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[May. 14th, 2008|07:32 pm] |
( http://www.flickr.com/photos/superbomba )
Went through miles of burned pine forest in New Jersey on Saturday. Found a perfect broken egg with the yolk still in.
Hazel showed me her college's literary magazine which has poems about Facebook.
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[May. 15th, 2008|12:14 am] |
image by Team Macho
2008 / May 15th
Ruby Mag Special Issue
this month Ruby has a different issue. all the artists included in issues 1 to 12 were invited to send their newer works and 15 were selected to be part of a special compilation. the chosen artists were: mark rubenstein, maureen gubia, ding ren, takashi iwasaki, riikka sormunen, wendy walgate, celine clanet, michael deforge, betsy davis, jan von holleben, matthew fyeld, andrew laumann, ronnie rascal (donal dixon), frederik heyman and team macho.
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| Random pictures. |
[May. 14th, 2008|07:40 pm] |
The canal at sunset...
Ottawa's old train station...now a conference centre.
The guys checking out an open window.
Very tired...proper post to follow. Eventually.
Happy Thursday!
Moggy |
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| MOCCA |
[May. 14th, 2008|09:35 pm] |
dear my cool friends,
let me share a table with you at MOCCA!!!!!!!!!
i will pay you money
plz |
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[May. 14th, 2008|08:35 pm] |
So the past weekend wasn't a great one for my car. Poor thing. My brakes went out Saturday as I was driving to work. Luckily I have AAA and a fair amount in my checking so I'm all good with brand new brakes which came in handy on Sunday. In Atlanta we have odd intersections and ramps and shit that just don't make a lot of sense or make things very convenient. So as I'm pulling onto Courtland from I-85, this guy decides it's OK to take a right across the two lanes entering from the highway, yeah no, he doesn't know about the signs. So I slam on my brakes and skid into this genius for a day. I hit a $100,000 Mercedes Benz. The vanity plate said J NASTY and it was all his fault. HA! Anyways, he was nice about it and I just went on. It's not like he couldn't afford to fix it, and it was obviously his fault so I went on my merry way with some new scratches, but no body damage. Hoo-ah.
Ummmmmm, remember that film critique thing I tried doing? Here's the rest of them. I'm just so not able to do much interneting lately, or I'm too tired from dealing with dogs all day that all I want to do is fernsehen and not worry about interland. But yeah, just so ya know.
-Smiley Face: This is the stoner movie I've been waiting for. Sure Harold & Kumar and Halfbaked are great, but I've just never been able to relate to those guys. Here comes Anna Faris with her straight outta college semi-intellectual stoner attitude and viola, I've found my quintessential pot movie. Oddly enough here's a film made by stoners for stoners but with a more cautionary tale than any marijuana movie I've ever seen.
-Dead Like Me: DLM's not actually a movie, and I'm only through the first season, but I felt like talking about it anyways. Georgia Lass is an underachieving slacker who gets up and goes to the temp agency begrudgingly, dreading the monotony of the 9-5, facing with lackluster sarcasm, only to be met with a flaming toilet seat from the MIR space station on her lunch break. That's all for George the temp. Now she works as a sort of grim reaper with a team of reapers headed by a no-nonsense Rube (Mandy Pantinkin) and has to deal with a whole different new load of shit, on top of her already heaping pile. I've been watching a lot of movies and shows dealing with death lately (yeah I thought I'd gone through that stage in high school too) but this one doesn't depress me nearly as much as say Six Feet Under (more on that later), if anything this show shows death as inevitability which, while sad serves a necessary and sacred purpose. This is also a show about growing up accepting responsibility and doing for one's self. Not only is Georgia's purpose now to take the souls of the living, she still has to live with them. With little to no help and friends who are just as good as no help, how's a reaper to live?
-wild zero: Ah-ha! I finally got around to watching my bootleg of Japanese rock god Guitar Wolf's zombie opus. This movie is counter-culture all the way in that same flavor of anti-conformity that coated all the great zombie flicks of the sixties and seventies. Not much in the way of horror (the make-up on about three of the dozens of zombies is anywhere near close to what we're all used to zombies looking like these days) it sure makes up in posturing. I really can't go into better detail as the movie is so precious I'd hate to spoil any of it. If you have the chance to see it, take it. Fuck, I think I'll watch it again right now!
-Lollilove: Here's one of the few Troma films lacking blood, gore, and the "melt-down effect" (learn all of Troma's secrets like I did with Lloyd Kaufman's patented proven movie gold formula in his amazing tell-all book, Make Your Own Damn Movie: Secrets of a Renegade Director). But this lack of over the top fun doesn't make The Office's Jenna Fischer's directorial debut any less fun at all. Also written by Fischer, the movie tells about a rich dysfunctional Hollywood (was that redundent?) couple trying to give back to the community by providing lollipops for the homeless. The couple, played and named after real life Hollywood couple Jenna Fischer and James Gunn (dir. Scooby-Doo 1&2, Slither), try to in misguided and often plain idiotic means to brighten the lives of Hollywood's homeless population by distributing lollipops with out of touch slogans and infantile art wrapped around them. We also see Fischer and Gunn's "relationship" strained as well as their relationships with their friends. It's not a great film, but it sure is a great effort and fun to watch overall. Though I wish Fischer and Gunn had done more to separate themselves from their often unlikable self-obsessed characters.
