SCRIBD has been around for a short little while, acting as an online eBook resource center, where people could upload books and allow others to download them. Usually this catered to public domain, out-of-date reference materials, how-to guides, and the like. But now Scribd went and opened up the BETA version of their online storefrotn, [...]
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Sylvan Migdal is not a name I’m familiar with, but I stumbled across his killer comic(s) this weekend, and simply must share:
Head on over to SPORK and you’ll find a dropdown menu to navigate to any of Sylvan’s many, many online projects, such as WHERE THE TYPOS OG, RHO, MNEMESIS, and the awesome, awesome ASCENT.
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Reported from PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY:
Revenue at Quebecor World tumbled 25.8% in the first quarter ended March 31, to $752.1 million, and the printer reported a net loss of $125.9 million compared to a loss of $190 million in the first quarter of 2008. The company attributed the loss to the recession which cut orders in almost all segments. Quebecor said it is continuing to look for ways to lower costs and has recently introduced a new plan to save $100 million that includes a reduction in wages and benefits for all employees.
Despite the weak quarter, Quebecor said its plans to exit…
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Okay, holy jesus christ on a marry chain cross – I had never heard of this comic/site/interactive experience/thing, but now I have, and….wow. That’s all I can say.
Scott Mcloud called it: “the quintessential experimental webcomic. Weird, dissonant, and relentlessly inventive.” That pretty much sums it up. I am officially blown away. And I [...]
Beautiful DONNA BARR shared this with me. TOO f&*$ing funny!
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In my neverending quest to teach myself web design, and therefore Photoshop (and soon stumbling into Illustrator and Flash…sigh…long road ahead…), I’ve been DYING to figure out how folks were creating those sifty, trendy “rounded-corners” boxes for their menus, backgrounds, and borders. It took a while to find what I was looking for – I know there’s some nifty “moz” and “webkit” HTML commands that basically do the same thing, but I also knew that many, many good-looking websites had background images that contained obviously pre-made-elsewhere rounded corner boxes as only a part/piece of the whole background image. This meant people weren’t using HTML or Java to create the effect, but actually constructing the image and then using them however they saw fit (the drop-shadow on many of them was a dead giveaway, too).
I finally found this video that looks to hold sincere promise. I tried it once, it works like a beut. Not sure if there’s an easier or better way to do this, but this is the best out of about a dozen ways I discovered so far:
Amazing Photoshop Magic: Smooth Rounded Corners With No Aliasing
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SHOOT ‘EM UP is hands-down the worst piece of self-indulgent pretentious trash American cinema has yet produced. Wait, PRETENTIOUS?!? Isn’t it mindless fun? Wild action? Crazy choreography and ridiculous over-the-top black comedy gold? Aren’t these elements the precise opposite of “pretentious”? No, they’re not. And you know why? Because we as a culture think they’re the bee’s knees. We think they make something worthwhile, inventive, electrifying, thought-provoking, entertaining, and a perfect platform for social and philosophical commentary. Or, well…director Michael Davis sure does.
SHOOT ‘EM UP is the worst movie I have ever seen. I’ve seen lower budget movies, with far worse acting, wretched cinematography, and production values cheaper than a can of Cheez Whiz. But none of those horrid turd nuggets smelled as bad as SHOOT ‘EM UP, or were as nauseating to sit and consume for 80+ minutes, 80+ minutes that dragged on to feel like 800+ minutes. I’ve seen 300. I hated 300. But SHOOT ‘EM UP was worse. It’s…well, let’s start at the beginning, shall we?
Clive Owen stars in the male lead, a down-and-out, seemingly homeless bum who has a grimy face but still his good looks and entire arsenal of kick-ass action skills (it seems no matter how many months/years/whatever one sleeps on a bench and drinks liquor, one never falls out of shape or even gets tight hamstrings when one is an action star). Mr. Owen spots a women running from armed men, and grudgingly decides to (oh, bother!) stand up and help her, which he does by slaughtering all the armed men, while simultaneously delivering the woman’s baby. He munches on a carrot while he does this to boot. Where does he get these freshly-peeled water-wet carrots? One of the great mysteries of the movie, but to say such a thing is to make the movie sound mysterious, or even kitschy-cool, which it is not.
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Immense Updates are coming!!!
Yes, we’ve been awful quiet around these here parts. But holy hell is it NOT because we’ve been idle. Lots of news to announce, which is coming up right after this “hey, hey, we’re back” post. GILLIAN’S HEART BLOG is going to be changing in the near future, getting a little slicker, possibly a new design to reflect the new elements that should be added on within the next month or so. Maybe I’ll just add some new pages, but more likely I’ll be giving this site a complete overhaul.
So what are the updates? To tease, the updates will be:
- Regular postings of new content of the first webcomic site I ever designed, www.RickWorley.com, which hosts the regular “webcomix” series, A WASTE OF TIME. Look for every post there to be posted here, the first of many webcomics that will be produced under a single banner, that banner being me, though I promise to eventually come up with a cleverer name that that. Or…who knows? Maybe “Me Comics” is good? (likely the artists won’t think so!) Rick also happens to be the artist on…
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Taking a moment tonight to point everyone toward one of the freshest new black and white comics out there: A WASTE OF TIME by Rick Worley.
Semi-Autobiographical stories featuring the artist as a rabbit, doing the most outrageous and rather humiliating things. (This is self-deprecating humor at its Robert Crumb/Harvey Pekar best!).
If you like very dirty shop talk and anthropomorphics and gorgeously detailed black-and-white art, insert cliche here. Not only can you buy WASTE OF TIME #1 from INDYPLANET.COM, but you can also meet Rick Worley at Wondercon in San Franscico next week, February 27th-March 1st! And buy a copy of WoT #1 in person.
Then, as if that weren’t enough…
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This site is proof that we have probably never, in fact, dreamed up anything that is in truth “alien”, but rather our imaginations are limited to cold stone reality.
Here’s a taste of picures taken from the very real, very visitable (if not easily so) Socortra Island: