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wilwheaton: Click through to see video of this “game” being played. One of the many reasons we should probably just let go of our nostalgia for the Atari.

wilwheaton:

Click through to see video of this “game” being played.

One of the many reasons we should probably just let go of our nostalgia for the Atari.

For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.

And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.

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—President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)

One of the many reasons I’m a proud supporter of my President. He gets it. Also he can say things like “check this out, all right,” without sounding ridiculous.

(via wilwheaton)

stevelieber: Wally Wood’s 22 panels That Always Work have been passed around like cartoonist samizdat for decades now, and this is a good thing. But keep in mind, they aren’t a lesson in how to make good comics, they’re something to keep handy in case of emergency. The emergency in question is when a writer has handed you a non-visual script. (Read this letter from David Mamet to his writing staff for more about such things.) Comics are a visual medium, and work best when they use pictures to advance and enrich the narrative. Sometimes a script doesn’t do that, but an artist still needs to communicate the impression that there is something dramatic taking place. Tv and film have sound and movement to help accomplish this goal. In comics, we’ve got variations in gesture, lighting, and composition. At six or seven panels a page, you can run through a lot of clever shots very quickly trying to keep the reader’s eye engaged. When you’re all out of good ideas, that’s when you need to break the glass and deploy some of Wood’s 22. Always pack a parachute.

stevelieber:

Wally Wood’s 22 panels That Always Work have been passed around like cartoonist samizdat for decades now, and this is a good thing. But keep in mind, they aren’t a lesson in how to make good comics, they’re something to keep handy in case of emergency. The emergency in question is when a writer has handed you a non-visual script. (Read this letter from David Mamet to his writing staff for more about such things.)

Comics are a visual medium, and work best when they use pictures to advance and enrich the narrative. Sometimes a script doesn’t do that, but an artist still needs to communicate the impression that there is something dramatic taking place. Tv and film have sound and movement to help accomplish this goal. In comics, we’ve got variations in gesture, lighting, and composition.

At six or seven panels a page, you can run through a lot of clever shots very quickly trying to keep the reader’s eye engaged. When you’re all out of good ideas, that’s when you need to break the glass and deploy some of Wood’s 22.

Always pack a parachute.

(via wilwheaton)

First day with the new kicks. (Taken with instagram)

First day with the new kicks. (Taken with instagram)

Morning light through the trees (Taken with instagram)

Morning light through the trees (Taken with instagram)

scottlava:

Mondo Gallery is having an Adventure Time inspired art exhibition this Friday!  It will probably be super epic!!  Penn Ward will be there. All kinds of the Adventure Time gang will be there.  A mural will be there.  

I won’t be there, but my painting will.  This painting of the Pizza Party.  That was used for issue #4 of the comic.  If you will remember that.

You should go if you are in Austin this Friday!

I believe this is relevant to the interests of many of you.