Beats Like A Drum

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Look Jayne!

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Golden Gnome

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Aaaawwww shit!

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It feels like summer!

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It begins.

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PISS PUDDLE

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And another.

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SoftHeads2

2010-02-25T11:27:00.001-08:00

Another funny comic!

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Every other day.

2010-01-20T11:29:00.001-08:00

This picture makes my day everyday.

This is my buddy Dale, he lives in my home town. I haven't been there in a while and I feel like a dick for not visiting my friends there. I'll have to plan a trip soon.

And another teacher study. I like this one, or maybe I just like how the teacher looks irl. I need to figure out how to colour in hair properly.

- I'm bloggin

A picture and a drawing

2010-01-15T13:14:00.001-08:00

Maybe I'll make this an every other day thing.

I took this picture at my girlfriend's Christmas staff party. St. Joseph's is one of this city's greatest hidden treasures. It's a community centre with it's own 4 lane bowling alley. It also has 2 albino twin women who run it.

And this is another teacher drawing. I don't really like it, but I drew it today.

- I'm bloggin

A drawing and a picture.

2010-01-13T12:22:00.000-08:00

My job involves me sitting behind a camera in a classroom for 3 hours at a time. Sometimes when the instructor doesn't move around too much I try to draw them. I've drawn this one three times now and none of them do her justice. I was pretty happy with my last attempt so I decided to ink it.

I also found this funny.

- I'm bloggin

HBPC3

2009-11-28T16:34:00.000-08:00

Hey!

I made another Hamburger Police Cop. This is the third one, it should be in the next Manitoban, and in another zine. I've been trying to use stuff I learned in school, like line of action and crap like that. I can't really draw a dog well.

Just for fun I decided to colour it in.

You'll have more fun than a brussel sprout.

2009-10-20T09:23:00.000-07:00

Church related puppet shows are my favourite!

I'm even thinking about buying a shirt.

Feared faces

2009-10-13T21:06:00.001-07:00

- I'm bloggin

Bloggin' on my phone.

2009-10-09T07:11:00.001-07:00

I can blog from anywhere now!

This is Softhead, I'm hopefully going to use him in some comic strips.

Hamburger Police Cop 2

2009-10-06T06:48:00.000-07:00

I thought I already posted this, but I guess not.

Here's the second Hamburger Police Cop,. It was featured in the September 2009 issue of the Manitoban, and it will hopefully be featured in a few zines soon. It follows the previous Hamburger Police Cop strip. I had an idea for a third one, but I like this ending better. I'm hopefully going to do a few that are more than just 4 panels, but at the rate I'm going that will take a year.

The Seeds

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Hamburger Police Cop

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I've been reading so many comics lately, I decided to make one. It's printed in the September 9th issue of the Manitoban.

The line work is pretty sloppy, I've been trying to master the art of pen and ink. I hope to do more of these, but I'll probably procrastinate to the point of never doing another one. There's two more that follow this story line, and a bunch of other ones that are just in my head.

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Comics I've been reading:
Power Mastrs #1
Multiforce
Black Mass
Wowee Zonk #2
Eightball

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Comics on the way:
Prison Pit
Power Mastrs #2-#3
Boy's Club 3
(many more)

Between a rock and two ferns.

2009-07-15T15:22:00.000-07:00

I'm LOLing at work! I watched the Michael Cera interview a while ago and thought that it was the only "Between Two Ferns" ever made. But there are 5 in total, and this one is very funny!

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

The other 4 are on funny or die.

Technology!!!

2009-07-12T21:35:00.000-07:00

Ever have so much fun with (new to you) technology!?

Woah!

Brothers showing off cats!

Significant others showing off cats!

Skype is great!

Canada Day

2009-07-03T09:02:00.000-07:00

Wow! What a great Canada Day!

My day started off by heading to work bright and early. Then I spent that work day dismantling an entire editing suite.

Then it was off to Osborne to be overwhelmed by the amount of people.

I met up with Ty-Ty and we decided to go get slurpees and a pizza!

