Archive for May, 2010

It was a great Moustache May, though Molly is happy to be rid of the ’stache. My full set of photos is here, but the surprise I managed to keep the entire month is a series of action shots I took while drawing each day, compiled for your enjoyment:

May 15 was the 27th Worldwide Sketchcrawl. Molly took the kids solo one more morning than usual that week, and I took Smartbus 460 to the Royal Oak Farm Market. Results:

It’s Moustache May, and disparate group of moustache wearers have gathered again at MoustacheMay.com. The official rules are as follows:

You Moustache May:

1. Have / Grow a glorious moustache
2. Post one image per day
3. Participate in frequent shenanigans

You Moustache May NOT:

1. Go more than one week without posting.
2. Detract from your moustache with other overly prominent facial hair.
3. Be mean spirited, vulgar, or socially inappropriate.
4. Photoshop your images. Let’s keep it classy.

In addition to following these rules, I made Moustache May a personal project this year. My brother helped me build a stand that suspends a pane of glass between myself and the camera, and I’ve been creating a drawing each day and photographing the combination of myself and the drawing. My progress through May 16 is below (click to enlarge). Follow the madness and see full size images here.

If you didn’t know, facebook advertisers target their ads to certain demographics based on the information in user’s profiles. So a local restaurant could advertise to you if where you live is part of your profile. That’s why I always get ads for [insert any product or service here] showing women with big boobs (demographic: male, 30 years old).

This set of ads came up in my account today, and it’s a great example of the pros and cons of demographic advertising. Yes, I’m a 30-year-old man, but no, I am not interested in laser hair removal. On the other hand, whoever targeted this moustache t-shirt ad hit me dead on. I’m pretty sure facebook doesn’t know I’m participating in Moustache May. I haven’t even blogged about it yet, and it certainly isn’t part of my demographic info. But I’m not complaining. Great t-shirt.