Author Archives: Eric

Ode to Coffee

Ode to Coffee

Just a quick/dirty sketch while sitting on the couch. Not sure why, but I keep getting a craving for coffee right around 10 PM… this may be getting out of control.

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Convert subtitles .SRT files into other formats

I’ve been messing around lately with various HTML5 demos (like popcorn.js) which add interactivity to online audio and video. One great example of these is Happyworm’s Hyperaudio, which uses the transcript of an audio file to link to time in the audio, and various other Read more

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Giant Squid Wallpaper

Giant Squid Wallpaper

This is an old ink + watercolors + photoshop image I made quite some time ago. Still one of my favorites… in fact, I think this is the only drawing or illustration I’ve done, that ever made any money. Some anonymous soul actually bought a Read more

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Access a custom PHP page, without getting the WordPress 404 Page Not Found

Not exactly rocket science, here, but I thought I’d post this, which was a little something that took me WAY to long to figure out today. Basically, I had a custom script in a subdirectory of a wordpress intsall which needed to be accessed in Read more

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Learning to paint with arcylics could be one hobby too many.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

One of my new year’s resolutions this year was to sit down and practice painting. The idea was to make, at least 12 paintings in 2012. (I don’t know why, but everything seems like a good idea when numbers match up like that, 12 in Read more

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Siri predicts the end of the world

Siri will 2012 be the end of the world?

Had a pretty good New Year’s Eve, last night. Not great… but good. Either way I’m looking forward to all the “end of the world” topics in 2012, which anyone who’s been paying attention to the GOP presidential race knows, there will be a lot Read more

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Creating a simple “Apple style” button with CSS rounded corners and drop shadow

CSS3 has several easy properties that are making life much easier for designers. In the past, to apply some of these simple styles to an element, required nested divs, multiple background images, and/or some other javascript trickery. I remember working on a Drupal website some Read more

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If North Korea had the Internet…

North Koreans on Twitter

I drew this picture a while ago, but decided to post this as there’s a bunch of news out today on the “Dear Leader’s” 3-day funeral tour. There’s also (of course) a lot twitter noise. Its kind of hilarious watching a supposedly solemn communist funeral, Read more

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Welcome to Graphic Silence

Welcome to Graphic Silence

Welcome to the Graphic Silence Blog! I’ve decided to set this blog up this year to finally showcase some of  my silly little projects in one central repository (or tomb.) Of course… I can’t promise any coherence to the content. I plan on posting some Read more

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