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Angry Art, Fuck Microsoft, Life, Music, Sketchup
The chances of anything coming from Mars…
09.07.10 | Permalink | Comment?

…Are about as good as the chances of one of my peripherals lasting more than six months. My previously unexplained remedy to an unknown problem decided to completely fail on Sunday morning, leaving me with no choice but to make a trip to Future Shop and buy another new mouse. I picked up a Logitech LX8 which fires red lasers with deadly accuracy. It, mixed with the fact that I’ve been repeatedly listening to The War of the Worlds on my mp3 player (it would appear that I have yet to mention how much I love this album on here… weird, it’s one of my all time favourites) while working on the book, lead to me needing to model some tripodal Martians with deadly heat rays. I also needed a new desktop background since mine got deleted recently.

I also decided to mess with some animation things, and see if I could create one where the lasers appeared to be firing. I only spent a few minutes, but I have figured out how I could make some cool animations fairly easy. Currently I’m rendering a version of the above image in Indigo, but it probably won’t be ready until tomorrow.

I have finished rebuilding all the tools I lost last week, and now I just have to redo all the structural engineering crap for the last part of the appendix. James has started sending me photos he wants to appear in a spread somewhere in the middle of the text, but so far none of them seem appropriate. I’m going to get Naomi to send me all his photos, then I’ll have to go through them all and find some that will work. I may even just end up using my own photos from when I took P&B at the ISBA. I wonder if I do, if I get credited as photographer as well?

I also sent James an email yesterday with links to sites where he can secure an ISBN number (or series of numbers since we’re creating multiple volumes now) and UPC codes. Hopefully he gets that sorted out soon, because once the appendix layout is complete it’s just a matter of correcting some text and redoing the Table of Contents (booooo!).

*click either image for a larger/cooler version, unless the small ones already have you crapping your pants (in which case, you better go change your pants).
Music, Roanisms, Video
Kid Cobra busts some beats
08.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday I was in the middle of playing some Borderlands while on my lunch break, when Roan turned around from his computer and asked me “Did you know there is a video of me on Youtube?”. I said “Yup, I’ve seen lots of you on there.”. He must have thought I meant I see him on there, using that website a lot. He said “No, I mean there’s actually a real video of me, playing drums, on youtube… it’s called 9 year old drummer.”.

After searching for 15 minutes he got pissed because there was ten million videos of nine year olds playing the drums, and his was nowhere to be found. I told him I would gladly record him playing, and upload it to youtube for him. He said “No, that’s okay.”, like he usually does, but then changed his mind moments later. He asked me to not start filming right away, so of course I had to (I didn’t want to miss anything good!), and then I faked like I wasn’t recording yet when he decided he was ready. Hopefully he’s not mad at me for recording him being embarassed. I think I’ll lie and tell him my camera is weird sometimes and I didn’t realize it was filming already.
Music, Video
Enter the Cobra
07.24.10 | Permalink | Comment?
On Tuesday we went to see Die Antwoord in Toronto. I was really hot and sweaty and Holly almost passed out, but it was a good show. We met Jon there, then ran into Ryan and Amber. I was surprised to see only one person in Darkside of the Moon boxer shorts, and also at how diverse the crowd was. I saw goth kids, club sluts, metal heads and just about every other stereotype imaginable.

Above is the intro to their set with one of their best tracks, and below is the last song they played (before the encore), which I think is their best track. I unfortunately didn’t record the whole thing because my arm was super tired.

Two very important things to note from the second video:
1. Ninja pushes a stupid girl off the stage
2. Yo-landi’s shiny gold pants make boners (coincidence we both have $’s in our names?)
Music, Photos, Roanisms, Video
Roan. More pacifically, his vocal/artistic talents
06.02.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Roan brought this home from school yesterday. It’s about four pages long (like old dot matrix printer type of paper minus the feed edges) and, if you can’t tell, depicts a region of rain forest. It includes a monkey, a leopard, a cicada, a parrot, a bird I thought was a plane but according to the artist it’s an unknown tropical avian. We didn’t get much explanation other than that, because Roan’s parade was rained on when I dropped the ban-hammer on his xbox privileges for not following the rules earlier, so his pouting kicked in and communications shut down.

Holly decided to give him a bath since it wouldn’t get in the way of him pwn’n noobz, and part way through I happened to walk past the bathroom and hear him singing his favourite song: Billy Talent – Rusted From the Rain.

You may need to crank the volume for the first bit because I was trying not to get busted taping him and keeping a safe distance. Close to the end Holly comes down the stairs and when he hears her he asks her an awesome, completely random question. The things 9 year old boys think about while humming their favourite mainstream Mississaugin music…

I really need to introduce him to GWAR. Perhaps he’s a bit young for some of it though.
Fuck Microsoft, Music, Video
I played a gam3 w1th z0mbies 1nit!!!1
02.02.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Since I got Holly addicted to killing Nazi Zombies, I’ve tried to expand her interest in games her and I can play together. Last week I downloaded a bunch of Xbox Live Arcade demos and had her try a few with me. We fell in love with an Indie game called I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1NIT!!!1.

It was only about $2 to buy ($1 if you’re American), and the entire game takes about 8 minutes to complete, but it’s 4 player co-op and tons of fun. The song from the game is awesome too. I keep getting it stuck in my head, and fell asleep singing it to myself last night. When I got up this morning, the first thing I did was download the song. I highly recommend watching the video, downloading the song, and then buying and playing the game.

It’s only downside, is the lack of online play. But for an 8 minute game, who cares.
Life, Music, Random, Video
Cobras can’t drum
11.19.09 | Permalink | Comment?

When I was younger, I dreamed of playing the drums in some sort of metal band. If I had any talent, I’d spend all day doing this. I wish I could play even 1 minute of any part of this song.
Music
More music I <3
10.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

First is a cool video by RJD2 featuring a person who has been stuck using crutches all his life, and seems to have not only mastered it, but also made it look like something fun. The other two are from one of my favourite bands. Yes, they got their name from the amazing Eric Estrada.

Although neither of these are my favourite songs by the band, they are the only ones I found with videos.

Enjoy.
Music
Cobras <3 FNM
10.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I listen to this song almost every day. Faith No More videos are so cool.

Here’s a couple more – > (more…)
Gabriola, Life, Music, Random, Sketchup
Cobra casual Fridays are highly productive
07.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I did about 14 hours of work today. I got 10 drawings done! My back is sore, my eyes are going nuts, and I’m completely fucking wired because I haven’t given my mind a rest since 6:30 this morning. I had multiple meetings with James today, and got a ton of other work done (not just the drawings). I’m finally ready to call it a day, so I leave you with this blog:

I call it “Bongbot Doesn’t Care If It’s Raining, He’s Blazin’!”

I just made this in Sketchup. It took me about 30 minutes to make, and then 30 more to mess around with all the cool styles you can use. I saved about a dozen images, but I’ll share just two with you little blog.

I hope I’m not a zombie tomorrow. I actually had fun working on this stuff today.

Oh, I thought I should mention that one of my favourite albums of all time is “Prick”. I have listened to that album about 15 times in the last 40 hours. I love it so much. It made me think about what other albums I love that much, so I’m going to have to make a list on here of what my favourite albums are.

Bedtime. I hope Holly is having fun.

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Music, Random
Cobras <3 Chris Cunningham Videos
07.29.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This is for my brother. Since you liked the bungle videos, I thought I’d share these in case you hadn’t seen them. Both are amazing, and he has directed a few other Aphex Twin videos that are cool. These are my favourites.

MUM DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO

The Monkey Drummer video is “mum friendly”.

Enjoy.