Pixel Recess

Our very special Monday guest is Ryan Essmaker , the mind behind The Great Disconnect, sorry, The Great Connect Four, sorry, The Great Discontent , a blog about depressed and unhappy creative people. Ryan also works at Crush + Lovely , where he probably makes wine. When Ryan isn't canoeing around the streets of lower Manhattan dressed as a viking, he can be found in a top secret location creating...

On Today's special live edition of the show I welcome fellow Cincinnatian Chris Glass . When Chris isn't busy making various goods from fire and wine , you might find his beard performing magic or attempting to find the perfectly fitting bathrobe. ‍ In his spare time Chris is a high security designineer for The President and the gatekeeper to Aaron Draplin. Chris is tall, carries a camera so that...

If you've ever wondered how weird and crazy this show could get, then you'll love today's episode with Austin treasure hunter Dave Rupert . Dave is best known for having the first successful animatronic beard transplant and for creating nearly lifelike portraits purely from CSS code.   When Dave isn't practicing foreign accents, he can be found writing code while wearing gloves at Paravel in Austi...

On today's very special Friday edition we have the man of the sea Jay Fanelli . You might know Jay for his work making gold encrusted t-shirts with United Pixel Workers , making design things at Full Stop Intercreative Things and doing voice-over work for trampolines and broccoli.   When Jay isn't weaving and sowing, he spends his time in the City of Pitts collecting drumsticks and donating used c...

There's no need to introduce our guest today because I don't feel like it. Regardless, he's Gergory Storey , a beardless Eskimo who came to America on the back of a whale looking for gold in California but became best known for wearing Jeffery Zeldman's blue beanie on the first Thursday and third Monday of every other month. Greg is also known for eating steak, wearing snowshoes, building igloo's,...

Today's guest is Kyle Steed , best known for his work with the photo iPhone application program Over where he makes hand-drawn typewriters. Kyle is also known for his illustrations of cereal and pizza. Kyle is a tall man with a hat who enjoys juggling on his unicycle and watching Tom Cruise films. Today's episodes is not sponsored by Frito's or John Deere.

Josh Long is best known for the fictional story about his time as an executioner (of ideas) and his ability to teleport &mdash allowing him do tackel an inhuman number of side projects . In his spare time Josh creates bonsai trees, spends hours marveling at the majesty of horses, is a master treehouse architecture or something and also mentors future hobos. As a southern gentleman Josh is requ...

On today's show thing I welcome the lady Krystyn Heide , better known as Nicki Clyne's best friend or as SquareGirl™ on Twitter. Krystyn is a Designer at SquareSpace , just recently ended a long term affair with Papyrus. In her free time she designs websites for spas and lesbian coffeehouses. While Krystyn might only (approximately) 2,300 followers on Twitter, she does follow just 136 people there...

Today's Pixel Recess has guest Yaron Schoen also known as Ron Stone. Ron is best known for creating Twitter and killing people with design while serving in the Israeli Army. Yaron currently works at home, naked, while wearing just a yarmulke. He also probably makes an app and website and eats McDonald's while watching reruns of Murder She Wrote.

Noah Stokes , perhaps better known by his birth name Mother Futon, is the founder and partner at Bold , where he creates "vintage" websites made out of balsa wood or something. Sadly Noah had no involvement in LOST, but does live in California (almost near Hollywood) and has long hair like a 80s metal god.

Adam Clark is the host of the podcast The Gently Mad and is also a designeper at Bottlerocket Creative . I was once on his podcast , and I was amazing. Adam is a thoughtful and analytical man, with the quiet rage of a seagull. He also has a beard and the mouth of a sailor.

Phil Coffman is better known for his huge failure, Method & Craft — a site, which aside from once being awesome, taught people how to craft things with a method and cure cancer and save lives. Phil currently is a partner (but not pardner, get it? GET IT?) at Element Creative in Austin TX where he might get drunk. Phil is also a hipster by requirement of city ordinance.