xpost: The Geek Side of Life ep #34 – Live From Balticon – A Song of Ice and Fire: What’s the End Game?

A Song of Ice and Fire Hardcover

Reposted from The Geek Side of Life: Live from Balticon 49! This is a panel discussion titled A Song of Ice and Fire: What’s the End Game? It featured Jay Buechler, Christiana Ellis, Nutty Nuchtchas and Jeff Young. SPOILER WARNING: Do not listen to this episode if you have not read all five books in the series and you care about being surprised.

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Promo: Coxwood History Fun Cast

Nutty Bites 42: What can’t you get your friends into?

CoverArt42Tek, The Clockwork Doctor, The XerialKiller, and I get together to discuss what fandoms and franchises we can’t get people into & what we can’t get into.

What can’t you get people into:

  • A Song of Ice an Fire (now known as Game of Thrones)
  • Wrestling
  • Warhammer (Die orcs die, pew, pew, pew)
  • Sherlock Holmes (the books)
  • Misfits
  • Supernatural (yes, some people won’t watch this show)
  • Xena (and other camp shows like this)
  • Bruce Campbell Movies
  • Space Above and Beyond
  • Firefly (yes believe it or not)
  • Robot Chicken
  • Metalocalypse
  • Other 15-30 minute cartoons written for adults
  • The League
  • B5
  • Hex
  • Archer

Cant get into:

  • Lost
  • BSG
  • 24
  • Prison Break
  • Survivor
  • Jersey Shore
  • Reality TV
  • mainstream one hour dramas
  • V
  • South Park
  • Family Guy
  • Farscape
  • Doctor Who
  • Alien Nation
  • Space Rangers
  • Earth Final Conflict
  • Earth 2
  • S#!* My Dad Says

Things we were dragged into liking:

  • A Song of Ice and Fire
  • Misfits
  • X-Files
  • Doctor Who
  • The League

Promos:

  • April Fiend’s Day
    • Garaaga’s Children: Ancients Preorder – by Paul E Cooley (ebook/print)

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Daily Creativity: Rory and his Princess


Remember I said I would hand draw a better Rory and Daenerys picture? Here it is. I based it off a photo I took during HalCon when we ran into a woman cosplayed as the mother of Dragons. She was so excited to see Rory because she was sad she hadn’t figured out how to add a dragon to her costume. Rory was thrilled to see her because she had a bloody horse heart to eat and blood dripping down her chin :)

I admit, I cheated slightly to get the proportions right on this picture, I printed out the photo and used it as a guide. This was drawn with pencil, then inked with my new sharpies.

Tek mentioned I drew a lot of Rory pictures for lent this year, and I did. I admit that using Rory makes it easy for me to find inspiration, also, it gives me more practice drawing him so when I commence working on his children’s book it will be nicer. I missed a few days this year, but all in all I think this was a good lent and a good Daily Creativity project. Expect to see more from me, but as lent is over they won’t be arriving every day.

thank you.

Daily Creativity: Dany & Rory


Danyeas and RoryThis is last night’s daily creativity. I drew it on the iPad which is fun but I feel like I can only go so far with this tool. I know other artists that make great images on the ipad but I feel like its lacking for me. I don’t feel like I’m in full control of where the lines are being drawn and I just feel limited… yet I keep trying it and keep drawing on it. I can’t explain why.

This image is Rory on Daenerys’ shoulder just after her dragon eggs hatched (that’s why she doesn’t have much hair) and while I think she might look a little more like Brienne here, and I think I will try hand drawing another Dany & Rory picture, I’m still posting this one here.

Daily Creativity: “Not Today”

20120313-232717.jpgwhat do we say to death when he comes? Not today.

My love of A Song of Ice and Fire is known far and wide, and Arya Stark is quite possibly my favorite character. I fully admit I used a photo of Maise Williams to draw over for this one. I’m not that good and not on my iPad :)
I was more practicing on how to draw on the iPad so slightly cheating is ok, right? Either way I’m still happy at how this came out, I love the blues.

Also posted from my iPad so formatting might be off and typos are expected