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Legends of Rock #01 - Ric Ocasek

Starting out with one of the most interesting looking people on earth (with the most improbable facial anatomy): Ric Ocasek. This man has put out a bazillion hits with The Cars and has produced albums for Suicide, Guided By Voices, Weezer, even my beloved Jonathan Richman. A perfect new-wave rocker and bubblegum popper, Ric Ocasek is a Legend of Rock. 

To get you started in the world of Ric, I've made an excellent mix of the choicest Cars.

The Cars - a Ric Ocasek Mix by Austineustice on Mixcloud

ae album picks: The Cars (1978) & Shake It Up (1981)

Five Deadly Venoms

Pupil #2: The Snake from Chang Cheh’s (much more) story-driven martial arts film Five Deadly Venoms. One hand represents the snake’s head, the other the tail. Trying to keep the warmup game going.

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Game Map

More work on the little iphone game I’m working on. Here is the ubiquitous swamp map. I like this swamp map a bit more than most because it is actually pretty inviting and good for ghosting ghosts if you ask me.

First day in Seattle. Super awesome.  Got up extra early on account of the time change and got all the bicycles out of the shipping boxes and ready to ride. Went to the gun range and shot a wide array of 9mm pistols. This manly activity made us realize that doing guy stuff can make you feel less manly if you’re  pretty uncomfortable doing it. So then four of us tried to split a cigar but we ended up only making it half way through. I think we redeemed ourselves though, by inventing Bliskey - which is beer and whiskey, naturally. More soon.

Check this guy out, his name is Daniel. This is some character design for a game I hope to make with some friends in the future for the mobile devices. For now, I'll keep dressing him up in dandy gear. 

Every year, I host a dumpling party in which we make a heck of a lot of dumplings and watch a whole mess of movies starring a selected, beloved, actor. This year, it's John Cusack, so I drew him on a poster for the FOURTH annual ae Dumpling Party.

Bliizzard

I’ve developed a new system for numbering severe winter storms.  It is very logical and looks pretty awesome.  Going out on a limb here and pre-calling tonight’s snow the second winter’s blizzard. With my system you can give every storm the non-anonymous respect it deserves.  I hope there is The Bliiizzard later this winter.

Yesterday I posted a Happy New Year for all the folks who follow my blog. After that, I went about my work day as usual, getting back into the swing of things after a most excellent break the past week and a half. During lunch, however, I checked the blog, I suppose egotistically, and the strange and happy dragon on the front page really struck me. I made a few doodles on a notepad and surmised what he or she might look like at different angles. As I did, a mascot for the year of 2012 took shape and seemed rather undeniable once done in color. This is Newton.

In serious need of inking practice, I took the opportunity to draw Patrick Hosmer's Sad Ninja. Grays added digitally.

Been working on early stages of an ABC book. All pretty goofy alliteration with some fun animals. Twenty six is a lot of letters...