Andy Bartlett on January 26th, 2010

No “2,000 words or less” so far this month; I just haven’t felt like saying much. Blah. This is awesome; it’s an extended version of Jason Segel’s “Dracula’s Lament” song from “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” a movie combining the awesomeness of vampire musicals with the hotness of Mila Kunis. It’s really one of the great movies [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 24th, 2010

Lego Gaga #1, originally uploaded by AndyBartlett. I completed my first Lego Gaga drawing. Fun. It’s an OK debut; I’m not super-happy with it. The eyes are a mess and the solid black outfit didnt’ turn out as well as I hoped. But, I think it’s a pretty solid effort for my first time out. [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 21st, 2010

Jan. 20, 2010 self portrait, originally uploaded by AndyBartlett. A down-and-dirty 10-minute rough sketch of yours truly. Ink and colored pencil on trading card. (2.5×3.5).

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Andy Bartlett on January 20th, 2010

So, thanks to Twitter, today I discovered the existence of Katie Cook: http://katiecandraw.typepad.com/ The site name isn’t hyperbole; she really can draw. Her work is fantastic, and she has a *lot* of it available for people like me to check out. Her subjects run the gamut of geekdom: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Battlestar [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 14th, 2010

I posted the rough sketches I started of this “Lego Gaga” idea I’ve got in my head up on DeviantArt; check it out if you wish, here.

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Andy Bartlett on January 13th, 2010

Even though I have yet to finish the previous two projects I have started – the chair restoration and my Coraline popup – and have yet to begin a third project that I now know I want to do (but as yet remains a carefully-guarded secret), I’m going to begin a new one. Yesterday morning, [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 11th, 2010

I had a hell of a time this year telling Melissa what I wanted for Christmas; we eventually just settled on no present under the tree with what basically amounted to an IOU for funding to trick out my new room in the basement once our renovation is completed. This wasn’t because I didn’t know [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 8th, 2010

So, this afternoon, I checked in on ESPN.com, and saw this headline in their “other news” jump box: • Tidal Wave: Saban showered with title trophies Here’s the proof: This headline got me excited. Was Nick Saban so excited about winning a national championship that he took that crystal football into the shower with him? [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 7th, 2010

Having lived in either Minnesota or Kansas for the last 23 years, I know the severity of weather is all a matter of perspective. But this morning, I had to laugh at CBS News while it was covering this ridiculous winter weather that’s wreaking havoc everywhere. The weather guy was camped out in front of [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 6th, 2010

So, I’ve often wondered if there was a way for me to keep the same sort of RSS feed list on my laptop that I have on my work iMac without phsycially subscribing to all the feeds in both places. I don’t have a huge list of subscriptions – 65 or so is all – [...]

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