| More Cthulhu Crafting |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|10:31 pm] |
A follow-up to my previous posts. I realized that I need more than one little cthulhu so I made patterns for a shoggoth and a deep one, too.
Though I used google image search for the pics, I noticed afterwards by sheer coincidence both of these pictures came from this site. May have to add another pattern for the cute little cultists.
Anyways, I hope someone else gets good use of these. :-)
Cross stitch, embroidery, whatever, have fun.
For the shoggoth, the teeth need some work but this is a start. I didn't do the outline right but you get the idea, black instead of reddish.
Dagon (or however you spell it) The dude that nearly killed everyone in the party in innsmuth and who spawned my GM's favorite quote "I'm never going to Innsmuth again unless I'm someone else"
I left the outline off of this one since it looked like crap in the previous pattern.
edit I messed up the grid! one of the darker blocks is 6x5 - oops
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| Cthulhu crafting |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|06:12 pm] |
For those who like to do geeky embroidery, I couldn't find a cross stitch pattern to make a little cthulhu.
I made this and then thought perhaps others would like this.
I thought I'd share.
I didn't outline the whole thing on the pattern because it got too cluttery, you get the point though.
I used orange for details because I have bad eyes.
It stands for black. |
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| Haunted Contest |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|05:10 pm] |
Hi everyone,
I'm holding a contest to promote my book Haunted. I'm giving away signed copies and the grand prize is an original painting. You can check out the details at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) joshuasmeaton .
Thanks!
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| Page 6: Call and Answer |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|03:58 pm] |
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Call and Answer:
Prometheus plays around with his echo, but he'll soon learn to speak softly, and carry snow shoes.
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| AnimeUSA is this weekend. |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|09:26 pm] |
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Interrobang Studios (that's me and Kevin ;) will be in some of y'all's backyard at AnimeUSA in Crystal City, Virginia. ( You can find us here )
Is anyone else planning on going? I hope I get a chance to meet some of you! Please feel free to check out our webcomics, or just come on by the booth and hang out!
I know that Mr. Dirk Tiede of Paradigm Shift is going to be a guest at AnimeUSA. I got linked to that website through online comics communities, and it's one of the best supernatural dramas I've found to date. I'm super excited to meet him. :)
Other cool news: I got interviewed at Big Apple Comic Con by U Frag TV. Starting at minute 25, I'm on right after Lou Ferrigno. Damn, son! (I would have embedded it, but it auto-plays. Yuck.)
If I sound a little quavery and like I'm the daughter of the old MicroMachines guy it's cause they were doing the interview LIVE and I was told that I might get bumped at any moment for William Shatner. *nervous nerd-gasm* |
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| Calling all English nerds. |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|07:03 am] |
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Sup. Any other AP English tards out there besides me?
I have a question. In my English class, we have to choose a book to write an essay on. From that book, we have to select a particular character with internal conflict and basically write about the internal conflict. Easy, right? Wrong. My English teacher told me the book I had chosen had no "literary merit" and, unless I wanted to completely rewrite my essay, I had to prove the book's worth.
So my question is, how the hell do you prove a work has literary merit without directly coming out and saying it? If I did that in my essay, I'd probably get dinged for veering off topic.
P.S. I've noticed a fair amount of gamers in this comm. Any Fire Emblem fans? :)
EDIT: Ahh~ I'm sorry! The book I used was Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. However, I already threw my old essay out the window instead of revising it and decided to write my new one on Macbeth instead. Ha! Try arguing with Shakespeare, you crazy old man! |
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| Code Red gallery added to my Comicspace page |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|11:16 am] |
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If you head over to www.comicspace.com/pickle_press you can check out the new gallery for Code Red. It currently has the photo covers and six pages from issue 1. Artwork from issue 2 will be added soon. If nothing else, you can see the photo covers featuring the lovely April Hunter. They are alone worth the trip.
You can also see a lot of artwork there for many other Pickle Press projects and read the free censored edition of Ninja Nympho Roommate #1.
Thanks for looking. |
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| Stuff to share |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|11:10 pm] |
So, just a few odds and ends in this post;
I wanted to share a link and a picture of this;
And give a kudos to Deron Meranda for doing this project for his nieces. I think it's really cute.
Also, I wanted to share a link to these people just in case anyone else found them interesting. I know I was psyched to find a site offering support from and for women in technology.
Last but not least, I wanted to share a link to a dvd I watched about a week ago, during a meeting of my college's "Women in Technology" club. It's certainly changed how I see things, and is part of what inspired me to start searching for a community like this one. Glad it did!
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| Time Travelling |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|09:36 am] |
This is from script blog I keep for the comic book "Rapid City.
http://365comics.wordpress.com/
Spent yesterday re-working issue 2. I still have one important scene to force in there.
It is strange, though, how things come together. Like the teeth of a zipper. I had the elements all laid out, and now they are being pulled together. In a way I guess it is similar to how you move forward in time…as real people. I know what is going to happen tomorrow, but I don;t know exactly how it will happen, or what the results will be. And the further off things are, the more indistinct they remain.
