Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
After - Inside the G4
What's nice about the tower design is expandability which is something the Mini (which I own) and the all-in-ones like the iMacs lack. I scavenged a number of parts and bought a few - "Frankensteining" together what to me is a new and perfectly viable work and play computer.
Before - Inside the G4
I had an eMac which I loved, but after the monitor went, I promised myself that I would never get another all-in-one. My options as far as buying new looked dim. I did a little reading: spent a lot of time at lowendmac.com and decided to try a used machine.
This is my G4 as it looked when I first got it from Wegener Media. I bought it used although the folks at Wegener did a thorough job cleaning it and probably swapped out a few parts that needed replacing. I did some research, and realized that I could have a great machine for not a lot of money. This is the beginning. I will post other pictures of the parts I replaced.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The Spider
"Death Reign of the Vampire King"
A 1975 reprint of a 1935 pulp. With Conan doing so well in new editions with Frazetta covers a lot of the old pulps were ripe for repackaging. The Spider was one of them. He was very much like the Shadow and the Green Hornet complete with a Kato-like valet and sidekick. I started rereading it, and it's obvious to me that Bob Kane must have read a few Spider pulps before he cooked up Batman.
The 1975 cover dropped the Spider's theatrical costume designed to strike terror into the hearts of criminals in favor of depicting a generic gun-toting adventurer which made it appear to be more like a James Bond or Destoyer novel. It's more like Doc Savage than Ian Fleming. It's pulp at its pulpiest.
The illustrator's painting looks like Darren McGavin.
Friday, May 09, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008
Battlestar Galactica 1978 TV Guide Cover
I never really cared for this illustration, but I kept the cover for years. A few years later, I would be entering art school, and this is the kind of illustration some of my teachers would be championing. LUCY everything and arrange it artfully. It looks like the guy took more time rendering the patterns on Lorne Greene's tunic than he did drawing the half-hearted Galactica which looks more like the ship from either "2001" or "Silent Running.".
Friday, May 02, 2008
Thursday, May 01, 2008
All the kids are doing it
Today it's branding, piercing and tattoos, tomorrow it will be gene splicing with nonhuman DNA and cybernetic augmentation. Although your friend is really good with tools, it would probably be a mistake to let him implant that new digital olfactory array so "you can, like, smell colors" or give you a really cool pair of titanium tyrannosaurus legs. It might not work out so well.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sunny Eyes Up
Or Over Queasy.
Wait 'til you see what I saw in my Coco Crispies!
This is becoming a fixation. Playing with Photoshop in work again.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Night Shift
Fiddling around in Photoshop during a little down time at work. Nothing major- maybe 15 minutes of work, but I liked the results so what the hey?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The Horror of Party Beach
Comic Book/photo novel adaptation of the greatest movie ever made – The Horror of Party Beach. The cover is by Wally Wood.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Riding the Big White Bus
This is from an old sketchbook of mine and based on personal experience. I was rooting around while doing some Spring cleaning and found this. I drew it in a Strathmore sketchbook with a Kohinoor Rapidograph technical pen almost 22 years old.
Monday, March 31, 2008
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