Via MilkAndCookies.com: This is a short trailer with music by Andy Jackson for the flipbook Exhibition originated by Anton hecht that is running at Gateshead libraries. The exhibiton features a number of illustrators and artists who chose a book into which to install a flip aniamtion. The books are placed in the library on the shelves and visitors are given the names of the books and then find the books ont he shelves to experience …
Goodbye Roger Ebert
“‘Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs, no need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhapy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the …
Cobra Commander
This week’s sketch jam topic from my comic artists minigroup was G.I. Joe, so I drew Cobra Commander. I couldn’t decide between the hooded and helmeted versions, so I did both. You can see the rest of the entries here.
Dorothy and his “Tin Man”
In his Oz, Dorothy isn’t afraid of any stupid little flying monkeys. This is a sketch (done quickly on my iPad) for my comic artists’ minigroup. We’re doing weekly sketch-jams on the same topic, this week’s topic being The Wizard of Oz. Take a look at the other awesome entries here. As I drew this, I wasn’t thinking about Proposition 8 being before the US Supreme Court today. But since it is, it seems appropriate …
Learning Ruby: First Impressions
I’ve been a LAMP guy for about 12 years. Before that I wrote Perl and ColdFusion. With the start of a new job I’ve been learning Ruby. I’m only about a week or so in, but here are my initial thoughts so far: The Bad – First, and maybe most importantly, the Ruby documentation sucks. Hard. Compare the level of information and useful search features of PHP.net to Ruby-Doc.org. The former is highly detailed, easily searchable …