I have been pretty unhappy with Blogger for some time now. It seems to me that at least since Google gobbled them up very little has been done to improve or enhance the service. I've been thinking for the longest time that I should switch to WordPress, which is what I was using for my comic, but for one reason or another I just haven't gotten around to it. Well now they are forcing my hand. Google has decided to discontinue FTP support for Blogger which means that only Blogger hosted sites will be able to run with Blogger. Yuck. Massive yuck. That means that instead of running my blog on the front page of my site, I'd have to link off over to unlikelyattitude.blogspot or some such. Grrrr.

So now I have to figure out how to flop everything over. If things look sloppy here for the next few days (weeks?) it's because I'm working this out.

Wish me luck!

I've been meaning to try a post from my iPhone for a while seeing as I've been having trouble finding time to post and since I had a moment, sitting in the car with our neurotic dog, while Andrea and the girls do some shopping in Grass Valley, I figured now would be a good time to try it out. It works fine but I can't seem to enter text in 'compose' mode. I have to be in 'edit html' which I guess is no big deal just kind of odd.

Another problem is that I can't figure out how to upload a photo. The 'upload from your computer' button is grayed out so the only option is to link to an image on the web. Looks like the Blogger/iPhone integration is totally nailed quite yet.

Labels: blogging, iPhone

Slowly, slowly getting my site back into some kind of reasonably presentable shape. Look! I added some buttons...over there on the right! Come back tomorrow and maybe there will be something else to look at. Stranger things have happened.

I am always delighted when a Lou Romano post graces my RSS feed. The man is amazing. His posts are infrequent at best (I should talk), but when they come, whether it's thumbnail storyboards, color studies, concept art, a personal project, or just WTF, there is something mouthwateringly irresistible about his mid-century modern, retro-beebop style that just gets me every time.

It's been a while since Romano posted anything so when I saw the Something Marvelous post, of course I went and checked it out. Holy cow! Pretty subversive for such a prominent Lieutenant in the Mouse's Army (granted he's stationed in a norther outpost of the Magic Kingdom, but nonetheless...) I was curious if anyone else thought this was a little off the charts considering the source (I mean it's great don't get me wrong, I love it but it's blasphemy coming from a Pixar guy). Google reader didn't show any comments, so I went to look at the post directly: Page not found. I went to the home page of his blog and top of the feed is a post from July about Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. Looks like the post has been removed.

Am I just being paranoid to think that Disney strong-armed Romano to pull down the post? Or did he just think better of it? Did he get a couple of voice mail messages from fellow Pixarians: "Dude, do you hate your job or what?" Maybe he got a late night visit from Goofy and Donald and their friends Brass Knuckles and Baseball Bat. Whatever the case, the full size image is still up on the blogspot server even if the post has been removed. Take look before the Mouse himself shows up on Romano's doorstep with a cannoli.

Labels: illustration friday

Arthur in Captivity - Final
Originally uploaded by three_point

This is my street painting for the 2009 Youth In Arts Street Painting Festival. It didn't quite turn out how I expected or planned but I wasn't disappointed with the results. Drawing with pastel chalk on the ground is such a different thing from pencils in a sketchbook...or pixels on the computer!

I was hoping more people would twitter the experience. Maybe next year.