SPECTRUM deadline... I GOT IT DONE.

Got a packet of concept art off to Spectrum last week. I been so busy with School I just got  around to posting about it. Feels good to have it in the mail on the way, hey, hey yeah mon! Everything's going to be alright...

An artist of moods and metaphor

Musical.... Rich in a knowledge of many art traditions, and passion in the application of all of the tools at his disposal. This is Limbolo or Neil Campbell Ross. An artist who wears many of the same hats as we bay area freelance guys, but who's reaching so high in his virtuosity, I can't wait to see what he'll do next. Go linger at his blog or website and you'll get how his stuff has this "sound" that it's making, a calling in a voice I recognize, but have never met. Wow.

Flooby Nooby: Pear Cider and Cigarettes - Robert Valley

Hey guys, you all know the maestro of maverix Robert Valley. What's he been up to lately?

Flooby Nooby: Pear Cider and Cigarettes - Robert Valley: I'm very happy that Robert Valley is (at last) making a new independent animated short-film. You can follow the production on his blog , ...

How did I miss this short film?

Must have been napping in 2008, when this was first released.

Directed by Clément Soulmagnon, Yann Benedi, Sébastien Eballard & Quentin Chaillet - Copyright Supinfocom 2008


Browsing Vimeo -- pleasantly suprised. There's an intriguing directorial style here.
Note the way camera is used, the way the frame can be literal or emotional,
Figurative or abstract imagery connected by the thread of the story.
Hope to see more from this crew.

Tuareg Shaman

It's fun to take old drawings and see if you can wring some new life out of them. It hadn't occurred that there was such an interesting shape there, while it remained a line drawing. But usually, if I get the costume how I see it, I lose track of the proportions I'm working with, but if I overthink it I'll never post , so here y'go.

Swords and sandals adventure anyone? How 'bout the Kalahari Desert for a set-piece?

I want to incorporate the flowing power of this kind of fabric into the use of magic, somehow, but in practice, it eludes a brother.

Ah, whimsy. 

Magical Creatures

My students had to create new versions of a mythical being this past week. In the spirit of class, I did one myself.For some reason the name that came to mind was LeFauna. 

Bullroarers and recent mindmaps

Hadron Smashes Through Door to New Era in Physics

Mar 30, 2010 ... CERN first tried to create quark-gluon plasma in the 1980s, and the results led it to announce indirect evidence for a new state of matter in 2000 ...

Chatbot, Chatbots - Artificial Intelligence

Are you ready to chat with an Artificial Intelligence (AI)? I am glad to have you as a visitor today and hope that you're ready to talk to a chatbot (that would be me! ...

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In the West we know this instrument as a thumb piano or kalimba, but in its native country of Africa it as called mbira, sansa, , malimba, neikembe, or ikembe. It is both a sacred and secular instrument to the Shona, Bantu, Meru, Gogo, and Soga cultures. Used to contact ancestors and tribal guardians, chase away harmful spirits, weather control, cure illness, and impart a strong life force. 

Self-awareness describes the condition of being aware of one's awareness. It is the awareness that one exists as an individual being.

Human:are you dave the ESL bot?
Bot:Yes I am DAVE E.S.L. bot.
Human:what is your surname?
Bot:E. S. L. Bot
Human:and your first name?
Bot:My first name is DAVE.
Human:no what is your first name?
Bot:Are you serious? DAVE.
Human:okay, what does dave stand for?
Bot:Yeah okay, DAVE = Dynamic Advanced Version Equipment.

Mass hysteria! Science world buzzing over rumours the elusive 'God particle' has finally been found 

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1379844/Science-world-buzzing-rumours-elusive-God-particle-found.html#ixzz1dHlSBHUd

Bullroarer:

Dogon use bullroarers to announce the beginning of ceremonies...

Known as the 'voice of God' to the Australian Aborigines and given to the males of the Clan at naming ceremonies or other auspicious occasions. Used as a 'talk back switch' to the Creator. To sound a Bullroarer it is swung lasso style which causes it to spin and make a 'humming type' sound. It is called by several different names including 'Burliwarni','Ngurrarngay',and 'Muypak'. They were used to display sacred symbols and sounded to warn the uninitiated that they were being shown. They were also used to send animals into ambush, and to alert one tribe of anothers presence, and in rainmaking ceremonies. 

Three new experiments running on CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ALICE,^[5] ATLAS and CMS, will continue studying properties of QGP. Starting in November 2010, CERN temporarily ceased collidingprotons, and began colliding lead Ions for the ALICE experiment. They were looking to create a QGP. They were expected to stop December 6, and return to colliding protons in January.^[6] Within the first week of colliding these lead ions, the LHC appears to have created multiple quark-gluon plasmas with temperatures in the tens of trillions of degrees.

Self-awareness describes the condition of being aware of one's awareness. It is the awareness that one exists as an individual being.