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I wanted to share a little sample of what I’m working on outside of my prints, a few frames of animation from a video game about the Current Wars between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla:

Tesla Stride

I really enjoy working on this, although it is about daunting just how much there is to do. In addition to backgrounds, enemies, and boss fights, Tesla alone is going to require upwards of 50 frames of hand drawn artwork before he’s finished.

The name Dynamo Electric comes from one of Tesla’s patents. It plays a lot like the old Mega Man games, which are some of my favorites from my childhood – I still hum the Bubble Man theme sometimes. The game is about how Edison’s ruthless business practices and ego shortchanged a lot of other inventors, and how he uses his MacGuffin device to mind control other great thinkers of the day like Alexander Graham Bell and HG Wells. Did you know Bell maintained a private army of Phone Spiders?

I am now actively participating in a project which could, someday, destroy all modern thought as we know it.

Fakepedia is basically Wikipedia, but for lies.  Hoaxes, frauds, rumors, anything which you could ever make up about a person.   For example, George Washington ripped a cherry tree in half with his own teeth for what it said about his mother.  Of course it’s completely inaccurate, that’s not the point.  The point is, history would be better if it were true.  Fakepedia embodies the best of Stephen Colbert’s idea of Truthiness – that how we feel about a subject is much more important than the facts of the matter.   Kate Beaton aside, allegorical history is so much more fun than regular history.   The myth about Lincoln being born in a log cabin is just as much a part of his story as his depression or the stove pipe hat.

We set up these websites like Facebook and MySpace and develop these huge lists of our friends and not-real-just-internet friends. But what do we do about the people we don’t like? The people I try to avoid in the real world keep finding me on the web, inviting me to be their friends over and over because apparently I must have mis-clicked the last three times I identified them as being not worth my time

Where is the button to mark someone as my enemy? I want a Buddy List, and a Nemesis List. If Facebook lets me poke my friends, I should be able to jab at my enemies. Maybe there could even be a little flash animation of a red pitchfork poking their user icon. Now there’s mass appeal.

Hello all.  You’re probably coming here because you’re me, testing how the site works before you tell people.  So far everything seems Quite Nice but empty for content.  Let’s try and fill up on that, shall we?

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