The dog ate it
I held off making a comic this last week or so because I’m not in possession of my pens and paper. But as I’m still not able to get at them I thought I’d have to go digital this once…I’ll come back and draw this in ink when I get the chance.
Actually I think I’m suffering withdrawal symptoms from the pens. I guess those fumes are addictive after all.
I’ve just moved house again… my things are wrapped carefully in cardboard and stored in a room far, far away. I didn’t really plan this one very well. This has caused a few problems. Mostly, I’ve been living with a minimal tool set for the last couple of weeks – A toothbrush, toothpaste, a change of clothes and a mug.
Spreading butter on my toast was not a fun experience.
Very McGuyver.
So, as he would create some fantastic device from an elastic band, a straw and a paperclip, I’m going to pluck a question out of several badly formed paragraphs… What is the best device you’ve ever constructed… or the best use for something that it wasn’t built for?
The art is still distinctively “you” and the concept is brilliant. But I do miss the handwriting. The font looks somewhat clinical by comparison .
It’s funny that… artists spend a lot of their time trying to get things just right, yet if you get them too right they look clinical.
Not that I could ever write in that sort of font.
I’m with Brandy on this one. Those fleas have bunnies for eyes.
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the flea is nicely detailed though.
when i was younger i taped together a battery-powered book-light, a cowboy hat and some spare cloth so i could read in the car without getting sick, but unfortunately i had to give back the hat, so i never got to use it.
it would probably come in handy.
I like that, a very functional invention.
I’ve never suffered from car (or any other travel-related) sickness, but I can sympathise with anyone who isn’t able to whittle away a long journey with a good book.
That said, from my understanding, the sickness is caused by travelling without a visable horizon… it disorientates the body, creating motion sickness. That might be a modern myth though.
My pillows, to throw at my door to close it when I don’t want to get out of bed. I hate having the door not completely closed when I sleep, and not just due to my family being very loud. Oddly enough, none of them can figure out how to close a door all the way. Good thing I have several pillows.
Ah, the multifunctional pillow… the Swiss Army Knife of soft furnishings…
A projectile, a murder weapon, a silencer of alarms and screams.
I would argue that throwing the pillow at members of your family when they leave the door open may prove to be just as effective.
It seems like too long since I last commented on TFFU, even if I am reading the updates on a vaguely regular basis.
How is everyone doing? Hope life is good for all you as Autumn gets into its swing…
Nice work Ad, but as Brandy says, a digital comic does make one miss your handwriting…
Hey Maddie,
How’s things with you?
I’ve gone back to school… moved house (again)… and drawn a few comics.
On the subject of Autumn, I was hit by a falling conker on the way to work this morning. The plants are attacking.
Hey Adam
Nice to hear things are well with you, despite the attacking plants.
Things are pretty darn good with me. Just in case anyone’s interested, although Roo knows this already, I have a boyfriend now. Two weeks today, whoo! And I know what you mean about the evil conker trees. I just spent an hour or so lying under one with my sweetie, and it dripped on us repeatedly! Mind you, may be the tree’s way of telling us to get a room
Congrats on the boyfriend! Tell him he’d better treat you well or he’ll have an international team of artist types after him.
Aww, thank you. It’s nice to feel looked after. Just so you know, he is treating me very well indeed…I’m the happiest I’ve been in a long time
Actually, you’ve reminded me of a threat one of my mates made to him. I went into school with a few *cough*five*cough* lovebites on my neck, so that night she facebooked him saying:
“Maddie’s mine, stop eating her! It’s nice to see her so happy, but if you ever hurt her you’ll have a strange dissappearance of limbs…”
nice.
the first thing that comes to mind is something i made this summer. I was at my friends new house in Kentucky and was a bit inebriated, when i disappeared into the basement. He had a creepy Harry Potter -esque closet under the staircase, so i decided that it needed a monster living in it. I scrounged around and found 2 two by fours, grabbed a hinge off an old cabinet, some twine, a sweatshirt and a hat. So that when unsuspecting people would open the door the ‘person’ would fly up from the floor and stand at the opening. he ended up replacing the hat with a mask and would ask people to go down there and get him various objects from the closet, i was told of some pretty good reactions, but no pillows thrown at it that i know of.
