LLOG BLOG #22: Lucky 22, BABY! Clowning Around Town. / January 18, 2017 by Matt Everett

If you are looking for GREAT CONTENT, but also want to find INFORMATIVE ENTERTAINMENT, you are in a real CATCH 22...

Unless you get your ass to the LLOG BLOG! YES! You have landed in the right place.

If you have a job and are at work this week, we encourage you to take a break during the day and do some WORK DRAWINGS!

Let's take a look at what was done this week:

Thanks for the send-in, Dave Loggrave from the LMI: Orlando: Accounting Dept. And HEY, GET BACK TO WORK.*

*Just kidding, Dave. You are doing a great job. But please... PLEASE, stop tucking your sweat shirt into your sweat pants in public:

Moving on, Here are some CLOWN LOGS from our LMI:Sacramento,CA: Creative Commentary Dept:

WOW! Nice work! We liked it so much, the Board voted to hand this project over to the EXPERTS at the LMI:TAMPA,FL: Clown Log Research and Development Laboratories! Let's see what they pumped out in the last 24...

WOW! More IS better!

They are really laying the ground work for some SERIOUS CLOWN LOGGING out there in Tampa Bay. Keep up the good work, Clown Loggers!

By the way, This was handed to us today in the street:

Consider us warned. Thanks.

Finally, This week our LMI:Hartford,CT: Investigative Research Division purchased new LED-lighted MAGNIFYING GLASSES for all department employees:

Like LOGMAN INDUSTRIES on all the stuff ( @logmanindustries = Instagram; @logmanstudio = Twitter...) And as usual...

HAVE A LOGGY WEEK.*

*We are contractually obligated to say this.

LLOG BLOG #21: What the Frick? / January 12, 2017 by Matt Everett

Yes! January is the BEST MONTH for LLOG BLOGs! The last couple of Llog Blogs have been good... but like Viper (Tom Skarritt), "we'll make (them) better."

First, you might have missed this in this week's Instagram posts (@logmanindustries):

Well, now you DIDN'T miss it!

How about this one:

Meeting Notes: LMI: Portland, OR Offices

So many meetings, so little time.

Oh WOW! Speaking of that, LMI: Chicago, IL: Large Object Carrying Dept would like to recognize the LMI EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK!

Congrats, Cookie! Good job and don't let the bastards grind you down!

Next up: Reader's mail:

Thanks to reader's Wyatt and Liam from Denver, CO for the GREAT send-ins! We are still reviewing applications, but may have openings at our LMI: Denver, CO: Trees&Hearts Dept very soon and will be in contact then.*

*Please ask your dad to stop calling.

Meanwhile: this scribble was found in a work van in Seattle, WA recently. Photo'd and sent in by loyal Logmanian Tootles McDonalds:

Thanks, Tootles! (LMI doesn't know how this relates, but his dad is a major sponsor, so we are required to publish his send-ins.)

Speaking of thanks, We would like to thank everyone for everything.

GREAT! Let's take a sneak peak into the studios of the LMI:Roanoke, VA: Creative Arts and Beyond Dept :

Dinosaurs.  Yeah, we can do that. — Dinosaurs. Yeah, we can do that.

We will have to see where this output will fit into the Logman Industries product line(s). Rough outlines already sent to our LMI: NYC: Content and Context Division and LMI: Paris, FR: La Contente Departmentee.

Good luck, ye crazy Virginians!

Last item of business for this week:

...If you get the fucking Sunday newspaper delivered to your house every weekend and you live next door to somebody, please for the love of all that is fucking good on this planet, either pick it up and read it, or pick it up and recycle it.

And THAT's... one to grow on!

Like and follow Logman Industries on all the shit and please, please HAVE A LOGGY DAY.*

*We AREN't actually contractually obligated to say this.**

**OMG!  Just kidding LMI: Legal Dept!  Yes, we ARE contractually obligated to say this! — **OMG! Just kidding LMI: Legal Dept! Yes, we ARE contractually obligated to say this!

LLOG BLOG #20: Learning to Draw with Matthew Logman: the Journey / January 4, 2017 by Matt Everett

Happy New Years from Logman Industries!

Well, you requested it... so here it is! Logman Industries is going to TEACH YOU HOW TO DRAW this week! YES!

"First I'll teach you to use this..." (tap finger on his noggin.)

