MrHoatzin

Shit like that infuriates me. I dunno why! Maybe because the interface is gloriously unfriendly. Must I get carpal tunnel for your self-indulgent widget which may or may not be rewarding but I didn't care enough to find out? Why can't I middle click scroll or something? Ugh. And people occasionally bitch about Hobo Lobo's interface being obtuse or too weird for mainstream or whatever... :(

It will require quite a bit of will and organization to evolve yo self artistically when you also must job full-timely on the side. I don't think it is impossible. Austin has a fair bit of handy events and clubs that can help you hone your skills, stuff like Dr Sketchy or Austin Drink 'n' Draw. Those two are figure drawing oriented thingers. Maybe people at these events can direct you further. Personally, art school has been an invaluable tool in helping me work out my arrogance issues and come up with more coherent conceptual underpinnings to my work—but as far as technique and skills go it was kinda secondary. Then again, I went to a more arty-oriented university as opposed to a technique-'n'-hustle-oriented school—and when I was done with that I dropped the whole art thing and cashed in on my mad programming and design skillz instead. Ultimately higher education is a racket. You'd be better off in the long run if you can do without all that debt.

This kind of shit never works out. For either side. The more reactionary Islamic traditions have this curious feature where they don't culturally comprehend fiction and satire—they consider those simply LIES. Hence all the fatwas against writers. I am starting to suspect that the western idiots who keep prodding them are either woefully ignorant or are purposefully rooting for strengthening authoritarian elements on both sides of the divide. Whatever problems Islam has, it needs to solve them from within.

This is probably the most ridiculous thread I, of all people, could have ever started on these forums. I have before me an RFP from the Air Defense Artillery School. They want to make a free mobile/web tower defense game of sorts that involves some fancy augmented reality collectable cards on the side (one of those dealios where you look at some QR thinggy with your smartphone and a 3D model appears in the viewfinder as if in the real world—I dunno what these are called). I don't think they expect the cards to actually play a role in the game—beyond unlocking powerups and new weapons or levels or suchlike. I wonder if we can/should bid on this one as we don't really have the capacity to build something like this in-house. However, chances are slim that there are many (any?) game developers with GSA contracts out there—but my design firm has one—and some kind of partnership could be arranged (we do the government wrangling, UI design, some creative direction, servery infrastructurey stuff—other dudes make the game part). Their schedule is 180 days from contract signed to final deliverable. I am not sure how fixed this is, but considering we're dealing with government bureaucracies, who knows if they just put something down because it sortof sounded right to them and they needed a timeframe bullet item or if they'll court matrial us if we fail to do it in the alloted time. Just putting out feelers here. Anyone know (of) someone who'd be up for this gig?

I live here.

Wow, that's really effective. Excited about the possibilities. I am curious to see how it functions with more complicated things out in the world, like trees and such.

I posted this on tumblr a while back, it is a side dish popular in the Balkans and the kind of thing I made in college for the whole week when I didn’t feel like cooking. It can be used as a side or as an ingredient. It is awesome as a pizza topping or as a spread on sangwiches. The quantities are vague, aim for about equal parts onions peppers and maters by volume. BEĆAR PAPRIKAŠ (pronounced bechar paprikash, with a soft ch like in ciao, rather than hard ch as in punch) INGREDIENTS Onions (two or three) Peppers (about five or six medium sized ones. I like to get as many different kinds of peppers as possible) Maters (a vine or two, five or six) Oregano, Basil, Paprika, whatever else seems like it would work Olive oil (about 3/4 cups super extra virginal first cold press) A little bit of vinegar (enough to marinade the maters lightly, I like raspberry blush vinegar) PREPARASHON Cut the maters into cubes, combine with oregano and basil, let them sit in vinegar. Wash the peppers and throw them on a cookie sheet under the broiler on low until they’re splotched in black and peeling on all sides (rotate them as needed), but before the meat of the peppers turns into charcoal. When done throw them into an airtight container and forget about them. Cut up the mountain of onions into ribs and sauté with some salt until golden in a large enough sauce pan for all the ingredients. Start at high heat so that they start to stick to the bottom and burn a just a little, give them a bit of a rustic edge, then lower the heat and let all the onions catch up, stirring occasionally. While they’re catching up, remember the peppers and go to them. Peel and throw away the sharpest, papery burnt black bits from the peppers and cut the meat up into stripes. By this point, the onions should be done. Throw a tablespoon of paprika on them, stir for a minute, then stir in the peppers and the maters. Let it simmer until the maters start to get all nice, saucy and desaturated. And you’re done! Serve hot or cold.

