pbs youth

here are a list of shows I loved as a kid that I would like to get on DVD one day:

High Feather

All About You

Readit/ Cover to cover

Read All About It!!!

I would say a lot more but I am falling asleep, this site Rick's TV ontario page has a plethora of content, and this site promises downloads (links appear to be broken)


also the movie: la guerre des tuques

layin out

Book design

Saw an interesting lecture with Milton Glaser, Chip Kidd, and Dave Eggers at the 92nd street Y today (via drawn.ca). I've never written anything of note but I do have a pal who wrote a whole collection of poems, it would be a nice side-project to do a lay out of it for fun. Here is a mock up [to be scanned this evening]. This means getting my hands on a copy of Adobe in-design... good thing I've been able to save up all this money here in Alberta!

I'm on my way to get an external HD and maybe a digi cam... I'll check the adobe suite prices while I'm at it.

update: adobe suite 1400, geo: 0

dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot

Fascinating stuff this, dear Ezra Cornell made his mark via the Telegraph boom of the 1840's.

"Ezra made his fortune in the telegraph business as an associate of Samuel Morse, having gained his trust by constructing and stringing the telegraph poles between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, as the first ever telegraph line of substance in the U.S. After joining with Morse, Cornell supervised the erection of many telegraph lines, including the Erie and Michigan Telegraph Company connecting Buffalo to Milwaukee. He earned a substantial fortune as a founder of the Western Union company" **

That telecommunications boom lives on today on the bleeding edge electronic frontier of the interweb!

All the attention that I seem to be getting from Ithaca's favorite (adopted) son's philanthropic zenith is humbling to say the least, and it speaks to the great success of these communications pioneers and their legacy of wondrousness that I was able to see a storied and lovely instutition I will never visit otherwise.

I did enjoy checking out your campus, from my boring 9-5 desk. I wasn't sure where I was at first, but then spied a flag, who knew a simple google search could lead to such an exciting perch? A bird's eye view on one of the United States best respected schools. Dear Ezra, if only I knew the victory song of the mighty Cornell [insert football team name], I would be humming it right now. But alas, you sing no notes to me, just nameless logs from a web tracker. Like some indecipherable morse code, half-heard, these are merely ghosts, haunting my lil' blog.

Oh, what a kerfuffle.

I spy

found a c0rn3ll univ3rs!ty security cam, been moving the cam around, taking a look at this and that, fun stuff

*dear corn ell, if this is a problem pls add a comment with a contact address and I will remove the images and explain to you how the cam was accessed, thank you*

*sigh*

2743 steps to work

That's one way (give or take). I decided to count this morning.

flikr update

after a long time I update the flikr, this^ is one of the new ones

and here's an oldy but goody:


I just got a pro account and haven't organized it at all, so, don't bother, but bear it in mind, you know, for the future

maria kalman

My mom got me her illustrated version of Strunk and White's Elements of Style as a gift a few years ago, here's a lecture she gave about her "life and work". Kalman at TED

Love ya, Mom.

What wonderously earthy colour schemes are these?

ocean's don't freeze ^ by watercolour and inksmith extraordinaire Jen Corace, I just happened upon it while combing the past archives of current fav blog spot M.L.F.Y.I.A.S.O.H, one mrs. Jen Corace, dutifuly added to the folks page A.S.A.P.

What wonderous colour schemes these are

***BREAKING NEWS***

"Hey Bill Cosby, that's not a microphone, that's an ice cream cone!"

filming heart-shaped cookies under the cover of night

So I'm listening to She's lost control by Joy division here on my Deezer playlist and got to thinking about the best movie I've seen this year (haven't seen that many tbh). Control, the very personal story of Joy Division's frontman Ian Curtis. It's a touching movie and is beautifully filmed in black and white. It's the kind of experience that I get caught up in, and the film's final image of smoke rising out of a chimney will probably forever be etched on my mind.

