MrHoatzin

Even though I hated the School of Rock for its totally inane plot and though I hated Waking Life because it is tedious and boring, I would like to take back what I said about Linklater's hackness. I just watched Before Sunset. I am sorry.

Maaaan! Fatality!

As somebody who is fairly proficient at both digital and analogue art I have to say it is totally a moot point. The other day I saw this piece of art by Dan Lee and I couldn't figure out if he painted it all in acrylic or if it was all digital. One can do in oils or acrylic what one can do in Photoshop; one can draw with a mouse as well as one could with a pencil. Pretty much the only difference is that you have to be more present when you paint with oils and acrylic. You gotta know how wet the canvas is, and dwell extensively on how to mix the pigments to get the exact shade you want. You pretty much have to commit to memory a 3d table of pigment multiplication -- going up to three pigments. Or you can wing it based on some basic interactions. Contrary to popular opinion, you cannot mix every colour out there with only a generic red, blue and yellow. You need at least two of each (I have four reds and three blues in my current pallet of choice) + 3 to 7 earth colours.... Undoing a painting is slightly tedious; practically impossible with acrylics, with oils it boils down to dipping a cloth in turpentine or mineral spirits or liquin and wiping off the worrisome section. It may involve having to repaint something thereabouts... but it is nothing impossible. In the end, the more comfortable with the medium of your choice, the more all this becomes a non issue. I seldom undo things in Photoshop any more (only when the mouse slips off the desk and draws a line across the whole layer), when painting I just cover up the fucked up sections with another layer of paint, and when drawing I use the eraser not as a tool to fix errors, but as a rubbery whip with which to tame the graphite stick beast, never bothered by "accidents". The link that you provided, Rodi, to the dude who colours shitty fantasy scenes just doesn't count. The dude makes crappy illustrations for fruity paperbacks. And his work is utterly plastic and flat. Matt Rhodes is really good at what he does (his website had gone under, you can do a Google search on the man). I like his work because it retains some freshness of the pencil drawing, and yet is coloured in Photoshop. And all this voodoo that you may call "craft" doesn't change drastically when we're talking about digital; it helps if you're proficient in the use the paintbrush, the pencil and the dark room when you get into photoshop. Also, digital prints are coming into their own. Just yesterday during the First Friday (a San Antoan gig when all the modern galleries open new shows) I saw this awesome painting -- well it was more a photoshopping than a painting, printed on good paper with a quality printer, then framed -- a bunch of people with twisted and subtly Picassoesque, subtly Bochish features dressed in stage costumes for some Victorian play in this odd room -- the thing was a photography feat as well, utterly beautiful colour to boot. There was nothing inherently inferior about it and nothing would've been gained if that thing were a painting. It would actually look less real. (Attachments are just for shits and giggles. The painting is awfully photographed as you can see from the reflection of the window which creates this floury sediment on the whole left side and makes the deep purple behind the watering can look wrong.)

Dip it in linseed oil, then mortar'n'pestle it into a fine pulp. Apply liberally on bread and enjoy!

Five stars! :awesome:

Alice sold shitloads by having a name on the box. Schafer ought to do the same.

Seconded. And yet... there is an idiotic appeal to the shitty printage of the official shirt.

Well, quite obviously, this game sucked.

I thought Mulholland Dr was a good movie, and the old Dune is just fucking awesomely bizarre on its own. Blue Velvet was odd, I guess, not one of his greatest.

Graffiti from Tattoine?

Complain to Marek. Send it to my e-mail.

...it is a car?

Bill gates eats babies in kitten sauce.

Speaking of lubricants, stay away from astroglide. Their motto may be "second only to nature" but nature doesn't froth quite as much as this fucking excuse for a lube does.

True. They should make soap that doesn't sting when it ends up in the wrong places.

I think American kids should be taught to masturbate in the shower at an early age. It is doubly beneficial.

:barf: :barf: :barf:

Lewis Black or George Carlin.

Linklater's a hack. I do enjoy, however, when clubs plaster Waking Life all over the dance floor and then set it to some groovy music. Beautiful movie, talks a lot, nothing to say.

I kid.

Hee hee heee...

Castlevania, Final Fantasy one and all, Sam & Max Hit the Road (sorry guys, was so bored that I couldn't finish it without a walkthrough), Diablo 2...

If I ever need a narrator for my antics, Jake, you'd get the job.

You need a cameraman, a director, an editor, three grips, a writer, and a speech coach.... Other than that it is awesome.