Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Posted on December 18, 2007 - by Abner

Stereotypist : 50 questions answered

No not the interview boring approach of course. His stick man doodles does it for John Campbell. Perk up your day or get at least some of your questions thats stuck in your mind involving things happening in our universe answered. Or at least shed some lights on them. *cough* No. I am not really serious about that.
Here’s a taste of what you’ll get.

Link

Posted on November 4, 2007 - by Abner

Who is The Superest?

Check out the game being played by Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter called The Superest.
Game rules :
Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.

It’s quite enjoyable to watch a fight using only drawings and great copy.
Had always been a Kevin’s BearSkinRug fan. And now Matt’s InkFinger blog is equally fun too.

Posted on October 12, 2007 - by Abner

Sites That I Don’t Understand But Enjoy – Art on a Japan Rice Field

Got this interesting forwarded email. Rice Field Art. The images intrigued me to find out more. Main reason was the skepticism in me thinking it might be a hoax (like the fake egg thing) and being a big ass rice lover made me look even more. A few of it looks like Photoshop aided result. Boy, was I in for a surprise. Found out the site that keeps track of this art/food project and I was amazed. The Japanese made the process of growing rice seems fun. Funforever.net (http://www.funforever.net/archives/rice-field-art/) said that these guys have different designs every year and the effects are of different sort of rice. Yes, pity that it lasts for a few months at best. Here have a look at some of the field art. Click on the pictures to see the progress.

I call this “Wave” for I don’t read Japanese.

I call this “Monk and Topless Woman” for I don’t read Japanese.

I call this “Thunder God and Wind God” for I don’t read Japanese.

I call this “The Couple” for I don’t read Japanese.

It’s kind of similar to the Crop Circles but instead of stepping/killing crops, the Japanese grows them. Which is a more time consuming but interesting process. Growing art. Psst… they even have a Mona Lisa rice art too.

Posted on October 5, 2007 - by Abner

Savage Chicken – Funnies on Sticky Notes

Head over to Savage Chicken playground for Doug Savage.
His humble beginnings told :
“When I was a kid, I drew cartoons all the time. I drew cows and alligators and pigs and superheroes. I drew a platypus named Ed. I drew a dead dog named Dead Dog Bob. I drew everything I saw and everything I wanted to see.Many years passed. By a strange series of coincidences, I found myself working in an office. The more I used a keyboard, the worse my penmanship became. The constant hum of computers made my brain twitch. That’s when I stopped drawing cartoons.

Then the chickens came.

Like some sort of haunting supernatural force, the chickens bubbled up from the ol’ subconscious mind. In a trance-like state, I drew them on office whiteboards. I drew them in notebooks. I drew them on anything that sat still long enough. People started asking, “Who’s drawing those damn chicken cartoons everywhere?

The chickens were unstoppable. To retain my sanity, all I could do was grab a stack of sticky notes, and release the Savage Chickens.”

These made me laugh.


He recently won a competition for video animation. See Phantom Mountain. Don’t forget to take a look behind the scenes of how he did it. I love watching the process something was made. Be amazed by looking at Behind The Scenes. Cluck away folks at SavageChickens.com. Certified bird flu free.

Posted on September 25, 2007 - by Abner

The Anatomy Tattoo Gallery

Permanent ink anyone?
I have none on me but I enjoy looking at tastefully done skin art. But I try not too spend too much time looking at it as it makes me feel uneasy inside after a while. I realized that when I chose it as my design subject back in college. I was researching on it to a point where I was no longer interested in it. Some were just gross. After numerous hours and stares at grotesque permanent epidermis ‘art’ my only response was to finish the damn assignment be it shitty looking or not.

Would love to have a nice one on me but the idea of it drooping and discolouring under layers of flabby skin during my later years always gets to me. And I bet the tattoo artist won’t entertain me by flipping back and stretching my old skin and re-inking my ‘art’. Witnessing some history on shirtless uncles don’t exactly encourages me more.Anyway this anatomy tattoo gallery I found today is way cool. It’s really worth checking out. I particularly like the muscle one shown. Enjoy!

View : Street Anatomy Tattoo Gallery

Oh and I heard that tattoos with godly icons should be always be done above the waist. A friend once told me, that a friend of a friend once did an image of Kuan Yin on his thigh and the moment he walked out of the tattoo parlour to cross the street he got knocked down by a car. Fatal or not I have no idea but talk about instant karma. Stupid decision.

