I am a big fan of Sze Jones! Anyone who can draw an octopus girl like that has my worship. She's an illustrator. Part of her work is combining traditional Chinese ink painting with gouache on subjects from the mythical realm. She said it's kind of like a journal. She thinks vampires are romantic subjects [...]
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Comic Con 2011: Sho Murase
Sho Murase has been working in animation as a freelance character designer and storyboarder for the past ten years. At this year's Comic Con, she's showing and selling her personal work. She was raised in Spain and went to art school in Canada. She's been exhibiting at CCSD, APE and WonderCon for the past five [...]
The future of gaming…well, okay
Here's the 10-page pdf if you'd rather not use up 9 minutes watching the video. In case the link is dead: Latitude-FutureofGaming The Future of Gaming: a Portrait of the New Gamers from latddotcom on Vimeo. Source: Latitude.com project: The New Gamers
Loki! Loki! Loki!
Lookee! https://youtu.be/vJUDu40Z_RY Here's a review of Loki 1 by the fabulous Chad Denton. This "animation" is based on the miniseries, which was wonderful and beautiful and just run ten or eleven positive adjectives together and you get the picture. Here's a rather breathless interview with the brilliant Esard Ribic. Hm, we had some fun in [...]
Chase Bank does something I approve of
You know, I don't like Chase Bank, but I like what they did for this mural: "Meanwhile, one of Sheets' mosaics just got a pricey facelift. Chase Bank, which now owns the former Home Savings chain, recently spent six months and approximately $400,000 refurbishing a 1974 mosaic at the Rolling Hills Estates branch depicting horseback [...]
Shanghi Chinglish
There should be more restaurants like this.
B. Franklin gets a new look
"As if that weren't enough, the U.S. Treasury went all out and made a blockbuster release video for the new $100 bill." Even the New $100 Bill is Going 3D, Mashable, April 21, 2010 https://youtu.be/JwEBIC0a4RY And I wish I had more of these.
“Beat It” in Legos
https://youtu.be/iAOBcXm7bog And the original for comparison: https://youtu.be/oRdxUFDoQe0
Mofo Grief! Weapon Brown #100
Part cyborg, all blockhead.Jason...I...you...um... I love these comics. Buy them. You'll be glad you did. The first Weapon Brown, before Blockhead's War, has a Christmas story in it.
Youtubetopia at Bitter Wallet
https://youtu.be/xzNuS8qMnag "If you're someone who has to spend their whole day half-slumped in front of a computer keyboard, your time is almost certainly spent dreaming of razing the entire fucking office to the ground with a chainsaw. We feel your pain." Commercial Break: Sexist chainsaw massacre, by Andy Dawson on usb, Bitter Wallet, July 9, [...]