I posted a review of the new Negativland DVD over at AnimeHELL, I think I need to do more of this kind of post. Maybe a review of the new Peelander Z DVD is due next? Or maybe of review of some of the AVGeek discs. That'd be cool.
Which reminds me, there's a few new AVGeek discs I need to pick up.
In the meantime...
Perversion 05 Gateways Mix from tohoscope on Vimeo.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Monkey Punching 9:53 PM
Not really been too good a year 8:37 AM
Looking back at the last year, It ain't been the best. Getting sick after my trip to Cali sticks out as a real pain in the ass. As has the continuing problem of the gas issue at the Edstead. And the issue doesn't look like it's gonna be resolved anytime soon.
At least my health has gotten better.
AnimeHELL has been the source of both good and bad things in the last year. The good have been the trip to FanimeCon and the HELLnurse Katie project. The bad, well, the less said the better. Let's just say I came really close to walking away from it all.
Self knowledge is a painful thing.
At least my health has gotten better.
AnimeHELL has been the source of both good and bad things in the last year. The good have been the trip to FanimeCon and the HELLnurse Katie project. The bad, well, the less said the better. Let's just say I came really close to walking away from it all.
Self knowledge is a painful thing.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Moods and Madness 10:03 AM
Wanda Gag (pronounced gog) wrote in her published diaries about "drawing moods." I thought I knew what she was talking about.
She wrote about her drawing moods, a compulsion to draw and draw and draw whatever she was compelled to draw at the given moment. And she was completely given to these moods when she had them.
I thought I also had drawing moods. But lately I've been calling it a madness. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a compulsion. Maybe even a type of addiction. But it is a thing that helps me, a coping mechanism. Does that make it a bad obsession?
The madness.
She wrote about her drawing moods, a compulsion to draw and draw and draw whatever she was compelled to draw at the given moment. And she was completely given to these moods when she had them.
I thought I also had drawing moods. But lately I've been calling it a madness. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a compulsion. Maybe even a type of addiction. But it is a thing that helps me, a coping mechanism. Does that make it a bad obsession?
The madness.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Sketchbooks and Sketchpiles 9:34 AM
Sketchbooks are like diaries, in a way. I've never kept a diary or a journal. Blogs are as close to that as I've come. And I'm sure somebody somewhere has deeper thoughts about blogs as public diaries and open journals. But sketchbooks are similar but different. Sketchbooks are a visual document showing how artists skills develop and change. The images themselves don't live in a vacuum. Visuals are taken from other images, other artists. It's theft, but it's not. I draw Mickey Mouse, but I change it, explore the construction, take the image apart and play with it. Until it's not Mickey Mouse any more. It's something new. This visual re-invention and evolution is the interesting part. It's how you can gauge an artist's growth. Or how they stagnate, and stop being interesting.
I'm going to annotate the pages in Sketchpile. My thinking is that the notes explaining the impetus behind the images will enhance your understanding of what I was trying to accomplish. I hope.
Long ago I stopped initialing and dating my sketches. It seemed like a vanity, and pointless considering my level of skill at the time I stopped. It was more important to me to draw more and more then to waste time leaving a mark or a date on the page. Putting together these pages I wish I'd had dated some of the material, if only to give myself a signpost of where I was when I was there. But the breadcrumbs are all gone. I have an approximate idea when these drawings were made, and that will have to do. Regrettably.
I've decided to use The Sketchpile project to make calendars at Lulu, too. But first I need to make a damn PDF for Lulu to print from.
I'm going to annotate the pages in Sketchpile. My thinking is that the notes explaining the impetus behind the images will enhance your understanding of what I was trying to accomplish. I hope.
Long ago I stopped initialing and dating my sketches. It seemed like a vanity, and pointless considering my level of skill at the time I stopped. It was more important to me to draw more and more then to waste time leaving a mark or a date on the page. Putting together these pages I wish I'd had dated some of the material, if only to give myself a signpost of where I was when I was there. But the breadcrumbs are all gone. I have an approximate idea when these drawings were made, and that will have to do. Regrettably.
I've decided to use The Sketchpile project to make calendars at Lulu, too. But first I need to make a damn PDF for Lulu to print from.
Monday, November 19, 2007
I want candy 9:38 AM
At last night's HNK meeting Bruce brought up the idea of getting sponsors for OtakuHELL. Specifically we could get some of the Japanese candy sellers to furnish the candy we throw out to the kids. I'm intrigued. I wonder if there'll be any takers?
The madness of the brush continues...
I need copy for the back cover of The Sketchpile: "I was once told that we all have a million bad drawings in each of us. The Sketchpile is a sampling of the million or more bad drawings that have accumulated at my drawing board over the years. Most of these illustrations seeing the light of day for the first time here. Enjoy the many odd and mad visions committed to paper and culled for this collection from The Sketchpile."
That sounds like it'll work.
The madness of the brush continues...
