My fellow Hooligans. The day has officially arrived. The creativity has been flowing rapid among our minds long enough. It is time we harness, and funnel our imaginations into the same tributary. True we may all have our own personal pursuits and original ambitions, but what better avenue for encouragement, feedback, and motivation than in a combination our talents. Let our free-spirited mines mutate into a one all-inclusive breathing beast. I'm talking about a spotted spectacle. For years we have mumbled about such a concept but its birth is inevitable. Our creative minds are having contractions, are water has long sense broke and we're 24 months along.
The sex is undetermined,
The due date: Feb 8th,
The location of birth: World Wide Web
The species: …Space Ant

Soon, we will be wiping the placenta from its antennas and severing
its umbilical cord. The SPACE ANT will be among us.

In order to fulfill a school requirement I am creating an online magazine/creative community. It is to be an advanced level FLASH entertainment website. I figured why not make a site my friends could enjoy. So my concept is this; the site (which is entitled "Space Ant Magazine.com" or "Space Ant Online Magazine" ) will feature articles, interviews, profiles, galleries (Illustration, Photo, Sculpture, Sewing,…) and music; All of which is produced by acquaintances/friends and fellow hoopla enthusiast (you). It will contain a profile of you; small, personal, and brief.

Your profile would include a short bio, (what you would like viewers
to know about you. (Inspirations, process, websites, pricing, offered
services etc)

Around 12 examples of your works. (12 if possible…as many as you're willing to share) Your works could include, photos, crafts, videoart, music/songs, articles, poems, essays, illustrations, design work, sculptures of shrunken heads etc.

And a link to a short interview Space Ant will be giving you either
by phone, e-mail, or ichat.

The site needs to be a specific size and contain a certain amount of
content, and instead of just doing my site on a band or movie
director, I'm daring to make it a personal project. With faith that
my friends won't object to being featured on my silly online magazine, and in hopes you'll be willing to contribute your creativity and works to its creation.

The due date of the project is Feb 8th, so the sooner you could e-mail
me your works, and bio the better. This site will only be viewed by
you and my teacher, but you can show others if you'd like. I'm only
inviting a handful of friends to contribute because Space Ant should
maintain a level of quality. Due to the lack of invitations your
involvement is key.

This proclamation is becoming wordy and long (you won't be reading my writings in the publication I assure you), but please get back to me, and let me know if your willing to contribute, better yet, send some stuff, and I'll get sweating over its creation. I have a limited time to get this done. Let me know if you have suggestions, questions, and suspicions.

Thanks aton for reading all this, and please send me some stuff
tonight.- Matt Mangus mangatar@gmail.com

Volley Flash Animation

This was a quick school assignment, I had to partner-up with a class-mate and we were to work on this one minute animation together. We both drew out characters for it and then would animate 15 seconds of the video and then pass it to our partner to animate the next 15, and so on, like a "volley". It was fun to see the direction it went after a few passes. We rushed through it so the animation is pretty sloppy and rough at times, but it still makes me chuckle.

Make sure you have audio, and it loops so you'll want to close the window after one time through, unless you want to watch it non-stop for days.

LINK TO ANIMATION

Beautiful Color Schemes: Meg Hunt

Her color palettes are amazing. I wonder how she figures them out. Enjoy her site, it's fairly simple and easy to browse.
link

Philadelphia Pigeon Inspired: Ben Woodward

He's got a fun style, and his content and scenarios make me smile. He's part of a group of artist called "Space 1026" and their site is full of odd artists, here that link


Here's his direct link at space1026, and here's another site i found about him, that sells his T-shirts.

Bigfoot vs. Stereolab

I'm getting more and more into video art, music videos, stop-motion animation, and all that. This isn't an official Stereolab video, but I was happy to see Bigfoot and Stereolab collaborate. I guess it could be compared to "found object" art, where the artist takes something that has been previoulsy designed, and uses it in a different way to create art. Like Marcel Duchamp and all those hooligans of the "Dada" movement, but this video is far more entertaining than most dada art.

Sorry it's been so long sense I've added a post, I was away for the holidays. Paperpants helped keep things rolling.

Duchamps Found object "The Fountain"

The video (see youtube for more Stereolab videos)



this video made me want to make more movies

Dinosaur Comics

qwantz.com

I can't help posting this because the recent strips have been exceptionally good to me. Pretty much every single brave new day this Ryan North fellow gives up a new one. That's consistency that I can appreciate. And if anybody searches through the "Comics I Would Totally Marry" section, they should tell me which ones of those are awesome.

*This site has so many links to other neverending greatness as well that I just created a whole bookmark folder called Qwantz Explored where I can put all the gems. That's how good.

1 book published

Since I rarely make a thing artful, look at this bookmanship of a story I wrote a year ago. My processes aren't very professional. A lot of printing, tracing, and scanning. Then sometimes color in Photoshop. I didn't even screenprint; I used T-shirt iron-on transfers. I did do it all with my Epson PHOTO RX620 and was happy with its performance.

eboy XV and the tiny world of pixels

I've never seen such a fantastic gathering of pixel art before. They have an extensive archive and new stuff comes in regularly. All the tiny detail will start the slow blow of your mind.
Look at the pixels but BEWARE THE VECTORS! Seriously, the vector art on this site is not their specialty and it is dominated by sex perverts.

eboyXV

Canadian Gold: Joy Ang

21 year old Joy Ang is amazing. These way young artists make me depressed with the fact they are soooo good and I'm not even graduated and I'm 3 years older and my stuff isn't half as good. They are inspiring and depressing all in the same gulp. Oh and she's from Canada of course.
link

Christmas Tutorial: M a t a n g o

Its not really a tutorial, but it does show a little of my process. I made this mostly to just try out time-lapes editing. I've always been fasinated with time-lapse drawing and building, I guess just time-lapse in general fasinates me. Anyway don't look real closely at the drawing it's way rough, and the coloring on the monitor came out looking darker on the video. Plus compressing it into a quicktime video didn't help the quality.

music by: Sufjan Stevens and The Go! Team