Nixon's picks time! Here's what I love in Hopefuls right now:

Nafrayou, Little Pony Land

Normally, I shy away from sets with little-girlish themes. But this one came out more kuwaii than pederastic, and it's a really well-shot, well-composed set.

Little Pony Land


Azullee, Shanghai

Good lord, the face...


shanghai




And speaking of the face...Ence has lips that rock me, along with some really nice ink.

Tangobar

I went to the rock climbing gym today for the first time so's The Right Bastard could, um, show me the ropes. (Wait, he's been doing that for quite some time now...) Anyhow, in spite of my constantly craptastic upper body strength, that was good fun. I recommend it. Of course, there's very few times when that much rope WOULDN"T make me happy...

Now, here is a video I'm totally in love with, thanks to d23. This is a wall-painted animation, which is about the most brilliant thing to hit grafitti in ten years. There is a lot more at the artst's website, but this should give you a taste for how cool the work is.



Meanwhile, ninadelamorte turned me on to the Body Bakery, which is incredible creepy and makes bread that looks like this:



I want my birthday cake from here next year, please.

Today, I went to the dentist for the first time in ages...new dentist has goggles with little inset magnifying glasses that are rather fabulous. They look like this:



Reading: Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which is good, although notvreally worth the rave reviews it got from everyone I know who read it. But it does pass time in the waiting room.

I'm also finally kicking my own ass into gear to get my website up and running!!! This totally excites me. I've been waiting for ages for various other folks to help me eith it, but finally decided to break down and just do it myself. so far, I'm pretty happy. It's still a week or more from launch, I'm sure, but I'll be letting everyone know as soon as it's up!!!

Also, why the Hell is that 'buy your freinds on Myspace' game so addicting?

Here's a quick video and some pics from the fashion show the other night....pics courtesy of HeadlessBill

By the way, the 'snow' in the snow machines is tiny bubbles that made me cough the entire time.... also on stage with me are models Anat Kat, LeEvil, Vampirabat, and Nummy Monkey. The guy is Fleeky from Vau de Vere Society (you SF kids will know him from his Gorey Ball acrobatics this year).

If you haven't yet checked out Nixon + Fractal, Bible Thumpers, do so now. And if you checked it out before, and couldn't leave a comment, now is the time!!!!

Oh, Portland.

I've been in Portland for a couple of hours, and I'm already curled up in Devil's Point with a drink and wifi watching hot girls with mohawks dance to the Violent Femmes.

God, I love this city.

So, it seems that now there is even a brief waiting period for sets going in to member review, which is why you couldn't leave comments. I'll let you know when it's actually functional!

Meanwhile, I'll be off to Portland next week, so let me know it there is anything great happening there! Somehow I seem to have fallen out of SGPDX.

And, almost as soon as I get back, there's the Emerging Illusions fashion show. I'll be walking for Eirik, he who makes the fabulous rubber things. And walking isn't really the word. I've never had a script for a fashion show before...

Nixon + Fractal, Bible Thumpers, is up! I think...wait- can you see it? It says 'pending' on my screen.... Perhaps that is why you can't comment on it yet?

In fact, I manage to upload it like four different times...I am SO technologically advanced.

This set was shot by ymonster some time in the Precambrian. It was never actually rejected, we just submitted it at a time when SG wasn't taking multis much. So, it sat around HQ waiting for a good time (kinda like me). Then it got lost. And stayed lost. So, we finally re-edited it, Rigel gave it a groovy new Photoshop job, and two years later it will finally see the light of day.

I suspect this is the first of a series. After all, that's my roommate to be in a few months!

Coming soon to member review: Nixon+Fractal, Bible Thumpers.