For the fifth year in a row, I’ve helped assemble the Suburban Sprawl Music Holiday Sampler. We got more submissions this year than ever before (34!), and while they’re all available on the website, they wouldn’t all fit on the…
Archive for 2006
12.29.06
Mark Maynard collects his ‘anonymous’ autobiographical strips from the defunct Ann Arbor Paper.
I liked them individually, but reading them en masse and in order really highlights their quality.
12.17.06
The Archie comics universe has been redesigned with a more ‘realistic’ illustration style. BAD TIMES.
12.9.06
Peanuts Characters as Marvel Characters.
When one layer of nerdiness isn’t enough.
11.30.06
UK Only. BAH.
11.19.06
Chris Ware to create four variant covers for next week’s New Yorker.
The four covers are each a seperate panel in what the magazine is calling a ‘Narrative Cover,’ with a fifth panel to be published on their website.
11.18.06
Oh hot damn, a new David Fincher movie.
Involving CODES no less.
11.18.06
Comic Artists on their favorite tools of the trade.
11.6.06
Stencil to Newspaper To Stencil.
Awesome.
11.3.06
Good first hand account of Cartoonist burn out.
11.1.06
10.29.06
IE team sends Firefox team a congratulatory cake, nerds speculate that border is morse code.
I ‘ll admit to spending a few minutes trying to ‘decipher’ this, but now agree with those who say it’s just coincidence.
10.19.06
10.13.06
Rob Zombie hosts a weekly latenight cult movie double feature on TCM
10.6.06
Officially the best thing ever.
(via waxy)
10.2.06
Commix: Ajax webcomic creation.
With art / sprites by Ivan Brunetti.
I’d read a few times that bringing the temperature of a failing drive down will increase its reliability long enough to salvage important files. When the drive in my trusty Powerbook decided one day last week to stop booting and…
9.27.06
(Sean Nelson of Harvey Danger)
9.23.06
Michel Gondry: An Exhibition of sculpture and pathological creepy little gifts.
Sets and props from the ‘Science of Sleep.’
9.16.06
Refrederator – The first daily vintage cartoon podcast.
FINALLY, the internet is realizing its potential. Free public domian cartoons, delivered daily, automatically.
9.13.06
14 MB animated Gif of a full night?s star movement over Namibia.
Also available in much smaller ’single-image, continuous-exposure’ form.
9.5.06
Mefi discusses a hypothetical Ewok Holocaust post-ROTJ.
Nerds calling nerds nerds.
9.4.06
New York Knicks Guard Stephon Marbury introduces signature shoes that are actually affordable.
They retail for under $20, and he’ll be wearing them all season.
9.3.06
: “Players whose pictures grace the covers of Madden NFL video games are doomed…”
8.23.06
Great digital resource of comics spanning 1800-1929
8.21.06
Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work.
Interesting scans and backstory of a comic art cheat-sheet.
8.15.06
Amazing full-motion lenticular animation technology.
Imagine the baseball cards… of the FUTURE! (via waxy)
8.4.06
Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Prestige.’
Period piece about rival Magicians.
8.4.06
John Bonham’s Raw Drum Tracks from the ‘In Through the Out Door’ sessions.
Good in small doses.
7.24.06
Creepy! (Rereading John Bellairs’ young adult novels and realizing how much J.K. Rowling must have liked them.)
7.24.06
Achewood’s Chris Onstad Interviewed in this month’s Comics Journal
Not online, but worth finding.
Z: i just scoffed about a band being called CSS yesterday A: yep A: same band Z: but not a design reference A: you’d think they were portland webdesigners commenting on how the structure of indie rock is the same…
About a year ago, I built a small portfolio site for the three large-scale mosaics I’ve made (Legos, Bottle Caps, and Thumbtacks). I then promptly forgot to link to it.
7.9.06
Michel Gondry’s ‘Science of Sleep’ trailer.
Looks like it contains lots of Gondry’s more playful animation experimentation. One interesting line in the trailer: “has always confused his dreams with reality…” Autobiographical?
7.5.06
In-depth statistical anlaysis of the NBA. So good.
7.4.06
Tetris purists are apparently pissed.
6.28.06
Venom, Sandman, and Gwen Stacy. Nice!
6.28.06
The detail contained in wikipedia’s comic book articles is staggering. And scary.
Yet another website for a nerdy musical project I was involved in: instantalbum.org. The gist was to throw a party where random ‘bands’ would be drawn from a hat and tasked with writing and recording a song in…
6.6.06
Elvis Costello / Death Cab / Fiona Apple / Billie Joe Armstrong collab for VH1.
Eeenteresting (Thanks Krysta).
5.26.06
Mosaic of the Mona Lisa built from motherboard components.
Thanks Darin, you know me too well.
I saw a link to this series of photographs, depicting a group of monks working on a sand mandala, on the Kircher Society blog last week. While I’m not a huge fan of monks or sand-painting, I am…
5.11.06
Out of the groove – The state of independant record stores in Detroit.
We’ve lost three in the last few months, and Neptune will apparently be next to close it’s doors.
5.11.06
5.6.06
More Comic Book Urban Legends.
Alter-ego of Superman creator Jerry Siegel’s ‘The Spectre:’ Jim Corrigan. Ah ha!
5.6.06
Weezer on MTV’s ‘Alternative Nation,’ circa the blue album.
I was disappointed when this didn’t make the official DVD, but youtube has come to the rescue. Kennedy’s interactions with Rivers are priceless.
