Filter Bags

Here's yet another piece of artwork I came up with last week. I happened to be on a printer where one of the many items that could be ordered are filter bags. Filter bags are rings of plastic or metal, with a long fabric sleeve trailing off from there. They are lightweight, but bulky. Customers tend to order a lot of them at a time. They don't qualify as a time fill usually, because the order quantity is usually under 70 pieces and almost never weigh over 40 pounds. Anything more than about 15 of them take more than one tote, and that requires multi tote forms and finding the remote locations. I understand that this doesn't mean much of anything to most everyone reading this, but suffice it to say that an order of these will generally set you back a cycle or two, and no one likes that.



I drew the "no filter bags" logo on the side of my cup. It looked a little indistinct (and a little like a cup itself, or maybe a weird condom), so I added the text for clarification. My fellow fillers on this printer knew what I meant and were amused. Did it work??? Amazingly, it did... at first. Just after completion, a supervisor came up to me with a new float sheet moving me to the third floor printer for a while!!! One of the fillers on that printer saw my cup and said, "Printer #6, huh???" They know. When I came back to that printer after lunch, however, the first cycle I picked up had a hefty order of filter bags. Curse you, filter bags!!!

Totally Looks Like...

One of the Icanhascheezburger affiliate sites is their look alike site. I've used the builder on there to create these!!!



Hopefully all the links stay where they are, and everyone gets to see these.



The Obama one I put one of the images up in a previous post, but I thought these looked better together!!!

If you enjoy these, please go here and here and vote for 'em!!!

High Lonesome

Seems like I've got just enough time at work these days to occasionally get some kind of art onto my cup!!! Usually during lunch time things slow to where I can do this.

I've got a lot in me these days, it's about time for me to go random....



This design, for whatever reason, I got to thinking I'd put the Carl's Jr. old logo on my cup. I'm not exactly sure when, but at some point around 15 years or so back, their star lost it's boots, burger, drink and face!!! When did Carl's Jr. change their logo??? I don't know that I've ever thought about it before yesterday...

ANyway, after I drew it, the boots on it reminded me of the end of Gaslight Anthem's "High Lonesome", which has been in A rotation for a couple of months for me!!!



So the ambulances came
They took your pulse and packed up your things
And the papers read
Some boys forget what the heart it brings
And the pounding in the street
Was your heart in four four time
And the taste of defeat
Was was never too far from your mind

And Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
I always kinda sorta wished I looked like Elvis
And in my head there's all these classic cars
And outlaw cowboy bands
I always kinda sorta wish I'm someone else

So gravity came
And stole the temple that the schoolboys praised
And the crowd shuffled in
You're getting drinks for the same boys
Who once bought you everything
And the patter on the bar
Was just this one time
The patter on the bar
Was just this one night
Only to get by

And Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
I always kinda sorta wished I looked like Elvis
And in my head there's all these classic cars
And outlaw cowboy bands
I always kinda sorta wish I'm someone else

There were Southern accents
On the radio
As I drove home
And at night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
It's a pretty good song
Maybe you know the rest
Maybe you know the rest

And Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
Always kinda sorta wished I looked like Elvis
And in my head there's all these classic cars
And outlaw cowboy bands
I always kinda sorta wish I'm someone else

When our boots they hit the ground
They made a high and lonesome sound
When our boots they hit the ground
They made a high and lonesome sound
When our boots they hit the ground
They made a high and lonesome sound
When our boots they hit the ground
Down from the clouds
They made a high and lonesome sound


See the Counting Crows & Springsteen influences there??? Thumbs up for Aye!!!

Art Imitates Art Cupdate

Here's an interesting case. At my work, there's several works of art about the place. In the downstairs conference room, there's a large, unique photo art. The sales floor has several of a Warhol series of prints. Almost all of them I have appreciation for.



The first picture here is the newest addition. It's a large format, probably at least 7 x 5 feet, oil. I took the picture with my phone, and it really doesn't do it justice. If you can't make it out, it has blocks with trees going up a street, with a wood roller coaster at the end of it. directly above all this, at the top, is a blimp.



The Friday before a three day weekend made for a slow day, and I got to do some artwork. This was all from memory, and I got a lot of the placement and scale wrong, but I got most all of the elements in there.



However, I've got a lot more isometric effect on my coaster, and you'll probably notice the blimp has the 512 logo on the rear fin.