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Sandwich Artist
Drawn on the new bamboo tablet, using my handwriting font (which isn’t perfect, but man does it make it a lot easier to edit text). -
Got A New Toy
by Andrew Allingham January 2, 2013I went and bought myself a Wacom Bamboo tablet for myself for Christmas. I’ve been wanting to make animations for awhile now, but not having a scanner or a camera has made it difficult. I can’t draw with a mouse … Continue reading → -
The Birth of a Quote and a Google Result
by Andrew Allingham November 26, 2012“Walls can’t keep out ideas.” – Andrew Allingham -
Turning My Handwriting into Font
by Andrew Allingham November 18, 2012So you want to turn your handwriting into a font. Since I’ve started trying to digitize my comics, I’ve realized that one of the most annoying parts of the process is redoing the text after I’ve already scanned and colored … Continue reading → -
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Buying Coffee
On our drive to Seattle, we stopped in Boulder. We couldn’t get to the place we were staying because a professional bike race had closed down all of the roads that would take us there. We decided to stop for … Continue reading → -
The Myth of Sisyphus
I used to save the cardboard from nutri-grain bar boxes to paint on. I made a few two panel painted comics, but sadly gave them away without archiving them (there was a really great Winnie the Pooh one that I … Continue reading → -
I Moved to Seattle
by Andrew Allingham September 13, 2012I had two friends that were moving to Seattle, so on whim, I decided to join them. One is starting his PHD program and teaching at the University of Washington next week, the other is in the same unemployed English … Continue reading → -
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Change in Season
It takes a few times to get used to it, but after that, it’s really not so bad. Tangy. -
Being Sociable
This is me at the coffee shop 50% of the time normally and 95% of the time when I’m hungover. -
Childhood
I started drawing comics again. To be posted sporadically at best. -
Bylines
by Andrew Allingham April 5, 2012I got a pretty cool byline for a concert preview I wrote for the weekender section of the paper. The one before it was shared with my roommate: Ryan Marr and Andrew Allingham are marginally employed English majors living the … Continue reading → -
Letters to Juliet, Alternate Ending
There was a month last Summer that I was in between leases in Fredericksburg. I was sleeping on a couch in the basement of my parents house and painting the upstairs as a form of rent. Conveniently, they had cable … Continue reading → -
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2011
Since 1982, the English department at San Jose State University has held a competition seeking the worst possible first sentence to a novel. From vile punnery to the most flowery wording, these are the best of the worst that’d make … Continue reading → -
The difference between a buttload, boatload and shitload.
I found that I’ve been censoring myself when it comes to measuring quantities in storytelling. It’s part of growing up, I thought, it’s inappropriate to talk about buttloads of shit in polite conversation. Not only was I wrong about what … Continue reading → -
It took me a long time to even figure out a possibility of what might be going on in this cartoon
Drawing by David Borchart Contest #292, June 27, 2011 “This déjà vu is getting really aggressive.” anti-caption contest: “I wonder what it would be like if our pants were a little bit longer.” or “This is the most confusing way … Continue reading → -
New Yorker Caption Contest
Drawing by John Klossner Contest #291, June 13, 2011 My caption: “Michelangelo was so dedicated to the game that he tore off his shell in some sort of illegal bunting maneuver, despite the screams of his brothers, “No Mikey, you’ll … Continue reading → -
It Never Ends
On the morning of graduation, as I walked from my house toward campus dressed in my cap and gown, I couldn’t help but spot this bumper sticker on Cornell Street. -
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Dear Future DS106er,
Hi, I know you are probably wondering what the hell you’ve gotten yourself into, and rightly so. Just think of it like you are on a train, a train with no doors, just windows, well more like screens, that look … Continue reading → -
Authentic Olive Garden Garlic Bread Sticks
The basket of fresh, warm garlic bread sticks, mid-conversation over the construction of racial identity and art in the 21st Century, sat in the middle of a table-for-one around lunchtime at the Olive Garden in Columbus, Ohio. “I think, Marcello … Continue reading → -
Eggistential Drug PSA
What is a remix or mashup or a scramble? I set out “to make a new meaning/story,” but the “This is your brain on drugs PSA“s story was so detailed that I think I just re-enforced its overall message. Eggsistential … Continue reading → -
Interview with Jim Groom on DS106tv
Watch live video from ds106tv on Justin.tv Here is a brief interview with Jim Groom about my video essay for The Saragossa Manuscript that won me a pile of internet money last week. As a first step out onto ds106tv, … Continue reading → -
Praxis and Mashup
In response to reading Praxis 2.0: Escaping the edu-travelogue by Melanie Mcbride what is really possible within institutional learning at a time of unprecedented access to the figures, communities and tools that allow learners an alternative means of learning that … Continue reading → -
Frame Stories in The Saragossa Manuscript
The Saragossa Manuscript on IMBD Made using windows movie maker (because I’m stubborn) in about 11 hours with a break for lunch. I wish I would do this in smaller chunks so I could actually blog about the process, but … Continue reading → -
Wine and Cheese Pairing Recipe
What you’ll need: 1 or more Wegmans grocery stores 1-3 Saturday (or Tuesday or Thursday, sometimes) 1 car or cheap public transportation alternative. 1 valid driver’s license proclaiming you are “legal” 1-1.5 quart empty and eager stomachs! Preparation Step 1: … Continue reading →
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