Arne Wong is my animation teacher!
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But first: why am I here?
I have been gone for a long time, exploring the beauty of real life AND of the avatar sites that are springing up like weeds. Every teenager and his sister want to make avatar sites with the phpbb open-source software...that's cool. But, hard on the wallet for members.
Enough about my embarrassing personal life. I recently tried to log into arukun's site and typed in
http://ben-10.com/
which just leads to a dead end. Someone registered it and did nothing with it. You'd think at least CN would buy it to route to their site, but no. Pshaw.
Sites that lead nowhere are creepy.
The other panel art
I designed it in Feb 2006, but was never satisfied with the sketch. Tonight I went ahead and finished it. Stinkfly has forced perspective, but that's because I was drawing him from the 4" toy and flipped him around...O.o
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My rendition. I'm not entirely pleased with it but it's a convention pic, I mean, a quick-ish sketch.
Colored in the GIMP
Ben 10 Live Action movie
Recently rediscovered MST3K. Laughter is good medicine and that show just knocks me over.
PSYCH is another good show that is starting a new season soon. Yay!
Recent Reviews
The song was done in a Jamaican rap, with a lot of words in broken English sprayed very quickly at the mic. The beat (probably by a drum machine) was catchy and unusual. The argot was surprising and fun. It was the first time I\'d heard the word \"Irie\" used in a sentence.
But, because the singer was a tall, fit, white guy, that was the bone of contention of choice. There were complaints that Snow was aping the Jamaican culture, although it says in the song that he grew up with that culture in his Toronto neighborhood. Is it so terrible to adopt that which you grew up with? Or is it only OK if it\'s the main culture?
There were the inevitable comparisons to Vanilla Ice, another singer whose career did not take off because he was white. There was a great parody of the song on In Living Color, with Jim Carrey even breaking into Popeye the Sailor-style rapping to poke fun at the rapid-fire patter of Snow.
Both \"Informer\" and the parody \"Imposter\" are available on youtube.
The song is supposed to be autobiographical, but who knows what really happened. Rappers often lie and pretend to be more \"street\" than they are. I remember an interview with Snow - I believe one of the Marsalis family was interviewing him, for a \"Night Tracks\" type show. Snow was boasting that he did get arrested but he beat the rap. As he gloated over ostensibly getting one over on the Man, the interviewer just looked disgusted but politely did not point out the idiocy of that attitude.
