April 15th, 2009:
Everyone seems really into my new shirt / print, which is amazing! It's so awesome to see it linked to in all these crazy places.
Titans of Small Town was a lot of fun! I sold my paintings to two great people which was really flattering, and I ate Brooklyn pizza with Chris Hastings, Carly Monardo, Emily Horne, Joey Comeau and a wanted felon, which, you know, is one more checkmark on that lifetime to-do list.
April 9th, 2009:
Many times I have complained to those near to me that if I were sent back in time I would be pretty useless. I am pretty handy with a computer, but it's not like I can build something functional from scratch. And if I found myself sent back in time, what could I tell people about the future except "It'll be fun" and "Your great-great grandkids are gonna love it"?
WITH THAT IN MIND, I have been researching all of the low-hanging fruit of civilization: stuff that doesn't take that much to describe once it's invented, but still produces a useful payoff. The basics of electricity. Radio. Modern medicine. That sort of thing! And I've put it on a shirt, which I am calling "the Time Traveler Essentials shirt".
Oh dang dang dang I'm trapped in the past! OHHH SHIIIIII- oh wait I forgot about my shirt!!
While you can't read all the text clearly in that image, everything is perfectly crystal clear on the shirt - it's really gorgeous. And if you ARE the kind of person who likes to read what their things say before they buy them, click here for a larger version!
April 8th, 2009: The Graphically Speaking talk was a lot of fun - thanks to everyone who came out! I really enjoyed it and hope the discussion was as interesting for you as it was for me! Joey's book launch was also a lot of fun. TOO MUCH FUN?? Nope, it was just the right amount!
This Friday I'm driving down to NY for the Titans of Small Town gallery show with Chris and Chris, which is Saturday the 11th in Brooklyn. You should come!
HELPING PEOPLE: The Kiva webcomics team allows you to lend money to people who can use it to make their worlds better. It's pretty good, you guys! If you don't have extra money, you can sign up for the Dino Comics distributed computing team, which allows your computer to work on curing AIDS and cancer in its spare time. Sounds good to me! We've done over 400 years of worth of disease-curing computing, and the Dinosaur Comics team is one of the biggest teams on the network - larger than those of many actual nations.
and if you have a webcomic, you'll maybe want to use the sites i built called rsspect (for rss feeds) and ohnorobot (a personalized comic search engine)!