the walking dead

I believe I mentioned zombies the other day.  Well, I had been looking for another hosting site for my "blahg" which I had planned to rename Gunning For Zombies.  This site only costs me $9 a month to run but I was checking around for free sites.  I looked at the popular ones and none of them were really to my satisfaction.  Sigh.  Anyway, I was looking for zombie images and ran across The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore.  I loved the cover art so much I looked into Tony Moore's illustrations and noticed one that looked familiar.  I had seen that drawing somewhere before, but where? I looked around Tony's site some more and read a bit of his bio..  As he puts it "I'm a small-town guy from Kentucky."  To use the parlance of my medium, OMG.  I met Tony's mother when I was working for Landmark Communications.  She showed me that same drawing and talked proudly, as any mother would, about her son!  Ah, what a small world!

I don't really know what my recent obsession with zombies is all about.  I've never been a big fan of horror films, comics, women....but between the art and concept of the story, I'm dying (couldn't resist) to get the trade paperback: commonly called a graphic novel.  I like the idea of blasting the re-animated, especially when I'm strolling amongst them in Wal-Mart. 

[mp3] Hunting For Witches - Bloc Party
[mp3] Zombie - Cranberries (Remix) This is a very "trance" remix.

where were you now?

Wondering // Illustration / Michael Startzman 

It's a long and sorted tale and a tale best told some other time.  Maybe tomorrow.  Suffice it to say, there were zombies involved.

Mobile vector

 

[ai] Mobile Vector 
Six vector shapes based on a Flensted Designs based on Alexander Calder's style.  How about that for third generation?!

Why this vector? As an artist, Alexander Calder was featured prominently in my college library.  The library housed mainly tapestries and perhaps a mobile.  Admittedly, my memory of college is a bit hazy.  None-the-less I love the simple, elegant shapes of Calder's designs and the movement they portray.  I think it would make a cool tatoo, background shape, desktop, photoshop brush, or make it into a photoshop shape! 

Alexander Calder (22 July 1898 – 11 November 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestryand jewelry. - wikipedia.org

lost & found - the dexateens (free album)

Get the album, Lost & Found, HERE.

It's a free album.  I appreciate that.  Reminds me a bit of The Drive-By Truckers.  Honestly, I don't love it.  I probably won't even listen to it all that much.  It does have a couple of tracks I may spin from time to time for some raucous country music.  Still, it is FREE.  Did I mention that already?  So, I think for that reason alone, you should download it and give it a spin.    

i got that grape filled kool-aid swimming pool

Original photo found on the interwebs.  I just added the kool-aid!

[mp3] Audacity Of Huge - Simian Mobile Disco
from Temporary Pleasure (2009)

I've read from SMD fans that the new album is a bit of a let down.  Of course who actually pays attention to reviews?  I'm pretty sure reviews are just for nerds who need someone to tell them what's good. As for me, I think this track is pretty good little dance ditty, and SMD is giving it away FREE on their home page.  
Original photo found on the interwebs.  I just added the kool-aid!

"Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins and his wife Kitty in Hastings, Nebraska, USA. All of his experiments took place in his mother's kitchen. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack. To reduce shipping costs, in 1927, Perkins discovered a way to remove the liquid from Fruit Smack, leaving only a powder. This powder was named Kool-Ade" -wikipedia.org