I’ll be at Comix & Stories tomorrow!
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Tomorrow is the annual Comix & Stories comic convention here in Vancouver. The cool thing is that it’s getting a change of venue this year and moving into the conference rooms of the Vancouver Art Gallery, which used to be the old courthouse. Beautiful building with stone lions and marble stairs, worth the trip for the architecture alone. But it’s all about the comics tomorrow.
I’ll be there sharing table space with the folks from Cloudscape selling some buttons and micro comics as well as the anthology I took part in. If you’re in need of adventure on Sunday, you should swing by and say hello! Admission is free and there are going to be a lot of talented guests there I’ll hopefully get to meet.
Reformat the Planet
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
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Watched a really interesting documentary on Chiptune music. Reformat the Planet is running (this week only) on Pitchfork as streaming files. I find the idea of cannibalizing an old video game system and writing raw energetic music on it a really appealing. Has anyone ever tried this?
Some performances after the break.
Puma Pop Art 917 Lo is my kind of shoe.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Unfortunately for me, the above style is only available for the lovely pop art, comic loving ladies of the world. But that shoe is a thing of beauty. I think it might be the laces that give the shoe such a bold look that really make them stand out. But don’t worry guys, there’s a style for the dudes too, a little blander but still very wearable. Have a look below the cut.
Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show
Monday, July 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Kiko, where have you been all my life?
Vancouver Comic Jam
Monday, July 21st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Two panels from the July Vancouver Comic Jam
Hey there house guests! On the third Saturday of every month the Vancouver Comic Jam meets in the loft of a japanese restaurant in Vancouver to kick back, drink some alcohol, meet some new people, eat some food (I highly suggest the Sonna Banana for dessert), and draw collaborative comics (jam).
A jam is simply drawing the first panel of a comic and passing it along to the next person to draw what they will. That’s really the only rule. Well, and ink what you draw, pencil drawings are pretty hard to see in low light. It’s a great experience to see where your idea is taken and where you can take an idea.
There are no censors, and there is no code of conduct so the innocent hobo cat with a talking hat is often not so innocent by the end of the page. But that’s how it goes, sometimes a story stays clean and sometimes it’s dirty. Sometimes there is a logical progression while sometimes it’s a non sequitur disaster by the time the last panel is drawn. It’s all good.
The Vancouver Jam is by no means the first, it might have started in Montreal and spread from there, but there’s Jam’s held all over the place. (Too lazy to list them but search for comic jam or drink ‘n draw plus your nearest city and something’s bound to turn up.) If there isn’t one in your town, why don’t you start one? All you need are two people, a piece of paper, and some pens. It usually snowballs from there.
Download Firefox 3 Day
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 | Gadget, Links, Sidebar | No Comments
Firefox is one of my two browsers of choice, the other being Safari. But the official release of Firefox 3 is today and just for the hell of it, and in an attempt to get a bit more market share, the fine folks at Mozilla are attempting to break a World Record, Guiness style.
So if you don’t have it, or need an upgrade, click the banner above and get some sweet sweet open source action on your computer of choice. No upgrading if you want to help smash some arbitrary milestone, you need to download the whole darn thing.
The Brighton Port Authority - Toe Jam
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | music | No Comments
The Brighton Port Authority is one of the many pseudonyms of Quentin Leo Cook (Norman Cook these days) but you probably know him best as Fatboy Slim. The above song is Toe Jam which I’m happy to know features the vocals of David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. It’s a catchy little number with a video that’s sure to go viral. But for some reason I can’t help but think of Super Breakout with all of the well placed censor bar choreography. Which is funny since there is even a Pong homage in it.
I’m looking forward to the rest of the album, hopefully the rest will be great sunny day driving tunes like Toe Jam. Which, from the sound of the tracks on the official BPA page I won’t be disappointed.
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