Helen has been watching “The Iron Giant” relatively constantly this weekend on Netflix Streaming. I hadn’t seen it in a long time Then tonight, while digging around on the vast expanses of the Internets looking for something else, I found this. A pencil sketch of The Iron Giant. Drawn by Tim Vigil. This is awesome [...]
I made a beeline for Kansas yesterday morning to spend some time with my dad while my grandma — his mom, and my last surviving grandparent — lies in a nursing home about two hours south of here watching the last few days of her life tick away. We’re going down to see her tomorrow; [...]
My Tuesday began with a hastily-stuffed overnight bag and a shoebox containing two apples, most of a box of pecan granola bars and a dizzying array of plastic tubes of various powder used to flavor bottled water. My Tuesday could easily have ended on a 60-something mile stretch of Interstate 35 in northern Iowa. After [...]
Continue reading about 2,000 words or less: My day has been long
I finally picked up “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” for my Playstation 3 last week; it was on clearance at Target for $10 to make room for the new SKU with the Sith missions. I hadn’t had much experience with the game beyond playing through the free downloadable demo available on the Playstation Network, but [...]
For a few years, starting with my first purchase of a Master Grade RX-178 MkII at Epcot Center, I was into building plastic models of the gigantic mechanical battlesuits from the various Japanese “Gundam” animated TV series.
So, I had these grand plans to write a “2,000 words or less” entry based on that article I posted yesterday about overcoming “creative block.” I’m not going to do that. The article still got me thinking quite a bit, but after I wrote a note to a friend of mine on Facebook yesterday that [...]
I posted this on Twitter earlier; I want to do some things, hopefully later tonight, with the linked post, but I’m putting this up here for now to make sure I remember to do it. One comment from one of the creatives made a point that hit home with me to a significant degree, and [...]
I got word earlier this week that my new laptop for work has been ordered. I’m pumped; I’ve been basically without a laptop for over a year, since my previous work laptop finally decided to quit on me after I put it through absolute hell for four years. Specs: 2.8 GHz MacBook Pro, four gigs [...]
It’s spring signing season in college athletics; colleges all over the nation are gleefully announcing their incoming recruting classes for a variety of sports, selling fans and boosters on the idea that this group of kids will be the ones who make a difference for the program they love. Notre Dame posted this on its [...]
Boba Fett, originally uploaded by AndyBartlett. Here’s an in-progress shot of my three-panel illustration of Boba Fett. I’ve completed inking work and am ready to begin coloring. I have a couple more in-progress shots of this piece that I took during the penciling phase; I’ll upload those later in a complete blog post on the [...]
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