This Is A Quick Five-minute Doodle Of Everyone I've Ever Seriously Dated, Standing Shoulder-to-shoulder,

Doodled this in the laundromat whilst my clothes tumbled.

Five-minute doodle of Woodstock, from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts.

I always loved that comic as a kid, I used to trace it out of the newspaper, and Woodstock was my favorite.

aikainkauna:

WASSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUPPP.

(Dying of laughter.)

(by robtfirefly)

It amazes and delights me that people are still digging this ridiculous thing I made 11 years ago.  That's something like three centuries in Internet Time.

If you desire context and production details, click through to the YouTube description.

Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856-January 7, 1943)

Tesla, a Serbian-American inventor never fully appreciated in his own lifetime, has in retrospect become known as one of the most important inventors on record. Much of our 21st -century technological environment has its roots in Tesla's work with electricity, radio, and more.

Acrylic on canvas, 5x7″.  From my September 2015 set Luminaries of the Hacker World.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, run through Google Translate from English, to Chinese, to Russian, to Punjabi, to Welsh, back to English and performed by myself.

Music: "Hail Columbia" by the US Marine Corps Band (public domain).

Original mistranslation:

5.87 years , and our fathers that all men are created equal , dedicated to freedom of the uterus and forth on this continent a new nation came .

Now we are engaged in a great civil war , that nation or any nation has been conceived, and so dedicated , can long continue . Battle of the big war . For us to survive here in this country and gave their lives as a final place of rest in this area has come to set aside part . This we should do , which is natural .

However , in a broader sense , we can not worship the earth , we can not dedicate , devote unable . Who struggle brave men , living and dead , surrender, or to add it to roam far above our power is poor . Note Small World , nor long remember telling us , but they can never forget. Dedicated to the work on the cross , our life , , , , , and fought heroically . None of the rest of them here so that we can complete their last full measure of devotion to die to become more committed to the work we have great honor to devote themselves to this is that we will not die in vain , because they are the very definition of it - the dead by God , freedom and government of the people, people , freshmen will , and will not destroy the earth .

This also exists on Soundcloud.

Motorola DynaTAC 8000x 1983

The Motorola DynaTAC series was the first commercially-available, completely-handheld cellular phone.  A full charge of the brick-style phone's battery took ten hours, and offered half an hour of talk time.

The phone has since become iconic to the 1980s in general, and Yuppies in particular.  DynaTACs are used by characters of privilege in productions such as Wall Street, Saved By the Bell, and American Psycho.

Acrylic on canvas, 5x7″.  From my series of paintings of historical telephones.

Way back in 1999, I was attempting to capture frames from a video file on a Playstation 1 disc; I no longer remember which game it was.  The process of accessing video from a PS disc in a regular CD-ROM drive was unstable to begin with in those days, and it didn’t help that I really wasn’t sure what I was doing.  Instead of grabbing usable screenshots from the video, my wonky software (which I seem to remember being in Japanese with no translation available) and wonkier settings generated four 320x224 bitmaps which, while unrecognizable, were surprisingly pretty.

I’ve been saving the images ever since, hoping to find something to do with them.  I haven’t managed to find anything yet, so I stitched the four frames together into one image and am posting it here.  Instead of using the Creative Commons License I normally apply to my work, I’m posting this graphic entirely public domain and free of any restriction in hopes that folks might get some sort of use out of this old accidental digital art.

The great Harold Ramis passed away today.  His work meant a great deal to me; not only Ghostbusters (which I love) but his many other contributions to the world of comedy and the art of filmmaking.

As the news circulated, a small shrine to Ramis popped up on the sidewalk in front of Ghostbusters HQ (or, as it’s known in real life, Hook and Ladder 8.)  I sketched a portrait of Ramis on a small art card, and went downtown to add it to the memorial.  I then got to hang out for a bit with the others who had gathered there in the cold - including a Ghostbuster in full homemade uniform and proton pack - and we all chatted about what the man and his work meant to us.

He’ll be missed.

chiaestevez:

I definitely put my faith in Blast Hardcheese. 

I made this remix at least 100 years ago, it never fails to make me happy that other folks keep circulating it, making it into videos like this, etc.  It's the reason I ended up choosing the domain SpaceMutiny.com for my music.

Callie & Izzy Season 2 is coming soon, and here’s the trailer!

I performed voiceovers and served as an audio engineer on this show.  It’s really nuts and wonderful, and I’m ridiculously proud to be part of it.

If you haven’t seen Season 1 yet, binge on it here!