Hydra

cyclops

stumptown underground Slumber

the rain in Spain...

piece published in stumptown underground #3

l.jpg

l.jpg, originally uploaded by milesopie.

game deals

picked up Scribblenaughts today with a bonus $15 Gift card which i spent on 2 two copies of Disgaea (PS2) [buy one $20 or less game, get one 1/2 off and it was priced at $10] Toys R Us

so, 3 games for $30.

top shelf sale

To celebrate the debut of THE SURROGATES on iTunes, as well as the theatrical release of the SURROGATES on September 25th -- from now thru Friday September 25th (the opening day of the film!) -- Top Shelf is having a giant $3 graphic novel web sale. Below you'll find over 100 graphic novels and comics on sale -- with 55+ titles marked down to just $3 (!) and 45 other titles slashed! All we ask is that you hit a $30 minimum on sale and/or non-sale items (before shipping). It's a great opportunity to load up on all those graphic novels you've wanted to try, but just never got around to picking up. Get 'em while supplies last, and be sure to visit iTunes as well to download The Surrogates for your iPhone!
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/specialdeals

[PD] Jeth and Benn

local cartoonist

Jacob Mercy
Pete Soloway
Steve Fuson
Craig Thompson
Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg
Emily Riley
Daria
John Isaacson
James Grimlee
Josh Fitz

trek in the park

http://gowoodlawn.com/2009/05/07/star-trek-in-the-park/

July 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 5 pm

'The Seven (or So) Habits of Highly Profitable Webcomics'

'The Seven (or So) Habits of Highly Profitable Webcomics' from last years Stumptown Comics Fest panel by Mike Russell

snide monkeys

add a caption

Monkeymen 2

added more detail

comics tools

blog about ink and tools for ink
http://comictool.blogspot.com/

[PD] tooth fairies

or "visited the meth house again?"

Drink and Draw Portland (x5)

http://www.portlanddrinkndraw.com/ Saturday, middle of the month
Cosmic Monkey Last Sunday 7-9 PM
http://www.drinkdraw.com/ every thursday, various locations
IPRC (comics and coffee) second Sunday 5-8PM
http://draw.artpdx.com/ Goodfoot every Sunday

[PD] leave the lights on

coloring by Miles

weird dream

Doom and Doll

monkeymen

stumptown comic fest 2009

Emerald City Con

Emerald city was pretty cool. There were tons of artist and almost no lines. I got tons of people to add to my sketch book including Xaime Hernandez. I only had to wait behind Nate Powell to talk to Xaime.

pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/milesopie/

teen robot

drawn at cosmic monkey drink and draw.
cover for collaborative mini-comic.
1/4 page ink brush on paper

lego skeleton

portland movie list

starting the list again.

Paranoid Park Before "Milk," Gus Van Sant set out upon another of his small meditations on youth and death and came away with this handsome, attentive and incidentally profound film. The technique is unsurpassed, the acting is sure, and Portland looks absolutely gorgeous.

Wendy and Lucy Another made-in-Portland story about a young person on the edge. But writer Jon Raymond and director Kelly Reichardt have something small and incidental in mind. Michelle Williams' amazing performance strikes deep emotional chords with offhanded poignancy and sureness.

-http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2008/12/the_oregonians_best_films_of_2.html

Persona 3

starting playing Persona 3 since Persona 4 is getting such high reviews. don't know that the theme of Persona 4 is, but a high school simulator is not my idea of a good time. Half of the game involves maintaining social relationships in school in order to strengthen the social links of the different Tarot suits corresponding to each character. e.g. participate in the student council more and the Emperor suit increases giving you more experience when creating "Persona" of that suit. + having played Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne already, i found that the combat system (mythology + characters) was basically the same.
I'm about 8 hours into the game (70 hours of game play?) and i still don't know why the characters seemingly shoot themselves in the head to call the Personas.

Amelia's new site

Amelia is participating in the Portland Open Studios tour this year both this weekend and the next.

Studios will be open between 10 AM – 5PM.

Otherwise, the guides are available at New Seasons if you want to do the whole tour.

Some of her work on her new web site
www.ameliaopie.com

talking to liz baillie

[PD] F a duck

what i listen to

so mostly i listen to the ign games podcast. i tend to listen to all of them even though i don't have all the platforms. Secondly, I'll listen to indie spinner rack for comics related stuff. I used to listen to all around comics, comic geek speak, fanboy radio, wait wait don't tell me and this week in science. Every once in a while, i still listen to music like my new favorite song.

