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Kurt Busch: Stewart-Haas Racing will thrive in '14 despite four disparate personalities
Feb 20, 2014, 7:09 PM EST
As has been seen in many cases over NASCAR history, peaceful coexistence between fierce competitors is nothing short of an oxymoron – if not a total impossibility.
But as Stewart-Haas Racing prepares to kick off the 2014 Sprint Cup season, it has brought together a cast that is fueled by testosterone, machismo and bravado.
And those are the good points.
There's no question that Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick are close friends, but even close friends have had their run-ins over the years.
Kurt Busch and Harvick and Stewart – especially Busch and Harvick – have also had enough on-track conflicts to last a lifetime. And yet now they're teammates, expected to bury the hatchet and play nice together.
While some critics may question the viability, it is not unusual in the world of sports. Look back at the glory years of the NFL's Oakland Raiders from 1976 through 1983, when they won three Super Bowls (1976, 1980 and 1983). Under the late Al Davis, the Raiders put together perhaps the greatest collection of characters, personalities, castoffs and quasi-misfits ever seen in pro sports.
If there ever was a group destined to fail, it was the Raiders. But somehow, Davis made it work. He found a way to turn downright enemies into, well, not exactly BFFs, but a group that realized the collective reward of the team far overshadowed any beefs or individual hatred of teammates — not to mention individual success.
That's kind of the scenario that will likely play out in 2014 at Stewart-Haas Racing. While past dust-ups will never be forgotten, SHR has put together a veritable murderer's row of talent that could be the biggest challenge to Jimmie Johnson winning a seventh Cup title, of Hendrick Motorsports remaining the most dominant team in the sport, and also give teams like Joe Gibbs Racing and Richard Childress Racing downright fits.
Busch, in particular, is perhaps the biggest wildcard of all in the SHR lineup. But he's more than ready to let bygones be bygones with Harvick and Stewart (and Danica Patrick, for that matter), and be part of a stronger collective group than individually.
Busch has already had experience of sorts in situations where critics doubted peaceful coexistence. When he raced part-time for younger brother and team owner Kyle in the Nationwide Series two years ago, speculation was that two brothers – especially alpha drivers like the Busch siblings – would make for the worst kind of teammates.
As it turned out, it was completely the opposite – and actually may have helped Kurt prepare for this season with SHR.
"It reminds me of when Kyle and I got together to run his car in the Nationwide Series," Kurt Busch told MotorSportsTalk. "There was all the speculation that things were going to blow up and go haywire.
"We actually had a rough season that could have led to problems, but it only brought us closer together to work on the car, to understand what was wrong and why we weren't as competitive as we needed to be. It was a great challenge to bring us together as brothers and I see that happening as four personalities come together (at SHR).
"This season has so much potential to bring everything that we want to ourselves individually and to a team together. That's what's going to make this year special."
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Bad, bad, bad idea. I sort of laughed at some of the people commenting in the story, saying they thought it was 'inappropriate'. Inappropriate???? How about waaaayyyyyyyy nasty and self-righteous. Man, is she in for a pumpkin-smashing, toilet-paper wrapping bring down on her house some time after Halloween.
No one is obligated to pass out candy on Halloween. If you go door to door asking for something, in my opinion you need to take or not take whatever you are willing to give them. I know many people pass out religious literature along with their candy. If people do not like that, then they will not go to that house or throw the papers away.
Anyway, this has nothing to do with entitlement or whatever. It has to do with an idiot woman who feels she has the right to fat shame kids on Halloween, of all nights.
Then don't give out anything! But to pick and choose what kids get to have candy based on your standards and NO knowledge of that child's health or anything is pretty sick to me.
It's not like I'm mad that she's giving out only almond joy's and I hate almond joys.
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Well sure no one is obligated to hand out candy. That doesn't mean anything you decided to do otherwise is a nice or good thing to do.
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In 2005, five years after Mangla moved to the United States from India, he started Beta Soft Systems. Today the Fremont-based IT staffing company is a $15 million in revenue company, counting customers such as Google Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and General Electric Co. In addition, Mangla, 35, works with ASHA, an India-based organization that provides education to children, and the Sankara Eye Foundation, which aims to help improve eye care for people in India.
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Spindle 5 years
The salon I go to: Southern Fried Hair Ridiculous name, but fabulous stylists.
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oh yeah ive seen the "hair a juku" place from the freeway when ever we go to victoria gardens!
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"Best Head", i've driven past it in chicago, I'm guessing its a salon, its just a building with a big red sign reading BEST HEAD
GlowingMoon 5 years
The Best Little Hairhouse in Town. It was in my former neighborhood. :)
pixystix 5 years
I go to a place in Minneapolis called Foiled Again. Sure, the name is a bit cheesy, but it's appropriate: Once you've had foils done there, you'll certainly go again...
