I just recently came across an amazing web magazine called The Escapist. Not only is the content great, its both a web and a psuedo-print magazine all-in-one. The layout looks just as it was on paper, and is just as easy to read. Highly recommended.

There is a very good set of interviews regarding videogames and violence up on the site 1up.com. The two inteviewees take separate sides, with lawyer Jack Thompson saying that games are a factor while Henry Jenkins believes in the opposite.

I definitely am of the thought that while games can rise someone’s aggression level, the violence within a person is from something far deeper within them.

On Friday, I finally received a new CRT monitor to replace my dying 19″. I theoretically could have kept the 19″, as it only got “wonky” for a little while after coming on, but it was driving my nuts all the same.

So I broke down and bought a 21″ ViewSonic G220fb. It needed to be black, and of course why not go bigger. I’ve never used a 21″ before and I’m surprised how much bigger it is than my old one. I actually have to lean back away from the monitor in order to comfortably view it. My corner desk just barely lets this 65lb badboy fit on top of it.

Will a new display lead to more work on this site? Let me ask the cat… “Sure”… Gotta trust him I guess.

Jessica and I got back from our Hawaiian vacation Monday morning. We’ve been slowly trying to get back into the swing of things. No more humidity, no more mosquitoes, and no more sleeping in till noon.

I read the 3 books based on Halo during our trip, and so I’ve booted up the PC version of the game again and have been playing through it again. Once after I acheive victory yet again over the Covenant and the Flood, I’ll be sure to get back to working on my artwork… maybe…

No actual design work has been completed since my last update. I’ve taken some more photos (not posted), and pretty much been busy with stuff around the house. Hopefully I’ll get back to work after we get back from Hawaii. By then it’ll be time to break out the buggy whip to get myself in gear.

In other news, Will got a new blog aptly titled – American Blogger. The logo that Eric did for him looks awesome, and hopefully he won’t take this site down like he did with the last one.

Listening to my inspirational music is sure helping with my creative mood. I have far too many ideas to implement any time in the near future. At least I’m still working on the initial designs, versus filing them away for future use.

I don’t quite know if I’m going to do piecemeal updates, or wait until I have a huge batch of new creations to show off a once. I think I’m leaning towards the latter.

Regardless, I have a nice little movie to share with you. I found this little bit of animation off of a site I frequent, and hopefully you’ll enjoy it if you haven’t seen it yet. I sure do wish I could create final work like this… but I’d imagine a full animation studio is helpful for those kinds of things.

For the past two weeks or so, I’ve been a bit down on things. Of course this almost always leads to a big desire to be creative again. Being more creative traditionally leads to more content on my site for the masses. Yay for the masses.

So after grabbing a couple of new CD’s for inspiration (the Amelie soundtrack and this cd), I’m ready to start working on my artistic hobbies again. I have plans for a lot more illustration, animation, and full blow stories this time. We’ll see if the creative mood I’m in sticks with me long enough to actually produce something.

Rip Van Winkle here. 83 days between updates! What craziness, that’s like 1/4 of a year!

Anyway, check out William’s new site underconfident.com. Let’s hope this iteration lasts longer than a couple of months…

For some web nostalgia, check out my ol’ Little Yellow Guys’ Haunted House.

So what’s my excuse for not updating? I haven’t felt creative, and I’ve been playing lots of videogames.

In other news, why don’t you check out my boss William’s ten year plan.

(Today is my wife’s birthday. You can go wish her birthday greetings yourself at her website – www.jessicagreen.com)