Creativity and current work

I'm starting work on some new projects. Mostly all design work, some CD art, and some commercial stuff, as well as artwork for one of my musical projects upcoming live recording. Can't really talk about it a whole lot right now, but it's going to be pretty sick I hope. My lovely wife has been more than muse in the creativity; more like i'm the muse and she's the creativity. Colleen came up with the album title, and the whole concept for the design. She pretty much see's the whole thing in her head, so i'm hoping to be able to fulfill her creativity in the design. It should be fairly easy because she is fantastic at telling me what she wants designwise, she is learning to just lay it out herself in illustrator, and she's already fairly proficient in photoshop (my wife is freakin brilliant!) so i'm looking forward to doing a lot deeper team work, and splitting projects up between us. She's so much fun to work with.

I feel so blessed with all the stuff going on. We're waiting anxiously to see our wedding pictures. They should be up soon, and everyone can go check them out. In the meantime, our friend courtney wilkerson took some snapshots at the wedding. She's a great upcoming photographer, and has a fantastic eye! Check out the unedited snapshots she took here.
Thomas and Colleen's wedding snapshots, courtesy of courtney wilkerson photography
Also we just got the wedding slideshow up....and wow! Check it!!

Here are some of the designs that i've been working on lately....
View Full SizeMDA Toast to life benefit program cover. This is the one they chose to use.


View Full Size (a good idea, lots of eye candy)Wow, i should call this psychosis, but it's the inside of a hardcore band's CD artwork. I preferred a different version, but well....i can't find it so I guess we'll just have to do some looking?

So obviously i couldn't find it, but there are lots of other projects worth looking at. We took some cool pictures recently and i figure those will be something worth looking at, since i don't want to just dump this post with no other eye candy. so .....

This is a tattoo that i designed for my brother Chase, the first is the illustrated file, the second is a mock up of what it would look like.

This is a freakin sweet picture that we took at the refuge the other night. My lovely wife cropped it and did some quick adjustments on it. She's pretty brilliant:)

So this picture has a freakin hilarious story behind it! We were driving down the street across from Avondale Elementary School, and Colleen said "That is awesome, the lamp is hanging in the tree." So sure enough there was a lamp hanging in this tree. So we stopped to take a picture. Here I am standing 2 feet off the street shooting pictures. This redneck-tastic guy comes out of the house and starts yelling at me; "Get the f**k out of my G*d da#m yard!" So i start to appologize and explain that i just liked the lamp in the tree and was taking a picture of it. To which he replied (without hearing hardly a word that i said, "Take it then! Take the F*%^#ing lamp, just get the f*$k out of my F#$%ing yard". So again i started to explain, but stopped short when i realized that his IQ was lower than my aperture setting on the camera...hehe, and just got in the car and left. Funny enough, we're going to use the lamp in some CD artwork for Marcus Dawes. I think i'll mail him a copy with a thank you note...hehe.

Just FYI, this post has been edited over the course of 2 weeks...i'm really bad about getting this stuff done. But that is part of my resolution for the new married life. Be more regular with this stuff.