I'm a failure as a blogger. So what.

I've been busy. I can forgive myself. I've been doing lots of updating on the ArtH 330 site. Go there if you'd like to see fascinating slides on perspective, picasso, and WWI types of things. It might have saved John Quincy Adams' life if he'd only had access to such insights.

new arms--late as usual!

okay, 3 a.m. again. cheesus. got arms and ether up late again. i started this week's strip whilst doing a presentation to the best of the best art show students at the rogue gallery. funny? the lil' drawing above was my draft for the first panel. studly. time for some downtime, reassessment and all that goodness, but not now. No rest for the wigg'ed. wild cherry diet pepsi and jalapeno potato chips. no capitals. grrrr. leave me alone, world. I rage against you.

Duh

Lots of things to write about. Lots of things to do, though. Curses. More soon.
On deck: Luke Kralik's stuff. Jim Duesing's stuff. Stuff.

Sweet Croaky

arms and ether is up. Kaff kaff. sputter. choke.

Big Print

Finished up this big ol' print Sunday night for the S.O.U. Faculty Show at the Schneider Museum. Click on the image above or on this stupid hypertext if you want to see a high res version in all of its detailed glory. The final version ended up being 4.5 feet tall x 14.5 feet long.  oooh. ahh. And yes, it was a long dark night of the soul getting this bastard printed out. The color profiles wuz all messed up. 

Also, this will be the special Arms and Ether edition for this week. Must recover will to draw again . . .

Arms and Ether--Delayed! Failure!!

Due to need for sleep and sanity. Should be up tomorrow though. . .

Another Kind of Day

Lovin'!

Rough Trade

Here's a pencil sketch for this week's Arms and Ether.
Thrills. Chills.

me make picture now--DMF scratch primitivism

New Spring, New Arms and Ether

Scoolio starts back up tomorrow. West Side? East Side? It's all relative, I suppose.
Hmmm. Oh, yeah. New Arms and Ether is up (along with last week's 4 days AWOL strip). Perhaps these will appeal to the "gangster" in one? Perhaps not.

Stay away from Soccer fandom. Thoughts on 2nd half of Newcastle v Arsenal

A memorable fancy. Thomas Hobbes and I watched the Newcastle v Arsenal match today. Our thoughts:
Players I'd rather not see in an Arsenal shirt any more:
Diaby
Denilson
Djourou (didn't play today, but that's for last week)

Horrible, horrible games:
Gallas
Toure

Well, there's your core--your center. Balls.

Oh, but of course, Diaby just scored for 2-1 Arsenal. Of course. He still sucks, though. Poor first touch, donkey-like build up play. Often seems suprised to be receiving the ball. Nothing defensively. But that was a quality goal.

Nasri! 3-1 to the Arse. I do dig this dude. And I feel bad for the Newcastle faithful. The missed penalty (albeit a crap call). The pointless giving away of two goals after an unlikely equalizer. Mike Ashley. A nightmare season. The team is just not that bad. They're not as good as Tottenham, but their talent is not relegation-worthy.
Clichy finally getting in on the action makes a nice run hitting Van Persie who forces a fine Harper save.

Digging Arshavin. And Bendtner's looked good today. They definitely need a bigg'un up front and Bendtner's been filling that role well in the absence of Adebayor.

Sagna is a freaky dude. Fast. Spirited. A bit wacky sometimes. Decent crosser. Pretty solid defensively. A key factor in Arsenal's "rent boys across the world" approach to building a team.

Song. Hmm, the best of a bad lot of holding-esque midfielders? Seems to have some fight in him.

Almunia is a cult figure for me. Has gotten pretty dang solid this season.

Arsenal is SO indifferent in defensive midfield. No pressure. No 50-50 balls won. Very few headers won. That's striking in the Premier League. But, hey, looks like they're pretty solidly back in 4th place and the Champion's League. Hooray.

