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Pushout Graphics Final
Monday, October 29, 11:47 PM By
Bryan
This is the last Pushout post for a while. I'll still be working on it, just not posting. I finally have the final graphics locked. It takes about 15 to 30 minutes to make a six-card page. There's 216 cards, so if I just make a page or two a day, I'll be done in under a month. It prints out nice and I'm also making the electronic versions of the cards.
Pushout Half Graphics
Thursday, October 25, 11:08 PM By
Bryan
I've made 366 'half graphics' for the game. Each half is one half of the cards. I've also made only 36 of the 216 cards. It took over two hours just to make the 36 cards and I plan to scrap that and remake them because I didn't like the look. The half graphics took over five hours.
The game is creeping along.
Pushout Graphics Overhaul
Tuesday, October 23, 01:29 PM By
Bryan
This weekend, there's a few small game cons in Lincoln. I'm hoping to completely overhaul Pushout to make it play faster, with more strategy and with an eye to a four player expansion. I hope to demo the game this weekend. Above is the new designed card with, as you can see, two new abilities. I'm rewriting the rules and changing a lot. I'm also preparing the game for an electronic version and redoing the way I make cards. Thanks to Jesse for helping me play test. I am leaving the game open for expansions. This one card represents a lot of work and thought.
Although, the final version will probably have a different font.
Pushout Graphics
Wednesday, October 03, 04:24 AM By
Bryan
Today's Thing is part one of a new abstract card game I wrote called Pushout. Today, I spent a few hours on creating the templates, formatting, design and layout of the 30 unique cards of the game. The picture you see is the set-up for a bigger variation of the game called Double Pushout. There are seven pages of printable cards, including a page of card backing for double-sided printers. The nut of this Thing for me was developing a system to make the cards easy to assemble in a factory-like way. This will make it easier to add expansions down the road.
When the game is finalized, it'll have graphic examples of game play and some game play variations. Tomorrow, I write the rules and will post the PDF.
So, warm up your printers for a free game tomorrow (probably late) and help me play test Pushout.
Wallhanging Collage
Friday, September 21, 11:57 PM By
Shelly
Bad Mod Art
Friday, September 21, 01:23 PM By
Bryan
Watercolor Pencil Sketch
Monday, September 17, 05:01 PM By
Shelly
Dreams of Evil Clowns
Wednesday, September 12, 01:26 PM By
Bryan
I have a bad cold and when I close my eyes I see only evil clowns.
The slow Thing week continues with evil clowns, as if any other kind exists.
"I'm on Break" Collage
Tuesday, September 11, 06:14 PM By
Shelly
Readymech
Tuesday, September 11, 02:07 PM By
Bryan
There's plenty more cool paper creature designs at Readymech. And I'm sure you can put them together better than me.
Tablet Sketch
Monday, September 10, 07:03 AM By
Shelly
I found a good sketch program I can
use my Wacom tablet with: Tablet
Draw. Just for fun, I did a similar sketch as the real pencil
sketch I did Friday. I like how this program feels, but it appears
to only sketch, no airbrush or chalk brushes, but I still like
it.
Welcome Collage
Thursday, September 06, 06:08 PM By
Shelly
Random Acts of Randomness 3
Friday, August 31, 01:27 PM By
Bryan
UNZIP.
PRINT.
POST IN PUBLIC PLACES.
TEAR DOWN.
NO REVOLUTION.
THE 'MY IMAGINARY FRIEND' EDITION
HERE
PRINT.
POST IN PUBLIC PLACES.
TEAR DOWN.
NO REVOLUTION.
THE 'MY IMAGINARY FRIEND' EDITION
HERE
Fantasy Football
Wednesday, August 29, 03:30 AM By
Bryan
Today's Thing was supposed to be a Alberto Gonzales cartoon. I had the master panel and titles done, but didn't like the jokes. Although, did you know that Gee-Dub's nickname for Gonzales was "Fredo?" So, that means either a.) Bush thinks Alberto is the weak son link in his mafia (uh, so, yea, he must also see himself as operating the gub-ment as a mafia business. Yep. Uh-huh.) or b.) he really likes spaghetti sauce.
So, I had to come up with something else. The guys at work have been bugging me to join their fantasy football league. Bugging me like carnival barkers, bugging me like jackals. They know a mark when they see one. But, hey, it is a new Thing. I can learn about it, see what the buzz is (That buzz is about what 10 years old?). I'm not a sports guy, I'd rather watch a movie. I'd rather play a board game than watch a game.
