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Category Archives: Illustration
Reclaiming My Creative Life With Vintage Macs: The Cigar Box Mini Stack
After months of tinkering, I finally built the Murciélago Mini-Stack: a 2010 Mac mini sitting on top of a 2022 M1 Mac mini, all resting on a cigar box. Two Macs, one keyboard, and zero subscriptions. Here’s how I reclaimed my creative life with vintage hardware I already own. Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Illustration, Joe's Garage, Vector Illustration
Tagged 2010 Mac mini, Adobe CS4, Affinity Designer, Apple hardware, cigar box, desktop publishing, IKEA hack, KVM switch, M1 Mac mini, Mac Mini, Mac stack, Murciélago Mini-Stack, no subscription, retro Mac, Snow Leopard, subscription free, vintage computing, vintage Mac
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Friday Five – Number Two Hundred Twenty Three
Two hundred and twenty three in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration, photo manipulation, Photography
Tagged collage, Friday Five, vintage photos
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Friday Five – Number Two Hundred Twenty Two
Two hundred and twenty two in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration, Photography
Tagged collage, Friday Five, vintage photos
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Digital Doodles
I’ve mostly set aside my real world drawing tools as an obsession with old computers has been burning through me since around Halloween. I’m trying to frugally future-proof my family’s digital life by gutting and re-configuring computers that have long … Continue reading
Friday Five – Number Two Hundred Twenty One
Two hundred and twenty one in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration, Photography
Tagged collage, Friday Five, vintage photos
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Friday Five – Number Two Hundred Twenty
Two hundred and twenty in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration, Photography
Tagged bread tabs, collage, Friday Five, vintage photos
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Friday Five – Number Two Hundred Nineteen
Two hundred and nineteen in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration, News, photo manipulation, Photography
Tagged collage, Friday Five, vintage photos, vintage stamps
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The Last of 2025
I figured I would wind up the year with another drawing of the Teenage Beast.
Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged analog, cartoons, comic, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, punk, Sketch, sketchbook, Teenage Beast, USA, Willceau
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