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Brown Bag

June 30th, 2009 · Brown Bag

Your source for MJ-free news.

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The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! watch

Autokratz’s Stay the Same watch

Robert Zemeckis is a lying jerk faced egg-ass read

Slow Loris loves getting tickled watch

Kevin Huizenga shows a peek at the new Treehouse of Horror see

The girl who doesn’t age (and the mad scientists that want to take her apart. Stephanie just wants to know if it can be applied to puppies.) read

Big step in fighting cancer read

Cats on a Treadmill watch

AlternativeTo.net suggests alternatives to popular programs see

One I’ve used is Aviary, which is basically free, online Adobe suite see

BTW, that link was passed on by JB Winter, who recently rounded up cartoonists from all 50 states to collaborate on a comic jam. see

Nike’s Exploit Yourself watch

Reykjavik at Abstract Comics see

The Astronomer’s Dream watch

If you find yourself in Savannah, you should take a hearse tour with one of my favorite bloggers read

Yo Yo Champ watch

Fake Green Lantern trailer watch

Charlie White’s Adicolor Pink watch

Clever nerds use photoshop during D&D game see

MGMT’s Kids watch

Animals Helping Link of the Week watch

Robot Link of the Week watch

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New Comic! Tom Bisk

June 27th, 2009 · comics

I’m planning on pitching my new comic to iVerse in a few weeks, so I could really use some feedback.

Its a novel length story about a regular guy, trying to make ends meet while he builds a doomsday device. Dark comedy. Written for iPhone. Still very much in development (just the beginning and some of it is uncolored and unlettered). Speaking of lettering, thanks to Drew Crowley for hand lettering it for me!

I’ve been working on the art for a few months and just cleared some space on the interweb for it. If you saw the link in this week’s Brown Bag, you haven’t seen NOTHING! I updated the viewer to an exciting, gray flash interface that’s a bit more user-friendly.

Please leave criticisms, typos, words of encouragement, and questions either here, with the original files on flickr, or email me directly at nickmain@gmail.com.

Thanks!

Check out the comic here

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Brown Bag

June 23rd, 2009 · Uncategorized

A roundup of the week’s best links in design, comics, tech, nerdery, and fuzzy animals – posted every Tuesday at noon. If you’ve got some amazingness, send it my way at nickmain(at)gmail(dot)com.

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I’ve been working on a comic for iphone and this week I started putting it online to keep my esteemed letterer up to date, and perhaps get some feedback while its still rough. If you’d like to check it out, it starts here. Did I mention I’d appreciate feedback?

Hey! watch

Augmented Reality Cell Phone game watch

Lily Allen’s Fuck You watch

Average Credit Scores by State see

Ha! see

Ghost in the Machine cassette portraits see

Remembering Al Hirschfeld watch

Swarm robots watch

Buzz Aldrin is so gangsta watch

3 more days to draw yourself old see

Greenworld see

This video annoys me in countless ways, but its got seem neat tricks and a nice song by The Bird and the Bee watch

Big Surprise: 98% of Green claims are fake read

Flaming robot walking shopping cart watch

Myk Dawg’s NES style music videos watch

Concept art for Tim Burton’s Alice see

Felix Jung’s Pecha Kucha tips watch

Nice Wedding Invitation see

John Hodgman’s Ultimate Nerd Speech watch

E-mail patterns can predict impending doom read

Homemade Mecha in Alaska see

Theremin controlled gaming watch

Robot Link of the Week watch

Animals Helping Link of the Week watch

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Brown Bag

June 16th, 2009 · Brown Bag

A roundup of the week’s best links in design, comics, tech, nerdery, and fuzzy animals – posted every Tuesday at noon. If you’ve got some amazingness, send it my way at nickmain(at)gmail(dot)com.

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Check it out! I’ve got a new banner. 5 of em actually. Though, I’m not exactly sure how they work. I think it depends if you’re looking at different pages or something. This blog thing is magical and mysterious.

