tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-202869662011-11-27T16:11:29.199-08:00CTGnoreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20286966.post-69049482312696876462011-09-16T07:35:00.000-07:002011-09-16T07:35:09.104-07:00

Battle for the Ears - Mog Is the Latest Music Streaming Service to offer a free ad supported version of it's Music Software. It appears that streaming service Mog has thrown it's hat into the ring of ad supported streaming services like Spotify.  Today they announced a free version of their site via press release : Berkeley, CA – September 14, 2011 – MOG®, today announced a free,

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The Hot Sauce Committee Part 2

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I'm just gonna post Beastie Boys related stuff here until the album comes out May 3rd, just because the boys still are relevant. Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise - Free Music Videos - Top Songs

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One of the few bands albums I will probably seek out The day it comes out (May 3rd).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBa5qp9sUOY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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I did this blog post/rant old school style -  in my notebook, off the cuff.  Re-assembling it in Photoshop as on "page".  Ironically, as much as it is about being a cartoonist, it hasn't a single picture.  How post-modern of me.  I like the idea of a blog post being contained in a scanned image, somewhat  unsearchable by the internet spiders.  I'm testing this out, and will probably upload a

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I just discovered that early skateboard/hardcore/hip hop photographer Glen E. Friedman has a blog. I guess this isn't surprising, since everyone and their mother has one, but I'm always impressed when one of my hero's has one and waxes polemic.An interesting post on Glen E. Friedman's Blog "What The Fuck Have You Done" on Robots vs. Luddites

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Sometimes you just look around and certain amount if normalcy or predictability in your life make you sick. You kind of wonder what's up, and why doesn't anyone give a shit. Allow me, if you will a simple rant. My apologies to those without a sense of humor.White Peopleare happy play drums along to some live music by a reggae band fronted by this guy:But not before stopping here:or here:in

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I don't know what I'm more shocked by - the suicide of writer/meta-fictionalist David Foster Wallace, or the surprising lack of coverage of his death. I mean, Wallace style of incredibly descriptive prose, ridiculous amounts of footnotes, and playful use of punctuation was somewhat prescient to what the whole blog-o-sphere is today.In the monster book, Infinite Jest, there exists a movie that is

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Here's a little something I worked up a couple years ago. I guess you can see who I really think benefits from all these copyright battles (My apologies for it being so hard to read. I will post a better quality version later this evening).

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I checked out this album from the library, and I'm really digging this track right now. here's some second hand smoke I remember catching from the blogosphere (all of which is completely arbitrary and without citation). Against Me! has a very loyal following. Some people think they have sold out with this record, or they've moved to a major label, and it's that same ol' same ol' cry from the

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Harry Partch (1901 - 1974) is probably a lesser known legend in the world of "classical" music. I put the term "classical" in quotes because it, unfortunately - like the term "modern", usually tends to refer to a composer or type of music that uses orchestration. In reality the Classical period is the time in art from 1750 - 1820 [1]. But I digress...Partch was the type of American genius that

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Zombies. Is there any greater horror movie monster? How about Zombies doing Hiaku? Didn't think so.

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I don't know about you but this little YouTube video:But it looks like the future we were promised is finally here! Finally a world in which we have out own jetpacks. I'm giddy.

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For anyone who grew up devouring Mad Magazine, such as myself, you may be thrilled to hear Al Jaffee is approaching his 400th Mad Fold-In - the back cover gags that allowed the reader to line up the points of a picture and expose a punchline.Al Jaffee is one of those cartoonists whose creativity knows no limits, and I'm am always happy to see that he is still so vital and creative in his old age.

