Welcome to Tobb Weder

New blogger here at Kenwoode: big welcome to Tobb Weder! (Golf claps all around)

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New Kenwoode Pages: May Wonders Never Cease

Finally posted the latest couple of Kenwoode pages. You can check ‘em out here and here. “Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there’s a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap.” – Samuel Beckett, Endgame

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Mark Titus Is Awesome

I don’t follow college ball, mostly because I went to art school, and I don’t have an alma mater team, unless there’s a World Champion Thunderdome of Chiaroscuro or Font Kerning of which I am unaware, where you’re allowed to use a color wheel, linseed oil and a mace. (The Color-arnage!) I do, however, follow [...]

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RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Girl Talk, U2, and Walt Disney as Remixer

Just watched Brett Gaylor’s Rip! A Remix Manifesto on Hulu last night. I’m actually shocked that NBC, Fox and ABC (Disney) would have this online, in this format; despite its lionization of Disney the Man, Disney the Company is really taken to task here. Maybe it’s the “if we join them, they will disappear” belief. [...]

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The Dogs Howl, But the Caravan Moves On: New Panel

Just finished up Page 5, inked a panel for Page 6 last night. Feeling good, Louis!

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Giles Timms Video for Ceri Frost’s “Dead All Along”

This song almost sounds like an outtake from The Damned’s Anything album (not one of their critical faves, but I loved it). Huge reverbs, poppy and to the effin’ point, man. Nicely done. And the video is really beautiful: organic, lush, and the amount of depth is really staggering. It’s a nice Gorey homage without [...]

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How People Like Brian Eno Come Into Existence

Wired has a great little article from March about Brian Eno’s art school days here. A couple of things struck me about the article: The deliberate introduction of randomness in Brian Eno’s life, and the idea of changing artistic and social roles to facilitate new and interesting art. Eno’s art professors would have the students [...]

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Kenwoode Update: First day of Fall

Just a quick note on progress: I’m about 5 pages from finishing the first draft of the Kenwoode II screenplay. Got some illustrating done this weekend, and I’ll have a few panels to post this week. Just saw Kung Fu Panda. The opening dream sequence with the cut-out paper style is staggering. Dreamworks really stepped [...]

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Russ Nicholson’s Organic Penwork Destroyed by Hack

I was trying out my new Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen the other night (Righteous, BTW), and drew and inked a study of Russ Nicholson’s fantastic front illustration to the original Fiend Folio (seen here, pencil marks and all). You know, the one with the great black and white illustrations, rather than the full color, super-hero-y [...]

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Peter Jackson on District 9, “Lack of Original Ideas in Hollywood”

Nice interview by Frenchman Geoff Boucher at the LA Times. P-Jack talks about Neill Blomkamp’s terrible “first film experience” with Halo falling apart, and how they dealt with it: We don’t own the ‘Halo’ franchise. We can’t raise the money somewhere else. It’s their property, they’ve got the license for it. So the way to [...]

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I Don’t Want to Change the World, I’m Not Looking For a New England

I love this song. Made better by the drunken German sing-along, and the key-change Kirsty MacColl final lyric: Here’s a nice little concert mash-up with Kate Nash: And here’s Billy on the Henry Rollins Show, singing Waiting for the Great Leap Forward (with the great spot-on observation about Mtv’s absolute irrelevance): I’ll go into Levi [...]

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A Famous Person Has Died

From John Campbell’s web comic, Pictures for Sad Children.

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Haggis-tastic. Part Three: In Which Carl is Owned

Rumors and outright slander must be addressed: 1. Loving Big Country is all-but-impossible to do purely. I would contend that it’s difficult to love any album produced in the 80′s without acknowledging the production sounds incredibly dated. I think Steve Lillywhite is an amazing producer, but echo and reverb on every single track is still [...]

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“Everything is Terrible” is Fantastic

From my new favorite blog, Everything is Terrible:

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The Tide is Turning

Andrew Sullivan’s coverage of the Iranian “election” debacle and the subsequent protests and fascist crackdown by the Revolutionary Guard has been truly admirable. Something is happening in Iran, indeed. You can’t force democracy down the barrel of a gun, the way the Neocons think. All this weekend, as all hell is breaking loose in Iran, [...]

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Bill Simmons Owns the NBA Playoffs

I haven’t been watching the Finals, as I was so discouraged by the Nuggets going out like lambs in the Western Conference Finals. And really, it was enough for me that the Magic made it rather than the Cavs. I’ll take it. And I only watched the second quarter last night; apparently I missed a [...]

