Zombies > Vampires

I had a dream about zombie apocalypse last night. Well, a nightmare one might call it. It was incredibly depressing and the whole situation just seemed completely hopeless, yet when I woke up I just went straight back to sleeping because I wanted to know how it all ended. It ended with somebody telling me it was all just a movie, there was no zombie apocalypse and I had wasted all that time trying to decide which shoes should I wear. (It's important - if you end up having to kick a zombie in the face you want to wear steel reinforced boots and not have a zombie eating your toes. Yes, I thought about this in my dream.) BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY.

So, here's the zombie that attacked me.

He's smiling, the bastard.

Avoiding school.

Somebody stop me.

WARNING! That's a gif. It contains flashing images. I made myself nauseous just making it. Do you want to be sick all over your keyboard? Fine, then, go on, click it.
Lyrics from a song by Suicidal Tendencies, Subliminal. Talking about Suicidal Tendencies, Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra made a really nice version of their Institutionalized. (I am trying really hard not to go on about how good the original Repo Man soundtrack was, I think I already covered that some posts ago. But, it's really good.) And since we are talking about Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra! A very nice video they made for Want it back. Good song, too. Good album.

Ah, what the hell, seems like I'm just linking music. Well, have a nice little song from Mr. Bungle too.

Hi. Again.

Just wanted to share this little gem with you. It's the best character I've ever made. Like, THE BEST. I don't think there are words in English, Finnish or any other language that would describe the feelings I have for this drawing. (Okay, Tolkien probably made a word for this, in Old Entish or something. Do they call it Entish? Well, it's a great language what ever they call it. Ents are great. I wish they'd make a movie about Ents instead of The Hobbit. No, not really, I liked The Hobbit. But still, a movie about a day in Treebeard's life, in three parts, each eight hours long. With 19 hours of extra material and you'll get a free Gollum with the Extended edition DVD set. Guest appearances from Saruman and Quickbeam. Christopher Lee can voice act Quickbeam. I'm just leaving this idea here for Peter Jackson to find.)

Ignore the background. That's what I did.

Yeah. I guess this is it, then. No more updates. The show is over, this was the grande finale, no refunds.


Edit: OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT my archive has five years now? WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT 2009 ANYMORE?!

WHAT IS THIS

So yeah I made this last night, that's one of the fonts I've been working on, I call it Space Jugend and it's like a display font with a few alternatives and it's just really not very good but I just wanted to do something disgustingly IN, shut up I do as I please. It's a gif, click it, I know you want to!

I put ironic shit on your ironic shit.

I don't dream much when I sleep, but last night I had a very, well, confusing dream after making this giff. In my dream I went shopping with my mother, trying to find a nice set of champagne glasses and ended up going to Tiimari, a cheap store that sells a bit of everything from pencils to garden gnomes. There we met Matt Smith, who was working there because I don't know, he wasn't running around playing The Doctor anymore or something, and he tried to tell us that the coolest champagne glasses in the world were the ones that had hipster nebula images all over them, and even I was like, "hell yeah nebula pictures why not, that's better than motherfucking colourful marble patterns, let's take these", but my mother didn't agree and we left the store and I was all "MOOOOM, I bet you don't even know you just told The Doctor we're not getting the glasses he called 'the sweetest hipster candy on earth', you're so not internets-cool".

I don't know. I just really don't know. I think I just saw too many hipster nebulas during one day and my brain broke. I think I'm suffering hipster overload or something. WHAT'S THIS?

I never really got Narcissus, but I think Zeus and I would make the best of bros.

Yes, this is not going to turn into a comics-about-me-and-my-life-bohoo-listen-to-me-whine-and-give-me-symapthy-blog any more than it is already, but a friend told me about this challenge at Tumblr and I though I'd give it a shot.

So the first week wthe challenge was to "summarize yourself in 4 panels". We were not allowed to use dialogue or narration. The deadline was already gone a few days before I heard of this but I wanted to draw it, so I'm posting it here now.

So in case you don't get it... That's me, in the last panel, thinking how cool it'd be to do the stuff in the first three panels. And realising that none of that is realistic, but hey, a girl can dream.
It's sort of sad that even my imaginary life is borrowed from books and movies, isn't it? Well, still a better story than Twilight...

And then this week's comic. "Your first original character."

I must have been the most boring kid I know. I'm not sure if Explosive Eric even exploded in any of the few comics I drew. But that's probably because he couldn't walk away from the explosions not bothering to look back over his shoulder because he was just that cool if it was his body that was exploding. Or his head.

Hey, hey, maybe I should rename him Explosive Eric the Epic?

Here and back again.

 

Yeah, I'll just leave you with this.

Not even half as cool as the stuff this guy makes, but hey at least I tried. And it's a fish - everybody knows surrealism is like 80% about unexplained fish. And glowy eyes.

Yeah, nothing else to see here. Zoom camera under this arch... Party in the limo.

