LET'S STAY HEALTH CONSCIOUS

Alrigth all you good people out there. It's time to get in shape. Get out your yoga mat. Put on your sweat bands. Get a bottle of water and maybe a punching bag filled with granola or something like that. Let's begin:

One and two and wait... Wait, what the fuck are we doing again?

"Like monkeys don't signify"

-a hipster lady at the bookstore when I asked her if they had a copy of Signifying Monkey by Skip Gates.

Anyway, on to the larger post which is actually pretty short and is actually related to signification (i.e. riffing on past things, often for parody). Hip-hop is a musical form which is built around signification. But what happens when you re-signify a crazy hip-hop signification (actually it happens all the time but that's not the point). See below, a song from a commercial, turned into a song about guns, re-applied to said original commercial. Amazing*

*the poster does not officially support any music created by "50 Cent" or any other "G-Unit" members though he does occasionally bob his head to their songs because hey, everybody makes a jam once in a while... Even Nickelback... MARCELLO

Drawing Experiments

I've been sort of pre-working on a story/comic I want to do. Problem is (besides vicious slow-startery as always) I'm not a visual artist. I do have my ideas though and I've been fiddling some with Fabe's bamboo pad. Well, here is my first attempt at drawing some of my character concepts on the computer. I have a shit-ton in my notebooks but somehow it feels good to get it digital.

I've been thinking some a bout how I want to do coloring for the book (since coloring is my weakest and also the most annoying aspect of art for me) and I had thought about something which is essentially anti-coloring like this. Then again, I don't know how nice this swishy anti-coloring would look when it is smacking into backgrounds and all that as well. Hmmm, something to think about and test I guess.

Depict1

Click this link. Play this game. Do not scroll down and read the author's comments before you play the game. Read nothing about the game before you play the game. It should take you something like 30 minutes to play. Enjoy.

Clark Kent: Grownup Man-Baby

It's true.

Work in Progress

I'm currently trying to work on A.L.B.o.T.'s website. I'm using the same basic template that Sam used since it just seems pretty damn intuitive. I haven't don't much work on the game over the past couple days but I am hoping to do a little each day. Sam and Cello have both given me some of their character ideas and it all seems pretty exciting. I really look forward to this project getting up and running (which is still a ways away).