When We Had Friends
What happens when Cori and Ian’s friends all move out to Victoria? Nostalgia!
Lead With It
Do you work in publishing? Do you have a headline you really want to promote? Have I got the animated gif for you!
Jumping Onto White Base
Because I was feeling like doing something mildly creative, and because Cori asked for it, I put together this little Gundam tribute. Hopefully I can find some way to cheaply get it onto a t-shirt. Perhaps this will be my first piece of merchandise?
Clone Shell - Going to the Store
Those of you familiar with Magic the Gathering will recognize the above as Clone Shell. In my opinion, it is in the running for derpiest card art, depicting what I can only explain as a mentally malfunctioning Silver Surfer like android at a Gigeresqe roller rink.
But it reminds me of something…
And so without further ado, I present my own alter of “Clone Shell”, with apologies to Wizards of the Coast, Volkan Baga, David Lewandowski, and everyone who could possibly be involved.
Ian and Cori in Japan
Back in September of 2012, Cori and I took a trip to Japan to visit my brother Todd for his wedding. We got a chance to tour Akita, as well as some time in Tokyo. All in all, a fantastic return to a country I once called home. Enjoy our vacation snapshots, such as they are!
Keep Calm - Land Proxies
At the request of nobody, I’ve extended my “Keep Calm and Tap for Mana” series of things to include a set of land proxies for those who want to play with them. Simply print the linked PDFs at 100% on cardstock or plain paper, cut along the guides, and slip into some card sleeves (with or without real land cards, depending on your stock) and enjoy!
Keep Calm and Tap for Mana
Thanks to a one off tweet by @michaelrobles, I was inspired to hack together this set of “Keep Calm” Magic the Gathering themed posters. Enjoy!
Keep Calm and Tap for Mana #MTG
— Michael Robles (@michaelrobles) February 7, 2013
Update: Our good friend @the_doc_brown has followed up on the cards I’ve produced, and added a border. Spiffy stuff. Check out his work over on Photobucket
Late Night Dub Fight - Desert Bus 6
This very special episode of the Late Night Dub Fight was recorded on location at Desert Bus for Hope 6 with help from the cast of Loading Ready Run, Kris Straub, and Synaptic Chaos Theatre.
And of course, the Chat.
Relive moments from your favourite anime, cartoons and TV shows in a new and hilarious light. This special Late-Night Dub-Fight pits the riders of the Desert Bus against each other to find out who can “improve” classic clips by redubbing them live with their imposing improv skills. No one knows what show host Ian Horner has up her sleeves, or what the cast members will say in this all-out assault on your funny bone.
The Watchmaker
I’ve finally come up with a Kickstarter idea that seems workable, and I can 100% get behind. I’m going to build myself a watch! Well, by “myself” I mean along with my good friend Cameron Lauder. And by “build” I mean design. Kinda.
See, I thought it would be much harder to put together a watch, but after some time in the dojo, practicing my google-fu, it seems that there is a lot less that goes on under the case in a watch than one may think. It turns out that thanks to the ”quartz crisis” (cleric?) the Swiss watch industry got extremely consolidated. And this means that there certain types of swiss watch movements are effectively commoditized.
Which is all to say that I’ve picked out a movement. Possibly. The Valjoux 7750 is an automatic chronograph movement that seems to be extremely popular which means that customization is going to be easy. It also had it’s patent expire in the early 90s, and has a mature (read: quality) ecosystem of Asian copies, which means that it can be cheap. All I need to do is bring Cam around to being on board with a chronograph, and that’s settled.
I also found some initial suppliers for cases, movements, and hands. At this point, I could just put together a one-off watch of my choosing, but I think I might like to see if I can garner enough interest to do a kickstarter. That, and Cam also wants a custom watch, and this could be fun.
That, and we’ve agreed on Futura as a font for the watch face. Which will look stunning.
Synaptic Chaos Theatre
For those who are curious about what this “Synaptic Chaos Theatre” thing is that I post here from time to time, our friends over at 4GeeksMedia have put together a little primer on our improv troupe. Give it a look, and if you like what you see, you can check out more of Synaptic Chaos Theatre’s work at Synaptic-Chaos.com