MMmmmmm... Lookin' good! We decided to eat our pizza in a flower garden.

Then more friends showed up!

We moved the party back to my place!

Mel said that Ty-Guy could have beer only if she could put her hands up his shirt.

A gift for a friend!

Then we went down to Osborne to watch some live music. We saw a pink thing.

FIREWORKS!

Look at them!

Yes!

We decided that fireworks are only exciting for about 5 minutes.

Then we all walked home and now I have blisters on my feet.

Put It In The Bag!

2009-06-25T08:25:00.000-07:00

Here's another great cartoon! It's called "Put It In The Bag" and features Humphrey the Bear and Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore.

This is another one of the cartoons I watched over and over. What's funnier than dancing bears bumping butts, or a flamboyant midget gyrating on a tree stump?

Here's the song featured in the cartoon "The Humphrey Hop".

Children's Cartoons

2009-06-17T08:29:00.000-07:00

Why can't all cartoons be like this?!

It's offensive and racist, well animated, hilarious and it has slide whistle and triangle sounds. Growing up I watched this hundreds of times and I still laugh every time I see it.

NEW NEW NEW NEW BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG

2009-04-29T08:19:00.000-07:00

Hey!

I'm doing a new blog!

Here it is!

It's about Garage Sales.

I'll continue to do this blog too.

Yes!

Sugar Baby

2009-04-24T18:22:00.000-07:00

Obviously this video wasn't intended for the song, but it amazes me how well they fit together. Who knew the "stanky leg" would become the dance of our generation?

2009-04-07T15:26:00.000-07:00

I'm scared of a bird.

The Hangover

2009-03-30T10:30:00.000-07:00

Some days when I have very little to do at work I watch movie trailers.

Today I found this one.

This looks ok.

Mike Tyson's acting skills never cease to amaze me.

That's Amore

2009-03-06T07:56:00.000-08:00

Anne cherchait l'amour

2009-03-05T17:40:00.000-08:00

That's my dream guitar.

BAD

2009-03-01T10:44:00.000-08:00

I recently discovered that this existed and it sort of blew my mind. It's the 18 minute full version of the "BAD" video directed by Martin Scorsese.

I still don't get why dancing around like a fruit would make you badder than Wesley Snipes and his 2 buddies, but there are some things in life I will never understand.

If that wasn't funny enough, here's a video that got me through a real ruff patch in my life.

My Favourite Album of 2009

2009-01-08T08:20:00.000-08:00

Wodka

2008-11-26T09:45:00.000-08:00

I finished watching all of "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job" Season 3 and felt an empty space inside of me, until I found the Vodka Movies. They were made by Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric, and all three deal with heavy life issues.

A Vodka Movie

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Pussy Doodles!

2008-10-31T11:07:00.000-07:00

John K

2008-10-30T12:15:00.000-07:00

Recently a friend of mine introduced me to John K's Blog. John K (or John Kricfalusi) is a Canadian born animator best known for his work on Ren and Stimpy. I am heavily addicted to his site and my goal is to read a months worth of posts everyday. He averages about 22 posts a month, dating back to February 2006. Some of the posts are just a series of charicatures and others are rants about what is wrong with animation today and how good it used to be. I haven't even gotten into 2007 yet, and I've already learned a lot about basic fundamentals and what makes a strong cartoon. I've probably learned more from this blog than I have from the animation courses I took in College.

Here's a Yogi Bear short that John K animated for the adult swim.

Summer Is Over. Part 2

2008-10-16T21:16:00.000-07:00

One great thing about the summer, is holidays. My brother decided to waste his and come spend a week with my parents and myself.

Here's the handsome man himself, enjoying a family breakfast.

My brother accompanied by his wife!

Of course we went garage sailing while they were in.

And of course I didn't find anything, except for this roof cat.

Another summer perk is Folkarama! Here's Mel, happy with her choice.

Ty-Guy with a smooth beverage.

I magically captured a Leprechaun on film!

Look at all the vividness.

A lone wolf outside of 711.

I think I may have broken the record for the amount of times I've gone to Dim Sum this summer. Sarah chowin' down!

