Oh Paul Robertson... how I admire your artistic skillz...

Best Xmas Eva

yes...

I want one...

...but I already posted my christmas list, thank you amazon universal wish list button.

A BAD LUCK XMAS (2)... Lists

So here are the lists I have so far... If you haven't gotten me your list yet, do so... now. The party is tentatively scheduled for December 22nd @ 5 pm at my haus. If there are any complications, let me know.

Arthur
1) cookies
2) build your own light saber
3) teddy bear

Bobby
Yellowcake plutonium
platapus
Venom
Anti-matter

DB

• A life-time supply of sunshine and rainbows
  
• Twister (yes... the game with all those pretty colors in circles! Yayness!), Candy Land (A land made of candy? Wow!!), Fluxx
• A circular sparkly thing
• Lava lamp
• iHome alarm clock
  
• A big fluffy chair
• Extra time
  
• Pastis 51

Elf
1. Anything Green
2. Anything Irish
3. Anything with music

Emily Hoffman
three things i would want....
anything girly is usually good for me.
-I wouldn't mind a sweet calender for 2009
-jewelry is always good
- dark chocolate with peanut butter. yum..

Hayhay
1) a place in Linda' new world order
2) my very own attack owl
3) Sweeney Todd on DVD

Jimmay
Dear Santa,
I know i wasn't good again this year but its the same as always, if you don't bring me gifts i'll rape your wife, burn down your house, and enslave your elves. So this year i want
1. World Domination.....and Small Bottle of Rum
2. Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Princes's Bride, Space Balls, Domino, Venture Bros season 1 or 2, metalacolypse season 1 or 2. Actual dvds, i can burn them myself santa. All can be purchased at your local walmart and some are cheaper online and can be shipped to a store of your choosing for free.
3. More Rum

Juju
1> Border's Gift Card
2> Incense Burner/Box
3> Fables Trade Paperback

Lindaco
1. Border's Gift Card
2. Instruments of Violence (any weapon will do)
3. Anything flammable (take one guess what will happen to it if I don't like it =D )

Matt
Itunes gift card
Books
Case of coke or other soda with a lot of caffeine

Pawl
- browncoat stuffz
- early daniel johnston tunage
- W E A P O N R Y ;)

Pixie

1. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden--by Joanne Greenberg

2. Irish/Celtic knot jewelry :P

3. Leatherbound Journal (or something similar?)

Steppy
1. Connor Oberst's new solo album on vinyl currently available at hot topic for about 15 bucks.
2. Any Radiohead Album on vinyl currently at hot topic ranging from 15 to 21 bucks.
3. Bob Dylan's first album entitled "Bob Dylan" on CD, its currently on sale at amazon for 5.99.
4. American Beauty on DVD, a bunch of copies are at FYE used for about 9 bucks.
5. Chris Jericho's autobiography currently in paperback for about 8 bucks at Borders.

Trav
My List

Tristan

1-Tea

2-Global domination

3-Plutonium

I knew someone would do it eventually...

BACON

I didn't even know I was a part of this religion.... but it makes so much sense now! I think they need to notify Juju though, she should be the Grand Zion or something...

Here we go...

...I think I know where I'm going to move next.

REMINDER!

Just wanted to remind everybody who is involved with the Bad Luck Xmas that I need your lists by Friday, just so people have time to get presents.... also, we're planning on holding the xmas festivities on December 22, check in with me if that doesn't work for you.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

...love this song... also, xmas lists!

...relevant

BEST WOW AD EVA

World of Warcraft 'Ozzy Osbourne' TV ad

YES....

...so who's gonna be the first of my friends to buy one?

i'll put $5 on Pawl.

...mmm

i'm not a fan on kanye west... but i am a fan of Takashi Murakami... and this animation is spot on...

Kanye West - Good Morning
by kanyewestofficial

postcards...

I'm looking on ordering some self-promotional postcards... I could really use some opinions so let me know which ones you like in the comments... front of the postcard is on top, the back is on the bottom...

Bringing back the Old Skooler

Yes.

Just yes.

exactly how i feel about it...