But Jiminy Christmas, fantasy football is the nerdiest circle jerk I've ever run across. On the nerd scale, fantasy football guys make the Star Wars dorks at Comicon look like Hugh freekin' Hefner. Obsessed with minutia to an OCD extent, the blowing up of ghost legends and lore to sycophantic heights, the pointless debates, the tiny-dicked bragging, the twitch twitch twitch at the websites worse than a porn-obssessed meth addict, all that sound and fury signifying nada.
Sports nerds are the nerdiest nerds in nerdville. Most other kinds of nerds I've met have some humorous detachment from their obsessions, but not hardcore fantasy football nerds. Fantasy football nerds are like the mainstream religion of nerdom. Enough people do it, so no one can question it's wackiness. It's serious 'effin business.
So, anyway, I decided to embrace the nerd half of FANTASY football. It's all abstract BS numbers and luck anyway. A weird stat-based game minus the cool, nifty bits. So, I whipped the graphics in this post because every team needs a logo and signed up. Hey, new weird software. I can't think of a better name for my team than The Turf Nerds, but I do like the first fantasy football pic.
Looks like I'll be losing 20 bucks on a stupid game. It's happened before.
More Bad Conceptual Art
Tuesday, August 28, 01:06 PM By
Bryan
More bad conceptual art. For some reason, you get a lot of toliets. It's avant garde art circa 1926. Try it HERE.
Random Acts of Randomness 2
Friday, August 17, 01:04 PM By
Bryan
Micromagnets
Monday, August 13, 11:57 PM By
Bryan
One of the first gifts Shelly ever bought me were some magnets. They were for stress relief. I ran across a set today at Toys 'R' Us at 80 percent off. So I tried to build a multi-level Thing, but didn't do so well. The slightest movement and it all comes crumbing together. I am, however, bouncing around some ideas to use these bits as the basis of a game. I'll let you know on Wednesday.
Random Acts of Randomness
Friday, August 10, 01:42 PM By
Bryan
The first PDF in a new campaign.
Print out PDF.
Post each of the two pages in public places.
Together, but more preferably, not together.
New PDF's later.
This is not destiny.
HERE.
Simpsonize Me
Tuesday, August 07, 11:23 PM By
Shelly
Simpsonize Me
Friday, August 03, 01:22 PM By
Bryan
Finally got Simpsonize Me to work. I look much younger and with blackish hair. More tweeking is needed. The above photo photo was simpsonized from this photo.
Coffee Painting
Monday, July 30, 11:53 PM By
Bryan
Today's Thing is from one of Shelly's craft project kits. I deviated heavily from the instructions and eventually quit when my efforts to correct mistakes created too many uncorrectable mistakes. Isn't that what art is all about, living with mistakes.
Maybe one of Shelly's Things could be to correct this painting. I'm not much of an artist, although I did enjoy this project and learned how to mix paints a bit.
See shell's two cents
Fish
Friday, July 27, 01:07 PM By
Bryan
After trying unsuccessfully for about an hour and a half to get Simpsonize Me to work, I had to give up and whip up some modern art in about 10 minutes with viscosity. I blame the stupid Burger King and his overall creepiness.
Hi Fructose Random Links
Wednesday, July 25, 11:53 AM By
Bryan
Hifructose is an art magazine I've been wanting to read for a while after I saw it previewed in Boing Boing. I finally picked up issue five. I like it --- the art exists somewhere between ART and toy. It's trying to figure out the world using day-glo martians, saucer-eyed girls and morning-time dreams. That's my lax impression. In a magazine like this, I want to explore more art. So today's Thing is every URL in the magazine randomized. All the ads-which are mostly for galleries and toys-plus I went back and found the home page for each artist or work shown that was available. There are 80 links. Click on the button for a new, random link and get exploring. Sorry the button itself is so lame, it's a generic script. Hifructose does have a link page here, but this randomizer has links their page doesn't.
Click Away.
Radio Banner
Monday, July 23, 11:56 AM By
Bryan
Today's Monday update Thing is a banner image for the podcast page. I had to stretch it out on the web page. Learning, learning...
CD Covers Collage
Wednesday, July 18, 11:38 AM By
Bryan
Bryan's 1st Pretentshus Comic (Age 4)
Tuesday, July 17, 04:39 AM By
Bryan
Not Matt Groening
Wednesday, July 11, 12:04 PM By
Bryan
My Wish for Today
Wednesday, July 04, 03:28 PM By
Shelly
I don't know how many people know this
about me (certainly not as many as know that Bryan is a
cheapskate), but I am part hippie. The Fourth of July holds special
meaning to hippies, as it is the highlight of the National Rainbow
Festival. On the fourth, thousands of hippies, the Rainbow Family,
attending the festival gather at noon to pray for peace through a
group Ohm.
