You're a dude in my book. [entries|friends|calendar]
the D7R of the internet.

[ website | yayseverance.com ]
[ userinfo | livejournal userinfo ]
[ calendar | livejournal calendar ]

Drawn from a word: Defenestrate by Ken Dahl [11 Oct 2008|10:30am]

uberdionysus
Drawn from a word...

Ken Dahl: Defenestrate

Awhile ago, I started a game: I met an artist, gave her two words, and had her draw something based on those words. Since then, whenever I meet an artist, I give them one "SAT" word and ask them to draw whatever they want.

The other day my local comic book store had a reading by Dash Shaw,​​ Ken Dahl,​​ Jesse​ Rekla​w,​​ and Trevo​r Alixo​pulos​. It was packed and hard to see, but the readings were all pretty funny, esp. Jesse Recklaw's dream comics, and Ken Dahl's stuff. Dash Shaw had two stunning animations, one of which is available here and is a 'trailer' for his book Bottomless Belly Button. The animations were by far my favorite things I've seen him do. I really liked his book, but holy crap the animations were great. I picked up Reklaw and Dahl's book, and didn't have enough money to get Alixopulos' book (which seemed like apocalyptic stories by sexed-up punks, and that sounds good). Ran into a bunch of people I know, and got Jesse Reklaw and Ken Dahl to draw words for me.

Also tried to get Frank Santoro to draw a word, but he thought this whole project was a bit dorky and fan-boyish. He also reviewed my mini-comics for Comic Journal which made me deeply uncomfortable, but it's definitely a good thing - and I think he liked them. I guess it will push me to get my stuff out (for now my minis are only at Desert Island Comics). (Santoro is finishing a book called Cold Heat, and made a book called Storeyville, which everyone should read immediately.)

Ken Dahl's word was "Defenestrate," which along with abacinate and miasma, is one of my favorite teenage SAT words of all time. (Oh, and his comment about "transfenestrate" comes from Thomas Pynchon's book Vineland which has a long digression about just that.)



Click here for more "Drawn from a Word:"
3 exceptions| generally accepted

The Friday X-post [10 Oct 2008|07:01pm]

vectors

[ninjaguydan]
[ music | You Prefer Cocaine-Vitalic ]

This Week's Stuff )
generally accepted

[10 Oct 2008|02:24pm]

mspaint

[cantdrawcanswim]
2 exceptions| generally accepted

Die, Libertariansim, Die! [10 Oct 2008|09:19am]

uberdionysus
Random Drawings...

I haven't been writing about economics because a) by now, everyone knows how bad the situation is, and b) anyone who bothers to read has by now tried to figure out what's going on.

Edit:
News flash...

A friend of mine just left a Wall Street bank. There were lines to the door. The teller told him that people have been withdrawing money since 7am, when the bank opened. That means that the very stupid and very dangerous public myth that's going around is having its effect.

It's a lie. The banks are NOT going to close today or tomorrow, and that "friend in banking" is not real. Taking your money out of the bank is the worst thing you can do right now. It's also worthless. If our economy crashes, the money stuffed in your mattress becomes worthless pieces of paper. Don't bother saving money - if things collapse, you can't save your money, even if it's hidden in your mattress. If you're really worried about the Apocalypse, go buy some seeds and gardening tools.

One thing that concerns me is the amount of lies and public myths that are spreading around. Today I received, from two different people, "insider" information that "friends in banking" told them that "they" are going to close down banks today. I already deleted the texts, but they were exactly the same, which leads me to believe that you all have gotten the same thing, or WILL get the same thing today or tomorrow. But it is a lie. It's not true and there's no truth to it. I am a "friend in banking" and I can tell you it's bullshit.

Likewise, my LJ-friend Lin showed me another lie that I see popping up all over the place, including Wikipedia: the lie that the Community Reinvestment Act had anything to do with this crisis. It's a lie. Here's the facts. (A quick and rough overview: the lenders who followed CRA issued LESS subprime loans then everyone else.) It's a lie perpetuated by the far-right libertarian crowd who can't man-up and admit their direct responsibility for this crisis. They recklessly deregulated EVERYTHING for the last thirty years and THAT is what caused this shit storm.

Also, a lie on the left is that there is any sort of conscious will. That is, the lie that some evil cabal of bankers and rich dudes are deliberately doing this. Naomi Klein alludes to this, but is finally changing her tune. She's right to say that periods of crisis are exactly when people in power push the extremes of their ideology, but in this case, the very crisis is caused by the ideology that everyone has believed in for thirty years. More importantly, all of the bankers and regulators (including Congress, Paulson and Bernanke) know this, and although the bankers are still trying to prevents any laws passing that would hurt them in the future, they all know that this crisis could make them disappear and lose everything. They understand that their laissez-faire policies failed completely and are more interested in staying alive then acting as a global Svengali.

Anyway, I think the public is partially to blame for this mess, since they've been placidly cheering laissez-faire deregulation (for some reason that I will never understand). There were plenty of people warning everyone about this, but they were all Cassandras, all pilloried, laughed at, and ignored.


