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[08 Aug 2008|02:17pm] |
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ao_hatefulrobot did this image and I colored it in.
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| skreend |
[08 Aug 2008|11:20am] |
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Sheer laziness at it's best. Cross posted from my craft blog:
So last night I was setting up a Skreend shop for Portland Craft Mafia merchandise and I decided to set one up for myself too!
Hopefully sometime soon I can order some for myself and see how they actually look! One thing that seems really cool about the site is that the customer can pick the style/color of shirt or even a tote bag or kids sizes. Pretty cool! Oh and they print on American Apparel shirts so I bet they are nice and soft!
But yeah, click on the shirts to check it out!
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| Angry Bee Covers |
[08 Aug 2008|02:13pm] |
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| This Guy - art by Martin Maaskant |
[08 Aug 2008|02:13pm] |
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| It's alive |
[08 Aug 2008|01:54pm] |
I'm reading Stephen King's It right now, for the first time. It's great summer reading, a good followup to reading Dan Simmons' Summer of Night last summer.
I've noticed a couple of things in reading it. Number one, practically ALL my friends read it when they were young, somewhere around 12 or 13 years old. At that age I was pathologically opposed to reading horror on the scale of Stephen King, after an abortive attempt at reading Salem's Lot. It terrified me. I didn't realize until in my 20s that fighting against that horror and through it is good. REALLY good.
Number two, and leading from that, I think I would have been better off if I had read some, especially It. I mean, yes, I enjoyed a singularly naive childhood, which in some ways (many ways) touches the quality of my life now. And I don't think it's always a good thing to grow up quickly as a child. But a little bit of the experiential information that Stephen King codes into his children characters probably would have helped me a lot.
Right now I'm reading the segment where Eddie Kaspbrak is recalling his beating by Henry (Harry?) Bowers, and his epiphany about placebos and the needs of his mother. His instruction, both by himself, the adults, and the circumstances surrounding him is... well it's hard to describe, but reading it, the sense of empowerment and truth is palpable. I think I could have benefitted from that as a kid. I spent too much time simply allowing myself to be led along, and then suffered when it came time to effect great changes on my own all at once.
But I've got to go back to work now!!! Later...
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| Open for business... |
[08 Aug 2008|12:30pm] |
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My wife's book store, Reading Rock Books, is wrapping up their first week in operation. She isn't yet taking online orders, but she will be very shortly, and you'll be able to have books shipped directly to you, just like Lame-azon. Support your local bookstore(s)!
There is free coffee, from our single cup roaster, and we're going to offer free Wifi, but the access point hasn't been installed yet. (Next week I think.)
 
This is the main room of books, and a highlight of the largest section: Children's.
 
I designed out the logo and sign, and Laura's dad cut the metal part out with a plasma cutter before we worked together on the wood portion. We hung it on Wednesday.
 
Downtown Dickson is a beautiful old place, that really balances a vintage southern charm with cute modern boutiques, coffee shops, antiques and of course, bookstores. We are super jazzed about being there.
There are more pics and info on their website.
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| I like this one...(redux) |
[08 Aug 2008|12:25pm] |
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For some unknown reason, my server was down for a while last night, therefore many of you may have seen this post without the image, which, though cryptically clever, was not my purpose.
Hey internets! Look at this:
Ha! Made you look! It's reposted over in that forum.
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| Shop update: |
[08 Aug 2008|09:50am] |
Here are a couple of the items I included in the shop update last week:
Fighting birds.
I did a whole range of label stickers, which I love designing.
And of course more mustaches
Also you can read a little interview with me here today:
Spark Twinkle and Fade
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| One Week Left! |
[08 Aug 2008|12:25pm] |
Just a reminder that there's only one week left of The Ride Home's 1 Year Birthday offer! So, if you want some free art, now's the time to act! Here are a couple examples of sketches already sent to people:
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| I'm a chipper dude! |
[08 Aug 2008|08:49am] |
It can't be helped!
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| Scott Pilgrim Animated Advertisement |
[08 Aug 2008|08:27am] |
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In all the San Diego madness, I guess I forgot to post about it. A reader named Chris Niosi sent in this animated advertisement for the Scott Pilgrim series. It's animated in Flash, and he and his friends voiced the characters. It's cute and peppy. Check it out!
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[08 Aug 2008|04:28am] |
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Recently did this for King Magazine. It's just one in a series of five illustrations I did that'll go with a big article in their October issue.
If you are in or near Syracuse, come hang out at a rock show tonight (Friday)! 7:00 PM at the Westcott CC. Raunchy Sex, The Grievants, and Deer Park Elementary (for whom I will be drumming, of course) are all playing and will all make sure that you have fun! It'll be over by 9:00, so you can still go out afterwards and do whatever it is that people do on Friday nights.
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| I think I forgot to tell you: |
[07 Aug 2008|11:23pm] |
THE LAB101 SPACE
8539 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
www.thelab101.com
I'm really excited to be in a show with these people!
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[08 Aug 2008|01:14am] |
hi,
my life has been nuts
i have been in a terrible sickness for almost two full months
dealing dealing dealing. went to the emergency room for it.
dropped my ipod in the subway tracks (gone) and my phone left in a cab (gone)
i started working at a korean restaurant in williamsburg and it has been wonderful
so wonderful that i quit my printshop job.
well there are other reasons but i wont talk about them on the internet.
being single has been wonderful, and hanging out with new people and new friends is a new experience.
new, amazing, experience.
in the middle of september i think i'm going home to syracuse for a few weeks to decompress and pull my emotional life back together
i also have that show in amsterdam in november which i am now preparing for
right now i am drawing a montage of family memories in gross form
booooo hooooo
been web camming with alan and it has been cool. i miss seeing him.
well, that's my insane life so far
talk to you soon or never
lizz
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[08 Aug 2008|12:01am] |
For those of you scoring at home:
AC Newman - Come Crash
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Belle & Sebastian - I'm a Cuckoo
Big Star - Thirteen
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl
Built to Spill - Car
Death Cab - Movie Script Ending
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Rilo Kiley - Science Vs. Romance
Yo La Tengo - Stockholm Syndrome
(There would be more, but there's a lot I still haven't put on my iPhone, aka most of the stuff between the letters E and W)
(And by all-time, I meant the last 10 years or so, duh)
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[07 Aug 2008|10:25pm] |
 that is thursdays comic and that is fridays comicsee you all later.
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| A little something... |
[07 Aug 2008|09:21pm] |
... I made for a little get together we had a couple weeks ago.
Photo by arneb
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| Like an Arrow |
[07 Aug 2008|08:43pm] |
Poor Yeats. He even wrote, as a poet for the country I guess, a half-arsed eulogy for Major John MacBride when that fellow went and got hisself killed in the Easter Rising.
oh yes oh yes I must make a comic of the Easter Rising (James Connolly, be still my heart)
Oh and yes I have been home in Nova Scotia at a family reunion or the past couple weeks, I am so hungover and tired my body is not going to forgive me for months and months and months.
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