The character select screen. They are so happy to be at work!
Can’t believe I never posted this. A great game by Andrew Paradise that I did the art and character design/animation for. A kind of outlandish concept of a malfunctioning microwave and the bored office workers who make a game of throwing things at it. I bug him on and off to work on version 2.0, hopefully that’ll happen someday soon. You can play the finished version here: http://casualgameplay.com/cgdc4/?gameID=39
You know what the internet needs more of? T-shirts. Simply not enough out there. I have decided to do my part to combat this issue.
I have a few designs up on MySoti. You can check them out at http://www.mysoti.com/mysoti/designer/georg/
MySoti uses “Direct To Garment” printing, which is most decidedly NOT screen printing, but by all account I’ve read, it’s pretty high quality. I’m going to order a couple and see how they look. If you are scared of such newfangled ways of printing, but still like the designs, email me and let me know. The plan is to silkscreen these if there’s enough interest.
Okay! Great!
I’ve been following Wimbledon on the internet the past couple of days and just noticed this graphic on top of ESPNs score tracker.
Tennis is X-TREME!
What are they trying to say, exactly? That tennis players are made of fire? Or that when they play too hard they will burst into flames, a la Buffy? Maybe it is just a sly advertisement for fire-resistant clothing. We may never know!
I was walking down the street earlier today when a rogue soccer ball went flying past me. It belonged to a group of Caribbean guys in front of me on the sidewalk. Being a little spacey still from too much computer time, I pick it up and toss it over instead of kicking it like most anyone who’s ever been around a soccer ball would do. They good-naturedly invite me to play which I decline, explaining I’m more of a baseball guy.
They look a little puzzled for a moment and then one of them says, “Yeah, you’re American. You don’t know how to play, right?” And then it was kind of an odd moment when I thought for a second that I should know how to play soccer because I live in Crown Heights, and then I remembered that Crown Heights is actually in New York City. I forget this sometimes, which is kind of cool.
Something I am maybe working on. Might just ditch it.
From Scotland — land of the Kings of 90s Sad Bastard Music, Belle & Sebastian — comes another strong entrant for Saddest Band of the 21st Century: Camera Obscura. Since 2001 they’ve cranked out four solid albums of completely depressing, yet still toe-tappingly catchy indie pop music.
Lead singer Tracyanne Campbell probably isn’t quite in Edith Piaf territory so far as making people cry by singing the phone book, but she’ll probably make you think that everyone from Aaron Aardsman to Zachary Zavracky broke her heart in the last three months.
An example from the new album:
What? Not sad enough for you? Okay, you asked for it:
You would do well to grab some chamomile tea and stare wistfully out the window for awhile… Otherwise we will all see you cry!
Been working on this the past few days. There’s a LOT of pencil and acrylic paint in here, and it’s now proving very difficult to photograph. This is a slightly Photoshopped approximation of how it should look. I’ll try again maybe tomorrow.
You may not know this about me, but I am a man of many hobbies. Fantasy baseball, bike riding, ping pong, tennis, crossword puzzles, connect four, boggle, scrabble, innovative drinking games, the list goes on. One hobby I especially enjoy is collecting domain names. I think at the height of my craze I owned around 40. Why? I DON’T KNOW. Well another, related hobby I enjoy is letting those same domains expire. (13 in the past 9 months!) Sometimes in my frenzy I let one that I like slip through the cracks. Such is the case for oragainstus.com, which apparently had enough traffic to become a billboard for some girl with a backpack.
Not a site I made. I don't even know this girl!
Luckily I own the far superior youareagainstus.com, which should be up and working in the next day or so. In the meantime, if you’re seriously jones-ing for some wordless comics about fear and politics you can check them out at http://ytorf.com/oragainstus, which will always be there.
So update your bookmarks please!
A couple of new posters I recently finished for the Harvard Square Business Association. Neither of these are the final versions, but the ones I WISH were the finals. If you live in the Boston area stop by Harvard Square and check out the printed versions (and the events themselves…) to compare and contrast.
Romanteek and Lady Magma are playing at the Cake Shop Wednesday April 1st, along with Dynasty Handbag and DJ Stache Master.
Romanteek is part of the Olympia, WA DIY rock scene and its “infectious hooks and driving beats sound somewhere between “Remain in Light” era Talking Heads and the funky stylings of Prince, and convey one solid message: all of life’s problems can be worked out on the dance floor.” (from their website)
Lady Magma describe themselves as “scrap rock” and that’s probably a pretty accurate description. It should make for a pretty memorable night
http://www.myspace.com/romanteek
http://www.myspace.com/ladymagma
http://www.myspace.com/dynastyhandbag
Romanteek plays two other shows in New York: Thursday at Zebulon, and Friday at Secret Faggot.
