Makepeace...um, not war?

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Oh yeah, I made this

Logo I made for an upcoming pin sale for the Athens Area Arts Council.

This is only a test...an embarassingly accurate test

Your result for The Neurotic Test...

The True Neurotic

You scored 75 anxiety, 81 awkwardness, and 82 neuroticism!

Congratulations, you are The True Neurotic, you nail-biting, conflict-avoiding worrier, you. You're plagued by self-doubt and anxiety, which makes social activity hard--even though you may be well-liked, you feel under a storm of silent criticism. It doesn't help that people give you funny looks for organizing all your pens by color or sharpening your gnawed pencils to a delicate point.





Your high anxiety score implies that you are unable to relax, worry about the future often, and probably are plagued by irrational fears and self-doubt.



Your high awkwardness score implies that you are socially inept, probably stick out from the crowd, and feel uncomfortable in large groups of people, such as at parties.



Your high neuroticism score implies that you exhibit neurotic behaviors--probably organization, fanatic obsessions (can you recite the entire first LOTR movie?), repetitive mantras, constant checking, or orderly rituals.





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The True Neurotic

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Whoa

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.


Link via Drawn.

Happy belated, ani-versary

So, I've been watching all this animation stuff lately on youtube and recently realized that animation is 100 years old this year! I didn't see much (or anything) about it at the time, but this fellow says the anniversary was on April 6th. Anyway, you should celebrate by watching Fantasmagorie (above) and Steamboat Willie, which really holds up well.

I've been reading the amazing work of Carl Barks (check it out here! scroll down and click his name on the right side of the page), whose work was the inspiration and source material for Duck Tales. So, of course I was reminded of watching this (every day, after school) along with other Disney cartoons of the time, Rescue Rangers, Talespin, and Gummi Bears.


So, I also had to introduce Hillary to a number of less memorable cartoons I watched (she was television deprived). Remember...Madballs? Aside from He-Man, and G.I. Joe, and Voltron, one of my favorite "boy cartoons" when I was a kid was M.A.S.K. After telling her about the He-Man character Stinkor (pictured above; I had the action figure!), I also had to show her a couple of other shows I was fond of, Shirt Tales and The Get Along Gang. Actually, you can pretty much find all that crap at Retrojunk, apparently, so head over there for a trip down memory lane.

Update: Hillary said I should talk more about how much I love Carl Barks, so, without going into too much detail, I'll just say that he's awesome, and you should definitely read about him and go read all those comics (free!) at Beru's Disney Comics Fan Page (thanks, Dark!). I was super into his work even when I was a kid (he invented Duckburg, for chrissakes, and some of its most memorable inhabitants), and all that Disney stuff...you tend to forget just how great it is. Also, he was the one who saturated those comics with treasure hunt stories, which pretty much never cease to be fun.

A Boot de Souffle

Hi all, I killed a few minutes the other day by entering this Doc Martens boot design contest. Click on the link below to vote for my design (if you like it). Thanks!

Know When to Fold 'Em

Check it out: Interactive versions of Classic Al Jaffee Fold-Ins available here.