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Few games have ever been based solely on the work of an artist or designer. Sony's Japan Studio has based the game Patapon on French artist Rolito (real name Sebastien Giuli) comical 2-D silhouette tribal eyeball like characters called Patapon's. A wild, and addicting romp of a game that shows just how much is still to be explored in the making games that have total immerse experiences in the

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I love video games. With all my education over the years and desire to continually "search for the truth", my need constant need for debate and dialogue about the world around me, I still find myself coming back to, and enjoying video games. I love old fashioned board games, card games, and strategic games of chance (such as backgammon, or horse shoes, bocci, etc.) - it all compels me. Games

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I often wonder if it's inherent in our human nature to take that what we know (songs, stories, jokes, experiences, and art) and re contextualize it into our own creation. I am a graphic designer by day and a cartoonist at heart. I thirst for satire, parody, puns (clever and bad ones, alike), situations, and stories I can distill into a frame by frame sequence. I'm a writer with pictures, which

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It was the summer of 1989 that I don't remember much of. A few small details - I'm 13, grossly under developed, stuck somewhere between wanting to be a teenager but still really I'm just a kid. I had all these feelings of someone older, but the depressing realization that I was stuck with this body for a little while longer.But like the piano exploding at the end of the video, my mind, or

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mog.comMore about this songShareWe used to drive around Downingtown bumping Bizarre Ride II. When I say bumping, I don't mean it by any "it's what the kids are saying" way. We were literally bumping around in one of our shitty cars, me with my hot Rockford Fosgate base box jury rigged into the fuse box of my Chevy Nova, connected on the other end to some shitty tape deck.I had been introduced

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Originally released on Bronze Records in 1978re-released in 2000 on mute records w/ eponymous L.P.I originally published this on Julian Cope's Head Heritage siteA record of proof of an innovative band’s struggle with an unreceptive audience.“23 Minutes over Brussels” was recorded in Brussels, Belgium on June 16th, 1978. Friend of the band, Howard Thompson recorded it on cassette tape and it was

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mog.comMore about this songShareFilm loves boxing - it's all tight close ups of extreme action. Blood and teeth, slow motion expressions of pain. Bodies in exquisite form inflicting pain upon one another in the confines of the square ring. This does wonders for the lack of set and costumes needed. Two half naked men swinging on each other in the most primal of manors. Even if your not a

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There could be something to this sketch cast thing. I'm not sure how I feel yet, but it would obviously lend itself to a different form of drawing then I may be used to. Maybe it will lead to a sort of graffiti like short hand of drawing, in which much information is conveyed in small sketches. Here's my first post with a semi review.

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I would noramlly brissle at the thought of this subject matter. Perhaps because it reminds me of horrible airbrushed Trapper Keeper notebooks, and D & D kids. This I like though...

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My web cartoonist hero, Adam Koford, has posted this fantastic tip (no pun intended) about getting the most out of your pens. I have been trying to figure out what type of pens he uses for his comics, and this clip tells you that he prefers the Faber Castell PITT brush pen. Enjoy!

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I will probably elaborate on this at another time when I am not so tired and buzzing on the adrenaline that follows a child being born, but I am proud to introduce the newest member of our family, Elisabeth. She was 4 days late, but we managed to have a very stress free 5 hour delivery at home with a wonderful and skilled mid wife. We are elated that our family has grown +1. I sat down realizing

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I don't understand a thing they are saying, but I love the use of green screen and the "neon" graphics. Plus Hip Hop from other countries sometimes just seems cooler then the tired out stuff played here.

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I believe all rock videos should be of limited budget, funded by the band, and be done as much as possible by the band itself. Well. that might be difficult for some, but at least employ some one who is willing to work with the simple premise of putting visuals to your music. And for god sake, stop trying to make videos look like a blockbuster movie!That being said, here is a perfect example of

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Over on CNN Money there was a article about CEO's salaries are 364 x's more than the average worker. Not one to let news like this get to their employees, Satyricom has released a statement to clarify their own CEO's (Dr. Skinny) value.