Like, yeah, I know that Kinetic and Daryl are going to team up, and likely become friends, but I don’t know exactly how or when that will occur.
Also, i was recently reading a comic book where the main character is lost in time. I bet you can figure out which one I am talking about. He finds himself visiting his own life at different points. He is compelled to not alter the past, to not make any changes. And I thought, why? Why not? Because whatever world was the result, well, that would just be the world, just as valid as whatever other world came about in the previous iteration.
Essentially, why should one randomly assembled world be any more inherently precious than any random reassembling of that world? It is a hard question to actually answer, but I think that we all feel the same way. you want to keep the one you have….because that’s the one you have.
You already know that one, so to wipe it away would be tragic even if it were replaced by one that is just as good or even better.
That is how I feel about some of these scenes that I know I have to axe. They are good. They deserve to exist simply by virtue of having been born. It is the side of the time travel story that you seldom see…when the world is made right again, no one weeps for that universe of “alternates” who lived and breathed their time on that world that was never meant to be.
I think I will set up a section on my scripts page for these “alternates”. Not a graveyard for dead things, but a place where different things happened.
If you enjoy this, please take a look at the scripts.
http://365comics.wordpress.com/gallery/
And if you enjoy that, please follow my blog updates on twitter.
Thanks.
Josh |
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| book list. :) |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|09:27 pm] |
I'm conjuring up a list of books to read, just so I have some new stuff to choose from. I'm open to any suggestions; I'll read anything! Soo, please recommend. ;p
my current list is under the cut. :)
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| First Words |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|03:41 pm] |
NEW COMIC!
Check out Page 5: First Words
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|12:34 pm] |
There hasn't been a post in a while, so I thought I'd contribute.
I just recently started browsing the communities here, and a lot of them are gamer girls and girls only... kind of dumb if you ask me. I do understand why it could be an issue, but one community talked about how you can't really talk to a guy about a game. Uhh, okay?
So I wound up here. I'm a geek, a gamer geek to be specific. My intelligence is here, it's just been disappearing for the last five years due to my love of video games. It's not all I do, but it has taken me away from something called a book.
I figured I'd reach out to people and ask if anyone wanted to play an online game sometime? Diablo 1 or 2, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Titan Quest, Guild Wars, Sacred (just started playing this), etc. - I'm all for it. Or if someone feels like diving into discussions about great (and nostalgic) classic games, I'd enjoy that as well.
Yay geeks!
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| Intro post |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|09:22 am] |
Okay, I just have to say, I'm really excited to find this community. After getting really frustrated yesterday doing searches on 'web development' + 'women' or 'computers' + 'women' and finding nothing I created my own community [name removed because I'm not trying to promote it here]. I created it with the idea of making a space for women working in a field where women are a minority. But I gotta say...this is so much better than that. It's nice to find a place where the geek girls have already congregated.
A little about me; I've been enrolled in a Bachelor's degree for web development for the last 4 years (going part-time as a nontraditional student). I love the thrill of programming something and having it *work* and I suffer through the excruciating agony of trying to make it work too. It's all part of programming right? I started out studying web dev being intimidated by the programming side of things and thinking I would probably end up on the picking colors side instead. WRONG!! I should have known from my apathetic wardrobe that colors are not really my thing. And I guess I should have had more faith in my own brainpower because it's served me just fine so far.
As a web dev I struggle a bit with how I see myself because outside of school I am, in some ways, not very geeky. I love studying herbalism, Reiki (which is hands-on healing), and training my horse. When I was younger I played video games on a regular basis, but I've given that up now that most of my free time is spent at the stable.
What has always been true is that I am curious about just about everything, from how to make a car run on rubbing alcohol (yes a friend and I tried that once) to how to shape a cardboard boat to stay afloat as long as possible. So yeah, I guess that qualifies me as a geek huh?
Anyhow, this community looks like a lot of *fun*!!! |
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| Supergrrrl Adventure Comix #3 Call for Submissions! |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|10:19 pm] |
Writers, Artists, Bandits, and Revolutionaries--
Have you ever lived in a tourist town? Worked in the industry? Traveled in unfamiliar territory?
SuperGrrrl Adventure Comix is a multimedia second-gen riot grrrl-themed zine currently accepting submissions for its third (and first themed) issue! We are looking for previously unpublished original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, black-and-white art, comic strips, interviews, articles, and reviews; regarding and related to tourism; from writers and artists of all ages, genders, and backgrounds.
We cannot pay contributors at this time, but we will happily give you contributor copies, random comic books, and our undying gratitude.
Please see below for guidelines, and feel free to forward this around or post it anywhere you'd consider appropriate.
For consideration for this issue, submissions must be received no later than DECEMBER 5.
Sincerely,
Rachel Edidin and Jen Vaughn, Two-Fisted Editrices
SuperGrrrl Adventure Comix
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