True Grit feat. The Dude

The other best movie of the year.

Black Swan

Best movie of the year.

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"X with Rolex Crown,
Chain studded Diamond Clown,
G 13 Jar and I'm gonna buy the bar,
A 'mil in the bank and a pound of stank,
purple haze blaze
for days and days
I'm getting green
but I don't kno' which you mean?
Plenty Paper,
Plenty Dro,
I'm Burning both, don't you kno'?

Poster Three

UFC Poster

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Jah Rastafarian RudeBoy, Nah Mean Mon?

Poster Two for gangstabanghettocomix. Coming Soon.

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GANGSTABANGHETTOCOMIX all new, 32 page WEBCOMIC!

Raver

"When I was a youth I used to blow my all like a Raver," song of the year from DJ Shy Fx.

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Art and Story by Nathan Netterlund

Word 2 the hood, nah mean? gangstabanghettocomix out now.


32 page webcomic!
Straight gangsta!
only on:
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Illuminati

Jay Electronica, "We not illuminati but out eye is on the money"

Domestic violence is cool now

February 8, 2009 Pop Singer Rihanna is brutally beat by Her boyfriend Pop Singer Chris Brown.


Summer 2010 Pop Singer Rihanna collaborates with Pop Rapper Eminem on the mega-hit "I Love the Way You Lie," as Eminem quotes, "You push, pull each other's hair, scratch, claw, bit 'em, throw 'em down pin 'em, so lost in the moments when you're in 'em," and, "If she ever tries to fucking leave again I'mma tie her to the bed and set the house on fire."

The violent, anti-social lyrics may seem troubling, but Rihanna's feature was even more troubling as She repeats, "But that's alright because I like the way it hurts."

The charming mp3 can be found in tight rotation on every radio station and here.


The song was such a hit that Pop Records Execs couldn't help but come back for a second helping of women beating Pop songs. Yesterday "Love the Way You Lie Part 2" hit took the web by storm. Be sure to get your copy here.

The sequel naturally goes further than the original, as Rihanna admits to being into S&M by saying, "So maybe I’m a masochist," which is pretty scaring considering She has literally millions of young women looking up to Her. Eminem continues the upstanding role model trend by saying, "I may have hit you three times, I’m startin’ to lose count."

As for myself, I'm starting to lose count of post-modern pop culture trends that make me sick to my stomach.

'10 (part one for now)

Twenty odd bars off the top of my head:

Trying to forget the sickness inside
Because I spent all last spring thinking about suicide
Waking up, facing down something like a black cloud
Man, when I thought it left I felt so proud
Summer came, it felt good to feel the sun shinning
I tried to man up, quit my damn whining
Standing tall, knowing it could be worse
Because they just took away Mikey in a hearse
Driving down the road where He just died
Because a drunk asshole drove a mile down the wrong side
It's the kinda thing that makes me wanna put down the bottle
But instead I put it back, full throttle
You ever seen the bottom of a 1.75?
Type a shit make me glad to be alive
Because you all drink, but you don't drink like me
I'll shotgun a case to black out by 3
Think back to those nights, it's just bits and pieces
The pain goes away, but the darkness increases
Gotta be careful, because you can get lost in that abyss
Another scarred soul that the world will miss

Monk Vs. Ninja

Zach Newell-Words
Nathan Netterlund-Art

Rosa Parks

Ah ha, hush that fuss
Everybody move to the back of the bus
Do you wanna bump and slump with us
We the type of people make the club get crunk

Stash House

Deadly Medley

Song of the year off of The Album of the Year?

Prob. not but Black Milk spits hard with mixtape heavyweight Royce Da 5'9 playin' sidekick on this dope record.

Untitled Poem Two

Why you so hungry?
Why you eating the lies?
You think its about money?
You're in for a surprise.
Your deepest desire,
will only bring you pain.
You can't walk through the fire.
You can't wash out that stain.
I cut a pretty tragic figure,
but you're still the worst.
I watch you get bigger,
I still finish in first.
Lesser men fade.
I only get stronger.
There dues were never paid.
They can't hold out any longer.
I've reached down to the bottom,
I've looked up high.
I've started to blossom,
I'll learn to say goodbye.