-The First Nudie Musical: Yes it is as much fun as it sounds. In a failing porn producer's office, an idea is hatched to bring back from ruin the once proud studio. One last porno to end all their porn production. A last ditch effort to turn the tide of failure for one devoted son. In the Fifties and Sixties, musicals were the rage. The Seventies saw the rise of the power of pornography, so why haven't these two power house genres teamed up before? Well they did, in 1975, that's this movie. The plot is standard mid-seventies comedy shlock with a few nice and fresh twists, the most obvious being scads of nude women. One less obvious being co-star Cindy Williams of "Laverne & Shirley" fame wherein she is funnier than ever in a movie that most would not be able to turn into such a lucrative comedy career. The music numbers are better than I had hoped and each song is just as good as any Rogers & Hammerstein silliness.
OK that's all. I didn't really want to mass them all together like this, but I think it's the only way I'll make more in the future. (I wrote all the reviews in my last few posts in one sitting) But, maybe you'll still get some learning out of this and go check out some good movies. I should probably write reviews for movies I don't like too... |
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| It's been awhile... |
[May. 14th, 2008|07:39 pm] |
There are some more sketches over at the Super Sized Spy Site, go check 'em out, along with a color version of this sketch:
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| и все равно! |
[May. 15th, 2008|01:57 am] |
ЕБАТЬ БОМЖЕЙ! ЕБАТЬ!
красной рукой лоялистов ебать!
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[May. 14th, 2008|11:12 pm] |
Agreed. And we can only imagine that this is the tip of the magic iceberg! |
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| BRISTOL COMIC CON 2008 / EAGLE AWARDS |
[May. 14th, 2008|07:05 pm] |
I don't know what the hell this video is but I am in it making an ass of myself:
I had a lot of fun at the con. The lucky dip hat was pretty successful. I managed to shift about 200 of my own comics that were in it and a whole load more of everyone else's (thanks Becky, Will, Emily to name but a few, no thanks TOKYOPOP who stuck a bunch of their stupid flyers in there, EAT A BAG OF HELL TOKYOPOP)
To start with it seemed like a bit of a hard sell and my call of DOYOUWANNAGOONMYLURRHIDHPPHAT wasn't really bringing in the crowds, but once I realised what an alien concept this was to most people and developed a patter which established what the hat was, what you had to do and what was in it, putting your hand inside a strange man's head to get comics out had become second nature to everyone there.
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| thoughts (2004) |
[May. 14th, 2008|03:47 pm] |
Early notes as I prepared to write the first Scott Pilgrim. Click to make big.
Note uncertainty about the band name, etc... it was a while before I was fully comfortable with "Sex Bob-omb". Because it's idiotic. But at least it's idiotic in a way that is true to the characters!
I found some earlier notes (from 2002) and see that I had whittled the characters down from a larger number.
Stephen Stills was the last "final" character to appear. Young Neil was named first - although he was originally an actual young kid, for HILARIOUS purposes - and Stills flowed naturally out of that, I guess.
Originally, Scott had a number of friends based on old characters I made up in high school and stuff. Of these, only Kim Pine survived (thank god).
He also had multiple roommates.
I am really happy that I figured out a little thing called "narrative economy" between conceiving this book and executing it.
Anyway, this scrap of notes is from pretty much immediately before I wrote the first book.
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[May. 14th, 2008|11:46 am] |
Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics
Janet Biehl
The value of people and nonhuman nature lies in their utility in attaining a given end, such as economic supremacy or political power.
It will take an effort of coherent human purpose, of intensely conscious moral agency, to end the destruction of the biosphere, based on an understanding of humanity's place in nature.
If women are to gain an understanding of their relationship with nonhuman nature that is liberatory, it certainly cannot be done by advancing a myth of the eternal feminine.
Although there are social reasons why early Neolithic cultures are likely to have been peaceful and egalitarian and even matricentric, ecofeminists are regrettably less interested in the social reasons for these traits than in religious ones.
It was the "oikos" of the private interests of capital that unleashed enormous productive forces and that is now used to wreak havoc on the biosphere and on community life. Ironically. the "oikos" of economics is now destroying the "oikos" of ecology. |
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| I think I stopped caring about TV |
[May. 14th, 2008|12:12 pm] |
Yes, sure I'll make a point to watch REAPER if it comes back.
I'll follow "How I Met Your Mother"...
I'll indulge in another season of Smallville...
and I even allow myself to watch garbage TV like VH1's Celeb Cadebra.
Truthfully though, as I read the "upfronts" and information for the upcoming Fall season, my interest wanes.
Is it because I just stopped caring or is it because I care about more important things these days. I'm not sure...
