Five 5 star things on a Friday... 16 MAY 2014 edition

I knew there was something I had meant to be doing over the last few months. Always find myself likely to slip on these kind of commitments. ;)

*Two* podcasts (quelle suprise)

Put Your Hands Together

This show is so funny, I can't even. It was linked to in the recent Rolling Stone article about the "20 best comedy podcasts right now" (many of which I download regularly) and it deserves the slot and more. The hosts are fantastic, the guests are hilarious. Check it out.

Swap Meet Podcast

The best Irish podcast available right now, for my money. Someone once said that as much as content, rapport between hosts is key in podcasts, and these boys have both - they give each other a piece of pop culture to check out and review and get back together for the show to discuss it. It's a great format. Check out their recent Simpsons episode!

Instagram




Flickr can probably claim to be the first social network, legitimately. But they never pushed into the mainstream like Instagram has managed to - being from before the smartphone era might be part of it. I really like the way Instagram works and they manage to make hashtags actually seem worthwhile!



Prophet

Sometime since the last time I posted, Prophet Volume 3: Empire came out. I've never been a big anti-Liefield person, but I've never really cared for Superhero comics so if you had told me a couple of years ago that I would be *addicted* to what Brandon Graham would do to a Liefield Superhero comic canon, I probably would have laughed in your face (Even though I've always thought of Brandon Graham as *the business* - buy Walrus or check out King City).



Bad Machinery

I've been saying since forever that everyone who can access the Internet should be reading John Allison's work. If you can't obey that basic command by now, there is no hope for you. If you find, like me, that is webcomic entertains you and touches your heart, you should buy his book or his merch! And Lottie is the best, before that question comes up.

Who knows if or when this feature will return (although it will probably be on a Friday, if I was forced to give an estimate)! Follow me on Twitter or Instagram for more constant updates.

14 OCT 2013 - More Inktober

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Why is there a weird disconnect between file display in Windows and what uploads to Blogger? Is rotating images stored in some meta-data (ie. Windows doesn't actually rotate the image, just tags the pic to remind itself to display images rotated to fool you?) That's one of those lazy things that make more work in the long run. I'll fix these rotations later, somehow.

Inktober 10 OCT 2013

People have been rocking the Art for Inktober on Twitter and Tumblr and Instagram - you should go check it out.

I've been meaning to do something with it, so I start on Day 10 - let's see if I can manage to go to the end of the month!



If I forget to post them here, you can find me on Instagram.

Some drawings from the Galway Pub Scrawl this evening.

25th DEC 2012

Colouring in the whole page really eats away at the hour. My Pocket Brush is out and I don't have refills with me at work either, so screw it, you can see what's up. The protagonists wander across a huge colony ship that's been hit by a mass driver rock. This doesn't have enough drama in this pose though. I think the final version the Colony ship will be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger and at an angle across the page, and the mass driver will have broken its "back" rather than be embedded in the front.

24th DEC 2012 Dust Worker

I've gotten lax on posting again O_o but a lot of the last few days were relatively lack lustre anyway. I've been drifting away from the narrative part of this project and just doing concepty stuff for some other work in process. But seeing as I'm at work today, here's some of that. A Dust Worker from my Sci Fi thing you're going to see more of.

15 DEC 2012

It doesn't take a lot of inattention to fall behind on posting this project. :P Here's the one from today, Saturday 15th. I'm working a night shift tonight so I'll probably finish Sundays in the next few hours and post that too.

Some guys blowing up some other guys. Always fun, right?