cainmark

Made some fonts using this neat-o website:

http://www.yourfonts.com

My fonts can be downloaded here:

http://cainmark.pbwiki.com/PrintStudio

The fonts are copyright 2009 by cainmark. Some Rights Reserved, CC BY-NC-SA, Use them in anything, but don't make money off them by selling them. And if you modify them, give them the same license. Thanks.

His Little Nemo in Slumberland and other works are now in the public domain. So why aren't we seeing more of his work online? Because everyone should see it. It's gorgeous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo




http://www.archive.org/download/Gertie/GertietheDinosaur.flv

And about his Rarebit Fiend strip:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/joshua_glenn/rarebit_fiend/

Lots of public domain early American Animation at he Library of Congress' American MAmeory site:

Origins of early American animation:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@FILREQ(@field(TITLE+@band([Gertie+on+tour--excerpts]++))+@FIELD(COLLID+animat))

Beautiful animated backgrounds from cartoons

http://klangley.blogspot.com/2006/05/mgm-backgrounds.html


Damn. Alex Toth died. He was a master designer.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2006_05.html#001970

\"The Simpsons is more than a funny cartoon - it reveals truths about human nature that rival the observations of great philosophers from Plato to Kant... while Homer sets his house on fire, says philosopher Julian Baggini. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4995624.stm

Funny cute is really one of the best character designing blogs I've come across. Katie Rice
is too damned talented.

http://funnycute.blogspot.com/

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This is pretty awesome. A character design blog:

http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/

Full story. complete webcomics.

http://www.twentysevenletters.com/fullstory/?cat=15

Comic Book Markup Language

http://www.cbml.org/

Asterix takes on world terrorists (us)

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/features/2005/11/08/9f96c0af-f66d-436c-9690-f7e4fb1187e3.lpf

Very funny rewrite of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earth's

http://miserableannalsoftheearth.blogspot.com/2005/11/crisis-what-crisis.html

really good advice for comic book artist about business in that industry

http://www.comicfoundry.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=103

The scribbler! (requires Flash) http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/

Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator.

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32086

Man, I wish this was a movie!

A-General

a usefull site here

Ct-Biography

To be continued. . .

GT-Manners & Customs
Quizzes

free culture is love
brought to you by the isLove Generator

J-Political Science

A little history lesson.

One of my new heroes.

Not in my name they aren't, Molly.

I totally agree with this
The One Resignation That Matters

The following was well put. from here:

"Comment -- What's the connection between Martha Stewart, George Bush, and Ariel Sharon? Their supporters frequently employ the same structure of argument when deflecting criticism. Criticism of their conduct is treated as an attack on their identity. Stewart's critics are attacking her because she is a woman, Bush is attacked because he is an American, and Sharon attacked because he is a Jew. By impugning the motives of their critics, the substance of the criticism is regally cast aside. The response in effect is to proclaim, "I am who I am. The problem is yours." "

Well, yeah. (disturbingly truthful art vision)
NC-Comics

I really, really liked this comic strip. Sprawlington reminded me of Huntsville, AL

This is still one of my favorite websites. It applies to any form of creativity really. Exercises in Style

Character buttons for old comic strip characters

CT-Biography
Journal Entries

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J-Political Science

Very good post on why all those yellow ribbons on cars are starting to irritate me.

It's not that Political cartoonists have gotten too political (they always have been, duh!), but that the newspapers are wimping out from integrity. (I think Mallard Fillmore is proof of that)


''Real faith, you see, leads us to deeper reflection and not -- not ever -- to the thing we as humans so very much want.''
And what is that?
''Easy certainty.''

NC-Comics

Damn, Book six of Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier kicked major ass. Highly stylized in way that fits in perfectly with the tween time between the Golden and Silver Age of DC superheroes setting. Looking through it again what's so remarkable about it is its pacing. No individual scene takes precedence (though the 2-pager of the heroes moving toward the reader to fight the foe is pretty spectacular) , but the whole really is more than the sum of its parts. The plot itself is typical silly 50s sci-fi stuff, but what makes it work so well is the reactions of the characters and most importantly HOW it is told (Which is why people other than comic readers like me will enjoy it). And using JFKs hopeful New Frontier speech juxtaposed with images of the heroes and everyday people's lives fits perfectly, and the formation of the Justice League on the last page-I admit it-caused me to have a,
a-nerdgasm! Oh yeah.

PN-Film

Team America was damned funny. I totally disagree with the "moment" speech at the end, but it was so funny watching these marionettes having, as one of themselves says, "no intelligence."

watched the gypsy movie Latcho Drom, colorful musical, and The Bicycle Thief (again).

