Links!! Yay!!

Finally I have a link so you can get to my friend's Youtube channel, and the link to a song on an album I almost bought (I accidentally bought an empty case at the library booksale), an extremely weird but really cool video, and a link to a Zombies song!

Yes! I like creepy experimental films!
Yes! I love String Cheese Incident!
Yes! The Zombies are awesome!
Yes! I am intrigued by this video and wish to watch it!
No, my internet connection is crazy slow, and I can't really load videos.  Sorry....  I want to go back to the homepage, please.
No,  take me back to the homepage.  I don't like videos and don't find this post the least bit interesting.

The 3 C's: Clothing Catalog & Coneapulting

Today I have two pages from the Grace Catalog; unfortunately you can't order from it, but since no one reads this anyway I guess it doesn't really matter.  This is just to give you (my nonexistent reader) an idea of the sort of clothing I design (I didn't design anything in the catalog, but what I DO design is very similar.)

And,  today I'm posting the rules, regulations, etc of CONEAPULTING!!!! (An amazingly fun game my friend and I invented.)  We'd love it if you could try it out and spread the word about it. 


CONEAPULTING:

When coneapulting first came to be, it was an after soccer practice activity my best friend and I would play using the goal flags and cones over at Bandelier park.  The year was about 2007.  Since it was around 1914 when the traffic cone was first invented by Charles P. Rudabaker, we say that’s when coneapulting unofficially started: The birth of cones.     We’d have competitive games, and that was where we developed a lot of the variations you’ll see later.  But there were a couple of major problems.  The first one was we’d play it at each other’s houses, and both of us had dirt backyards, which then limited us a bit, but we learned to work with it.  Fun fact: today, official coneapulting games are played on dirt fields because of this!  I didn’t have flags, and my friend's mom did but she didn’t want us to mess them up.  Furthermore, the flags didn’t even work that well in terms of distance launching.  So we needed something sturdy yet flexible and strong, and I happened to have a large quantity of it growing in my backyard: Bamboo.  Our other problem still exists, but we’ve gotten a bit more careful over the years, so it’s not as prominent any more.  Our cones would break, and break, and break upon break.  And they still do!  But it’s nothing a little (or a LOT) of duct tape can’t fix…  Also, the great thing about using flags was that they didn’t hurt your hands, but bamboo did.  In the early days, we’d come out of a game with hands splintered, blistered, scratched, and rubbed raw.  Today, we’ve got official coneapulting gloves to prevent that, but then we made handle grips out of bubble wrap and duct tape, and patented them under the name of “G&E’s coneapulting comfort grips”.  Another problem was the scratches, the scrapes, and the constant fear one of us would get our eyes gouged out.  The poles were sharp, and we were only ten or eleven years old.  Luckily, neither of us is any the worse for wear because of this, and now we’ve got face masks, arms guards, and various pads to protect coneapulters.  

        The rules of coneapulting, for those who care:

The rules of coneapulting are very similar to those of soccer.  Traditionally played 5 v 5, our  league will be 4 v 4.  In 5 v 5, there is one keeper, who guards the goal with a baseball bat, 2 defensive players, who help guard the goal, and 2 offensive players, who try to score on the opposite goal.  In our league, there is one keeper, 2 offensive players, and only one defensive player.  The players launch the cone with their poles.  They can pass the cone back and forth or run with the cone.   They can knock the cone off other player’s poles, but if the cone is on the ground, they can only scoop it up with the poles, they can’t kick it.  If someone kicks the cone, the other team gets a kick penalty shot on their goal, with only the keeper guarding it.  The only other time a penalty is taken is if a player is fouled, or if they enter the keeper’s box.  Fouls include:

  Shoving another player

  Elbowing

  Knocking another player down

  Kicking another player

  Intentionally jabbing another player with their pole

  Launching the cone directly at another player

  Hitting another player with their pole.

No one can enter the keeper’s box except for the keeper.  This is a box around the goal.  Neither the defense nor the other team’s offense can enter it.  If they do, the other team is awarded a penalty on their goal.  All penalties are taken from the penalty line, a line two feet in front of the keeper’s box.

At the beginning of each game, there is a rock toss to see which direction each team is facing.  The two team captains stand on either side of the center line, and the referee flips the rock.  The home captain calls either bumpy or smooth.  If the rock lands on the side they called, they get to pick which direction they want to go first, but the other team starts with the cone.  If they don’t get the side they called, the other team gets to pick the direction but they get to start with the cone.