Untitled Poem

I wonder, does it even matter?
As I look outside and hear the rain splatter.
Feelin' kinda weak today,
trying to keep the old demons at bay.
The sun showers kinda got me confused,
like the signs of the times at the top of the news.
Makes me wonder if I should even crawl out of this cave
and put on my blue hat and a smile 'cause I'm brave.
Still I thank the allmighty and my Grandfather I'm no longer a slave
and I wonder what new paths I have yet to pave?

Me & the Devil (song)

I really believe in this one, nah mean?

From Gil Scott Heron's excellent concept album I'm New Here,
Me and the Devil

Mechanical Pencil Drawing
Illustrator Vector inks
Photoshop colors

If I Fell (song)

Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Mechanical Pencil drawing
Illustrator Vector Inks
Photoshop Colors

Femme Fatale (song)

Words by Lou Reed for Velvet Underground's 1967 single.
Mechanical pencil drawing.
Illustrator vector inks.
Photoshop colors.

True Story Comix #1

P Money disses Ghetto

Grime MCs put your favorite technical rapper to shame.

Dear God 2.0

I'll stop talking about How I Got Over sometime, but in the meantime....

True Story Comix-Coming Soon

Its coming..

Ladies and Gentlemen this time around the revolution will not be televised-
It will be hosted on the Worlds Most Interesting Blog.

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The worlds greatest Zine.

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No names are changed to protect the innocent or the guilty (yours truly).
I'm gonna spill my guts out, dress 'um up with vectors and digital paint and pray to God I don't get arrested.

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You wanna read my cool new drinkin' story?

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Roots-How I Got Over

The Roots How I Got Over-

"Out on the streets (Yeah)
Where I grew up (ah-hah)
First thing they teach us: (uh)
Not to give a fuck (Yeah, C'mon baby)
That type of thinking can’t get you nowhere (Oh ??)
Someone has to care."

You and me both Black Thought

Sometimes life is funny:

I thought the Hot Tub Time Machine was so good it gave me the chills, but then I realized I just left a window open.

So, I burned a CDR so hot its straight dangerous. Benchmark I Mixtape. 47 songs. 43min. More musical ideas than your whole hard drive. I challenge anyone to do it better, 'cause I wanna hear it.

I stuck all the fly break cycles way back in a corner of my head I nicknamed heaven and it just don't stop. If I wake up tom. and the whole world is burned I'll still have Gil Scott Heron telling the life of the black Bob Dillian in 13 seconds and Dilla covering the Doors while he's dying in the hospital and saying goodbye and I love you to His mother, and you'll just be complaining about the ashes and your insurance coverage.

And just don't stop.

Ever.

Music for life.

So, if I had a daughter She could listen to Estelle, but if She reaches for the Rhinna or Gaga She'll wish She hadn't.

Black Thought is still too ill:

They said he’s busy hold the line please
Call me crazy, I thought maybe he could mind read
Who does the blind lead?
Show me a sign please
If everything is made in China, are we Chinese?

End of Semester

Well here it is: the life drawing stuff.

I think I achieved what I came to do. I wanted to understand how it all came together (the human body that it) and I think I do. The puzzle pieces come together and make sense to me now. I really am going to take this stuff and run with it. I knew this all along as I could see the difference when I'd do people in Zack N's International Knights Errant. The people made sense, much like the way building made sense after prez tech. The scientific drawing is great and I fully plan on doing it well. Life Drawing is defiantly a part of this and I appreciated the opportunity.

Sense Life Drawing I relaxed, I stopped fretting about evaluation and really understood that life drawing was something I needed to take for myself and if people didn't understand that it didn't matter, because the skills and knowledge would be with me when I've long forgotten about my G.P.A. This really allowed me to hone in on some of the stuff that's really cool, I consistently had these flashbulb moments that put a smile to my face. Like how there's a circular plate on the front of the skull and that's why there's those weird triangular shapes above the sides of the eyebrows. I wouldn't give up a piece of information like that for anything.