PN-Filmcoop
Filmmakers horror contest till EXTENDED deadline Oct. 25. $5 fee per entry.

show date is Halloween Sunday Oct 31, 2004 7:30pm at The Flying Monkey Arts Center
local Huntsville and North Alabama people can drop off entries at Nonesuch to save on postage.

PN-TV

The Modern world Ten Great Writers. Just turned back in Joseph Conrad's focusing on The Secret Agent and am now watching the Dostoevsky one focusing on Notes from the Underground and Crime and Punishment.

speaking of nerdgasms.

CT-Biography-
Journal entries:

How can the Huntsville Times, a newspaper, be "energized" and "fast-paced"?

J-Political Science

Good personal passionate post from someone else who's decided to vote for Kerry.

Because this stupid stuff needs to stop


Pay attention to the Black Media if you want to know how things are reallly going down.


NC-Comics

Very helpful website on diy-minicomics


PN-Film

Well, damn. Russ Meyer's dead. Best title for a film ever-Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!


Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was fun. Go into it thinking it's a cgi animated movie with live action placed in it instead of a live action movie with too much cgi and it's extremely enjoyable. Fun serial type adventure with great homage’s to the classic pulp heroes of the 30s and 50s. The stupid thing they have in front of the previews, the 20, got on my nerves big time. Mainly because they were advertising television shows. I can see television commercials for shows at home. On the other hand, I loved the extended HP photography commercial. I like the music to it, and the way they use those white border frames that switch into pictures that are passed from person to person.

PN-TV

Funny parody of The Prisoner trying to get out of Mayberry

PR-PS-Am EH Lit


I finished reading the classic sf novel Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank the other day. Good, good fiction.

The librarian Alice, who turns out to be one of the heroes of the community, on what leads to the destruction: "Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness."
-Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon.

and this from a former career Admiral after the disaster.
p.23
"There are odd similarities between the end of the Pax Romana and the end of Pax Americana which inherited Pax Britannica. For instance, the prices paid for high office. When it became common to spend a million dollars to elect senators from moderately populous state, I think that should have been a warning to us. For instance, free pap for the masses. Bread and circuses. Roman spectacles and our spectaculars. Largesse from the conquering proconsuls and television giveaways from the successful lipstick king. To understand the present you must know the past, yet it is only part of the answer and I will never discover it all. I have no the years."
-Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon.
p. 232

Written in 1958 and more true now than ever before.

QA-Computers

A QuickTime movie of blog history

GT-Manners and customs

Just go here and waste a day.

tricks of the trade swiped from officialgaiman

Heh.Sexual frustration has driven a mild-mannered chimpanzee to take up smoking and spitting
J-Political Science

I really, really like Benny Boom's "Everybody" video for the MoveOn PAC

Robocop Now in Beta

Stupid, stupid laws.

Iran Contra II ?
R-Medical

Whoa. Bone replacement. From your own bones.

GT-Manners & Customs
Humor

Cool hat.

Bwahaha! Too bad there's a greater evil in office right now.

HB-Business

The Business Plan archive. Learn form past mistakes.

J-Political Science

No? Really? Golly.

Why couldn't they see all this as it was happening?
The 10 Ways Bush Screwed New York

What we should never return to.

NC-Comics

These are pretty cool. Howtoons

Slowpoke demonstrates a lot of what my little comic script was about.

Where are you on the geek heirarchy?

M-Music

Hot damn. JibJab won! This Song Belongs to You and Me
Bass babes. Not pornographic, though a little nip barely visible in one pic.

NC-Comics

Geek Women -- Your Little Standards-Compliant Fantasy by Wednesday White

PN-TV

Farscape miniseries trailer online
PN-Film

THX Redux

Top 10 Science fiction films of all time as voted for by real scientists.

QA-Computer Science

open source software as a financial model explained. Kinda.

T-Tech

I'm thinking I might be buying one of these

Wireless Grids

Bananas could power Aussie homes

TR-Photography

On Camera Policies in Privately Owned Public Spaces

(I for one, will never spend money at a Starbucks ever again. Even the ones in bookstores.)

J-Political Science

Huntsville, Alabama people. Don't forget to vote for mayor today. It's one of the few civil liberties we have left. I was the first one at my polling place. The final decision isn't up to the volunteers at the polling places of course, but they all knew a gentleman who died two days ago from a serious illness. Whose absentee ballot came in today. So-does a dead man's vote count? How would the final counters know the absentee ballot voter had dies? Do they count those anyway?

K-Law

Good satire on all the critics of free culture

N-Art

This web site is about making new creative works out of old ones, whether it be fine art or pop culture. If you'd like, read our original manifesto.

