The Huh?

10.28.2009

Illustration Friday: Fast

I wanted to do a really sweet multi-step overlapping running person, but my computer died, and I spent the last few days attempting to revive it in between work hours. Now that it's semi-alive(at least working) and don't have the time to do what I wanted, I asked a roommate what to do, he said "Cheetah."
I replied, "I think a lot of people will do that."
So he said, "Shut the hell up! I don't care, I want to see a cheetah!"

10.26.2009

Heroes: Tabula Rasa

In an attempt to get this post out before the new episode I'll keep it SUPER SHORT.

Hiro shows up at Peter's and then is brought to the hospital. Peter thinks Hiro came to receive help instead of the reverse. So he heads out to find Claire and Noah to find a healer. According to Noah Claire's blood won't work because cancer is living, but does that mean that all the virus and bacteria that cause all kinds of havoc in a body AREN'T living??? Ridiculous. Well they find this kid that Noah checked on once and find he controls the flow of life and can kill as well as heal.
Peter gets the ability and gets shipped back to Hiro, who is gone before he gets back, while Noah stays with the boy to make sure he is all right. Can Peter now heal Emma?
(A side note is that I hope Mr. Samson Gray finds this healer and then takes the power so his cancer will be magiced away and then he will have a way to kill Sylar, who is now considered "Big Game" prey)

Over in Hiro land- He is in a hospital talking Emma into accepting her ability as a good thing. She shouldn't be a dumbass about it, whoever thought up the idea of people not wanting these powers is retarded. Remember Claire complaining about being a freak? She should shut the F up man. She CANNOT get sick, or dead, that is AMAZING. Someone should give her super powered diarrhea and then let her complain. Yeah, she wouldn't after that.
Anyway, Hiro sort of convinces Emma to grow into the ability, not push it away. It is part of them, something that is a defining characteristic. Hiro eventually vanishes and appears 3 years ago, where he may be trying to save Charlie from season 1.
Didn't he already try it? She had already been aware of the impending death and was OK with it.
Besides, wouldn't his going to change it severely change the present? Considering it was one of Sylar's kills, it may have drastic consequences in the now.

In the Carnival Sylar is revisiting memories lodged in the body, as opposed to the mind's storage. He get's into a confrontation with Detective Lubbock and doesn't kill him. Then Edgar speeds in and kills Lubbock. So Samuel is slowly forcing Sylar's body to become part of the carnival through much deception and an absurd baptism. Do they not realize that Sylar's hunger is not activated and as soon as it is, he is in a veritable buffet of useful powers? With his current capabilities, none of them really stand a chance against him. Or when Pansy Parkman returns "Sylar's Mind", will mental Sylar go on a damn rampage and slaughter the entire group in what is essentially a massive Easter Egg Hunt of abilities?

Where have Tracy and Parkman and Mohinder and so on go? Has Angela dreamed about the loss of "Nathan" and his current running away to the circus?
UGH! I am sick of this post already. I'll try and get tonight's episode watched on Hulu tomorrow, then posted ASAP.

10.23.2009

Old colored pencil stuffs

More old sketch pages in colored pencil.

Fun with acrylics... 10 years ago.

More messing around with old paints from the times od yesteryear.

10.22.2009

Another marker sketchbook page

Here's a random page from one of my sketchbooks. Of course a lot of pages are random thoughts and ideas that fall out of my skull and plop onto paper.

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

First off I would like to say that my picture is of DOMESTICATOR!!! (Another one of my stupid creations) Originally I wanted a house-bot that was a compilation of ludicrous household appliances. There wasn't enough time for me to do a good version with a toaster arm-cannon, a shoulder mounted sink (with water hose), and various other attachments to cook and clean. So I made do with a quick sketch of a robot (made out of a microwave, blender, and vaccuum) grilling hotdogs.

As for the movie...

(Spoilers ahead)

Is Michael Bay still a child? What is he thinking? Instead of being a somewhat well-oiled machine, this movie feels like a kid's playtime. It lacks plot. With a threadbare story, it's just a series of fights, chases, and explosions. The film seems like they just took a bunch of loosely tied together images floating around in Bay's skull and mooshed them all into a blob and called it a movie.

So kids will love it for all the flashy items, and there are a few notable scenes that made me laugh, specifically when Jetfire is talking to Agent Simmons about his father, the first wheel, and asks Simmons, "Do you know what he transfomed into?" Simmons says no, and Jetfire's response is, "NOTHING!"

So we are given two and a half hours of, as one of my friends put it, Megan Fox distracting us from robots. Does that make her a Distract-o-bod? Which also makes me wonder why all of the Decepticons don't hide in a better fashion like the new blonde love interest Alice.

Worst of all they changed Soundwave's voice. THAT is what defined his character! I could see his not being an old boombox tape deck, but making him a satellite!? Why didn't they keep him as a surveillance worker and be a fully docked MP3 player with speakers and such?

Then at the end Jetfire gives Optimus his parts and power, so why didn't they just do that at the begining??? Why the hell would people wait for all the property destruction and deaths before they go, "Oh, wait! We can make a super weapon of our own, and just forgot to use it right away. Our bad." Not well thought out.

Overall I would say it's worth a rent.
And I'm still pissed about Soundwave.

10.20.2009

Scribblenauts part 2: Unconventional wisdom.

First- Two things I thought were awesome.
1) A velociraptor does NOT appreciate having a chariot glued to the back of their head. Or tail.
2) If I have a magic wand and sit on a gorilla with a pointy stick and crown in a saddle on a centaur with a halo and spear, then we fight a T-rex, it turns into a frog and a steak. But if we fight a mammoth it turns into a frog and 3 steaks. Score for my tribe!

A list of random things I've learned from playing Scribblenauts.

If you call on Santa, he hands out random gifts to anybody, good or bad. Some of the presents he pops out are; pets, sweaters, toys, video games, board games, and... voodoo dolls. Odd.
The most useful items I've found are a time machine and a mind control device. Next in the lines of handy things would be wings, a teleporter, and a Cupid arrow.
Death can beat both God and the Devil, but is subsequently able to be beaten by you with a spork. Or you can stuff him in a barrel.
Recipe for god = a human + ambrosia.
Satyrs are stubborn and rufuse to play a pan flute with me.
A black hole will suck things into their doom, while a portal sends out a very angry monster.
A blob and a ghost will fight each other and never die.
Jackalopes will ignore you and just walk around making horrible sounds.
A bum will be fooled by the following trap: Boobytrap a snowman by setting it on a bear trap and stapling money to it's head.
Clones/Dopplegangers/Duplicates and Me all make multiple you's(Maxwell's). They are also all evil and will try to steal anything you are holding and say "Yoink". But if you use a shrink ray on them they will keep stealing each others things instead. Then you may pick them up and fit up to 3 of them in a wallet or pocket.
If you make an ocean, then make a whale, the whale is too big to fit in the ocean.
Robots are good and cyborgs are evil.
If god has a sword, he's good, but if I have a sword I'm the enemy.
If you leave a trail of meat/brains up to a corpse and drop lightning on the corpse, it will come to life, eat, and pass out from being stuffed.
Cthulu and Shoggoth are not above love. If you Cupid arrow them they will love you.