5.5.06
5.4.06
“What are you looking at dicknose?”
Ah, ‘Teenwolf.’
4.26.06
Wes Anderson’s American Express Ad.
Apparently it’s a parody of a Truffaut film.
4.26.06
Dondero High School Pop Concerts.
Royal Oak, Michigan High School choir’s arrangements of pop music, circa 1995-2005 (Also passed on by Zach).
4.25.06
Spoon’s Britt Daniel on ‘Veronica Mars.’
Thanks, Zach.
4.23.06
Paul Robertson’s latest animated-pixelart videogame parody.
This guy needs to team with a programmer and actually MAKE these games.
4.21.06
“Refused are Fucking Dead” trailer.
Documentary on Swedish punks’ final tour.
4.18.06
The trailer for the forthcoming documentary ‘The Future of Pinball’ is live.
Much higher production values than I would expect out of a pinball doc.
4.17.06
Amazing article: ‘The Last Island of the Savages.’
North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal was home to one of the last tribes to be reached by the world at large.
4.17.06
4.17.06
Chris Ware concludes his residency in the New York Times Magazine this week.
Replacing him will be Jaime Hernandez.
4.7.06
More Subway-Wall animation – this time a Lincoln ad.
Target did this in New Jersey through a company called ‘SubMedia’.
4.3.06
Did Michael Jackson compose the music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3?
He was originally attached to write the in-game music before his first bout of molestation charges broke. This short documentary theorizes that his contributions were left in.
3.27.06
3.23.06
3.23.06
More animation from Paul Robertson (See below), bizarre parody of side-scrolling Japenese video games.
3.20.06
30 minute Chuck Close documentary on Google Video.
Thanks, Zach.
3.20.06
French Chris Ware documentary Finally available for easy download.
It’s being used in a college design course and hosted on the school’s servers. I also uploaded it to youtube recently.
Another project I’ve been working on in my free time is ‘live’ for all intents and purposes. Awhile back, I linked to a posting on The Comics Journal Message Board by a guy named Jonathan Barli, in which he…
3.14.06
Thorough They Might Be Giants multimedia page.
Covers 1988 – 2005.
3.14.06
An insanely cross-indexed SNL database.
I posted this clip to my youtube account a few weeks ago and subsequently forgot to post it here. Here’s the description I wrote for it:
”I noticed this weirdly predictive MST3K quip the other day. It comes
…
2.28.06
Waxy.org recovers an unreleased Sega CD game, developed by Penn & Teller.
Includes a level where you drive through the desert from Arizona to Las Vagas, in real time. Seriously. Also: “When you pause the game, it shows a two minute completely unskippable movie of Penn & Teller eating pizza in silence”
I first heard Kevin Gilbert’s name in a random digression on a music-related mailing list. Here’s the quote that piqued my interest:
”I’m no expert on Kevin Gilbert, or Sheryl Crow, but do know some things… KG pretty much
…
2.27.06
Nicely-written first-person piece in today’s New York Times.
I probably wouldn’t have read it if the illustration didn’t catch my eye, but I’m glad I did.
2.24.06
Great minimalist documentary on the ubiquitous 6-second ‘Amen’ drum break.
The sample comes from the B-side to a 1969 45.
For those keeping score, I wrote another OS X application – this one conveniently downloads MP3’s from your favorite MP3 Blogs. More here. Also available: iCommentary.
2.16.06
2.15.06
- Daniel Clowes did the promotional design for this upcoming Broadway show.
2.11.06
Amazing weekly hand-drawn typography “comic.” Very Ware-ian.
2.11.06
The undesirable cover-quote.
2.10.06
Weirder: Al Michaels was behind it all. (Thanks Darin!)
2.10.06
Who Is Harry Nilsson… (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)?
Holy balls, a Harry Nilsson documentary?! Awesome.
2.10.06
Production Notes on “Who Is Harry Nilsson.”
I need to see this movie!
2.9.06
The best flash portfolio site I’ve ever seen.
I especially like the ‘Music’ section.
This headline makes me FURIOUS:
Motown Building Razed for Super Bowl Parking
It’s attached to this NPR piece, featuring a brief realaudio file, which I’ve made available as an MP3 below for people who hate realplayer. True, this…
2.1.06
The Pixies perform Trompe le Monde on Letterman,
with Letterman’s band. Paul solos FEROCIOUSLY.
1.31.06
Trailer: Dave Chappelle’s ‘Block Party’
Directed by Michel Gondry.
1.27.06
Worst (fictional) villain in comics
- The Comics Journal Message Board
1.27.06
A great walkthrough.
1.27.06
Recounting of a Chris Ware / Seth / Ivan Brunetti panel discussion.
In comic strip form!
1.25.06
1.25.06
a retelling of the Atari ‘ET’ debacle.
1.24.06
Scissor-less Japanese giftwrapping.
One month late.
1.17.06
Cool looking, but I can hear the hipsters flocking to harvest antique machines and it makes me cringe.
1.9.06
Mosaic on Building at University of Toronto
Not sure what the medium is.
1.9.06
Using the motor in HP flatbed scanners to play music.
Don’t miss the video of Fur Elise.
1.4.06
Kenny Vs. Spenny – Season One DVD
The best thing I bought online all year.
1.3.06
Jingle Bells Soundwave Giftwrap
for next year. (Thanks, Krysta!)