Elvis in my basement

Painting of Girl with Hood

2012-05-17T18:15:00.000-07:00

This is another derivative piece. It is acrylic, watercolor and ink .. okay with some Photoshop added. I am just practicing here on technique. It is a variation from a painting by another artist.

Girl of Many Faces

2012-05-10T13:26:00.000-07:00

So, I have been working on faces lately. Especially noses .. This is watercolor, acrylic and a little ink .. okay and some Photoshop .. It is a composite from a number of different artists .. you know an eye here and a forehead there ..

Facebook Evolution

2012-05-06T11:01:00.000-07:00

This is how all my discussions about evolution and the Big Bang go on Facebook. I just can't imagine how in this day and age there are people who firmly believe the earth is six thousand years old and we are all created from dust.

Happy Cinco de Mayo

2012-05-05T13:29:00.000-07:00

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Strange Mood Dude Paiting

2012-05-04T11:27:00.000-07:00

I was in a strange mood last night, so I got out my acrylics and ink and painted this dude. I also added a bit of PS into the mix. (I am no good at noses, so I was inspired by another artist)

Power Rangers Guitar Tutorial

2012-05-01T09:48:00.000-07:00

Always wanted to play the Power Rangers on Guitar

'The Hobbit' 48FPS Footage Divides Audiences At CinemaCon

2012-04-25T16:31:00.001-07:00

Story - 'The Hobbit' 48FPS Footage Divides Audiences At CinemaCo"

Yea .. this has always been the problem with digital and film going way back. For sports and for cartoons .. there is nothing better than high resolution - high speed video, but at 24 FPS (normal film) the eye catches the slower frame rate and your subconscious fills in the detail. Making it much more dramatic and real. Some times you can't answer the question with technology.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Adventure Time on the Uke

2012-04-24T09:50:00.003-07:00

Finally someone has a good tutorial on playing Adventure Time on the ukelele. Jake and Finn would be proud.

Thanks Tommy at Off-the-Rails music.

Undelivered Delivery

2012-04-23T15:03:00.000-07:00

Undelivered Delivery - So I ordered a bed from Sam's Club. It was supposed to be delivered from 8am to noon. I called them at 2:00 pm. They told me they could not possibly make it to my house until maybe 8pm .. if not then it would have to wait until next week.

Kimberly Cole Mystery Dancer

2012-04-21T21:01:00.000-07:00

This dude (Keith Apicary aka - Nathan Barnatt) showed up at a Kimberly Cole dance audition and stole the show. I can't stop watching this guy ..

Iron Irony

2012-04-21T10:23:00.001-07:00

I woke up this morning and suddenly understood the iron.

Dreaming in Kubrick

2012-04-20T13:17:00.000-07:00

I found myself in The Shining the other night. I hate when I find myself in a Kubrick film.

Double Barrel .45 Pistol

2012-03-14T13:23:00.000-07:00

The AF2011-A1 Double Barrel Pistol is the first commercially available .45 semi-automatic pistol. It is made by Arsenal Fireams and comes in mirror finish Deep Blue or with a 3400 Vickers surface hardness White Ash Nitrite coating.

White shoot one bullet at a time when you can shoot two?

Return of the Unipiper

2012-03-11T13:18:00.000-07:00

This video contains almost everything I like in the world.

Unavoidable Anxiety

2012-03-09T09:12:00.001-08:00

Every day the same thing ..

Dream Wake

2012-03-07T20:56:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I dream I wake up from a dream. I am skinny - bone thin - and bald. My eyelids are heavy and I have trouble breathing. There are people around me - shadowy figures murmuring. And low, soft beeps and the sound of air escaping from an open valve. And then it's gone ..

Kmuzu Mustache

2012-03-07T10:31:00.000-08:00

Some of my loyal EiMB have asked what I looked like with a mustache .. so here it is ..

2012-03-07T00:00:00.000-08:00

Still have not finished Phantom Crapper Part II .. so enjoy this instead ..

Lunch Money

2012-03-05T16:18:00.000-08:00

The Phantom Crapper - Part One - ScribeSlice

2012-03-04T22:57:00.001-08:00

This is part one ..

The Phantom Crapper - Part One - ScribeSlice

This is a true Las Vegas story. In the summer of 1982, I was a lifeguard for the Riviera Hotel & Casino and a public pool called Cragen, which was next to Hyde Park Junior High School, near Valley View and Charleston. The Riviera gig was pretty awesome. I met rock stars like Steve Perry and Andy Gibb and made more money in tips in one summer than my mother made all year as an elementary school teacher. The public pool gig was not as much fun or glamorous. How do I put this? Large groups of children are loathsome, disgusting creatures that smell like rusted pennies.

At the city pool, Tuesday was Daycare Day. This is where convoys of short buses filled to the roof with screaming children pull up to the gate entrance and like a garbage truck dump them into the murky, chlorinated waters of the shallow end. The pool was writhing with twisting, squirming, thrashing bodies. It looked like throngs of eels mating on the National Geographic Channel.

You can read the whole story for free - just click here ---> The Phantom Crapper - Part One - ScribeSlice

Part II should be ready in a couple of days ...

God Question

2012-02-17T02:20:00.000-08:00

This comic kind of blows the CSS borders, but when you're talking about God, I think it's worth it. As I said before I'm an agnostic - which means I don't have any answers, but I have a lot of questions.

Typical French Wine

2012-02-15T05:37:00.000-08:00

I've been feeling like French wine lately.

Valentine Warning

2012-02-14T18:04:00.000-08:00

I shall give unto you a Valentine **Warning**. Be extremely careful of Lawn Gnomes - especially this time of year. I can hear y'all saying, "Garden Gnomes - dem cute little statues me Nan puts in da garden?"

YES! .. like many things we do in the modern world, we have no idea of their roots. And Garden Gnomes are the most dangerous and ancient of them all. Before the great Roman Emperor Constantine established the Catholic Church, Romans worshiped a terrible God named Priapus. He was the god of fertility. More to the point, he was the act of fertilization.

To the Romans, sex was all the same - humans, animals, plants .. even gods and Priapus was over it all baby .. yea .. So down and dirty were the Romans about this god, I could only find one picture suitable to post .. and that is from the waste up. I can hear you asking, "Well, that's all fine and good, but where do the lawn gnomes come in?" According to Brian Sewell, famed British art critic and historian .. lawn gnomes were originally little statues of Priapus, that pagans put in their garden to increase fertility.

At night the little god become very lascivious and would go around and start .. doing the "wild thang" with .. well .. everything .. remember the Romans did not see a difference .. Now I have to be careful here .. this is the dangerous part .. When a female was a certain age and a virgin, she was encouraged to go at night and see the gnome. The little creature, who was the embodiment of Priapus wore a special hat that was pointed at the top. Now I will go no further, but I think it might now become evident why lawn gnomes have red hats ..

So BEWARE!! It's all fine a well for our Nannas to have these creatures in their gardens .. but not all of us should partake in this ancient magic .. even if we do like a good crop of cucumbers ...

Happy Valentines Day

2012-02-14T11:22:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day .. My own little comic .. called Death (by chocolate) Star.

Giorgio Theory

2012-02-13T07:59:00.000-08:00

I'm not necessarily saying that aliens were behind this,

but aliens were behind this.

Giorgio A. Tsoukalo Bio