FYI--From the Desk of Thomas Hobbes

"So when a man compoundeth the image of his own person with the image of the actions of another man, as when a man imagines himself a Hercules or an Alexander (which happeneth often to them that are much taken with reading of romances), it is a compound imagination, and properly but a fiction of the mind. There be also other imaginations that rise in men, though waking, from the great impression made in sense: as from gazing upon the sun, the impression leaves an image of the sun before our eyes a long time after; and from being long and vehemently attent upon geometrical figures, a man shall in the dark, though awake, have the images of lines and angles before his eyes; which kind of fancy hath no particular name, as being a thing that doth not commonly fall into men's discourse."

Thomas Hobbes, I thanketh ye for providing this apt physik of the motions of the mind of man at rest or at work for as we may find ourselves in practice of diverse actions both as individual agents as set in motion by the Artificer or as members of a great COMMONWEALTH or STATE, we have need of understanding the nature and cause of our imaginings and the general use of speech to transfer our mental discourse into verbal, and the train of our thoughts into a train of words as may be found in the DICTIONARY OF MAN.

The engraved figure of Mr. Hobbes which you have found begotten on your organs of sense is borrowed liberally from the electronic library of images to be found under the appellation, "Sexy People," whose "webbe site" may be accessed by moving one's electronic designating device to the anomalously coloured text in this sentence and depressing the button of said device by action of the forefinger.

Long Dark Night

Been a bit rough these past few days, but the show goes on. The latest Arms and Ether is up. And I'm not proud. No. Nope.

Robert Newhouse Friday

Imagine oneself to be Robert Newhouse,
Ball clutched squarely between symmetrical 4's,
Improbably short, massive legs furious in cerulean blue.

Before the collision
The sweet sharp smell
of summer grass.

God, What A Song

The whole lousy human condition crammed into a 7 minute song.

I do so miss the catharsis o' rock et roll.

Windows Tip Of The Day (Also Works On Macs!)

If you're feeling old, go to a nursing home! You'll feel much younger!

New Arms (and Ether!)

It's a non-figurative one, so don't get too excited. Go check it out. Really.

1. Hmm. No rhythm. None at all. Cast adrift. Crisis of belief. Too much horror.
2. Work more or work less?
3. Other people's pain.
4. Am I just going to be Mr. Lipservice?
5. I ordered some orange shoes. Inappropriate at my age and in this financial climate.

Aren't you glad you stopped in?

Oh yeah. Saw Watchmen. This is a blog, so I should mention that. I felt vindicated because a lot of time and money went into creating a bright blue penis for a mass audience.

Spicy Nodes

SpicyNodes is an interesting new piece o' web software I came upon while trying to figure out why the hell we have Daylight Saving Time (turns out there isn't a clear-cut, solid justification). I'm just seeing what it looks like embedded in the blog and seeing if I might be able to use it for class.

UPDATE. As per the comments, the nodes are a bit annoying embedded as they're too small and cramped in the layout. Also the nodes sound takes over all other sounds which I'm not too big on. The above image jumps to the online version.

2 Smart-Ass Art Projects I'll never do plus some other misc junk

Loducavision by Miles Inada

1. A series of oil paintings based on screen shots taken from mundane computer moments such as the Internet Explorer loading screen.

2. Walk through campus and inquire what each person is listening to on her mp3 player. Download all of the songs. Play them simultaneously. Title the composition based on the day and location.

Nice article in the New Yorker about Donald Barthelme (who I haven't read)--"Had I decided to go into the conceptual-art business, I could turn out railroad cars full of that stuff every day."

I went on a 24-hour Dexter binge. A good show.

One Ought To Perservere

Right?

This is the kind of card I'd expect for Father's Day. Much more affecting than "World's Greatest Dad."

Please, don't fear

The latest episode of Arms and Ether is here. Come today, fresh.

Primitive Paddle Love!

