. He had a major infatuation with rapper Lil' Kim so I presented a framed print of this to him for his 18th birthday, much to his delight. Looking back I'm a little embarrassed by my judgment, but considering that this was one of my earlier Photoshop projects, I'm still impressed with how well I merged the five different photos.

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Season's Greetings
27Nov1999 - My first attempt at an original Photoshopped greeting card. I still remember how painfully slow it was searching for background images over the web using dial-up.

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