Archive for November, 2007

Make music, not Star Wars

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Now we all know there are a million Star Wars parodies and edit/mashes out there, more bad than good on the whole, but I’d never seen this one till a few minutes ago and I laughed out loud when I watched it so, whichever category you think it comes under, I like it a lot, thanks Chris for the link.

Fighting Alien Queens in no time?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Now one of these could be useful for carrying the shopping home :D

Procrastination Flow Chart

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I’m probably the last person in the world to see this, but it’s still funny, cheers for the link Patrick.

Procrastination Flow Chart

Best Store you’ll visit this Xmas

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Love this site, you’ll see why when you go there:-

http://producten.hema.nl/

He doesn’t read this, but cheers for the link anyway Matt. :)

Encapsulating childhood…

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

…well some of mine at least.

Thanks James for sending me the link to this, what surprised/upset/amused me, was being able to guess what was about to appear before it did so often, if you’re a child of the late 70’s early 80’s and from the UK, I think you might have the same response to this as I did, watch with the sound on for full effect (don’t worry it’s safe for work, as long as they don’t mind a couple of classic tunes)

Man hurt using gun to change tyre

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

I know it’s mean to laugh at others misfortune, but the line:-

The man - whom police say was on his own and not intoxicated -

Just cracked me up. Full story here.

Chocolate Wolverine

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Not 100% sure yet if this is what this will be used for, but we had the idea of having chocolate lollipops on tables at my wedding as favours for the guests (if I’ve not already mentioned it here, I’m getting Married in May after a financially forced long engagement).

Rather than having some generic shop bought ones (which are perfectly acceptable of course and we might still end up going that route of this doesn’t work), we thought it might be fun to have some custom versions, and as we both like comics (well we both do now, sorry for turning you into a geek Snacky) and I’m learning to sculp/cast anyway, here is the work in progress for a prototype Wolverine bust lollipop.

Prototype Wolverine bust Prototype Wolverine bust

Figure is in 1/12th scale so about 7cm tall and 4.5cm wide at largest points.

Fables - 1001 Nights of Snowfall

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Since I went to BICS last month and got a free sketch of Flycatcher by Mark Buckingham, I wanted to find out more about the character and comics he was from and see more of Buckinghams work, so a couple of weeks back I ended up buying the first two trade paperbacks of Fables by Bill Willingham and have to say I was not at all disappointed.

As the title suggests, the comics are about fables (or rather the characters therein) but it’s done in such an interesting and well written way that helps you recognise ‘familiar’ characters and accept them in a new and more grown-up light, in completely different and unusual (or should that be normal?) circumstances and the direction and pace of the storytelling is great. The current story run is centred on the ‘Fabletown’ community who now (and for the last few centuries) live in an area of New York (and also an up state farm for those who are too inhuman not to draw attention).

Whilst looking to buy the third collected instalment though, which was out of stock at the shop I was in, I decided to pick up 1001 Nights of Snowfall and again am really glad I did. It’s a prequel story (or collection of stories) set out of normal continuity that give a new take on the origins of the characters we know (or thought we did) set either before or after the fables remembered from our childhoods, and as well as tying this altogether in the guise of the original 1001 Nights storyline, and packaged in a hardback book that’s set out like, and captures the feel of, the best classic fable style storybooks I remember getting me interested in reading in the first place as a child.

If you like to read the odd comic/graphic novel (or even if you don’t) I recommend getting hold of a copy, just if you have kids don’t get it mixed up with their books by mistake.