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Okay the website and phone book listing both say The Wild Hair but their sign says The Wild Hare. weird. but they do a great job
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"Spa..di..dah!" It's right next to one of our favorite restaurants and my husband can't help but rant about how stupid the name is every time.
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okay this one KILLS me.....my friend called them and told them how much we hate their name......it's called the SPALON. ugh. not clever.
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SFO Hairport (Naturally, at San Francisco International Airport, Delta Terminal).
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Love all the names. There is also a Curl Up and Dye in Redondo Beach CA.
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Lunatic Fringe Femme Fatale Styles Rapunzel Salon Abracutabra Monkey Dooz (for kids) Dye by the Sword Grass Roots Salon Electric Chair Wyld Hair Hut Hair Affair A Cut Above Shears To Ya Bushwacker Lori's Lil Hair House Hairloom Cutting Cabin (Is that adjacent to the Stabbin Cabin?) SCissor Sisters Mane Street Salon Wow...Who knew Boise had so many great salon names??
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"Scissor Sounds"
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Chop Shop - Houston Do or Dye - San Antonio
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leslievanhoute - that is fabulous!
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This weekend I passed by a nail salon called Hand Job. In the Castro District of San Francisco. If you need me to explain further, go rent Milk.
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Cut Up & Dye
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Ben Hair's salon (play on ben hur). Hair Today Gone Tomorrow. im sure there are others as well but thats what i remember right now.
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There's a salon and spa in Montclair, NJ called "Bangz." The name always makes me think of William Hung singing "She bangs! She bangs!"
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How about: Sweeney Todd's Barbershop Scissorhands Salon Sorry but the ones I remember all have to do with Johnny Depp movies :love:
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There's a "Curl Up and Dye" in Jim Thorpe, PA. My husband and I went there to hike around halloween, and it's a quaint little victorian style town - the salon fit in perfectly with that name. A few where I live now: A Nu Appeal Cut'n It Close Heads Up Shear Art Just Do's The Bold and The Beautiful Lords N Ladies Another Look Snips Hair Cutting Split Enz Shear Vanity Just Kut'n It Up Nappy Rootz Hot Headz Gosh - there's a lot of funny names out there. The salon I go to is called Lush and it's fabulous.
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Researchers have learned how to improve the performance of sensors that use tiny vibrating microcantilevers to detect chemical and biological agents for applications from national security to food processing.
The microcantilevers - slivers of silicon shaped like small diving boards - vibrate at their natural, or "resonant," frequency. Analyzing the frequency change when a particle lands on the microcantilever reveals the particle's presence and potentially its mass and composition.
The sensors are now used to research fundamental scientific questions. However, recent advances may allow for reliable sensing with portable devices, opening up a range of potential applications, said Jeffrey Rhoads, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University.
Creating smaller sensors has been complicated by the fact that measuring the change in frequency does not work as well when the sensors are reduced in size. The researchers showed how to sidestep this obstacle by measuring amplitude, or how far the diving board moves, instead of frequency.
"When you try to shrink these systems, the old way of measuring does not work as well," Rhoads said. "We've made the signal processing part easier, enabling small-scale, lower-power sensors, which are more reliable and have the potential for higher sensitivities."
Findings are detailed in a paper appearing online this week in the Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, which is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6145730. The paper was written by graduate research assistants Vijay Kumar and J. William Boley, undergraduate student Yushi Yang, mechanical engineering professor George Chiu and Rhoads. An earlier paper was published in April in the weekly journal Applied Physics Letters.
The work is based at the Dynamic Analysis of Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center.
The aim is to apply the new approach to build sensors capable of reliably measuring particles that have a mass of less than one picogram - or trillionth of a gram - at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.
The microcantilever sensors have promise in detecting and measuring constituents such as certain proteins or DNA for biological testing in liquids, gases and the air. The devices might find applications in breath analyzers, industrial and food processing, national security and defense, and food and water quality monitoring.
"One question about these sensors is whether they will continue to work in the field," Rhoads said. "We've been doing a lot of blind, false-positive and false-negative tests to see how they perform in a realistic environment. We've had only a few false positives and negatives in months of testing."
The findings focus on detecting gases and show that the new sensors should be capable of more reliably measuring smaller quantities of gas than is possible with current sensors.
Measuring amplitude is far easier than measuring frequency because the amplitude changes dramatically when a particle lands on the microcantilever, whereas the change in frequency is minute.
"We haven't beaten the sensitivity of all other sensors yet," Rhoads said. "But the difference is that we are trying to do it with a compact device that is truly implementable at the microscale, while many others use fairly large laboratory equipment."
The researchers tested the cantilevers in a chamber filled with precisely controlled quantities of methanol to study their reliability. A patent is pending on the invention.
The research has been partially funded by the National Science Foundation. Student support was provided by Purdue and the Purdue Research Foundation.
