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  • You can take the man out of Berkeley, but…

    Sometimes I really miss my alma mater. Tonight our Golden Bear football team crushed Oregon as I watched with the New England Alums, and there was this great quote at the end of the AP article on it: [Coach] Tedford has turned Cal into a football power – but it’s still Cal. Cosmologist George F.…

  • Neil’s Research: Year One Projected

    Over the past few weeks my advisors and I have been planning out what my first year project is going to be. We’ve decided it would be easier for me to jump into a straight-up psycholinguistics study than deal with designing a “comic” based study right away. So, my project is going to be looking…

  • Oceanside Soo Bahk Do

    Recently with my not-so-copious free time I’ve managed to construct a website for my martial arts studio back home in California, Oceanside Soo Bahk Do (www.oceansidesoobahkdo.com). As I’m currenlty in Boston, I don’t have the pleasure to train back there too often, so it was nice to be able to contribute in this way at…

  • Playing with Reality and Limitations

    While watching the local Boston public channel I stumbled across the end of a documentary about photography that “plays with reality”. I only caught the last artist profiled, but his work was so amazing I had to find him online and post about it. His name is Arno Rafael Minkkinen, and while seeing his photos…

  • Comic Strip Artist’s Kit, and more

    In the “tools for comic making with some thought behind it” category comes this blog, Temple of the Seven Golden Camels, by storyboarder Mark Kennedy. He’s been posting several good entries of advice for cartooning and comic creation. Much of his thoughts come from Disney animators, as that seems to be where he works (or…

  • Making Comics by Scott McCloud

    For those who have been living in a cave the past summer, Making Comics is Scott McCloud’s latest offering; a how-to book on the process of comic creation. I’ve had my copy for about a week, but wanting to give it a good thorough read-through before commenting (as well as juggling it with reading about…

  • Tim and Time

    So, well timed for my new essay, “Time Frames… or Not”, on why panels don’t equal moments (and time does not equal space), Tim Godek posts this excellent and simple example of a temporal paradox. (I’m not reposting it here because the file size is rather large, so go look yourself!) Since the three “moments”…

  • McCloud at MIT

    Well, it seems that nothing brings together comics-folk like a good long Scott McCloud lecture. Scott gave his lecture at MIT tonight to a packed house to promote his latest book Making Comics (which I just finished reading… review coming soon). We got there fairly early, so I actually got a nice long chat in…

  • Eloquence on 9/11

    I really didn’t do much to think about memorializing 9/11 today. I saw them lowering the flags to half mast on campus this morning, and besides that it persisted in and out as a passing thought in my mind throughout the day. However, the most eloquent speech on the subject that I have found was…

  • Essays on “Narrative Art”

    Rob Vollmar has an ongoing essay up about “narrative art” on his blog, currently serialized in three parts: Part OnePart TwoPart Three It seems like he might be going somewhere with it, but as someone who has studied a little of cognitive neuroscience (and hopefully will be doing direct research on it very soon) I…