| convention report |
[May. 9th, 2009|10:36 pm] |
I went to TCAF! Lisa and I waited in line to meet Paul Pope. He signed 100% for us, to both of us. We love Paul Pope.
He's one of those people who understands that there is bones + meat under the skin of a body and remembers to make things Grotesque Beautiful. I said "DO YOU REMEMBER ME?" ha ha
There was a signing like 10 years ago at the beguiling, him and Jay Stephens and I think Seth? And I shewed him a big page of CLASSIC TRANSMITTER that I had made with like a uniball pen. He said "You should learn to use a brush" and I said "My hands are not steady enough!" and he said:
"No one's hands are steady enough. Do it."
WELL I told him that and he was like "OH YEAHHHHHH" so I gave him one of my cards.
Cards?
I made 2x3.5 business cards! Printed them on the new printer! Lisa cut them for me because I'm Not Safe.
I gave one to Paul Pope, both to Jeffrey Rowland, both to Ryan North (who got a complete set of the cards I did for Free Comic Day 2007 but lost them in his bathroom, he CLAIMS), one to Richard Stevens (whose ear I talked off, but he's SO NICE), one to Meredith Gran who is almost certainly completely awesome, one to john campbell (who signed a minicomic for me IN THREE-D) and and Karl Kerschl to whom I fangirl squealed because I got to flip through the A.C.C. book he draws in.
And I met other people too! It was so fun.
I hope one of them links to me. Ha ha ha. Mr. Stevens said "What sort of promotion have you done for your comic?" and I said "Well I gave you the card already right? That's... there you go."
And I warned Mr. North that I would complain to him about the ohnorobot api.
IT WAS SO FUN. I just realized that other than Paul Pope I basically only talked to webcomic people. Well, they were smilier.
oh and Lisa saw Cory Doctorow and said "GIVE HIM A CARD" and I was like "no way that's not him" and I insisted for so long that by the time I realized it probably was (many hours later) I couldn't find him and I was a chump. |
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| what |
[May. 8th, 2009|10:36 pm] |
Rule 34.
Actually it's not-quite-the-real-art for one of the little cards I'm bringing to TCAF... |
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| IF - "legendary" |
[Mar. 19th, 2009|11:45 pm] |
Here we go again! This time it was plenty of no. 3 sable brush and 512 map-point nib. None of those crumby "permanent" drafting pens that got lifted by my eraser. I know, I know, I should be finishing tomorrow's comic...
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| illustration friday "intricate" |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|10:40 pm] |
I'm doing this thing now. CHECK IT YO. Heck even critique it I'M A MAN I CAN HANDLE IT. Proportions are to fit a three-column half-height image in the New Yorker... I can dream!
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| SCIENCE |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|11:10 pm] |
Okay so here is a drawing of the sun rising, as we commonly picture it, being big old dumb primates who use our crazy thinking-meat to think about all KINDS of things it wasn't designed for:
Illustrations from Paul Churchland's Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind as discovered by me in a conversation on the excellent new site LESS WRONG
( Let's update our intuition... ) |
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| replaying okami |
[Feb. 22nd, 2009|11:14 am] |
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So I decided to finally try beating Okami, I ran out of steam last time. I think I figured out a big chunk of the fancy cel-shading technique they used: I think there's a lower-poly model around each object with inward-pointing normals, and a shader on those polys that contributes to the ink-filter. This is pretty clearly what's going on on most of the landscape, and SOME of the characters. I'm so smart. |
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| An Important News Thing |
[Feb. 2nd, 2009|11:01 pm] |
My email address is now, will ever be, and stays unchanging:
contact@nickwolfe.ca
Please update your address books and so forth.
snicker@chumpco.com and all derivatives will function for a few months but are now considered deprecated. |
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| the itunes movie store |
[Jan. 31st, 2009|12:17 am] |
I rented SOLARIS the soderbergh version. hm. Totally lackluster as far as the whole ...
excuse me ...
FUCKING POINT OF THE NOVEL goes.
Nice soundtrack + use of shallow focus, though.
Looking back, Solyaris was pretty missing-the-point too but the longer setup helped increase the "no, you do NOT understand what's going on" payoff considerably relative to the new one. Lem says: "I only wanted to create a vision of a human encounter with something that certainly exists, in a mighty manner perhaps, but cannot be reduced to human concepts, ideas or images. This is why the book was entitled Solaris and not Love in Outer Space." ha ha ha
That Clooney fellow is rather well put together though I suppose.
EDITED TO ADD: why do all the star trek movies have german box art? |
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| Source Available |
[Jan. 30th, 2009|02:41 pm] |
The source code for the nameremoved.com website is up again.
On github!
The css and such are also in a repository there.
Feel free to branch and fork, and suggest changes and all that. And discover new features as I work on them!! |
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| Okay good news |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|01:28 am] |
Yeah I'm pretty happy about some things. C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! Anyway, that's not important! Look at pictures!
That's what my comics look like about a third done! On half a sheet of 12 by 14 bristol.
Also I got an awesome haircut from June.