ALSO: BREAKING NEWS! I will be helping South African Hommie Darkblood with his conceptual Endorsed Anarchy webcomic Hadies

Things are def. looking up

March 9 A Day that will live in infamy

Happy Mothers day Mom and congratulations on reading a site edgier than http://www.wheatfoods.org/

The last part of life drawing was about as sweat as Golden Grahams Cereal. I loved drawing skulls, learning about facial features, noses and such. I love noses. Especially cute little ones on women. It even made sense to me pretty quick, without too much constructivist sweating.

I'll get some photos, the drawings are good and I will be posting them soon.

In the meantime you should look at this vector art I did this weekend and make as much noise for the late great Jay Dilla aka Jay Dee.

Well the scanned version of that tutorial will have to wait, my plate is too full to be doing stuff like that.

I wanted to touch on last week in life drawing, we worked on skulls. Skulls are pretty cool and some of the lecture really clicked for me. I realized things about contours of the face that I always kinda wondered about.

I also worked on this new style of contour lines that come together at the beginning to create a sort of gradient shading effect. I also started using color pencils instead of charcoal or graphite and they seam to be working better for me.

Pics coming soon.

tutorial

I'm going to do the first part of a in progress tutorial on comics pages.

The project I'm working on now with hommie Zack Newell (I hope he doesn't mind me posting this) has a script written by the aforementioned. He sends me a script with the words and descriptions of each panel. I've been receiving them one page at a time. I whip out a 8.5X11 thumbnail.
Then I bust out a big sheet (18X24 I'm not messy around). I draw using a mechanical pencil (it saves time-no sharpening) and a gum eraser. I didn't take a picture of my pencils, but its all done loose with lots of perspective and simple outline info.

Then I ink it with sharpies from ultra fine to super huge and inkwash, now I use black india ink, white and brick red. It looks like this:

Pretty cool but still kinda goofy looking, right?

Tune in next week to see scanned magic and the final blacks for this page.

Reflection

I've been thinking of the meaning of school lately. Why do you do it?

Do you do it for a degree, a piece of paper called a diploma, grades that say you're wonderful and everyone loves you, do you do it for fringe benefits, parties, a rock star college lifestyle, or do you do it for another reason?

Honestly I think of education as a tremendous opportunity and students need to take the knowledge and skills they can from their classes regardless of other concerns or peripheral interests.

Case in point, it matters more what you personally take away from a class, then say teachers perception of your achievements. At some point the academic game matters less then personal growth.

My old buddy Darkblood: [link] wanted me to color his lineart, which was a Micheal Turner Batman sendup. Naturally I couldn't resists. Turner was a great artist, may he R.I.P.

As for Darkblood, he's one of the realist comic/rappers I know. And I know allot of comic/rappers (LOL). But really, back in the day I colored his Soul Survivor Comic and it was a great collab.

Blood, we should work together again. Your lines+my colors=awesomeness.

So I colored this, drank some Brandy and even bumped some old Darkblood tunes (the general is back y'all).

Been awhile since I posted....

I mean to do these things, but I don't always have the time. How do all the self-important types do it? Maybe they drink more coffee or something....

Anyway, I had spring break and while it wasn't the crazy road trip I hoped for, I did take time to breathe, process and draw. I started the project with Zach N and its looking good. I hope to keep the quality up and it should be pretty tight.

Other than that, schools back and, well, whatever. Its nice out disc golf is the only option.

Photo bucket

2nd post of the day, a new high. I just uploaded the life drawing portfolio to my newly minted photobucket:
http://pbckt.com/sS.Y8w

It's been awhile since I updated, but things are in motion, even if the consequences of them are not yet realized... Which is a vague way of saying, first and foremost, that I am making a new comic that you definitely don't want to be sleeping on. I am working with a writer who is just as young, hungry and ambitious as I am and the collaboration is going to be live.

I can't give away everything, but I have posted some production art on my deviant art. Here's a taste with the internet debut of this original, villainous concept sketch:

Anyway, the project will be a real game changer, as it really is going...somewhere.

