"Kinetic Typography." Or, recreating memorable scenes from movies and TV with just text.
I think I saw Patient Zero early last year, but I wasn't aware it was a thing. Has this been going on for a while? Not bad!
Y'could even maybe argue some are better than the original scenes they borrowed their audio from.
Apropos of nothing, my husband recently installed SurveillanceSaver on his machine, so his screensaver these days is a random series of CCTV camera all over the world. I can see it running from my drawing table. As a result, I am now friends with:
- A very inert, spotted pig in the UK
- A pool of very happy manatees in St. Cloud
- Like five different college computer labs
- A college campus in Omaha with like fifteen million different cameras, stop it, seriously, you are in Omaha, what could possibly happen
- The most depressing residential street in all of Czechoslovakia
- Half of Norway... I knew the Scandinavians were wired, but DANG
- Dude, this looks like someone's backyard
- And what is probably a buffalo herd.
I strongly recommend it to all harmless voyeurs with idling monitors everywhere!
But you will.
That's right! 250-ish pages in and I still haven't introduced a relatively important character. And yet, you continue to read. Strange of you.
And now, because people have been asking, a BOOK 2 PRE-ORDER BREAKDOWN. The two most important bits of information:
PRE-ORDERS WILL BEGIN IN MAY. This is also the month TAZ's second collection will be solicited in Diamond's Previews. I'm consolidating!
There will be a goal bar for the amount needed to cover the print bill, just like last time, so everyone can witness either my startling triumph or monumental failure. Also, like last time, the print version of TAZ will feature remastered art, author's notes, and sketches. 148 pages of the stuff!
PRE-ORDERS WILL COME IN SEVERAL FLAVORS. I will most likely NOT be offering sketches or commissions this time around. I mean JESUS, is till have some of those left to do. :( What will be up for grabs are deluxe pre-roder packages with limited edition shirts and both books, just the new book and a shirt, things like that. As previously stated, some misprints will also be on offer! Can't see your way to paying more than $5.00 for a copy of Templar? Well, shit, YOU'RE IN LUCK.
Back to work...
And you don't remember ANY of it. Dork.
PS: You slept through the best part.
What sound-effect best describes shattering disappointment and self-loathing? Cuz I think I hear it ramping up in the last panel.
But hey, this Three's Company-style horseshit can't last forever. Enjoy it while y'can, folks!
I swear, the Mancusos just let that child run wild in the streets.
If he's got THAT in a box in his living room, he would kind of have to.
As is the case with most antiques, the older a collectible medical relic is, and the nicer it is, the more you can plan to shell out for it. A 19th century wax teaching model isn't equivalent to, say, a 18th century surgeon's kit with ivory-handled bone saws in a velvet-lined hardwood box. But it ain't chump change, neither. If Bash got this out of the estate for less than a few thousand, he should have done it wearing a balaclava and gloves.
Anatomical waxes (wax moulage) are most likely to be found in older, less squeamish medical museums these days, but private collections do exist; Christie's auctioned one off piece by piece in 2001 (NWS). Bash's pride and joy is modest compared to some of the waxes featured in that lot, but he's a doctor, not an oil baron.
His original object of interest, leech jars, are... well, pretty much exactly what they sound like. They were jars for holding leeches, which surgeons used (and still use) for bloodletting. They can be anything from glass bowls to gilded ceramic urns. And they're popular with buyers, since they're not aesthetically revolting/mysterious, plentiful, and wonderful conversation pieces. They're also a bit of a minefield for the serious collector of medical antiques, as fakes and replicas of the things are as common as muck. (Translation: Never buy one on eBay.)
And "Syphiology" was a real field, before the advent of simple antibiotics. Syphilis was capable of some truly heinous disfigurement when left unchecked; Syphiology and dermatology were basically interchangeable specialties prior to penicillin. "Syphiology" also has one of the lowest numbers of search results for a correctly-spelled single word I've ever seen, for those of you into Googlewhacking.
I could get really, really obnoxious about Bash's hobby... One I would probably have if I ever hit the lottery, to be honest. But Googling "medical antiques" or just visiting one of my favorite sites on the subject is enough to satisfy, I think.
More later!
I guess you can only keep up the act for so long, y'know? Even when you've got your mackin' pants on.
And Just so you guys know, I've updated this year's con schedule, adding SPX. An opportunity came through, and I just shelled out for a table, so it's pretty much a done deal. See you there, maybe?
I mean, that's basically child abuse.
I haven't got anything against original baby names, but I kinda think there's a fine line between originality and absurdity.
So, yeah. A little more about the pleasantly chatty and perfectly calm Eli "Screaming Guy" Bash. Don't believe everything you hear about a person, I guess.
Maybe.
Shit, who am I kidding. You guys are way on to me, here.
I dunno about you, but frankly, I'm a little disappointed.
Pretty well situated with Keenspot, now, even if it meant updates have suffered. I've added (and removed) a couple of ad banners and applied to a couple of ad networks; the guys over KS have this stuff down to a science, for serious. With any luck, some of that might rub off on me.
If I recently canceled your Project Wonderful bid, please don't take it personally. I canceled all of my PW bids and took down the ad boxes completely; I'm trying something new. If it doesn't work out, I'll put them back, I promise. I feel kinda crappy for pulling the rug out from under everybody like that.
Before I leave you guys alone, though, one more thing: My friend Jane started a new webcomic, and you should definitely check it out. It's called Clockwork Game, and it's a mostly-true retelling of the story of The Mechanical Turk. Only one page for now, but why not bookmark it? It already looks better than basically everything else ever.
