Monday, April 20, 2009

I felt like drawing a Ghostbuster, ok.

New daily drawings up at Partyka, again. Here's one:
By the way, Joey Weiser continues being a lovely guest at the House of Partyka. Here is his bad-ass Mothra-As-Snoopy (click to enlarge, because you can't see the extremely pleasant half-tone effect at this smaller size.):

I've had "Koyaanisqatsi" running in a hidden tab on my browser while I've been doing image-and-site-editing for the past hour, because it's up for free on Youtube and I thought "hey, a repetitive Philip Glass score will be enjoyable during repetitive grunt work," but it's mostly been irritating. I guess it's kind of fun to guess whether each slight change in the looping music and the monks-in-space vocals signifies a slow-motion shot of, like, nature or of dudes smelting things, but on the whole it has been way less rewarding than the time I folded my laundry to it five years ago. I am probably not approaching the work in the correct spirit.

Yrs,
MW.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Authors vs. Terminators



"Kingsley Amis, Martin’s father, was a big fan of Terminator 2. He said it was an unimpeachable masterpiece. If you’re someone who believes in the sentimental idea of the afterlife, it’s amusing to imagine [David Foster] Wallace and Kingsley Amis arguing about it."


-from this, an interview with Glenn Kenney about David Foster Wallace's film writing.
-Oh, also, Wallace speaks his piece on T2 here.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Warm up with tiny ones for your cats and plants

THANK YOU, SCHIFFER PUBLISHING:
Although, watch out, according to this user comment on Amazon: "I have built one of the coffins following the directions in the book. Some measurements are missing, and some are not correct. This cost me in materials and time."

Time that you are running out of.

(Found via boing boing.)

It is going to be a bad year

New daily drawing up on Partyka: It Is Going To Be A Bad Year.
This is a drawing about how it is going to be a bad year.

Dustin Harbin also has his third set of "Heaven" drawings up in the guest gallery section on the site, so you can navigate to there and look at things.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Thanks, Interactive Maps!

Happy Philadelphia Beer Week!

Here is a map of places to get beer:
http://phillybeerweek.org/map_philly.cfm

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Happy Philadelphia Cherry Blossom Festival!

After you get beer, here is a map of trees you can pee on:
http://jasgp.org/cherryblossomfestival/index.php/About-Cherry-Trees/Cherry-Tree-Planting-Sites.html