In a semi/barely related line of thinking I must reflect on life drawing. Actually the connection may be stronger, as the formative life drawing process has already helped immensely with the comic book stuff, especially in the early stages, like character design. Understanding the ribcage, including the backbone and thoracic curve, alone has changed the way I draw people completely. Then understanding the way the hips are formed really did explain the entirety of the torso for me. Maybe it wasn't in a flashbulb, dramatic instant, but it was definitely in a short amount of time where I went from scratching my head to bringing it together. I really can only hope the rest of the body makes as much sense when I through with the class.

For instance, I really don't understand the legs yet, beyond the outside lines marking the contours. Now that I understand the torso so completely, it has really put a fire into me to form the rest of the body in my mind in such a way. This really is my only goal for the 2nd half of the semester. If I can create a mental map of the entire structure of the human body, bones, muscle, skin and fat, life drawing will have been a complete success in my mind.

Portfolio of life drawing coming soon, as well as the Apocalypse and an alien invasi0n.

Walker

Last Wednesday the life drawing class went to the Walker Art Center and the Bell Natural Science Museum. Going to the Walker is always great, its definitely the best art museum in the Cities, even if the one at MCAD is much bigger. The Walker always does a good job of switching out there exhibits, keeping everything fresh. As part of that there was a excellent exhibit by Haegue Yang. In particular the lager installation called Yearning Melancholy Red stood out.

The installation had great presence, that is to say it engaged the viewers senses. Even from a distance I heard the drums banging and the people talking in refracted sounds that reached out, made you want to get to the heart of it. The spiraled, inward turning shape twists your head and body around, forcing the viewer against the panes of venetian blinds, mirrors and lights. The many mirrored surfaces work to good effect, especially when seen through the spaces between the venetian blinds. This invokes a sort of voyeuristic vantage point, even though in many cases what your looking into is back at the very thing your looking out of, your own perspective in a out of body form. The red in the title is a bit reserved, the installation isn't really that much about the title, its more formal than that emotive excess. Still the piece is quite good, an engaging experience for the viewer.

Reflections

Sometimes its hard to know what the right way of doing things is. After having taken several different drawing classes I have found there is not one approach to drawing, but many. Perhaps the most obvious or popular is straight up observational drawing. You look at something and try to replicate it on your paper. Most people begin drawing like this, based off of what they see. There is also more scientific, constructivist way. You draw things that you think of and begin forming these objects with shapes, working up to more refined forms. This includes the prez tech style of drawing based on perspective theory. It also includes the sort of drawings you'd see in those drawing books they give to kids. You know the sort of "how to draw dinosaurs in 5 simple stages."

These are the two basic forms of drawing, from which others come from. For instance life drawing is a bit of a combination of these two schools. You are observing the live figure, but you come to the subject from a standpoint of knowledge, like scientific drawing. Its an interesting, variant approach, one that has made me think of drawing in new and exciting ways.

update

A few things I wanted to touch on:

You should all check out one of the freshest, most unique and most professional webcomics out there: Dan Goldmans Red Light Properties

I'll be doing stuff like this in the years to come. Sure distributing free weakly web comic's isn't exactly a route to fame and fortune, but it does reach the audience in a fast and powerful way to reach a wide audience.

I've been listening to the early drops of Damian Marley and Nasir Jones forthcoming collaboration in tight rotation. The two first worked together on Welcome to Jamrock's Road to Zion. That's a classic track and from what I've heard of the album there will be many more classic tunes coming from the duo. The both have plenty to prove, with Damian living in the shadow of his Fathers success and Nas living in the shadow of his own prior success. This seems to drive them to make better music, defying any perceived limitations on their musical potential.

I'll be posting or linking some new art soon. Nothing too special, but interesting none the less.

Horse Conches and other things

Happy Valentines everyone. Here's hoping you are with loved ones and not huddled in an alley boiling heroin in a spoon like I am.

Regardless, I did some research on my shell for Life Drawing, and here is the documentation of that. My shell is a nutmeg to light tan colored Horse Conch Shell, or Pleuroploca Gigantea in unintelligible, alien languages. It is the state shell of Florida, which isn't nearly as intresting as the fact that states actually have "official" sea shells. I wonder what the state sea shell of Nevada is? Anyway, they can get up to 24 inches long. They feature a long Siphonal canal. Me and my shell

The shells are found in the shallows and can have up to 10 whoris (ridges on the spiraled top). My shell has six whoris, with knobs on its ridges (which are also called shoulders). They are orange colored when their younger, and get lighter when older, like the desaturated Salmon or tan that mine is. The heavy spiral shell is quite distinct and the detail is great. It really is no wonder why it works for our drawing studies, its completely covered with cross contoured ridges.

