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  • Big Bird says the word. 2002-02-17 18:59:42 MCWagner: Argh! Ya bastich! How are we supposed to live vicariously through you when all you're doing is working in a lab?! I have to give you credit; you didn't lie, but for crying out loud, I don't want to hear tales of *science* experimentation! ;)

    Although I feel better knowing that there's at least *one* other guy on the planet besides me who hasn't done the three-way thing. Maybe I'm sharing too much... ^^;

    Um, got a bunch of my old M7 artwork from Phil today. Bless his heart. He raided the Startoons servers after they laid him off and nabbed the posters I did for the Mipcom presentation of M7 (along with all of the bg's, character art, and Chase bg's). Two pieces of artwork I did that I'm very proud of, and will probably attempt to upload to my (crappy old) website soon. In fact, I think I might do it now. Downloading CuteFTP as we speak. Oh yeah, baby. Worship my 1.69kb/sec download speed. Marvel at my not-so-broad-band. Kneel before Zod.

    They're kinda big (about 100K apiece) so please be patient, but I highly recommend downloading them. Please :)

    http://home.earthlink.net/~monolithgrp/M71-small.jpg
    http://home.earthlink.net/~monolithgrp/M72-small.jpg

    Also, don't bother poking around the site...I haven't touched it since 1998. That may change soon, though.
     
  • And the winner is: 2002-02-17 00:13:44 afree87 (Afree Baltes) for making M7 101 hits and the 3rd op. Thanks for leaving one so I could make my comments public. Mucho Apprecianado.

    I was suprised to find that two people who left opinions seem to think there's 3D footage in the video.... O_o There isn't. ::pats self on back:: I can't wait to tell Phil this, because he was going to kill me for making him paint so many different background elements just so I could fake 3D movements with multiplane pans. At least it paid off. I think. Everyone says the 3D doesn't look so good. Lol. Oh well.

    I keep saying I'm going to get started on my first official amv, but fate keeps rallying against me. I thought I had a workable copy of Premier on this computer, and I evidently do not. I know that sounds really stupid ("How can he not know what is and isn't on his machine") so I won't go into it. Hopefully I can pick it up from a friend on Monday or Tuesday...::sigh:: I just want to get started already.

    I'm halfway through the third book of Lone Wolf and Cub now. The story definitely got more coherent, and there's a great plot thread that's running through all of the books. It's so *tragic.* You really start emoting for this Lone Wolf (Ogami Itto?) and the events that got him into this walk of life. I'd love to take this book series and turn it into an animated series. The stories are just so damn riveting. Makes me wish I still worked in TV animation. I'd submit a pitch to Warner Bros. in a heartbeat. And then they'd drop it in a heartbeat. And then next season we'd see Lone Coyote and Cub ;)

     
  • Benchmark 2002-02-15 14:25:48 Thank you to the 100th person to go look at my animated amv thingie. Sixty two of you have actually attempted to download it. I appreciate it.

    Now if someone will just post a third review, I can get to lambasting the first person who reviewed it. I'm not someone who can complain about not getting reviews, however, as I have given *none* since I started coming here. I just didn't have the time up untill now. I plan on downloading some and giving reviews soon. I like the "give two for every one received" mentality.

    Senior Wagner: if that was an intentional innuendo, please excuse me while I give you repeated ::HIGH FIVES::

    You lucky, lucky, lucky bastard ;) 
  • I'm on the mic like a fascist. 2002-02-15 12:23:05 Still listening to Quarashi. Please forgive me. I have this sinking feeling that they're going to become the next Linkoln Bizquit, but I can't help myself. They're like Rage Against the Machine mixed with Beastie Boys and a dash of Tribe Called Quest all rolled into one. Bake for 45 minutes, and serve liberal portions of tracks 1,3,5,8, and 12. Especially 12. Bless (track 12) reminds me a bit of an old Siouxie and the Banshees tune where everything ran backwards, but the music sounded like it was going forwards. Insane in the membrane. Insane in the brain!

    There's ::MANGA:: talk coming up if you'd like to skip ahead, but first, please bear with me while I discuss driving in the Chicago suburbs.

    Today was an especially <sarcasm> wonderful </sarcasm> drive. First we had the State Trooper who pulled out into traffic while we were all doing 80. Came out of nowhere. A sea of red brake lights and suddenly there's a pack of cars behind the cop doing 55. It's all so childish. Honestly, I wish I were rich just so I could "take one for the team" and blast by the cop doing 80 with my middle finger saluting him out the window so he could pull me over and everyone could get on with their commute to work. Cops who drive 55 on the highway are assholes. They *know* we all drive faster than that. They *know* the highways were designed with 75 mph cars in mind, and only that wake of safety concern (not saying that's bad, mind you) in the 80's forced lawmakers to make the speed limit 55. When the cops take their family out to the Sizzler for supper, they do 75 like the rest of us. So why in the hell should they do 55 just because they're wearing the uniform and hat and squadcar? Because they're assholes, that's why.

