Dept. of Mad Chops:

• Rik Oostenbroek makes some beautiful abstract pieces in Photoshop, and he’s interviewed on PSDTUTS. (Oh, and he’s 18. Man, if you saw what I did in PS at age 18, you’d have me fed to wild dogs.)
• Depthcore pulls together some terrific noirish monochrome illustrations. I especially like Karol Kolodzinski’s piece.

Illustrated misfortune:

• I’ll have the drumstick in this recent Photoshop disaster.
• Certain things about cartoon characters, you’d just really rather not know.

Self-aggrandizement:

• The pixel masters at eBoy featured yours truly among a field of ‘Dobe peeps. Thanks, guys! (Incidentally, this illustration plays ridiculously well with content-aware scaling in PSCS4.)
• At the recent party to celebrate shipping CS4, Photoshop engineer Geoff Scott took a cool shot of me that I turned into a quasi-Hot Rocks-style illustration via the new PS Pixel Bender plug-in. (I used subblue’s Droste Effect filter kernel–a free download.)