Screw it. I'm just going to post this as it is. Here's the latest primitive flashery provided to help you wile away the depressive parts of your personality cycle. Your MOUSE controls the paddle--just like real life! Play on, drummer. . . and post your high score in the comments section! I'm just over 500 674 as of this post.

I've got a few more changes I may make in the coming days. Goody.

Grrrr

ActionScript Hassles. !@#$% @#$@#$. Tired.

Financial End O' Days

I unilaterally declare it time to stop using the ridiculous euphemism, "Recession" and head on into "Depression" territory. Barring the unforeseen discovery of rainbow space diamonds among the nation's gravel pits, we're screwed. On the upside, I already drive a Depression-ready car--a 1991 "3-door" white Buick Park Avenue (as seen above!), so I'm ready on that score. I hope y'all are too. Time to dust off good old fashioned humility, hard-work, and lend-a-hand-can-do-ism -- or, despondent, self-pitying, abusive drunkenness -- whatever suits your personal style.

I'd also like to take a moment to thank the powers that be for the financial bonanza we're raking in from our various wars, deregulation, tax cuts, and overall awesomeness. Great job! Well-played, fellows. Truly, well-played!

Big Steve Hammond sent along a nice link to an animation by Jonathan Jarvis, "The Crisis of Credit Realized," explaining the banking collapse. Check it out. It filled in some big gaps for me.

Listless

Julie might be out of a job next year, along with many other improbably gifted and dedicated public school teachers. That's bleakness of a high order because these people are good at what they do, and what they do is good for this place.

Probably a good time to listen to some Billy Bragg. UPDATE: Here are the chords to It Says Here, if you want to bust it out.
It Says Here
Billy Bragg
Chords (as per Miles)

G C G D Intro
C G D Verse
G Em C G Bridge 1
D Em D Em Bridge 2
G F C Instrumental before finale

Back in the Day

Lordy. Getting a bit behind in life these days. Got an email out of the blue with a drawing of mine I haven't seen in 16-19 years. Wild. It's a drawing of my pal, Nick Oredson. Got to get the Arms and Ether for tomorrow goin'. Man. Also, got to finish screening animation for Ashland International Film Festival juryin'. Blah blah blagh.

On the up side, had a great time playing basketball with the fellas and then goofing around with Sam. We worked on Buddy Holly by Weezer, shot hoops at Walker School, then watched some George Gervin and Pistol Pete Marovich on YouTube. This evening the family got together to chill with 97 year-old Grandma out at the folks'. Fun stuff.

Ramblin' Homme

Hmmm, I feel like everything is falling apart, though I suppose it was never solid to begin with.
The weather is breaking. The sun is coming through. The wind is blowing. That's good. That's something we can start with. It's a beginning.

I leave you with some precious wisdom I've passed on to my students lately.

"command-k"
"F9"
"F8"

Looks like I'm the teacher of the year. Keep your eyes peeled for my upcoming bio-pic starring Paul Giamatti in the starring role (with Laura Linney as quietly supportive Julie!). Tears are shed (in empathy! in joy! in loss!), lives are changed, but most of all, spirits are up-fuckin'-lifted.

Arms and Ether is on schedule for Monday (ta-dah.)

This Monday marks the first appearance of Pickelhaube and L'il Evan! So get over to Arms and Ether and differentiate yourself from the other animals by laughing.
I've posted the original Pickelhaube concept drawing above (from way back in 2003! ed.) What's better than a pickelhaube with that awesome spike on it? One with three, that's what.

Corruption!

There's something brilliant about corruption. Maybe it's just how unnecessary it usually is. Most corrupt types really don't need to be doing what they're doing--they just seem to want to do it because it's awesome. I appreciate the zany, "let's take this thing to the next level" spirit of it all. Here's a charming example of "privatization" in action from today's NYT. Nice work. In tough economic times, you've got to show some initiative. I hope we can all come up with similarly inspired solutions to the economic crisis. Remember, "crisis = threat + opportunity!"

