Welcome

Welcome.  You’ve just stumbles upon the blog/portfolio of freelance Graphic Artist/Designer/Illustrator Joel Marchand.  I’m all about the artistically abstract life and I try to bring you the most inspiring/crazy stuff in the art world today.  Stay tuned for all the great goodies that are sure to come your way!

-Joel Marchand-

 

 

 

Contact Info:
E-mail | skycube.media@live.com
Myspace | myspace.com/skycubecreate

New Project!

Hi everybody!  I have finally launched my new project…drum roll please…. Green Bird Apparel!  yup! I am starting an indie apparel company!  So check  it out! Anyway…in the mean time im still deciding just what changes are going to happen within Skycube Studios….so stay tuned! peace!

Studio Blog – Making The Switch

Well today I switched to Ubuntu.  I can honestly say that it was a wise move.  Ubuntu is defiantly an amazing OS.  I’ll let the screen shots speak for themselves!  These are all from my laptop. (Click For Larger Images)

My Full Desktop (Notice the Dock on the bottom, I use Cairo Dock)

The Compact Version That I Use Most (without top bar)

The Alt-Tab Switch Gui (I use this a lot!)

Gimp in Ubuntu (notice the amazing transparency )

Volume and Shutdown Utilities.  (I just love these!)

Overall Ubuntu rocks out!  I definitely suggest it for everybody!

Inspiration – “Snake Oil”

Today’s inspiration is a comic from my friend Nolan Wileman called “Snake Oil.”  He says that all of the comic strips are based off of real life incidents (which I don’t find hard to believe – haha).  This stuff is insane!  Check it out an’ be inspired!

(click the thumbnails for full sized images)

The Lovable, Serpentine Jon-Michael Sherman.

Episode 1: Jon Has Some Relational Turmoil.

Episode 2: Poetry In Motion

Episode 3: The Revelation

Music Of The Week – Until June

This week’s song is “You Do” by Until June.

Retro Style Games – A celebration of Vintage!

Well everybody here we have a great colection of retro games!  It don’t get any better then this!  If you want retro inspiration or just looking for fun the old fashion way then these are for you!  All these games are online for you to play.  Click the Images for links.  Enjoy!

Some good ol’ sonic!

Of course Street Fighter.

And there is no way I could forget Pacman!

Donkey Kong

Legend Of Zelda

Weekly Spotlight – Bittbox.com

Well, I know it’s early for the weekly spotlight….but… I’m at school in my drafting class…and I’m BORED!  So well everyone else catches up I’ll write a post about one of my favorite blogs!   Bittbox.com was probably the very first blog I read.  It’s actually what introduced me to blogging and WordPress.  So thank you Bittbox!  Anyway so this is an amazing blog…Check it out!

Inspiration – Vintage Lunch Boxes

So…I was reading the paper today and there was an article that featured some pictures of vintage lunch boxes.  So that got me in a craze for more “Yummy” Inspiration enjoy!

Wallpaper

Here Ya are…My very first “Skycube” wallpaper…enjoy (hopefully more to come).  Just click on em’ and then right click and click “Save As.”

Web Updates

 

Well everybody, as y’all know the web is constantly changing so I gotta keep up.  I’m happy to announce that my blog is working on both Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 8.  Also, WordPress has added a much requested feature: Sticky posts.  That eliminated my need for a “contact page.”  So for a little info on who I am and how to contact me you can just read the sticky post at the top of the page.  Lets all give a cheer for the innovation of the web!

P.S. If your still using Internet Explorer 6 then just STOP!!!!!!!! for goodness sakes! you can download way better browsers…THAT ACTUALLY WORK!  Lot’s of sites are not supporting IE6 anymore so you better move on with the rest of the web!   Here! I’ll even post links to download better browsers. Firefox | Google Chrome | IE8