ULTRAMAN SAGA

Saw ULTRAMAN SAGA earlier this evening, and in 3D no less, which actually works very well with the sometimes cheesy but all too apt effects of the movie. I went in thinking it will be kooky but came out... a believer again. I haven't seen an Ultraman show since I was wee, when my dad would bring back these taped episodes for me from being posted in Sabah for his internship(they were in Malay, so no, I could not understand them).

Go out with me this Friday? Pleasepleaseplease?

MIDNIGHT AT THE A&E - up now at FUTURES

THReE

It's kind of cool what this picture means to me.

statement

Spare an organ, anyone?

A little bit behind on this, but PROJECT GRYPHON appears in the July - August issue of Pedestal Magazine (issue 58). Was hoping to have an illustration go with this, but getting all the angles right for a head made of twenty-three holophones has turned out to be more challenging than typing up the words 'twenty-three holophone' in the first place. Here's a little drawing to go with it, one that falls short of the mood and holographic projections that I can see rather clearly in my head, I'm sad to say(so what else is new?).

Early sketch, showing how the head may come together, a rather complex thing really...

...necessitating a 3D model, to assist with the angles.

Had this sleek idea for a taser that I couldn't really translate into paper, until I found out about the TASER C2, truly a beauty by design. 

"...with pocket tasers for fingers..."

The final shape of the atomizer came about from the sensibilities of the tetraheron, as enspoused in this article. For the body, the drawing below does not necessarily illustrate the effect of fusing a bunch of screens together(the sketch above does a slightly better job), although the final shape was a nice surprise.

Summer arrives: the warriors fall

fallen, originally uploaded by windupbaerd.

Summer arrives on wings of death, raking in its wake the final breath of many a fallen warrior denied sanctuary and safety from an ultraviolet glare, delivering a silent demise in the now, and a promise of cutaneous malignancy (for the rest of us) in the morrow.

because your word...

because your word..., originally uploaded by windupbaerd.

...just isn't good enough.

If you ever happen to get caught in a train that's been delayed and therefore cannot make it on time for work, please avail yourself of one of these "Late Notifications," issued at the station office, that magically imparts an air of authenticity as you explain to your boss later in the morning why you were REALLY off by five minutes.