(Does anyone know where "party in the limo" is from? I'm pretty sure it's from Straight To Hell, or maybe some other Alex Cox movie, but I can't find it. Or maybe I'm just getting things mixed up in my head and it's from some movie I've seen and really disliked, like, I don't know, Wolverine or something. Now that was a bad movie, I want those two hours of my life back. Probably Shrek, I quote Shrek all the time and don't even notice. Like that onion thing. Maybe that's why people don't take me seriously. Hmmm. Have to think about this. Or I could just watch Straight To Hell again, it's a great movie and I haven't watched it for years. Yeah, I'm gonna do that. And then get my hands on Repo Chick. Alex Cox movies are essential in August. Remember the time they spent most of the budget on glow-in-the-dark paint? And had to go cheap on things like, for example, Agent Rogersz' cybernetic, metallic arm... that sort of ended up looking like a tin foil glove. Yeah, great movies. Like, seriously, just take a look at what IMDB says about STH:

And it has a great soundtrack. Well, not as good as Repo Man, but, hell, it's still good. Not to mention the cast. It has Jim Jarmusch AND Joe Strummer. Okay this is getting out of hand. I'm sure you already got the picture - I like these movies, so should you, though you probably won't, since they are rather bad and more like inside jokes between Alex Cox and... well, no one else, really. But now that we got this far, I'd like to point out that Sid & Nancy has it's moments too, and you probably should watch that, too. Although it is depressing as hell, in a way. But hey, Gary Oldman is great in it. WHICH REMINDS ME OF--

Nah. Just go to IMDB, I don't have to tell you all this. Why are you even reading this, you can't possibly get anything out of this rambling?)

Fap fap, said the artist.

I knew I didn't take those stereophotographs for nothing. I've sarted a new project that I'll never finish, a children's book about memento mori themes in stereoimage format. This one is a sketch about "Ubi sunt?"

Now I'll just have to come up with a decent plot.

Again?!

Happy Valentine's Day. Now go spend your money, let's not forget what this holiday is all about.

SNOW

HELLO HELLO HELLO GREETINGS FROM FUCKING FINLAND!

It's not really cold here, just A FUCKING BLIZZARD. A wet, painful, hellish BLIZZARD. OH HOW I LOVE to be waiting for a bus for half an hour, with my face freezing off while "Ode to Joy" keeps on playing repeatedly because my hands are too bloody frozen to change the song from my mp3-player and I can't feel your legs and just keep on thinking:

"It's only -2 degrees, wonder what'd happen if it was actually COLD?"

80th post. Party hard.

How organic.

See?

I may not have achieved much at school this year, but at least I have stereoscopic photographs. Prepare your eyes for a few more:



I really like that last one. I think it has the best 3D effect.

Christmas is all around me.

This is a Christmas post. Here, have Fairytale of New York. Yes, there has to be some traditions. Now go and read The Hogfather. Watch The Snowman. Eat heads off of all the gingerbread men you find. Oh, and talking about traditions, I just found somebody has posted this online. (Psssst, it's better on paper, buy the book.)

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÄÖ

We had a two day font design workshop at school. I only finished the first version of capital letters, but I quite like the slightly distorted forms and bad kerning. (And thank gods for the video game name generator, I spent almost an hour looking for a suitable name. Too many valid options.)

It doesn't feel like December. I only just got adjusted to it being November. Christmas is coming too soon and there's no snow outside. Nor inside. Although that's probably just a good thing. I like winter, why can't it be winter? It's SUPPOSED to be winter now!

Bluesit päälle käy, voi tätä elämää.

Funny little people with big heads and dark eyes. Not the most original stuff, but i really REALLY like these kids. I'm never going to draw anything else again.

Well maybe, but not for a while.

Well, in fact, I already did, but that's not the point.

Just shut up already.

I'll link you Pieksämäen asemalla blues, because I'm stuck at school and it's 00:33 and my bus isn't coming for a while. Sorry, if you don't speak Finnish, dear reader. You are missing a lot. Instead, have a poem from Charles Bukowski:

as

the

spirit

wanes

the

form

appears

A man walks into a bar. Ouch.

I might be selling a poster or two of this at my school's Christmas sale. I'll see.

Oh, i think it's my duty to follow the traditions of my blog and link you this. I like it a lot.

Not yet Halloween.

I coloured a perfectly okay black&white picture just to be able to post it and call it new. Took me almost five minutes.

Really I just wanted an excuse to link you this. I think I'm in love.

She sounds like Nick Cave's mentally ill sister being possessed by evil spirits. It's a good thing.

Fishushi

Why isn't my life more like Scott Pilgrim's? I want my life to be more like Scott Pilgrim's.

Also his flatmate is the coolest guy ever. EVER.

Almost forgot.

I just realised that I've had more posts during this month than the whole year from January till August.

Let's celebrate it with some more school drawings and dead parrots.

That's all.

Onko kuvittelu totuutta oikeaa, onko totuus onttoa kuvitelmaa

More schoolwork. The crow was holding a golden letter, but somehow lost it along the way.

Hello, the cat broke its leg.

Here be the owl.