Its cold and snowing now, even though the sun was shinning bright when I got up. I'm listening to the dubstep/grime/drum/bass/breakbeat/disco/loungy/minimal/dark tech-beats of Breakage, Curses! and Search & Destroy. More information on this and other things forthcoming....

Coffee, and other things

Here's a picture I made while drinking bag wine, which is delicious. I highly recommend drinking it in mass quantity while listening to wonky dubstep like Joker, Chase & Status, Flying Lotus or Darkstar. I may include this character in an upcoming effort.


I just realized even I don't have my blog bookmarked. As suave and internet savvy as I want to be, I really need to step up my game.

Anyway, I have begun to sort some things out, make plans, plot my future in different ways.

Anyway, I'm going to be working on some larger scale comic. The working title is Hell Hole. Actually that will probably be the final name, so nobody take that name. I'll be sure to post some art when I get it.

Still hitting the life drawing hard. Working those lines and such.
Working those cross contour lines and really, really, looking at naked women. Honestly, i don't know how art students make it.

But seriously, being an art student is the hardest work a college student can do. I know many students and professors personally who will swear by this. You don't become an artist because its easy or it makes you money. Often its hard, stressful and scary. You toil away, chronically unappreciated and misunderstood. There are many down sides to it, but you become an artist because you have to, because you feel things that intense. Because you have get some things of your chest. This is why I draw, write, create, drink, live. Its all a necessity, you'd do it even if you were all alone, the only person left. You do it because it has meaning it stands for something. Its important. This is the link between the fragments of reality the past the acid test, that stands the course of time. They speak to the human condition. Art, religion, writing, poetry, music all these things matter for precisely these reasons. This is why I look at the different company I keep as different but equal. This is why I view myself as one person rather then the many people I've been. Because there is not many things or moments or fragments there is one that is many.

Sorry for the exsistential rant, but this is what I think about and what I think people should blog about. Namaste to everyone from the revival meeting junkies to the pretentious hipster hacks (myself included).

Febuarys First

I described the above lines as unrepentant, frantic, paranoid and obsessive. How would you describe them?



Allready we've done plenty of homework for lifedrawing. The top three pictures are studies of a live model. The one directly above is a study of my sea shell. If I'm not allready sick of it, I will be soon.

So I've been working on that, thinking about what a want to do, comics wise. Other than that, i saw Sam Mendes latest picture, the criminally ingored and underated Away We Go. It was a fun film and cinematically gorgeuos, in the vain of Mendes other, better recognized work, such as American Beauty and Road to Perdition. Up next for Mendes will be the latest Bond intallment, and it should be good.

First Post

I've been meaning to make a blog for some time. Which leads me to believe that me writing this is intentional, a part of the hipster lifestyle. A hobby blog demonstrating how "deep" I am or something. All while raising my internet presence as I glad hand my betters. That is why people make blogs right?

Maybe it is. Or maybe it isn't. I shouldn't generalize other blogs or my own. Blogs and the internet are just a way of sharing information. Then whatever happens does. So I to will share my best information and it can be.

I'm working on a new illustrator based comic. Here is a preview image from it.
Its about violence. Or innovative layouts. Or just trying out different software. Or pretty colors. Or I may not finish it. There are many options.

I'll be posting information on this comic and other stuff. This other stuff includes life drawing class and music recommendations.

Life drawing updates are like:
I had life drawing today. I drew pictures.

Music Recommendations are like:
Listened to Four Tets new album today. Its called There is love in you. Its quite good. Post Rave bubblegum meets some of the best elements of minimal and comes back with there best effort yet, a euphoric blend ear ganja. Or something like that (I'm working on my pitchfork styled music reviews).
I also thought the cover was straight dope.

So that's my first blog post.