Atari Video Music Demonstration

Here’s a rare old piece of electronics that I would love to find at a thrift store one day (good luck they only made them for a year). Not sure what the weird ass music is.

Wonder Woman transforms

The dizzying action doesnt begin until about a minute in. Ka-POW!

Alex Trebek filming promos drunk

It was recently revealed that Pat Sajak hosted Wheel of Fortune on occasion so I dug up this old clip of Alex Trebek drinking a brew and swearing at the camera while filming bumps. Love the accent!

Hello from Movie Quotes

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Just as the name says… Lionel Richie’s Hello edited together from movie quotes.

For the past five months I’ve been working from home. In that time I’ve moved across the country, settled into a new home and city and set up a suitable home office for myself. It’s been great, but it is not without its disadvantages.

Today is like any work day. I logged into my work station at 9:00 after dropping Jonah off at daycare. His schedule dictates that I get dressed and leave the house every morning, so I’m not sleeping in until noon nor am I working in my underwear. Also, it’s nearly like having a daily commute, though there’s no traffic in Eaton Rapids and Jonah’s school is less than a mile away.

However, in addition to my normal workload, I’ve also done five loads of laundry, cleaned cat shit off the floor and tended to my sick wife. These are things I would NOT have had to do while sitting in a cubicle. It is often all too easy to mix the day up between personal and professional tasks. I buy and make my own coffee, stock my own toilet paper, waste my own electricity and can complain to no one about my working conditions:

this versus this:

Not that I’m actually complaining. Working from home is wonderful. I drink better coffee. I sit in a better chair. I feel more creative and relaxed and productive. My carpal tunnel syndrome has eased up. And I would have had to do the laundry and clean up cat shit AFTER I got home from work instead of when it actually needed to be done.

Even if it is all too easy to log in after “normal” work hours to check an email, or finish up a project, it’s totally worth it. I can work when it is most convenient for me to do so as long as I hit my deadlines. I do miss some people from the cubicle farms, and I miss lunch with friends and ping pong in the afternoons, but getting to spend my days in my home office with three asshole cats and my sniffling, sneezing, stuffy-headed wife are invaluable to my mental well-being. Just as the line between working from home blurs, so does the line between being home from work, but when you’re doing what you love from a place that makes you comfortable it’s not a bad gig if you can get it.

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.

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.

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Slander by Trash Talk

An animated video for a punk band I’ve never heard of directed and animated by Jim Dirschberger the same guy who worked on Bob’s Burgers.

Dreamer/Dubstep

I’ve posted stuff by this guy before. Ignore all the set up and outro, this guy has some awesome dance moves… and on the Great Wall of China at that. Sweet!

Shit NOBODY Says

Ok. The “Shit _____ Says” phenomenon was overplayed almost immediately, but this pretty much seals the deal. Funniest on I’ve seen since the original.

Spidey vs. the Yeti

I loved these as a kid, and they were some of my first comics I ever owned. There are a ton more of these in related videos.

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I struggled a bit to get inspired for my next comic. I was working on something else and it just wasn’t coming out right. So today, on the day the page was due, I got out of the house to see if I could drag anything out of myself. I got six pages!

I really enjoy squeezing in some pop culture references in the Illustrations as long as I can find a way to make it relate to the theme of the article. The Tron one runs next Friday.

Well, that’s the end of story number one. While I was finishing this up, I had most of an origin story worked out in my head. If I get stuck later on, maybe we’ll see Electric Bill again.

Here are some of the concept sketches that I dug up from my old sketchbooks: