Dog Ball Day Afternoon

Saturday April 20, 2013

It was an intense, difficult week for America.  On Monday, the Boston Marathon was rocked with two explosions that left 3 dead and many injured.  Through the week law enforcement and the FBI worked on identifying suspects and gathering information, and by the end of the week we were left with a suspect in custody in critical condition and one dead.  A fertilizer plant in West Texas suffered a devastating explosion that left at least 15 people dead and hundreds injured or lost.  In China the H7N9 continued to claim more lives.

Today I woke up slightly hungover.  I had to return Stardust Memory and Myspace DHP v5 today, so I swapped them out for What I Did by Jason, Fringe v1, R.E.D., The Losers, Seven Soldiers of Victory and two DVD's:  Gundam 0080: War In the Pocket and Dirty Pair.  I'd say that's a good haul.

I read another great Sam Alden comic, The Worm Troll.   I learned about David Gaddis & a few other great early web comics creators because of this article about Modern Tales.

Sunday April 21, 2013

Today I woke up at 9:30am.  To shut my alarm off and then sleep for another hour.  We went bowling for my roommate's nieces' belated birthday party and hit up the pizza parlor.  It was a fun day and I love his extended family.  He and his sister make a hilarious duo.  We ended the visit w/ a lazy watching of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.  I played with a pitbull and a bunch of kids.  I was pretty happy.  I also bowled pretty well too.  At home I got into an impromptu fanart for Julie's Lost In The Vale comic.  I felt very vulnerable and self-critical about my art and lack of professional accomplishment.  It came out while catching a quick workout with Adam.  Tonight, as Monday rolls in, I can smell hotdogs roasting on a grill a few apartments upwind of me.  I'm going to dissect the week in a second as we head into the last week of April and near the last month of Spring.  Tonight I watched Little Witch Academia!

 Su on deviantart | Lynn V. Wang's Dog Snack Work | exhaustive resource for pixel art | JIA on cghub | Kevin Wada on tumblr | Val Kung on Artigraphy | Betty & Veronica by Brandon Graham and Emily Carroll |  Little Thunder spotlight on Meathaus | O Human Star |

On Monday (4/15) I was following developments on the Boston Marathon bombing.  I read a few of those pixel tutorials, and somehow ended up on 4chan.  Then found out about a newer Yoshitaka Amano book, Hero, and pined away for an Android mini-pc. By the wee early hours of Tuesday morning (4/16) I was perusing old bookmarks.  Wednesday (4/17) I spent a ridiculous amount of time and effort trying to set up a windows media center stream over our home network.  I failed.  I'm not sure what happened Thursday (4/18) but I know I didn't get much sleep nor much done.  On Friday 4/19) I was just happy to be done with the work week, so we went on a journey to get some Angry Orchard Cider, barely made it back, and then I drank like a mad man.

This week I kind of buckled under the pressure on completing the t-shirt design for the boy's birthday this next weekend.  It was a week of struggle and uncertainty. Thankfully I had friends to share a laugh with.

@sour_apple This is what I drew after your suggestion: twitter.com/pennyloafing/s…
— Pennnnny (@pennyloafing) April 21, 2013

Drawing from a Well of Ideas

Uploaded by bouletto1975 on Feb 8, 2011

This is my new favorite thing ever. Boulet is just frickin' amazing.

Check out Ed Tadem's portfolio. He's the guy currently on MTV's Splashpage header.

Pizza Island Self Portraits! Pizza Island Tours Also!

Thank you Scott McCloud for leading me here.

In two days I've realized how long it takes me to parse through all the tweets I missed while at work. It's something like 2 hours. Imagine if I was following more people. Ridiculous.

http://www.avoidthefuture.com/ Trust me.

I'm so happy that Okay Pants is once again available to read.

Sage advice about getting creative by Austin Kleon.

Warwick Johnson Cadwell is another of those talented Brits here on the interwebz.

And Brandon Graham blows our minds on this TCJ post. OMG Stumptown is almost here again!

Sorry if everything is so scattered today. I had a great weekend with friends and still had a chance to take a nice Sunday me-day out in the sunshine. I walked out of the library with a pair of painting books, a pair of Lewis Trondheim's Little Nothings GN's, a pair of Margaret Atwood books: Moral Disorder and the Penelopeiad, a pair of DVD's: Fellini's Amarcord, and the Magnolia 2007 collection of Academy Award nominated shors, and a pair of really fun suspense TPB's Nick Fury: Agent of Nothing Secret Warriors, and Paul Pope's Heavy Liquid. This is going to be an exciting week!




Uploaded by KinokoFry on Apr 1, 2011

I am traveling through time

Hi, I am traveling through time. Or at least through the archives of time. It has been probably a solid month since I started working my way through all of Nedroid's livejournal archives, and I've stumbled upon some wonderful, heartwarming, outrageously funny moments in his correspondence with fans and friends. Simultaneously I've been going through my own google search archives and pinpointed what I was doing during that span of time. This is kind of like a memory jog, but also like one of those split stream movies where we follow two or more characters. You know, something like Sliding Doors, Time Code, or Trading Places.

Anyway, I don't have much to link dump this weekend since I've been soaking up what's left of the summer. Had some barbecue, swam, and played guitar with a lot of good company. As another season drifts into the greyness of memory I just wanted to take stock of what's been going on, what I am anticipating, and what I hope will come. Do you ever do this?

http://www.hanaroda.net/comics/ - Hyeondo Park did an amazing comic about losing his dog, which I stumbled and favorited over 2 years ago.

http://radiomaru.com/page/26/ - Bryan O' Malley at one point was heavily focused on finishing his 5th volume of Scott Pilgrim as shooting began on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Vol. 6 and the movie have at this moment been out for 2 weeks.

I am at this moment reading volume 6 of Scott Pilgrim, anxiously awaiting Octopus Pie vol. 1, and Remake by Lamar Abrams. I learned about Remake and Adhouse books through Radiomaru's blog archive. Other things I gleaned from his blog were: Donjon by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, these cool bands and songs, these cool books, and that he is good friends with Brandon Graham, whose King City vol. 1 I enjoyed immensely.

Hey you guys! I'm also getting better at playing the guitar! I should make a video or somethin'. Well, I've got a bunch of other stuff to do so that will have to wait. Cross your fingers and wish that I'm able to get Windows 7 installed in my rig soon.

Smell you later,

Del