I dunno. This sort of thing seems somewhat more involved:

The game itself probably doesn't have to be in 3D so there may be a way to make it in a JS canvas or something like that. The game is FOR the general public, to raise awareness about what ADA is all about—and I suspect just like America's Army game, help in recruitment. I would probably be in charge of actually designing the game if we can't get someone trustworthy with more experience. I wish there was something like a hardy HTML5-canvas-based game engine I could plug into out there. I also wish I had more experience making games. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ Still, they included a little gameplay synopsis and it is quite doable. The game part itself is less scary to me than the ARG stuff. It is the kind of thing that laypeople think is no big deal, but is actually nightmarishly complicated. Also, we're just thinking about whether to bid on this and what questions to ask at this point. It is not like we're anywhere near getting this job.

The orange hand prolly belongs to Glottis so your chronological pedantry is fail.

Infidelity is not as simple and binary as our rigid-ass square society would want us believe. Social boundaries are negotiable. Secrets and dishonesty tend to be more noxious to serious stable relationships than swinging.

Haha, nice! I like the little Leisure Suit Larry jumping out of the Sierra grave in the background (even though fuck that guy and fuck Al Lowe and boo Sierra and everyone who likes shitty adventure games).

Sal and I were planning to go camping in Marfa in October—we've been planning this october trip for five+ years running and something ALWAYS comes up and we have to cancel. Turns out ditto this year. Marfa is cursed. Maybe you can go instead!

Every time you post something like that, my first implulse is to emphatically ignore it so that it doesn't get you in trouble. Last night I tried to clothesline a fencepost with my side view mirror. The fencepost won. That will learn me to carelessly back into my own driveway. We went inside and found that The Puppo and Ada had gotten a hold of some slip of paper and torn it to shreds. Turns out it was the You Park Like An Asshole citizen’s ticket I got in Austin a couple of weeks ago. Thanks dogs for trying so protect my honor by destroying evidence, apparently it cannot be helped.

I'm responsible for both the Francis Bacon smiley and the angry tomato. I kinda wish I had admin priviledges on the forums again just so I could curate emoticons.

We're somehow miraculously still within our original estimate. Which is great as far as the company is concerned, but means little to me. As for the brand, I don't think they'll ever realize. They're not changing colors, just ADDING NEW ONES.

This is the second weekend in a row that I am at work. I have easily been doing 12-hour days for weeks—not every day, bit prolly two thirds of them. I am so tired, you guys. I just had a quintuple espresso and a small fistful of racetams, and I'm still nodding off. Godawful work too. I've stopped caring some weeks ago. The client doesn't seem to know what a brand is, keeps throwing new site features and colors at us and reworking random laboriouis and meaningless shit at the 11th hour.

You are really good at this entertainment format you have invented.

Yeah, "seldom" by volume. I stopped and briefly searched for a better word there, started writing a disclaimer, then gave up and posted what I had. Their coverage of fiction is usually in the form of comprehensive retrospectives of certain authors, which in my mind makes it somehow not about fiction itself.

NYRB seldom reviews fiction—but if you also include ads in those "gilded pages" then sure.

Yup. Hobo Lobo is me. What about the crazy coincidence wouldn't I believe? I was going to wrap up the first part of the story in the parallaxer and then build a different platform for the second part. I have been thinking about using canvases for things but I am not sure if they would solve my problems or just introduce new ones. Will have to experiment I guess. Thanks.

Whoa nice! I may have to pick your mind sometime soon about <canvas> and whatnot as I am gloriously ignorant about its potential and applications. Like: is it possible to have DOM elements inside the canvas, or is it all javascript all the time? Can you recommend some sort of primer/crash course site?

As someone who's been doing a fair bit of interviewing lately, I can tell you that the time it takes probably means nothing.

If we're talking about webcomics as well (which we should as print is for suckers*) you should all already love Hobo Lobo of Hamelin. You're honor-bound by virtue of associating with its maker in these here fine forums. * Prt.

Funny. Both the McGurl book and the Dave Hickey presentation I linked to talk about the same sort of malaise in the face of post-WWII art support systems.