computer woes...

ive been having so many problems since i installed this new firewall software. nothing seems to work properly and its beginning to drive me a bit loopy...
for something that is supposedly a necessity for anyone with a computer, it sure is an extreme harsher of former mellows.

two from the weekend...

the wall......e

i went and checked out the wall---e movie today.
pretty fun stuff...

more of the sketches...

gigantor grapes of doom

so i picked up a bag of grapes the other day that turned out to be hideously genetically modified to the size of golf balls...

yikes!

a lil weekend sketch

more sticks news

if anyone will be in montreal around july 18th at 7 p.m., it looks like cuddle sticks will be having its canadian theatrical debut as part of the Just for Laughs comedy festival in a category called "eat my twisted shorts".
i might make an appearance, so id be happy to see any of you there as well...
and if you clap for my film, ill buy you a coke...
just for laughs film festival 2008

casa loma

i took a wander up to casa loma at lunchtime today...

neapolitan napoleon

you know...some days i wonder if my life has purpose...
such would be the case no more than when i sat down and produced the neapolitan napoleon.
surely i must be able to find better things to do with my time than this...

animation test

heres a little test i did for a pitch i was putting together a few months back. i was doing my best to find an alternative look for flash without giving myself too much extra work. youll probably get bored by the end cause its just a walk cycle with a panning bg, but i guess that what tests are for...

4 eyes...i mean legs

the cuddle sticks at annecy

taken from the 08 annecy site:

SPIKE & MIKE'S SICK AND TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION
The best... of bad taste

Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation has become an Annecy tradition.

They came from nowhere with nothing to create a market where none existed. By bringing animated shorts to the public, they introduced the world to the likes of Tim Burton, John Lasseter and Nick Park to name but a few. They took chances on films and directors and proved that animation could be cool, not just brat stuff and wholesome family fun.

Once again, Spike Decker, the big man with the big red crown, will hold court at this year's Annecy Festival. The 2008 edition features 26 new films, which Spike has searched far and wide for, as far away as France… and his mailbox!
New titles also include Happy Tree Friends, Breehn Burns' of Dr. Tran fame, The Furious Little Cinnamon Bun, Pat Smith's Puppet, Jeff Chiba Stearns’ crowd favourite Yellow Sticky Notes and many more!

But lest we forget the perverts, they are sure to be satisfied by John Goras’ sequel to Chirpy, Chirpy Returns, and newcomer Mike Geiger and his delightfully sick Cuddle Sticks which Spike proudly puts in the top two most disgusting films ever shown at this special programme.

The first 50 people at Thursday's 9.30 pm showing of Spike & Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation will receive a creator signed Happy Tree Friends DVD.

Come by and say hi to Spike, Joker Head and his entourage – especially if you are a cool French babe! Remember Spike is always looking for the next big thing so bring your film too!

vulcan

a doodle of a poodle...

what a pickle

again...feeling guilty about not posting, so i had a few minutes before i had to leave last night to make you this pickle...thats right, made just for you.

ok i was feeling guilty

so here is a drawing...

1 week...

i apologize for the lack of drawings lately... ive been spending a lot of my free time helping out on an all new fancy pantsy yamroll episode... fun fun fun!

the dj, not the me...

so it turns out there is a dj in detroit named mike geiger. the music he makes isnt really the kind of stuff im into, but despite the obvious argument that my presence at a show put on by mike geiger may cause a wormhole or tear in the space-time continuum or something like that...im now wondering what might happen if i got myself on down to detroit to watch the man with the same name as myself play to man with the same name as himself...
i know...my mind is like completely blown too

stoke your fires animation festival

in some more cuddle sticks news...
the film is now a finalist for "best 2d animation" at the 2008 stoke your fires animation festival in england.
exciting!

cuddle sticks reviewed

from the Portland Mercury:

Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival is like eating too many delicacies in one sitting—caviar, brains, truffles, chocolates... it's a bit intense. But it's not the "sick" or the "twisted" that's too much—96 minutes just isn't enough time to digest all the animation shorts that get thrown your way. (Granted, we're talking about ruminating about masturbating pandas, but still.)

Spike and Mike's has had a loyal following of gross-out fans since 1990, and this year's 26 new films follow the fest's tried-and-true formula, with a couple of old favorites thrown in. Standouts include Mike Geiger's Cuddle Sticks, which features the most disgusting popsicle imaginable, and Jeff Chiba Stearns' Yellow Sticky Notes, which, while neither sick nor twisted, is more than a little touching. And Patrick Smith's Puppet is one of the nicest animation pieces in the batch.

If you're still sitting on the fence, YouTube Cox & Combes' Washington, one of the festival's included shorts: It's a Ween-esque song about the feats of George Washington, by Brad Neely. "Got a wig for his wig/Got a brain for his heart/He'll kick you apart." If it's not enough to convince you of the Tao of Spike and Mike, I'm not sure what is. Who couldn't like the fact that George Washington "made love like an eagle falling out of the sky"?

earth day!

and for a change of pace...

some oddness...

some monsterous stills

a few stills from my addition to the 10 second monsters project that t.a.i.s. is doing...

im taking offense to this...

but possibly solidifies my opinions from a few posts down...

ive been walshed!

drawn by the legendary james walsh

a few new draweringerings