I found this podcast last summer. It’s all about a comic shop clerk who ends up advising people through their problems in the store. All while using comic book lore and wisdom from the books they purchase.
Good stuff for comic book geeks, and here’s a favorite episode of mine.
They don’t get many episodes out, but they need a bigger following I think.
http://www.kylepiccolo.com/

Well, class is in an hour. I haven’t been into the lab since the end of the Winter semester. Don’t know if everything remained there, or was taken down. But here is how the collage wall looked last time I saw it.

Though there may have been a few more dickbutts on it.

Don’t know how many of you know of this comic book. It was a comic in the 90s by Rob Schrab, which recently made a comeback to finish the story he left hanging. Anyhow, I was on the Deviant Art page of a guy named MC Griffin, and he had a link to a video he made for a contest of making an animated Scud short. Here is the comic creator reviewing the videos:

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The puppet ones are really cool, but I liked MC Griffins most.

So he announces another contest due November 12, and I think I’m going to try and put something together for that. I’ve been looking for an idea for an animation project. Posting this here in case other fans of the comic wanted to make their own.

EMU Friends of the Library need our help. They are having a contest and need us to do the following:

1. design a bookmark
2. design for a 11″ x 8″ canvas bag (2-3 colours) 
3. design a new logo for them

Each category will win a $100 gift certificate. These designs will give back to the EMU community as they are using them for a fund raiser to make the library better. Not only do you have a chance to win some money but you have the opportunity to give back to EMU. There are a few restrictions you must remember:

• bookmark and canvas bag must say “EMU Friends of the Library”
• your name and graduation year will appear on the design
• you can  have a printed piece to put in your portfolio
• they really want your design to “POP”
• let’s show the library how supportive we are

if you need to ask my any questions, please e-mail me or reply to this. my e-mail is jalliso1@emich.eduif you would like to visit EMU friends of the Library website go to http://brand.emich.edu/fol

For everyone who hasn’t seen the work by Takashi Murakami (who both myself and someone else I saw in the lab are doing projects about right now). Murakami and his studio Kai Kai Kiki Co., Ltd. made this short video to promote Murakami’s Superflat monogram design being put out by Louis Vuitton. Superflat being a Japanese pop-culture inspired art style that Murakami is credited with creating.

I don’t think this was intended for American audiences though, which is too bad. It would be awesome to randomly see this on TV one night.

okay i hope i got your attention. you need to come to the aiga meeting this week (on thursday) at 8:00….

we need you to come out and brain storm some ideas for the portfolio review that will be held at EMU

this year.  you need to come out, its pretty fun. get involved…. care.

There is a little girl back home (in Brockville Ontario) that was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her name is Lilly and she is one-years-old. There is going to be an art exhibition in Toronto where all art sold will go towards her medical bills as she comes from a family that isn’t well off. I’m looking for people who would be interested in donating paintings or creating paintings, photos, posters, ect. for the exhibition – but there’s a catch: the exhibition is called “Lilies for Lilly” so all art should be of a lily or lilies. If you can have the items for me before February 16th 2008 that would be sweet. If you can frame it that would be even better but if not I can pay for it to be framed.

Canadian Sarah (ask around if you don’t know who I am)