Wednesday May 12th

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Here's some links! Stuff I like (today atleast)

"Scott Pilgrim" has been inching in my ears as the days go by. Unfortunately I have still yet to read it, but I just found out it's going to be a movie. It looks awesome, I can't wait to read the comic!
Awesome movies? Awesome toons! I found Edible Castle through Newgrounds a little while ago and I felt the urge to share; snappy art, witty humor, and awesome site design. For serious, check out some of their toons and play Return to the Cubuture.
Comics rules, zines rule and finding a free printout of a zine in comic form? Amazing! I found a copy of DV Zine in the computer lab on campus a few weeks (months?) ago and loved it! I've shared it with all of my friends and now I'll share it with you. Dvorak ftw.
Allen Duffy is awesome! True story. Go get the free pdf of his not-for-profit kids Monster Delight book and learn how to be the best monster you can be. Then buy a copy and spread the love to your local computer lab or neighborhood kids (money goes towards supplies and shipping, but that's it! If any of that money goes towards him, I probably end up costing him that much peanut butter and pancakes)
I don't spend as much time on the world wide web like I used to, I've even limited my blog intake from evangelical zealot to casual follower! I've got my list, my crew, my posse, but every now and then I stumble though new blogs. Every once and awhile I find something amazing. Enter Jeff Soto. Fantastic stuff, check it out!
well, that takes care of that. Happy Wednesday!

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EWU Studio Art BFA Program Application Presentation

Here it is, for you to enjoy, discuss, critique or ignore! (please click the images for the actual pages, these are simply 'sneak peak' panels)






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Vid'ya Games

Ever' once and awhile I like refresh my obsession with crawling through dungeons, swinging swords and casting spells. I must tame the final boss! I don't ever plan on 'growing up' and loosing interest in video games and comic books; I'll play D&D until I die and I'll always be a geek, dork, nerd and munchkin.

So today I spent a solid chunk of time being a chibi knight. I became a chibi mage, I cut an' burned and I grinded until I had exhausted the available adventure. Sweet graphics, beautiful music and quick to learn gameplay. Plus it's a nod to Zelda II!


And if Chibi Knight is a nod to Zelda, then I can't rest without a nod to Mario! Enter 'Enough Plumbers', a clone cloning clones game (e.g. Braid or P.B. Winterbottom). This definitely heads in its own direction from the two previously mentioned XBLA games, all in all a tricky little puzzle game (I still haven't gotten all the medals yet). A nice contrasting transition from Chibi Knight's flash graphics and full sound to some classic 8-bit music and pixel graphics.

My friend Jason introduced me to this game not too long ago and I fell in love. The gameplay isn't anything new, but the music and level design is absolutely hilarious and fantastic! Click the image to head to a YouTube page to hear some of the theme music (it begins as pure description of the game, almost a pitch for purchase). I won't spoil the surprise, but as your points increase, by killing zombies, the music warps and the baddies and background change with the tone of the tune. Awesome!


On the topic of games, I recently found out that there's a Game Developer Conference starting tomorrow that's only less than 300 miles away! Damn! Tommy Tallarico is gonna be there (those are his eyes in the corner, watching you). I'm sure he'll be there spreading the word of his latest release: The Gamer Warz 2. If not, he'll probably talk about video game soundtrack composition or something.


Since I'm talking about games today instead of food (omg wtf? no bbq? lol?) I have to mention this open source game developing software I found called Construct. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but if you flip through some of the tutorials there are some videos of platform games being built at an insane pace! Check out the collision mask and platform movement videos, they've got Braid art!


Speaking of Braid art, my mind was blow when I found out that David Hellman is the mind behind both Braid and A Lesson is Learned! A Lesson is Learned, but the Damage is Irreversible is/was a webcomic that seriously explored the infinite canvas available to comic artists on the web (Scott McCloud talks about the infinite canvas in his book Reinventing Comics). I highly recommend, nay, I urge you all to go check out David Hellman's old online comics. They're beautiful, hilarious and amazing.


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Representing a Recipe

This blahg is on my mind; how to make it worth your time? That's easily answered for friends and family that I don't see very often (everyone I know), but what about Stay at Home Matt or other internet strangers? I'm going to think this one out online.

Representing a Recipe
Like I've stated before, I don't cook with recipes and my spontaneous nature doesn't lend itself to be documented very well. So, I've been thinking about how to make my cooking adventures more accessible than simple slide shows with vague ingredient lists. I suppose the best way would be to eventually re-create a meal I love so many times that I actually develop a recipe, but I'm a chaos freak; I usually don't know what I'm cooking until it's done.

Anyway, there are plenty of ways of presenting a recipe and then sharing it with your friends or the internet, so here's a bunch of recipe and foodie links!

Here's some awesome letterpress'd recipe cards!
A local Spokane-ite who does raw food 'cooking' classes
Awesome food blog!
Cooking for engineers! An interesting recipe card at the end of each recipe.
The inventive Photoshop chef
The mashup of cooks and comics!


Anyway, here's my little first attempt at a mashup of design and cooking; cooking flowchart!


Well, that was fun and delicious.

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Smoothies and a Skillet

Happy Free Comic Cook Day!

Holy shit, that was typo gone right. Write?
Awesome.

Sorry it's not a comic cook, but it's still delicious!

Feast your eyes and bellies...


Happy Free Comic Book Day!