"A Hustle Here

And a hustle there.
Time traveling at my leisure in an indestructible body is the place where.
I said, "Hey Sucre, Prends a Walk sur Das Wilde Side."

Beholde this olden drawing (2002!!!!!!) made, when as a young, olde-man, I thought I could unlock an "alternate ending" to life by finding the right FAQ/Walkthrough. Ah ha ha ha ha! Oh, man. Whew. Funny stuff. I tell you.

But seriously, you folke. The orderly 4 panel method of Arms et Ether is wont to disintegrate at short notice. The world and the mind are too fluid, too slippery. So @#$% it.

This ought to make you happy

Walk On The Wild Side by Young@Heart.
I'm thinking Lou Reed did not forsee this.

New Arms & Ether Strip Is Out! Ack!

Okay, it's the 6th Arms & Ether strip. Go check it out.
Now with more physical violence and fewer allusions!!

Just Wondering

Has anyone kicked as much melodic ass as Paul McCartney did with his bass on Sgt Pepper's? "With A Little Help From My Friends?" Damn, brother, you're killing me here. "Getting Better" -- for !@#$'s sake. I don't think there's been anything like it before of since. Maybe if you took some happy Austrian tuba player from the late 19th century, injected him with ecstasy, took away his hope and fear, gave him visions of the spirit world and turned him loose with the understanding that heaven and hell surround us here on earth you might get something like it. Maybe.

Pops

Here's a video of Lawson Inada reading some William Stafford at a Stafford Tribute at the SOU Hannon Library recently. Dad's not only the Poet Laureate of Oregon, he's also adept at taking his grandson to see Paul Blart Mall Cop. Pops is definitely multi-class. Video by Angela Howe-Decker and Mark Decker for the Ashland Daily Tidings.

Inadaville Salutes Warren Hedges

Here's Warren doing an impressive 21st century Albrecht Durer on the Cintiq. The H-Dog has been laying down some heavy niceness over at Immanent Domain. I'm particularly enjoying the BeDeviled's Dictionary. If you've got a weakness for words you'll be glad you went. Go check it out--it's a regular "fistful of hollars."

Maybe They Got Arshavin After All

Yes, this is some interactive shiznay. What does it all mean? The code and .fla file for this wonderfulness are over at the Comics and Picture Books/Interactive site.

Getting There

I'm feeling a bit worn down. But if the doors of perception were cleansed clicked . . .? Give it a shot. This is an in-process bit of ActionScript/Flash I've been putting together for a demonstration of the advent calendar assignment my Interactive Studio class is working on. I'll post the code over on the class site, later on. Also--gots to get the latest Arms and Ether up tonight!

Argh! Ray Dennis Steckler--RIP!

Finally:
Here's the ActionScript 2.0 FLA file for the Doors o' Perception file above. Enjoy!

Oh my

I'll miss my self-imposed daily deadline unless I do something. Something.

My New Teacherly Response to All Technical Questions

"There's a thing you can hook up to a thing, but I don't care."
Also here's a rough for a future Arms and Ether strip. Not all that productive of a day, so far. I did get a foot-long sub, a mexican mocha, and a cupcake out of it though, so my middle-aged man physique is happy. UPDATE--and some fish and chips.
So. . . this ridiculous 6 minutes of drawing will make my life bearable when I sit down again to work on this strip. Weird, eh?

Everybody Digs Evan Carroll

It's images like this that keep me waking up every morning. Yes, it's "Starchild Support Group," by Evan Carroll.

