Lines That Make Things

Stephen K. Hayes

2012-02-02T08:40:00.000-08:00

First Knight of Bramble Grove

2011-12-15T10:10:00.000-08:00

Creaky Closet

2011-12-02T06:00:00.000-08:00

Future Painting of Regal Squirrel

2011-11-28T18:19:00.000-08:00

Midnight Clicker

2011-11-23T14:06:00.000-08:00

Noir T

2011-10-15T06:45:00.000-07:00

Boil

2011-10-14T06:30:00.000-07:00

Durf Maul

2011-10-13T06:31:00.000-07:00

Beaky

2011-10-12T08:23:00.001-07:00

Blammo

2011-09-23T13:38:00.000-07:00

Pirata

2011-09-22T17:30:00.000-07:00

Workin' Turk™

2011-06-25T14:27:00.000-07:00

Thinking of

2011-04-06T17:46:00.000-07:00

Naught G

2011-04-04T18:42:00.000-07:00

Bleating Warrior

2011-04-03T18:36:00.000-07:00

Card Carrying Brother

2011-04-02T17:51:00.000-07:00

Random Lettering

2011-04-01T17:31:00.000-07:00

Blarg

2011-03-31T17:26:00.000-07:00

1989

2011-03-30T17:17:00.000-07:00

Yaphet Kotto Week - A-Team Villain

2010-11-18T12:55:00.000-08:00

Eastside Charlie

Thanks to my main home slice Seth over at Lost Video Archive I was invited back once again to participate in a week of great reviews by blogs with one goal in mind, to honor the prolific yet highly underrated actor, Yaphet Kotto. It was a blast participating in Blair Week a few months back and after watching The Chilling numerous times it could only get better right? Right! I got to watch a single A-team episode over and over. "The Out of Towners" guest starring our honoree Yaphet Kotto followed the series' usual formula: assess, build, battle, resolve.

Assess: Local New York business owners are being extorted by Eastside Charlie (Kotto) and his goons. Desperate, the shop keeps call on the help of our favorite fun loving mercs, the A-team. B.A. Baracus cases Charlie's lounge and the boys promptly bust in with Uzis and threats.

Build: After agreeing to meet the following day to handover the stolen cash, the A-Team heads back to the affected businesses' neighborhood and builds a sewer booby trap, Molotov cocktails, and a mobile armor-plated defense station made from an oil drum in case things get hairy.

Battle: Boom, bang, nobody gets shot, A-Team dominates.

Resolve: The Alpha Team takes Eastside Charlie back to his safe to grab the cash and repay the shop owners. Faceman catches a ride from the local female taxi dispatcher.

Below is my tribute piece to the one and only Eastside Charlie, a man whose racket was dismantled by the infamous A-Team.

Monday Nov. 15th
Unflinching Eye - Alien
Raculfright 13's Blogo Trasho - Truck Turner

Tuesday Nov. 16th
Lost Video Archive - Raid on Entebbe
Manchester Morgue - Friday Foster

Wednesday Nov. 17th
Booksteve's Library - Live and Let Die

Thursday Nov. 18th
Mondo 70 - Drum
B Movies and Beyond - The Monkey Hu$tle
Cinema Gonzo - Report to the Commissioner
Friday Nov. 19th
Illogical Contraption - Eye of the Tiger
Ninja Dixon - Across 110th St.
Lines That Make Things - The A Team (TV episode)
Things That Don't Suck - Blue Collar

Saturday Nov. 20th
Breakfast In the Ruins - Bone
Lost Video Archive - The Park Is Mine

HA!

2010-10-23T23:31:00.001-07:00

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 5

2010-10-01T04:00:00.000-07:00

The Unsheathening 3 - Spawn of Sheath

2010-09-27T17:31:00.000-07:00

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 4

2010-09-22T19:22:00.000-07:00

Pasta Surprise

2010-08-11T17:43:00.000-07:00

Kung Fu Grindhouse Poster - August 2010

2010-08-09T19:35:00.000-07:00

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 3

2010-08-09T18:17:00.000-07:00

...Of the 29th Century

2010-06-13T00:15:00.001-07:00

Sonic Cavalry

2010-06-13T00:13:00.000-07:00

FTL

2010-06-13T00:11:00.000-07:00

Bathroom Fan

2010-06-11T15:04:00.000-07:00

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 2

2010-06-10T17:01:00.000-07:00

Night Trap

2010-06-09T16:56:00.000-07:00

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 1

2010-05-19T17:36:00.000-07:00

The Chilling - Various Observations

2010-05-12T00:01:00.000-07:00

In collaboration with a selection of the finest film blogs the infranet has to offer Lines That Make Things is proud to contribute this quality post to Blair Week, a six day extravaganza expounding on the virtues of Linda Blair and her legacy of quality motion pictures. Don't believe me? Check this out...

The illustration below is a fairly acurate translation of a drawing I feverishly scribbled down in my sketchbook while watching The Chilling. It includes some of my favorite quotes and observations. If it all seems random, don't blame me, blame the movie. Be sure to check out Happy Otter for more Chilling content on friday as well as all the other great Blair Week posts listed below.

