Eric Peacock

@ericpeacock.design

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Media designer & artist: video/motion graphics + front-end design. Side gigs: musician, photographer, father of twins.

Screen shot of Adobe Photoshop 2026's General preferences section with the "Use Legacy Free Transform" checkbox highlight with a purple box.
Screenshot of access control check errors, missing ReferenceError and 400 status loading failure on a BlueSky page load.
Screenshot of Adobe Illustrator's Symbols palette with the "Art & Illustration" included symbols. There's a TextArea rounded box with a blue outline, a Button also with a blue outline and a light blue-to-white gradient fill, a ComboBox with a rounded square with a dropdown-style arrow, a TextInput field — again with an skinny rectangle with a blue outline and a white with blue outline drawing of a magnifying glass call Search. WTF... these are all web site graphical elements; These have no place in a document intended for "Art & Illustration".
Screen capture of a post on X, taken from a Reddit post on r/vibcoding. vibe coded for 6 months. my codebase is a disaster. ••• the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in. ( that's actually the only good part) but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said "what is this." 6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the Al just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase. tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated. the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare. is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?
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Italian movie poster version for John Carpenter's Escape From New York featuring a low-angle perspective illustration of Kurt Russel as Snake Plisskin holding a machine gun at crotch level with significant foreshortening of the gun barrel, basically making this about as masculine as a poster can get without incurring X-rated subject matter. The background features helicopters in a NYC skyline, a photo of the ruined head of the Statue of Liberty laying on the ground, and shadows of people around it. In the middle right is Issac Hayes as The Duke of NY and some other man wearing a headband.
Mock-up of a paperback book titled "The worst damned coffee mug. I think it was washed in 1997. It has *film* on the inside of it that's near black. He is proud of it.", which includes the alt text on the original image of "the worst damned coffee mug". The author of the book is Dana Sibera. There is a sticker on the cover that says "100,000 Cups" Exclusive afterword by Craig. The cover artwork underneath the long title text includes a color-tinted close-up of the coffee cup original photo that inspired this mock-up. The book is opened and face down on a white surface that has a coffee stain to the lower right of the book. The back cover has quotes from social media, including the author of this mock-up saying "Better not be Craig's" and NanorRaptor's reply "It is Craig's!" which is what started this whole project and the alt text you're reading now. Oh, and there's a tiny picture of Nanoraptor's bunny Vanilla Bean above another full color photo of the coffee mug in question, which has coffee-colored large type on it that says "Deeper & Darker Than Hell".
Animated loop featuring an orange set of bar chart columns growing, composited into a static stock photo of a smiling man using an iMac desktop computer at a desk in an over lit office room. Another man and woman stand behind him and look dramatically at his screen as he points to it. The bar graph columns are heavily banded and lack animation "easing". The loop is not seamless and feels jumpy very time the bar chart reaches full height.
Screen shot of the "Web Requests" info popup for Netlify hosting. "Web Requests" is described as "2 credits per 10k requests", which is further described as "web traffic requests to your site or app", e.g. page views, assets, and Edge functions.
Screenshot showing how much TinyPNG optimization improves the main hero image on the "Do I Belong in Tech Anymore?" article at https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout
1991 hand-drawn animation made in HyperCard on a Macintosh Classic.
Retro stock photo of a big industrial control room with sea foam green walls and consoles. A man sits in a chair and manipulates the controls.
Satirical mock-up of a fake book cover and two pages from the same book. The title of the book is "Time to Back Up Craig", with a sticker saying "From the author of Stuff the F*cker & Pop One for Craig". There is a faded photo of an external storage drive with a old style serial cable attached. The cover features "Simple & Easy", "Includes USB Instructions", and "Minimal Nagging". The author is Dana Sibera.
Screenshot of two Blue Sky posts in order: First is an NPR article about a class-action lawsuit in Maryland after a decades old sewer line collapse and spills sewage into the Potomac River. Second post is from Paperback Paradise, an account that remixes classic paperback book covers; This one is a book by a fictitious "Garrow Talonfinger" and features a closeup of a wild bird. The title is "I'll Shit Right in Your Goddamn Mouth.
Colorful brushed script spells out "Damn".
Black and white photo of a standing youn boy posing while holding onto a bicycle. In the background are some pine trees, a large empty grassy area, and a road with some streetlights and a portable shed. The boy is wearing a cape made from a surplus army blanket, protective clear goggles, and a flat cap.
Screenshot of the official Britney Spears web site circa early 2000's. Notably the Google + social network icon is one of four large square cards that make up the left and right sides of the page — about 1000% larger than average. Other social media link elements are the usual small buttons in the navigation.
Screenshot from a video of a mocked-up "Cameron+" streaming service featuring a photo of James Cameron with the quote: "I have my own private streaming service that's better than any of the shit that's out there. And it runs every night for free." Below the quote and photo are thumbnails of satirical Avatar movies: Avatar Underwater, Finding Avatar, Avatar Afterlife, Avatar (Again), Avatar Migration, Avatar Mosquito Planet, Avatar Into the Navi-verse, Avatar Microcosm, and Avatar vs Skynet.
Screenshot of available models in Adobe's Creative Cloud Pro. The top four Firefly models are labelled "commercially safe", but partner models (Google, ChatGPT, Flux, Ideogram, Runway, etc.) are not.
Vertical screenshot from a smart phone showing the Philadelphia Film Festival web site's page for "What the Hell Happened", a documentary directed by Matt Wilkins and Eliza Fox. The sub-headline says "PFF34 Jury Awards Honorable Mention for Best Local Feature"
