You owe it to yourself to check out the art of David Lanham. Very cool, quirky imagery and style. He’s got tons of stuff to look at on the site, including desktop images, icons, and even Munnys.
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Cthulu Mouse by David Petersen
I’ve not had the chance to read David Petersen’s Mouse Guard
Hidden Mother/Child in Da Vinci’s Last Supper
I think someone’s been watching/reading too much Da Vinci Code. The idea that Da Vinci hid an image of a mother and a child in the Last Supper and it can only be seen when a mirror image of the painting is overlaid on the original is insane. Seriously.
Putting a mirror image of any image over itself and reducing the transparency will create all kinds of weirdness, especially in a photo/image full of figures. The mirrored and overlaid image may reveal what looks to be a mother and child, but it is pure accident. Looking at the image, I think it looks like Jesus is looking at the sky with his mouth open and is surrounded by ghosts. That’s not hidden in the image, it’s the mirror image. Seriously, this guy has too much time on his hands and to report it as news even makes it worse.
Michael Golden’s (Failed) Return to Comics
The Comic Geek Speak podcast often talks to comic artist Buzz. Until the show, I’d not heard that much about him, but I was familiar with some of his work.
Anyway, Buzz has always professed his admiration Michael Golden, specifically Dr. Strange #55. after investigating Golden a little, I realized how many of my favorite books as a kid were drawn by him and how much his style influenced artists like Art Adams, who was/is another favorite of mine. I actually met Adams and got a sketch from him back in the late 80’s at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC.
Anyway, back to the story, it seems that Golden is making an attempt to get back into comics and procure a little more work, however I don’t think it’s going to work out that well for him. Check out the below piece of art Golden produced as a paid, $500 commission:
You can read the full story here, but the short version is as follows. Golden was paid $500 + $37 shipping, by a fan. The piece was to be delivered within a 6 week time frame. Finally, nine months later, after continually contacting Golden and his agent, the fan received the above image of Dr. Strange apparently blowing a “raspberry” and stating that “Patience is a Virue[sic]”.
I guess Golden isn’t aware of this little thing we call the Internet. I’m sure this story will spread like wildfire and I’d hazard a guess that Golden’s commission work (and rate) will decrease as the convention season comes to a close.
Complete Your iTunes Artwork
Adding artwork to iTunes has always been a pain. Even when Apple released a “Get Album Artwork” feature in the latest version of iTunes, it didn’t work that well (and required you to have an iTunes login).
Well, I’m here to point you to the perfect program to solve those iTunes artwork problems. It’s a Windows only program called TuneSleeve and it works perfectly. It searches the Internet for artwork and will let you select when it finds multiple covers. Better yet, if it doesn’t find the art for your album, simply click the search icon and it will pop-up a Google Image search with the album title pre-filled. Just drag and drop the image into TuneSleeve to have it apply it to iTunes.
It works the way iTunes and all the other plug-in/programs should have all along. When your done, it applies all the art to all the songs in your iTunes library. This process can take a bit depending on the amount of art you need to find. It took about 10 minutes for it to apply art to every song on about 40 CDs I had imported that iTunes coulnd find. The only ones left without art are some custom compilations and songs I’ve got imported.