This generation doesn’t do suicide pacts. They do turn-off-your-wifi pacts
Hey! I was drinking that!
(Source: tankwang, via indianapopovich)
Farmer Jenkins went too far.
George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.
Tumblr tip for webcomic artists!
I am looking directly at those who create and post webcomics on tumblr.
Deep into your eyes.
A great comic can lose its chance at being popular if it is presented poorly. When creating your comics, always assume that no one will click to enlarge your images. You must present your comic so it is clearly viewed on the dashboard. You can make it high resolution, but be sure that the text is easily read and the detail in the images is not lost at 500 pixels wide.
Instead of orienting your comic horizontally, do it vertically. If you exceed more than 2 panels, make another image and create a photoset. With the new photoset system, you can stack up to ten images vertically. Just drag the images until you have a horizontal blue line to stack them. Owlturd is a great example of how to properly present your comics. It is easily consumed without any enlargement.
Making sure your comic is easily visible at 500 pixels wide will ensure that you get the maximum amount of notes and reblogs possible. Always save your comics as a draft and inspect it before you publish. If anything looks hard to make out, adjust it. If you post your comic on another site and it is horizontally oriented, consider splicing up the panels and creating a vertical version for tumblr.
I am seeing way too many comics that are 4 panels wide and the text is so tiny it cannot be made out without enlargement. Many people will scroll right on by and never look at your comic. Please don’t make this mistake. I want all artists on tumblr to get the attention they deserve.
Sage advice. Now I wish I was a webcomic artist just so Froggy would look deep into my eyes.
Brad Bird confirms interest in Incredibles sequel
With superhero sequels ten a penny these days, its somewhat surprising that we’ve yet to see a follow-up to 2004’s The Incredibles, although according to Brad Bird, there could yet be a sequel coming our way…
Yesssss
PREPARE! I can’t stand watching open mic’ers get up onstage and fumble through an idea they had earlier in the day. The purpose of an open mic is to test your material out on a live audience to see if it works. Write it out. Edit it. Practice it alone. Practice it in front of a friend.
When I’m preparing for a stand up set, I practice the routine while driving. If I can get through the routine without any mistakes while driving, I know I’ll be able to handle the mental distractions that come from standing in front of an audience.
Some comics like to look “unpolished” and so they don’t prepare and they get onstage and they end up just looking “ungood”. Be good. Be great. Be prepared. (okay now all I can hear is Scar singing Be Prepared)
I would suggest you go without a group of friends, not because you might bomb, but because you don’t want to have a false sense of success. Your friends are nice. They will laugh to be kind, or because they know you, or they are nervous for you, or because they simply like your sense of humor more than a complete stranger does. But the goal of an open mic is to find out if your material works on complete strangers. Save your friends for later when you are doing real shows and need to pack the house.
Now let me tell you about my first open mic. I did my first stand up open mic after I had already been performing professional improv comedy shows for several years. I had a pretty good level of confidence in my ability to hold an audience and keep them laughing. Before doing the open mic, I performed my first stand up routine ever at my college’s family weekend talent show. I killed.
At the open mic (at the St. Louis Funny Bone) the first thing I told the audience was that I was engaged to be married. They booed me. I said, “Well that’s all I have to talk about so…” which got a bit of a laugh. Then I proceeded to do 3 minutes of jokes about getting married. The audience listened, but there weren’t many laughs.
My first open mic. I got booed. But I went back. Whatever happens at your first open mic, go back.
Christopher Nolan in talks for Bond 24?
Given his status as the world’s premiere director of large-scale event cinema, it was perhaps inevitable that Christopher Nolan would become linked to the vacant director’s chair on Bond 24, and sure enough, that’s exactly what’s happened…
Perfect.
You know, when you have kids and you love them and you’re proud of them you just want to kiss them on the mouth sometimes.
I never thought I’d want to kiss my sons as much as I do.
(Source: jimestmort, via a-big-guy-named-tiny)
(Source: paralysedbeaver, via rideslikealexus)
Ryan and Colin throughout the years.
