"where the line is drawn"

Thursday, June 29, 2006

A Step Closer to the Sun


I do not claim to have any taste. Well, that's not quite true. I am a snob. I'm the bastard who sneers at the trailers for the new Ron Howard movie or the next Adam Sandler comedy. In a world filled with crap we're only offered more and more crap to waste the hours until we die. Crap for consumption. Because the alternative is boredom. God forbid that you find yourself unentertained for a brief moment. So we fill the emptiness of our lives with poorly made movies built on misfired concepts designed will only the idea to seperate you from your money. Properties that you must pay for but you can never own.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Sushi Girl


Sushi Girl
Originally uploaded by SteamCrow.
That's nice. I need to get to work...

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Who could resist?


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
Super Cute Kitten Assult!!!

Monday, June 26, 2006

Art Store Confidential


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
With Bruce and Mundee gone to JAFAX I divided up the weekend between checking on the cats and watering Mundee's plants and watching cartoons on Boomerang and Nicktoons....And inking and drawing up comicstuff.

Sunday I ended up going to Asel Art for Pelikin Ink. I ended up buying a pencil sharpener and an electric eraser and some Pro White, too. I should've gotten an extra brush for the Pro White.

Looks like I won another Sima FX Ed/It on eBay on Sunday, too. We'll find out if this one works. I hope it does.

Ms Echo rescued some kittens, too. I'll post the photos soon.

Friday, June 23, 2006

Wool Gathering


Bob Mould is singing Husker Du songs again according to Punk Planet. This news hits me right after I read about a Replacements reunion for Rhino. And I'm about a hundred and fifty days from turning forty. And the world won't end anytime soon. I can't start talking about life in past tense, not now, not yet.

Reading about Participatory Culture just makes me want to produce more and more. I just wish I could make some money off of it. But it's all a crapshoot out here...

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Robert Anton Wilson: Maybe Logic


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
Robert Anton Wilson: Maybe Logic
I found this on the recent releases page on Netflix, so I rented it. I wasn't disappointed.

Watch it in order or randomly pick out a chapter, like I did, and you get alot of thought provoking ideas and ideology straight from the mouth of Robert Anton Wilson to your ear. I had forgotten many of the bits about the limitations of language and our own personal virtuality. But it's all here and I recommend it to anybody and everybody...

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

HELLswag


I wonder how many requests I'll get?

The PNG that I whipped together in Illustrator looks really good, too. And no anti-aliasing problems, either. Time to pull out some of my older attempts and try to make them into PNGs...

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Ink and sweat and blood


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
Rivers of it. I've got stacks of sketches and inks and oddends and I'm still adding to it all. I destroyed alot of my art a couple of years ago. Training wheel stuff. Stuff that wasn't me, at least it wasn't at that point in my curve. Not necessarily embarrassing stuff. But not quite. You know?

Where does it go where it came to?

Monday, June 19, 2006

Louie's got skillz


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
Damn good stuff.

All the time in the world


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
There is much to be done. And yet I don't feel like doing anything much at all. It maybe the heat. Or my sour mood. It's frustrating. And maybe my frustration is to blame, too.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Never bored, need sleep


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Originally uploaded by Franckie.
Much to do, much to get done. Now that A-Kon is past I'm working on inking and comix and finishing up inks on Edstuff for publication. Much of the Edstuff has already been started, I just need to do some finishes and it'll be passed on to Bruce to tone and put into format.

And it's all good...

Thursday, June 15, 2006

A-Kon 17 report up

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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Con Scene


Con Scene
Originally uploaded by bchan.
Ha! That's what it's really like. Except Ed doesn't wear glasses...

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

HYP*NOTIC

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HYP*NOTIC EYE VOLS. 5 & 6 Here they are, the FINAL TWO VOLUMES of the coolest thing to come out of Dallas since the Church of the SubGenius. After nearly three years and 12 editing-intensive episodes of this mind blowing concoction of cool Japanese monster junk, schlocky movies, toy and cereal commercials, garage rock, puppets, and general weirdness our buddy Joe Riley decided to hang it up while it was still fresh. But don’t cry buckaroos, you can still get ‘em right here. And once you’ve got ‘em each one is so jam-packed with cool shit that we absolutely guarantee that you will never ever be bored again for as long as you live. God bless you Joe! Two 1-hour episodes per volume, each volume sold separately."

Monday, June 12, 2006

Fanbased


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
I don't know what I'm doing right, but we packed Houston B Friday Night. I'm actually confused by the success of the show. But I'm happy about it.

Caught the con-flu and was sick Saturday. Hell, I'm still not feeling 100%...

Thursday, June 08, 2006

The Occasion


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
Tomorrow night I'll be spinning discs and fighting AV Gremlins at A-Kon. And having a damn good time. But right now it's all anxiety and agrivation. Still, Bob and Emily are in town and Jan made it in last night so everything seems special. It occurs to me that the first time I met Bob and Bruce was at A-Kon 3. It seems so long ago, and yet it really isn't...

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

CD cover colored


CD cover colored
Originally uploaded by Franckie.
That rocks.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Feeding the feed


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
The 70s Dimension showed up in the mail. That, along with Elephant Parts, will be mined for this weekend's HELLshow. The prep work continues. Disc are burning and candy supplies have been procured. I'm actually having a pretty good time setting everything up. As it should be...

Monday, June 05, 2006

Pushing the ink around


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Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
Spent most of the weekend burning discs for the A-Kon show. Went looking for bubble gum and tootsie rolls to throw at the crowd early saturday and didn't find any. Bruce suggested trying Super Saver.

Also spent a fair amount of time drawing and inking. I finished up 3 pages that I just need to scan and edit in deleter and they'll be ready to post and print. Still, that's not much. But it's a start.

Need to dig around and find good web comic set up for the Cheap Disposable Website. I guess we'll do that sometime this summer...

Friday, June 02, 2006

OtakuHELL at A-Kon 17


OtakuHELL at A-Kon 17
Originally uploaded by tohoscope.
Next week. Me, Bruce Lewis, Michael Tatum, Joshua Roberts and maybe Nurse Katie....

Sam's INFATUATIONS


Sam's INFATUATIONS
Sam Hiti's blog. I wondered what happened to Sam...