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Marwari horses: India's ancient breed comes back to life
The tips of their ears point toward each other and are sometimes compared to the inward curving arms of an ancient lyre, as well as the fierce warrior Rajput's handlebar mustaches if they were turned on their thick, bushy ends. These ears are the famous trademark of the dancing and warrior horses, whose history dates back to the early 12th century in the Marwar region in the state of Rajasthan, India.
Having been a horsewoman all my life - training and showing America's oldest breed, the Morgan horse, with its relatively modest 200-year history - when I read about the Marwari, I knew that during our upcoming visit to India, I had to meet some of these beautiful creatures and learn more about them. Most tourists go to India to visit the Taj Mahal, sail on the Ganges, climb to the Red Fort on an elephant, and perhaps have an Ayurvedic massage. Yes, I wanted to do all that, but, as usual in my travels, I needed to get off the beaten track a bit, in this case to a horse farm.
When I learned that a stud farm claiming to have the purest original blood line of Marwari horses was just on the outskirts of Udaipur, I made arrangements to visit it. Living on his ancestral estate, the owner Maharaj Narendra Singh Mewar is a descendant of a royal family that dates back into 1,500 years of Indian history.
Later, it was difficult to leave our opulent suite of rooms overlooking the lake, but we managed to do so in order to dine at the rooftop restaurant on lobster bisque, pate, lamb shank, duck breast, accompanied by a fine Indian wine. The reflection of the illuminated and majestic 17th century City Palace, across from us on the mainland, shimmered on the lake. While visiting the City Palace earlier that day, paintings of Marwari horses on the walls, as well as several living ones in their stalls on display for visitors, each with its own electric fan and personal attendant, made me think about tomorrow's visit to the horse farm.
Early the following morning, we traveled to the outskirts of Udaipur and up the long driveway to the Pratap Country Inn, A Royal Resort, as Maharaj Narendra Singh Mewar's ancestral home is now called. We entered this former hunting lodge of the royal family. Decorating the walls throughout the entrance hall were photos of the many famous visitors from over the years, including horsewoman Jacqueline Kennedy.
Singh, an elderly but robust man, casually dressed, exuding the dignity befitting his ancestry, sat in his living room surrounded by several large dogs and cages of exotic birds, beside a bank of windows overlooking horse paddocks. After some preliminary introductions, he invited us outside to view the horses. Soon we were treated to a succession of purebred Marwaris parading before us, from a nine-month-old bay filly to the patriarch, the 24-year-old jet-black stallion, Sultan.
While feasting our eyes on these very lively descendants, the Maharaj entertained us with tales of the breed's history, as well as their dedication and agility.
During the almost 100 years of the British colonial period, the British identified Marwari horses with Indian royalty, thereby introducing European breeds to dilute the bloodlines and even killed or castrated breeding stock. After independence, the Marwari remained out of favor because Indians identified them with the outdated ruling class and oppressive feudalism.
But since the 1980s, with the burgeoning of India's tourism industry, numerous former maharajahs have turned ancestral Rajput forts and palaces into hotels or museums and gone back into one of their historical pursuits: horse breeding. Today, frequently seen in Bollywood films, as well as used in Hindu wedding ceremonies, for polo, racing, police and army mounts, and increasingly as beloved family mounts, the Marwari are known as "dancing horses," similar to haute ecole dressage or the Lipizzaners of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. Their movements originated centuries earlier as combat maneuvers.
The Indian government supports the revival of these animals with grants. The Marwar Horse Breeding and Research Institute near, appropriately enough, the city of Jodhpur, conducts educational programs, and the famous Pushkar Animal Fair in November features Marwari dancing horses.
Singh invited us back to go on one of his Horse Safari Camping trips, as well as to stay in one of the lodge's comfortable guest rooms. When we hesitated at the thought of spending four to seven hours each day on horseback, he reminded us that as desert horses the Marwari are born with a "revaal" gait, a four-beat gait that is very smooth and prevents them from sinking into desert sands. For the rider, it feels like sliding along on silk, with no bumps or jolts. From one to seven days in length, the safaris feature large, comfortable tents, elegantly prepared meals, even hot and cold water, and finally the amazing full-moon experience of the Pushkar Fair itself.
For the remainder of our Indian sojourn to the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, the Ganges, a ride on that elephant, and even a carriage ride at the opulent Taj Ganges in a 220-year-old carriage pulled by a 3-year-old Marwari stallion with the driver, who is himself a third-generation Marwari breeder, I kept mulling over the idea of bringing that Marwari filly home with us to California. Fortunately, my husband reminded me of the price tags involved, plus we'd have to stay in India several months to deal with the export and import formalities. The cost of buying, importing and keeping a Marwari in California would certainly put a crimp in our travel budget.
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This week's ESPN Insider column looks at Playmaker Score, the method for analyzing top wide receiver prospects that we introduced in Football Outsiders Almanac 2009. Dez Bryant has far and away this year's top score, with Dezmon Briscoe as our sleeper to watch and Arrelious Benn as the most likely bust.