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 24th, 2008|12:08 am] |
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Apparently I was mentioned in episode 162 of the Gigcast, a podcast dedicated to the culture and appreciation of webcomics! Relevant quote:
Very colourful, very imaginative. The monsters are like monsters you'd see almost anywhere: Big alligator things with laser eyes, I'm seeing here; pac-men type monsters. All kinds of monsters.
Space Frog's gonna be pissed when he hears that. Anyway, that's pretty cool. Hearing someone I don't know telling people to read my comic is a rush, and kind of bizarre.
I should have a "press" link on my site with quotes and blurbs and hi-res images... hm.
Another bit of news: I've invented the perfect iphone playlist. You need to have rated your songs? I know. If you use I Love Stars it's not so bad. Anyway, here's how it goes:
- Playlist is MUSIC
This gets rid of podcasts and tv shows and audiobooks and stuff.
- Last Played is not in the last 1 weeks
So you don't get stuck listening to the same five songs every time you turn on Shuffle
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Last Skipped is not in the last 1 weeks
This helps a lot to keep Not Favourite Songs that are still high rated for whatever reason out of the mix.
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Rating is greater than THREE STARS
I Love Stars lets you do half-stars and I have a bunch of songs that are 3.5 stars which this captures.
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Kind does not contain video
Music videos, you know?
- Limit to 500 songs selected by random
I also have tv shows and podcasts and audiobooks and apps, and only 8gb of space. This is still plenty of songs!
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Match only checked items
This is so high-rated songs from Selmasongs don't start playing while I'm walking around outside and it would be embarrassing to start weeping.
The great part is every time you sync it updates and keeps being awesome. Syncs are a LITTLE slower because of the uploads but whatever. It's worth it. If you don't use ratings, you could probably do something with play-count and skip-count instead.
Really the point here is to listen to the library as deep as possible, while also accommodating moods and temporary preferences. Living with an ipod shuffle for a year or two really got me into the idea of "shuffle all"... and I now understand why people who like the songs on the radio like LISTENING to the radio. This is the best way I found to surprise and entertain myself with the music I already know and love. |
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| fame and money |
[Oct. 16th, 2008|11:58 pm] |
I spent about thirty bucks over the last month running ads on Project Wonderful to bring people to my comic. About 1500 clickthroughs total. Might maybe have increased readership by twenty or so? Maybe? That's neat.
Then I, for some reason, posted a link to my comic on Reddit. And then another redditor (I kind of do not like that word) made a STORY out of my comic which hit the front page for a bit. 1500-2000 hits in a thirty hour period.
It was in the WTF subreddit, with the title "0sn, a fellow redditor apparantly has a webcomic, now maybe he can explain what the fuck they mean."
It's maybe worth reading for the comments? (I coined the phrase "narratological impressionism" which is quite fitting actually!) I hope some people decided to stay. Look at the comic he chose as an example of "WTF", though. I mean... okay. I have written considerably more difficult stuff...
I just resent the implication that I'm making RANDOM FUNNY. Oh well, more readers! Hi everybody! Whee!! It's really fun seeing forum topics in my referral logs and seeing what people have said about me.
The next project I think will be buying a couple of days on the Dinosaur Comics adbar. |
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| video |
[Oct. 14th, 2008|05:22 pm] |
A Let's Play of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath ... one of the best games of the "previous console generation" that got basically NO LOVE.
Rumor has it that Oddworld Inhabitants is hoping to be able to do a PC port on Steam if enough people buy the Abe games that are on there now. Fifteen bucks for two great games!! |
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| Dream imagery |
[Aug. 30th, 2008|11:33 am] |
I dreamt that my next door neighbour, back where I grew up, started a bonfire in my backyard. I went out to see him. Badger, Lisa's cat, was there. Badger got frightened and jumped over the fence. The fence was very high and Badger jumped swiftly and well. My neighbour and I commented on the skill of her jump. The wooden fence was then made out of wire. Badger was scared and wanted to come back but could not jump as high. She got tangled in wire, and stuck, and cried piteously.
I went to her and lifted her from the fence. It became daytime, and Badger became a package of Garofalo spaghetti, my current favourite brand. I petted the package, and it purred.
When I awoke, I felt that I had learned something about how I feel about Badger; I knew I understood my love for her better.
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| Everywhere we look, the visible spectrum is rainbows! |
[Aug. 12th, 2008|02:16 pm] |
Of course she forgot to mention leprechauns, just more of the MSM's denial of the truth.
It's interesting that people haven't put two and two together yet: "Leprechaun" is a nice way of saying "supernova".
Gold is only formed in the explosion of a star; rainbows diffract light but FOCUS the high energy spectrum radiation enough to create small fusion reactions which go out of control, creating gold. This has long been understood by the indigenous peoples of the world.
The myth of leprechauns was created by white male scientists to discredit traditional medicine and steer us away from learning the truth of alchemy.
If you don't believe me, then wait until the Large Hadron Collider is turned on: it was created by the Underground Bankers to create NEW GOLD in an unnatural (leprechaun-free) way and destabilize the world's economy. |
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| music |
[Jun. 29th, 2008|03:37 pm] |
You know you're on the right page in the iTunes Music Store when it says
LISTENERS ALSO BOUGHT
- Secret Chiefs 3
- Estradasphere
- Goblin
- Cab Calloway
- Neu!
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