This is what happens when you take a picture of the sun.

Hi Lester!

Sarah primping.

Sarah hanging

Laura tying.

Next week.... The beach!

Summer Is Over.

2008-10-07T20:29:00.000-07:00

There I said it, but here are some pictures from the past few months. I'll try to post these chronologically. I shot most of these with a Canon AE-1 Program and a Nikon Fm.

Krisjanis and I snagged some free passes to Folk Fest, so we decided to go see Lee Scratch Perry. He never showed up.

This was my first time at Folk Fest, and everyone said it was the worst day in Folk Fest history. It rained constantly, everything was muddy, and it was freezing.

Anyone?

What would summer be without Pizza in the park!

Or a delicious BBQ.

Hi Lester!

A city.

I don't like this cat but I made it look cute.

Here's my brother blowing bubbles, he used to work with a guy named bubbles.

Yeah.

Here's a baby.

I don't like this cat either.

Panda Cam

2008-09-26T17:28:00.000-07:00

I have this widget called Panda Cam, it's a live feed from the San Diego Zoo Panda exhibit. Sometimes when you view Panda Cam it's just a pile of leaves and other times it's a big rolly polly Panda eating a tasty stick (I check it daily). I've been told that the San Diego Pandas are the very same Pandas that visited Winnipeg a few years back.

If you don't have a mac you can just go here and view the live stream.

It's probably one of the best things ever.

FUNNY!

2008-09-17T08:13:00.001-07:00

HAMBURGER UNIVERSITY

2008-09-03T10:08:00.001-07:00

As all of you are heading back to school, I'm dreaming of Hamburger University!

I've also done a little research and discovered McDonaldland! This including a list of all McDonaldland characters, and an interesting lawsuit filed by Sid and Marty Krofft creators of H. R. Pufnstuf.

Fartin' Gary!

2008-08-29T14:56:00.000-07:00

I got the complete series of Mr. Show for my birthday. I just finished season two last night and was almost in tears from this skit.

YAY long weekend!

Ken Lee

2008-08-19T08:09:00.000-07:00

I can't stop singing this version of a great American classic.

Found here.

Do you have any dogs that are sick, and you don't care!?

2008-08-06T11:27:00.000-07:00

You ever been hit in the head with a shitty Pamper?!

Then you can't be black!

I watch this about once a week and laugh.

It's scenes and out-takes from Totally Awesome, starring Tracy Morgan. Apparently if you watch this you've seen all the best parts of the movie.

SO4 video!?

2008-07-24T08:52:00.000-07:00

Taxi Film and Meld Media got together to make this video for Edmonton Boieez Shout Out Out Out Out. You can watch it here. The video is okay, the graphics are great, but it seems sluggish and the story's played out. I don't think much would compare to their live show though. They should have just shot green screen footage of the band live. Easy enough, right?

SO4 are currently recording (finished?) their newest album, a follow up to Not Saying/Just Saying.

Summer FUN!

2008-07-19T13:14:00.001-07:00

We took a big double date up to Mel's family cabin a few weeks back.

Fun in the sun!

We got kind of lost looking for the look out point of this mountain. We eventually heard some voices and followed them until we found it. Look at that view, huh?

1 big purple circle on your face.

The Gang!

Here's Ty-Guy pimpin' hard!

Back at home: Lester wearing a toupée made of his own fur.

Half way through this roll my camera fell on the floor and my focus ring stopped turning. I was stuck at a pretty close range so I went through the rest of the pictures quickly so I could take the lens in.

Big Oink in all his glory.

It was $50 to repair the focus ring, it turns now, but not easily. I found a Nikon FM with a similar lens and bought it along with a few accesories off of Kijiji.

hahahaha

2008-07-14T17:37:00.000-07:00

Wycked PHots

2008-07-07T20:45:00.000-07:00

I bought a Nikon FE off of Kijiji a while back and here are the results.

I took it for a spin around my parent's place a few Sunday's back. I had it set on automatic by accident, I still made adjustments without noticing.

