Once again I want to direct you to Arman Bohn’s blog for another test animation for the “Demons to Diamonds” music video. You will soon know the terror that my drawing hand is capable of. Lo, and you shall tremble!
(insert Vincent Price laughter)
TEENAGE DISCO MISERY
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(C) Brad Kerr
(C) Brad Kerr
I’ve had the last 2 weeks or so off of work which has left me a lot of time to focus on things like lunch. Now I normally don’t travel down the “lunch blogging” route but I want to share that I’ve found the formula for ULTIMATE LUNCH.
Sandwich:
- wheat bread (one end piece)
- one extremely thick slice of Tofurkey with stuffing
- Best Foods mayo (Hellmans if you’re on the East coast)
- a fried egg
- Sriracha chili sauce
- lettuce
AWESOOOOOOMOMEE!!!!
I recommend Kettle salt & pepper potato chips, a coke and for some light lunch reading: Mel Bay’s book of Baritone ukulele chords.
Also, I’m listening to Hawkwind’s “Warrior on the Edge of Time” record super crazy loud and I think that’s helping.
UKULELE GET! Today I purchased an acoustic/electric baritone ukulele. It’s basically a tiny, stupid guitar with four strings. It is with this fine beast that I plan to accomplish…
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION #3: RECORD THE FOLLOW UP TO THE ROCKET PUNCH EP “BLOOD ON THE UKULELE.” This time with TWICE THE BLOOD and TWICE THE SIZE OF THE UKULELES. CAN I GET A HELL YES
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION #2: Blame more of my behaviour on “my background in jazz improvisation.”
I’m excited to announce a new project for 2009: A collaboration with musician/film-maker Arman Bohn on an animated music video for his forthcoming album, BITS—-a collection of synthesizer-infused pop songs based (emotionally, not necessarily melodically) on the Atari games he played as a child. THERE IS A 100% CHANCE THAT THIS ALBUM WILL BE AWESOME.
I’m extremely psyched to have the chance to make the goofy noseless characters of my comics MOVE and INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER IN UNLIKELY SITUATIONS.
Much of this project is still top secret, but check Arman’s blog for regular updates. Today: test animation of a Disco Misery dinosaur hopping to a bizarre Beatles cover
photos from Portland “ARCTIC BLAST” 2008
Portland OR currently has more snow than it has seen in 40 years. Everyone is busy cross country skiing to Wild Oatss and not working for two weeks. Here is a photo diary of the weather.
The snow—it is out of control. This is a main arterial street in Portland. YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!
Time for a motorcycle ride? Trapped by snow bank!!
View from window. ICE PLANET HOTH!!!! OH NOOOOEZ!!=
And with that I have met my “Star Wars drawings in MSpaint” quota for 2008. Thanks for reading! See you next time.
END OF YEAR FILM COUNTDOWN
Look I know how blogs work. Basically December rolls around and the whole internet turns into a big list. lists:blogs::food:humans My blog has spoken and unless I list something, it’s going to be limping around with a distended stomach and a dry cough. SUPER GROSS. Thus I give you the TOP TEN TWO FILMS OF 2008 THAT I’M THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
1. ROBOCOP!!!!!
YEAAAAH ROBOCOP!!! I think actually it came out a while ago. THIS IS IRRELEVANT. In a world where Robocop exists, it is folly to ever give favor to any movie more than Robocop. THIS IS FACT.
Reasons why Robocop is greatest: (SUB-LIST INCOMING!)
A) awesome mega-violence
I don’t know if it’s just me but it seems to that Hollywood doesn’t do mega-violence like it used to. To me, film violence is at its best when it sort of makes me want to laugh but sort of makes me want to barf (I’m thinking of most of Peter Jackson’s back-catalog, schlock like Re-Animator, and about a million Tom Savini projects from the 80s and 90s). A lot of film violence has become a lot less fun—Wolf Creek, Saw, Hostel, Devil’s Rejects, basically “Torture Porn” as a whole and its trickle-down effect on cinema. I do NOT want to see depictions of humans suffering. I DO want to see a guy get covered in toxic waste and then turn into a weird melted mutant thing and then get exploded by car.
(Skip to 5:00)
B) Stop-motion robots.
Ed-209 is the awesomest robot and totally does not look bad at all for being mostly a puppet. Why did we stop with this? I’d take a million crappy stop-motion skeletons before I have to watch another JarJar or that stupid digital muppet thing from Lost in Space. I’m not trying to get all Andy Rooney here but come on look at this thing:
C) Non-over-sexualized sassy lady sidekick
How many times does THIS happen? Robocop’s partner Anne is a totally rad, non-exploited “girl” character in a bazookas action movie. She is not “the girlfriend”, not topless, not raped/murdered/or a catalyst for making action hero become action hero. SHE IS JUST AN AWESOME LADY CHARACTER. This shouldn’t be a huge deal but it is.
D) “WE ARE ALL ROBOCOPS”
Darren Aranofsky is apparently remaking Robocop and I don’t know how I feel about this yet but he did have some interesting insight into his inspiration:
Before you get an MRI, they give you a list of like 38 different things, how you can have metal in your body. From a shutter in your eyelid to a pacemaker, screws and all this stuff you can have in your system. I realized, ‘Wow, we are cyborgs.’ I mean, everything’s not inside us, but the way we’re connected to the technology and everything is right there.
You don’t like Robocop, man? TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF. We’re there. WE ARE ROBOCOPS. Maybe this isn’t that deep. Whatever I’m fine with that. You’re not changing my opinion.
ANYWAYS. I recommend this guy’s awesome review of the Robocop Criterion Collection DVD.
2. PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
TOTALLY FREAKING FUNNY.
The End.
EDIT: OH WAIT ALSO I JUST REMEMBERED CLOVERFIELD.
I figured out my problem
and I’m pretty sure success will follow shortly! OKAY. Now let me preface by saying I work in an office—there’s not much of a dress code per se but more so some de facto guidelines that everyone sticks to—-myself included. Here’s typical Brad on a given work day.
I’M SURE SOME OF YOU SEE THE PROBLEM ALREADY.
Anyways—this weekend Portland was hit pretty hard by Winter. When it snows here, everyone pretty much freaks out—the buses stop running, churches and supermarkets board up the windows—the city just shuts down for a few days until it’s safe again for fixed-gear bicycles. SOMEHOW MY OFFICE DID NOT CLOSE. Which meant I had to walk a mile and half at 6 in the morning to catch a bus on a “snow route.” Knowing that it was way way cold and that most of my coworkers would call in sick anyway, I decided to forsake the dumpy polo and just put on all the warmest clothes I had.
SOMEHOW THIS MADE ME LOOK LIKE THE WORLD’S AWESOMEST TOUGH GUY
LET ME TELL YOU…it’s like night and day in this get-up. I was like “HEY BUS, I’M WAITING TOO LONG FOR YOU” and the bus totally pulled up and was all like “SORRY MAN” and I was all “OH, WHAT?!” and then it just blushed and took me to work all pathetically. THEN I PUNCHED IT IN ITS STUPID BUS FACE.
SO YEAH the confidence is through the roof. I have created a plan for success in the business world. It involves looking good and punching people. This is it:
THAT’S RIGHT BUSINESS WORLD. SUCK MY CRAZY FRESH STYLE.
