Nerdcore For Life, the documentary about nerd and geeks and the hip hop that they make is finally coming to San Francisco! Although I haven’t seen it yet, I do know that several of my (Drown Radio’s) tracks where used for the soundtrack and my interview made it into the film. w00t!
The film will only be shown July 12th at 4:15pm at the Roxie Theater as part of the SF Frozen Film festival, I suggest getting your tix now. But that’s not all, hang around for the Nerdcore for Life afterparty with performances by MC Lars, Nomad, and myself (location TBA). I’ve heard from a few folks that have caught this doc in other festivals and loved it… I’m so excited to finally see it myself. I mean, my head is going to be on the movie screen… and it’s going to be huge!
This illustration is either a "hellavant critique of consumer culture" or an excuse to draw kitsch.
Possibly a little from column A and a little from column B.
Mike and I were brain storming yesterday morning about a flier for an upcoming nerdcore show and I said that since the show was the same day that the new iPhone comes out, it would be cool to draw a flier of a line going into the Apple store… then a line going from the exit of the store to the entrance to the music venue.
Anyways, Mike made a great mock-up of the image using very simplistic figures. To me, the people looked like ghosts… and that’s where the idea for this image came from.
Introducing the LOL-let! The worlds first wallet featuring my patented “laugh out loud” technology.
You see the secret to the LOL-let is the appliqued (and embroidered) two “L”s and one “O” which are guaranteed to generate generous gobs of giggles and guffaws. [guarantee only valid in some scandinavian countries].
LOL-lets are available through my Etsy site or through the shop here on DocPop.org (check them both out for different designs and options). I’ve also updated both sites with new crafts and restocked popular items. More new-ness to come.
Check out this recently uploaded video of Self’s Matt Mahaffey playing a one man band version of AC/DC’s “Back In Black” on drums and Omnichord. I’ve never heard an Omnichord run through guitar distortion before, but the effect is extremely rocking. After I watching more live Self videos, I realize he’s been using them for years on songs like Trunk Fulla Amps (live) and others off of Gizmodgery. I’ve been looking for a cheap Omnichord for several years for circuit bending, but now I’m really jonesin’ for one.
The video is an excerpt from Self’s upcoming DVD “sElf- Live at Spaceland Acoustic”. There aren’t many more details of the dvd’s release, which originally went on pre-sale in April, but some believe the hold up could be concerning copyright issue’s over Matt’s AC/DC cover. Of course the rest of the show footage will be acoustic versions of Self songs, not Omnicover songs… which would be a cool dvd on it’s own.
With the Apple’s highly anticipated World Wide Developers Conference starting today, the question on everyone’s mind is, of course, “When Will Twitter Crash?”. In a recent blog post, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that Twitter expects site traffic to increase up to ten-times it’s daily use as real time news starts to leak from the floors of the Moscone Conference Center. Twitter is preparing for the extra traffic by monitoring usage and throttling extras such as pagination and replies to reduce the stress on their servers. Of course, the replies page seems to miss half of the messages that people send in response to my tweets anyways, so I prefer using Summize anyways.
So now is your time to start making bets… when will twitter crash?
If Steve Jobs gives his keynote at 10am today (according to CNN)… I’m guessing twitter will go down at around 11:15am.
Leave your best guess on when you think twitter’s next big crash will be in the comments below or @docpop with your answer. List the time, date, and any extra details you wanna take a stab at (like why or for how long). Sorry, Twitter employees are not eligible to take place in any bets.
Hey, Twitter has actually been running pretty smoothly for me lately, so it seems they are getting things under control. Best of luck to the team on growing their audience this week while maintaining the load.
Based on the fun we had creating the Fail flickr set, I’ve created a new flickr group with a whole new meme. Cupcakes Have Jumped the Shark is an open group for anyone to post illustrations of cupcakes jumping over sharks. Any style is accepted, but color illustrations are preferred. So far 9 artists have contributed, and a few of them were even drawn at our most recent Cartoonist Conspiracy in SF. Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday night I attended (and performed) at Scott Beale’s Laughing Squid Lucky 13 Party. I got there early with my friends Irina and Mike to do the soundcheck and get ready for the show. During the down time, Mike and I decided to print some inserts for my mini-comics and hand them out during the show. I had 800 unfolded copies of The Flatjack Incident ($85), 500 index cards ($2), and of course my Gocco with one screen and one set of flash bulbs ($12 in Gocco materials). We let Scott watch as we flashed our screen, then we added our stickers to partition the inks (so the colors didn’t spread around), and we got to work.
Make handled the bulk of the printing, while I did the folding and inserting. The minifig image (that Lego guy) was originally painted by Mike and appeared on the album cover of Me Geek Pretty One Day. I took that version and traced it down to a simple line drawing to make it easier to Gocco.
In two and a half hours, we finished nearly 350 prints and had them inserted. They looked great too. Eventually, the party reached capacity, and a line was forming outside. It took some about 30 minutes before they could make it in, and the line was raging for about 2 hours, during this time I would try to come out every 30-40 minutes and talk to folks in the crowd and hand them the comic to read. “It looks small” I’d say, “but if you read it right… it should take about 30 minutes”.
My tailoring gig for Self Edge has been crazy lately. We’ve opened online orders to our chainstitched hemming, and my work load has nearly tripled. I tailored 25 pairs of jeans just yesterday, which left my hands stained with an indigo dye, but also earned me enough to finally purchase a pair of the very limited Self Edge X Flat Head collaboration jeans! My Samurais are finally getting retired (after 16 months of heavy use) and I’m loving my new indigo SEXFHs.
Here is a pic of the “classic yo-yo” leather tag + the special edition red Duncan butterfly
And the jeans getting their first cold soak
A lot of folks are really over-soaking their SEXFHs to get the shrinkage out. I’ve seen a lot of these jeans and figure even though the inseam may shrink 2 inches, it’s the type of material that will probably just stretch back out about 1.5 inches. So I decided to go with a real light, cold soak to keep them pretty stiff and raw. The rise is a little low on them, but the rest of the fit is absolutely perfect for me, I’m really loving them.
Btw, I’ve got a pair of brand new Self Edge X Flat Head collaboration jeans, for sale. They are a 31″ waist/ 31″ inseam, and could be yours for $300. Email me if intersted; yoyogenius at gmail
I bought a Gocco at a yard sale last year and never got a chance to use it, but since I ran out of the last of my silkscreened shipping supplies, I decided to dust it off and put it to use for the very first time. All the directions were in Japanese, but the design was so intuitive that I had no problems burning my screen. Within 4 hours I created my screen and printed my logo (the cloud hand) on over 260 envelopes.
Based on the fun we had creating the 
