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Weasel, I think you ought to try your hand at the poltical cartoonist gig. I think you have the talent for it, as much as some of the others I’ve seen.

Thank you, Allen. I have thought of it. I spent my first few years as a freelance illustrator. I have two big flaws as a pencil for hire: I’m slow to create polished stuff, and I’m inconsistent (I’m proud of my best work; I don’t do my best work often enough).

One huge reasons this merchandise thing appeals to me, even though it’s down in the shallow end of the commercial art pool: I do whatever I want whenever I want, and people either buy it or they don’t. I’m not trying to realize the picture in somebody else’s head, you know?

Jason Seiler teaches a course online I’d love to take. It’s like ten video teaching sessions, plus homework assignments. You send in the assignments, and he does a video critique with paintovers.

You’re seeing a lot more of that in art, often with some very big names.

If only I could draw!

Damn, Weas, you’ve hit the big time! People are wearing your t-shirts to T.E.A. parties and everything!

http://bigdicksplace.com/2010/02/27/right-winged-extremist-bastard.aspx#Comment

ZOMG! I’m a part of history! Thank you for the link, Randy!

Jason Seiler teaches a course online I’d love to take.

I wonder how much. I didn’t look at everything, but didn’t see any prices.

Your work is getting worn by us and I would love to have more and more and more and more!! We are taking our Nobel Prize buttons to Stockholm and Sweden in July and we’ll be wearing them every where!!!!!! My son loves his Zombie Reagan shirt (loved that link) and the hub was sooooo pleased with his carbon footprint shirt! Hmm, I think I need a nice tits shirt. 🙂

Mrs C, you are helping to feed a poor immigrant weasel. (Bread. I pay for the bread in this house).

PnB, the full course is just under $1,000. You can also do a self-directed version for just under $500. I think that means you get to see all his videos, but you don’t get the personal critique.

There’s also a course by Mort Drucker (Mad Magazine) and the comic artist Alvin Lee. Among others.

ConceptArt.org is going down this road, too. Though they have some neat 1-hour videos for a more modest $10.

Anyone have Michael Foot in the Dead Pool? As far as dead Labour leaders go, he’s not the top of my list, but he’ll do in a pinch.

GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY IT IS FREEZING HERE.

I remember driving all the way to Pittsburgh to get a 8086
computer from the heathkit store.

My friends all wondered if I’d lost my mind.

I can remember loading programs from a cassette recorder. And making backups to same.

A fucking cassette tape recorder. And it was Flash Gordon-Jetson level awe-inspiring.

JW, do you remember that radio station that used to broadcast games over the air? You would record them on your cassette and play them on your Tandy, or whatever you had?

I don’t know if they have it in the UK, but there is an aerosol rubberizing spray, used to put rubber-grips on tools. Wrench handles, etc. Comes in a small paint can, sold in almost every ACE hardware. It works pretty well for ad-hoc insulation on small wires. Better than tape.

JWP – and wasn’t the sound that made fabulous? It just epitomised ‘The Space Ship’!

And a quick ‘rats!’ to Scubafreak ‘cos we didn’t get that here 🙁

Aerosol rubber. Say, that’s kind of…hot.

The crack scientists at the University of Utah are way ahead of you on the subject of spray wire insulation

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/vaginal-condom-puts-women-control-while-prevening-pregnancy-hiv

Scubafreak: NO, never heard of it, but that would have been Teh Awesome!

UB: I bet the sound would have been even more Teh Awesome!

I totally remember that tape recorder! Remember the blazing fast 50-baud modem?