Scott McCloud, author of the Understanding Comics series and Zot!, has taken his family on a 50 State book signing tour. The tour, which started a year ago, has taken the McClouds to 49 states with only two more stops before it ends. Scott is traveling with his wife, Ivy, and his two daughters Winter [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2007’
Charlie’s Mustang
Have you ever looked at a car and said.. “Man that is one nerdy automobile… I totally need it!” For me, the Mustang II has always been one of those cars. Often considered the black sheep of the Mustang family, The Mustang II was much smaller than it’s 70′s muscle car predecessor. It was a [...]
DenimLife
The crew at LoveLife are my heroes. They make these fantastic messenger bags made out of re-used vinyl signs and upholstery. I really credit LoveLife with getting me into working with scraps and apparel, check out my ScrapLife series of blog entries. Well for half a year (or longer) I had been talk with Roxanne [...]
Recap of the WYYC’s Yo-Yo Modifying Contest
In case you missed it, be sure to check out Eric Wolff‘s fantastic photo set from this year’s World Mod Contest (as well as his excellent summary of the entries here). Eric, an amazing yo-yo modifier in his own right, has been one of the Mod Contest’s judges since it’s first year and posted a [...]
My brush with the Wall Street Journal
Last week I started receiving correspondence from John Jurgensen, a staff writer with the Wall Street Journal. He was asking me questions regarding musical genres and the letter writing campaign I started to get MySpace to add a Nerdcore genre to their site. The emails got pretty lengthy and I started to wonder if the [...]
