For the last two days of Dog Days I’m going to veer away from traditional TV shows and Movies, and focus on some of the YouTube channels that I watch. Today I’m focusing mostly on Youtube Artists. I love watching people create because it calms me down but also inspires me to create myself.
Welcome to dog days of podcasting for 2019, where podcasters from around the world do a podcast a day for the month of august. I’m excited about this year’s crop of podcasters so I really suggest you listen to the main RSS feed.
In which I get to interview Paul and Storm about their new series for Geek and Sundry called Learning Town. Then we get to the debate, Who is your favorite fictitious band?
Most of my readers will be familiar with the Geek & Sundry youtube channel, if you’ve not watched shows on it you’ve had your friends break out a new game they heard about on tabletop or your mother asked you about that steampunk thing you like that Felicia Day vloged about on the FLOG (because of course your mother is just that cool).
When Tabz told me to check out Written by a Kid though, I had my doubts. I don’t have kids, and while I like kids books and am a bit of a kid myself, I’m often less than impressed by projects focused around ‘They say the darndest things.’ This is anything but that. They interview a kit, the kid tells them the idea for a story and as the viewer hears about the story we see a visual representation of this story. Whether it be animation, live action, a mix of both, or played by Joss Whedon and Dave Foley, it’s always fun to see.
You could watch this with your child, or just on your own and get a lot out of it. Evil robot families, goth babies, a S.Q.U.A.T. team, half vampires taking out pirate witches, what’s not to love? In addition to the main movies/stories the behind the scenes videos are really interesting. Normally, I skip behind the scenes videos on youtube, it’s a lot more extra than content, but on this channel they talk about things that are interesting to me, animation, how they got Joss Whedon to perform, painted clothing (I really want to make some and wear it for real), different video effects and a Buffy Mustache.
Enough of me blabbing, go, watch the videos. Oh and it’s work safe, kid safe and everything safe :)
PS: thanks Tabz for being right again about something I thought sounded like it wasn’t my cup of tea but in the end was right up my alley.
I know I normally strive to only put created content on this blog and to not fall into the trap that so many other blogs have done, and that’s reblog everything they see that’s cool on the internet, but… The Clockwork Doctor showed me this today and I couldn’t help myself.
If you ever marveled at the mechanical nature of steampunk I tell you to look here, look in reality, that mechanical genius is all around us.
Another bit of Fan Art for FlashPulp.com. We were discussing the idea of what some of the characters would have looked like as babies, so I started with a toddler version of Mulligan Smith. I always have an issue drawing children, they always look much older than I intend them to look. And yes, that is a slurpee in his bottle thank you very much.
You might notice I started dating my drawings. It’s something I saw Stanton Friedman do at the station the other day and it got me thinking it was a good idea. I think the date does more than just establish someone signed something, but when, when in their career. I though it was a nice touch, so I’m doing it now. Thoughts?
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Today is April Fool’s day, I hate pranks and I really don’t like the idea of tricks or people having a justified reason to pick on people. That said, I do enjoy a good Joke, like Google Maps having quest mode where you can look at the maps in 8bit, or the funny offerings at ThinkGeek (A K Cup that dispenses donuts? Priceless) Make sure you go and look up the Mass Effect Saturday Morning Cartoon on YouTube, that was awesome.
Years ago my husband explained to me the french custom (I don’t know if it is just Quebec or something they do in france too, but its part of his culture) of giving people fish on April First, so for the past few years I have honored this custom by drawing fish, here is this year’s fish.
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