This coloring artwork I made today, "Peace On Earth" is my addition to the group Ohm for today.
Here's the Wiki article.
This coloring artwork I made today, "Peace On Earth" is my addition to the group Ohm for today.
Here's the Wiki article.
One Continous Line
Friday, June 08, 01:04 PM By
Bryan
Charles Nelson Reilly Nailed to a Cross
Wednesday, May 30, 04:12 AM By
Bryan
Hmmm.
This Thing is based on an old Dead Milkman song and the passing of Charles Nelson Reilly.
Mature comic ahead.
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Lost: Through the Looking Glass
Thursday, May 24, 10:12 PM By
Shelly
i.e. my thoughts on what happened on
the season 3 finale, and what will happen in season 4.
Recap of season finale:
*the fast forward was just a dream brought on by the smoke monster (as seen in drawing) as proven by Jack's father being dead, but he refers to him in the fast forward, and in Kate not being in jail in the fast forward (she's a fugitive, if she gets off the island, she still is a fugitive!)
*Ben thought the shot or the fall would re-paralize Locke
*Why were Sun and Jin in the plane with Jack? (or were they?)
*The commercials gave too much away, like Des shooting the cyclops in the looking glass hatch, and the three shooters on the beach not being dead
*Charlie could be NOT DEAD. There might be an air bubble or something. If he is dead, that was a cheap, unmourned death, like the supporting actors that were buried alive
*Why does the transmission go straight to Penny?
*Maybe the flight 815 crash was all Jack's fault just like the lady on the bridge's crash ended up being all Jack's fault.
*The reason children are taken off the island, is because they will age quicker when they are off the island.
Predictions for Season 4:
*Ben and the origional islananders "purged" the Dharma group, Naomi and her ship are Dharma people trying to get back to the island
* The guy from Suddenly Susan is actually running everything
*Everyone on the island now will have to work together to stop the Dharma ship people
*Penny's transmission is just her continuing to search for Des, and it was being blocked
*"Jacob" is just an acronym for Just A Creation Of Ben's
Recap of season finale:
*the fast forward was just a dream brought on by the smoke monster (as seen in drawing) as proven by Jack's father being dead, but he refers to him in the fast forward, and in Kate not being in jail in the fast forward (she's a fugitive, if she gets off the island, she still is a fugitive!)
*Ben thought the shot or the fall would re-paralize Locke
*Why were Sun and Jin in the plane with Jack? (or were they?)
*The commercials gave too much away, like Des shooting the cyclops in the looking glass hatch, and the three shooters on the beach not being dead
*Charlie could be NOT DEAD. There might be an air bubble or something. If he is dead, that was a cheap, unmourned death, like the supporting actors that were buried alive
*Why does the transmission go straight to Penny?
*Maybe the flight 815 crash was all Jack's fault just like the lady on the bridge's crash ended up being all Jack's fault.
*The reason children are taken off the island, is because they will age quicker when they are off the island.
Predictions for Season 4:
*Ben and the origional islananders "purged" the Dharma group, Naomi and her ship are Dharma people trying to get back to the island
* The guy from Suddenly Susan is actually running everything
*Everyone on the island now will have to work together to stop the Dharma ship people
*Penny's transmission is just her continuing to search for Des, and it was being blocked
*"Jacob" is just an acronym for Just A Creation Of Ben's
Lost Prediction
Wednesday, May 23, 09:49 PM By
Shelly
Here's a quickly scribbled drawing to
show my prediction of what will happen on tonight's season finale
of LOST. (Yes, I see what time it is, but I haven't watched it yet,
it's on the TiVo)
To clarify:
You see, those two girls Charlie met in the looking glass hatch (Bambi and Thumper are their nicknames) are decedents of the island's original, original inhabitants, that date back to ancient times. These people worshiped a parthenon of gods and made statues all over the island to please them, the foot is the last of what remains of these. After interrogating Charlie, they decide the person they most want to talk to is Locke, who they search for and find, almost dead, so they take him to the foot of the foot to pray to their god to heal him.
OK, seriously. I predict the two girls aren't bad guys, that Locke AND Charlie will live, and we will again see the giant foot statue!
Now, off to actually watch!!
(And remind me next time to make my prediction a little sooner!)
