Christmas Merry to You!

Johnny Facepuncher interview

Interview with Johnny Facepuncher from "The Agent of Awesome pt. 2"

The Violence

Primer

This movie is awesome. It's a bit hard to follow, and you won't understand it the first time, but if you like movies involving time travel, I suggest you see it, like... yesterday.

Imagination be Damned!

Not really, but that's what I thought to myself when I was going over some thoughts in my head today.

I was thinking about how I enjoy illustrations in books. Usually there is one at the beginning of each chapter (that is if there are any) but not more than that. I wish there were more. I know, I know, "but that doesn't let you exercise your imagination, that's what's wrong with this t.v. generation" It's when thinking of someone saying that, that I interjected (in my head, to myself, yeah I know, I'm crazy) "Imagination be damned!" of course I didn't mean it though.

What I mean is, being a big fan of graphic novels and comic books I quite enjoy getting a mental picture of the characters, and the surroundings of their world. A sort of staring point. Then my imagination runs wild thinking of other adventures for them to go on, aside from the one I'm reading. That's when I work out my imagination. I can read a book about someone and then think up a million other adventures or scenarios for them.

I like having that starting point. Maybe that's why I struggle with writing, I need a starting point. Hmmm... but my main problem with writing is developing story from an idea... oh well, that's a rant for another day.

-End-

This blog was inspired while reading Story Vessel's first release, "Truman Burrows, Kid Spy: The Bully Ring" A review of this book is forth coming, but for now I highly suggest you check out Story Vessel and consider getting a copy of Truman's first published adventure (The book is handmade by the authors!)

Tessa Raven Art

This is my good friend Tessa:

Tessa is an amazing artist:

Here is some of her amazing art:




She sold this one at Momentum Art Show 2010


You can buy this necklace and others on her Etsy











Thats me!

You can become a fan of hers on facebook

You can (and should) buy her art on Etsy

Back home

My trip to St. Louis (well actually Eureka) was great. I had so much fun and was greatly encouraged. Funky's family are the most generous, hospitable bunch you might ever know.

I will be uploading the photos to my photo blog soon, so keep an eye out for that.

Now that I'm back home I'm ready to get busy. I need to save money for better camera equipment. So I need more photo jobs. I'm working with Cory (Better Way Screen Printing) to offer some sweet band package deals (shirts, buttons, patches and promo shots, for one low price)

So if you need some photography, or screen printing done, hit me up.

Happenings

Man. It's been a week since I had posted on this blog. I WAS on a roll.
Oh well, this coming week is gonna be insane. The St. Louie trip.
I'm a bit nervous still, but now that I have made all my decisions I am a lot more comfortable.

I'm a little discouraged by the lack of comments on my first illustrated writing. I was so excited, I posted it here, on facebook and twittered about it. I think i even sent out a mass email and I've hardly received any feedback. Maybe it wasn't as funny as I thought it was.
Oh well. I'll keep trying, though I never seem to have time to write.

I know this is probably something to post on my photo blog but I think I decided I want to start taking more art photos and entering them into art shows. I'm thinking of entering my roach picture (the background of this blog) in the next momentum show.

Since this blog post has been real boring, I will leave you with this, for your entertainment:

Dragons

The very first of my writings to ever be illustrated! Thanks to the amazing Sarah Cade.
I know the font is dumb. But we talked about working on it more so I wasn't going to spend a lot of time making the words look nice.

I was too excited to upload it.

South Park Me

Hey look it's me as a south park character... kind of.

...Don't you hate it when you can't think of anything to blog about? haha.

I have great friends

My good friend Christan of Art of Living Studios and her husband Eric, owner of Artbeat, are going to let me borrow their truck to go to St. Louis to shoot my friend Funky's wedding.

oh st. louis

I guess I should have prefaced this by saying, my friend Funky asked me to shoot his wedding. I am so honored, being specifically asked by another photographer to do his wedding. I will also finally get to meet his soon to be wife Liyah. I will be shooting with a photographer Funky introduced me to, Pam Eder, her stuff is really good. I am very excited, and very, very nervous.