Our colleagues are bringing fresh Linda related content all week long:

Monday May 10:
Lost Video Archive - Savage Streets
Satan's Hope Chest - Chained Heat and Savage Island

Tuesday:
Camp Movie Camp - Grotesque
The Horror Section - Hell Night.

Wednesday:
Illogical Contraption gets Repossessed
Breakfast In the Ruins - Exorcist II

Thursday:
B Movies and Beyond - Summer of Fear
Camp Movie Camp - Nightforce

Friday:
The Manchester Morgue - Rollerboogie
Happy Otter - The Chilling
Ninja Dixon - The Witchery

Saturday:
Lost Video Archive - Born Innocent
Unflinching Eye wraps it up with a look at Linda's fall from grace.

Toofers

2010-04-24T16:35:00.001-07:00

Derbo

2010-04-20T13:02:00.000-07:00

Kung Fu Grindhouse Poster - April 2010

2010-03-31T17:22:00.000-07:00

Kung Fu Grindhouse Poster - March 2010

2010-03-11T07:26:00.000-08:00

Various Retreatments

2010-03-02T09:35:00.000-08:00

Sho'nuff!!

2010-02-05T14:55:00.000-08:00

RIP VHS Part 2

2010-02-04T16:34:00.000-08:00

Illustration by The Goodkind with additional lettering added by myself.

RIP VHS Part 1

2010-02-02T16:47:00.000-08:00

"The Flamer"

2010-01-28T14:03:00.001-08:00

My friend Rob owns a crappy old Toyota Tercel. It was destined to have spray painted flames on it. I made that happen. After 8 years the fire has faded a bit but the legend lives on. A classy chassis indeed.

Lazer to the face

2010-01-28T13:53:00.000-08:00

M-m-m-magic

2010-01-28T13:48:00.000-08:00

Lizard the Clown

2009-10-18T10:18:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Beware: Wolf

2009-09-03T17:40:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Tree

2009-09-01T17:39:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Strudel

2009-08-30T17:36:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Feather of the Screeching Falcon

2009-08-28T17:33:00.000-07:00

True Story

2009-08-27T18:50:00.000-07:00

I went to visit a fine young lady today in the electronics department. She was holding a DVD that I had my eye on. When I met up with her she proclaimed how bored she was. It was slow at the time and she had a couple hours left until she was off.

“It’s been a crazy day, crazy people.”

“Are any of them still here?”

She glanced over at the DVD section and nodded. The only person over there was a wild haired guy perusing the cases.

“he usually comes in with a helmet”

Like many times before I walked around the department looking at various games and accessories while my lady friend walks and talks with me. I veer towards the wild hair guy. We stop and talk about the latest Screamers sequel. Out of nowhere the wild hair guy proclaims,

“My brother said there was a new format coming out after Blu-ray.”

I look at him and reply with a smile,

“Oh yeah? They gonna call it Pink-ray, or Red-ray maybe?

He stares at me for a second as I wait patiently for any response to my horribly pathetic joke. He glazes over, his body gradually tilts backward. Anchored on his heels and stiff as a board he falls backward past the point of any recovery. His shoulders slap the hard linoleum and the back of his head meets the ground with a dense bouncing thud. Shocked, I stepped toward him to see if he was conscious. He moved, but was silent.

“Are you alright? Did you have a seizure?”

He was dazed but sat up. The back of his head was bloody. A crowed started to gather. Someone brought a chair while another called the paramedics. I helped him up into the chair. He said he was epileptic. A first aid bag was brought out and an instant ice pack was feebly slapped on the ground by a store manager to activate it. I took it from her, squeezed it and it mixed the chemicals with a few shakes. The paramedics showed up shortly after. The manager thanked me and I paid for my DVD and left. I felt bad. I was scared for the guy even though he was relatively okay. He should have worn his helmet. If nothing else I can claim with absolute truth that my jokes are seizure inducing.

Sketchbook - Slumpty Dump

2009-08-26T17:30:00.000-07:00

Letter Cult

2009-08-25T12:29:00.000-07:00

Many thanks goes out to Brian Jaramillo for including my zombie piece in Letter Cult's "The Best of the First Half 2009"

Tons of great lettering is compiled there so be sure to check it out.

Sketchbook - Hamster Burial

2009-08-24T17:25:00.000-07:00

Godfrey Ho is undefeatable

2009-08-18T18:57:00.000-07:00

Pork

2009-08-16T19:11:00.000-07:00

Instrument Shavings

2009-07-24T17:39:00.000-07:00

Poke/Prod

2009-07-18T08:27:00.000-07:00

Sssss

2009-07-05T12:00:00.000-07:00

Butch it up

2009-07-03T12:00:00.000-07:00

Tour of Duty

2009-07-01T17:53:00.000-07:00

Twister

2009-06-19T16:44:00.001-07:00

14th Regiment - "Red Legged Devils"

2009-06-12T19:17:00.000-07:00

I was that kid

2009-05-30T14:51:00.000-07:00

I found this in a box as I was cleaning out my storage closet. I made it when I was 13, thus setting the bar low for the rest of my teenage years.

