Noise Face Jerk

Cheese beats steel!

2011-02-06T19:20:00.001-08:00

Cheese beats steel! Go America!

If eyes are windows

2011-02-05T22:29:00.001-08:00

If eyes are windows to your soul, then eye sockets are windows to your brain.

doesn't believe in e

2011-02-05T22:23:00.001-08:00

doesn't believe in eyeballs at the moment. #eyesocketsareok …#4now

Is that diamond les

2011-01-29T22:27:00.001-08:00

Is that diamond less than or greater than two characters long?

I thought 2011 would

2011-01-21T19:37:00.001-08:00

I thought 2011 would be the year I'd get 6pack abs, but then we found out the pizzeria around the corner makes #vegan pizza.

Had a weird #citizen

2011-01-19T06:07:00.001-08:00

Had a weird #citizenradio dream with @allisonkilkenny & @jamiekilstein action figures. Long story short, I have an idea for a new stickers.

Life hasn't been the

2011-01-19T06:00:00.001-08:00

Life hasn't been the same since we ran out of cotton swabs.

Having a dog is like

2011-01-09T20:01:00.001-08:00

Having a dog is like having a Roomba… that only works on food.

Hey, remember Napste

2011-01-01T15:20:00.001-08:00

Hey, remember Napster?

Ok, now I'll never b

2010-12-30T22:04:00.001-08:00

Ok, now I'll never be able to fantasize about Natalie Portman without getting the heeby jeebies. #blackswan

Sometimes I feel bad

2010-12-22T06:04:00.001-08:00

Sometimes I feel bad for Myspace, but then I remember how much I dislike Rupert Murdock.

Link to such event h

2010-12-18T09:31:00.001-08:00

Link to such event http://htxt.it/YmIt

Hey. Who wants to co

2010-12-18T09:30:00.001-08:00

Hey. Who wants to come see Michael Ian Black among other guests for 5 BUCKS mon at Citizen Radio Live @ The UCB?

Fug yuss!!!!

2010-12-18T07:10:00.001-08:00

Fug yuss!!!!

OK. Now that All u b

2010-12-18T07:03:00.001-08:00

OK. Now that All u billionaires got your #taxcuts I have a few business ideas u can invest in... #p2

@shell7 #overheard @

2010-12-07T10:07:00.001-08:00

@shell7 #overheard @brooklynmuseum Norman Rockwell exhibit: This is totally like old school photoshop!

Am I still able to w

2010-12-07T09:36:00.001-08:00

Am I still able to walk up to Julian Assange and hand him money, or would George Washington leap off the dollar bill and smack my hand? #wikileaks #p2

New world order: eve

2010-12-07T08:47:00.001-08:00

New world order: every gets to see each other naked and read everything you've ever said. #wikileaks #tsa #pornscanners #p2

@marnus3 Here's my c

2010-12-05T18:06:00.001-08:00

@marnus3 Here's my compromise: Let's give the unemployment money to the top 2% and the millionaire tax cut money to the unemployed. #p2

Me don't differentia

2010-12-03T05:54:00.001-08:00

Me don't differentiate between subject and object pronouns.

Retxt markos (twitte

2010-11-30T19:30:00.001-08:00

Retxt markos (twitter): Ha ha ha! Brilliant! http://is.gd/i1sGe

There's a fly in the

2010-11-30T19:28:00.001-08:00

There's a fly in the studio that apparently thinks my monitor is Awesomeville. Keep thinking it's some weird pop-up ad in the corner.

PS WTF was Glenn Bec

2010-11-29T12:55:00.001-08:00

PS WTF was Glenn Beck doing in the trailers before Tangled? -_-

Haha! Via the Guardi

2010-11-29T12:52:00.001-08:00

Haha! Via the Guardian UK's coverage of #cable gate (http://htxt.it/bRtu 5.45pm GMT: At last Sarah Palin speaks on the Wikileaks revelations – well, she tweets on the subject. And being Sarah Palin, it's mainly about her: "Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book America by Heart from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?" Well, one is under the jurisdiction of the United States' government and laws, and one isn't. Apart from that, inexplicable. But top marks for using this unlikely subject to plug your own book.

How much of your twi

2010-11-29T05:48:00.001-08:00

How much of your twitter stream would be blocked in China?

"deficit hawks" are

2010-11-24T06:06:00.001-08:00

"deficit hawks" are deficit hacks. http://htxt.it/IXSI

Pittsburgh Samurais

2010-11-23T13:45:00.001-08:00

Pittsburgh Samurais

North and South Kore

2010-11-23T06:32:00.001-08:00

North and South Korea better cut it out or they'll end up like East and West Korea, not even on the map anymore.