"...Then I'll teach you to use *this.*" (point to sword.)

Unlike William Wallace's weird uncle, we're not going to teach you to use either of those. LMI is going to start with the basics and help you to become a PROFESSIONAL DRAWER in no time at all.

First, check out this pic we found of....

...Crappy Braveheart. LMI:Kansas City: Facts Dept checked the facts on this one... this model actually did play bass for the band "Trixter."

Anyway, Let's get into it. Wherever you are, grab these things...

Okay, now make some marks for a grid and draw a square with your pencil. This is important to keep things in the proper ratio as we move you through this process.

Now grab your pen and start drawing a circle-loop-type line thing.

You are getting it now... let's skip ahead to the side branch thingy...

If you use your left hand, we recommend you do the left side first.

Good Job! Next, work on the two eyes...

Be careful not to accidentally draw three (3) eyes. That is embarrassing.

However, if you do, just measure over and scribble that thing out!

Let's check back in with the left-handed cam:

Moving things along... Draw the mouth, tongue (optional), skinny legs and feet (2-3), then let's get to the most challenging part... step by step:

Okay, almost finished and you are probably doing GREAT! *HEY! If yours doesn't look like a PRO LOGMAN INDUSTRIES DRAWING right away, don't worry! Keep practicing...

Onward:Finish it off with your own expressive flare...

Maybe some expressive lightning bolts...

Once you finish, scan and send your drawing to info@logmanindustries.com! We stamp and LOGMAN APPROVE almost 125% of the drawings we get every year!

Okay, put the pen and pencil and ruler down. Go take a nap. You are exhausted.

Leave the production to us. LMI doesn't get tired. LMI does not sleep. It just keeps PRODUCING AND APPROVING.

Sweet dreams and don't forget to befriend us on Instagram @logmanindustries and on Twitter @logmanstuios. Also, keep it real.

HAPPY 2017!

HAVE A LOGGY DAY*

*We are contractually obligated to say this. Added 1-6-17. (Sorry!)

LLOG BLOG #19: Good Bye 2016: Whatever. / December 28, 2016 by Matt Everett

Well, there you go. See you later 2016.

We checked the facts, and many are saying that 2016 wasn't too great of a year. Though Logman Industries agrees with this a little bit, we want to spotlight some of the better and brighter things that happened this year.

First, Let's check this out:

WOW! Now THAT'S a Canadian Jumbo. NOOICE! Let's take another look...

Here's another good thing that happened in 2016:

Here are a few other things on the LMI radar:

A SHIT LOAD of Polaroids of dogs at a beer store! WOW!

That is positive... Positively RADICAL!

Now let's see what our LMI: NYC offices sent in for a 2016 recap:

...Okay, let's hear it from LMI: Chicago offices:

... say, that reminds me... wasn't the LMI: Chicago, IL offices supposed to send in a TOP 10 FUNNIEST THINGS List for this week. We will be checking back in with them.

LMI: Athens, GA Offices, what you got?

LMI: Paris?

Okay, last one... LMI: Seattle, WA:

Okay, okay, okay. New week LMI promises to GET HAPPY and hit you with some POSITIVITY!

Maybe LMI: Chicago offices will deliver on their promise... stay tuned and see!

Until then, visit LMI on Instagram @logmanindustries and on Twitter @logmanstudios. Both are rad.

If you have any questions or concerns, or cool pictures, please send to info@logmanindustries.com.

Keep it real LOGGY and have a LOGGY NEW YEAR!

LLOG BLOG #18: fA LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA LAAAA. / December 22, 2016 by Matt Everett

Hap-hap-happy Holidays. Logman Industries has a real treat for you this week to contemplate over the holiday weekend... whichever holiday you would like to celebrate.

Take a deep breath in.... then out.... deep breath in... then out. One more deep breath in.... now yell "HEYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" because here we go...

First, check this out:

Next up, Check this out:

We call this one, "Water Tower with Bushy Tree." HELL yeah!

... more about that one later.

YES! Check THIS one out:

If this artist had been around Italy in the 1560s, there would've been a LOT of fig leaf painters out of business!

RAD! Here is another good one:

Meeting notes from LMI: Seattle offices... Marketing and Numbers Dept.

Cool AND the gang! This is only getting better! Check this out:

The "A H Arthouse." We checked the facts... a bunch of real AHs live here.