This is how it should be...

how i wish politics were handled

Oh Pepsi...

When will you learn that no matter how many times you change your logo... you're never going to be as good as Coke. Coca-cola has NEVER had to change there logo. they tried to change there taste once (SMACKS COKE ON NOSE WITH ROLLED NEWSPAPER) but they know now that was dumb... hell, I'm still a little upset they took the cocaine out....

Pico & Sepulveda

I re-appear...

to share THIS with you all....

Seth McFarlane found his calling...

art

This article is relevant to my interests... not only because I had recently visited Brazil and took note of some of the amazing street art, but also because it brings up several interesting aesthetic and social implications. Does street art suddenly lose it's influence and credibility when it is taken into the controlled and heavily political "art world" of main stream galleries? Take an artist like Shepard Fairey whose artwork is extremely political in it's own right, has he not gained more interest and favor because of his ability to show in galleries? Or has this made his message mere drivel on the wall of some lawyer who is suing a grandmother because her 13 year old grandson downloaded two Ramones songs? Just something to think about...

I could watch this all day...

I Mythbusters

A Day in the Life of...

So since I'm sure many of you wish I was drawing more, posting more, or even maybe you are wondering if I really am alive, I thought I would give you a brief glimpse into what my average day is like...

7:05 a.m. - Alarm goes off (Shipping Up to Boston)

7:13 a.m. - snooze

7:21 a.m. - snooze

7:29 a.m. - Finally crawl out of bed and into the bathroom

7:34 a.m. - finish morning piss

7:45 a.m. - out of the shower, teeth are brushed, now to get dressed

7:50 a.m. - breakfast?

8:00 a.m. - on the road, traveling to work

8:45 - 9:15 a.m. - arrive at work (depends on traffic)

9:30 a.m. - Go over the calendar and events of the day with Em (my assisstant)

9:50 a.m. - Check and respond to emails (personal and work)

10:15 a.m. - Designing

10:20 a.m. - (Department Director) walks in my office complaining (Project they neglected to tell me about for weeks) needs done immediately

11:20 a.m. - finish (Project they neglected to tell me about for weeks), start working on the days jobs again

11:30 a.m. - Meetings

12:30 - checking my favorite webcomics to try and relax my brain

1:00 p.m. - lunch

1:30 p.m. - While I was at lunch (Department Director) noticed (Random working project) needed to be changed

2:10 p.m. - Jeff comes in and says (Project that I thought was done) has changed and needs to be updated

3:00 p.m. - finally back working on whatever I was trying to start in the morning

3:15 p.m. - get frustrated and start looking at design blogs to get inspired

3:40 p.m. - start harassing Em with brain spew, or sending out random anti-informative text messages to friends

3:50 p.m. - designing again

5:10 p.m. - Leave work

6:05 p.m. - get back home

6:10 p.m. - unwind

6:30 p.m. - FOOD.

7:00 p.m. - Scrubs time

8:00 p.m. - back in front of the computer working on freelance stuff

9:00 p.m. distracted by blogs and surfing the interwebs

10:00 p.m. - realize that things need to get done for work tomorrow and begin working on them

1:00 a.m. - Finally get tired of my eyes burning and go to bed

back to the top...

This is a generalization of one of my average days... but yea... i've been so busy lately that i don't remember a point in time when i technically didn't have something to do... i probably wasn't doing it right at the moment, but i had it to do....

and on the sociology front...

Not too much, but a nice little article.

...huh

So my assistant noticed today that when I hit a "creative block" I start with a bizarre hum and launch into the Oscar Mayer Weiner song. This perplexes me, one because I never noticed I did it, although upon reflection, realized I do it all the fawking time... and two, when have I EVER wanted to be an Oscar Mayer wiener? This must be some bizarre form of psychosis...