Liyah & Funky

Christan is also letting me borrow a sweet camera lens she got, it's a macro 100mm with a 2.8 f-stop . I had the opportunity to use it at a wedding we shot together a week or so ago. It is really handy, I used it for shots from the balcony during the ceremony. You can see the shots I took when I upload them to my photography blog in a week or so.

I should also mention, Cory & Vanessa Castoe are the amazing people that let me live at their house. They are going to be getting me on their phone plan, which will be saving me a whole lot of money. They are always doing things for me. I love them. Alot.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg on how awesome my friends are.

Disney's Recycled Animation

Another post borrowed from Cracked.com for your entertainment. -

You know those Disney hand-drawn feature films from back in the day? The ones considered the greatest animated works ever made? Well not only did their artists reuse a few frames here and there to save time, they reused entire scenes, just painting over the characters.

If you haven't seen this before, it'll blow your mind:

Yep, Disney's been recycling anything they've felt like since Snow White. And that's just the tip of the world's laziest iceberg; there are thousands of hours of YouTube videos showcasing just what a bunch of cheapskates the Disney dream factory really is.

Now that we think about it, Mickey and Minnie do have a slight resemblance.

Coolvibe

Posting a blog about a blog, redundant? You're redundant.
But This blog features some amazing digital art, from a wide variety of artists and I suggest you check it out.



Here's a few I really liked:

xkcd

Something most people don't know about me is that I love physics. I never took physics class, but during high school and part of college I would often spend my spare time reading a physics book I had bought. Yeah, I know, I'm a nerd. A friend showed me this website, xkcd.com, that hosts a bunch of web-comics made by a physicist. Here's a little example -


Hover your mouse over the last frame for a little extra.

Guy Goma

Another post borrowed from Cracked.com for your entertainment. -

Guy Goma was waiting on a job interview at the BBC when a receptionist wandered in and asked for "Guy." Of course, she was looking for Guy Kewney, who was going on air to speak about Apple and the Beatles suing each other because--and this just shows that you can revolutionize the handheld gadget industry and the pop music genre, yet still be complete and utter tools--they both thought they owned the rights to the word "apple." Goma apparently thought this was part of his job interview, and managed to show some surprising restraint considering how completely irrelevant the interview questions for Supply Manager were getting--until about halfway in he realizes, holy sh*t, this is actually going out on air:

Goma, perhaps hoping to prove beyond question that he is indeed an "adaptive multi-tasker who thinks on this feet," just up and rolled with it. Unsurprisingly, he didn't get the job. But since then, he's had a string of TV appearances, they might be making his life into a movie and he's become the official poster boy of "Goin' With the Flow" everywhere. Sorry, McCounaghey.

yay everyday

My good friend Tessa shared this image with me, I just had to share it with you guys.


wow.

So I checked out the website it was on, yayeveryday.com, and found quite a few other interesting things to share, enjoy:

Friedrich Wilhelm Voight

I just had to share this. I borrowed it from Cracked.com -

Friedrich Wilhelm Voight. Voight was screwed coming AND going, and not just because he lived in 19th century Germany. Voight didn't have a passport, so he couldn't get a job, and he didn't have a job, so he couldn't get a passport. In literary circles, that's what's known as a Catch-ef-this-is-bs. At his wit's end, Voight decided to capitalize on Germany's love for mindlessly following authority, scrounged up a little cash and bought a captain's uniform. He stopped five soldiers on their way to their barracks and ordered them to follow him, which they did--because he's wearing the special pants, so he's got to be an officer, right? Voight got them to arrest the mayor and treasurer, and ship them off to Berlin, then walked off with four thousand marks. Nobody at any point questioned his credentials or even asked why they'd never seen this captain before.

Presumably out of fear of being bludgeoned to death by his giant brass balls.