To clarify:
You see, those two girls Charlie met in the looking glass hatch (Bambi and Thumper are their nicknames) are decedents of the island's original, original inhabitants, that date back to ancient times. These people worshiped a parthenon of gods and made statues all over the island to please them, the foot is the last of what remains of these. After interrogating Charlie, they decide the person they most want to talk to is Locke, who they search for and find, almost dead, so they take him to the foot of the foot to pray to their god to heal him.
OK, seriously. I predict the two girls aren't bad guys, that Locke AND Charlie will live, and we will again see the giant foot statue!
Now, off to actually watch!!
(And remind me next time to make my prediction a little sooner!)
Migraine
Tuesday, May 22, 10:22 PM By
Shelly
Since I've been incapacitatted by a
migraine this evening, I used one of the creative toys to make a portrait of what I feel like
right now. You have to click on this link since I don't know how to
make a screen print, sorry. And I'm so out of it from the migraine,
that I even forgot to sign my work. Now you know that's pretty
bad.
Edit: So now I've learned how to do a screen grab!
Edit: So now I've learned how to do a screen grab!
Self Portrait with SVU
Thursday, May 10, 07:06 AM By
Shelly
As a photography project and in an effort to see myself as others see me, I am going to start experimenting with self portraits. Self portrait does not necessarily mean a face shot, obviously, I've seen many creative self portraits on flickr that do not include the full face. I've also started a new page on my photo part of the blog just for the self portraits.
24 hours of flickr
Wednesday, May 09, 09:06 PM By
Shelly
May 5, 2007 was a special flickr day,
24 hours of flickr. Any and every flickr-ite was invited to take a
photo of their day. Whatever they wanted to show their day, a
day-in-the-life. Everyone can post one photo taken on that day to
the big pool, and some of the photos will be chosen to be in a
flickr book that will be coming out. This is my contribution.
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A Few Little Things
Tuesday, May 08, 09:50 PM By
Shelly
This was going to be my 'thing' today. Money with my honey. But since somebody made funny money and a bunch of other things, I would look pretty lame just posting this money. Hey, sometimes a thing takes a couple days, sometimes it takes a couple minutes.
In the spirit of trying not to be too lame, though, I'll add a couple more little things into this post! So it's a bonus, huzzah!
#2) All the people who left comments left in April were put into a random drawing, and the winner is: ZEB! And no, he didn't get entered as often as he posted, just once. In fact, we had 6 people entered, and a total of 10 prizes, so if the rest of you would like a button, too, just let me know.
And Lastly for today, a little guessing game, which will be answered later this week. What is this?
Zombie Week
Monday, May 07, 11:06 PM By
Bryan
New Jewellry
Thursday, May 03, 11:28 PM By
Shelly
Here's a necklace and earring set I made over the last couple weeks on my break at work. Grape colored rice beads, mother of pearl rice beads, and silver stars.
Cross Post
Macosaix
Wednesday, May 02, 12:05 PM By
Bryan
Today's Thing is Macosaix. This mac program allows you to make a mosaic out of photos in your iphoto or from any source. There were over 10,000 pictures scanned and 2,500 pictures used from our iphoto collection to make the image on the right. The quality is only about 75 percent of the original. I've done other photos that have approached 85 percent which looks pretty close. Check it out.
April Buttons
Monday, April 30, 06:52 AM By
Shelly
Here's a set of ten small buttons, made from a button kit. Some drawn, some made from magazine pictures. All sporting our web address.
And by the way, today's the last day of April, and every comment left in April will be put into a random drawing, so today is the last day to get entered into the contest.
Hmmm, can you guess what the prize might be?
Creative Toys & Games
Thursday, April 26, 06:46 AM By
Shelly
To help have fun exercising your Creative muscles, I've compiled a page full of links that are online art projects, games that make you think, and stuff that is just plain fun!
Warning! You may spend more time playing than you intend to.
Creative Toys
Cross Post
Flava Favicon
Wednesday, April 18, 03:40 AM By
Bryan
He/She's the first incarnation of the TTOTD Mascot. Seeshells drew him/her. I'm sure as Things change on TTOTD, Thingy will change as well.
To welcome the amorphous corporate-friendly and easily branded Thingy to the site, I've made a favicon out of him/her. So look to your address bar for your tiny, Thingy buddy.
I thought this project would be super easy, but actually ended up sucking up quite a bit of time. I've never made a favicon before and a 16x16 pixel picture is awful tricky to clean up.
Blue Moon Art Rage
Tuesday, April 10, 12:49 AM By
Bryan
Who's Got the Button??
Tuesday, April 03, 10:13 PM By
Shelly
Here are a few link buttons:
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