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For Mardy Gilyard, did you include games played as CB in the count, as suggested by a commenter over there?
A.Benn is this year Hakeem Nicks. Good, physical WR whose style translate very well to the NFL. Probably won't be the best WR in his class (D.Bryant can be if he stays clean, and D.Thomas is probably the prospect with the most upside), but he's the safest WR prospect IMO, and will at least be a solid #2.
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THE West Midlands will benefit from being right at the heart of Britain's high speed rail network, according to the boss of the region's transport authority.
Centro's chief executive Geoff Inskip was speaking after Monday's confirmation of the route of the second phase of the controversial HS2 line.
It will provide a direct link between Birmingham along two branches to Manchester and Leeds with new stations at Toton near Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester and Manchester Airport.
Journey times from the second city to Manchester will be cut from the current one hour 31 minutes to 41 minutes, from two hours to Leeds to 57minutes.
Campaigners have slammed Monday's announcement at a time when five legal challenges are pending on the section from Birmingham to London.
Mr Inskip insisted HS2's fast, direct services between major cities would release capacity on crowded existing lines for more passenger and freight services. He also said it would help ease road congestion which currently cost the West Midlands £2.3billion a year.
"So much of the talk so far has inevitably focused on the phase one link from Birmingham to London, but the economic benefits of linking our regions with faster, direct services are often overlooked," Mr Inskip said.
"We're excited because we're right at the heart of this network and the challenge for us now is to get the very best return we can from HS2."
Construction on HS2 will begin in four years with the southern section open to passengers in 13 years and the northern section six years after that.
Independent research predicts phase one will generate 22,000 jobs in the West Midlands and deliver £1.5billion per year to the regional economy.
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March 7, 1933. DAVIS ATTACHMENT FOR LADDERS 7 Filed May '7, 1932 gwuznioz ($072 13 ZZZYanla.
1: 151555514 YIIIII/IIIIIwI/I/z I V T Patented Mar. 7, 1933 UNITED STATES CHARLES H. DAVIS, or HAWKINS, WISCONSIN ATTACHMIENT FOR LADDERS I Application filed May 7,
This invention relates to new and useful improvements in supporting devices, and particularly to devices for supporting painters pots, and the like, on ladders.
One object of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient device of this character which can be easily and quickly applied to and removed from a ladder, and which will support a paint pot, or the like, in proper level position.
Another object is to provide a device of this character which is readily adjustable to cause the paint pot to assume a level position, regardless of the angle of the ladder.
A further object is to provide a device of this character which is adjustable to cause the paint pot to assume a level position, and also permit such adjustment without removing the device from the ladder.
A still further object is to provide a device which is adapted to support a paint pot in position for use, and at the same time support an additional paint pot, to be used at another time, such device being particularly adapted for supporting paint pots containing two colors.
Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.
In the drawing:
Figure 1 is a front elevation of in position on a ladder.
Figure 2 is a side elevation.
Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view through a ladder looking toward the right in Figure 1.
Figure 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional view on line H of Figure 1, showing the the device notched wheel and means for holding the.
wheel in different rotary adjusted positions. Figure 5 is an enlarged vertical sectional view on the line 5-5 of Figure 2.
Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, 10 represents a side rail, and 11 the rungs of a ladder, in connection with which the present invention is adapted for use. The receptacle 12, for receiving the paint pot, is composed'of strap metal strlps. including the circular wall 12 and the crossed 1932. Serial o. 609,954.
bottom strips 12". Secured to the'outer face of the wall 12 isa circular disk 13 having the opposite inturned tabs 14, at the sides,
. andthe single narrower tab 15 at the center of the upper portion of the disk, said tabs being struck from'the periphery of the disk, as will be understood from the drawing. In the center'of the disk is a vertically arranged elongated opening or slot 16', which receives the pin 17 carried by-the center of the peripherally toothed disk 18, the teeth'of the disk being designated by the numeral 19, on the drawing. The tabs 14 serve to retain the disk 18 in close contact with the disk 13, while permitting the disk 18 to rotate freely with relation thereto. It will be noted that the .tab 15 is of a width slightly less than the space between adjacent pairs of teeth 19, so that the said tab may easily engage in said space, and thereby hold the disk 18 PATENT OFFICE 1 "7o against rotation. It will be further under- 1 plate 20, which, as seen in the drawing, lies longitudinally of the outer side face of the side rail 10 of the ladder. Also securedto the disk 18 is a wire clamp 21, comprising 7 the arms 22 having terminal hooks 23, the upper one ofwhich is adapted for engagement with one of the rungs 11 of. the ladder, while the other hook depends at the rear ofthe ladder in position to receive the hail of an additional paint pot. The position of the clamp, between the arms and the plate 20,
is offset outwardly in parallel-spaced rela tion to the plate, to provide a space within v which is receive-d the side rail of the ladder.