BAM! We are freaking out this is so good! Here is one more:

Wrench Knives. TWO options for "fixing the situation."

Stay tuned for a LOGMAN INDUSTRIES: TOP 10 FUNNIEST THINGS LIST from the LMI:Chicago Offices: Cartoon & Humor Specialization Dept. Next week for sure!

This just in from the City of Wind:

Person 1: "who will log?"
Person 2: "YULE log."

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHHAH

"Yule Log." 2015. LMI: Toronto, ON Studios: Wood & Fire Studies Dept.

That's all. Check LMI out on all the popular thingies: Insta (@logmanindustries), Tweet (@logmanstudio {"@logmanindustries" is too long}) and, of course, check back here on Thursdays for the latest news from Logman Industries on this... the LLOG BLOG!

Also... email us with pics, info, questions, concerns, etc at.... info@logmanindustries.com

Llog Blog #17: Diary of a Madman: Holiday of Fun! / December 7, 2016 by Matt Everett

YES! You've returned! Even after what happened last week. Well, Thanks! And let's just get started. First, check this out!

Yes, the word on the street is that LMI:USA will be soon joining forces with some of our overseas offices and departments to exhibit some of the studio output from the last year. Cool, huh?

In other news, Check this out:

That's the UPS store officially sending the old router from out South Seattle Offices back. We also have the tracking number. Happy Holidays, Centurylink.*

*Centurylink is not a sponsor of Llog Blog, but is the sponsor of this picture:

In other breaking LMI news this week, we had to release three apprentices from our LMI:Chicago, IL: Precision Lines & Shapes Dept for mistaking this poster for "rules of the office:"

Oops for them. It's okay. Within 24 hours, we had replaced them. No problem. and Happy Holidays to them. (both the fired ones and the new ones.)

BETTER NEWS! LMI: Internets & Technology Division is proud to announce a NEW GALLERY and added work to selected gallery's on the LOGMANINDUSTRIES.COM Official Website. Take a spin and see what's new... like this one:

Did you hear about this?!:

Signed prints: Free!  Plastic sleeves: Free! — Signed prints: Free! Plastic sleeves: Free!

YES! the next 100 orders from Logman Industries will receive a FREE SIGNED, STAMPED, AND CERTIFIED "APPROVED" Logman print.

LMI: Commerce Division is working on making shopping on the site live this week. Keep checking in. Also:

The NEW MOON BOOT SERIES of Greeting Cards will be ready to order just in time for the holidays to be over. Rad.

Buy stuff. Don't buy stuff. Here at Logman Industries, we honestly don't give a flying rat's ass.

BAD NEWS: Somebody tagged our parking area at our LMI: Los Angeles, CA Studios:

Oh That's just Billy practicing his ABC's again.

GOOD NEWS: The vandal was caught and immediately hired by the LMI: Typography and Lettering Dept (San Diego, CA).

And there's always parking now in the late morning.

Whatevs, let's get out of the "inside baseball" of the business. Enjoy this for a second:

Nobody at LMI: Athens, GA offices had the good sense to buy this. LMI: Atlanta: Animatronic Holiday Sculpture Department is really pissed.

Here are Three Logs from three LMI offices:

Whatever, we did our job, now you go do yours.

Be sure to check out the new work on the site, check us out on Instagram (Logmanindustries) and Twitter (@logmanstudios) and have a very, very,

very Loggy week.* YES! (thumbs up; mustache man)

*We are required by LMI Intl, Ltd. to say this each week.

LLOG BLOG #16: Begin Again, Beginneghan. / November 27, 2016 by Matt Everett

Okay.

Sorry it's been so long. Let's skip the small talk and get right back to business as usual.

LMI:Big Picture Division: Lincoln, NE started on the "Silo project..."

Apparently, you can see three of these bad boys somewhere in the state of Nebraska currently.

(Logman Industries does not recommend any fact checking.)
(Logman industries also will not make any snarky jokes regarding US media outlets.)

Okay... then we should check in with the October people at LMI: New Orleans Offices... since you missed the big event...

Texas Chainsaw or Halloween... I really don't know

The NO: LMI Department actually finished construction of 30 ft androids of these exact Log Characters...

The MONSTER of Frankenstein. (get off my frickin back, horror purists)

Apparently, things went very wrong when the 30 ft tall androids started getting out of hand crashing into buildings and creating poor air-quality alerts all throughout the region.

