Wheels within Wheels

If you have a Mac with iSight, you may find this movie trailer interesting.

Via Make blog.

Kiwi is a student animation project that’s been done quite well.

Of course, it appears that all of his clutter is intentional.

Via growabrain.

Derivative, but enjoyable.

Here’s some concise advice on resume cover letters. Would the corresponding salary negotiation advice come from “Treasure of the Sierra Madre?”

Via INDCJournal.

with some tricky reading.

My daughter admitted to me that she has eight versions of the Numa Numa song in iTunes. I’ll bet she doesn’t have this one.

MileHiCon 38 was this past weekend. I spent too much at the art show, but I got a few very nice pieces. They’re by an artist named David Fisher. I was unable to find him in a web search, although I found a few other artists by that name.

I got three originals of his (not prints). Two I got on bids, one by purchase. The way the art show works is this: each piece has a bid sheet attached, marked with a minimum bid price and a quick sale price (or NFS, not for sale, if the artist wants to keep it). One or two bids by the close of the show, and the high bidder gets it. Three bids, and it goes to voice auction. If the first bidder goes for the quick sale price, no other bids are accepted.

As I said, I bought one at the quick sale price. I did it Friday evening about half an hour after the art show opened – I didn’t want to chance being outbid for it. It’s a marvelous pen-and-ink drawing called The Syndicate. There’s a city skyline in the background. In the foreground, there’s the boss in the center, being clung to by two slinky beauties. There’s a tall goon in wifebeater t-shirt, hat, and trenchcoat, a fat cook, someone with an enormous grin and a striped shirt, and the whole grouping flanked on each end by a gunman with flowing trenchcoat and fedora. Just absolutely marvelous.

Another one, Splinter in the Wind, is effectively a multi-panel comic of a vaguely-human ninja thing leaping from a cliff to attack a dragon. I outbid someone for that one.

For the third, Shodoku and Shodoka, I was the only bidder. It shows two of the vaguely-human ninja things, who appear to be searching for something from a high vantage point with purplish evening light behind them. When my daughter saw that one, she said that if she’d made it to the convention in time, she’d have tried to outbid me for it.

I guess I’ll have to contact the convention art show staff (luckily, I know them) to track Mr. Fisher down – I’d like the option of acquiring more of his work in future.

Last Monday (the 23rd), I replaced my desktop with an iMac – it had locked up about four times in the preceding week. I invited my daughter along on the trip to pick the iMac up, because I figured that she’d enjoy the trip. She did, partly because I indulged her request to look for the boxed set of season one of the new Dr. Who series. Apparently, she has a crush on the Doctor.

Well, Tower Records by Cherry Creek Mall is going out of business, so she got it at a discount, and was so excited that she was “blushing so hard it hurts.” (She’ll be embarrassed that I’ve quoted her on this, but it’s part of the job requirements for parents.)

A few days later, she asked, “Did I tell you the universe hates me?”

I got the explanation from her, and you have to know some of the backstory of Dr. Who to understand. Basically, the Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. One of his capabilities is to regenerate into a new body and new personality when near death (conveniently allowing replacement of the lead actor). She had done a marathon session to view the entire boxed set, and, unfortunately, the Doctor on whom she is crushing is not the one featured in season one; he appears at the end of the last episode and has exactly one line of dialog. Season two is not yet available on DVD.

Ah, well. Points to anyone who can identify where the post title comes from (you’re disqualified, Paul).