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Words are great. I love stripping them down, rubbing them with oil, dicing them up, and combining them with parts of other words. So I propose to you a new word that I hope sweeps the Internets. Just remember you read it here first.Gregarian Societies - From the word gregarious "living in contiguous nests but not forming a true colony". In the post MySpace era, where user blogs are the new web

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Today's chronicle of process comes from Evan Dorkin of the great comix Dork! and Milk and Cheese. Evan and his girl Sara Dyer are regular contributors to all the creative shows on TV such as Space Ghost coast to Coast, Yo Gabba Gabba, and even as I have found out Nick Magazines Fairly Odd Parents. Here's a link to his layouts for The Fairly Odd Parents comic in Nick Magazine. Click the image

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Adam Koford is one of my new heroes. He is doing something so basic and simple in his drawing of comics, but utilizing all the best things about the internet, to do what he likes to do. Quite simply, he will draw a drawing for you for $20 B&W, $50 color. But he's used the web, blogs, Flickr, and YouTube to promote himself, and it's brilliant. It helps that he is so damn talented to boot.

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Mike Lynch, a gag cartoonist, has a reproduction of a New York Times Magazine article on the 2th Anniversary of Mad Magazine on his blog. I've sited Mad Magazine as my first corrupting influence, and I didn't even read it in it's golden era, when Harvey Kurtzman was at the helm, and it really was innovative. Needless to say, the seed that Kurtzman planted also warped my perception of everything

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I named my comic/website Satyricom after reading Petronius' Satyricon - as much as one can read a book that doesn't survive in the complete form. Sections are missing but it doesn't really detract from the over all story, which is one of the first examples of a novel. Satyricon succeeds in that it seems to lambaste everything about the time it was written, and exhibits subject matter that

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This will be premiering soon on the Satyricom Global Concern blog, once we figure out the logistics and our marketing demographics. Bandwidth issues are only a problem depending on what thickness slice you prefer. This solves one of the (at least) three problems some of us who are stuck in front of our computers have daily. I'll let you guess what the others are...Much thanks to fistula spume!

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If there is one thing I can't get enough of on the web, in magazines, on T.V. is an sort of behind the scenes, detailed looks at how artists, musicians, writers, or just plain do their work. I love anything - pix of tools, desks, computer set ups (drool). Today's post will take you over to Craig Thompson's blog Doot Doot Garden. Craig Thompson is author/illustrator of the fantasctic

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So this is slowly becomig a "Your Environment Friday" here at the Curmudgeon. Two news items in particular caught my interest while doing my usual troll of the internet. The first was rather depressing (perhaps I should say sobering). The second, much more inspiring.There is a really informative article over at Salon regarding Americans somewhat ubiquitous use of the plastic bag. A lot of

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Okay. Mindless promotion time (as in I'll send people to the site in hopes that one of these bags will come to me some how - even though they aren't paying me). This bag from Timbuk2 looks friggin' awesome - The Hacker! I learned about it from the great Bay Area site, Laughing Squid, and I definitely want one (preferably with all the stuff Scott Beale has in his). So if anyone out there is

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Marcel Duchamp may be one of my all time favorite artists. Let's face it, he basically invented Post Modernism. His early painted work was considered cubism but was more on the futurist tip - and some how existed as neither. Duchamp's amazing Nude Descending A Staircase (1912) took elements from cubism, but at the same time represented movement - something that the cubist failed to do with

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So here's one of the many things that get under my skin - when corporations abuse the very people who pay their salaries - the consumer. Apparently Regal Cinemas had A 19 year old girl named Jhannet Sejas arrested for recording a 20 second clip of the Transformers Movie. She now is facing $2500 in fines and up to a year in jail. This is absurd since this is obviously not your evil pirate or

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Here's my Technorati Profile. More to come later.

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Pixsy is another video search engine that claims to be:The Leader in Private Label Multimedia Search Solutions private label video and image search enginesprivate label video and image search portalsprivate label video and image search widgetsI've perused it briefly and it looks pretty cool. Doesn't look like there are any embedding features though.Trulia uses Google Maps to find home

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I can at times be a procrastinating crank.I started this blog in 2005, and promptly let it gather dust after one whole post. I've since changed careers, and have more plans to expand my internet presence. I mainly would like to have an outlet for my comics, but would also like to have space for the many inspirations I find on the net and room for discussions of the many wonderful (and even

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