Sassy Sarah

I'll show you the other roll I developed soon.

I've been watching my money, saving up for holiday.

2008-06-23T08:21:00.000-07:00

I've been watching this video way too much. The new album comes out soon.

Here's the video for Radio Ladio also.

And if those 2 weren't kooky enough; My Heart Rate Rapid.

Hey, I went to New York.

2008-06-12T18:22:00.000-07:00

I went to New York a month ago and now I can finally show you the pictures.

Day 1.

Caught an early flight to New York with a stop over in Toronto.

Can you see the C.N Tower? It's in there. I had to sit there for 2 hours listening to these 3 ladies talk about Indiana Jones and cell phone plans. They were on a business trip, but I couldn't figure out what for.

I arrived at LaGuardia around 4 or 5 and met up with my friend Krisjanis, that's him and his apartment. He lived right across the street from Columbia and a block from the Seinfeld Dinner.

We didn't do much that night, I got a black and white cookie, and we played some Mario Kart 64.

Day 2.

We got up early and headed downtown.

Krisjanis said these were the two buildings that collapsed on each other from Cloverfield. I still don't think they are.

We stopped for some excellent falafel from this place.

Then we went record shopping.

First up was Bleeker Street Records, on Bleeker Street. It was really expensive and didn't have anything I wanted.

Next we went to Generation Records, which was o.k, I spent some money and got some newer stuff.

THEN came Rockit Scientist Records. Which was amazing, they were so helpful and suggestive, I ended up spending a large chunk of change there. They had lots of psych-rock and noise records.

There was a pretty good comic shop across the street too.

Then we got hungry so we made the big trek over to Katz's.

They had pictures of every Jewish celebrity I could think of on the wall.

This is the only food picture I took. It was a corned beef combo, (half corned beef, half tongue, first time ever trying tongue) and an egg cream to drink. Still not exactly sure what that was.

While we were down in the lower east side we checked out Supreme (only for the hottest dudes) and the WESC store, which didn't have the headphones I wanted.

After our big day out we went back to Krisjanis's space.

OMG!

Day 3.

Got up early and caught a train to Chelsea to see some galleries. Highlights were the Neo Rauch and David Altmejd exhibits. Of course I couldn't take pictures, but the links I provided will take you to the galleries site.

After that Krisjanis had some meeting, so I went and spent the afternoon at the MET!

Here's a tomb of some kind.

Here's a statue thingy.

This room was neat.

Do you remember this painting from Ferris Bueller's day off? When Cameron is contemplating his life and it keeps getting closer and closer!

Like this!

Here's some goof-ball who got in the way of my picture!

I don't remember what we did that night, probably went out for Mexican food.

Day 4.

We got up later than we hoped and motored our way down to Cooper Union for the Creativity Now conference. It's for Tokion Magazine and I had no idea it was even going on until the day before.

We were lucky, because this year they had a comedy panel featuring:

David Cross

Zach Galifianakis, and this other lady who I have never heard of named Maria Bamford. She was kind of funny.... For a girl!

Then some other nerds talked about other things.

After that we headed back to Columbia. This is where Krisjanis graduated.

Outside shot of where we stayed.

Then we had some huge pizza slices for supper.

Unbelievable!

Day 5.

Got up and jumped on a bus for an hour long ride to LaGuardia. It was rainy and shitty out.

It's freaky taking off and landing over water.

But I had some familiar friends there for me.

Extra-censory Perception

2008-06-10T08:58:00.000-07:00

The BPA - Toe Jam feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal

Another nudey music video, again, please don't watch at work.

The BPA are The Brighton Port Authority. They have another song where Iggy Pop sings.

Here's something else Mr. Byrne has been doing.

The Rock-afire Explosion!

2008-06-02T08:10:00.000-07:00

I thought this was home video of some kids 6th birthday at Chuck E. Cheese, until I realized everything was perfectly in sync.

Song: HUEY - Pop, Lock, and Drop it

I guess old nerds are buying up all the Pizza Show-biz characters and re-programming them to do whatever songs they want.