Good night.
12JUN20
10JUN20
Today was a better day than yesterday. Very upset stomach all day yesterday, for no real apparent reason. Bleah
So today went and got groceries, and mixed up some potting soil for the garden.
This afternoon was studio time. The page I’m working on was giving me a hard time. Too much dialog and too many panels. I thought about slitting it into a page and a half, and starting the next scene on the second half of the second page. I didn’t really like that idea. I cut dialog quite a bit, and rearranged panels, and now I think it’ll work. It’s all about story beats and page turns.
Video of me inking a page today
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6 May, 2020 06:54
X Has a new album out
If X can release a new album after 35 years, I guess I can do a new blog post about it. It’s pretty good. I especially liked Angel On The Road. Listen to and get it at Bandcamp (click on the player below).
New Model Protest • Buttondown
Decentralized, leaderless revolution.
https://buttondown.email/ayjay/archive/new-model-protest/
What’s uncanny about this, to me, is how much it echoes a model of distributed action imagined a few years ago by Adam Roberts in a novel called New Model Army — a novel I wrote about here. Roberts imagines a near-future world in which New Model Armies (NMAs) — collectivized and non-hierarchical organizations of mercenaries — have become major players on the European political scene. The novel’s protagonist associates himself with one of those NMAs, called Pantagral.
Squid skin inspires creation of next-generation space blanket: Engineers develop material with heat regulation properties — ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190429095053.htm
Drawing design inspiration from the skin of stealthy sea creatures, engineers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a next-generation, adaptive space blanket that gives users the ability to control their temperature. The innovation is detailed in a study published today in Nature Communications.
Renting Instead Of Owning, And Taking It To The Extreme : NPR
I embedded the audio of this below (it’s from All Things Considered) but here’s a link to the article: The Affluent Homeless. Could this be our distributed, sharing future? I find it interesting that not everyone needs to own things. I would love to see an in depth article on this trend.
High-fructose corn syrup boosts intestinal tumor growth in mice — ScienceDaily
Summary:
Consuming a daily modest amount of high-fructose corn syrup — the equivalent of people drinking about 12 ounces of a sugar-sweetened beverage daily — accelerates the growth of intestinal tumors in mouse models of the disease, independently of obesity, according to new research.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190321141924.htm