Add
i forgot to mention the friday podcast of Cort and Fatboy. Mike Russel (movie reviews) , Aaron Duran (comics news) and Dave Walker (b movies) are regular guests + there's a few interviews with Katie Sackhoff. How geek focused is the show? Who else on the air has skits about voltron and talks about how Dave Walker has been named as a skrull by Bendis?

8x8

The following is a two color 8x8 pixel image.
each pixel can be represented as a binary number thus:

10000000
01000000
00100000
00010000
00001000
00000100
00000010
00000001

or as a single number like this:
10000000 01000000 00100000 00010000 00001000 00000100 00000010 00000001

to iterate through all the combinations would simple require to increment the binary number.
That's 64 positions so the number of combinations is 2^64=1.844674407371e+19.

to animate at 60 frames per second = 3.074457345618e+17 sec = 5,124,095,576,030,430 min = 85,401,592,933,840.5 hours= 3,558,399,705,576.68 days = 9,749,042,775.64 years

to display all combinations in one image = 2^32 x 2^32
4,294,967,296 pixels x 4,294,967,296 pixels
@ 72DPI = 59,652,323.55 inches = 4,971,026.96 ft = 941.48 miles

multiplayer DS drawing game

apparently, this DS party drawing game, LOL will only be available to purchase over the internet. (5/30). One person hosts the game, thinks of a drawing challenge, and gives everyone so much time to come up with an answer, then everyone votes. It's multiplayer only.

stumptown 2008

I was pretty excited to go this year. It was only half a year since the last one since APE had moved the fall, Stumptown moved to the spring and it seemed like allot of the talent that would have been at APE this time of year was instead going to be here. I started with Dave Roman's panel on Saturday, which was basically self promotion. he talked about how he got into comics from cartoon cross promotion (G.I. Joe vs Transformers). I met Mike there and walked around. The show was bigger than ever and so less intimate. i waited a while for Julia Wertz to get back to her table as she was off at some panel. When i left, i realized that i hadn't seen Derek Kirk Kim or Gene Yang.
Went to the art battle that night. Mike Russel didn't host, not as much fun. The teams were web comics vs print. The teams included the usual cadre from pants press on one side and Carla Speed McNeil and I'm not sure who else on the print side. It seems like allot of people left at one point for some reason.
i wasn't going to go Sunday, but i woke up with a slight headache and generally felt useless, so i look at the schedule and decided to go to the webcomicsworkshop panel which was pretty informative. The next panel was Mike Russel talking about making money from web comics. Very entertaining . He recommend a book called How to Make Webcomics. The most interesting point was that web comics, unlike print comics, give the content away for free and are more like tv. They build a loyal following and make money from the auxiliary stuff, ad placement, books, t-shirts etc. And really, more to the point, are more like a band. You listen for free on the radio and they make money going on tour (appearing at conventions). I traded t-shirts with Liz Baille and Graham Annable and found someone in town that will take my shirts on consignment.

some stuff i bought:
Blind Fart Ken Dahl
Delayed Replays Liz Prince
Lowbright #0 Derek Kirk Kim
Layover Liz Baillie
Teen Boat Dave Roman
Meanwhile and Knock! Knock! Jason Shiga
the Fart Party Julia Wertz
Hey 4-eyes #1
Smile Raina Telgemeier
Poison the Cure
Pizza Wizard
Finder:King of the Cats Carla Speed McNeil
+ various other minis.

and..
Bryan Lee O'Malley and Hope Larson are going to be at Cosmic Monkey May 8th (6-8 PM)

[PD] to war

fantasy

[PD] smell

[PD] Broken

[PD] eh?

[PD] Comic life

[PD] Zombie Worms

Amelia's show

Amelia has an art showing at the coffee shop down the street from us this month, Haven Coffee.
(no opening)

Psychonauts

Psychonauts is free to play via game tap! and they have mac games as well.

[PD] Alien

Indie spinner rack approved

http://www.carlistheawesome.com/
http://www.fartparty.org/

[PD] See Sue

{PD} Demon Heart

[PD] flesh

Geekfest 2007

robot sketches

brush pen

first dry point

Burgess Shale print

dry point on plexiglass

[PD] rabbit

Kingdom of Loathing SDCC 2007 booth

Kingdom of Loathing SDCC 2007 booth, originally uploaded by milesopie.

photos from con

Comic-Con Smallville Bag Dress

Comic-Con Smallville Bag Dress, originally uploaded by LRG410.

i'll have to see if i can find a better picture.