I propose that we mo

2010-11-23T05:44:00.001-08:00

I propose that we move Mecca to ground zero. Would cut down on Al Queda threat. Christian terrorists on the other hand...

"It is only our beli

2010-11-22T11:48:00.001-08:00

"It is only our belief in our individual authenticity that is holding us back."

Adam Curtis blog pos

2010-11-22T11:47:00.001-08:00

Adam Curtis blog post with video clips, on how easy it is to manipulate people's behaviors and viewpoint. http://htxt.it/PIZn #p2 #tcot

Haha! Why they inven

2010-11-18T18:56:00.001-08:00

Haha! Why they invented the word cheese. #vegan http://htxt.it/jViB

Another new item in

2010-11-18T18:47:00.001-08:00

Another new item in my Artsprojekt shop: "It Doesn't Fall Far" Ipad Skin http://htxt.it/qWaE

Woot. My tumblr look

2010-11-18T10:06:00.001-08:00

Woot. My tumblr looks a bit nicer now. http://htxt.it/d6vL

Obama seems to have

2010-11-17T12:56:00.001-08:00

Obama seems to have no problem bombing random people across the ocean, but are afraid fighting against GOP on legislation. :P

I dreamed Sara Palin

2010-11-17T06:26:00.001-08:00

I dreamed Sara Palin drowned in a lake while taping her Alaska show. But she resurfaced just as @keitholbermann was about to comment.

Can you spot the fon

2010-11-17T06:13:00.001-08:00

Can you spot the font with the spermy 'g'. …spermy g, sounds like the grossest rapper ever.

Kitty doodle. http:/

2010-11-17T06:04:00.001-08:00

Kitty doodle. http://htxt.it/qDjz

All Night Long

2009-12-05T21:50:00.000-08:00

If you have not yet had the privilege of watchign this video, I HIGHly suggest you start ASAP.

Sort of a pastiche of West Side Story, Jazzercise, and a Benetton ad.

Also check out the dance off cameo Anne Coulter at about 1:50.

Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Uploaded by manon42. - See the latest featured music videos.

Google is the Crazy One

2009-11-22T08:14:00.001-08:00

Was readign this silly article in the ol' Huff Po and though tI migh try to rustle up some of my own rediculous auto-complete hilariousness. This is up with what I came (proper grammar: FAIL)....

"I have" was the initial phrase here. I'm not that crazy.

Never seen the definite artilce used like that.

Is this serious the number one "like"? Teen Choice Awards should be interesting this year.

Pee is many things...

Nesbess?

2009-11-12T08:12:00.000-08:00

Dont' tell any art directors, but i'm pretty sure that

McBess

is the extra bad-ass alter ego of

Harry Nesbitt

Starting to think I want one too. Maybe later in my career...

2009-11-06T09:21:00.000-08:00

LIEBERMANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!

2009-10-28T10:16:00.000-07:00

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Punch in the throat!

One more Inc

2009-09-22T11:50:00.000-07:00

Missed this one. It's a biggy.

Def gonna check it out when i get the chance.

Hehe. it's a ".org" site. ^∂^

Incorporated

2009-09-10T06:04:00.000-07:00

Everything you hold dear to you grandmother's cooking to the very core of your soul is now an corporate commodity!

Proof:

Reform, how I miss thee...

2009-08-19T07:31:00.000-07:00

President Obama:

What you just did to healthcare reform (or is it "health insurance reform?" why Presidents generally don't try to go big in their first year. If you were planning to fold on the public option the whole time why weaken the rest of your term by showing your cards so early? Do six conservative Blue Dogs really have the power to stop real change, change that you promised? Or were you really in the pockets of the insurance lobby the whole time. OR is this some grand scheme to make us fight harder, to get us to make you do it? Does it really take an angry mob on the lawn to get anything done to that is decent for our fellow humans? Well that's what you're about to get. I hope it's what you wanted.

Respectfully yours,

Nate Bear

John K Stuff: Betty Boop Story Ideas

2009-07-27T06:32:00.000-07:00

John K Stuff: Betty Boop Story Ideas

If this ever gets made I want Bimbo to have secret upside-down duck fetish. Like he fantasizes about Betty being one even while on the outside he absorbs her with an accepting, be-yourself-affirming embrace.