Posted on September 20, 2007 - by Abner

Here comes XKCD and Pictures for Sad Children

Forgot how I managed to unearth these but its hilarious.

See : XKCD – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
First off, its XKCD. The work of Randall Munroe, a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. He is aided by Davean (technical friend) and Sarah (proof-read/edit). He sums it up in the headline of what XKCD is in one sentence : A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
His webcomic days begun when he was going through old math/sketching graph paper notebooks and didn’t want to lose some of the work in them, so he started scanning pages and putting them up on the servers. And everything just follows.
Note to Sponky : You will like this. Freaking funny stuff.

Next is Pictures for Sad Children. And no, its not meant for sad children. It might make them feel worse. John Campbell is the mastermind for this and it is about a bad feeling when you are feeling good and a good feeling when you are feeling bad, he says. And yes, he admitted it himself, it might not be appropriate for sad children. Be warned.

See : Pictures for Sad Children

Posted on September 10, 2007 - by Abner

More Unazukin and Miniature Toys

Wow… the Unazukin post seemed to be generating more response than others…

Anyway I saw this on a Japanese site and its a little different version than what I have seen before. The ones I had are made by Bandai but I am not sure as why these Unazukins are under another different label, MiniMega. These Unazukin comes with a base/pedestal and I think they function the same. I have no idea where I can get these so don’t ask me. Sorry.

Each design are different as you can see. Visit the Japanese website to see more. I used Babel Fish to translate but its still gibberish to me. If you could understand it better, please tell me what it means.

Anyway the reason I stumbled upon these are because I was looking at the site that had miniature toys. Was walking in Isetan KLCC when I saw them on the display. Loads of them and it looks cool. Can take loads of macro photos. But quite expensive at RM12.90. Maybe next time.

PS. I am having flu and sore throat… damn. Hope I get well soon for my trip. Go see doctor now.

Posted on September 5, 2007 - by Abner

Let Unazukin Decide for you

What is an Unazukin? It’s a small fairy hiding under the big Mushroom in the woods. At least that’s what the site says. But honestly it’s a toy from Bandai, a Japanese leading toy manufacturer. World third largest toy producer as stated in Wikipedia.


Love the simple but wonderful artwork on their site.

The first time I laid eyes on them was on TV in an episode of Fireworks, a Korean drama. It was a gift to Shin Nah-rah from Nah In-jae. Ask Unazukin a question and it will respond with either a nod or a shake. It helped Nah-rah on quite a few boggling questions. It did. Haha. And yes, I followed the series religiously. Missing an episode makes me sad.

Well eversince I saw Unazukin, it went into my little wishlist. Finally I got it for my gf when we were out. Bandai was doing a a toy event in Berjaya Times Square. Always wanted it to be a surprise gift but when I saw it on display I immediately dragged my gf over and said I shall get it for her. I killed my own surprise element. Dang… Slap slap

Oh and I manage to get a mobile phone hanger of an Unazukin last month from Parkson. It only knows how to nod its head unlike the original Unazukin. This tough is not battery operated. My gf got this for me this time.

See :
Unazukin official site

Posted on August 30, 2007 - by Abner

When you care enough to hit send

I was never a big fan of ecards. Most looked boring and quite pointless to me. Seem to me they all are shouting look at me, click me to go to my site or something. Bah… such insincerity huh. And the text are lame. Or not lame enough.

Alas, I stumbled upon an pure ecard site called someecards. The card designs are illustrated with victorian figures, japanese, english bla bla bla plastered witty taglines. Smart, funny, provoking with hints of sarcasm too. The have a whole list of categories for you to choose from too, from apology to flirting to wedding and sympathy. Go and have some fun…

Oh and Happy 50th Birthday Malaysia! Would have send you an ecard if I knew where to address it to.

See : Someecards – when you care enough to hit send

Posted on August 17, 2007 - by Abner

The Bad Comics Challenge by Nedroid

If you are free… head over to 200 Bad Comics by Anthony “Nedroid” Clark. Seems like he was challenged and he being the gentleman and scholar that he is, gracefully accepted and what results it has. Really inspiring. Some are so lame that its funny. Erm… what am I talking. Anyway he can really draw… wonder how long it took him to get it done.

See : Bad Comics Challenge