Peelander-Z's Road to Recovery
Peelander-Z's Road to Recovery
MAY 23, 2026
UPDATE: Over $76K raised in the first 24 hours.
Peelander-Z got rear-ended by an 18-wheeler this week. Touring near Albuquerque, in their van, the way they've done for decades. Yellow, Pink, and Tiger are in the hospital with traumatic injuries. They're lucky to be alive.
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Kengo Hioki is Peelander Yellow. His wife is Pink. My family has watched them play for more than twenty years. Their shows are chaos in the best way — costumes, audience dragged on stage, the whole room moving.
The photo up top is Kengo with my daughter. He was kind and showed her all the art he's made in his studio. We've built things with him too — VR, blockchain, the experimental stuff. He says yes to ideas.
There's a GoFundMe for their recovery: Support Peelander-Z's Road to Recovery. Recovery is going to be long. Anything helps.
CLAWSTIN
Attended the first CLAWSTIN meetup downtown. 26th floor views, great presentations, and the kind of energy that makes you remember why you live in this city.
Meeting Elvis Costello and Erick Sermon
In 1996, I met two musical legends in airports on my way to Japan. Armed with the brand-new Casio QV-10—the world's first digital camera with an LCD screen—I captured moments that would sit at 320x240 resolution for nearly 30 years until AI could finally do them justice.
Monteiro Time
Today was a day for the books. I got an opportunity to chat with Mike Monteiro about the design biz, getting older and our role as a leader to the next generation.
MidJourney 7 Stinks
After rating 200 images to train my preferences, MidJourney 7 produced some of the crappiest versions of my default image prompts that I've seen.
My Design in Pop Culture
16 years ago I got an opportunity to completely rebuild and redesign one of the most famous movie sites on the Internet. With over 30,000 articles at that time and hundreds of thousands of community members, it was a juggernaut. Because of it's notoriety, the site was spoofed in pop culture.