Black Hole$

2009-07-14T05:53:00.000-07:00

Where is all our great-grand-children's debt to China going?

Thrillerfied

2009-07-07T14:51:00.000-07:00

Am I the only one that secretly hopes that Michael Jackson will come back fro the grave with about 1000 other zombies and perform Thriller at the staples center?

Also, everyone should check out my Deviant Art profile. I recently revived it and started posting and being active almost daily. Also some pieces will prob only end up there and not on my blogs.

New Idea

2009-03-26T14:46:00.000-07:00

Every ten years instead of just redrawing congressional districts, why don't we redraw all the national borders. But without any geographical limitations. So part of of Poland can be in lower NJ, and Timbuktu can be partly near the north pole. Really mix it up. I bet a lot more Americans would have passports, just so they could go to the nearest 7-11. "Don't go to Wawa, your sales tax will go to Pakistan!" I think after a few decades of that there's be bigger sense of international community and globalism. And people wouldn't have to move, (unless they want to stay part of whatever country they started in); I think just having to live within the "borders" of another country would be enough to cross pollenate culture. Haha. Imagine German TV airing all over the Bible Belt, or getting nothing but Iranian news in Washington DC!

Totally half-bake* but i like the general idea so far...

*oxymoron

Uncanny Valley

2009-03-04T13:57:00.000-08:00

That the term that for the steep drop in appeal that accurs as robots become more life-like.

This article on Slate describes it pretty well.

http://www.slate.com/id/2102086

I posted this entry purely for my own reference.

2009

2009-02-02T15:35:00.000-08:00

The year that Black men rule the Eath and white boys play Caribbean music.

2008-11-04T21:32:00.000-08:00

All i can say to this is, "AWWWWWWW! So precious!"

Sue Harris was not quite sure how to react to the historic victory of Barack Obama. At an election night party held by the local Republican party in the Texas town of Beaumont, she was briefly lost for words.

"I do not know how I feel," she said. Then she found her voice. "My reaction is: what is America thinking? How could he get hold of the country? I am afraid our way of life is about to change drastically," she said.

And to this, "HA!":

Good.

2008-04-07T20:50:00.001-07:00

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
by Jerry Saltz

Ikea’s homepage recently proposed: "Feel free to take advantage of us." At Postmasters Gallery, the wily Guy Ben-Ner has happily obliged. Last year, without permission, this Israel-born artist, who lives in New York and Berlin -- he ably represented Israel in the 2005 Venice Biennale -- installed himself, his wife and their two cutie-pie kids in Ikea model rooms all over the world. Setting a camcorder on "auto," Ben-Ner filmed his family in a semi-scripted soap opera. Most scenes last until Ikea staff throws everyone out. The result is the bitingly crackpot, politically poignant 18-minute Stealing Beauty.

Ishmaelites Among Us!

2008-04-07T20:49:00.001-07:00

From the the google books version of

Sunfood Living: Resource Guide for Global Health

By John McCabe.

So far reads less like a book on nutrition and more like an inspiring call to action. <3

YouTube i too weird

2008-04-07T20:47:00.000-07:00

What's up with the full bleed on the newer YouTube skin? So annoying when using safari since there's not enough contrast with the background applications.

And while i'm at is why is the player window's control's so basic when so many sites which basically amount to rip-offs have way more options like Mofile and Youku. They make it look so easy to watch anything in sepia tones or correct aspect ratios. I guess it's jsut the american way. We like our camera's on auto snapshot and we like our videos to play with no hassles.

Geek Hate?

2008-03-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

Great article by Paul Graham that begins trying to figure out why nerds get persecuted in US high schools. In the end he conludes that it is a symptom of our poorly planned school system in general... http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html

Jurassic Parking

2008-03-10T15:24:00.000-07:00

Last Monday Went to see Wham City's presentation of "They All Must be Deestroyed: A Jurassic Park Play" at the Market Hotel in Brooklyn. I got some hilarious footage. Unfortunately, I was unaware of myy new camera's LACK of MICROCPHONE. Therefore, it's more of a highlight reel of whatever was visually interesting out of the video I had. Anyway, try to enjoy it. I'm gonan keep my eye on these folks for future shows. It was duh funness

Madame Tutli Putli

2008-02-25T09:47:00.000-08:00

Duck, Speak!

