Round about Monday evening, my desktop decided to stop booting up (it appears to be an OS problem, not a physical disk problem), and none of my tricks and workarounds worked, so I ordered myself a new computer. All of my previously scanned sketches were thus inaccessible for most of the week, so here are…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Two from my sketchbook: …plus the last five convention sketches sitting around here (don’t worry, I’ll be making more) that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.
Movies Seen Recently: Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders and Drive-Ins, SheBorg, Dead Rising: Watchtower
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders and Drive-Ins (2014) – A mediocre-to-fair documentary about the development of the drive-in movie from the boost that sci-fi got in the ’50s and the contemporary social trends that show up in the movies. Mostly an excuse to show trailers (often from very low-resolution sources), although there are also a…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Another one out of my sketchbook: …plus six convention sketches that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.
Movies Seen Recently: Eegah!, UHF, Man in the Wilderness
Eegah! (1962) – You may think you love your children, but would you ever write and direct a movie with yourself as a supporting character, mostly so your son could have a chance to play the hero, and also to sing several rock’n’roll songs? No? Well, Arch Hall Sr. did that for Arch Hall Jr.,…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post, with more sketches for sale!
This week, I posted one sketch out of my sketchbook: …plus six convention sketches that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.
Movies Seen Recently: Iron Sky, The Strange Ones, The Time Tunnel
Iron Sky (2012) – We truly live in a magical age, where for $8 million, one can have a fully realized movie about Nazis who’ve lived on a base on the far side of the moon since World War II and are now coming back to finish what they started. Perfectly respectable digital effects, stunning…
Evil and agency.
I was asked to speak in Sacrament meeting today, along with my wife and our daughter Sariah, about agency, liberty, choice and accountability, and linked topics. Below are my prepared remarks. In what sense is “evil” a thing? Evil doesn’t “exist” in the sense of having mass, taking up space, etc. Evil is an attribute…