Proof

Being somebody who slaves day in/day out at there "day job" (which I place into quotation marks because this job has been lasting long long into the night for the past three weeks) doing things like "imagery", "graphics", "designing", "marketing" and other such horrible words that I am sure will get me banned from the vastness of the internets, I notice things. Sometimes I will be walking down the street and see a particular sign on an establishment and say aloud to the annoyance of all those around me, "Why the fawk did they use that font? That looks horrible!". Today I noticed these.... these two magazines were released in the same month, featuring the same people on the covers... this is the power of marketing and propaganda. Congratulations, you are all now sheep....side note, I didn't even know Tiger Beat was still around... I thought that shit went under at the end of the 90's.

just watch... just... yea

...i can't believe i'm doing this

so yes, i know, it's a pepsi commercial... but it's a futbol pepsi commercial, and it's amazingly well done... so... yea, this one's for you jim...

This May Not Be Bat Country Anymore...

This article caught my attention and with my work last year with bringing awareness to local bat populations, it's even scarier.

It's so tr00...

It's been awhile...

So I've been gone for a few weeks. Most of you probably could care less, but there are those select few, the proud, the brave... actually one of you is almost a Marine now so this joke has kind of lost it's edge. Anyways... yes, I have returned from abroad. I was sent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for two weeks at the beginning of the month and it was amazing, as soon as I finish editing the 14,000 images I took while there, I am sure I will share a few of them on here, or on here. Expect daily sketches to start back up soon, and lots more fun-ness will hopefully start taking place now that I have other life problems under control.

Frightening...

This proves things I've been saying for years.

In memory of...

One's a job... the other is a mental handicap.

The Cookbook 4th Edition

As some of you may already know, I am a very large fan of Lore Sjöberg and his latest piece for Wired is absolutely great... especially since I both cook and play DnD. Also this gives me some ideas for the cookbook I am planning on putting together ((^_^))

Hardcore Gamers

...this is a must have! The original DnD dice!

And so...

Life has begun to calm down... amidst all of this I am going to be out of the country for most of July, so I will ramp up the drawings again when I return... in other news... this has got to be one of the best commencement addresses I've heard in a long time, given to Harvard's graduating class by J.K. Rowling.... here's a passage I particularly enjoyed...

"However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person’s idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

This Pain...

...I know it well.

THE ROBOTS HAVE MUFFINS!!!

Apologies and Salutations

Updates are probably going to be stalled for a little while longer... I'm in the middle of making some large life type decisions and need the spare time to make sure I don't make the wrong decisions... I promise once all this is cleaned up I will get back on schedule and keep it....

Also... this is a great article!

EVERYBODY'S GOING TO DIE!

sorry about the delay in the daily drawings... guess I should re-title the posts "When I Got the Chance to Draw... Drawing" but that just seems awkward... I will catch up, life just kind of got in the way... as it always does, but ph34r not tr00 believer, for I will return!

...in other news, I believe this deserves some attention, because I am totally going to get one and turn it into a floating pirate city-state, where piracy will be the law! (ph34r my ability to make a contradiction work!)... which is much better than what those guys are probably going to do with them, my guess it will all end up like this.

The Latest from Insano...

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Captain Danger Starr makes an AMV

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Daily Drawing X

Captain Danger Starr.... I call this the "Feed Jimmay" pose.

Daily Drawing Nine

Jayna and NoSpine... fnished sketch

I know I'm late, this week kind of fell apart, but I promise to do better next week...

Daily Drawing Eight

Jayna and NoSpine in action (Rough Sketch)

Yes, I know I missed two days of drawings... I'm gonna try something a little different for the rest of this week, I'm gonna try to do a step by step type thing... we'll see how this works out.

Also, anyone who feels like coming to visit our base of operations, we are having a yard sale at Bad Luck Studios this Saturday starting on 9 am! Tshirts and buttons will be on sale! Come and say hi...

Daily Drawing Seven

Chainsaw Dueling Champion Juju

...This is part of something much larger I'm putting together, but I like teasing as I go...

Also, what to throw it out there, if you are in the Mt. Joy area tonight, come check out RIPE, they are playing Bube's Brewery in Mt. Joy and the Insano crew will be on hand filming the event! We'll have tshirts and buttons for sale there also, so come out and hang out with us and hear some damn good music...

Daily Drawing Six point Five

Pixie is spending the day at work with me for "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" so I thought I would add her contribution to the artistic field today as well.... you know you love da polkadots...