I just know when both "New Amsterdam" AND "Moonlight" get cancelled (although who ever knows what can happen to shows) or that Mike Judge can get another cartoon on the air and the show's biggest joke is that the family adopted a baby from Africa and it wasn't black, I just slowly have no interest in TV... or at least not the very vested interest I once had.
Until Spike, Faith or Buffy shows up on "Supernatural", Doctor Who appears on HEROES or HBO/Showtime does a sitcom at a nude resort starring Lori Beth Denberg, Ryan Gosling, Stacey Dash and Wilson Cruz I don't think my interest will rise again. |
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| tower quest |
[May. 14th, 2008|11:39 am] |
will the pace ever pick up? |
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| Like hearing him all over again for the first time |
[May. 14th, 2008|11:26 am] |
Neil Diamond's new album is just such pure loveliness. His words speak such volumes to me, his "The basher" guitar playing kicks ass and his scratchy voice.
It's like I'd never heard him before and am being introduced to a brand new artist who yet is so familiar. It's just so perfect.
You owe it yourself to hear this album. The songs just grab you from first listen. He just has this power and with the help of Rick Rubin and his fellow musicians he took a spark and a lit a fire.
It's actually his best selling album ever too (although I'm betting American Idol contributed to that)... I actually didn't even catch his Idol appearance, as I've been busy with other stuff. I bought it cause it's Neil Diamond.
I love me Neil Diamond... always have, always will... even when he does Idol. (I can't really hate Idol either, I mean it did give us Daughtry's break, Blake Lewis... and well... Clay Aiken... and oh...the fabulous cheesy and cute actress Ryan Starr.) |
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| Top Shelf webcomics 2.0 |
[May. 14th, 2008|10:17 am] |
Hey comic readers! Here is some more exciting news about
my recent project "The Bravest Nino" and a new launch of
Top Shelf webcomics 2.0
Now featured on Publishers Weekly.com
www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6560183.html
I can't wait! |
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| LOVIATHAN pg 9 & 10 |
[May. 14th, 2008|10:58 am] |
ONE WORLD ENDS. ANOTHER IS BORN. BUT LOVE AND BETRAYAL ENDURE. A TALE OF HIGH ADVENTURE SET AGAINST THE BRIGHT ABYSS OF ETERNITY!
Click HERE to read the LATEST installment of LOVIATHAN on the new ACT-I-VATE website.
Click HERE to read LOVIATHAN from the beginning. |
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| Lilly - Page 41 |
[May. 14th, 2008|10:51 am] |
Page 41 just went up on the act-i-vate website
Click the graphic to go directly to the page.
http://activatecomix.com |
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| Ghost tour in London library |
[May. 14th, 2008|04:34 pm] |
On the evening of May 15th I'll be making a special appearance at Richmond Library in London (map) as a kind of spirit medium tour guide, taking people on a ghost tour of the library aisles after lights out, trying to make contact, via the books, with the dead people who wrote them.
A truly spooky evening, then, lit by torchlight, punctuated by music and spattered, perhaps, by ectoplasm.
Momus Spirit Tour of Richmond Library
Thursday 15th May, 8pm.
Tickets £3, available from Richmond Library or via Online Bookings. |
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| Australian Art Thesis |
[May. 14th, 2008|11:05 pm] |
Stuff i'm showing for a uni group show.
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| Who is Dorian Sanchez? |
[May. 14th, 2008|02:00 pm] |
I'm gagging to show this project off, but alas i dont want to show off individual pages until i can show the whole thing off.
Instead, this is an I.O.U. Which reads:
"I.O.U one 'LEGEND OF DORIAN SANCHEZ'" |
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[May. 14th, 2008|08:19 am] |
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I am planning on moving when my lease is up july first. it feels like bad timing in a way. Just as I leave, Stuyvesant Town has added hundreds of new trees and cute street lights lining the walkways. Despite the buildings looking like sterile boxy projects, all the green has made it rather charming. Babies outnumber the elderly (actually, this makes it way too Park Slope creepy). My roommate is also really nice and never home, and my rent is what I paid in 2001.
However, I am obsessed with moving to a place with architectural details. Something where a crazy velvet couch and deco wallpaper will not feel out of place.
Current Ebay obsessions:
anything hand beaded
rompers with tie-dye and watercolor prints
rose gold and signet rings
hand-tooled leather
flapper dresses and clothing with neo-deco details
1920's ancient egyptian inspired jewelry
liberty prints and grunge-era florals
moroccon (specifically berber) coin necklaces
heimstone, jerome dreyfus, lyell, vena cava, sigerson morrison,
Won:
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| e.krotov |
[May. 14th, 2008|03:38 pm] |
недавно в интернете обнаружила две иллюстрации. под картинками было написано e.krotov. но никакой информации больше не нашла. мне очень понравились эти картинки. они могли бы быть отличной иллюстрацией к детской книге... может, вы узнаете и подскажите...
 
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| Bellen! Use your disillusion |
[May. 14th, 2008|07:03 am] |
Bellen! has officially broken into Finland. |
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| piri |
[May. 14th, 2008|04:59 am] |
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| журнал кукумбер 04.2008 |
[May. 14th, 2008|12:48 pm] |
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