SDCC 2007

I'm back from the comic con. Saw John Favaru walking around but didn't take his picture because he was with his kids. Also saw Brian Posen, Elvira, Jane Weiden, Lou Fergino. Got Ray Harryhausen's autograph. Made an exquisite corpse book by taking a band saw to a sketchbook. Got lots of drawings for it but need more. i'll take it to stumptown. should have gotten more indy artist, they have a sense of humor and get it right away. Shaenon Garrity, Jill Thompson, Mark Wheatly, John Allison, Ben Edlund, Tim Sale, Matt Wagner, Debbie Huey, Phil Foglio and a few more artist. I have to say that Garrity's drawing is my favorite. It's made me an instant fan. We only went for 2 of the 4 days and it wasn't enough to see everything. Kingdom of Loathing had a booth, but they had closed up before i could get anything. It turns out that Kinkos operates a shipping center from the lobby of the convention. Had i known that before, i would have bought allot more stuff. I did buy one page of Simon Bisley art from FAKK 2 and some indy comics. I wish i would have found a t-shirt to buy. I went to one panel, because to me, it's part of the con experience. I picked on one kid's comics but i'm afraid it wasn't that interesting. about 1/3 of the hour was taken up by people just saying what the first comics they read were. i did get some tips on some titles to check out. i'll have to see how they pan out. WB was hading out huge Smallville bags. I heard that someone had made one into a dress. I wish i had seen it. i'll have to see if i can find a picture.
Thanks to Ben for arranging all of this, i probably wouldn't have gone otherwise.
excuse all the spelling mistakes. i know allot of the names are wrong.

wrong trousers

Euros at Guardian

When: Sunday, July 1, 2007, 12:30 PM 20070701T193000Z

Where:

Guardian Games
315 SE 3rd Avenue
Portland , OR 97214

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Laura Viers

Laura Viers was on Studio 360 this week.
She's playing in town next month.
June 9 - Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR

tv on demand

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/

thanks to brian

King Dork

i read King Dork, or rather i listened to the audio book. (Library) I liked the book but was a little disappointed by the ending since it seemed to come out of nowhere, but i might have been a little distracted as i listened to it at work. If i was actually reading it, i might have gone back over certain passages. The book is about a high school sophomore with a band and his battle with the "normals" and the cult of Catcher in the Rye. Its kinda like if John Hughes made the movie version of Freaks and Geeks except with the protagonist having some success. I could see the book being a MTV production, i totally seems like something they would make + it was written by the lead singer of the Mr T experience so there's a built in music hook.

new games

bought Treasures & Traps, Let's Kill! (atlas games) and Munchkin Cthulhu.
they all looked good, so i splurged.

dorkbotpdx

dorkbotpdx - about
people doing strange things with electricity (in portland)

the press club

Had lunch at the Press Club Sunday (Clinton and 26th, next doot to Green Noise Records). They have good crepes and an excellent selection of magazines to browse through you can also buy. I like the artist curently showing there, Ilya Zlotnikov.

TOP SHELF'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY MASSIVE $3 SALE!

Hey Comics Fans,

To celebrate Top Shelf's 10th Anniversary in publishing, and also to announce (and prepare for) our 2007-2008 publishing line, for the next ten days -- thru Wednesday, April 18th -- Top Shelf is having its biggest web sale ever. Below you'll find over 125 graphic novels and comics on sale, with fifty titles marked down to just $3 (!), twenty-five titles marked down to just $1 (!), and a slew of other key titles just slashed (including Lost Girls, From Hell, Blankets, and more)! All we ask is that you hit a $30 minimum on sale and/or non-sale items (before shipping). It's a great opportunity to load up on all those graphic novels you've wanted to try, but just never got around to picking up. Get 'em while supplies last!

Mr. Fancy Pants

Play Fancy Pants Adventure

because ben likes it

something i need

Friend's Video

also available in spanish!

Sam and Max

sam and max are back with new games. x-play rated them 4/5 stars. i might have to actually use my parallels software now. + there are new on-line comics. wish i had the old comics.

gaming update

won at auction:
$8 awful green things from outer space
$5 chez geek 1&3
$4 castle
$3 justice league heroes
$3 chez dork
4.5 Burn in Hell

Sold rail baron for $50 for which i bought:
trans america and lost cities.

comic boxes

hm, something cheaper than my idea.

collection.powweb.com

animal crossing for wii ?!