NC-Comics

This is what I did instead of sleeping last night. a 12 page comic script about Huntsville and my relationship to it. No drawings yet, but there will be. There were 5 pages of thumbnails that got me started, by gum.

P- Lit

"Poetry Fetter'd, Fetters the Human Race! Nations are Destroy'd, or Flourish, in proportion as Their PoetryPainting and Music, are Destroyed or Flourish! The Primeval State of Main, was Wisdom, Art ,and Science."

-excerpt from "To the Public" in "Jerusalem" by William Blake

PN-Film

Open Source cinema

Open Media (the name is still under discussion) will let you upload and download video, audio, playlists, and other works of personal media and share them with a global audience. A development team is currently working on building this site.

If you'd like to get involved, contact us here.

freecinema

QA-Computer Science

The West End Grill www.westendgrill.com on Old Madison Pike has free wi-fi hotspot.

Atlanta Bread Company has a free wi-fi hotspot.

This is useful. PurpleSlurple is a transcoding service that reformats Web pages on-the-fly to create granular addressability in document elements on EXISTING Web pages.

GT-Manners and Customs
Humor

best graffiti ever swiped from Aaron Williams

HE-Transportation

City of Huntsville Speed Limits

Signs, Signals, and Markings

J-Political Science

more on Chavez and Venezuela

Sinfest is great as usual

Hey, do we need to wear yellow stars and pink triangles next?

This is offensive

GOP congressman finally admits war was a mistake

NC-Animation

Loosely connected, becaus methinks someone's been watching too much Samurai Jack

NC-Comics

This was fun and informative comic-book style travelogue through Arabia

PM-Esperanto

Indymedia from Brazil in Esperanto. Hope to see more of these throughout the world.

Esperanto radio

QA-Computers

"Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet"
T-Tech

This is beyond my capabilities, but for those you so inclined, GPS open sourced toolkit

TR-Photography

Photos dedictaed to the public domain from Cambodia

Lots of stuff I wrote over the past few days, so look behind the cut

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J-Political Science

For those who loved the JibJab This Land is My Land Flash animation:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001765.php

I really liked this part in Dean's speech the other day:

It's not enough to vote, I want you to run for office," he told the crowd. "If you can't run for office, if you're a single mother, give three hours a week to someone else's campaign. Cough up five, 10, 25 dollars." He stopped short of former campaign manager Joe Trippi's call for John Kerry to abandon the public financing system and rely on a small-donor Internet base, but he did say "the best campaign finance reform is raising money from small donors. That's how we take this country back."

Keep your eyes on Florida again

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/opinion/27krug.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position

This is interesting. No time date stamp on an airport security camera?

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/hijackers_video.html

I really like this creative writing instructor's essay

http://www.oriononline.org/pages/om/03-1om/Duncan.html

NC-Comics

Comic book onomotopiea

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001234.html

Scientists swipe DC comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths idea. ;)

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2004/220704multiversetheory.htm
QB-Astronomy

NASA conspiracy theroris, get you foil hat on!
http://www.xenotechresearch.com/NASAHACK.htm

J
Political Science

very funny flash animation from the ACLU. Pizza delivery call gone wrong. Very wrong



Joseph Wilson straightens out egregious errors from the right


NC
Comics

Listening to Jack "King" Kirby from The Comics Journal Audio Archives, I wasn't surprised to hear that poor people voted Democrat and Rich people voted Republican in the 40s and 50s. I was surprised to hear how much he was scared by Communism, since he was younger and didn't know much about it, just that it wasn't American. But he also hated McCarthy because he wasn't genuine. The reason this stunned me was because if you're familiar with his work in the early days of Marvel comics and his "New Gods" work for DC comics, this guy was truly colorblind to prejudices of skin and politics. Star Wars is an almost direct rip-off of a lot of his work, especially from his New Gods work and the force aspect.

CT-Biography

I've been thinking about baggage.



NC

Animation

this is a pretty funny flash animation to Weire Al Yankovic's Angry White Boy Poka

http://www.weirdal.com/polka/angrywhiteboy.htm

cool websites:

Mike Young Productions
http://www.mikeyoungproductions.com

Curious Pictures
http://www.curiouspictures.com

CARTOON Inc.
http://www.akacartoon.com

Cartoon Network
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com

MishMash Media (Xeth Feinberg):
http://www.mishmashemedia.com

Bill Plympton Studio
http://www.plymptoons.com

Noodlesoup Productions
http://www.noodlesoup.net

Queer Duck (on Showtime Website):
http://www.sho.com/site/queerduck


Comics


How to adapt a superhero to film correctly. I'd ahave to agree with all of these ponts:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2001964401_spiderman27.html

picked up the last issue of 1602
good,
x-statix 21 & 22
the anarchist's comments when he meets the avemgers was botj funny and thougjtful. Captain America-come on Avengers, we're not going to be insulted by a hotheaded conspiracy nut.