2007-12-16T21:46:00.000-08:00

Hello. Feeling fat? My name is Zabazar Jimbekte, the royal prince of Timbuktu, and it i s my official duty to inform you that you've won the Tribal Lottery of Sankore!!! That's right you are entitled to Totally Free 1000 iPod Nanos of your choice. All you have to do is send me a nominal fee of 500 penis enlargement pills to cover the cost of making a wire transfer into your account. If you do not have 500 penis pills I just hear do this great way to make mad cash flippin' houses for a profit. I know a guy who QUIT HIS JOB and spends 30 seconds a year turning money pits into gold. That's right you can be a huge man with pockets full of Nano and profit all from the comfort of you home if you accept this lottery invitation to burn fat from your secret celebrity quiz! If you can tell me which of these people is the most famous I'll throw in Playstations from Macy's. I just got mine and it was so easy to obtain, i QUIT MY JOB (to solicit my friends non-stop for 5 weeks to earn point rewards).
•Angelina Jolie
•Paris Hilton
•Beyonce Knowles

CORRECT! Click your state to find out the mortgage savings you could earn by completely this survey that also entitles you to twice the Lottery winnings your dead Aunt Rosa my have left for you outside the door. Go check! May take 2-3 centuries to arrive. Until then I have ringtones for your camera that are so hot I dropped my mp3 Phone. Soulja Boy Britney Spears 50 Cent and more! Just send me the Penis Pills already!

Thanks! How are you doing.

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Wisdom Words (that are Wise!)

2007-12-16T07:43:00.000-08:00

It's not how far you fall, but how you land.

Printer paper, fax paper, and copy paper are all one.

I forgot the 3rd one.

Soup, Not See

2007-12-10T14:48:00.000-08:00

Pt 1 of my re-toonification of Uncle Eddie's soup antics(1, 2).

The Age of Music

2007-11-05T19:33:00.000-08:00

I spent the day watching documentaries about calssic masterpieces of visual art. At some moment bewtween movies it occured to me that
the visual arts (painting, sculture, and argualbly architecture. others?) seemed to have a certain pervasive influence that they don't seem to have today. Maybe the documentarians exaggerated the cultural influence artists of old had on culture at large. In any case the fact is that in today's world the visual arts play second fiddle to music (no pun intended). Think about it. If you ask the average person to name 5 painters living or dead it's a struggle to get more than Picasso and Rembrandt. however, if you ask someone to name 10 dead musicians that they hear on a regular basis it'd be like turning on a faucet. Ho

How did this come to be? I think Music always had a couple of advantages over visual art. One, you can dance to it. No matter how powerful a masterpiece you can muster, you could never make one that would instantaneously make a crowd of people staart bouncing their bodies. Two, it's always been easier to distribute. Even before sheet music it was faster to teach someone a sng than to make a reproduction of a drawing. It'd very unlikely that everyone in a whole culture would have seen the same painting, sculpture or building but it's very likely for most of a population to know a whole cache of the same songs.

However, the visual arts had a few advantages of their own. One is the permanence of the original piece. With almost any work of art you can point to it and say. "look at that. He mad ethat with his own hands." And almost feel the artists' physical presence. Of course we have on paper every note of great composers of the past but it doesn't ahve the direct tangibility. It's even worse for musicians. The "performances" of master painters and sculptures last for centuries but the legacy of a musician never lasted past the generation of people who could actually hear the performance. But of course that all changed with Edison.

Once the phonograph and later the moving picture came about , specific performances could be viewed by millions of people and replayed for generations after. Now music has all the cards stacked in its favor. It has the permanence and the directness to the creator that was once exclusive to art plus it's more distributable and dancey than ever. A fan could listen to evey breath of a perfornce bya musician that died 50 years before she was born. And notes and noises of studio albums regularly contain all the intricate, meticulous, and loving detail of a van Eyck oil painting.

Music is King. Movies, suposedly the king o visual arts are gradually becoming nothing more than elaborate music videos for the soundtrack. Despite Napsterization the music industry it does billions in sales. And who the heck tries to illegally download a painting anyway? Musicians consistently sell out arena events. Most people know who picasso is but how many of them have actually seen his work? Meanwhile, everyone hears britey Spears whether we want to or not.

Cartoons i think might be the only art o have the potential to usurp music, but that's for another post.

Voters of 2020 Prepare for My Election

2007-10-22T12:32:00.000-07:00

The year 2020 is the first year I'll be eligible for the office of The President of the United States of America*. But why wait. If there is a groundswell of support for my candidacy we could change the constitution to get me in sooner. I'd much rather be president in 2012, when my favorite parts of the country are still above sea level. Of course mis-interpretation of the constitution is much more profuse than actual amendments. In that case I could land the position of Bush-Family-Member In Chief by 2009 if i nail one of the twins.

