i promised myself i'd keep this blog updated

and so far i'm not off to the best start.

oh well.

The geek in me tonight made me drive 20 minutes to Wal-Mart so that i could play the demo unit of the Xbox 360. I'll start by saying that the console itself is smaller than i expected, and it looks pretty damn sweet. the controller is size-wise somewhere between the Xbox's controller-S and a PS2 controller. it's small, but damn rad. it's the best controller i've used. it just felt... right

Unfortunately, the kiosk was set up in such a way that if you were 3 feet tall, the controller would be at an optimal height. but wait, it gets better. the 16:9 "HD" display tv was maybe 8 feet off the ground, directly above the kid-friendly controller, so when a 6'1" fella like me was playing it, it was more than uncomfortable. my hands were on the controller down by my knees, and my head was kicked back all the way looking up (pezz dispenser-esque) at a monitor that wasn't even hooked up right. my neck still aches. For a system that's banking on the HD gamers of the world, you'd think that they could sell it better if they actually hooked it up to the tv properly. the 360 was displaying in 480i [/geektalk] and it sure wasn't flattering. oh well, when i hook mine up, that mistake won't be made.

i played a bit of Kameo. it looked great, and played just like i expected. cool! Next i tried the demo of Call of Duty 2... that was just awesome. I'll have to get this. While the King Kong demo was loading, the game tester in me (well, the 2 months i was one) decided to press the guide button on the controller to see what would happen. well, that loading screen never went away. i locked that 360 up good. it's ok, my neck was hurting anyways.

after that, i scooted across the street to tower records and picked up Kubrick's The Killing, and Jarmusch's Dead Man for $9 each... hot damn! Black and white movies rawk!

wait, this is supposed to be about art and stuff right? crap, sorry about that.

last week i joined up with http://chepeng.blogspot.com/ It's a group of rad artists posting rad pictures. i saw it as a good source of motivation and inspiration, and i'm very grateful to be involved.

here's a drunk pig i drew for them



Oh, i've added (and will be adding) a few links over to the right there.

http://spectre7.blogspot.com/ is my best friend's (since sometime in highschool) blog. he uses lots of them word things, but he's usually got something entertaining to say... check it out.

also, check out http://www.ragelion.com/ It's the art of Jamie Snell. He's a swell guy that i worked on the Transformers: Genesis book with a couple years back. like many contributors, our work wasn't published in that volume, and also like many, we were never paid for our work. it was at least a fun experience. i'll have to post the drawings we did sometime. anyways, Jamie's an awesome guy (the best inker i know), so stop on by and tell him Bob sent ya.

well, i think that's enough for tonight. Half Life 2: the Lost Coast has finished downloading, so i'm gonna go play that and then head off to bed. It's been fun

-B