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

And I'm everybody. You should be too. Also, here's a nice article on Evans' playing by Chuck Israels (who's playing bass in the video). I enjoyed checking out Israel's site. I was pleased to see he was not only alive but looking damn good having survived the meat grinder of the 50's - 70's music world--unlike Evans. Tears. As a teacher, I enjoyed reading Israel's "Unpopular Perspective On Jazz Education" article. Israels makes a point of asking students who their favorite musician is. He then goes on to say it's far better to have a lousy answer to this question (such as Kenny G) than none at all. The lousy answer will provide a conduit to further development. Amen. I'm shocked at how insensitive teachers can be to this idea. Liking something, anything, shows you have some passion and connection with what you're studying. Behind any decent artist is some goofy lined paper drawing of Howard the Duck he did in 9th grade. So fess up, and start liking stuff.

Okay, time to listen to more Bill Evans and the rest of those brilliant, humbling dudes.

Latest Arms and Ether!

After ftp difficulties, the latest Arms and Ether strip is up and running. Go and see it. Share the merriment. Arms and Ether will feature one more week of purile pants-less discussion, following which we will move into crude physical violence. . . just like human history.

Arms and Ether Monday is upon us

So I'll get the strip together to post. Until then, here's a daily drawing for a gray Sunday. Cool, now the washing machine is leaking. The disco hot spots hold no charm for you. It is the heat of the moment.
UPDATE: Curses, I'm shut out of ftp'ing to stupid temporary arms site. This could be trouble for an on-time Monday comic post! The horror!!

Extreme Makeover

Why would a fighting man go from forged iron to leather armor? Does the increased flexibility and freedom of manoeuvre outweigh the corresponding loss of "AC?" Nah, it just looks better graphically. Here's the easily enraged Pikelhaube (from an upcoming Arms and Ether strip) modeling both armor types. The red-brown has much stronger color contrast and visual "pop," so cut a wide swath when you see him coming.

It's about damn time--now with LINK!!!!

Let's get the party started. My main man, Evan Carroll finally started a blog. Bookmark it, follow it, whatever the hell it is you kids do nowadays. It's uncut and straight from the Golden Triangle. Do you need an in depth exploration of the heretofore unexplored connection between Demis Roussos and Robert Persig? Do you need messed up 3D/2D Bacon-esque animations of scrotal-headed nudes??? Of course you do. So don't delay. Taste the magic. Live the fantasy.

Midweek Preview

What fabulous fragment is this unearthed 'neath Chronos' bones? Tune in Monday, January 26, 2009 for the latest installment of Arms and Ether. Fanfare. Garlands. Dancing. Physiognomy.

Got some decent drawing done this morning after waking up from a nightmare at 5 a.m. Lots to think and draw about these days. Time to work up some Maya magic for class this afternoon. Need more coffee. Liquid courage.

Lots of ideas percolating for the "hard launch" Arms and Ether rollout. The button thing in yesterday's post has got me thinking about a far more phantasmagorical website. I'll burn in hellfire for it, but since I can do it, why not? I'm like Shatner or Anthony Hopkins in that way. Sure, I can act, but I can sing too! Holy @#$%^#$%&* I'd never actually SEEN the Shatner Rocket Man before. Go. Now. See. Believe.

God knows when the Arms and Ether "hard-launch" will happen, though. Realistically, I'm thinking summer, and why not? A rocket. . . man.

You're Number One

So click the stupid button.This is a demo for the Art 351 Interactive Studio Class. It shows how to create a toggle button using Actionscript 2.0. Here's the original flash file for download and deconstruction. I done commented it out purty good too. Here's a simplified .fla of just the door without the guy inside.

A Bad Dude

R.I.P. Shigeo Fukuda, who designed the above poster. That's how you do it. Damn, brother, props to you. And Victory! That image is going straight into the Arms and Ether source file--and the tattoo file as well.

Just got done watching the inaugural which was surreal. Sam and I stayed home from school to check it out. Yes inspiring and all, but I wanted more. I wanted to hear that fatuous PA announcer saying, "And now, to depict in song the twisted complexities facing our great nation, is R Kelly, singing "Trapped In The Closet." Cue reaction shots and close ups, etc. Other notes:

1. I liked the awkward moments, Obama and Roberts cocking up the oath. Michelle Obama looking kind of ticked off for some reason. The gnarly Dick Cheney being wheeled around was pretty cool too.