Daily Drawing Six

Juju thinks this looks like a candy monster... so yea...

Daily Drawing Five

Tadhg's Inner Child... outside

GOBLIN!!!

...yesssss

Daily Drawing Four

The Corset of Knives STRIKES!

Daily Drawing Three

NoSpine early in the morning

Daily Drawing Two

Jayna has p3n15 envy... y'know it's tr00

....42?

This is one of the best articles i've read in a long time....

my offerings to the 2:42-gods
"Johnny B Goode" by Chuck Berry
"Michelle" by The Beatles
"Don't Do Me Like That" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Crazy" by Patsy Cline

...and y'know what else 42 answers?

Sketc....urr... Drawing DAY ONE

NoSpine brings down the hammer.

So since I feel behind quite a bit with this whole "Sketch-a-day" thing, my first entry isn't a lil more than just a sketch... Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with this, I really do plan to.

betrayed...

...it happens, and in a week, this will be a new internet meme



sketches will commence as soon as i get some personal life things together... like the scraps of my cranium laying about the studio...

KTHNXBAI

yes... i realize i still have not started the daily sketches... and i will... BY GAWD I WILL!!!

until then... watch this...

Some things...

sometimes the day just drags, everywhere you turn it seems another problem is staring at you, you realize that there is not near enough time in the day to get all the projects stacked upon your desk done... and then sometimes, there is just this...



word.
...daily sketches are to commence tomorrow.

i am...

a fat, fat man....


Created by OnePlusYou

Finally...

I didn't know it, but I've been waiting my whole life for THIS.

OMG OMG OMG

YOU HAVE TO CHECK THIS OUT!!!4/1!!!1!!

and remember what day it is

Genius/Retarded?

I'm not completely sure HOW I feel about this article. On one hand, it's rather inventive... although not really all that original or well thought out... I mean, he has an email, he's online, I guarantee he could find pr0n of at least ONE girl who looked close to the girl he was trying to scam.

Support the War Effort!

The teenagers of Mexico have declared war on the Emo Kids. Apparently every sub-genre of kid who is not emo in Mexico has banded together to go on Emo-Bashing raid-like hunting parties. This has the making of an amazing sociological moment where once again the wheels of change force a sub-genre to either "step up" or die... maybe this is something we can blame on video games, like WoW is somehow inspiring these teenagers to band together in "parties" on organized "quests" with very specific goals... wow, that sounds like me trying to go to Sheetz. Anyways, instead of hunting them down for loot, I always preferred this...

Just to keep you in "the know"...

I am soon going to have to get a passport, like VERY soon, like, I should be doing the paperwork now... but then I read this and it makes me very much NOT want to get one.

FAWKING RIGHT I AM!

...we all know this problem.

...fawk math night.

The Heart of NYC

Come in, Mr. Moose

As some of you know, and many of you do not... we here at Bad Luck Studios have a certain fondness for the moose... and recently something new and exciting has been discovered of our great and wonderous friend!

Sit back...

Relax... and enjoy the memories....

Duh

We all knew sex wasn't that popular in Britain, at least not in actual 'beds' - here is a survey from "bedroom specialist Sharps" about the most common activities those crazy brits do in bed...

1. Sleeping
2. Talking
3. TV
4. Net surfing
5. Reading
6. Listening to music
7. Using the phone
8. Working
9. Computer games
10. Sex

...take it as you will...



in other news... the site is almost completely back up and running, right now the Contact, Blogs (obviously) and Store pages are up and running, the rest will be done soon-ish... also, starting in April I will try and post a new sketch on here everyday! EXCITING!

Do you know what hugs are?

THEY'RE A GATEWAY TO THE SEX!

I wish I was joking.... read this.

I will not play at tug o'war.
I'd rather play at hug o'war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.

-Shel Silverstein

Institutionalized

Our Grand Master of all things Video has put the first short-film from Insano online. Check it out here!

Mutants? Aren't we all?

