Wake and Shake and Smash

 Today is Sunday February 10, 2013.  We are 41 days into the year with 324 days left to make 2013 memorable.  Today ends the year of the dragon leading way to the year of the snake.  Tonight the 55th annual Grammy's air.

 
Published on Feb 7, 2013 schmoyoho

This week Kai became a hero and internet sensation, The East Coast got hammered with the blizzard known as Nemo, and Bauuer's Harlem Shake got the party started all over the world.  This was the week of the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, the earthquake & tsunami near the Solomon Islands, and the release of TPB: AFK.

2/4 Monday:  Stultified by decisions.  Paid rent and turned in 30 days notice.  Took bike ride listening to Starfucker & got a berrock.  Made teacakes.  Never made it out to buy groceries.  Feeling indecisive & unmotivated.  Watched TMNT 2013 ep. 1.

Creepy White Guys of OKC
Hourly Comic Day 2013 roundup on Comics Alliance
Jane Mai's Poop Nightmare via Comics Beat


2/5 Tuesday:  Off work by 11am.  Fixed back breaks on bike, took shower and promptly fell asleep.  Woke up in the evening.  Worked on dog comic, posted kick ass annie sketch.  Anne Koyama's birthday.  Doodled tophat hermit crab dude. Forgot to buy groceries/food; tried to get a pizza but they were closed.  Came home overwhelmed with feelings of failure.

Read Maré Odomo interview on studygroup comics, read Andrew Schick interview on same.  Found out Zack Soto runs Studygroup comics.

2/6 Wednesday:  Off at 11am.  Dreamt up Japanese Hero Avengers:  Cap America = Kenshiro, Iron Man = Ultraman, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver = Cyborg 009, Thor = Guin?, Hulk = Gojira?

Read through a lot of Nedroid 2010 lj archive. Queued AT ep 9 & 10.  Looked around Mia Schwartz's work.  Discovered/read Dinogedden to current.

Barsha Dahal
Cabin Boy by Rachel Morris
Sourya SihaChakr

2/7 Thursday:  Discovered Phobs' Temujin comic.  Read more nedroid lj.  Watched AT ep 9 & 10.  Read Ryan Andrew's This Was Our Pact.



Published on Feb 7, 2013 Minkyu Lee

2/8 Friday:  Got a ride home.  Drank beer.   Fiona Staples linked to Adam and Dog by Minkyu Lee.  Been hearing about Blizzard Nemo hitting the east coast.  Encountered gumroad pdf artbooks thrice this evening.  Or maybe it was once last night and twice this evening.

Best Art Ever on Comic Alliance

2/9 Saturday:  Took a day off from the internet.  

The days of living in my lonely 2-bedroom art cave are drawing to a close and soon enough I'll have to start dismantling my living to carry to a new place.  I am indebted to Neil Gaiman for giving me the space to air out some thoughts on regret, hope, and change.  Time to focus & finish things has been so elusive to me lately.  The first 3 days of the week seem to speed by in a blur, then I'm focusing to make it to the end of the week, and the weekend is just a massive jumble of stimuli.  I'm remembering to pace, or else just dance or jump up and down to calm my mind.


Published on Jun 25, 2012 Jimmy Slonina

Lost Years

I've been drawing Avatar fanarts. Maybe I'll show you them later.


Uploaded by philboy521 on Apr 27, 2011

Eric Canete has some very cool sketches on his blog.

I caught this preview of Warren Ellis & Michael Avon Oeming's Halfmoon.

I finally got around to reading Jane Mai's A Clockwork Rabbit.

This weekend I made some ribs and salsa and ate a lot. I have been an eating machine lately, but I can't seem to put on any weight. It's really confounding to me.

I started watching Avatar: TLA because I finally watched Korra episode 2, and felt the inevitable void. In fact, all week I was consumed with the idea of drawing fan art of the lost years: Katara & Aang and young Tenzin, older Zuko, Toph, Sokka, Suki, etc. Luckily this weekend I came across the art of Jiasumen63 and Kamikazen.

I read Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings. It made me very melancholy and uneasy. I think I prefer his short stories to these long form ones.

I got a lot of little things done this weekend, but all my big problems are looming over me. This month I have to get an extension on a fix-it ticket that I can't feasibly fix right now. I also need to file an appeal for something. It is a big something that worries the daylights out of me. A lot of the time I feel frozen in my tracks, aware of things I need to get done, but afraid of making a move that could just set me back further. I guess this is a facet of depression? In the meantime I lose time I could be spending on making art or honing my craft. With the good weather lately I've wanted to take some pictures, or experiment with some videos. I miss being emerged in craft like I was back in school. If I could have the best of both worlds I would be actively producing like in school, with the freedom to set my own pace and socialize as I do now. Oh yeah, people on the internet have been nice to me lately. :) Silver-lining I guess.

Uploaded by silver117atg on Dec 15, 2011