Crazy crazy week!! Actually. Honestly the last few years have been crazy.. but I think I might have taken on too many projects with deadlines that are all next month. Last weekend was :devjimmahfood:'s book release party, which was also a comic book prom. I made some necklaces and earrings for it that I should post. `catbones was in town so we ran around a bunch (ate cupcakes from an ATM!). Hung out with +spyed and $techgnotic too. Drowning in deadlines and sleep deprivation and meetings and crazy. Finally surfaced from all that yesterday, bought a dress for a rave that I'm hitting today (that my friend Dan is flying in for), and hung out at a fancy 1920s bar, an arcade bar, and my friend Michael Lim's house to play with his new kittens.

Aside from the rave tonight, I have final edits on a poster that's being displayed at an international puzzle convention (like mechanical puzzles and rubic cubes and such), and then I should either work on props for Steakpunk Saloon, or the ashcan for the book I'm pimping out at SDCC! Brain explodey! We also need rave snacks! My favorite rave snacks for outdoor events are fancy cheeses and crackers, but since I'm doing keto til comicon, I'm eating cheese and broccoli with dip. Probably some Manchego because we had some last time and it was amazing.

How about you? What are you up to? I have noticed that a billion friends on my watch list just changed their usernames. That will make it very hard to figure out how I know you!

so sleek. so pretty.

perfect for minecraft.

I'm still kinda processing the past few months. My mom got really sick around Thanksgiving and ended up in the hospital. I found out while I was on a work trip to NY, and headed over there as soon as I could. They thought it was pneumonia or maybe COPD. Over the next three months, she rapidly got worse, and it turned out to be lung cancer. She'd smoked since a teenager, so it wasn't surprising. I got a text while I was in DC at Shmoocon that she thought the end was near, and flew to San Diego the next morning. She passed away that night. We spread the ashes last Sunday.

So yeah, smoking sucks. So does cancer.

My friends have all been super supportive, and helping me stay distracted. I'm trying to find some creativity again, too. Not sure where it went.

I'm having a particularly sad week, so I made some breadcats

They are whole wheat.

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Well. Her contact form on her website is down, and the fax has been trying to send for an hour, but here's what it says. It's not the best-written document out there, but I did want to throw my voice in. I figure that someone who hates the internet might put more weight on a fax.  Her LA fax number is (310) 914-7318


Dear Senator Diane Feinstein,

Most of the time, you're a pretty great senator. I voted for you. I voted for many of the bills that you support. I am appalled that you are a co-sponsor of PIPA. I know that this is one lone voice of millions, and that you already know why PIPA is dangerous to our future and to the tech industry. I am a professional who makes creative content. I work in the entertainment industry. I am the person your bill is trying to protect. I am fighting PIPA and SOPA as much as I can. Please drop your sponsorship.

Thank you for listening.

Pinguino Kolb
artist/photographer
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Greg Pak has released his comic "Vision Machine" under Creative Commons, and has made it easy for people to remix his work by providing a textfile with all the text. As far as I know, he's the first person to really do something like this. Pretty rad.

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My friend Dekker is putting a political comic book anthology together, and is taking submissions of 1-5 page comics from different viewpoints on our current global economic crisis. It's a paid project, though they are donating half the proceeds to United Way. I'm submitting a story to this, and it'd be great to see my deviantART friends in there as well!

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#OCCUPYCOMICS

Spent new years in SF and flew back last night. Hit up Breakfast of Champions and ate Raw Chicken sushi at Ippuko in Berkeley. SO GOOD. surprisingly. I also designed some stickers and put them up around the city.

I wrote an overview of 2011 at my blog at I Vomit Rainbows: [link].. it made me feel much better about the year.

This weekend I'll be in San Diego, and next weekend I'll be in Vegas. Hit me up if you wanna hang out. I wanna do an art night soon.