http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog The Portfolio and Blog of animator and world's greatest grandpa Tim Farrell Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:40:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm growing a mustache during the month of November for charity. I would have posted a real photo, but the lighting in my apartment at night makes it impossible to see without taking an uncomfortably close photo of my upper lip. Yum. Here are the details: During November I'm growing a mustache. ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/11/12/movember/ I don't think there is any harm is saying this is an amazingly positive moment in American history. I need to figure out what to do with my time since I've spent the last 18 months reading non-stop election news coverage. Now for the people printing t-shirts with "Palin 2012-2020" ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/11/11/election-08/ Our two year long national nightmare is drawing to a close http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/11/04/the-election-2/ I just found out that one of my childhood heroes, Dr Ruehl, is not only alive, he is still producing videos... now from his living room? http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/11/02/a-slap-on-the-belly-with-a-wet-trout/ Here's a link to the last JibJab toon I finished. President of Birthdays I'm currently working on three more coming this month. http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/10/30/a-timely-toon/ [flashvideo filename="http://www.deadmonkeycomics.com/media/flv/mistor_test.flv" /] This is an early test animation for Mistor made some time before Email. It doesn't make a lick of sense because it was straight ahead animation done in an evening as a sort of proof of concept and "I made you something" gift for an old girlfriend. The ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/09/29/i-totally-forgot-about-this/ I'm just checking in to confirm I have not been dressed in a big foot costume and stuffed in an over-sized cooler. There isn't too much going on I can really speak on. Work stuff right now is confidential, and my personal life is all complaining and joking about politics. Since ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/09/24/an-update-about-nothing/ Today I was walking home from getting some lunch, and I saw something I hadn't seen before. I saw a sweaty, shirtless man running down the street with two shiny, bouncing nipple rings. It occurs to me now this site is probably a fairly regular thing in some places, including ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/07/28/seen-it-nipple-ring-jogger/ A friend at work pointed out that I accidentally already did S with the slug, but I wanted to do spider-man. http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/07/25/s-is-for-spidey/ One more. This is a little one, about the size of the old 'fat' nintendo DS. I only bought two canvases, so now I need to go buy more if I plan on keeping this up. The detail work is brutal. I don't know if it is my lack of ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/07/23/b-is-for-batman-painting/ I got myself a cheapo, crafty painting kit to kill some time during the first couple days of my recovery. For someone without any training... this is still pretty poor. http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/07/22/not-so-good-at-painting/ We got our engagement photos taken last week, and that is one of my personal favorites. We're probably not using that one for the Save The Date card since it looks like a photo for an article on an indie rock band's sophomore album, but we haven't quite nailed down ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/07/15/engagement-photos-and-surgery/ http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/07/02/more-cool-stuff-to-hang-on-the-wall/ So I found out some serious info since the last time I updated. Crucial. Turns out wedding planning is really awful. I mean not like the punchline to a dead baby joke (A: a pitchfork), but the sort of tedious never ending awful. Like graduate school or that time I ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/06/06/who-wants-to-plan-a-wedding/ I found this on the adult swim site. When I composited this episode, we didn't have images yet for the weather symbols. I was told to just whip up some, and if they didn't like them or notice them, the animators would make real ones later. For whatever reason, the ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-christmas-episode/ I saw this on the Colbert Report tonight. There's no video of that up yet, but I found an AP news story about it. I live about a block and a half from this bar: I also live about 3 blocks from the shopping court where rapper T.I. was busted for ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/04/24/the-bum-bot/ Enough people have asked to see it that I guess I don't have a problem putting the proposal video up without a password. Mooshy sentiments ahead Trickery (a wedding proposal) from vishass on Vimeo. http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/04/24/still-nothing-to-see-here/ I asked my girlfriend to marry me in the password protected cartoon I posted earlier. She said yes, so I we're engaged now. Wee. More news to follow. If you're a friend and want to see the video, just give me a heads up for the password. http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/04/21/good-news-everyone/ Trickery (a wedding proposal) from vishass on Vimeo. http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/04/21/nothing-to-see-here/ I've been half-past terrible with the updates, and I really don't have much in the way of an excuse. Much of the interesting stuff going on in my life is of the family medical drama I'm not the type to share all over the internet. The JibJab cartoons are still coming ... http://deadmonkeycomics.com/blog/2008/03/23/oh-hay-lets-update/