2. Brokaw, please! Mistaking Michelle's brother, Craig Robinson, for Obama's assistant, Reggie Love, and then, claiming that Craig was sporting a Princeton scarf. Craig is coaching the orange and black Oregon State Beavers, dude. Give us timber-fed hicks some love.

3. The Obama girls were the cutest damn things. I felt like a total media sucker. Awwww, etc. But what can you do? My heart is not made of steel!

4. Also, I cannot resist that damn Simple Gifts hymn. @#$%in' Shakers. And Yo-Yo Ma, that was some majestic joy of music shiz you broke out on us, brother. They could have been playing that at a tractor pull and I'm wiping away the tears.

I am indeed, a political animal

Monday

A brief post in honor of the long-lost snow that has been so blow-torched from our lands this weekend. Farewell. Return with your ghosts, your stars and your bearded pumpkins. . . I love you. . .

And thanks for any and all Arms and Ether comments. I'm still collecting them, so keep 'em coming. As they come in, I add them to the Feedbag post. One comment I had in conversation was "don't you want to find a way to tie all this stuff (blog, strip, etc) together?" A good question. The answer is yes, but feels complicated--I'm hoping for an organic evolution in that direction. But what comes from mere hope? More later, obviously.

Time to pass out. Fighting off a lil' sinus infection and the 9-year-olds, pizza and ice cream cake have taken their toll. Tomorrow is Sam's actual 9th birthday (groovy) and L'inauguration. Let's get it on.

Latest Arms and Ether is up!

Ta-rah. Getting ideas together for site redesign too. As usual, I'd appreciate any feedback on Arms and Ether you may care to give. Sam's 9th birthday party is tomorrow--yay! Otherwise, phew, I'm a little tired. Oh, and the Namecheap.com webhosting is setting me back $5.88 a month or $70.00/year. Seems like a decent enough deal. I still haven't moved the site over yet, however.

No More Write

Make Draws.

Got FavIcon working for Arms and Ether so you'll have a lovely little mini Hateball icon when you bookmark Arms and Ether.

Other thoughts:
1. Create more ostentatious Arms & Ether sidebar for the site. Did it!
2. Going to start the process of transferring the site to a properly hosted site. I'm going with Namecheap. Price seemed reasonable. I'll let you know how it goes.

Did You Know?

This is The Prime Mover?

Promise Me Son, Not To Do The Things I Done

Oh, I done @#$%'ed up and ordered a billion bidnit cards with a typo on 'em. (Marvellous is NOT the way you spell marvelous, in case anyone was living under that misconception.) I'm a Gambler, and this time I reckon I lost. And uh, sometimes you've got to fight to be a man. And whatever else Kenny Rogers has said over the years. On the up side, the quality of the printing at vistaprint.com was very high. I was pleased and will order corrected cards from them tonight. In the meantime, I'll just use the above image for my business card. Urgh. I probably forgot to take out all of the "liberal arts suck" and "higher education, my ass," passages in my promotion packet as well. By Yog-Sothoth's bubbles, I'll be back though, bigger and better than before!

As a teacher, I'd have to say this qualifies as a "teachable moment." Here's a more tedious and belabored account over on one of my teaching blogs.

On the plus side, I think I finally got my URL to "stick." So try typing in "http://www.armsandether.com" and let me know if it works. Strike that, actually. I'm going to set up some straight up URL hosting. You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille.

Feedbag

I'm going to be posting folks' feedback on Arms & Ether here, so I can reflect on it all at once when I start the serious re-design work in the coming weeks. So comment here, or email any and all suggestions. Keep it coming and thanks!