While thinking of that I found this ^ image of Sam Riley, who plays Curtis in the movie, it made me think of Kaneda from Akira. Which reminded me to let you know they are planning a live action version of Katshuhiro Otomo's Akira manga. Dunno what I think about that, after all, when Pioneer got the rights to Akira88 they ruined it for me by redubbing the audio. I'll say it again, they mayhaps made the dialog a bit more sensical, but they took away all the wonderful poetic natureness of the originally translation.

This led me to think of the second best movie I've seen this year (and by this year, let me clarify that I am refering to my time in deadmonton, ie. sept 2007 to now), also animated, Tekkonkinkreet.

Fourth place runner up of movies* I've seen here would probably go to The assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. It's a slow burning, gorgeous movie. (plus it features a third act appearance by the always lovely Zooey Deschanel)


*Third place: No country for old men, but enough said on that.

another pre-bed snoozer, trying out the trace tool :D

I jammed this out for fun before bed, gotta get back my chops :)

illustrator tutorial

here....

great look into frank chimero's illustrator process, i was just talking to Michelle about getting back into this program. Thanks for the timing, internet


also, added a new link to the folks post --=>
fred einaudi

101th post

Just realised this is the 101th post, I'll save the celebration for my 250th.

I have been sick for the last few days, really under the weather, and speaking of weather, the dryness here in E-town is killing my face.

I did get to spend some quality time cleaning my room and found my copy of Fushigi Circus in a pile of papers and newsprint. I thought it might have been pinched from my desk at work, finding it made me feel much better.

Got a bunch of new music too*, and am at the point where a new mix cd is worming it's way into my mind... that's the way these mixes have gone down in the last 3-4 years. I always think that the one I finished is my last one, but then I get some new music and after a while a couple of combinations come to mind, then a couple more, soon enough I will have thrown a few together in mixmeister. Then I'll let them settle for a bit, listen to what I have, let that simmer, make adjustments, fill it out to 50+ minutes, at this point I'll normally cut a big section or two and rearrange things. There always seems to be a hidden gem or two that reveal themselves soon after that, maybe an old overlooked tune, or a new album with a song that falls right into place. This mix I'm stewing over now is going to be based on the theme of driving east, out of edmonton and through the prairies. This will complete the last edmonton mix I made, An Edmontone: heard alone that was made in the months after I arrived here.

*Can't stop listening to Heron Song and Skeleton Aim, by Hello, Blue Roses

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Just the other day I re-upped my most recent mix: Rappin with the Gods .... 60-70's funk and soul.... available here for a limited time... enjoy!!!
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gigi!

I have been working on a drawing of my pal Gigi for a couple of weeks and am finally done, here are a couple of steps, the watercolour base, the first inking stage, and the final painting.



whaa?

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Druid/Ranger (3rd/2nd Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-12

Dexterity-17

Constitution-13

Intelligence-14

Wisdom-13

Charisma-13


Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.


Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.


Primary Class:
Druids gain power not by ruling nature but by being at one with it. They hate the unnatural, including aberrations or undead, and destroy them where possible. Druids receive divine spells from nature, not the gods, and can gain an array of powers as they gain experience, including the ability to take the shapes of animals. The weapons and armor of a druid are restricted by their traditional oaths, not simply training. A druid's Wisdom score should be high, as this determines the maximum spell level that they can cast.


Secondary Class:
Rangers are skilled stalkers and hunters who make their home in the woods. Their martial skill is nearly the equal of the fighter, but they lack the latter's dedication to the craft of fighting. Instead, the ranger focuses his skills and training on a specific enemy a type of creature he bears a vengeful grudge against and hunts above all others. Rangers often accept the role of protector, aiding those who live in or travel through the woods. His skills allow him to move quietly and stick to the shadows, especially in natural settings, and he also has special knowledge of certain types of creatures. Finally, an experienced ranger has such a tie to nature that he can actually draw on natural power to cast divine spells, much as a druid does, and like a druid he is often accompanied by animal companions. A ranger's Wisdom score should be high, as this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.


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