A good book

Is there any other kind by Gene Wolfe?

The Knight by Gene Wolfe
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wolfe is a unique writer. Especially in this series. He not so much tells you the story as lets you discover it through eavesdropping on the conversations between his characters. Very little descriptive scene building, no exposition ... he forces your unconscious mind to supply all of this between the lines. Thus, one becomes deeply and inextricably engaged.

The way Wolfe is extolled as today's penultimate literary genius in the cover blurbs on his novels might put some readers off. But he lives up to it.


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Can Trump actually drive a pacecar?

Donald Trump was asked to drive the Pace Car at Indianapolis (see http://bit.ly/eoDvdQ). Many people are wondering, can he even drive? Funny. I actually touched on this subject when I was sketching out ideas for a daily cartoon strip about Palm Beach back in the ’90s. One of the characters, Ronald Rex, was based on Trump.

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Pixar takes a ‘Brave’ new direction

Pixar has never shied away from taking artistic risks with either their groundbreaking animation or the emotional depth of their stories. It looks like they are at it again.

Stunning New Concept Art from Pixar's 'Brave' - iamROGUE.com

Collection of earlier B&W editorial cartoons up on my portfolio

From 1992 through 2001 all of the editorial cartoons that I did for the Palm Beach Daily News were hand rendered in Lamp Black watercolor. After that, I have done them as digital illustrations using paint software and a WACOM tablet. I have just added a group of example cartoons from the black & white period to my portfolio. The art has its own unique quality and there were also some great stories during this period. Check it out.

Editorial Cartoons (the black & white years) on the Behance Network

Take a little trip to Saturn

5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo.

The new Chevy Vortex concept car

Chevrolet CEO Daniel Akerson announced the new Chevy Vortex concept car that has a propulsion system that doubles as a wind power generator.

Not really, but I like the blog this image came from.

Great use of cartooning

This is a great use of cartooning as illustration to add an extra dimension of understanding to a complex topic. This particular RSAnimate presentation is also very pertinent to the role that social networking is playing in toppling autocrats and dictators right now.



RSA is the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce an historic organization that has been at the forefront of applied science for 250 years.