Screen capture from Cyberpunk 2077 (MacOS build) showing Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves) sitting on a rooftop building ledger overlooking Night City. The image colors and contrast appear washed out because the original HDR dynamic range is stripped out when the image is save to disc.
Two books in a stack with a third book standing on top. The book is titled "What have you done with Mira Crisp?" The book cover art features Mira Crisp outside in the cold wearing a winter hat, sunglasses, and a faux leopard print high-collar coat. In the sunglass lenses a cinnamon roll is reflected.
Poster image for documentary feature What The Hell Happened directed by Matt Wilkins. The top tagline is "5 people. 33 Years" in a thick sans-serif typeface on a roughly cut scrap of brown paper. The title "What The Hell Happened" is below the tagline. In the background is a rural country two-lane road disappearing into-the-distance. There's a man's silhouette on the right-hand side of the road standing in an empty agricultural field. In the lower middle sitting on the road is a giant stack of five VHS tapes from the eighties, each with different collaged artwork and handwritten type: The first is labeled "Tim", the second "Eliza", the third "Anthony", the forth "Daniel", and the fifth "Doug". In the lower right there is another brown scrap of paper with text that reads "A documentary about life, love, and friendship".
Scene from the 1972 movie Jeremiah Johnson starring Robert Redford. We see Jeremiah in a swamp. As the camera zooms in on his face he makes eye-contact and nods with a gently smile.
Frame grab from the movie Robocop 2 showing cyborg Kane's POV with a menubar modeled after classic Apple Macintosh operating systems. The menubar items are set in Susan Kare's Chicago typeface. Instead of an Apple icon in the far right, there is a simple pixelated skull icon.
Screenshot of Adobe Community Forum user settings with the Screen Name field filled out with my name "Eric Peacock". The field is highlighted in red with a form validation error saying "Your screen name can't contain Adobe-branded terms or profanity."
Screen capture of the upper half of the Trump Mobile web site on launch day. The site has a barely visible gold-on-white logo inthe upper left. The entire site is a minimal design with minimal branding. The masthead headline is "ALL-AMERICAN PERFORMANCE. EVERYDAY PRICE. $47.45/MONTH." for "The 47 Plan". There's a photo of a serious or angry looking man in a suite with the top shirt button unbuttoned using a cell phone. There are navigation links to "The 47 Plan" and "The T1™ Phone". No photos of the gold T1 phone appear above-the-fold.
The Adobe Creative Suite document icon for an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file. Icon drawing is an outline of a rounded page with top-right corner folded in. There are three vector points on a downward curve, with the middle point having bezier handles. Below this are the letters S, V, and G.
A screenshot of two tweets on a white background. The first tweet is by Toshi [@]toshiHQ, with a profile picture of a person in a yellow hat and sunglasses. The tweet states, "It looks like Elon's genius coders don't know how COBOL works. Social security runs on COBOL, which does not use a date or time type. So the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard. The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875) - aka the metre standard. So if you don't know the date of something, it will be a 0 value, which in COBOL will default to 1875 - 150 years ago." The second tweet is by Donald Trump Jr. [@]DonaldJTrumpJr, with a profile picture of Donald Trump Jr. The tweet, dated Feb 11, states, "OMG!!! It's so bad what's been happening to our country and your money! Breaking: Musk says there's people over 150-years-old collecting Social Security"
Screenshot of a post on a meme posted on a designer forum that has been active since the nineties showing a veterinary operating room with vets examining a sedated tiger. The meme-like caption says: "What can you see, Doc?" "The thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival" Forum users respond with: "and the last known survivor" "…stalks his prey in the night, and he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger"
Still frame from Werner Herzog's 1975 film "Aquirre: The Wrath of God" showing amazon rain forest tree line along a river. A medium-sized wooden boat is inexplicably stuck in the tallest tree.
Two cat brothers with their paws around each other's necks, with their bodies almost forming a heart shape. They were sleeping but work up and looked at the camera as I took the picture.
Custom-designed slip case DVD box packaging for David Lynch's first feature film Eraserhead that was sold independently by Lynch himself from his web site in 2000.
Still frame from a montage in the movie Hackers (1995) featuring Dade/Crash Override (Jonny Lee Miller) working his laptop while Kate/Acid Burn (Angelia Jolie) and their hacker friends goof off in the background.
Meme with the caption "KINDA NEAT" in bold Impact lettering featuring a man with a shaved head wearing a mechanic's jumpsuit holding a very large pipe wrench in front of a poorly lit backdrop captured from a VHS camera in 1996. The man is called "Jumpsuit Boy" by his close friends and this is one of hundreds of memes created from the real Jumpsuit Boy's posts on Facebook.
Photo of a model wearing a t-shirt mock-up featuring an oversized ridiculously extra-wide laptop with extra screens on each side of the keyboard. Dana Sibera AKA Nanoraptor's pet rabbit Vanilla Bean is laying in front of it. The caption underneath the image reads "Absolute Units".
Screen capture from the Fallout television series, season one, episode 8 "The Beginning" showing a CRT monitor with an access code to unlock the Vault-tec cold fusion device as "101097", which is October 10, 1997 when the original Fallout RPG video game was released.
Classic meme photo of a bunny being held in someone's lap burying its face in its front paws with ears down. A text caption in the top of the photo reads "you make bunny cry".
The PNG overlay asset from the v1.0 Mitt Romney "With Mitt" social media app from his 2012 campaign. The overlay has a typo in the headline that says "A Better Amercia". This overlay was composited on top of a users selfie photo that was meant to be shared on social media.
Mocked-up photo of a book by Dana Sibera created by Eric Peacock in response to a now deleted tweet listing inaccurate transcriptions from Siri on Dana's phone, one of which was something about Craig followed by "Stuff the fucker". The book title is "Stuff the F*cker". One of Dana's manipulated photos showing a computer VGA port with two large 1/4" audio plugs instead of the mini pin-outs. A sticker on the lower corner of the cover says "Forward by Craig".