Just read a very informative article this morning. It may only be my personal interpretation, but I really see this as a major step forward in an area and field that has needed it desperately. Having two family members who have autism, I am constantly annoyed with people who think of them as "slow" or "retarded" just because they function on a very different level than the rest of us. I've heard many explanations that autism is caused by the pesticides in our food, or the fact that most of our babysitter's were the TV, or even mercury in the immunizations we are given as children, but not enough people have been treating autism less like a disease, and more like a new way for our minds to work. Any neuro-scientist will tell you we barely understand the way the human mind works, what if the way it works in those with autistic minds is just so different from us with "typical" wiring that we can't truly understand it yet. What if the way there minds are being wired is nature's next attempt at a form of our evolution? If you know me, you know I love comic books and movies and all things geek-dom, but it excites me more to look at someone in my family and consider that they might be a real mutant, just as super powered as the ones in the comics.

Bad Luck Studios

Thought I'd put up a picture of our new home base... here it is...
Bad Luck Studios!

The Nerd Handbook for Non-Nerds

...This is not an article for you, who are most likely, like me, a nerd... no, this handbook is for your family, friends and/or significant other who stare at you from the corner of your "cave" and wonder what the hell is wrong with you, and in the case of your family, what the hell they obviously did wrong or in the case of a possible significant other (not the Apple II you pretend is your secret lover) how the hell they are going to stay with you.... an absolutely beautiful and shameless article written by someone who truly understands...

a choice quote... "Your nerd spent a lot of his younger life being an outcast because of his strange affinity with the computer. This created a basic bitterness in his psyche that is the foundation for his humor."

Ten Simple Rules

These are ten rules from the Immaculate Heart College Art Department... I think these are rules that anyone, anywhere, can and should follow...

1. Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
2. General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students.
3. General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.
4. Consider everything an experiment.
5. Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
6. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.
7. The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
8. Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time. They’re different processes.
9. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.
10. “We’re breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.” - John Cage.

Helpful hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything always. Go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully often. Save everything, it might come in handy later.

...you can find the original image here.

MEDIA BLITZ ATTACK!!!

First... I have to share with everyone that I just spent the last hour and a half playing halo 3 with 9 of my co-workers... it was a "male-bonding-lunch-special". Or at least that's what the HR director told everyone, as he topped out as high scorer for the second time in a row in our second Team Slayer match...

...secondly, I really dug this article by Amanda Marcotte, in the recent weeks, where it seems like every woman out there has been going after any guy who would dare pick up a video game, it's nice to read an article written by a woman and with a great depth and clarity about the subject.

GAWD SLAYER!!!

...oh yea... induce the gawd slaying! GAAAAAAWD SLAAAAAAAAAAAYER!!!!!

anyways... thought I'd throw a little new art up here... this is for a project I'm working on with crazy uncle Jim from Jersey....

The Internet is Serious Business

There is a GREAT article over on Wired that I think everyone should read.... and it has the greatest headline I think I've ever seen....

In other news... All of us here at Bad Luck (and affiliates) are working very hard on bringing much enjoyment to all of you out there. Crazy Uncle Jim from Jersey came to visit this past weekend, and although he didn't sleep much, we came up with quite a few great boner-inducing-vomitorium-stylized-blood-and-viscera ideas. More on these things later. Also, our resident Grand Vizier of All Things Movie, Adam Steppenwolf, has completed a few projects and is close to completing a few more.... which you can check out here... and hopefully will be screened at the Bad Luck Studios open house! More information on that and the studio at a later date....

moving slowly forward-ish....

We are not dead....

we were not enslaved by a tyranical hive-mind AI and forced to work in slave labor camps....

we were not arrested and detained by Homeland Security.... at least not yet......

but things are taking awhile cause I wanna get them right the first time, so please bear with me and we'll have fun things for you soon enough....

meanwhile....my new favorite quote.....

"Do I like nerds? I am a nerd. I have shelves full of books at home about vampires and werewolves. And I always have my PSP with me. Right now I'm playing Jeanne D'Arc, which is just awesome. Also, I've got a PS3 and I'm dying for the new Final Fantasy to come out. See? I told you I was a total nerd." - Jenna Haze

...google her, i dare ya.