I contacted Kim about making a comic and proposed some ideas. We’re both very excited about the project. We chose an idea and started developing it. So far we have the prologue written. I need to lay out the pages and start drawing the characters. I got some help referencing the period costumes from Marisa. More on that soon!
Finish Reading »Yippee-ki-yay, Maniac
Watched Live Free or Die Hard and Mad Max tonight. Mad Max was an overly simple plot wrapped in convoluted cinematography and poor audio level equalization. I can definitely see it being a great movie, if only any of it had any feeling of repercussion. The bad guys gave no believable idea of insanity, they were just a bunch of actors being loony, which is really boring to watch because it’s so meaningless. I hope and am led to believe the second is much better.
Finish Reading »News and Olds
In the early afternoon today Laura suggested I use Amazon’s wishlist system to keep track of what I want to purchase, and allow others the chance to possibly get those items for me. So I started a list and added four items I could think of that I either need or want right now. They were, in order of most urgent and necessary to least (coincidentally also in order of least to most expensive): an external hard drive, a printer/scanner, a Wacom Cintiq, and an iMac 27″.
Finish Reading »His Fire Escape was Larger and Nicer than Our Balcony
I was chatting with Jessie Thavonekham this afternoon and she brought up wanting to start an artist’s collective. I told her about Slutniks and how I wanted to make an art community from it but no one else seemed interested in it, possibly because the name was off putting. I explained that the name was a take on the Sputnik space program, which sent the first living creatures into orbit. She was immediately interested.
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