Jason, Jason, Get the Basin. Plop. Forget it, get the mop.

Apparently nobody was hurt besides the over 19 people that suffered death from the incomprehensible amount of "Dad Jokes" in the greater area since. The androids have now been decommissioned are stored in an UNBELIEVABLY huge warehouse somewhere in the DC area where they will be cataloged by the US government. It is reported, however, that they "belong in a museum."

NEXT.

That takes care of Thanksgiving and that brings us to the real reason that everyone is checking us out this week... THE NEW MOON BOOT LINE FROM LOGMAN INDUSTRIES!!! HERE IT IS...very, very crappily photographed...

Oh WOW...

The critics were beside themselves for this release... believe me....

Holy CRAP. That was awesome. Well, at least you can get your holiday moon boot cards from LMI in the next 2 weeks... just a bit too late to get them to anyone before New Years. But, ya know what? Frick it! send one anyway because...

... A double rainbow can happen anythime (but is really hard to photograph.)

Last note:

Be nice to everyone you meet ever and go out and do something cool this week and it if you think of it, take a pic and send it to LMI. We will get it up on the LLOG BLOG.

Catch us next week and please have a LOGGY WEEK!*

(Check for LLOG BLOG every Thursday, unless you are in New Zealand... then look for it on Fridays)

*We are required to say this.

This pic was supposed to be way smaller, but the Squarespace wouldn't let us "edit" it.

LLOG BLOG #15: THE ONLY GOOD BLOG IS A LLOG BLOG. / June 24, 2016 by Matt Everett

Welcome to the FIFTEENTH EDITION of the internationally read LLOG BLOG!

In celebration of 15 LLOG BLOGS, let's take a walk down memory lane and visit the "BEST OF LLOG BLOG 2016!"

Oh wow! I remember this one from "Matt: Seattle." **good one!**

The good ol' **Cambodia Ball.** That was funny!

That reminds me... I have to call our **LMI: Merch Dept.** We still don't have any goddamned T-shirts.

**Run DM Cat** was everyone's favorite that week... about 4 weeks ago.

**LMI: Marketing** = pure genius... but still hasn't landed an account. Hmm.

Memory lane is so much fun! This trip was a gift to all of you viewers that have stuck with us all these weeks! Here's to at least TWO MORE WEEKS of this stuff! HEYAAAA!

Onward.

Let's go to LMI VIEWER SEND-INS OF THE WEEK!

This one arrived fresh off of the internet from somewhere in NEW ZEALAND!

Wow! Thanks "CRBpartyboy2016." That is a really nice SEND-IN.

This one was sent in from WESTPORT, WA:

Thanks "Ted Garbage" for this send in... but let's send this one down to LMI DIGITAL PHOTOTECH DEPARTMENT to help you out...

Westport LMI VIEWER, 'Ted Garbage," also mailed this one in..

LMI VIEWER SEND-INS EDITING DEPT warned Ted to not send more than one entry per week, but then decided that this one was too good to pass up...

Thanks "Ted Garbage" for mailing those in. No city mails it in like Westport, WA! Keep it up!

In response to all of your emails, here is another sneak peak in the CRAPPY-GARFIELD CREATOR, JAM DAVIS's Gary, Indiana LMI studios...

"Nobody Cares If I Die. (Wocka. Wocka) (I'm Just A Cartoon Character)." Oil on Canvas. 31-1/2" x 31-1/2." (Incomplete).

While LMI leans on the LMI: Jam Davis Studios to create our edgiest work, we had to wipe out this one before it went too far:

That's a rough one... but let's send this one down to LMI DIGITAL PHOTOTECH DEPARTMENT to help JAM out...

That tech team is the BEST! How do they do that? It's like magic or something!

Anyway, follow LMI on Twitter (@logmanstudio) and on Instagram (@logmanindustries) and you will probably win prizes.*

Last note, Logman Industries wants to encourage everyone to take a minute out this week and tell someone that they are cool. or that they are doing a good job. or that their hair looks nice. Just say something nice. It goes a long way.

(fart noise)**

Still do something GREAT today and have a LOGGY WEEK!***

*You will not win any prizes from LMI. But you might win some prizes from elsewhere. We have no control over that.

**We are contractually obligated to write this.

***We are also contractually obligated to write this.

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