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Ages ago, when my Wife and I were dating, we were in a locally filmed movie, shot by a friend’s co-worker.

We played zombies.

It predates the Quirkblog, so I don’t have any old posts that I can quickly link in to help describe the experience. The short version is that it was a lot of fun, zombie makeup is tasty, and we were never paid the $5 we were promised as part of the Zombie Horde Recruitment Signup.

A lot of things never happened with that movie. Somehow, between the end of production and the beginning of the marketing phase, it just kind of… vanished. Even the director didn’t have a copy of the finished DVD until very recently.

When I say “finished” I mean in a playable sense. There’s no cover art. It’s just a plain silver DVD with the title written on it in magic marker. Fortunately, I can fix that.

Ta dah! 15 minutes in Photoshop and we’re good to go…

The little kitty defends us from paper bags and permanent markers.

Click the image to pop up an action-packed movie of the battle. My Wife’s sock very nearly becomes a friendly-fire casualty…

This started out as something I was doing for work. I kind of liked it so I figured I’d post it here.

Oh, and if you’re using Internet Explorer, you’re probably having trouble seeing PNG files. Go get Firefox instead.

Got a lovely shot of a huge spider munching happily on one of those red-striped Boxelder bugs. It was hanging out in the shrubbery by the driveway and was patient enough to wait for me to head into the house, drop off groceries, and come back out with the camera. It even sat through a half-dozen or so flashes while I jockeyed for the best angle.

Anyway, I’ve got some friends that I know are rather arachnophobic, so I’m putting this image after the break.

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Lots of fun can be had with the instant seal generator….

The fly is real. The leaf is cast pewter.

Hi. Don’t mind me, I’m just going to be living in your woodpile. Tasty bugs there, you know?

CafePress is doing black shirts now. Even better, they’re using the alpha channel of the source image to determine the transparency of the shirt art. So, in honor of a previous Smithee Award Winner, and to test how this all goes, I’ve done up a new shirt.

You can get them here.

Do not take my picture. Do not take my #&%@ing picture.

Playing a bit with Comic Life. It’s almost too easy to make an online strip with this… I’m gonna play with the 30 day free demo for a while, but I won’t be at all surprised if I wind up sending in the $25 registration fee.

And yes, the comic is in .PNG format. It’s not that I hate Internet Explorer, I just hate that it can’t display the transparency correctly.
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