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