January 24, 2012
January 23, 2012
#musicmonday Pixies – Tame
Pixies – Tame
Corey bought this record for our collection and it arrived on Friday. It was brand new and sounded amazing. There were things I heard in the vinyl that I’d never noticed from my car stereo or my shitty computer speakers.
I saw the Pixies when I was in high school (they opened up for U2 on the Achtung Baby Tour in ’91) but I was too young to appreciate them. I wasn’t into noise rock yet and I feel like they weren’t having a lot of fun on stage either.
Frank sounded extra sinister in this song. I love it.
Lyrics after the jump
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January 22, 2012
January 21, 2012
January 20, 2012
Friday Five 1/20/11
Anti-Ninja Turtle propaganda
Some Canadian anti-fun group shows us all the dangers of today’s toys. Today being the 80s and the toys being TMNT action figures.
In the heart of Trantor – 3D fractal trip
A fractal trip into infinity. I’m not quite smart enough to know exactly what I’m looking at here, but for what I can gather, computing power has gotten good enough to allow you to fly through an infinite fractal. Pretty cool!
Glitches in the Sims
Here’s a collection of glitches in the Matrix… I mean the Sims. I have a lot to say about how the We play the Sims and the Sims can even play the Sims, but who is playing our Sims?
Boob Puppet Theater (sNSFW for side boob)
Someone found a loop-hole to be able to put boobs onto Youtube. Even though it’s a cheap gag, they did a good job with the facial expressions and puppeteering (such as it is).
Paranormal Sounds from the Earth
These certainly sound creepy and it would be neat if they were real, but my money is on viral video campaign for some new disaster movie.
January 19, 2012
366 Page Comic Challenge 19/366
Oh that stench. I will remember that stench in my dying years.
January 18, 2012
Work from Home Wednesday: Illustrator
I happened to be digging through old files recently and found some of the first things I did in Illustrator. I had dabbled in it before, but suddenly had regular access to it when I started working in a cube at the paper again in 2006. I had some time to teach myself to use the program and allowed myself to move away from hand drawn items, focusing instead on vector based illustration.
Here’s the first thing I did:
within a couple months I started completing whole projects in Illustrator: Here’s one from a draw Harry Potter characters meme:
And developed characters for Kids Extra that never existed in a sketchbook.
And I started doing more editorial illustrations:
I used Illustrator to do the caricatures for my weekly Column Quote puzzles.
These were the first ones:
These are more recent:
Corey eventually talked me into dropping my black outline and I changed styled once again:
Now with the comic challenge I’m moving more toward hand-drawn comics again and I feel really rusty.
366 Page Comic Challenge 18/366
I stumbled across my old Amoeba Man comics while I was brain dumpster diving through old sketchbooks. It was rough looking back on some of that old high school artwork but I seemed pretty inspired by the whole Amoeba Man thing. I drew the comics twice (one on giant poster board for some reason), had two complete issues and I even animated the origins for one of my Art Foundation finals at VCU. I’m redrawing them here only slightly edited for quality. I’ll post notes and original (1991?) sketches soon.