Okay, I haven't the slightest idea whether or not the WPA National Park posters are out of copyright, but it's the principle of the thing that pisses me off so much upon finding these Star Wars posters for sale on their official Zazzle site. Paying an homage to the utterly gorgeous poster styles of the 30's is one thing, but to blatanty repurpose the art and the slap a Tauntaun and a Lucasfilm copyright on it? That's just disgusting.

It's hard enough to find the original artists for these things, and it just feels like adding insult to injury to treat them as if they're clip art. I don't even know if there's a legitimate legal complaint for me to make here, I'm just fuming that they can pull off this sort of crap.

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Brilliant.
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So I'm only mildly ashamed to say tesseracting and I spontaneously decided to drive up to Forks, WA a few weeks back, the Twilight audio book barking wretchedly off of my iPod for the entire trip. I am in that uncomfortable situation where I have read all of the books and see them for the dreck they are, and yet am drawn to everything surrounding them in an almost masochistic way. Judging from our own drive up the coast of the Olympic peninsula at about midnight,however, I could not help but picture the driving section of the book going more like this:



...Will post more photos later, just needed to at least mention that this went down. Annie is a bad influence on me.
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My great-uncle Jack Kemp- former Buffalo Bills quarterback, Congressman, and Vice Presidential candidate- just passed away this Saturday. An amazing man, and an even more amazing family man. A story on NPR this morning stated that "Democrats and Republicans have found something to be unanimous about, and that is in their praise for Jack Kemp." Pretty damn cool.

If you have a quick minute, reading Jack's letter to his grandchildren about Obama's election is pretty fantastic and gives you a good idea of what he was about: http://www.kemppartners.com/about-jack-kemp/column/a-letter-to-my-grandchildren/

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I am wanting desperately to make this into a t-shirt:



Alternate tagline: "Not all that glitters is well-written."
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SO GUYS, this is sort of belated, but I spontaneously drove down to the Stumptown Comics Fest last Saturday morning and had an amazing time and feel compelled to tell everyone about it and pimp all the awesome people I met.

I would be lying if I didn't say a large reason for my visit was to pick up Dylan Meconis' Bite Me! book and related accoutrements, something I've been wanting ever since I printed out the whole damn thing in high school. I also threw all of my money at Dylan a few weeks back so I could acquire the original art for the cover, and it makes for a pretty awesome complete set:



If you do not know of Dylan's work stop what you're doing now, check out her stuff, and start following her current sequential endeavor, Family Man. If you're a fan of accurate 18th century costuming and eerily smart wit, also werewolves, you won't be disappointed.

I also got to spend most of my weekend hanging out with the inimitable Erika Moen, her amazing husband Matt Nolan, and my most recent artist crush Lucy Knisley (who's hubby John is also a sweetheart). I've been following Erika's comic DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary for years, so getting a print copy and getting to spend the weekend practically hanging off of her and Matt was nothing short of a joy. I drew them a portrait as a thank-you, but mostly just because they are hot peoples: http://twitpic.com/3nazt

Lucy is a more recent discovery of mine (thanks to Erika, in fact), and she sports this amazingly charming, Tintin-esque ligne claire style:



She is just as smart and nice as her drawings, thankfully. She is also a complete geek (which endears her to me greatly) and painted a fabulous series of fandom portraits that span from Venture Bros. to Oscar Wilde to Kids in the Hall, so they're worth checking out.

It is late and I am not sure how much longer I should rave about these people, so here's a photo of my combined ECCC/Stumptown loot to tide everyone over:


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OH MAN, almost forgot- not to reduce it to a postscript or anythin', but I also got to go out for drinks with buttfacemakani when she came up to visit Valve the Thursday before last, and it was a blast. Surprise, she is also cool in real life! Wow.

Woot, my logo won for the back of this year's Mysterium T-shirt-



3/3 and going strong. I obviously went in a very different direction compared to the last two years, but it was late, and I was feeling far more designey than witty.

Bravo if you can identify everything in there,
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My character from Vikings, Pirates, Ninjas (made by saitenyo and her crew over at Meteor Games), Thorgunna Motgord:



...She's adorable in-game, so I messed her up a bit. Am overcome with a sudden urge to draw tons more sexy burly ladies.

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Hey guys! The presales for the Endangered Ark deck that I contributed to are open! Head over here if you want to preorder a deck: http://endangeredark.com/purchase



I did two pieces for the deck, but the full set of cards is pretty fabulous and definitely worth checking out over on the site. 10% of the proceeds go to the World Wildlife Fund and World Parrot Trust, so, you know, added bonus. :)

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Their cumulative hotness completely makes up for me looking like a doofus.

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EDIT: note that I was at Emerald City Comic-Con, and did not just happen to run into these guys at Sears. Not this time, anyway.

So, apparently Neville Longbottom grew up when I wasn't looking:



The lady will take two, please!
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Guys, how was I unaware that Cassandra Claire Clare of HP fanfiction fame was now a Big Name Author? I just got a flyer from Borders recounting how Stephanie Meyer counts herself as one of Claire's "biggest fans." Of course she does.

Cassandra Clare shot canon!Draco in the foot back when I was in high school, which always ticked me off, but I can't deny that her LotR Very Secret Diaries were very close to my heart. WEIRD. Have not thought about this crap for ages.

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Drawn during a 15-minute break at work, and I haven't posted art in a while, so HERE YOU GO



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We’ll follow the old man wherever he wants to go,
As long as he wants to go, opposite to the foe;
We’ll stay with the old man wherever he wants to stay,
As long he stays away from the battle’s fray.
Because we love him, we love him,
Especially when he keeps us on the ball;
And we’ll tell the kiddies we answer duty's call,
With the grandest son of a soldier of them all!

So Say We All,
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I woke up this morning and was all "What the heck am I gonna wear" and then remembered I had my new green shirt that I bought this weekend when I was out shoppin' for Phenomenauts concert gear. It looks nice, I get in the car, proud that I'm wearing kelly green since it's not normally a shade I wear. I then laugh to myself and think Ha, wouldn't it be HILARIOUS if it was St. Patrick's Day.

...And then I got to work and it is indeed St. Patrick's Day. Way to go, subconscious!



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So I'm finally setting up Boot Camp on my Intel Mac since I've backed everything up to a terabyte Time Capsule and don't have to worry about something going horribly wrong in the process. I did a first pass to make sure it would work- which it does, beautifully- but want to set it up again with a larger HD partition.

Do and of you guys have suggestions for how how many gigs I should allocate for Windows XP? All I need it for at the moment is Myst/Uru, so I don't think I'm going to need too much space.

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So I've been wanting to try out the TV110 pattern/make a sturdy new foundation corset/practice flossing, and finally started to dig into it over the past two weeks. After receiving the Corsets: Historical Patterns & Techniques book this past Christmas, I decided to finish the pattern after the 1890's Black-and-Yellow Flossed Corset- the result isn't identical, especially seeing how I couldn't find trim worthy of matching the original, but I think it makes for a nice homage:



( photos and details! )

Whew, I'm tired.
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The acceptance of female vs. male nudity in movies is APPALLING DISPARATE. Srsly.

Say what you will about the film itself, but I do not need one more person complaining about the tastefully done glowing blue wang in Watchmen when excessive and unprovoked female nudity is par for the course in today's movies. Yes, the penis was animated, because THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. Man up and deal with it.

You get to stare at breasts all the live long day, let me bask in that oh-so-rare prime slice of Nite Owl.
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