In any case, I ought to be your president, and you WANT me to be your Decider in Chief. Here's why:

•You'll go from "Government bad" to "Government good." I believe the government should be benevolent whenever possible and never do anything harmful if it can be helped. Think Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. The only thing the government can know about you is whatever you share in the deca-annual census provided for by the constitution. It won't lock you up or spy on you or kick sand in your face. On the other hand it will give you everything you need from housing to healthcare to puppies. THat's right! The government will give you puppies! And iPods. Seriously i don't know how people live without those.

•Guns ok if guns point out. The only think I hate more than gun violence is domestic gun violence. I don't mind if people own guns. All for it, but you can't aim it at any living creature within US borders. So basically guns can only be operated US borders or 20 miles of the coast. Sorry Mexicans.

•Good news for Mexicans! Wal*Mart's coming! That's right I say the US should do away with NAFTA and just outright buy Mexico. Aliens already here will become full citizens (or slaves depending on the purchase contract). Americans will get an LA the stretches all the way down teh west coast to house all the 15-minute stars that YouTube produces and a lot of vacationing resort. And Mangos. Best of all the Guatamala-US border wall will be much cheaper to build than the current Tancredo proposal.

•New York moves next to Hawaii. I would add that they also become seperate countries, but that would be too much of a loss in tourist revenue. Perhaps they get to make their own laws as long as we get a profit cut.

•Dispose of Nukes into the sun. We all know that nuclear bombs are dangerous, and the sun will eventually burn out. Why not prevent our own demise 2-fold by disposing of nukes and giving the sun a few more hours of fuel. Rocket fuel too much of a risk? Use a solar rocket that, it will just go faster as it gets closer tot he sun.

•All property and income taxes to be paid in pennies, by hand ...personally. In fact all payment shall be made this way. People will be a little more hesitant to splurge. Rich people will get so sick of carrying around huge sacks of coins all the time that they'll gladly hand it over to some able-bodied blue collar workers with mouths to feed.

Did I mention the Free Puppies and iPods?

*Look out, Un-United States of Africa!

Violence

2007-10-01T14:02:00.001-07:00

Peopel who belive violence is necessary are only seeing a small part of the picture. If you think about the root of violent act, they usually originate out of the need to take something from someone else. People use force to take others' resources, labors, or whatever. When people say violence is necessary for survival they assume that there isn't enough of something to go around (oil, food, etc). However, most estimates of worldwide resources and production potential exceed the needs of the current population . If supplies were evenly distributed, that is. So basically if we redirected our efforts from fighting and hording towards distribution and greater productivity everyone would be sitting pretty.

Now, the question is what shall be the social mechanism(s) by which to achieve this goal.

Now that's a Show!

2007-09-11T19:16:00.000-07:00

Not just cuz it's a lot of people. (a la 40 rappers grunting on stage) They're interesting too. Too bad the song is kinda lame.

Security

2007-09-11T15:16:00.002-07:00

You gotta be kiddin me!

And apparently the correct answer is NOT xgxkxswzk. It's getting to the point where the ONLY thing that can read these things are complicated hacking programs. But i guess it's better than the alternative of insane amounts of spam.

Might I note the parallels in the inconvenience/security trade-off of airport security.

Yeah, I know it's 'C' and not a 'G'. I just figured it out now. If anyone else sees a really indecipherable security scramble like this send it too me. I want a collection of this insanity.

Planet Krylon

2007-08-12T19:41:00.000-07:00

Let's travel far into the outer reaches of the galaxy. Envision a planet much like our own in many way except for the fact that the people of that planet hold dear the belief in free public expression and it would almost never occur to anyone to restrict such expression. This is planet Krylon, where everyone communicates through graffiti. Oh sure the people can talk and sign and write blocks of text, but they find these modes of communication primitive and limited. They feel free to illustrate all their ideas instead. Whereas , here on Earth we communicate primarily by sending sound through ever ubiquitous atmospheric gases, on Krylon they use whatever surface is available to them to spontaneously paint their ideas. And there is always surface availble.

Be warned, young traveller! Such an illustrious world is no dreamland of artists. Where there is art, there is deception. An Earthling would have a tough time navigating Krylon. Besides the intense visual clutter the perpetually surrounds you, there are those that persistently try to confuse other. For example on any corner there might be ten seemingly identical street signs all with different names. The true sign may have the ability to repel any type of surface pigment or obstruction, but there are no laws banning public sculpture of any kind. The residents of course evolved into very discerning folks indeed and can immediately spot the prevelant knockoffs of anything.