Royal de Lux’s latest see

McBess animated music video for Wood watch

Body 2.0 read

Pictures for Sad Children see

Your Logo Makes Me Barf see

Someone made Segways cool see

Post-it note animation Deadline watch

Leningrad Then and Now  see

Hand Bookbindings see

But does it float? see

Did I mention my new blog Abexxxploitation? see

Raining frogs read

Web Trends 4.0 see

New element! read

Live Action Pitfall watch

Bold City Brewery packaging see

Birdy Nam Nam watch

Complex and Sophisticated Lettering Designs Photoshop Tutorials learn

Making of Princess Mononoke watch

Robot Link of the Week watch

Animals Helping Link of the Week watch

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Brown Bag

June 9th, 2009 · Brown Bag

A roundup of the week’s best links in design, comics, tech, nerdery, and fuzzy animals – posted every Tuesday at noon. If you’ve got some amazingness, send it my way at nickmain(at)gmail(dot)com.

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Good News Everyone! read

The Joy of Not Being Sold Anything see

Turbo Heather watch

Elephant painting a self portrait watch

Marvel Comics’ Strange Tales MAX read

“Vengeance Amish Crossbow?” The Brainstormer use

Nice Demo for Ruben and Lullaby interactive comic watch

Atheist nations more peaceful read

Awwwwww! Pygmy Jerboa watch

Michael and Michael Have Isssues watch

Less Intelligent/More Intelligent see

Springfield Punx’s LOST week see and ultimate geek wallpaper see

Ant on an LP watch

Passion Pit’s Sleepyhead watch

Creative problem solving enhanced by REM sleep read

New Heavy Metal movie read

Singularity University watch

Every Playboy Centerfold (Safe for Work) see

Surrogates Trailer watch

Animals Helping Link of the Week see

Robot Link of the Week watch

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Brown Bag

June 2nd, 2009 · Brown Bag

A roundup of the week’s best links in design, comics, tech, nerdery, and fuzzy animals – posted every Tuesday at noon. If you’ve got some amazingness, send it my way at nickmain(at)gmail(dot)com.

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Sorry for the late lunch links. I had some technical difficulties and couldn’t get online this morning. Some good stuff though. Natal has me psyched…

Project Natal read

Lionhead Studio’s Peter Molyneux’s experiments with Natal watch

What the World Eats see

Spider-Man vs Pigeon Girl watch

Cartoony vs Realistic read

Ebon Heath’s Visual Poetry sculptures see

Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and David Lynch’s Dark Night of the Soul read see listen

Curve Wall Mounted Pet Bed buy

Dave Fullarton’s What I do at Work When I’m Supposed to be Working exhibition see

Girl Guitar God Kaki King’s TED Talk watch

Geekchart interact

22 Extremely Well Written Icon Design Tutorials learn

For my one reader who uses Windows, I thought this Lifehacker list of essential free Windows downloads was really useful. read or get the pack download

MMMMound is FFFFound for piles of stuff see

Student project for a “Wes Anderson Film Festival” see

The Art of Up (yay! Xblog’s got pictures) see

Star Wars ABC’s keeewt see

8 bit band Anamanaguchi presents Dawn Metropolis watch

I love this. When someone asks you a question via IM, that they could have just as easily googled, gently slap them in the face with LMGTGY interact

Awesomely Illegible Infographic of the week see

Robot Link of the Week read

Animals Drinking Link of the Week watch

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Brown Bag

May 26th, 2009 · Brown Bag

A roundup of the week’s best links in design, comics, tech, nerdery, and fuzzy animals – posted every Tuesday at noon. If you’ve got some amazingness, send it my way at nickmain(at)gmail(dot)com.

