Beautiful poster designs by Amy Kate Martin for the 826LA Echo Park Time Travel Mart.
January 11, 2010
One of the very few shots that came out of my photo expedition on Saturday.
January 11, 2010
So early last week Caroline Harrison and I were talking and we decided that with our height and general badassery, we should fight crime. We determined on what our costumes would be (a mix of Valkyrie and Amazon) and had so much fun, that Caroline posted our conversation along with our pictures on an artist thread in the Whitechapel forum and said “Go fo it!”. This is one of the results from Mr. Paul Sizer.
But little did we know, deep in the foulest castle of England, writer Will Ellwood was writing a script for a comic inspired by these characters and asked the very talented Andre Navarro to start drawing it. Well, page one just came out today. Click to embiggen.
So apparently mine and Caroline’s days are spent being involved in the superhero biz. My folks were devastated of course, since there’s next to no money in it. But what the hell, I’m helping people.
January 8, 2010
Thoughts On The Future, Both Close & Far
Posted by Robin under Media, Music, People I Know, Work, Writing, photography | Tags: lexmachina, Music, neil struthers, photography, Writing |1 Comment
It’s been a very busy week here both with my own stuff and other people’s. One photography gig, one filming gig, two backstage gigs, one trip-to-Memphis gig and one social media job are all up in the air and I’m wondering which ones will fall down and hit me right on the head. Pretty exciting stuff! On top of that I’ve been experimenting with HDR, figuring out Adobe Lightroom (On advice from my good friend and INCREDIBLY talented photographer Lex Machina) and actually feeling like I can write some stories. Going to be flexing my scripting muscles next week in order to prepare for “Project: Not Telling Yet Ssh” with stunning artist (both in his art and his wit) Neil Struthers.
A thought hit me earlier in the week touching on the topic of what the future might hold for listening to portable music. I don’t mean anything like the iPod Touch, but the actual experience of listening to music. The short of it is a device that reads your brainwaves to determine what mood you are in and plays music that you designated to that particular mood before hand (somewhat like the iTunes star system). Make it colour coded, and when you’re angry your player turns red and plays angry music. Two additions are that the player could slowly integrate happy music in to the playlist when you are angry or sad and having the ability to stream other people’s playlist that corresponds with your mood. So if you’re happy you can listen to what other happy people are listening to. Tastes of course will differ, but it’s fascinating if you’ve ever wondered what music other people listen to when they’re in a similar mood as you.
Anyways, thinking on some more things. I’m off for now.
January 5, 2010
What a productive day.
I spent the morning studying other people’s HDR photography and reading Trey Ratcliff’s HDR tutorial linked to me by the wonderful (and thought-provoking) Ariana Osbourne. I made an initial test which took ages to figure out how to export in photoshop, but was finally done. I then set out to experiment and see what I could do if I put some thought in to the shots. This was one of the results from that experiment.
Today I’ve also cracked after ages of deliberating and downloaded Adobe Lightroom. I’m still sort of toying around with it, but the initial reactions to it are incredibly positive.
January 3, 2010
This is just about a minute’s walk away from my cottage up in Muskoka where I spent my holidays.
I know it’s a little late, but Happy New Year. Let’s not let this one be a horrible mess, eh?
December 22, 2009
Robin, originally uploaded by StayingFocussed.
The INCREDIBLY talented Dale O’Flaherty has humbled me by drawing this amazing picture of yours truly. He’ll be ordering some special brush pens and will be inking it after the holidays, but I had to share this because it is just an amazing piece of work on it’s own.
Everyone go to his blog. If we all keep telling him to make a comic maybe he’ll do one and he’ll make loads of money and then buy Richard Dawkins to take him out to the pub and do his talks just for him.
Anyways. Dale O’Flaherty. Check him out. Go.
December 21, 2009
I originally wrote this as part of a Geek Carol contest for GeekGirls and I liked it so much that I thought I would post it here!
Carol Of The Bat (in the tune of Carol Of The Bells)
Hark see the light,
Up in the night,
It seems to say
Bad guys will pay
Parents are dead
Fucked up my head
Now in the night
I go and fight
Zing! Voop! Sop! Zong!
That is the song
Of fist hitting face
In a dark place
One seems to hear
Shrieks of good cheer
Before he kills
If he so wills
Oh how he smiles
In me he riles
Thoughts of the dead
Must pound his head
Gaily he spits
Blood and some bits
Take him away
I deeply say:
I am, I am, I am, I am Batman
I am, I am, I am, I am Batman
On on they send
On without end
Sane and the mad
Good fights the bad…
Goodbye mom and…dad…
December 14, 2009
My good friend Kevin Patrick Glover and artist Amanda Hayes have finally launched their web comic The Invisible Skein. I’ve been anticipating this for quite some time, as Kevin is a great writer (check out his column on Hypergeek) and Amanda is a wonderful young artist. The first page is already up and more to come this week! Check it out!
December 13, 2009
Small Press Fever
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Yesterday I went to a small press book fair put on by The Toronto Small Press Group here in Toronto and have to admit I was pleasantly surprised. Normally my experiences with small press functions have been comprised entirely of people in what my friend Claro calls the “anarcho-hipster spectrum”. Here in Toronto we have LOTS of anarchists who love showing off just how anarchist they are. And don’t get me wrong, a lot of their zines are really amazing, but when the only people that attend and take part in these are the same, they’re just preaching to the choir. The book fair yesterday took away my hesitation for coming. There were some “anarcho-hipsters”, yes, but there were also middle-aged Wiccans selling history on Queen St. West, semi-formal old men with science-based poetry, teenage manga lovers pimping out their webcomic and a man who called out to me and said “excuse me, can I interest you in a story about people who have penises for faces?”. Wonderful mix of people and only $20 got me quite a few presents for the holidays (some I admittedly don’t want to give up).
And now I’ve been bitten by the Small Press Bug, it seems. I find I’m waiting with anticipation for any more events coming up and I’m looking at Microcosm Publishing and just drooling over some of the lovely finds there (including the art of Cristy Road). And I’m also considering putting a little something together myself. We’ll see where that goes, but right now I’m still getting over how awesome itis that I’ve found so many talented individuals.
So let’s see where that takes us.