Choose Your Favorite!!

Hello, so today I have count 'em TWO prints from over the summer.  They are the same image, but different styles, and it's up to YOU to choose your favorite.  And by you, I mean if you are following this blog or are just looking at it, I want you to post a comment saying image A or image B (the darker one is A, the lighter is B.) YOU!!! DO IT!!!

Speaking of hands, the third image is what it looks like when you scan my hand.  Interesting.
An aside: This is a link to Digger Enz Wiki, the page for a game my friend designed.  You should play it, it would make him very happy. 

Foxtrot & XKCD

Hopefully you're all nerdy enough to enjoy reading nerdy cartoons!!  Today I've got a link to foxtrot.com to fulfill all of your nerdy desires and xkcd is coming later.

The Sound Machine and other creepy experimantal films

Hey, so I have a friend who, besides being an AMAZING yet dark artist, also makes creepy experimental films under "The Human OBSCENE" on Youtube.  I'd reccommend his films very highly, especially The Sound Machine, The Food Machine, and Jonathan Alone.  Since I'm at school and Youtube is blocked, I'll post a link later, but meanwhile YOU can go to Youtube and search any of the above film titles.  Prepare to be disturbed!

Ads: Yes or NO????

Okay, so Blogger has a feature where you can put ads for recommended products on Amazon.com, and you can make money off it if any of your readers or anyone buys these products.  I'm very tempted because I'm so desperate for money right now, but I don't want you guys to feel used, or I don't want you to stop reading if you find ads annoying.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE post comments with an answer!!! I need to know what you think! And if no one posts feedback, I'll take it as a yes and do it, so if you're against or for it speak out!!

As promised, the rest of Slurb

Here, at last, is the final part of Slurb Episode 1!!!! I haven't done much work yet on Episode 2, so don't be expecting that any time soon because i have a lot of homework, and not much time for drawing.  Soon I'll try to wrap up the art pages and attempt to start the Graceco winter catalog, where you can order custom-made nerdy winter apparel for a fairly low price (as low as I can make it, but mind you this IS a scheme for money, so I need to make a bit of a profit.... Sorry...)  Mind you, this is just an idea, so please post feedback comments!

LANYARDS!!!

Hey guys, so I've been making a lot of those little plastic lanyards these days, and I'm hoping to make a Youtube account so I can post some how-to videos that are more comprehensive than the ones I used.  Anyway, if you are a person who I see regularly or will see in the near future, you can place orders for a lanyard now! (If I don't see you in person I can mail one, but the price will be a little higher because of shipping.)  I'm trying to think of a reasonable price to charge for materials, time, and key rings/clips that come with.  Does 50 cents per lanyard sound reasonable ?  I am trying to make a small profit to add to the iTouch fund.  You can post an order today by just posting a comment with the following information:
 1: Your name
2: Type of lanyard: Right now I can do circle and square ones, and I hope to learn other styles soon.  You can place an order for a kind I don't know how to do yet, because I'd love to learn more styles, but keep in mind it will take a little longer to make.
3: If you know I won't be able to give it to you in person, your address.
4: What you'd like your lanyard to be: I can do bracelets, key chains, cat toys..... Just tell me what you want it to be.
5: Colors!  Right now I only have green and black, but if my business gets rolling I will probably buy more colors, so if you could please put first preference, (any color you like!) and then say green and black is okay as a backup option, that'd be great!  (If, for some reason, you hate green and black, you can always just place that in your order and keep in mind that it will take much longer for your lanyard to be made, that's fine too.)
PLEASE ORDER!!!

Walter Keonig's Birthday

Just a nerdy FYI, Septemeber 14 is Walter Keonig's birthday!!  (Walter Keonig is the actor who played Chekov in the orginal Star Trek series).  Click here to learn more about him!

Sorry about Slurb

I'm sorry I haven't posted the rest of Slurb yet.  I assure you I have a good reason (i'm doing most of my posts from school now and don't have the files there).  However, I promise promise promise that I'll post the rest of Slurb, more art pages, and my characters for the Saga of Walter this upcoming labor day weeknd.  Once again, I'm extremely sorry about the delay.