Nintendo Lists Major Wii Games for 2007
* Dairantou Smash Brothers X (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) * Disaster: Day of Crisis * Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race (DK Bongo Blast) * Doubutsu no Mori [Animal Crossing] * Forever Blue * Hoshi no Kirby (Kirby Adventure) * Mario Party 8 * Mario Strikers Charged * Metroid Prime 3: Corruption * Project H.A.M.M.E.R. * Super Mario Galaxy * Totsugeki Famicom Wars (Battalion Wars II) * Wii Health Pack * Wii Music
http://wii.ign.com/articles/766/766803p1.html

i've been shopping on line for a e-reader for animal crossing and was happy to see that nintendo still has series 1 and 4 e-reader packs. but maybe i should hold off if the game is coming to the wii.

oh, and it looks like i'm going to have to send my wii in. the optical drive is having problems and since i already downloaded a VC game (mario cart), they can't just exchange it for another unit.

work drawings

game auction

this sunday is rainy day games' yearly game auction.

correction: the auction is half yearly.

update: sold my copy of Rail Baron for $50.

Review: My super ex-girlfriend

terrible, terrible movie. i'm writing this to warn you to not waste your time on this movie, even if you get the chance to see it for free. you know how some trailers give away the best part of a movie? this one gives away the only joke in the movie. i rented it figuring it would be dumb and funny. it was just dumb. i can't see how Ivan Reitman didn't get his name removed from this movie.

amimal crossing (GC)

so i had played animal crossings years ago as a rental and recently decided to buy it since it was on sale and by buying it, you get a memory card with a NES game included. animal crossing is like the sims, with cute animals. you deliver packages, pay off your house, collect fossils, insects and fish and try to decorate your house with the proper feng shui principals. furthermore, it has a real time calendar aspect to the game. some animals only appear during certian months and holidays are celebrated in the game. i started my new town on the new card and then tried to visit my old town. so my old town is on a third party card i bought and it's been kinda flaky. it seems to only work on my gamecube and i can read it only on the second slot on the wii. unfortunately, animal crossing, like many games will only read the first slot and furthermore, it won't allow me to copy the data to a new card. well, when i tried to travel to my old town, the wii would no longer read the the card. i tried reinserting the card a few times, wiggling this way and that. it read it enough to start a trip and then failed. i reset the machine and tried again. this time it reported that the old town data was corrupt and surprise, as a result i lost all the items i had "on me" including the letter with the NES game and money.
I'm never buying third party hardware again.

PDX gaming

The Portland Boardgames Meetup Group

MST3K + Star Wars episode 1

Seems the people from MST3K are releasing commentary mp3s that you can play along with newer movies.

monsters

for those of you that might have missed the post on boingboing, the grasshut in portland has a show featuring art from the up coming fanagraphics book Beasts.

GRASSHUT 811 East Burnside, Portland OR 97214 / Thursday-Sunday 12-7pm / 503-445-9924

video games

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/
buy, buy, buy

BSG

find -> thepiratebay
download -> azureus
view -> VLC
view? -> WMV

new game

Went for my 3 month oil change and as always had lunch at Reo's Ribs and then stopped by Rainy Day Games. Bought a new game named Kings Blood. It says it's ages 6+ so i'll see if Miles will play.

Katee Sackhoff at KUFO

http://www.cortandfatboy.com/index.php?cat=Interviews

comics podcast links

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=108088514
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4gmjlaAHo

http://comics.ign.com/articles/678/678769p1.html

cheap TPBs

www.instocktrades.com

wii home

Bought Lego Star Wars II for Miles only to have the Game Cube come to a slow death on Christmas. Got a Wii to replace it at Target today. Only had to wait after one person to get it.

the score?

Bowling:
1. Me 112
2. Miles 86
3. Ben 68

ghost

about wikipedia

Even Wales has been caught airbrushing his Wikipedia entry—eighteen times in the past year. He is particularly sensitive about references to the porn traffic on his Web portal. "Adult content" or "glamour photography" are the terms that he prefers, though, as one user pointed out on the site, they are perhaps not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact

SHAREDROUTE.ORG

i don't know anything about this service, but it seems pretty cheap.

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