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I have been blogging about digital technology’s impact on culture and our lives since 2007. I post when inspiration strikes as I’m working on various projects.
I’m giving a JOLT!
My JOLT! proposal for PAB09 has been accepted! JOLT!s are 5-minute presentations designed to give participants something new to think about. Like a mini TED Talk. I'm giving a condensed version of the session I plan on giving at PodCamp London on April 25th. This is...
I’ll be presenting at PodCamp London
I've participated in 2 panels at PodCamp Toronto (Podcasting Tools 101 is one of them) and it's time for me to move into the big leagues. Presenting my own session! PodCamp London will be taking place on April 25th and I plan on sharing the valuable things I've...
Character design process
I enjoy seeing the process other cartoonists and illustrators have when they design a character. Especially since I'm currently designing a number of characters for my comics (more on that in a future post). Krishna Sadasivam, who draws PC Weenies, the...
Microblogging & micropodcasting in self-help
Stuttering.Me has recently launched and I know it's going to be big. It's going to change lives. And it's using Twitter. As creator Greg Snyder explains, "Perhaps one of the single biggest facets of change in the self-help process is becoming part of a community. And...
Advent calendar
Today I'm featured on Duct Tape Guy's Advent Calendar. Each little door features an item by 1 or more Catholic podcaster, blogger, whathaveyou. I'm under the whathaveyou category with a nativity scene I started (and haven't yet finished) drawing in a Moleskine...
Sixth photo meme
Looks like another meme thingy is floating around and I caught it from John Meadows and Daryl Cognito. I'm to go to my Flickr account and choose the 6th photo on the 6th page of my photostream. Then I list 6 bloggers to do the same thing. In essence, a game of...
WordPress theme building from scratch: phase 4 continued
Wordpressifying (from scratch) the redesign of stutteringiscool.com (my podcast about stuttering), is coming along as expected. A bumpy ride but rewarding at the end. So far: 1. My images wouldn't show up except for background images designated in my stylesheet. After...
Popeye The Sailor Man DVDs
Couldn't help notice the release of the 3rd Popeye The Sailorman DVD box set as it covers 1941-1943. This is because I have a huge interest in cartoons made during the WW2 era (and also black and white cartoons). Though I was never a Popeye fan, I was more interested...
WordPress theme building from scratch: phase 3 and 4
Click here for steps 1 and 2. I have my design (for stutteringiscool.com) codified and made sure the css displays properly, now it's time to wordpressify it. However, before I begin, I probably should have verified that the css passes validation. Just sayin'. Anyhoo,...
WordPress theme building from scratch: phase 1 and 2
I'm currently redesigning my Stuttering is Cool website. Not something I planned to do right now but I have no choice (long story short: my previous theme got broken). So I have a tight deadline to finish this redesign and the challenge is it involves designing my own...
Silent Cartoons blog
I’ve always had an interest in the silent cartoon era but not to the extent of Tom Stathes! He’s the author of CartoonsOnFilm, a blog about silent cartoons. Boy does he have quite the collection! Not just any collection. Ultra-uber-rare stuff that he tracks down,...
Finally released to the world
Yes, I'm talking about the latest St-St-Stuttering is C-C-Cool comic in glorious black and white. It's a gag I had thought up for years for my other character, Spud, and now was a great time to use it. I don't quite remember what lead me to come up with the absurd...
Black and White comics
The 6th St-St-Stuttering is C-C-Cool comic returns my online venture back to black and white comics (explanation). My preferred medium. And oh how great it is for an artist to work in his (or her) domain! I won't abandon colour. I'll save that for oil pastels and...
Dry Marker Art
Here's an interesting cool site: Dry Marker Art! I remember back in the late 90s, me and a co-worker collaborated on a cool snowboarder cartoon drawing. I wish I took a photo of it.
Blog Action Day 08 – what are politicians good for?
it's Blog Action Day and this year's topic is poverty. Canada just had its federal election and the US will have theirs in about 2 weeks. It really doesn't matter who wins because its the corporation$ who really rule the world. The rich can only stay rich (and...
Colour vs. black and white
I've posted my last colour St-St-Stuttering is C-C-Cool comic. It just wasn't my medium. I prefer and enjoy black and white. Always did. Colour turned out to be a lot of extra work that sucked all the excitement I had for drawing the comics. As I blogged in the past,...
iPhone travel test
Since the iPhone is a little computer, I wanted to see if it could stand the podcamp test as a replacement for my powerbook going to and fro PodCamp Montreal. Does anyone have directions to the hotel? I really liked the GPS on the phone. It saved us. Though maybe it...
PodCamp Montreal
I just got back from yet another trip to one of my most favourite cities, Montréal. I was there for PodCamp Montréal and as expected, I had a blast, met new cool people and learned many new things. I won't go into detail of what was said. There are plenty of other...
When bad things happen to good art
Oh the horrors. I've worked so hard on my 4th episode of my St-St-Stuttering is C-C-Cool comic only to have it fall to pieces once I started inking it. It started with the markers I wanted the colour of the lettering to be the same as the panel borders. I had gone to...
Google Chrome comic book
Google Chrome was "accidentally" (yeah right) launched this morning and along with it was a comic book by Scott McCloud explaining its features and such. My twitter list was all a buzz with hating the comic book. Quite a few also lamented it was 36 pages. Why not? I...