* The easiest one that I tend to appreciate a lot is a "back to the beginning of the series" button. I tend to be the reader who likes to start at the very beginning and see the progression/evolution of the series.
The second idea is purely aesthic. It might be a good way of introducing a newcomer to the site by having the cast of characters(or the "main" characters that appear the most) stationed on the sides of the site(in the very light gray area). The immediate examples that I can think of are Chris Sanders' banner on Kiskaloo and the top banner on the online Maakies. You wouldn't even necessarily need to redraw the characters---you could just pull some of the cast from previously drawn strips and collage them together.

* I am enjoying the comic (both of them!!!!!!) but the layout is as rough as the dude's delicious garbage is small. The left-sided infobar is distracting, as is the closeness of repetition the A&E logo... Maybe drop all that junk down below? Just peeking out of the bottom of the page?

Φ Run more white space in between title of comic and the border

Φ Center the strip

Φ Be rid of gray background

* One thing I felt funny on was the side bar, I like the slanting, sideways text...but something about their size and position felt funny to me, mabye their placement in the long gray box (shrugs) I dont know, the site is awesome

New Arms & Ether!

There's a new Arms and Ether strip out today. My god, that makes a grand total of two strips. . . and they're linked together (gasp!). Check it out here: armsandether.com. Tell your friends. Also, I'd appreciate ANY feedback folks have on the early stages of the design of the site, things you'd like to see, busted links, etc. As I said, I'm aiming for a "hard" launch by Feb 1. Though. . . I may be reconsidering that date. I think I might just CTFO and get some momentum going with the strips--focus on the actual creative process for a while and find that groove.

Also, click the image to take an idiotic stroll past the French Folke factory. It was a class demo, okay? So don't get so huffy.

Finally thanks to the 8Bit Ghost for his web help. If you haven't been by lately, he's got Hugo, Big Jim and a post about his wonderful/horrible "dotcom-mobile."

Procrastination-right?

I'm not the only one who procrastinates. Molo does it too. Check out armsandether.com tomorrow for the latest Arms and Ether strip. Now, uh, back to that promotion application.

Sweet God! The NEXT Arms & Ether strip is coming Monday!

Yes, people. Four (4) panels of full-color poignant hilarity are coming your way on Monday, January 12th at 8:00 a.m!!! Mark your calendars, take the day off from work, dress up or disrobe, light the fireworks and have a party.

In the meantime I make snail's pace progress on promotion papers. . .

Makin' Lists and Makin' Love (I loves me some Brad Neely)

As I write this post title, I think fondly of Brad Neely's life-changing animations and comics. I think in particular of his music video, Kenny Winker sings "Making Love" in which tri-corner hat-clad Kenny sings "There's a ton of shit we've got to do before we can make love." Admire. Gush. But alas, when I went to post the video for your viewing pleasure, I find it has vanished from the internets as a result of the economic downturn. Super Deluxe.com, the hosting site, is no more. Apparently, Neely is putting the videos up on his own site which will take some doing. Sigh. In the meantime, go check out his stuff, it will make you happier than you are now. I assure you. Soldier on, Brad Neely. Keep the tri-corner hat squarely in the public eye.

To tide us over, here's one of Neely's first animations that got all viral a while ago--Washington.

My list for the weekend:
1. Finish sixth Arms and Ether strip --starring Megaleos and Ginger Childe!
2. Fix Arms and Ether url issues.
3. Apply for promotion to "full" professor (college teaching guy who has eaten too many tacos in his time).
4. Make further allusions to "Taco Time," one of the planet's great restaurants.
5. Insulate The Shack.
6. Prepare Monday DMF lecture.
7. Prepare for other classes and review student blogz.
8. Keep fiddling with my online stuff. Cleaning up post labels--that kind of thing
9. Put together SOU Art Dept. Web material.

And then. . . only then. . .

Is Rassty

I did this as a throw-away demo drawing for the Interactive Studio class yesterday, but he wormed his way into my heart. Meet Rassty. Here's to his health and refinement.