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Pretty cool list of different things to talk about. From Philosophy to Religion. It's worth a look or two. By the way, I hate bookmarks, so I'm using this blog for that.

Figured Out the HTML thing....

Ok. This is basic stuff that took me forever to figure out. Maybe it will help someone out. Okay. So if you want to make a space between paragraphs, just type in

(p)

But instead of the curvy () by the 9 and 0 key, you use the html tags by pressing shift and , or .

So. If you want to LINK something on a blog, press that link button that looks like a green ball with two little white links on the top left of it. This should be on the upper left of the screen, by the spell checker and insert picture thingie. So you CLICK it, it opens a dialogue box that you type you link in. You press OK when you are done.

BUT YOU'RE NOT DONE YET!

Now you have to go and insert what you want it to say.

BEFORE

(a href="http://eddiechinglives.blogspot.com")(/a)

AFTER

(a href="http://eddiechinglives.blogspot.com")my blogspot(/a)

And you should get something like this:
my blogspot

If this is confusing, post a comment, and I'll explain further.

NIST Fact Sheet

wtc.nist.gov

This is interesting. It answers some posing questions about the CONTROLLED DEMOLITION theory of 9/11

Would You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?

It's a rhetorical question.

Actually, it's a cool comic by Liz Prince. I listen to a bunch of comic book podcasts, and on Indy Spinner Rack, they had her on, so I looked up the book on half.com, and got it for around 7bucks including shipping, so that's a pretty cool deal for 80 pages.

You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, which is cool by the way. So I judged it by all the 5 star reviews it's gotten on half.com and amazon.com.

It was a pretty cool interview on Indy Spinner Rack, which has the best damn catchy theme song out of all the podcasts I've listened to! But in the interview, she mentions that she doesn't do the whole bristol board and blue line process. She just cranks it out in her sketchbook, and puts it together. This is similar to what I'm trying to do with my mini-comic, with the exception that her artwork is actually good! In that feminine indy cute way!

Her work reminds me of fellow myspacer and youdrawer, Nation of Amanda! I'll give you a better review of the book when I actually get it!

Hotel Fred!

www.hotelfred.com

Cool website! Awesome art! Check it out! Roger Langridge reminds me of a mix between Ty Templeton and Dan Clowes. Check him out! Reminds me of a 2000ad comic as well.

Top 10 Western DVD's

I was listening to some podcast with that guy that drew the first Star Wars adaptation! Famous dude, but some odd reason, his name escapes me at the moment. Well, he said that Westerns were the best stories, and how Star Wars was a western, so I want to study them. So I bought a crappy 6 title wester dvd which SUCKS! So I searched online and found a top 10 list!

Amazon's Top Westerns

On a side note, I also want to study Citizen Cane! I searched it on youtube and found some cool stuff there, but I will eventually break down and buy it someday!

On another side note, try looking up imdb trivia sometime! One Pulp Fiction, the line when Butch says "I want you to pick it up" was inspired by the John Wayne movie, Rio Bravo.

I did a sketch on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?fjiYEo2QoJs

Cool! Figured out how to do video screen captures for free!

Special thanks to: this site for letting me get the freeware program "AutoScreenRecorder" to screen capture what I do into video.

Enjoy!

Cool UFC Article

http://www.bjj.org/editorials/19991117-fightclubbed/

This was an amazing article, about how it started, how it's getting shut down, and why it is arguably SAFER than BOXING!

Man, John McCain is not looking good.

He's AGAINST UFC where there are NO DEATHS,

PRO Boxing, where there are DEATHS,

And he's AGAINST Net Neutrality, which makes sure that Web Sites don't have to pay Telephone Company Internet Providers money for faster loading pages.

And he was against Martin Luther King day a long time ago. I use to be a fan, now I'm not so sure.

Go to:

www.savetheinternet.com

for further details on what your state senator's stance is on it, and how to contact them to voice your opinion.

I bought comics today!

Ok. I want to kind of get back into comics, and I am sick of being a dollar bin whore, so I gave myself 10bucks a month to spend on comics.

I went a little overboard. It was like 15 bucks, but the local comic shop always seems to give a discount, so it was only like a 12 bucks. Which still isn't that much over budget.

I'm not used to getting only four comics for twelve bucks, but there are some really cool comics out!

I picked out Blue Beetle#5, Metal Gear Solid#3, Street Fighter #4, and Batman Danger Girl Special!

Blue Beetle was a fluke. And actually the only brand new comic I got today. The cover looked typical, so I picked it up because the comic geek speakers have mentioned it. Wow! What a suprise. The coloring is cool. It's not all gradiented out, just flat cel-type shading. And it seems like Guy Major gave each setting has it's own color scheme. And Duncan Rouleau's art is amazing! It has that indy flare, kind of like a mix between Paul Pope and Humberto Ramos. Very cool, with high contrast black spotting, great looking faces, natural movement, and cool architecture and nice shot variety. He makes two people talking on a park bench look very interesting. And I really like how this comic takes a while to read. Keith Giffen and John Rogers have a nice slow pace, giving time for me to appreciate each panel. This issue definately makes me want to draw and look at his panel layouts for the rest of the week!

