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		<title>Winter has arrived</title>
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Took this shot at Long Lake Park on Sunday after the first snow fall of the seaon. 
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2009/12/10/winter-has-arrived/</link>
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		<title>Happy 0th Birthday!</title>
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I&#8217;m proud to announce a new addition to my family. Colin Alan Porter. My 4 year old daughter Allie made a card for the little man. According to her it&#8217;s his birthday, and this is the inside of the card she made. I&#8217;m on the left with her and the baby on the right with a crab [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2009/12/10/happy-0th-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Throw out those old student records</title>
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Here&#8217;s a recent illustration I did that will be used to help a campaign to get college faculty to throw out their old student records.
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2009/10/16/throw-out-those-old-student-records/</link>
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		<title>Share Some Candy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found another great art blog I wanted to share with you. It&#8217;s call Share Some Candy. What is it? Here&#8217;s how they put it:
sharesomecandy is a curated collective of inspiring design finds and art. the content is appropriate for all audiences &#8211; 9-99. criteria for inclusion are finds that are universally inspiring, beautiful and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2009/07/10/share-some-candy/</link>
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		<title>CMR Illustrations</title>
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I was hired to design characters for ChurchManagementReview.com. Here&#8217;s the priest and church executive characters I created for the CMR homepage.
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2009/03/06/cmr-illustrations/</link>
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		<title>Illustration Friday: Celebrate / Lollygaggin 2nd Anniversary</title>
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A very fitting Illustration Friday topic this week. Goes nicely with the image I was already going to post today. I got a 2 for 1 out of it. Today is the 2 year anniversary of Lollygaggin and that&#8217;s certainly reason to celebrate. Or at least good excuse to whip up this illustration.
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2009/02/13/illustration-friday-celebrate-lollygaggin-2nd-anniversary/</link>
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		<title>Academic Technology Innovation Grant &#8211; event poster</title>
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This is something I whipped up for a poster design. It&#8217;s for a Boston College  ATIG recognition luncheon and workshop. The organization encourages faculty to incorporate cutting edge technologies in their teaching.
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2009/01/30/academic-technology-innovation-grant-event-poster/</link>
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		<title>Allie sketch</title>
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Here&#8217;s a guy my 3 yr old daughter, Allie drew a while back. It&#8217;s fun seeing her now stating to draw faces and other objects. I love how she always adds a little tuft of hair on top of each character. You&#8217;ll also notice dots that look like accidents. If I&#8217;m not mistaken according to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2009/01/24/allie-sketch/</link>
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		<title>Season&#8217;s Greetings</title>
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Happy Holidays to you and yerz! This is the design I whipped up for my family&#8217;s xmas card. I was very late with it this year. The cards still need to be filled out and mailed, yikes. I got caught up in other things and was slow to get the design done then we were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/12/16/seasons-greetings-2/</link>
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		<title>chain postcards</title>
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My friends and I were having a little discussion about how we used to send funny homemade postcard to each other when we first went away to college. By the time we graduated email was getting huge and my use of postage stamps really tailed off. At this point it&#8217;s extremely rare that I mail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/11/26/chain-postcars/</link>
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		<title>Jack O&#8217;Lantern</title>
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Happy Halloween. Sorry to of been absent here lately. I&#8217;ll be posting soon with more illustrations. Till then enjoy these shots I took of our jack-o-lanterns. Thought I&#8217;d mess around with some handheld, long exposure shots.
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/11/01/jack-olantern/</link>
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		<title>Comic helping educate French students</title>
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Éditions Nathan, a French publisher contacted me back in February about purchasing the rights to one of my comics to print in an English textbook for 14 year old French students. Well, the book has been published and I got my copy in the mail today. The comic appears on the top of page 33 (seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/08/08/comic-helping-educate-french-students/</link>
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		<title>Photo Op</title>
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This is a snapshot I took Friday morning of the  road across the street from my house. I was about to hop in my car and head out  for work when I saw the sun starting to break thru the haze; So I grabbed the  camera and fired off this shot. 
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/27/photo-op/</link>
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		<title>Illustration Friday &#8211; Canned</title>
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I dusted off an old illustration which seemed fitting for this week&#8217;s IF topic.
 
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/26/illustration-friday-canned/</link>
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		<title>blogshank</title>
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Here&#8217;s a cool comic blog from UK artist Mike Smith. He draws comics about his life on a weekly calendar. Love that idea. I also like his style and sense of humor. I can relate to this weeks comic (seen above).
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/03/blogshank/</link>
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		<title>Ovni</title>
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Pilote OVNI Uploaded by garybaldix

Here&#8217;s a cool Flash animated pilot called Ovni (en. for UFO) from Paris-based Blue Spirit Animation. This is one of a series of 52 five minutes shorts for a French family channel. Found this one thanks to good old CHF. Love the sound effects like the ping pong ball sound when the dinosaurs eye [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/07/02/ovni/</link>
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		<title>D &amp; D Boston II &#8211; Completed Film</title>
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Here&#8217;s the completed film, the theme this time was Carnival. I&#8217;m responsible for the beaver with the silly hat, eating a corn dog.
You can also check out photos of the event here.
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		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/06/23/d-d-boston-ii-completed-film/</link>
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		<title>Drinking and Drawing Boston &#8211; part II</title>
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I participated in the second Drinking and Drawing Boston event last night at Paddy O&#8217;s. Another successful event that brought a lot of  artists together to create an animated film.  This go around we had an added treat, Dave Schlafman, a talented and successful animation director presented his work and held a Q&#38;A.
The film should be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/06/19/drinking-and-drawing-boston-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>10 Best Animated Flash Films</title>
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The good people over at Cold Hard Flash have put together a list of the top ten animated Flash films. They posted the animation along with great background info on the artists. Very inspirational stuff. Good to see some of the classics on there as well as some great films that were new to me.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/06/13/10-best-animated-flash-films/</link>
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		<title>Student Sketches</title>
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These rough sketches are ideas I was sketching out for a university student computer services t-shirt design. The project was tabled before I got too far with it. But I thought I&#8217;d share these drawings anyway. I&#8217;m certainly due for a post here.
Also Drinking and Drawing &#8211; Boston II is coming up this Wednesday, June [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billporterdesign.com/lollygaggin/2008/06/13/student-sketches/</link>
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