THOMAS QUINN

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April 2013

1 post

March 2013

2 posts

How To Fix Twitter

Anyone who works in a creative field knows that sometimes having complete creative freedom can make your task much harder. Having some restrictions help shape your task, and give you a problem to solve. Twitter’s 140 character restriction works in the same way. By limiting your space, Twitter forces you to choose your words wisely. However, there are a few likely unforeseen issues that the...

February 2013

2 posts

January 2013

3 posts

December 2012

2 posts

Come See Me At The Apple Store

Hey, if you happen to live in Chicago, come see me at the Apple Store in Lincoln Park on January 24th at 7pm. I’m going to be speaking about my work, my transition from being an “artist” to a “designer”, and what that distinction even means anymore. If that doesn’t sound interesting enough and/or you are the kind of person that can’t resist free shit,...

It’s time for the obligatory Best of 2012 list. I’m going to keep it short this year, instead of naming a bunch of records that were “pretty good”, I’ll just list the ones I thought worthy of a best list. For those of you who are Spotify users, I embedded my favorite tracks from each of my favorite albums. MUSIC 1: Divine Fits — A Thing Called Divine Fits Stakes...

November 2012

1 post

October 2012

3 posts

September 2012

2 posts

August 2012

5 posts

I was born in Two Rivers...

I was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, but my family moved to California about 6 months later. Whenever the topic of Two Rivers comes up, it results in a groan from my parents that indicates that it was not necessarily their favorite or the many cities they moved around to over the years. So tonight at dinner, I start telling my parents “Hey, did you happen to know that there is a place in...

I think it’s about time we start setting some spoiler guidelines. We now live our lives without the constraints of actually needing to watch something “live”, and while I enjoy the ability to watch television shows at my own convenience instead of having to make sure I am settled and in front of the television at exactly 7pm on Thursday, it can be very annoying when you are...

July 2012

8 posts

Instead of constantly reblogging, retweeting and Facebook sharing the different articles that have picked up my anamorphic typography post, I figured I’d just collect a few here, mainly just to feel good about myself. Seeing a bunch of these today made me feel like a real “Artist” for the first time since I declared graphic design as my major at RISD 12 years ago. COLOSSAL My...

In 2006, I took a photo of myself every day as I grew a beard. Then I had to shave my beard because I got a new job.

“The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature...”

– Dave Eggers, A Hologram For The King

June 2012

11 posts

People seem to be enjoying the anamorphic typography test I did, so I thought I’d post this crude video I took in the same space that shows the effect coming together a little more clearly. By “crude”, I mean that I just put a tripod on a skateboard and slid it across the room.

I find that the ratio of twitter followers to people you follow on twitter is a direct indicator of your internet-cool-factor (yes, I’m this to a very junior high level). Quantity of followers doesn’t mean anything if people are only following you because you follow them. It breaks down like this: Take the number of followers you have and divide it by the number of people you follow....

“All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.”

– Kurt Vonnegut, in Timequake

January 2012

1 post

December 2011

1 post

Here is my obligatory ‘Best of 2011’ post. Don’t get me wrong, I love making end-of-year lists, but I’m sure you are as sick as I am of seeing every blog on the interwebz making one. Take notice that while my music list is mostly cool/hip/whatever indie bands, I’m not afraid to throw my ongoing favorite Foo Fighters up there, uncool as it may be. Anyway, here we...

October 2011

2 posts

When I was first hearing about the Occupy Wall Street movement I was amused. “Good”, I thought, “Give them some shit for fucking everything up”. It was easy to just get everyone to smirk a little and move on to the next tweet. Then it evolved into Occupy Anywhere-We-Can-Get-Attention-At, with the demand to be taken seriously. Unfortunately, that is where their demands...

August 2011

2 posts

July 2011

1 post

June 2011

1 post

Here is a track from a band I was in back in high...

May 2011

1 post

September 2010

1 post