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Come on guys, why does EVERY new action cartoon need to be anime. I’d rather claw out my eyes than watch another anime cartoon that butchers the original series in question, making every badass character look like a seven year old with too much mousse. And Halo? Bungie, how could you let an amazing series like this be tarnished? This needs to be some darker animation, something more Frank Miller-esque, or like the Spawn series of old.

Whatever, I’m jaded. All I know is I’m not watching this.

This is insane. Its like something out of a movie. They apparently consider the Pitt student union an unlawful assembly now. Most of these students aren’t even protesting, they just happen to be out on THEIR OWN SCHOOL’S CAMPUS.

Wow. These are the things that renew my faith in people.

Point Park University students extend a peaceful start to the G-20 Summit with this crazy awesome flash mob dance. My favorite part is how they all seem to come together (and, at the end, break apart) randomly, as if they never knew each other. Just random people agreeing that peace rocks.

UPDATE

Apparently they started this flash mob in three different places in downtown at the exact same time, 1pm, on Monday, Sept. 21: Oxford Center, PPG Place, and USX Plaza. Point Park has a good video on YouTube below:

This is definitely worth it. Just jump on Joe’s mailing list and get a free EP. If you don’t know who Joe Pug is, drop a knowledge bomb on yourself here.

Start the reactor. Free Mars…

Yes, I finally got my Tyler Stout Posters in the mail this week. This guy’s work is amazing. It has a vector look to it, but also takes me back to contour line drawings in art school. Also, his color choices are how you say, choice. Check out his artwork here.

The left poster is Total Recall, and the right is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. These two movies are up there on my list of glorious glitter from the 80s and early 90s, in my opinion the Renaissance of cheesy movies. Both of these guys are limited edition, hand numbered Alamo prints. Really excited to finally get a couple of these, as these guys put together some amazing work.

Imagine it. All you want after a hard day in the Burgh is an ice cold brew. You stop by your local Sheetz, the veritable Mecca of gas station enjoyment. As you walk in, there it is before you, gleaming like a beacon of hope. The Beer Cave.

Due to Pennsylvania’s ridiculous beer laws, however, this beautiful fantasy is currently just that. Sheetz has been looking into ways to cure this malady, and they need our help. They’ve put together a sweet little form for you to fill out, generating an email that will be sent to your local government rep, requesting that action be taken. Check it out here.

Taken from the site:

They’re outdated, archaic, unfair… and just plain silly.

Pennsylvania’s liquor laws have been on the books since the 1930’s – the Prohibition era. Does anyone really think that these 70 and 80 year old laws still make sense?

UPDATE

I’ve added the Sheetz page to Digg here.

_Rob

Thank you Lauren, for showing me that the internet is for the following amazing things:

1. A life size whale, on the internet!

2. if (in_array("girl_problems", $son)) { 
   $feel_bad = true;
    } 
   $jay_z = array("problems" => 99, "bitches" => 0);

I will now commence with moving all of my shit into your head.

Well, there is both a good and bad part to this story. Let’s start with the good:

My buddy Justin came to me a couple months back, and told me that he was starting an ultimate frisbee team in my home town of Ligonier. He asked if i would put a logo together for the team, in exchange for a jersey. I happily obliged, and proceeded to put together the logo you see below, based on the civil war fort located in Ligonier.

Now, for the bad. Below, you can see the final jersey. Not too shabby right? Well, apparently the printer saw fit to toy with my final eps file, completely jacking up the kerning on the work Fortress. Wherever you are captain dumbass, thanks for that novel idea.

Outside of that, the final jerseys are pretty cool. Some sweat control fabric that’s dang comfy, and you can’t go wrong with Steelers colors

My Reverse Jams, limited edition designed my the students at CMU came today.

w00t!

Its not often that you get the chance to do something that you love, and help out a friend at the same time. Luckily, art lends itself well to both criteria.

I attended my buddy Brett’s wedding recently, and was tasked with drawing caricatures of everyone. He’s an awesome dude, and got hitched to a really cool girl named Minda (hey guys!), so there’s no way I would have said no.

Its a funny thing about caricatures. I’ve been doing them for ten years now, and they always hit me the same way: Just a few hours before I draw, I dread the hell out of it. Not because I get nervous or anything (trust me, 10 years of people in your grill while you draw cures you of that), but for some kind of crazy fear of fun new shit. Then I go and start drawing, and immediately I’m in the zone and having an awesome time. I get to hear all the awesome rhetoric of the people around me, and afterward I’m genuinely happy. And tired. Its kind of like going on a date, if that makes sense.

Anyway, the wedding rocked. The pic above of me drawing was done by a fellow AiP grad named Amanda Wilson, who generously let me use her photo for this post. Go check her work out. Now.

And that’s my spew of words for today. Congrats Brett and Minda!

_Rob