The rest is mainly text, and isn't really worth reading... )
23 exceptions| generally accepted

Drawn from a word: Tetchy by Esao [10 Oct 2008|12:56am]

uberdionysus
Drawn from a word...

Esao Andrews: Tetchy

Awhile ago, I started a game: I met an artist, gave her two words, and had her draw something based on those words. Since then, whenever I meet an artist, I give them one "SAT" word and ask them to draw whatever they want.

Esao is a fantastic artist; check out his site. He also has one of the most beautiful sketch books I've ever seen. We were talking about how artists seem to pool together in neighborhoods. I know that he is friends with a lot of kick-ass comic book and illustrator guys but found out that not only were they all friends, but they all lived in the same building. They were all part of Meathaus, and Esao's housemates were James Jean, Tomer Hanuka, Farel Dalrymple and Diane Barcelowsky; all amazing comic book people and/or illustrators.

Anyway, we were at our local cafe and Esao's word was "Tetchy."





More "Drawn from a Word:"
14 exceptions| generally accepted

The Pickens Plan [09 Oct 2008|03:34pm]

napalmmk9
Thanks to [info]roadriverrail for bringing this to my attention a while ago. I had to do a bit more searching on him, and found some decent primary sources about T. Boone Pickens, who he is, and why you may want to view his plan with some skepticism.

First off, he's got a ranch sitting atop an aquifer in Texas. He'd like to force Dallas to buy that water from him, and make a lot of money doing it.

In Roberts County there would be real economic benefits from the wind farm. "The wind is meant to sweeten the deal," says Representative Chisum. "The big money for Pickens is in the water.
...
It was contained in an amendment to a major piece of water legislation. The amendment, one of more than 100 added after the bill had been reviewed in the House, allowed a water-supply district to transmit alternative energy and transport water in a single corridor, or right-of-way.
...
The new legislation loosened the requirements for creating a water district. Previously, a district's five elected supervisors needed to be registered voters living within the boundaries of the district. Now, they only had to own land in the district; they could live and vote wherever.
...
On Nov. 6, Roberts County held an election to decide whether to form the new district. Only two people were qualified to take part: Alton and Lu Boone. The vote was unanimous. With that, Pickens won the right to issue tax-free bonds for his pipeline and electrical lines as well as the extraordinary power to claim land across swaths of the state.[via eminent domain.]
Business Week, "There Will be Water," 6/12/08.

DC Examiner, "T. Boone Pickens Wants Your Water," 8/21/08

But beyond that: did you know Pickens was a damned Swift Boater? He even went so far as to offer $1 million to anyone who could disprove one of their claims (as he was under the impression, defending them, that it couldn't be done.) When John Kerry himself and a group of veterans did just that, he reneged.

New York Times Caucus Blog, "T. Boone Pickens Says No Deal on Swift Boat Bounty," 6/25/08

Boston Globe/Associated Press, "Kerry takes oilman Pickens up on $1 million Swift Boat challenge," 11/16/07"

Knew there was something I didn't trust about that guy...
2 exceptions| generally accepted

Prep Drawings... [09 Oct 2008|12:19pm]

uberdionysus
Prep Drawings...



I've been looking at George Herriman's early drawings (Herriman of Krazy Kat fame). And the really early comics kinda suck, which made me feel really good. Even though he was a bonafied genius and one of the best comic book creators of comix history, he wasn't always a Godzilla monster. At one time, he was merely human.

Anyway, the drawing above is my copy of his kick ass drawings of people, all pre-Krazy Kat. I'm trying to get his line style down.

A few more drawings... )
20 exceptions| generally accepted

[09 Oct 2008|01:19am]

benderian
I WILL NEVER BE A GINGERBREAD GIRL!
generally accepted

Drawn from a word: Clandestine by Tunde [09 Oct 2008|02:15am]

uberdionysus
Drawn from a word...

Tunde Adebimpe: Clandestine

Awhile ago, I started a game: I met an artist, gave her two words, and had her draw something based on those words. Since then, whenever I meet an artist, I give them one "SAT" word and ask them to draw whatever they want.

After meeting Michel Gondry and Mark Newgarden, Tunde and I wandered around marveling at how un-dorky the comic world has become. Tunde showed me one of his band's fantastic newer videos, for the song "Golden Age" by a guy with the great name of Petro Papahadjopoulos. For those of you who only know Tunde through TV on the Radio, Tunde is an amazing comic book artist, and an amazing painter, and an amazing stop-motion animator, and an amazing actor, director, on and on. The fucker is too damn good at too many things, and in a perfect world, he'd be making as many comics as music.

Tunde's word was "Clandestine."