Hi Maddie!
Hi Ambroziak!
So maybe word nees to get out about pillows’ secodary (door-closing) and tertiary (monster beating) uses.
I’m not sure that’s a practical purpose, unless you find yourself in a real-life ‘Home Alone’ reboot.
(Note to Hollywood: Just because I mentioned it, doesn’t mean you have to make it… please don’t)
However, Halloween is approaching rapidly, and, as such, anything that scares the unwitting is OK by me.
some things need only to be built for entertainment
a new home alone movie would actually be scarier than anything popping out of a closet.
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We came up with a sort of invention in Psych at school today. Jack kept messing around with his combination lock, so we put both of his thumbs in it and locked it. He couldn’t slide it off over his knuckles, and couldn’t put the combination in without the use of his thumbs. Hours of amusement. Who needs handcuffs?
(Also, Ad, a technical point: I just set up my new laptop, which I’m working on at the moment, does that affect my comments or anything, as I had to re-enter my info?)
I love thumb locks. That is a wicked idea. How did he get it off in the end?
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Would you believe that he just chewed his own thumbs off?
Didn’t think so. In the end he told us the code and we unlocked him. Somehow I don’t think he’ll use it to lock our schoolbags shut anytime in the future.
Technical stuff… you’ll be fine, the site uses your email address as your ID for stuff, so there should be no change (unless you use a different one).
Non-technical stuff… that is a great use of a combination lock! I do wonder though, about the intelligence of someone who would let you do that to them. It’s like the old pub trick of getting someone to place both hands flat on the table then placing two full pints on the back of their hands.
Great Artwork! Do you sell your stuff? I’ll be back to see your latest stuff. Keep up the good work!
haha sorry I just noticed the shop link above!
That’s OK… It’s always fine to ask questions.
I should point out too, that just because something isn’t in my shop, doesn’t mean you can’t buy it.
For example, if you want a large print of any of the comics, or a T-shirt made up… or pretty much anything like that, just ask and I’ll see what I can do.
The reasons I do it like this are that I don’t want to make stuff no one wants, and I like the idea of everything I make being individual in some way.
So, thanks for asking.
Well, seeing as I am tradie and a bit of a bush mechanic, my list is fairly long.
I think the tradie rule of thumb is: most inappropiate tool for the job.
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Ben, I imagine you to be like a walking A-Team when it comes to putting things together.
I have always found a mug to be the key thing. I don’t mind not having a change of clothes or a tooth brush, but life without a mug is, well, a mugs game!
So where are you now Adam? And you may be suprised to know that I have booked a few hours in the ACP computer room to spend an afternoon scanning – which maninly includes all the polaroids for the possible second book… only a few years late… x
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Oooh, I was thinking about that the other night…
Now that I’m technically an artist and all… (i got my studio space sat up last week… photos coming soon).
You are right, the mug is one of the most valuable piees of kit. Everything is better after a brew.
So I’m now living at the top of Clarence Street on Primrose… about 10 doors away from the McWades. Sharing a house with some post-grads (although I’m never there).
How’s things going for you?
Fleas
Adam
had ‘em
I make unusual useful things all the time. Usually things so simple that it’s strange other people haven’t thought of them. Like, I cut up bus schedules and put the pieces I need into pages of a pocket-sized photo album. And I used modular wire shelving units to make climbers for our parrot, so that he has a “cage” to sit on no matter what room he’s in (we never lock him inside his real cage anyway, it’s just something for him to sit on, so the wire shelf climbers are almost as good).
Oh, and I used blogging software to make my jewelry page at http://www.erikahammerschmidt.com/jewelry . Because I’m not good enough at using other types of content managers. Nucleus blogging software lets you have multiple blogs, and it lets you insert photos into each blog post, so I just made a blog for each section of the jewelry site, and every time I make a new piece of jewelry I can upload its photo and description as easily as making a blog post. (Only flaw is that the search function won’t search more than one blog at a time, so if you’re on the entry page or the ordering page and you type, say, “earrings” into the search function, you get nothing, because those pages are separate blogs from any of the jewelry pages. Oh well.)
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Just to warn any readers in England…I turned 17 yesterday, and I now own a car. The roads aren’t safe any more….I’m on them!
Have a great week everybody!