-mits movement of the pin 17 with the result that the tab 15 will engage between an adjacent pair of teeth, thereby holding the disk 18, and the disk 13 against relative rotations By this construction, when the ladder is placed against the wall, the painter may lift the receptacle to such a degree that the pin 17 will be in the lower end of the slot 16, when the receptacle may be rotated, with respect to the ladder engaging means, and permit the receptacle to be adjusted to a position which is horizontal and parallel to the ground. The operator then permits the receptacle to gravitate until the tab 15 engages between a pair of teeth 19, when the receptacle will be held against rotation, and the paint pot, disposed in the receptacle, held in its proper horizontal position. I
It will be particnlarlynoted that there tary adjustment of the receptacle is accomplished without the necessity of removing the clamp from the ladder.
It willbe also noticed that the use of nuts and bolts, or other adjusting or clamping means, is obviated.
What is claimed is A rotatably adjustable bracket including a peripherally tooth-ed disk having a central pivot, a second disk having a diametrically arranged slot receiving said. central pivot whereby to rotate and slide with respect to the first disk, lugs on the periphery of the second disk embracing the toothed periphery of the first disk, and a tongue intermediate the lugs and arranged to engage between adjacent teeth of the first disk upon gravitational movement of the second disk,
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Sunday, November 16, 2014
Pie-hole (Diner Doodles)
I've done some of my best work while sitting in diners (and cafes and pubs, but that's another post or two). It's not so much a matter of ambiance, it's more often just routine, a passively inspirational setting complete with creative juices. It's a comfortable corner to let the background white noise of conversation, clinking dishes and coffeecups wash away the accumulated mental detritus from sitting in the studio. And there's pie.
Locally there's Sourdough Sam's where I'm a regular fixture, and also I haunt Deb's Diner (best biscuits + gravy in the state), and the Hilltop Truck Stop (best pie ever).
Elsewhere in Alaska: the City Diner in downtown Anchorage and Gwennies too, plus the Valley Hotel in Palmer (more pie). Diner-wise I often miss Sylvia's in Maine, Clary's in Savannah, the Ellery Country Cow in WNY, and the infamous All Night Eggplant in East Syracuse.
Bonus Trivia: the best cinematic diner scenes (including pie): Michael Mann's 1995 Heat (not the famous scene with DeNiro and Pacino, but with "Want some pie?" Waingrow); Oliver Stone's 1994 Natural Born Killers (Mickey's "Well, let's give that Key Lime pie a day in court"); and Tony Scott's 1993 True Romance ("I'd love some pie").
Honorable Mentions (sans pie): Woody Allen's 1985 "The Purple Rose of Cairo (Mia Farrow as Cecilia in her hellish waitress job "My specialty are mice and silverfish."); Brad Bird's 1999 The Iron Giant (art-hipster Dean McCoppin "Squirrel's in my pants"); Harold Ramis' 1993 Groundhog Day (Phil's omniscient description of the patrons in the diner); Clint Eastwood's 1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Luther Driggers at the counter with his leashed flies); Quentin Tarantino's 1992 Reservoir Dogs (Mr Pink's rational for tipping); David Lynch's 2001 Mulholland Drive (Dan's nightmare description); Gregory Widen's 1995 The Prophecy (Christopher Walken as the arch-angel Gabriel and his brief exchange with Madge); and last - but by no means the least - the Coen brother's 1998 The Big Lebowski (Walter Sobchak's "enjoying my coffee" scene).
|Image: Polygram Filmed Entertainment/Working Title Films
Saturday, November 15, 2014
"Watering Hole"
Hearkening back to the advise of my longterm art adviser while getting my BFA: "Jamie, it's okay to fantasize, just fantasize correctly." Meaning, the elevated point-of-view for this panel was completely fabricated, as I didn't have access to a crane for reference shot, just residual memory from many, many trips to haul water (a ritual for those of us living the dream of a dry cabin lifestyle). In one way that is the essence of a cartoon: drawing "visual shorthand," ie just enough information in the marks to trigger an association in the viewer's mind. So it rarely, if ever, has to be "realistic" in the sense of exact photographic depiction. So through linear perspective it's possible to literally fill in the blanks and make it up, at least to the point where it's believable... so that "it works."
And I needed to deliberately arrange the elements in the composition so as to clearly delineate the foreground (people + pickups), the midground (the structure), and the background (the looming presence of one of the delivery trucks pulling around behind to fill it's tank).
