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....