But what of professional artists on this planet. If everyone paints and sculpts constantly is there any place for art for art's sake? "Well", an inhabitant might reply (in coloring of course), "don't you have gifted orators, actors, writers, and poets that transcend the normal use you your own common medium?" Truly, not everyone on Krylon is gifted, but everyone does draw. They just don't stop at grade school. On Krylon chiildren are raised to be articulate in all media.

Ok, and that's when i got tired of writing. About halfway through I just started making it up on the fly, as opposed to the first half of the piece, which were ideas bottled up in my head for over an hour waiting to be solidified. Open to suggestions as to how to end this. See any typos? I'm sure it's chock full. Where are my grammar-maniacs!

Graffiti: What’s it for?

2007-08-12T17:38:00.000-07:00

I just saw a couple short documentaries on graffiti. In both artists were posed with questions of why they do it and whether it should be/is legal. They almsot uniiversally cited graffiti as a form of expression that benefits themselves and the onlooker (AKA everyone). To the second question almost none of them questioned the illegality of the act. "it should be illegal. I mean we're putting posters on other people's shit [paraphrase]," commented one unidentified artist. While some even reveled in its status for the thrill-factor. Somehow, these two ideas seem incongruous to me.If this public art is so rewarding to the artists and the community then why should it be illegal, and why not do it through legal channels (as none of the artist did for a majority of their work)?

I think the fundamental aspect of graffiti's allure is as a form of protest. By purposefully breaking the law your action becomes a protest of that law. Most people only do things they personally believe should be allowed. Vandalism of corporate advertisements, especially corporate-sponsored graffiti, in a way rejects the notion that public visual space can only be sold to the highest bitter. It's a statement that the public space belongs to the public at large, not just dollar-powered private entities.

Graffiti culture asserts that evolution of the public space in the new millennium shall operate by survival of the most creative rather survival of the richest. Why should we bow to the elite who write anti-graffiti laws to protects the advertising interests? I say that all public visual art should be legal, and that if people don't want the public facades of their property reface should make that surface so visually enjoyable that no one would feel the need to cover it.

More DVNR Horrors

2007-06-10T14:51:00.001-07:00

Dailymotion blogged video
Tex Avery DVNR Disaster
Video sent by tacos4all

Stalker Doodles!

2007-06-10T14:33:00.000-07:00

These are some drawing I did of strangers at an airport on my way home from Rome.

That miserable old couple was so cute, i could barely do them justice. The gentleman's' glasses probably ought to have been emphasized more.

This guy looked as if he hated his entire trip.

Seems that I was subconsciously imposing ponderous lower lips on everyone. Perhaps i was ponderous myself.

Look at these clips

2007-05-29T19:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.adultswim.com/shows/pilotweek/

and tell me, do they not all feature the same exact character: a reckless slob that acts completely irresponisibly and occasionally gets stranded in a boat at sea or crashes a car through building facades. Whoever green-lighted/"developed" all 5 of these shows secretly wishes that (s)he were sociopathic.

Colbert Plays DVNR'ed Charlie Brown

2007-05-18T05:24:00.000-07:00

For a second i thought, that's weird animation effect to wobbly erase the outlines... than i realized exactly how random the line erasures are. Teh culprit is DVNR again!

DVNR_CB
Uploaded by tacos4all

I ought to make a slo mo version later.

Panda! Pa Panda, Kopanda!!

2007-05-14T22:11:00.000-07:00

Gene Shallot

2007-05-14T21:22:00.000-07:00

Tee Vough my Azzzzz

Need inspiration? And Cheap?

2007-05-10T22:05:00.000-07:00

Look no further than the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive at animationarchive.org. You can't visit this site without getting some sort of idea. They have so many of the most skillful and beautiful cartoons, animation, and illustration art that I've never heard of anywhere else. Every time, I visit i find at least one "new" image tha t blows me away. My favorite area at the moment is the Golden Age of Illustration. The work there is so beautiful and blows away so much of the work done since. Moreover, I will probably never have to buy any books on animation and illustration including the original (copyright infringing) version of Preston Blair's seminal Advanced Aniamtion , which has jsut about all the information you would need to learn to animate 1940s style cartoons. A lofty goal for sure!

And of coares there is Chiquita Banana ♥

Just check out my previous post if you don't believe the blog can get you going.

