christmas break

it's christmas break, and i'm off from work for a few days so i'll be posting even less than usual. in my absence, please enjoy the links i've posted to my friends blogs. krystle and jared have horribly untended photoblogs, brendan writes a fairly untended college basketball blog (i designed the header with the philly skyline), mike ford and bushy post bangers that will make you wish you did more/better drugs, and ali does a food blog that will make you sad that she married ben stafford of the philadelphia phantoms/the mighty ducks/yale university/jefferson med school/the us marine corps instead of you.

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Winter Sports Guide 2007

So, my apologies for failing to update, even though no one really reads this anyway. Things got a little away from me the last week and a half or so at work, plus I'm incredibly lazy. I'm going to continue the theme of sports guide covers in honor of Seth leaving The Bulletin, so without further ado, here's the Winter Sports Guide cover of 2007, and another special surprise for the lack of updates.

As usual, Krystle shot the photo for the cover. We were going for something similar to the Fall Sports Guide, since we were tired and lazy and under the gun. There was a lot of pizza that day, as well as a lot of drinking. We actually had a better idea that got vetoed because of time restraints. Maybe I'll clean that one up and post it it for comparison, but probably not until at least the Spring Guide.

Below is the cover (top half above the fold) of the paper from the night before the mayoral primary last May in Philly. For anyone unaware, pretty much whomever wins the democratic nod in the primary is going to win any election in Philadelphia, as it is completely unheard of for a Republican to win this season. If you're confused by this, watch the first half of the 4th season of The Wire and pay attention to the politics of it. Basically the same thing, except our current mayor actually might be worse than that dude.
Picture of City Hall was from Krystle, candidate head shots were from Krystle and Jared.


I might post again later with a return to some fun stuff, but don't hold your breath

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Fall Sports Guide 2007

The Fall Sports Guide was a little sleeker and more well thought out overall, although I was less hands on in it's creation and more of a director conceptually (hey, like what a real art director should be!). It was also published after the addition of the weekend tab section of the paper, where all "special sections" are now regulated. To be honest, I didn't like working in this format overall for sports, but it worked out pretty well for the cover, which is after the jump.


This is probably the 2nd or 3rd draft of this idea, as I ended up having to sacrifice a few issues like spacing and word placement to the fact that the sports boys refused to let me lead off with less popular sports.



That's how it finally appeared in the paper. I'm personally still partial to my placement of the words Fall Sports, but I compromise is king.

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Spring Sports Guide 07

The Winter Sports Guide is upon me, and so I thought it would be appropriate to look back on the Spring Sports Guide. The Spring Sports Guide was actually the second sports guide I was involved in, the first being last winters, although I don't really count last winters as 1) I had just started working and so didn't even know it was happening until the night Seth was doing it, and 2) all I contributed to it was some awful drop shadowing.
The Spring Sports guide 2007 was one of the first things I did at the paper that I was really proud of. I'd been here for about 5 months at the time, and really got the opportunity to stretch my wings creatively and put to use some things I had taught myself. Seth (our sports editor) being on his own for the guide meant that I ended up with a larger hand in it, and together we came up with some really fun things. The Spring Sports Guide ran as a part of the broadsheet for the last time (it now runs as a tabloid sized insert). Following the jump, the cover of the Spring Guide, which ran in late March 2007.



The cover was put together using Quark, although I tried a few different things with varying degrees of success before that. All of the photographs are by Jared Gruenwald and Krystle Marcellus.

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Get Out My Way, Pimpin (part 3)

"I will do shots every time someone gets a strike"
-Ben Logue
Photoshop

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Get Out My Way, Pimpin (part 2)

"I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start."
-Bobby Clarke


stephs dad took this picture

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Get Out My Way, Pimpin (part 1)

“Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions”
-Jerry Falwell

May 15, 2007

Jerry Falwell was found unresponsive by Ron Godwin, Liberty University's executive vice president, around 10:45 am ET. He was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital where "CPR efforts were unsuccessful". As of 2:10 pm ET, during a live press conference, a doctor for the hospital confirmed that Falwell had died of "cardiac arrhythmia, or sudden cardiac death". Godwin had eaten breakfast with Falwell earlier and stated that he seemed "fine, business as usual."

Falwell, a controversial minister, suffered from two health conditions in 2005, and had a history of heart illness. Falwell was a leader of the Christian right and was perhaps most well-known for his controversial claims against "liberals", homosexuals, and Muslims.

photoshop, associated press photo

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