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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…

Anyone here a fan of the Apocolypse? I am! Well, I think a post apocolyptic world is a cool genre for art and fiction any way. I wouldn’t think coffee would be readily available in such a scenario so I am “against the world ending”, in a non political way. Enough rambling. Looks like The Road by Cormac McCarthy is coming to the big screen! Great news – I think it will totally rock!. Here is an article on said subject – and if you haven’t read the book, for goodness sake go get it!

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road into a Movie

OK, what the F? I was walking through the mall the other day, in California, and here is some 20 year old kid puffing on a cigarette working at a kiosk. I thought “that’s pretty bold”. Then I realized it was some wierd electronic, fake, cyborg cigarette thing and he was blowing out vapor and not smoke. It was really wierd! I actually just quit smoking about 3 weeks ago (after SO MANY damn attempts) but I was still quite curious. Have any of you tried this? How is it? I’d be real interested in seeing what you all think of the product. I mean, after you stuff your self at McDonalds and you take a few puffs of this thingamajigger do you get the satisfaction of a cigarette?

Hello, any Groo fans out there? I’ve got to give a shout to Sergio and the other guy invovled for making a funny ass comic that had me laughing my arse off as a kid – GROO THE WANDERER! If you haven’t seen a Groo comic, check one out! And maybe there are none left, and if that’s the case – check out the website:

Groo the Wanderer!

I guess Twitter is a huge ol’ thing now. I just signed up so maybe I’ll become a big ol’ twitter junkie. I’ll have another post soon about what I think about it…