2007-05-05T09:46:00.000-07:00

I was looking over some of these Heinrich Kley sketches from a recent ASIFA post and i noticed two things while perusing his sketches:

A) He seems to see the structure of the thing first and then sort of traces or with his actual line. (see above image) That's why he probably can draw his line's so freely and confidently. He knows where they are going already, so it's just a matter of adding flourish to it.

B) Sketches in general seem to contain nonexistent lines. By this i mean lines that are not actually visible in the physical thing you are drawing.

For example, in Kley's leopard here there are are lines whizzing about every which way up and down its tail and spin and around it's legs. The almost seem to indicate internal anatomy or just general line of action for different parts of the body. It's almost as if the artist is drawing path of some sort of metaphysical energy that isn't necessarily visible. Life itself!

I don't know what that circle in the hippo's neck is supposed to be but i sure does look exciting! And it doesn't look "wrong" or "bad".

If one were to make a polished drawing of these sketches These would probably be the first liens to get omitted as "unnecessary" clutter. However a lot of times when i do that with my won sketches (and i see it frequently in others too professionals even) it seems all-of a sudden less alive. "They" say the trick to making a finished drawing is to capture the same vitality of the sketch, but somehow i think it's impossible, because those superfluous lines are illustrations of the life energy itself. So any time you omit that are you necessarily making a less vital drawing? I've always had this saying that the best way to honor a spontaneous moment is not to capture but to create another one. So perhaps the best way to translate final drawing from a draft isn't to faithfully trace it but rather to use it as inspiration and guidance for your final set of lines.

Shameless Imparting

2007-05-05T06:48:00.000-07:00

So the other day Johnk posted all sorts of details about these storyboarding lessons he's giving his pupil, Rex. At the end of the post is the complete outline for the cartoon Rex was storyboarding. Well, the story was so inspiring and I got really excited about it. All these pictures started popping up in my head. So I started illustrating my own take on the outline. Of course I had already viewed Rex's drawing for most of the cartoon so most of it ended up being plagiarism. However, I think my main point of this was to elaborate my own details into the storyboard. Moreover, I screwed up some of the details, such as George should be stuffing an elephant seal; I just drew a generic sea otter thingy.I also had a bunch of ideas about the rest of the story but @ 5am I sorta needed to get SOME sleep. Ha. IN any case here's what I DID draw:

Music Fever

2007-04-30T07:46:00.000-07:00

A couple new songs I mad yesterday. Sorry I can't really embed them so I have to refer you to their sources:

http://mysapce.com/badsounding ("Josi" and "Dilly Dolly" are newest)

http://mog.com/BAD/blog_post/68898

It's OK

2007-02-27T12:30:00.000-08:00

I don't want to live forever because I'm to boring for the future.

As a rule, I believe nothing. I believe there are no rules.

Toon Boom

2007-02-20T12:25:00.000-08:00

ToonboomtryoutVGA
Uploaded by tacos4all

Last night I tried using an animation software that's actually made for animating. It looks pretty good so far. It's sort of like flash, except without all that stuff that's only useful for making web banners. Plus i was able to just start hand-drawing frames without hours of tutorials. The drawing tool is also pretty intuitive. I got fairly satisfying vector-based lines using my tablet without having to tweak it much.

New Video!

2007-02-18T21:08:00.001-08:00

Cumverslation
Uploaded by tacos4all

CONCEPT: K & N taped each other spouting random BS from their mouths and then spliced up the footage into some semblance of a converslation.

WET is this Sh•T?

2007-02-16T14:31:00.000-08:00

Especially this:
Not to mention more than half the pages is eaten up by this celebrity gossip thingy:

It's Video

2007-01-11T18:01:00.000-08:00

Ice Bath

2007-01-11T17:31:00.000-08:00

Ice Bath
Uploaded by tacos4all

2007-01-08T20:52:00.001-08:00

WOW!

2007-01-08T16:38:00.000-08:00

An independently made comdey video that isn't a total crap pile!

Don't prove me wrong!

White Ass hell + jazz + Katie

2006-12-23T10:31:00.000-08:00

DanceGill
Uploaded by tacos4all

Nightmare Before Upcoming Holdiay

2006-12-17T20:23:00.000-08:00

HS Nightmare Before Christmas pt1
Uploaded by tacos4all

HS Nightmare before Christmase Pt 2
Uploaded by tacos4all

Awesome shirt!

2006-11-30T16:29:00.000-08:00

complete with bad Engrish grammar (OK for ENgrish it's perfect grammar)

Empty Thine PJs!