    Then I had the <sarcasm> nice </sarcasm> lady attempting to drive her Accord firmly up my Civic's ass. At that point, I was doing 84 just to accomodate her, and she still felt that driving two feet off of my bumper would help me move out of her way. I have an iron will when it comes to driving, and you'd better be willing to deliver me a bump at that speed if you want me to move. If I see someone coming up behind me at a high rate of speed, and there's room, I move the hell over and let them pass. I'm all about having a "scout" to look up ahead for speed traps. But when you tailgate me, I become a big ol' prick. It's like she wasn't even *looking* at her speedometer. "My god, I can't believe this asshole's *only* doing 84. I want to do 95! Move it, jerk!" 85 is about my safety limit. Once you go over 85, your car's roadhandling mechanics change drasticly. If she wants to lose friction with the road, be my guest. Just don't do it when you're two feet off of my bumper. Again, the rich thing: I wish I was rich so I could be driving in my Hummer, and just slam on the brakes when someone wants to crawl up my tailpipe doing 85. See how much of a better driver they think they are when they're chewing on their own engine block. Mmmmnnnnn engine block.

    Lastly, I had the ultimate compliment. A nice gentleman gave me the "thank you wave" after he cut across THREE lanes of traffic while we were all doing 75. It's hard to explain, but at this one point, three lanes become four, two heading into Chicago and two heading north (the middle lane splits into two lanes and the highway goes off into two directions). This guy came from the far right lane just as the highway split (he decided at the last minute he wanted to go where the other section of highway was heading). He cut across my lane (I was in the middle lane taking the split on the right), and then across the striped median inbetween the splitting highway, and then onto the other highway. It wasn't even close to a collision, but I flashed my brights repeatedly at him just in case he didn't know what a tremendous asshole he was for doing that. So as he's pulling out into traffic off to my left on the other highway, I see him give the classic "thank you" wave when someone lets you into slow moving traffic. What. An. Ass.

    I really wish there was a train I could take to work. :)

    Oh, and while I'm on the driving tip, here's a very good reason why you should always wear your seat belts (and I don't mean wrapping the band around you ;) :

    http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/articles/20020215/383115.html



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    Liz got me the first four books of Lone Wolf and Cub. It's the re-re-release of the books (in English with some untranslatable Japanese terms intact). They're in Manga format (small, square bound), but they have the Frank Miller covers on them from when he did the large format release back in the 80's (or was it early 90's?). Tangent: Miller's work really shines on these covers. Beautiful detailed pencil/ink work combined with Lynn Varley's well-known water color technique. Makes me miss his old stuff even more. The DK2 stuff just can't even come close.

    Back to LWaC: Good LORD is that an incredible series. This kind of comic is *just* what the doctor ordered. I'm already in the mood to do fanart, and I haven't even finished the first book yet. I'm definitely collecting the entire run on this (all 16 issues at $10/apiece O_o). Now I know why Frank Miller was so hot to do the covers on the reprints. Brilliant short stories (that may slowly tie into a more coherent plotline, only time will tell). Brilliant artwork. It's a masterwork of sequential art. What I find striking about it more than anything is the blatant similarity between Edo era Japan and America's Wild West. I'm not saying that the author intended that, but it's just there. It's some bizzaro historical fact. The Cowboy/Samurai similarities could not be more apparent in these books. You could easily take the Wolf and Cub out of Edo and make it Clint Eastwood and Cub somewhere out in Arizona. Cowboys (done correctly) and Samurai are like Peanut Butter and Chocolate to me. I love them both so very dearly, and they're nearly interchangeable. Christ was that an awful analogy.

    Favorite bit from the first book (paraphrased): The assassin known as Lone Wolf (I forget his given name) uses his child whenever possible when he's killing people. It's not like he does it as a cowardly act, either. The child seems *willing*, even happy and gleeful to be the bait or distraction, and occassionally takes an active role in defending his father. Before reading the series I thought the child was a helpless baby, but in fact it is learning the way of the Bushido and becoming a warrior.

    "So the baby is taking part in the killings? How is that so? How can a mere child kill such skilled Samurai?"

    "Evidently the point behind Lone Wolf and Cub is that even a Cub is a Wolf."

    Must. Read. More.

     
  • wOOt! My game got a small preview! 2002-02-13 11:33:06 Cheggitout:

    http://www.gamers.com/news/1085760

    I'm the guy in the #14 jersey! (I'm the guy in the motion capture suit and I processed/animated the move; it's not my head on the model).

    Just a couple of screenshots and a quick blurb. "If you like Shaolin Soccer, you'll love this game." No, they didn't actually say that, but they should've! :)

     
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