Makes you wanna cut and paste...

It's a weird one, but I'll be darned if I don't just love it.

The Move, Paper Animation from Mandy Smith on Vimeo.

Edward Teach

I was feeling a little artsy last night and so I sketched an image of Blackbeard to use as a reference for a later work. I was so happy with my preliminary sketch that I decided to run with it. This is the direction I ran...

What do you think?

Myself circa 2003

 

Back around 2003 one of my good friends from University (I'm sure I've written about Flash before. Perhaps I refered to him as Sebastian Fish, either way, it's the same guy) drew a picture of me as a superhero. At the time I was going through a top hat, curly moustache, lumberjack underwear (with the bum flap!) phase. Nothing too unusual. The other day I was thinking of it and figured I'd have a stab at doing a version myself. This is what I came up with.

I like the monster stuff

I just wanted to post this site I found...

http://geekcrafts.com/

It looks pretty sweet and it's got some pretty interesting stuff archived within it's online history.

My new Facebook App.

I made a sweet ass application! You should log into facebook and then follow this link and take it. Then you should come back here and leave me a comment to let me know how it all turned out!

It's a very insightfull quiz regarding your soul's archetype. That's right, souls have archetypes! And this quiz will clarify for you which is yours!

At last!

I've been wanting to make a sock monkey since Berlin, and today I did it! He's made out of a pair of toe socks which gives him both a cool head of hair and pretty awesome vice gripping hands.

That's his tail.

Last second creations

This year for Christmas I got a sweet watch. It’s not a brand name or anything, but it works well and I like it. Very recently the band broke on me, so (before hearing that the missing piece had been retrieved) I put a snap on it as a fastener. Sadly this wasn’t a very secure method of keeping my watch attached to my arm so I surrendered and went to the mall to buy a new band. After finding watchbands much more costly than I had expected, I suddenly got an idea. I don’t know where it came from, but suddenly I could see clearly in my mind’s eye how to MAKE MY OWN watchband!

Following my epiphany I dashed to the dollar store and bought a lanyard with the Canadian flag on it. Then I purchased some ‘backpack strap’ material at Len’s Mill. I combined this with an old belt buckle I had at home and after a little creative engineering I had a new watch band, perfect for backpacking across Europe.

It’s clearly homemade (you can see stitch work etc.) but that just adds character right?

ALSO . . .

. . . Some of you may recall that I promised to post a picture of the cool ‘Rock Monster’ I found while at work a month or so ago. Well, here he is . . .
Pretty awesome eh? I also made this wallpaper to showcase how totally rad the green beast really is.

My new hero.

This is an island, built out of old pop bottles! Don't believe me? Read on!

Read this . . . and this . . . and this . . . and this. Then brace yourself, and read this.

Richie Sowa is a true visionary! He's dreamy!

Turnstile Pottery

I was on my way to the pottery studio. I went a bit early last week and was able to get a few extra minutes so I figured I would try the same thing again.

I started walking down Brunswick St. (That's the one I live on) and I noticed a group of 15 - 20 black youth walking together on the other side of the road. A thought crossed my mind 'SWARMING' but then I thought don't be silly.

You see, swarmings have been happening around here with alarming frequency. Last week at the pottery studio we were talking about them. It all starts when you walk past a group of black youths walking together and night. One of them throws something at you and once you react , you're swarmed.

So I think to myself 'don't be silly. It's just a group of kids walking somewhere together, don't worry'. Then they started throwing lighbulbs at me. The first one hit just in front of me and I could feel the exploding glass hit the denim of my jeans. The second one hit behind me but closer than the first. One of the kids yells out 'Gun shots!' and the rest laugh. At this point I'm a little concerned and I start thinking 'don't react, just keep on walking', and that's what I did.

Luckily that was the end of the ordeal, but now I had to walk down the 'bad street'. The street that's known for this kind of thing. So I call a cab, they'll be 20 minutes. So I can't walk to the pottery studio, and I can't walk home because doing so would necessitate walking past the light bulb brigade.

Fortunately another cab drove past me and I flagged it down. He drove me to the pottery studio, waited while I discovered it was closed, and then drove me back to my apartment. The whole trip cost me less than $5, that's how close I was to where I was going.

I guess I'm a greenhorn after all.

Earlier today a girl at work brought in some stuff her mother's neighbour wanted to get rid of. Naturally I grabbed some of it. I thought I had gone unnoticed, but it turns out someone was quicker on the draw than I and they snapped a photo of my sporting my new holster / fanny pack. (I tend towards the holster terminology as I plan to use it to carry the beer I'm drinking when I need two free hands, but to each his own.)

This is when the yellow coward got me from behind!
This is a close up of the offending object.