More 'Drawn from a Word' by various artists... )
23 exceptions| generally accepted

Crowd Lu [09 Oct 2008|12:07pm]

navelle


Check him out!
I have his songs on repeat at work these days.

p.s: [info]muneatsacow ,i think he looks like you.
4 exceptions| generally accepted

Dear Stupids on Real World Challenge [08 Oct 2008|10:20pm]

vengeance_is_me
You know that there's fish in the ocean, right? Fish are a great source of protein, as well as vitamins. Maybe you could even find some crabs. Not in any of the girls bikinis, even though I'm sure they're plentiful, but on the beach, or maybe a tide pool. You do NOTHING all day long. I mean, maybe, just maybe, you could build a fish catch or maybe even use the actual tools in the house to build a fishing rod, or even a spear.

One of you is even a Marine. I guess he missed the survival training part. Even though that's like, everything you do in the Marines. But he's really, really good at getting drunk and making out with skanks. I guess that's his niche.

In other news, I love half guard. And not that Eddie Bravo half guard stuff, but the half guard stuff I should have been doing instead of crying about how I hate half guard.
3 exceptions| generally accepted

Prep Drawings... [08 Oct 2008|01:28pm]

uberdionysus
Prep Drawings...

I'm getting ready to start a long term project - a long comic book set in 1913 that spans a good chunk of the globe.

Here's some clothing examples from the years around 1913:


More pictures... )
11 exceptions| generally accepted

[08 Oct 2008|12:03am]

benderian
[ music | maxinquaye ]

1 exception| generally accepted

[07 Oct 2008|10:47pm]

benderian
can’t sleep















text reference:

generally accepted

Drawn from a word: Poop by Mark Newgarden [08 Oct 2008|12:12am]

uberdionysus
Drawn from a word...

Mark Newgarden: Poop

Awhile ago, I started a game: I met an artist, gave her two words, and had her draw something based on those words. Since then, whenever I meet an artist, I give them one "SAT" word and ask them to draw whatever they want.

After I met Michel Gondry at the comic book store, Lindsey told me that Mark Newgarden was having a massive garage sale a few blocks away. Mark Newgarden, for those of you who aren't comic nerds, is an amazing comic book artist, one of the grand masters, but he also created The Garbage Pail Kids and was one of the primary creators of Wacky Packages.

Anyway, I told him about the game, but couldn't think of a good SAT word. We finally settled on "poop." And then I rummaged through his yard sale for about an hour, searching through awesome pop culture detritus, then bought a pop-up book and a TWA tote bag.

Newgarden told me I should probably have a bunch of words at the ready, so I at dinner, I jotted down about twenty, which should take care of things. Any favorite words you guys recommend?





More 'Drawn from a Word' by various artists... )
35 exceptions| generally accepted

God bless YouTube [07 Oct 2008|07:16pm]

mengus
( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. )
108 exceptions| generally accepted

[07 Oct 2008|01:42pm]

indesultorytalk
I'm supposed to be playing a show in New Jersey friday and I don't remember ever being asked to play. Not only that, but the same thing happened for november 8th in Wallingford CT. I don't mind playing shows, but to be tossed onto a bill without even being told about it just seems pretty amateurish. In fact, I wouldn't have even known about the friday show had I not stumbled across a flyer last night. I don't even want to contact the venues and tell them about the mix-up.
generally accepted

Prep Drawings... [07 Oct 2008|11:40am]

uberdionysus
Prep Drawings...

I'm still working on prep drawings for my upcoming book. I think I'm pretty much done with the majority of the research and I have the general plot finished, but I still need to flesh out all of the dialog. I'm not going to write a script, but use thumbnails instead, following the lead of a lot of comic artists who I really love. But more importantly, I have to get the style of the drawing.



I want the book to capture the drawing style of the turn of century: George Herriman (Krazy Kat, Winsor McCay (Little Nemo in Slumberland), Frank King (Gasoline Alley), and tons of other great strips that were appearing in the William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and Joesph Pulitzer's New York Herald. Both newspapers featured a giant Sunday section with full color comic strips, and some of those comic strips are the best ever created.

A few drawing s and comics under the link... )
10 exceptions| generally accepted

Drawn from a word: Duplicitous by Michel Gondry [07 Oct 2008|01:02am]

uberdionysus
Drawn from a word...

Michel Gondry: Duplicitous

Awhile ago, I started a game: I met an artist, gave her two words, and had her draw something based on those words. Since then, whenever I meet an artist, I give them one "SAT" word and ask them to draw whatever they want.

I am at my favorite comic book store, talking to Lindsey, the cool/cute girl who works there, and my friend Tunde. I tell them both about the game and both agree to draw something, when Michel Gondry walks in. He pokes around the store for a bit, we nod hello (we've met before) and Tunde, Lindsey and I continue talking. And then I think, "I should ask Gondry to play!"

So I do, and he does.

Gondry's word was "Duplicitous."





More 'Drawn from a Word' by various artists... )
12 exceptions| generally accepted

Lovefest 2008 [06 Oct 2008|01:19pm]

_bulldoze
Saturday was Lovefest 08. I had my fill of ravers for the next 20 years.













generally accepted

navigation
[ viewing | most recent entries ]
[ go | earlier ]