I need copy for the back cover of The Sketchpile: "I was once told that we all have a million bad drawings in each of us. The Sketchpile is a sampling of the million or more bad drawings that have accumulated at my drawing board over the years. Most of these illustrations seeing the light of day for the first time here. Enjoy the many odd and mad visions committed to paper and culled for this collection from The Sketchpile."
That sounds like it'll work.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Learn something new every day 12:16 PM
Finally got Blogger to publish to hellnurse.com. It turns out I had the wrong settings for the FTP. Brilliant I am. Anyway, now it works and it's waiting to get tweaked and fleeped and filled with original content. Very Web two point oh.
Monday, November 12, 2007
HNKing 1:33 PM
Trying to get a blogger site set up on hellnurse.com and StartLogic isn't cooperating. Yeah, why me?
Friday, November 09, 2007
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Traveling Medicine Show 7:55 AM
This morning's dream.
I'm sitting at a table in a group of tables on a dirt road. I'm playing a game. There's someone across the table holding up a board. On the board are pegs with numbers printed on them. I pick a peg off the board and the gamer pulls out a page and reads off of it. It's like a fortune and a riddle and I respond to each bit of cryptic business by making fun of it all. I start getting laughs from people sitting at other tables. Soon there's a big crowd around me and I'm putting on a show for them.
While this is going on someone has set up a tent around us. It's like a small circus tent. Bruce Lewis is there and he interrupts the game to get me to help set up the show. I grab an armload of wood and metal beams piled next to me at the table and snap them together into a stage. I'm not even finished with it as people start moving tables and chairs around the stage. A few people come up and help me assemble the rest of the stage while more help Bruce set up a table on the stage.
I pull myself onto the stage, then I wonder if I'm suppose to be up there. What if I'm not allowed on stage? Then Bruce tells me to bring him a large canvas folded up on the corner of the stage. I pick it up and I find that it's not canvas, it's red velvet. Bruce grabs a corner of the velvet and pulls it over the table on the stage. The edges of the velvet have a fancy gold tassel trim and in the center there's a large gold embroidery sign that says, "Medicine Show"
I turn around to look at the crowd, there's a few hundred people laughing and enjoying themselves. More people are coming into the tent in the back and looking for seats. So I start my spiel. "Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the WILD WEST MAGIC LANTERN SHOW..." I start talking louder, there's a train passing by the tent and it's drowning me out. Then I realize it's not a train, it's my alarm clock. It's time to wake up.
I wonder where the heck that train was going.
I'm sitting at a table in a group of tables on a dirt road. I'm playing a game. There's someone across the table holding up a board. On the board are pegs with numbers printed on them. I pick a peg off the board and the gamer pulls out a page and reads off of it. It's like a fortune and a riddle and I respond to each bit of cryptic business by making fun of it all. I start getting laughs from people sitting at other tables. Soon there's a big crowd around me and I'm putting on a show for them.
While this is going on someone has set up a tent around us. It's like a small circus tent. Bruce Lewis is there and he interrupts the game to get me to help set up the show. I grab an armload of wood and metal beams piled next to me at the table and snap them together into a stage. I'm not even finished with it as people start moving tables and chairs around the stage. A few people come up and help me assemble the rest of the stage while more help Bruce set up a table on the stage.
I pull myself onto the stage, then I wonder if I'm suppose to be up there. What if I'm not allowed on stage? Then Bruce tells me to bring him a large canvas folded up on the corner of the stage. I pick it up and I find that it's not canvas, it's red velvet. Bruce grabs a corner of the velvet and pulls it over the table on the stage. The edges of the velvet have a fancy gold tassel trim and in the center there's a large gold embroidery sign that says, "Medicine Show"
I turn around to look at the crowd, there's a few hundred people laughing and enjoying themselves. More people are coming into the tent in the back and looking for seats. So I start my spiel. "Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the WILD WEST MAGIC LANTERN SHOW..." I start talking louder, there's a train passing by the tent and it's drowning me out. Then I realize it's not a train, it's my alarm clock. It's time to wake up.
I wonder where the heck that train was going.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Print on Demand 8:02 AM
I'm gonna test out Lulu by printing up a sketchbook. We'll see how it looks and go from there.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Domain Game 11:09 AM
Setting up new site, working on HNK project, getting something done. I hope. Need to get some Katie comics going on my own.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
Need space solutions 12:23 PM
Put away the summer clothes and set up a rack for storing my cold weather clothes and I'm seeing that I need to change my room, badly.
Never, ever, buy the "Milk Crates" from office supply stores. They're too damn cheap and don't hold crap for crap. Nearly all of the ones I bought have broken or warped under the weight of the crap I put in them. Worthless pieces of crap. Crap!
Never, ever, buy the "Milk Crates" from office supply stores. They're too damn cheap and don't hold crap for crap. Nearly all of the ones I bought have broken or warped under the weight of the crap I put in them. Worthless pieces of crap. Crap!
