Great Grandma is no longer with us.  I made this comic over a year ago, but never posted it.  My sister said it best.

Maria Albani would have been 93 this month. I can’t imagine everything that she saw in her life, in America and in Sicily. She was one of the funniest people I’ve ever known and she loved her family more than anything else in the whole world. I’ll miss you Great Grandma, say Hi to Grandpa Mike for me. I love you.

I love you great grandma.
~Danny

I’ve been taking night classes at the San Francisco Art Institute. This week, some of my work will be on display in the Diego Rivera Gallery!! :)

Diego Rivera Gallery, December 14-December 18

San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
( map )

The work is slightly abstract, which is something I don’t normally like, but somehow I got wrapped up in it :) I’ll *try* to get pictures :)

There’s actually a lot of artists on display, so it should have something for everyone’s taste. And the campus is beautiful, so don’t hesitate to wander around the courtyard or go out to the open area that has a spectacular view of the city.

~Danny

Sorry, when I upgraded my WordPress, it must have disabled registration.  It’s enabled again :)  (thanks for cluing me in Paul!)

~Danny

This is a post made with the wordpress app on the iPhone. If you’re seeing this, that means I can now post (with pictures) from anywhere! :)

SF Sketchcrawl 21 was a bit of an experiment.  Rather than picking a starting and ending location, the start location was optional and the end location was the De Younge Museum in golden gate park.  Actually, at some point it was announced that one of the optional start locations was going to be the ferry building. (?!)  Here’s a map to show you what that would have been like.  4.4 miles.  it would have been a lot of ‘crawl’ and not so much ’sketch’.

So a few of us decided to just go to the De Younge Museum at the beginning of the day and spend all day sketching there, which worked out pretty well.  Here are a few of the more presentable sketches I did.

That last one is just me fooling around with the first sketch.  You should check out all the results from all the other sketchcrawlers on the sketchcrawl forums.  It was a big turnout, about 60 to 80 people. –oh There’s a photo of everyone here.

~Danny

We’re going to a cookie exchange party, so we baked lots of surgar and peanutbutter holiday cookies!

Our Favs are:

• #7: that G-Bread man got hit in the head by a peanut butter cup flining ninja!
• #8: just simple and classic
• #13: cute star!
• #14: She was going for height! be sure to check out #19 :)
• #15: Yeah Baby!
• #19: of course, this one is our top pick :)

I just got this quote at the top of my GMail:

Blaise Pascal – “Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.”

Shouldn’t that be two things that start with T and A?

~Danny

Well, wordpress has a one button import for all my blogspot blogs… very cool.

I just tried on this librio, but it clips a lot of my images…

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/librio

I’ll have to look around for a nice quick theme since I don’t have a lot of time to make my own…

~Danny

About every 2 years I do a site cleansing.  It usually amounts to me saying:

At the same time, it gives me a moment to address usability and accessibility issues.

A few Goals this time around:

• Consolidate: I have 3 blogs, 4 or 5 rss feeds.  I’d like to join all the blogs together under this new wordpress blog and only update 1 location with 1 rss feed.
• Update more often: with wordpress I can update any time from anywhere with a web connection.  Since it’s so easy to update, I’ll update more often.
• Lessons Learned: I’m going to start putting more tutorials and lessons learned on the site because that stuff is useful to me and others.  Also I’m going to start using more desktop recording software.
• OMG I<3Flash: and I’m going to be using more of it (mostly for games).

Lots to do,
~Danny

PS: here’s the previous version of the site, let me know if you have any suggestions.

http://www.dannyburbol.com/main/index.php