Monkeywiz

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

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.

…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)

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.

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.

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

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.

…and bought Leopard for my MacBook!

Not at all necessary but there’s a few cool new features (like coverflow and the folder stacks) and it’s all shiny and new, and I’m a sucker for new gadgets and toys, and this at least has stopped (well delayed) me buying yet another whole new computer.

I did use to have several t-shirt designs up on cafepress for sale, but decided it wasn’t worth the cost of paying for a premium site when I wasn’t prepared to put the time in to get all of the other designs out of my head and onto the computer, and then market the whole thing as much as possible, just for the few dollars you get out of cafepress.

The one shirt that has sold a few times though is my Karma Police design, an homage to one of my favourite bands, and also to one of my favourite tv shows ( “…I’m just trying to be a better person…” ) and I realised I don’t think I ever mentioned it here, but it’s still up there, and I’m trying to decide if I should leave it where it is, scrap it altogether, or get a few printed myself and sell them that way instead.