New School Nation

I found another great artist today, sort of of reminds me of the Iron Maiden guy the way some of it is rendered and colored. Good stuff! Check out more at his site:

Tom Baxa Art

My mind was just blown. I’m still researching this, but apparently you can send a 3D model to this company, and have a huge model built out of styrofoam – as in like 30 feet tall! Wow, that is amazing. If any of you have seen the new Chris Angel show – the stage was done using this method. Check out this company that does it:

3D Foam Cutting

Here is another guy I am working on… Still not “there” but I’m getting close. Hopefully this one is a little better than the last. My wife says the axes look too “cartoony”. Any input from the Nation?

Here is a piece I wipped up this morning. It think it turned out pretty decent – what do you guys think? It’s not really completely done – but it’s as far as this one will go. I’m working on a new piece that I’ll put more time into to share with the nation…

Gears of War 2 looks pretty dope. I don’t play video games, other than Street Fighter 2 on my old ass play station once every 3 months or so, but I like them never the less. The news Gears of War commercial had a great song on it, so I tracked it down and now you can hear it in it’s entirety here!

Gears of War 2 – How it ends

I first saw this movie as a kid, and then strangely again when I was in high school. Totally tripped out freaking film, and completely awesome in my opinion. I’d definitely suggest checking it out when you are good and mellow… I is was will be Gandaharian…

I think the whole thing is on You Tube, here is a bit:

Light Years the Animated Movie

I doodle all the time, and sometimes I want to get that doodle into my computer in a super quick way – not having to open photoshop, hook up my scanner, etc… I’ve been taking fairly crappy pictures with my RAZR and transferring them to my Macbook Pro via blue tooth – but then today I found another reason I want an iPhone – I guess they make decent quality “quick scanners” or whatever you’d like to call this (I guess most would call it a camera). Any way, have a look – directions on how to build the iphone scanner are on the inventors website:

iPhone Scanner – DIY

This is a killer site for vector illustration tutorials. I myself go back and forth with using photoshop and illustrator – so, sites like this are things I browse quite a bit. Check out the great tutorials, advice and articles they have.

Killer Vector Tutorials

Hello fellow coffee drinkers! You know, there is nothing better than a piping hot cup of coffee. Being a web designer, I work from home and I buy the best friggin coffee I can find. I pour a cup, and drink it over the course of about 1.5 hours. It gets cold. I like it hot. So, I decided today I would heat up my coffee (and cream) to a near boil, and fill up my thermos to keep it warm all day! I pour about 3 sips at a time, and enjoy hot coffee all day long. So, if you like hot coffee but haven’t thought to go that extra mile and pour it into a thermos, and then into your cup, know this: it’s like, really good and what not.

I was just watching LA ink, and noticed Pixie for the first time. I guess I’ve seen her before in the few episodes that I’ve watched, but this time I really noticed her. Those tattoos she has are kind of tight! All rainbow bright, my little pony sort of stuff. Totally must have been a raver back in the day. Any way, does she have her firggin dimples pierced? How wierd! I don’t know, that kind of leaves the cute arena for me – I guess in theory it’s kind of cool…