This pencil (posted below) is also a great example of where you can see how much I just "draw through" things, like they are transparent, and successively build up layers of overlapping shapes and objects, working roughly from the back to the front of the pictorial plane, from largest object to smallest, and then and only then fill in the details. In this way one effectively sets the stage as it were, building places to put in the people and props.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Pop Con 2014 (Updated)
The folks at UAF Student Activities are resurrecting Pop Con, and I'll have a table today (Friday the 14th) from 3-10pm, plus again tomorrow (Saturday the 15th) from 2-9pm somewhere at this gig. The plan is to showcase some of the archives with a display of samples from previous student works in both the Summer Sessions Cartoon & Comic Arts course (the upcoming season/2015 will be its 9th year), and also feature fabulous material from the Visual Art Academy Cartooning classes.
Stop by for a visit (I'll be doing public demos both days on advanced doodling/penciling/inking/watercolor) & bring some folks by that might be interested in either of these opportunities with sequential arts.
It's been many, many years since I sat in on one of these - back in the day it was called ArcticCon, and I was a little outta my element what with the overwhelming focus of the event being on either gaming or manga/anime, neither of which I'm terribly interested in, as basically all I do is basically sit around and draw cartoons. Weirdo. Though it is kinda funny feeling out of place amidst people who are usually too nerdy or geeky to fit in with other folks - which is still a wonderful place to be anyways. Maybe if I wore a big beaver suit? Hmmm....
Update: day one went great with good turnout and lots of folks dropping by, taking a peak at some pages and asking questions. In the meantime this is the best cosplay I could come up with:
|Next year I'll sport a tail...
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Alaska Book Week 2014
|Image: Kris Capps/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
For Alaska Book Week this year I was invited to peddle wares at the Fairbanks Arts Association's Bear Gallery in
Hatched by the 49 Writers collective, the event is part of the growing celebration of literary talents that abound in the Interior and across the state, and dovetails with the efforts of other organizations and institutions in showcasing the works of a diverse and impressive roster of writers who make Alaska home.
Still not entirely sure what I was doing there, but as usual, had a lot of fun... especially as soon as my handlers left me unsupervised at the table. Probably too much fun, come to think of it.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
"Tiananmen Ptarmigan"
Perhaps it's somewhat fitting that the Willow Ptarmigan is the official bird of the state of Alaska, given its inherent propensity at ridiculous situations that don't exactly inspire confidence in its intelligence. Or, on the other hand, it exceptionally illustrates the fate of many animals at the hands (or in this case, under the wheels) of the dominant species. Not to mention our nasty habit of turning on ourselves, given the iconic imagery of the original Tank Man.
This particular panel is based on a true story, one that's not all that rare for anyone who's trundled about the back roads of Alaska. While on a midnight excursion by vehicle into Denali National Park we ran across - or as it happened damn near ran over - one of these birds blithely blundering about. While we were the only other creatures sharing the road that particular evening, this scenario does happen with some frequency, and excepting the odds of surviving the sheer mass of a moose, people in our neck of the woods barely skip a beat. That is, if they even bother enough to slow down. That said, the sight of a guy flat on his belly in the middle of the road might have given some pause.
In so far as linear perspective is concerned, this is technically a "worm's eye view" as opposed to a "bird's eye view," but it of an actual bird's eye view. At any rate, I did score one exceptional portrait of a magnificent Great Horned Owl who had staked out a treetop alongside the road. Most folks covet any sighting of Alaska's photogenic megafauna, but myself I'm just as pleased and awed at encountering any other denizen of Denali.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Workshop: Alaska Art Education Association 2014 Conference
The Alaska Art Education Association has an annual statewide conference that rotates amongst different communities, and it's been five years since Fairbanks hosted one of these gigs. I was honored to be offered a slot to teach a workshop "Comics In The Classroom" - which dovetailed quite nicely with this year's theme, "ThINKing About Art."
There are always opportunities to regularly work with interns, teachers and other literacy organizations on both the local and statewide levels, but this was a particularly wonderful chance to network with actual art educators and hopefully inspire them in turn to utilize this "uniquely engaging" medium in their own classrooms.
I'm posting here a copy of the workshop outline + catalog description that I had the pleasure to conduct: here's also a backlink to a breakdown of the process for a sample 60-minute classroom session here plus a master list of resources here. I think it's a fairly good introduction to the diversity of material that can be customized for classroom usage, and as per my usual caffeinated volcano of enthusiasm I went and took up the entire allotted time just skimming the surface of all the possibilities, from 175 images on screen, a big ol' bag of sample books, and a multitude of examples from former students and classes I've had the good fortune to teach over the years. I can easily get carried away and end up shorting the actual hands-on demo portion of a presentation when there's a few folks who are first being introduced to the breadth + depth of the medium... there's simply so much out there to see and do.
