Robin's Big Date

How have I not seen this before? Starring Justin Long as Robin. Genius!



Not sure why the video is choppy, but obviously the sound is fine. Ah well...

Have a great Labor Day weekend!

Madcap

Check out the great Photoshop contest over at Worth1000 where classical art has been improved with spraypaint.

In other stuff and things and news, the last few days have been pretty busy with non-work stuff. On Thursday, my friend Shannon was in from NYC so I showed her around town, took her to the White Horse and then the Crab Pot.

Friday was all work-work, but then included an unplanned game night that got me back home after midnight.

Saturday morning a bunch of us helped Paul move his stuff from storage back to his house, bought bedroom furniture (more on that later... not later this post though) and had a party at the shop which included the live performance of three Kirby Krackle tracks. There's video. More soon.

Sunday I hung out with Shannon one more time (took her to Cupcake Royale and Ezell's for some full-on good Seattle eats), then headed to a late birthday party for Quiana.

Now it's back to the grind, off to work on Shrapnel, The Corps!, Emerald City and a couple other things too... Good times!

Kirby Krackle debuts!

Though it's been something we've been working on for a while now, Kirby Krackle has finally made its debut on MySpace today so I can now officially talk about it.

Kirby Krackle is the "geek rock" band that consists of myself and my buddy Kyle Stevens. Kyle does a better job of explaining the detailed back story on his blog, but the nuts and the bolts of it is that we've been talking about doing something collaboratively for a while, specifically by merging our interests in music and pop culture.

It's really a fusion of all the different stuff we're interested in, specifically comic books, but also movies, video games, art, music and more. We've been having a blast the last few months writing and recording songs, which I hope you'll enjoy!

Speaking of songs, on our MySpace page, you can check out our first demo for the song "One Of The Guys". Please go give it a listen and let me know what you think, I'd love to hear your comments!

Lastly, a big shout out to Brian Meredith for coming up with the title and JG Roshell of Comicraft for creating a great logo, you guys rock!

Stay tuned for more...

Coloring

I'm always interested in process, which is why I enjoy much of the behind-the-scenes material you find on DVDs. You usually don't get a lot of that in comics, but Mike Choi posted the original line art to his cover to X-Force #9 side-by-side with the final colored version by Sonia Oback. Interesting stuff (click for larger view):

What is Kirby Krackle?

It's coming. To Rock You.



(Logo by JG Roshell @ Comicraft, purveyors of awesome.)

Game Day

What a great game! Overtime at a pre-season game? Crazy! It was super close all game, and the missed field goal on the Bears' end with 3 seconds on the clock set up an overtime drive that got us a field goal and the win in overtime - 29-26!

Lots of third stringers were playing, but no one stepped up bigger than Justin Forsett with 261 rushing yards, I'm sure he'll be making his way to starting position this season and be a great asset.

Not sure I ever mentioned this, but thanks to a cool set of circumstances late last year, I was able to purchase a PSL (permanent seat license) at Qwest, meaning I have the option to purchase season tickets every season for as long as the Hawks play at Qwest. The seats are great too, Charter Section 107, 25 yard line, 8 rows from the field facing West:



Not sure I will be going to every single game, but it's great to have the option and it should be a fun season no matter what. Also, because there's not enough pictures of me on my blog, here's one more:

Are you ready for some football?

Tomorrow is the first pre-season game for the Seahawks at home vs. Chicago. They won their opener against the Vikings in Minnesota, but unfortunately the team has been plagued by injuries and the receiving staff is pretty weak right now. I think the Seahawks will do well this season, but they need their WR squad to get healthy and stay that way. Still, should be a fun game against the Bears.

I don't play Fantasy Football, but these commercials for FF by Reebok are pretty awesome. There's a whole series at nfl.com, but here's a couple of the cooler ones:

Corps!

Ouch! Above is a panel from The Corps! book that I'm editing, can't show a whole lot but I figure this silhouette panel is a good teaser image. The book is chugging along quite nicely, #0 will be in stores October, it's a 99 cent special so make sure you check it out, you won't be disappointed. The book is color, by the way, the panel above is just the line art by Mike Penick.

Haven't posted much since I've been sick with Con Sars, which I managed to avoid but then acquired from Paul when I helped him move furniture (thanks Paul!). Ah well, unfortunately it's meant that I've been less productive than usual. I did fight back the cold yesterday and journeyed up north with the Jason² and Quiana to do some shopping. Came away with what is probably my last pair of new shoes for a while, some Puma Ferrari kicks. Dope.

Another reason for lack of blogging is Twitter. You can see on the right, the micro-blogging premise for Twitter has worked out well for me. I try to balance, but a lot of times their 140-character limit is more than plenty to say what I need rather than an entire blog post.

The Future of Time?

Check out one of Timex's experimental new watches that fit on top of your thumbnail:



I'm sure at some point we're going to have a whole array of media devices that are that big, your other thumbnail will contain your iPod which will connect through Bluetooth (or whatever new technology) to your earphones that are practically invisible...

Phases

I've had a lot of people ask me what's up with ol' blog. I think it sort of goes in phases, sometimes I'm posting like every day and other times more sporadically. Sometimes the blog is very "me" centric while other times it's just a "check out something cool" blog. Lately, I've been unmotivated to blog mostly due to being pretty busy.

I'm never one to complain about having too much work, because better too much than not enough. I'm just swamped because I'm also trying to catch up with work that piled up while I was gone and I've also taken on some new projects and things are always very front-loaded on new projects.

That said, the three books I'm working on are going quite well and I'm especially excited for people to read The Corps! as the whole team is doing a bang-up job and I think it'll be a real surprise book.

I've also been doing a bunch of work on Emerald City already, there have been numerous guest updates already and I have two guests to announce next week that should be pretty awesome.

So I guess that's it, I'll do my best to post again soon, I have a couple other projects in the works that I haven't talked about at all yet and I'll mention them when I can.

Busy!

Seems like a ton of stuff is piling up on my plate, so con recap keeps getting pushed back (overall, it was great, even with bar brawls and people being punched out on the show floor). At this point I'm not sure I'll even do one, but anyway, I wanted to share this, Estelle f. Kanye West, American Boy, and it's pretty dope:

Olympics videos

Here are a couple Olympics-related videos.

This one is for the Olympics itself, created by the Gorillaz guys:



While this one is a CGI Coke commercial featuring LeBron James & Yao Ming:



Fun stuff.

Safeword

There's something cool about randomly seeing a cute girl in a corset wearing a t-shirt that you designed at SDCC:



Shameless plug: if you'd like to buy one, you can do so here. More SDCC stuff soon...

Radical

Back from my big ol' Comic Con/road trip adventure, being away from home for a full week+ means I have a bazillion things to take catch up on. I'll post again soon, for now, check out the trailer for Shrapnel, the 6-issue series I've been working on for Radical Comics. It debuted at SDCC and was quite the hit, we also had a preview book of some of the gorgeous art by Imaginary Friends Studios. Enjoy!