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5 Super Powers You Can Have (if you have a billion dollars and live slightly in the future…Why has it been like 5 years since I first saw that footage of the invisibility cloak? No new progress?) link

American Stonehenge link

Suco de Laranga link

Grandaddy’s Jed’s Other Poem link

Make a Robot Haiku. Win a shirt link

Potato Portraits link

Txt Island link

A few interesting illusions link 1 link 2

What do me and the Tree Man have in common? We each have of one of the 7 weirdest skin conditions! Good to have an update on the Tree Man though link

History of Weed link

Transformer USB drive link

Abraham Lincoln invented the emoticon link

Amazon Book Map link

Great Gift for me of the Week link

Robot Link of the Week  link

Animals Helping Link of the Week link

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Brown Bag

May 19th, 2009 · Brown Bag

A roundup of the week’s best links in design, comics, tech, nerdery, and fuzzy animals – posted every Tuesday at noon. If you’ve got some amazingness, send it my way at nickmain(at)gmail(dot)com.

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Labuat – Interactive music video link

Moebius/Geof Darrow Collaboration on Brandon Graham’s blog (pics) link

Who’s Hungry? (vid) link

Micro Sculptor Willard Wigan (pics) link

What’s in the box? (vid) link creator interview link

Connecting artists with writers at Scott Mcloud (words) link

Illustrator, Kali Ciesmier (pics) link

Autotune the News #3 (vid) link

Life’s first spark recreated in a lab (holy shit!) link

Red Nose Studio illustration (pics) link

Mr Wobble’s Nightmare (vid) link

Allt Eller Inget Photoshoppery (pics) link

Invasion of the Neutered Sprites (pics) link

Eliss for iPhone (vid) link

The woman who can’t forget (words) link

Sushi Etiquette (pics) link

Watercolor techniques (words) link

Great Gift for Me Link of the Week – Lego Frank Lloyd Wright Set (pics) link

Pizza Robot Link of the Week (vid) link

Animals Helping Link of the Week (vid) link

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Brown Bag

May 12th, 2009 · Brown Bag

A roundup of the week’s best links in design, comics, tech, nerdery, and fuzzy animals – posted every Tuesday at noon. If you’ve got some amazingness, send it my way at nickmain(at)gmail(dot)com.

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Felt brown bag (tute) link

Gravity defying sculpture (vid) link

Skhizein (words) link (vid) link

Artist’s Guide to Human Types (pics) link

Convert Photoshop to EHTML or CSS (tute) link

Abraham Lincoln and Queen Elizabeth finally do it (vid) link

Cornelius’s Fit (vid) link

Is information visualization the next frontier for design? (words) link

Usability in the movies link

22 vector icon sets (pics) link

Creative minds and mental illness (words) link

Yooouuutuuube (app) link example (vid) link

EyeCandy kids comic (vid) link

Sad Princess and Medusa (vids) link

Will someone please buy me this table? (pic) link

Font War (vid) link

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives (vid) link

Robot Link of the Week (vid) link

Animals Helping Link of the Week link

WOW! of the Week link

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Brown Bag

May 5th, 2009 · Brown Bag

A roundup of the week’s best links in design, comics, tech, nerdery, and fuzzy animals – posted every Tuesday at noon. If you’ve got some amazingness, send it my way at nickmain(at)gmail(dot)com.

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Sketchup and Autism (vid) link

Here and There: A Horizonless Projection in Manhatten (pics) link

Modded Gaming Hardware (pics) link

Read Dracula in Real  Time (words) link

Lamps (pics) link

Calligraphy Lessons (vids) link

50 Cars or 1 Bus (vid) link

Mammoth (pics) link

Science of the Mushroom Kingdom (pics) link

Deconstructing DVNO’s Fonts (pics) link

Human Landscapes (pics) link

Accident waiting to happen (vid) link

Typewriter Art (pics) link

Stand By Me (vid) link

Wii Theremin (vid) link

The Hunt for Gollum (vid) link

Procedurally Generated Pixel City (vid) link

William Steig, Grandfather of Tweet (pics) link

Robot Link of the Week (vid) link

Animals Helping Piano Double Links of the Week (vids) link 1 link 2

Whoa! of the Week (vid) link

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