Workshop Outline
1) Show & Tell: Sampler Mix
2) Contemporary + Historical Overview of creators
3) Materials + Character Development
4) Cartoon Jams + Think Before You Ink exercises
5) Gags/Single-Panel Cartoons
6) Editorial/Caricature
7) Comic Strips/Syndication
8) Comic Books/Collaborative Page
9) Children's Books
10) Storyboards/Animation
11) Commercial Applications
12) Graphic Novels
13) Minicomics + exercise
Selected Bibliography/Resources
"Understanding Comics" + "Making Comics" by Scott McCloud
"Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice" by Ivan Brunetti
"Comics & Sequential Art" + "Graphic Storytelling & Visual Narrative" by Will Eisner
"Drawing Words & Writing Pictures" + "Mastering Comics" by Abel/Madden
"Comics Art" by Paul Gravett
Nickelodeon Magazine
Noel Wien Public Library
The Comic Shop of Fairbanks
The Comics Reporter
Comics Research.org
Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index
The Comics Journal
The Graphic Classroom
ALA/Young Adult Library Services Assn.
Off The Shelf
Dan Piraro (Bizarro), Hank Ketchum (Dennis The Menace), Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), Mark Tatuli (Lio), Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), Richard Thompson (Cul de Sac), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Linda Medley (Castle Waiting), Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis*), Craig Thompson (Blankets*, Good-bye, Chunky Rice), David Laskey (Don't Forget This Song), Bryan Lee O'Malley (Scott Pilgrim), Alison Bechdel (Fun Home*), Carl Barks (Donald Duck), Winsor McCay (Little Nemo in Slumberland), J.N. 'Ding" Darling (editorial), Art Spiegelman (Maus), Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are).
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Nuggets in the House: The Alaska House Art Gallery
I'm very pleased to now be officially represented by The Alaska House Art Gallery (website here and Facebook page here) in downtown Fairbanks: along with some framed pieces on display, there are also original works available for sale plus the full catalog of my books.
Besides being one of the only three major galleries remaining open in the Interior (the other two being the Bear Gallery and Well Street Art Co.), The Alaska House is one of the oldest in the state and, prior to a brief hiatus, the longest in continuous operation. Originally opened in 1960, the gallery moved into its current home in 1964, a beautiful structure built in 1939 of rock + "hand-hewn logs, oak floors and leaded windows" right in the heart of downtown Fairbanks. Inside this venerable institution of the arts is an aesthetic and cultural smörgåsbord of delightful collections "exhibiting Alaska Native and resident artists, paintings, artifacts, carvings and sculpture, masks, fabric art and hand-crafted jewelry." (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 8/10)
It is also a repository for the legacy and work of Claire Fejes, one of the significant artists in Alaskan history: "an original and formidable talent" and "one of the rare female voices reflecting the woman's side of Arctic society." Alaska House Art Gallery is owned and operated by her daughter Yolande and Ron Veliz, whose hospitality and knowledge makes any visitor feel welcome and at home. Being picked up by these folks is a humbling advancement in my personal career as an artist and I look forward to future opportunities from this creative liaison.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
"Count Castor"
Sure, technically it's the day after the official holiday (and this is one of the very rare incidences the panel's posted here the day before the print version runs in the paper), but hey, it ain't like you stop eating candy after Halloween. In fact, if you're like me, now's the time to stock up on all the leftovers on sale.
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Fun In The Sun
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Summertime's just about over but the temperature's still rising everywhere, especially when it comes to members of the opposite sex - they seem waay hotter than they usually are. Time to put on more sunscreen and hope you don't get burnt.
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Bump! Workaround for the LG G3 Locked Bootloader – XDA TV
Posted November 22, 2014 at 09:00 am by Jimmy McGee
The LG G3 is a power house device. It's been a favorite of many people. However, the Bootloader is sticky. If you want to unlock the bootloader so you can flash a custom recovery or ROM, you have your work cut out for you. LG did not make this easy by any means. Of course the brains at XDA have found a way to bump a custom recovery on the LG G3. Even then, the process isn't the easiest to follow.
There is no need to fear! In today's video, XDA TV Producer Jared shows you how to Bump! your LG G3 so that you can unlock the bootloader on your LG G3. Jared shows you a way to make the process even easier using Flashify. He gives you a step by step demonstration of how to bump your LG G3. So grab your LG G3 and check out this . . . READ ON »
TWRP Available for the Google Nexus 9 and 6
Posted November 19, 2014 at 11:30 pm by Tomek Kondrat
The HTC-manufactured Google Nexus 9 has just been on the market for just a couple of weeks. As you may recall, Google promised to deliver the newest version of the Android with encryption turned on by default. Luckily, the strengthened security policies didn't cause any additional trouble with rooting, as the Volantis was quickly rooted by XDA Senior Recognized Developer Chainfire.
With working root, the only thing that was left was a custom recovery. This problem has been solved by the TeamWin Lead Developer and recovery guru, the XDA Senior Recognized Developer Dees_Troy. TWRP 18.104.22.168 handles Android 5.0 Lollipop and its new features perfectly. The new version of TWRP will now automatically de. . . READ ON »
How Open Source Can Help Your Project w/ Ethan Yonker – BABBQ2014
Posted October 31, 2014 at 04:00 pm by Jimmy McGee
People have finally recovered from this year's Big Android BBQ festivities. After all the fun and merriment, we cannot forget the sessions. We've talked about the Opening Keynote, and the User Experience session put on by Kevin Bruckert, technical lead for the user interface area of the NVIDIA SHIELD line of products, and today we have another great presentation for you.