Also liked dead girl's comments ''it ain't every day a girl's rejected by a haubted boat.''

I'd really like a copy of Action Philoso[hers!

http://www.eviltwincomics.com/comix.html

X-Statix #23 had a great fight between Captain america and the Anarchist. I really liek the way Mike alrred draws the Avengers.

Jeffrey Catherine Jones share best advice she ever got at Sequential Tart

"JCJ: No piece of art is ever a failure, because you never come away with less than you started with."

And i liked this list

http://www.sequentialtart.com/art_0704_2.shtml

http://www.sequentialtart.com/jcjones.shtml


Megatokyo was pretty funny today

http://www.megatokyo.com/strips/0579.gif

Holy cow this is great! I can look over the comics I might want to buy or not before I buy them!

http://www.milehighcomics.com/firstlook/marvel/

J-Political Science

Hunter S. Thompson on the Bushies

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/06/far04020.html

Good interview with David Brock, former Right winger here

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/06/int04029.html

on media conglomeration

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0615-14.htm

This should be mainstream headline news. But it isn't

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5431023

Good cartoon on language spinning here:

http://www.mikhaela.net/cgi-bin/showpic.cgi?picdir=toons&picname=memo.gif


NC-Comics

A very good analysis of the Garfield phenomenon (similar to Edison in that others do the actual work)

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102299

PN

Television

Why idealistic hope can be a good thing. Star Trek.

http://blogs.salon.com/0003522/2004/06/13.html

BS-Bible

This is weird, but not a bad idea for their message.

Pete the Porno Puppet

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4874417/

GV-Recreation

Bicycling


Today a racing bicyclist really pissed me off. I don't know what made today different, but there were a lot more bicyclists out today. On my regular bike commute to work, 2 bike racers passed me, one said "Howdy". That was fine, and they went on faster (they're on road bikes and after speed, I'm on a mountain bike adapted for the road loaded down with gear and other stuff for comfort). Then at the traffic light at Jordan and Holmes, I was stopped behind the white line, and a little behind the car (started doing this when people started turning into me instead of the road), when two bike racers came up . The first one paused then started biking during the red light, halfway through the lanes on Jordan before it switched to green. Grr. This kind of behavior from other cyclist is what makes it so damned hard to get respect and consideration as a bicycling commuter in this town. I'm hoping this is just a rare case and not widespread, but it makes it more difficult on people like me who commute every day, 18 degrees or 100.


Wish more towns had these bike garages. If they can blow so much on car parking garages, why not these?

http://www.fujitec.co.jp/english/product/parking/2ring/c1.htm


J-Political Science

Florida again. At least one person had the sense not to go through with the debacle.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-felection08jun08,0,2424064.story?coll=sfla-news-florida

911 truth

http://www.911truth.org/index.php?topic=press

Ray gun's real legacy

http://www.bartcop.com/reagans-records.htm

Anti-bush protests in Italy

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/06/con04255.html

Scientific American nails Bush supporters

http://sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=0001E02A-A14A-1084-983483414B7F0000


M-Music

Ray Charles died today. I loved that man's voice and his work. Where all the media tributes should be going this week instead.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/10/obit.ray.charles.ap/

Random music. The utility Project.

http://crossings.tcd.ie/gallery/Dean/Utility_Project/

NC

Animation

This is creepy looking. Homer from the Simpson's

http://www.robertoparada.com/gallery1/homer.html

Comics

Good forum on writing comics.

http://www.scrypticstudios.com/

P-Lit

Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger story in Mp3s. This story is so relevant today.

http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/9028


Great collection of free public domain books. I just finished Doc Savage and The Brand of the Werewolf. Pulpy fun where every character either "thumps" or "ejaculates" what they're saying.

http://www.blackmask.com/page.php

Help out Project Gutenberg here:

http://www.distributedproofreaders.net/c/default.php

More modern free books.

http://www.baen.com/library/

PN-film

They're making a Fat Albert movie. Live action. With Keenan Thompson. Could be very good, or very bad. Good casting choice though.

http://www.beinamovie.com/

QA-Computer Science

Best reference I've found for learning about databases when you know very little about them:

http://www.geekgirls.com/menu_databases.htm

Z-Library

This is sweet. Open access journals, as in you can read them online. For free.

http://www.doaj.org/