My Current Insanities

Re: The previous post.

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:04:34 -0400

Re: The previous post.

Because it’s now stuck in your head too! You don’t...

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:20:00 -0400

Because it’s now stuck in your head too! You don’t even have to hit “play” either!

Mwa! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Requiem For Methuselah is another one of those...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:37:13 -0400

Requiem For Methuselah is another one of those bad-but-not-bad-enough-to-be-notable third season Star Trek episodes.

The crew is dying from space flu so our dynamic trio beams down to Planet Cure to meet an immortal guy named Flint and his hot robot girlfriend. Kirk gets his mack on with the robot girl, Spock guesses the plot twist early but tries not to ruin it for everyone, and Bones is the only one who seems to care that the crew are dying. But this doesn’t stop him and the others from gleefully guzzling Flint’s space brandy while the plot happens to them.

This one supports my suspicion that even the writers hated the third season which is why they wrote the characters in maximum bitch mode every episode. It’s McCoy’s turn this episode. Check out this monologue from Bones at the end of the episode;

“You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him because you’ll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you’ll never know simply because the word love isn’t written into your book.”

Jesus fuck, Bones! That was harsh. No wonder Spock threw himself into that reactor.

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Screencap from Trekcore, of course.

Alright, this is more like it. I have a pretty good work flow in...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:51:49 -0400

Alright, this is more like it. I have a pretty good work flow in GIMP now. And I’m satisfied with the line quality now.

I guess I should finish that script then…

Halp! My mother’s baking keeps falling into my tummy...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:48:56 -0400

Halp! My mother’s baking keeps falling into my tummy somehow. I think the milk is chasing it there!

un-sensored: Centum City, Busan. on Flickr. By the subway...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:54:21 -0400

un-sensored:

Centum City, Busan. on Flickr.

By the subway entrance to the Lotte Department Store at Centum City, Busan, in this other-worldly fountain full of classical sculpture.

For those who have never had the pleasure of living in the Hermit Kingdom: The Lotte World in Songpa-Gu, Seoul is even more garish than this.

It possibly wants a cheeseburger. I don’t know what...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:32:00 -0400

It possibly wants a cheeseburger. I don’t know what it’s thoughts on monorails and civil disobedience are.

A test panel for hand lettering in GIMP. I figured out a couple...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:19:00 -0400

A test panel for hand lettering in GIMP.

I figured out a couple of things a bit too late while drawing this that I’m going to be mindful of for the next time. Mostly to do with the drawing resolution and scaling which is why it’s a bit jaggy. I should also be able to find the sweet spot between this final size and the working size as far as lettering goes armed with what I learned.

Overall, this was a very useful bit of drawing exercise. A good use of my evening.

I don’t know what gang he belongs to, but I took the gang...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:35 -0400

I don’t know what gang he belongs to, but I took the gang sign as a warning to cross the street and avert my eyes.

A table away from my farewell meat-eating party was another...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:23:33 -0400

A table away from my farewell meat-eating party was another farewell meat-eating party.

This is the HalfCamera app. It does diptychs in the style of a half frame camera.

Not just a kitty. But a Japanese kitty. A Japanese kitty that...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:33:00 -0400

Not just a kitty. But a Japanese kitty. A Japanese kitty that lives in a graveyard and talks to the ghosts there like in a Neil Gaiman book.

I am now the envy of the Internet!

twiststreet: Name of the Doctor: Haha, I had fun with the...

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:22:24 -0400

twiststreet:

Name of the Doctor: Haha, I had fun with the finale. It’s been a terrible season, just terrible (I’d put the Gaiman one at the low-point), but that last one— that was a good one by me, the best it’s been in a while. I think the half-season thing has been a disaster, and the retreat from the formula Davies had of having each season be a thing hasn’t really worked (even if Moffat was pretty terrible at working that formula). But they’ve set up the 50th anniversary quite nicely so…

Plus, I really enjoyed the use of typography.

Having watched the entire seventh series in one sitting today, I will boldly claim that the second they jettisoned the Ponds it picked up a great deal. Hopefully this episode is also the final goodbye for River as well. Welcomes had been worn out a long time ago.

This new era of Who is blatantly for kids and Tumblr gifs. I didn’t try to keep up with it too hard because that’s not my bag and the split seasons didn’t help. I doubt I’ll follow series eight too closely unless the 50th anniversary show knocks my socks off.

John Hurt, though. John Hurt.

That Which Survives is one of those forgettable cheese factory...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:00:00 -0400

That Which Survives is one of those forgettable cheese factory third season Star Trek episodes that you don’t really think much about because it’s bad, but not as bad as the worst of that season. There are bigger stinks masking this one.

But if you do get the chance to see it, pay attention to the dialog. The second Kirk, Bones, Sulu, and Guywhowilldie go missing Spock cranks the Bitchiness Factor up to eleven. By the end of the episode Scotty was begging to be shot out into space just so he wouldn’t have to keep putting up with Spock’s shit.

I do have a theory that he was trying out some Vulcan deadpan humor to put the crew at ease, but didn’t have the delivery down right. Or maybe he just missed his besties.

Screencap from the fabulous site TrekCore.

While I wait for my medical oriented probings, I’m...

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:38:11 -0400

While I wait for my medical oriented probings, I’m enjoying the country life.

And by “enjoying” I mean, “Christ, I wish I was in Tokyo. Or Seoul. Hell, I’d even settle for Toronto right now.”

My life in a nutshell right now.

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:35:16 -0400

My life in a nutshell right now.

I have plans to post up my old webcomic, It’s About Girls,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:07:00 -0400

I have plans to post up my old webcomic, It’s About Girls, on it’s own Tumblr as soon as I can find someone I know who owns a working scanner so I can get the university-drawn version up there as well. It’s different. It’s 90s.

As mentioned in the comic, I’m missing a chunk of the first chapter, which I seemed to have not grabbed before Modern Tales closed down like I did with the rest of the pages for some reason. I don’t really want to redo the missing pages because the difference between my style now and ten years ago is pretty broad.

And I wanted to give my tablet a workout in GIMP since I’m on a Linux machine currently. There are some things it does better than Photoshop. Some things it does worse. Most of this was me trying to figure out a good work process. Next time I’ll work on color.

Also: I need to find a new way to draw pubic hair.

If you’re reading via the dashboard, I suggest clicking over to the site since it’ll be full resolution there.

Are you from Bridgewater?!

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:15:24 -0400

Nope. I was just passing through.

My life at the moment.

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:38:48 -0400

My life at the moment.

A roadside camera obscura along the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia....

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:48:00 -0400

A roadside camera obscura along the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. It seems to be poorly maintained, which makes sense given that it’s far off the main tourist roads and is located in a part of the province where the locals are probably several generations of the same family. I don’t normally post up multiple images at a time, but I think you can see why I needed to here.

I’d love to make one for myself one of these days.

Here is a bridge. It is over water. It’s in a town called...

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:07:43 -0400

Here is a bridge. It is over water. It’s in a town called Bridgewater. Cosmic!