Lead developer for the Team Win Recovery Project for over three years, Ethan Yonker discusses how the topics covered in last year's speech covering software architecture, can be combined with the idea of Open Source to make your project succeed and grow a strong community around your project. So if you wanted to learn more about the p. . . READ ON »
Bump! Works Around the LG G3 Locked Bootloader
Posted October 10, 2014 at 04:30 pm by Tomek Kondrat
Without any doubt, we can say that the LG G3 is a great device. LG did its very best to provide high level technical specification and make its flagship a "must have." While end users are likely enjoying stock ROM experience, folks here at XDA are yet to see some custom ROMs prepared by the community. This is all due to a locked bootloader that has been served by the LG.
The LG G3 was rooted back in August, when XDA Senior Recognized Developer jcase and his team discovered a vulnerability and created an exploit allowing users to push the superuser application. Now after a few months, XDA members with any variants of the device can finally around this limitation and flash modified "Bumped!" i. . . READ ON »
HTC Desire 816 Gets Developer Treatment with Custom ROM, Recovery, and Kernel
Posted September 13, 2014 at 01:00 pm by Tomek Kondrat
In the last few days, we've talked about some fairly high end devices receiving official ports of popular ROMs or updates via OTA. Users of mid-range devices usually must be more patient when it comes to waiting for their devices getting developer support. Patience, however, is certainly a virtue.
The HTC Desire 816 was announced at MWC in Barcelona in February of this year and eventually released in April. This 5.5" phablet brought a number of high-end specs into mid-range world. Now, Desire 816 owners have a proper reason for celebration, as XDA Recognized Developer Grarak and XDA Senior Member v_superuser laid the cornerstone for the future development for this device by releasing . . . READ ON »
Team Win Recovery Project 2.8 Brings Native MTP Support and More!
Posted September 10, 2014 at 06:00 pm by Tomek Kondrat
Team Win Recovery Project, known more simply as TWRP, is one of the most popular custom recoveries available for Android. It has a nice layout, a ton of features in its easy to use UI, and it gives us the ability to dive into custom ROM world. This recovery is available for most popular devices–no matter if they are big or small. XDA Senior Recognized Developer Dees_Troy and XDA Recognized Developer bigbiff who developed most of the features, have updated the recovery and bumped its version to 2.8. It's a major release so the list of changes is huge.
What's new in the latest TWRP? The UI layout hasn't changed, but the recovery gained quite a lot of new features that many of . . . READ ON »
TWRP Now Available for the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live
Posted July 26, 2014 at 09:00 am by Will Verduzco
Over the past week or so, we've talked quite a bit about the first two Android Wear-powered smartwatches, the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Live. Last night, we saw a great toolkit for G Watch owners. And just one day before, temp root was achieved on the Gear Live and its restore images were pulled.
Now, the development community has reached the next major milestone thanks to custom recoveries for both devices. The custom recoveries for both devices come in the form of the highly versatile and feature packed TWRP recovery. These images are thanks to TWRP project leader, XDA Senior Recognized Developer Dees_Troy. And as can be expected from official TWRP releases, the recovery i. . . READ ON »
Android App Review: Customize Your TWRP Recovery with This Theme Manager – XDA Developer TV
Posted June 12, 2014 at 10:00 am by Jimmy McGee
If you spend any amount of time on XDA, you probably also spend a lot of time in your recovery. Perhaps you hate blue, or perhaps you just want to change things up a little. And since we like changing things, wouldn't it be great if you could apply themes to your TWRP Recovery more easily?
XDA Senior Member ScumpinatoS offers up an application that allows you apply themes to your TWRP Recovery very easily. In this video, XDA Developer TV Producer TK reviews TWRP Theme Manager. TK shows off the application, its uses, and functionality, and then he gives his thoughts on the application. Check out this app review.. . . READ ON »
Jazz Up Your Recovery with TWRP Theme Manager
Posted May 30, 2014 at 04:00 am by Conan Troutman
Team Win Recovery Project, or TWRP for short, is one of the most popular custom recovery options available. It offers support for a wide variety of devices both new and old. It has all the features that you would expect to find in a recovery, as well as a whole lot more. One such not necessarily essential, but nonetheless welcome feature is support for custom themes. While a recovery might not be the first thing on everyone's list of things to theme, I suspect that a few of you out there spend just as much time looking at recovery as you do actually using your device.
For those of you who do theme your TWRP, XDA Senior Member ScumpinatoS created an application that might be of interest. It's called sim. . . READ ON »


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