The epic volumes of KILL BILL 1 and 2 gave me the chance to try out more simple animated ideas in 2003-2004. That idea being to butcher the brand with swordplay and paint the result in blood.
Well I tried.
Volume 1 offered the chance to re-create Tarantino‘s recreation of the color scheme originated by Bruce Lee. Playing with the 70s typeface was a trip. If you blink, you’ll miss the Hattori HanzÅ affect the perfect kill-shot.
In the not-so-distant past, I dabbled with animation. The times were young an frivolous. My experimentation was with animated gifs. Sure it was crude and sort of cheesy by today’s standards. Hell, it was cheesy back then. The only way you can grow is to expand and visit new shores.
The time was the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. You know the thing that no one watches on TV. Ms Jackson sort of exposed a breast to the whole of the USA and parents got their tits in a twist. At the time a friend pondered if the uproar was because of a bare breast or because that bare breast was african american. That’s a debate for another post.
Adult Swim, in their salad days, aired a bump that re-created the scandal in ascii form. This gave me the idea to extend the thought to the next level.
I won’t lie in saying it took some time settling on two graphics that were not completely embarrassing to share. A few hours work for a day’s use. It shocks me what I do for this site sometimes.
Bits of this is actually a few years old. The panda was drawn by long lost friend, Jason Morgan. The hat was not included. The Groonk logo with the, now tiny, beer eyes was from the first St Patrick’s splash I ever shared on the Internets. The rest is as new and spruce as I could make them.
Look below the jump for the second graphic: Chasing Green Beer.
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It’s happened before.
It’ll happen again.
Gods help you if you’re not watching the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica. I hear random factions of The Internet may be unsatisfied with what they’re getting. I disagree with The Internet. With the exception of one episode, I’ve enjoyed the frak out of the final archival tapes.
If you’re more than a year behind, I can’t help you. If you, like me, wait with bated breath for the end of season four, the 21st century answer to missed shows has your backs. Hulu will beam BSG love into your personal computing devices.
But enough about that. Let’s talk splash pages. I won’t bore you with the back story on how long it took me to settle on an angle for this theme. I’ll only say that the minute the comics angle entered my brain, everything fell into place.
This splash will have only a few days showing in it’s full HTML glory. A certain movie release has asked to temporarily bump any small screen admiration off its pedestal for a short time.
This time last year, I had the idea of creating the Other Me. The plan was to work it out and show off my new creativity at Dragon Con 2008. Problem was, I could not figure out how to effectively make button eyes. Glasses? Beer Goggles from Spencer’s painted black with little button holes drilled around the edges? Visiting my very own Other Mother and agreeing to her contract?
Nothing clicked.
I figured what I *can* do is amateur lettering and entrance web site graphics(aka splash pages). And so you have this prototype graphic that (currently) greets your eyes.
The year’s nowhere near over but the best/worst lists are piling up like week old laundry. I don’t have anything against such year end reviews. I just never made the time to see/watch/read/do all the things discussed on said lists. Any reviews I make would be damn incomplete. So I’ll rely on others to do my dirty work.* Then judge them appropriately when I find their results wrong.
Heh.
Entertainment Weekly’s Best & Worst of 2008
It’s surprising how a crap magazine can get a few things right once in a while.
I’m tempted to pick up EW tomorrow for the HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER photoshoot. The entire cast acts out random moments in 2008. If the show were as cool as the cast seems to be, I’d still be watching HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER.
Pitchfork Media put forth two bits of bests so far. For those who don’t know, they’re the Indie Rock Pete of the online music media game. Bursting forth from the ashes of what Rolling Stone used to be, maybe 20 years ago, I look forward to running through their tracks to discover something new and majestic and not found easily on mainstream radio.
Formerly Known as The Caffeinated Achiever reminded me that this day is National Coffee Day. On realizing this a celebration is in order. It might be a brisk cup of artificially flavored joe from one of my favorite local coffee joints Rocket Rush or I’ll sell out and run to the later opened Starbucks down the street. In times like these, you must spend your money where it’ll count most.
The holiday snuck up on me so a quick re purposing of an old brand is all I have to share. Animated for your pleasure above. Still shot and shared here.
Something new for the weekend, mates. Displayed in full visual’n all hearing sound(refresh for more possibilities). For the entire weekend, ye lubbers. As aye will be in the blues washed town of Memphis, TN.
Arrr.
Be sure’n visit me mate Bosun Snee from Seriously Guys to learn how ye should be celebratin’ this fine day.
And don’t forget me rum.
And by willingly I mean I set the clock, go to bed, the alarm goes off and I actually wake up and get going.
What lies above is the mock up for the current splash screen(That also includes twitter updates. Last time for that gimmick. I promise). It represents, possibly, the last D*Con I’ll see for a while. That’s if plans go forward as I like.
I hear there’s a game on that’s kind of a big deal. So this year the jocks will roam the streets with the geeks. It’ll be like high school all over again. Only this time, the freaks & geeks are heavily armed with dull blades and years of pent up aggressions. Should be interesting to see.
Heh.
As with last year, there will be tweets. In addition with last year there will also be Twitpics and maybe even Flickrs. All these things depend on wireless connectivity and willingness to upload.
Come, come. Please attend. The fantasy/sci-fi and gaming geeks come out tonight…and for the next 3 nights/4days.
Any one who knows me, in real life or the Internets, knows that I dig comics. So when the Face Your Manga meme swept through Twitter, Friend Feed, Flickr and other social thingambobs it’s obvious that I’d take to that like a duck stuck in a rip in the fabric of space.
Along comes Stop the Manga wet blanket at the ready. Some people devoted their time to create a manga site that advocates stopping the use of Facing Your Manga. Let your head percolate on that for a second. I mentaly filed the site in my overflowing mental cabinet of sites found on the Internets as Your Mileage May Vary.
Then I noticed they’re collecting strikes against the “Worst Offenders.” Then I see I’ve got 2 against me!
Only 2 measly strikes against me? What the F?
If I’m going to be “reported,” I want all the points. Strikes. Whatever. I’m following the lead of the D-List master‘s and whoring myself unabashedly. Simply put: I must top the list of offenders.
I want to STM to be Scobleized by the weight of Groonkly Strikes. Two piddly offenses? That dog won’t hunt. I’m asking you, people of the Internets to make this happen. Make me offensive.
Go ahead. Report me.
I dare you.
Newsmine