Metal Gear Solid I picked up because of the cool sketchy art by Ashley Wood. Not only is it sketchy and cool, and the colors are very tonal and indy, but the action sequences really looked cool. And I want to get good at drawing and writing action sequences, so it looked like a great study. That, and the camel toe splash at the beginning is a nice touch. The sensitive side of me wants to let you know that that's not what I look for in comics, but the horny male pig side of me would like to mention that that's what narrowed this issue down from the others, including no.1.

Street Fighter I got because of the awesome art and fight sequences as well. Alvin Lee draws the comic precisely as if the video game was a comic. The action sequences are very lively, there's two kickass fights in this issue, and the art looks straight from the game! Superb! And the colors by Espen Grundetjern are so sweet!The only gradients are in the sky and lighting fx, and the rest is flat cell shading, which is very fluid, and looks super cool! I wish I would have gotten the issue with the bonus feature in the back showing the process from Inks to final Colors, but the back-up story with art by Sven is a pretty nice conciliation prize.

Batman Danger Girl has art by the great Leinil F. Yu. Anyone named F. Yu is worth checking out. But this guys artwork can back that name out. This guy is amazing. But he did drop the F. from his name. Bummer! However, the art is simply too cool for words. It's like a mix between Frank Cho and Travis Charest! The linework of Gerry Alanguilan gave it the Charest Gen13 Vol.2 feel. This thing has a much better Charest feel than his previous team-up with Yu in the Superman Birthright No.4 that I got from the dollar bin a couple months ago. That comic had more of an Invincibles feel, with the less liney inks. Both issues kick major ass, and are definately worth checking out! These guys are my favorite art team and are on my top 5 for artists to buy books from! Along with Adam Warren and Paul Pope! The 5 dollar price tag for this Batman Danger Girl book was a bit pricey, but for 40 pages,it averages out to about 2.50 for two comics, so it's pretty much the average pricetag.

On a side note, the wife, the baby, and I bought this cement mix thing, and we all pressed our hands in it. The hands were kind of hard to make out, so we got some white paint at walmart to make it stand out. My boy is six months old, so we felt like that was a good time for him to get his hands dirty with cement! It was fun!

Now I have all the opaque white a guy would need for inking. Too bad I correct all my stuff via computer! Thank you very much, Scott Kurtz. If you don't know who he is, or if you do, he does this online comic, www.pvp.com, and he has some videos in time lapse on youtube, so check 'em out. He shows you how he arranges figures in a panel and makes corrections online, and how he colors to the theme of Benny Hill.

Hyperlink HTML Code!

Yep. Just a boring post explaining html to myself so I don't have to remember. I love cut and paste!

Dwayne McDuffie's Comic Book Scripts

http://homepage.mac.com/dmcduffie/site/Scripts.html

Check it out, all you comic book writers/artists! A real pro with a bunch of scripts online!

This blogging thing is great. I don't have to bookmark anything anymore. I just post a blog about what I found!

What's really cool is that I can go back in my Deathlock collection and compare the script with the final art!

Yay!

Cool NY Comic Con Blog w/Pics!

http://popcultureshock.com/features.php?id=1312

Found a cool link to other comic blogs

http://simpleweblog.com/comics/comicweblogs.php

about my mini-comic....

So far, it's getting there. Which is better than just in my head. Some of the art is done, while more are in the pencilling stage. I have a goal with it being avaliable September or October. Sometime before Halloween.

I find that when I have an idea for a page, I quickly sketch the panels and break it down on computer paper, then letter it in with quick figure sketches in the panels. That way I can get half of the work done in a quick time. Almost as fast as thinking up the joke. Then, just finishing the artwork and inking is all that's left. It's a pretty cool process.

My comic is going to be a bunch of gag strips about me and my wife arguing and bickering and teasing each other. Sounds corney and un-interesting. But it's ACTUALLY funny, which will hopefully make it worth it.

And the cover price will be a buck, but I want it to cost only a dollar INCLUDING shipping, so I'll discount all online orders!

I'll keep you guys posted!

Randy's Hotline...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BzFFBw-pp0

I found my friend Randy's spoof of all those adult hotlines on youtube. Thanks for the link Randy. His friend Ron, another "R" name, has uploaded it!

But be warned!

This one's for the LADIES!!!

Journal Artblog

Click the pic if it's not big enough.

So I got a note the other night...

Apparently, someone does not know the rules of an apartment building laundry room.

The rule clearly states, if the washer or dryer stops with someone else's clothes in it, and you want the machine, there's a two-five minute window when you can remove the clothes from the machine and place them on top of the dryer.

This is a serious rule.

So she wrote me this long sad schpeal about how there was another machine open. Well, that machine is jammed, so you can get away with using one quarter instead of two. Your damn right I'll move your clothes on a dirty dryer to save a quarter. Welcome to public laundry rooms!

She was pissed though. She even used three exclamation points twice!!! That's pissed!!!