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Robert Rauschenberg died last night. It’s always sad to see an artist you read about in any big survey art history book dying, but at least he had a pretty sweet life.

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I must have been looking hawt today or something, because the guy at Hark’s let me use my card on a less than $4 purchase, AND the guy at McDonald’s (yes I went there for dinner by myself, okay? SHUT UP) told me I looked too good to eat there. Nice. Plus a small fry and a double cheeseburger are $2.14…. SO CHEAP!! I obviously need to buy groceries, but I’m waiting till Katie and I move into our new LOVEDEN. ooh.

“If you don’t have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble. ”
-Rauschenberg

I am sure I am just preaching to the choir here, but I get really annoyed with people like this get book deals. The Dumbest Generation. The thing that annoys me the most is that I don’t believe that Americans are getting dumber rather that having a unmediated totally democratic medium to express oneself has given less educated people more visibility. I feel the reason that it is disproportionally younger “stupid” people who use the internet to express themselves because older “stupid” people can’t figure it out. I personally think that cranky old men already have enough visibility and power in this country, with one currently a presidential nominee. Do we really need them to write books that boil down to “Get off my lawn! Crazy teenagers with your videa-games and interwebs!”

IM ALIVE!
whats more, is i’ve been up all night learning flash for a job interview in 3 hours. but i did learn quite a good deal and im here to say that you can too, my friend. well. maybe not all of you, you know who you are. anyway, its goes great with the new re-design of www.evanpalmercomics.com.

here’s the first one, just a simple little animation that loops, but I MADE A START AND STOP BUTTON WHAT>?><:? roby

and then we got the meat. I made this as an expression of love for my dear joel, who found the screencasts for me that were ever so helpful…
robitties

enjoy! I AM EXHAUSTED.

So, I’ve developed a new hobby.  It’s pretty dumb, and Katie had a helping hand in developing it.

I don’t have any pets, but lots of people I know do.  So, I like to sit around when I’m bored and think about if I had pets, what would I name them?  I’ve thought long and hard about it, and I decided I didn’t want any tool names like “Fluffy”, “WoofWoof” or “Spot” (even though it is a keen ST:TNG reference).  No no no.  I want my pet to be on the cutting edge of cool.  Or at least, what I define as cool.  I want to name my pets after famous communists.

If I got a cat?  “Chairman Meow” gives orders, and won’t take any back talk.

A puppy? “Karl Barx” is totally ready for fetch the proletariat.

When my sister was lil’ she always wanted a pony.  I’d name him “Trot-sky”, and he’d be a stomper of bourgeois thought.

If I was on a farm, and had me a cow?  “Moo Jintao” would be president of the dairy club!

Don’t forget the boss of barnyard, “Deng Xiaopig”.  He’s open to new ideas.

Sometimes people have really exotic pets.  Like bears.  They don’t show mercy.  That’s why my bear would be named “Josef Maulin”.

And don’t forget that nasty nazi of the cage, “Goebbels the Gerbil”.  He’s known to dress up real pretty sometimes.

I’m still working on Lenin.  I’ve got ideas, but none are really thrilling me.  Also, here’s the thing, if any of you artistically inclined Shambot!-keteers are bored this summer and would be into designing any of these guys, I think that’d be keen.  We could even write a short story about them!  A good idea? Not really, but these are the things I think about in class when I’m bored.  Oh yeah.  I’m super cool.

Happy graduation to everyone doing so!

So, the video isn’t as clear on Vimeo as I’d like it, so I’ve added subtitles.

May 10th @ 2PM in Bemidji, MN from Alex C on Vimeo.

Short post today. Mostly because it’s contents will make you think I’m crazy/obsessive/creepy.

I’m sure most of you are familiar with my love for XKCD. The author shares my EXACT sense of humor. Sometimes it’s kind of eerie, especially on those occasions where we make similar jokes only weeks apart. Think back to my Jurassic Brunch post, and then check this week’s XKCD out: Forks and Spoons
If you mouse over the image, you see it’s alternate text, which is usually a related joke. To make life easier for you, here it is as well:
“Their biggest mistake was bringing Rachael Ray and Emeril to tour the lab and sign off on the project. That’s when Spielberg caught wind of it.”

A couple of months ago I left the following on a white board in the Computer Science lab:
“O(n) solution to the traveling salesmen problem: Jetpack.”
Which was followed a few weeks later by this XKCD: The Traveling Salesman Problem.

Of course this could all be attributed to the following:
1. Computer scientists aren’t funny.
1a. When a computer scientist is funny, it’s funny to other computer scientists.
2. Computer scientists are almost all exactly alike.
3. The number of possible jokes stemming from advanced topics of computer science are very small.

hey guys, I just made this today. I am still thinking about the white background. It’s probably not the best idea, but TEVS. The exciting thing is that this here is my last school assignment. Woop. It is an illustration of the Tri-State Tornado of 1925. It doesn’t really look like a tornado.

Also, some of us got to go to a baseball game (I MISSED YOU ALLI, BUT YOU’RE SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO ME SO I DON’T MISS YOU ANYMORE). Bryan and I managed to accidentally sneak in, it was awesome. AND THEN there was a Neil Diamond sing along (thank goodness), and THEN a “fan photographer” (i.e. cute teenaged girl) took our pictures.., if you scroll down the gallery a bit you will be able to see our great pictures, including the one where I look like my head is expanding like a balloon. Sweet.

Guys, I know Ben’s movie is good, but I think we should push it aside and see this one instead: badass_themovie

As some of you may know, I have an older sister who used up all of my parents’ art-DNA when she was born. Christy is about to get her MFA in Metalwork and Jewelry Design from Illinois State University at Bloomington-Normal, and I just went down to visit her and check out her thesis exhibit. Check out Symbiosis, and check out some of the pictures I took of her exhibit after the break.

I also found a number of interesting things on my way to/from Illinois. Pictures of Kitties, Bikers, Furnature, and ‘pf’ words after the break.

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Hey all you guys, here’s that movie I was talkin’ about:

Super Skate – HD from bthompson on Vimeo.

Hope y’all like it.