2006-11-23T14:21:00.000-08:00

I know it sound perverse at first, but just wait and see where it goes.

If You Ever We so Curious as I

2006-11-18T22:45:00.001-08:00

In regards to the mechanizations and origins of sewing machines. Here it is.

Billy the Squid

2006-11-16T19:36:00.000-08:00

©2006 Nate Bear

Another drawing that bubbled to the surface while I cleaned my car. I don't really remember drawing this. However, I can tell you that it depicts Squidman, a character I created about 10 years ago whom I haven't drawn much since. I must have figured it was time for a revival to see how I might interpret him now.

I drew Mickey Just Like Everyone Who Drew Him Before Me

2006-11-16T19:07:00.000-08:00

I think that EverybodyNeeds2DrawMickeyOnce.com is an awesome idea. It's a beautiful site to see so many interpretations of single idea.

I'm posting the one I just submitted only because they resize it so small. I've drawn Mickey several times before with the website in mind but i never got around ot posting them. I drew this one just for the heck of it without intending to post it up but still having the website in the back of my mind when i started (doe sthat make sense?) Then today I stumbled upon a link to the site and went, "What the heck!" So now here it is all colored for your eyes to enjoy. You do enjoy it don't you?

Napkin Drawing I found

2006-11-14T11:27:00.000-08:00

under my carseat!

2006-11-10T22:23:00.000-08:00

When asked what one uses to get into their car most people would likely respond, “My keys.” However most of don’t really use what we’re talking about. Most of use the little clicker bound to the keys by a keychain. The car goes, “BOOP BOOP!” and we enter it. Only then does one use the keys to start the engine. The key is still useful for opening the door but unless you’ve clicked the clicker the alarm goes off despite your legal authority to enter it (well my particular car does anyway). In any case in the contemporary western system of symbols a key is a narrow metal thing that you poke into a (key)hole to open a door of some kind. However, a key is universally defined* as a tool one uses to gain acces to something else. A key on a map gives you access to the information on the map. They key to a code gives you access to what the spies are talking about. They key to the cupboard gives you access to canned chili. The BOOP BOOP clicker is one of two possible keys that allows you access to the interior of your car. Therefore, EVERYONE uses keys to get into our cars, whether it bee a grooved metal rod, a mangled coat hanger, or a red clay brick, and everyone who answers the question conventionally is right.

*The dictionary actually says a key is piece of metal with little notches that undoes locks.

(Side note: I had to retrace my steps to the front entranc eof my house soi could remember that my bright idea was about keys. Otherwise this post might have been about how it sucks to lose a good ideas. Key enthusiasts rejoice!)

2006-11-10T21:58:00.000-08:00

If you found yourself on an alien planet which resides in the solar system of a sun with significantly bluer light than our own “yellow” sun, then everything would appear sot be in various shades of blue or colors heavily tinted towards the blue range of the spectrum. However the natives of this planet would see a very broad spectrum of colors as they’d be evolutionarily adapted to take full advantage of the spectrum available to them. I bet there are spiders on our own planet that can see more shades of blue than we can imagine. Maybe I’m just talking about humans that would be born on that planet. In any case Darwin was an evolved being, whereas those of us who claim to be Intelligently Designed are neither.

Spumc-O-Latern!

2006-10-26T22:16:00.000-07:00

Stimp-O-Lantern to be precise

2006-10-26T17:51:00.000-07:00

Ok. I pretty much left the crappy compostion as is for this one and tried to concentrate on the colors. However, I did try to punch up the foreground characters' sillhouettes a bit. In the orginal SHrek looks like a sack of potatoes (does he ever not?)

2006-10-25T12:34:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd try to redesign some of the horrible posters John K posted but try to use the same concept they were meant to portray.

Here's a Shrek poster where they are actually scared of the flame-spewing dragon.
I took the idea of the poster at face value. I know in the movie they befriend the dragon and that's why someone decided to make them all smile in the original. However, If that's the case my friends don't usually show flames at my ass when we go jogging. (i usually shoot fire at their asses because they're so slow).
Of course i tried to keep everything off center. In fact they all seem to be running from it. Heh. I'm still working on the colors. You can probably tell I'm into garish colors.

I got a couple other ideas for reworking this one. So hopefully I'll have a functioning color scheme by then. But hey, that's what this is all about. actually challenge oneself and putting some thought into the design, the exact opposite of the originals that were shat out in 0.2 seconds.