September 2010
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TransformManager for AS3
Working on a recent Flash/ActionScript 3 project, I got a chance to use an amazing library by GreenSock (the makers of arguably the best tweening engines, TweenLite and TweenMax) called TransformManager. As the name implies, TransformManager is an incredibly easy way to interactively move, scale, skew, and rotate DisplayObjects in ActionScript 3.
For me, the coolest part of TransformManager is...
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Gridulator
Here’s another useful little diddy for you web dudez. If you’re like me, you like to start off laying out a new web project with some sort of grid (if you aren’t like me, you really should, it makes things a lot easier), you know how annoying it can be to do all the math and what not when setting up your document.
Gridulator has your back. You just plug in the width of your...
August 2010
22 posts
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Placehold.it
Yardley showed me this the other day and I thought it was worth sharing. Have you ever been trying to mock up a website real quick and needed a bunch of placeholder images? Well, Placehold.it is exactly what you should be using!
Basically you give it a URL like http://placehold.it/350x150 and then it magically gives you an image with the dimensions you supplied in the URL. “Holy...
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Marky's Package!
Thanks to my homeboy Marky over at Glamour Kills for sending over some samples of a couple shirts I recently did for them. Pumped at how great these turned out and can’t wait to see some new ones.
These guys are doing big things. If you haven’t already hit up their store and buy some junk!
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...I still love you!
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Axe Tutorials
Last year i did a handful of video tutorials on various parts of my illustration and design process. I figured I’d go ahead and repost here so they dont get lost in some internet black hole somewhere. Im hoping there’s a few people out there that can still get some use out of these. Sorry in the advance for my nasally voice and palsy-like cursor movements.
If anyone has any...
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Inside the Axers Studio with Polar Bear Club
Hi and welcome to another edition of Inside the Axers Studio. We recently conducted an interview with Polar Bear Club to see what was up in their world and to also release this beautiful poster we just got in our store!
Click “Read More” for the interview and get the poster here
Do you feel like the visual representation of your band is something you put a lot of thought and...
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ANTI-Canadian-American-FLAG
Check out this new Anti-Flag tour admat I did for their Canadian/American tour they’re doing in Sept. So grow a mohawk or something and show your parents you don’t care.
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Imperial Wolf Leather
Check out this awesome step-by-step process of how Seth from Imperial Wolf Leather creates his leather masterpieces. This guy has awesome natural talent for hard leather goods.
CLICK HERE to check it out
He also made my girlfriend a wallet that I designed and it turned out awesome! He actually used the two elephants from my design for this step-by-step process that I showed above. Here’s...
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Sencha Touch - HTML5 Mobile App Framework
I was browsing the webz and just stumbled across this and thought it looked pretty cool. According to their site, “Sencha Touch is the world’s first app framework built specifically to leverage HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript for the highest level of power, flexibility, and optimization.”
What does this mean for you developers? Basically you can use their framework to build...
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It's that time of year again!
Many of us here at the axe are giganto huge fans of Shipyard Pumpkinhead. It’s like the official signal of the start of the best time of the year. First Pumpkinhead comes out, then the NBA starts back up, then Halloween, My Birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and finally New Years. AMAZING!
I don’t know what rock I’ve been living under, but I just found out that they make a...
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Best Friends Day 9
Best Friends Day 9 in Richmond, VA is coming up soon and I was lucky enough to help out with some of the art. Barf (James Callahan from RVA) and I got to collaborate on it. I did the main image and he did all of the small guys. It was fun trading it back and forth and he’s a rad and easy guy to work with. He also does amazing work too, obviously. Last year 3 of my bands played and it was...
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The Axe on The Book
We finally went and got ourselves a proper facebook page. There is absolutely nothing there yet, but go and be fan and write stuff so it looks like we’ve been there for years.
UPDATE: we got a real URL for it! http://www.facebook.com/theblackaxe
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Welcome to the new(er) blog!
So this is our new blog. Many of you may not even notice the difference, but trust me, it’s new. What’s the difference? I’m glad you asked! At the bottom of each article will be a little picture of which one of us wrote it. Super helpful, I know. If you want to know which one of us that is a little picture of, look over there —-> and you can see a list of all of us.
We...
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Fearless Friends Tour
Tour poster I did for Fearless Record’s first ever label tour in 17 years.
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The Black Axe on Behance
We just put The Axe up on Behance. We still have ton more stuff to upload on there, but you get the idea. Check it out http://www.behance.net/theblackaxe
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The Smallest of Features
We just added the littlest of features to our website. Now you can tell your twitter and facebook friends that you like projects on our site with the little buttons at the bottom of each project.
also…earth sucks
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New Deal Stuff
I just posted 5 designs I did at The Axe over the last few months on my blog. Here’s a couple
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Fest 9 Volunteer Shirt
Check out the volunteer shirt I did for the Fest 9 in Gainesville this year. Only volunteers are allowed to have this shirt so if you want it and you’re not a volunteer then be prepared to fight for it or do some strange sexual favors.
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The New Black Axe Site Is Go!
This post is for the few of you who got to this blog not from our actual site. We have a brand new portfolio site! Go check it out and tell all of your friends and be all happy about it and junk! http://www.theblackaxe.com
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Bean Boy
Posted a shirt up for some lovings on emptees.com
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No Friends Video
New video for No Friends’s Traditional Failures featuring our very own Richard on the bongos.
No Friends - Traditional Failures from Jason Shevchuk on Vimeo.
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PBC on Emptees
I just posted this Polar Bear Club shirt on Emptees the other day. I’m pretty excited how it turned out and it’s for sale on Adeline Records. So go on and check it out! CLICK HERE to seeeeee!!!! See if you can find the Taco Bell reference in it!
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New Flatliners 7" Coming Soon on Fat Wreck
July 2010
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The Fest 9 Site is Go!
We launched the new site for Fest 9 yesterday. GET PSYCHED! We built the whole thing over from scratch this year including a completely custom CMS to run the blog, band profiles, music players, and everything else on the site. Go check it out
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This is the first post
This is our new blog…