Is that alien dirt he's basking on or did he make a captain's log? Make it so!

The facial accuracy compared to Patrick Stewart is stunning.

Set Phasers to clay.

The Descent

2009-05-30T14:35:00.000-07:00

An Old Love Letter

2009-05-22T16:42:00.000-07:00

Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night

2009-05-20T20:47:00.000-07:00

Electrocute yourself, Electric Slide! Die, Macarena, die! Be gone, Soulja Boy! There's a new sheriff in town and it's got freaking echolocation! Be the first in the club to tear the guano out of the dance floor with the Bat Flap Boogie!™

Lets take a look...

Life is great

2009-05-20T16:52:00.000-07:00

Gimme an "R"

2009-05-19T18:22:00.000-07:00

There has always been something about the letter "R" that makes it unquestionablely awesome. I think its evolution has much to do with this. From its humble beginings as the mouth shaped Egyptian hieroglyph "ro" representing the consonant sound for "R", to its early Greek middle evolution as an angular "P", the letter "R" slowly takes form and grows a tail as seen in its Roman form. The tail is the defining feature of the "R" and when stacked up against all other roman letters it's as much of a leather wearing rebel as "Z" is. In tribute I've created a portrait of my favorite appendaged character and also it's evolutionary path.

Kung Fu Grindhouse Poster - June 2009

2009-05-19T17:50:00.000-07:00

Kung Fu Grindhouse Poster - May 2009

2009-05-04T16:55:00.000-07:00

Tee

2009-05-02T20:26:00.000-07:00

Professor T

2009-05-02T20:16:00.001-07:00

Pity Him

2009-04-28T20:24:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Does it have hooves?

2009-04-28T17:58:00.000-07:00

Halfback-Title Font

2009-04-27T17:52:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Toofs

2009-04-21T19:48:00.000-07:00

Blarg

2009-04-11T19:40:00.000-07:00

New Mexican Lemon-Lime

2009-04-10T16:41:00.000-07:00

Freedom of Distortion

2009-04-09T16:34:00.000-07:00

Ghoul Breath

2009-04-04T20:05:00.000-07:00

Typography

2009-04-03T09:17:00.001-07:00

I love letters. Most of the projects I undertake carry a certain amount of personal accomplishment when all is said and done. (Self criticism set aside.) Of those projects, Type design is one the most rewarding to me. Designing each letter from scratch, in clean form, to stand out on its own and yet work consistently with the characters surrounding it can be frustrating, but the prospects of the finished product are always exciting. Originality and readability are always the toughest aspects to mesh for me. It seems they like to stand at opposite ends of the room at times. My appreciation for letter design goes back quite a ways and after recently viewing Style Wars again it brought me back to the roots of my interest. It's easy for me to go crazy as I did when I was younger and purposely avoid readability at all costs. After formal education, observation, and practice, typography's changed for me. From an organic wild style to a rigid grid based form the commonalities remain. Every character has its space, every line knows its place. For me there is no other way.

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1999

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Sketchbook - Onions

2009-03-31T19:26:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Cat

2009-03-29T10:33:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Baby Gorgle

2009-03-29T10:15:00.000-07:00

Sketckbook - 2 for $0.99

2009-03-27T18:37:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Poison Tooth

2009-03-27T18:34:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook - Chicken Ferox

2009-03-25T16:22:00.001-07:00

Pretty sure this was inspired by some of the more wacky drawings of Goodkind, albeit more tame.

Sketchbook - It's not a tumor?

2009-03-25T16:13:00.000-07:00

A Slew of Grindhouse Posters

2009-03-24T16:26:00.000-07:00

Seth, Daniel, and I have been putting on a grand display of "drunky shitty cinema" every month at The Sunset for quite a while now. In fact, this next show will mark the 4th Anniversary of Kung Fu Grindhouse in all it's splateriffic fist to the throat glory. Below are some of the more recent posters I have designed for the event.

Above the Law was a fun collaborative design between Seth and Myself.

Horse's Ass

2009-03-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

Freightliner

2009-03-24T11:37:00.000-07:00

1940 Harley ULH

2009-03-24T11:36:00.000-07:00

1946 Ford Super Deluxe Woody Wagon

2009-03-24T10:17:00.000-07:00

From the Vaults - 2003 - Tattoo

2009-03-23T19:29:00.000-07:00

From the Vaults - 2003 - Zombie Series 1

2009-03-23T19:23:00.001-07:00

Poindexter - 48" x 24" Acrylic

From the Vaults - 2003 - Zombie Series 2

2009-03-23T19:22:00.001-07:00

Rot - 48" x 24" Acrylic

From the Vaults - 2003 - Zombie Series 3

2009-03-23T19:11:00.001-07:00

Fulci - 48" x 24" Acrylic

From the Vaults - 1999

2009-03-23T19:07:00.001-07:00

Silk screening project.