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Marc Thiessen Has Been to Iraq a Whole Bunch o’ Times

Just ask him. He has the unmitigated gall to challenge journalistic baddass Michael Ware who’s lived in Iraq for SIX YEARS, and just parrots the “threw them under the bus” bullshit GOP talking point again. Ware’s been in war zones for years, and this punk even tries to throw his resume against Ware’s? Thiessen returns [...]

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Revenge

I was discussing writing with a friend of mine, and thought about a quote I heard one time: “Writing is revenge.” I looked it up, and although I couldn’t find it, I did find a couple of other great ones: The best revenge is not to become like the one who wronged you. -Marcus Aurelius [...]

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David Simon on Bill Maher

Some pretty salient points on the “Drug War,” and absolutely spot-on in his critique of Capitalism as Social Framework: David Simon: Capitalism is a wonderful engine, but how we mistook it for a social framework for how to build a just society and interpreted it that way is just incredible. There’s also a couple of [...]

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Jesus, Jesse, How Do You Really Feel?

I will always be proud of my vote for Jesse Ventura for Minnesota Governor, despite a number of  topics on which I disagree with him. Just fearless: UPDATES: Here’s Jesse taking on Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s talking points: And obliterating Sean “Chicken Hawk” Hannity: He’s a one-man wrecking crew. Going from show to show to show just [...]

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J.J. Abrams on the Magic of Mystery

Nice little article by Abrams in Wired. His point about discovering music is spot on: But wait, you say, iTunes gives you the chance to browse! To that I nod, concede the point, and say, “Bullshit.” Those little icons you scroll past mean almost nothing to most of us. Why? Because we didn’t get on [...]

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Schools? No money. Stadium? Sure, how much?!?

Norman Chad has a spot-on article over at SI (despite the cringe-inducing, fish-in-a-barrel Amy Winehouse joke), about how we (New York specifically, but the USA as a country) will toss any amount of money at sports stadiums. About how our society crumbles while we entertain ourselves. I truly believe that the next bubble to burst [...]

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She Comes Back to Tell Me She’s Gone

She comes back to tell me she’s gone As if I didn’t know that As if I didn’t know my own bed As if I’d never noticed The way she brushed her hair from her forehead The above stanza is probably my favorite song lyric of all time, from Paul Simon‘s Graceland. Some friends and [...]

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Ewan McGregor is a Baddass.

Here’s a clip from Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman’s great tv series, Long Way Down. They rode from SCOTLAND TO THE TIP OF SOUTH AFRICA in 2007. Yes. You heard me. Tre’ baddass, and highly recommended, if you like travel, motorcycles, or both. Some people want to be rich. Some want to frolic with supermodels. [...]

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Trent Reznor’s Digg Dialogg

Here’s a great little interview by Digg founder Kevin Rose, who posed questions to Trent that were voted on by Digg. Trent discusses a number of things, including the myopic business model and view of Old Media, theories on musical monetization, and his views on the future of 3D, film, and video games. I found [...]

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Kiva.Org- Loans That Change Lives

While doing some research on Mohammed Unis and microfinance (meaning, I took two seconds and did a Google search- I love how “research” has become “bare-minimum investigation”), I stumbled across Kiva.Org: Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals [...]

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Michael Bay Eating a Bowl of Cereal

And this is why Transformers is all but unwatchable a second time through: Tipped by Andrew Sullivan. UPDATE: Found a quote (not cited, but hopefully it’s accurate) of Trey Parker’s spot-on assessment of the Michael Bay character arc: “‘I’m fucking awesome! I’m fucking sweet! I … am … awesome.’ Then in the middle of the [...]

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The Gaslight Anthem- The ’59 Sound

And BOOM. There’s been a couple of songs in my life that made me have pull my car over to the side of the road. This is the first in a while. Circa ’84 “No Surrender” Springsteen crossed with a little post-punk crossed with a little Cure. Add a dash of Cheap Trick. (That’s what [...]

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Absolutely, Completely, Brutally Owned

Colbert on Glen Beck. Brutal. And if you don’t know, now you know. Are we quite finished with these clowns yet? Is anyone taking these guys seriously at all?

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Bin Laden as Rasputin

Mos Def had a great comment on Real Time With Bill Maher the other night about how, at this point, Bin Laden might as well be a mythical wizard, or Rasputin. I paraphrase, of course, but his point was, Florida just laid off over a hundred teachers. Who cares where Bin Laden is? Quote at [...]

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