This is the portfolio of the graphic artist Brian Weaver

Playing : Quake Wars: Enemy Territory, Second Life
Working : RIM This site : HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, RSS
Most Interesting place worked so far: Swissopolis
Starting to play with : ZBrush

Listening To: The London Sound Survey, ambient audio for the Anglophile ... Major treats Choral Evensong from BBC channel 3, and Through The Night BBC's Channel 3 all night classic shows (The links will launch a small BBC player on your desktop) ... Pete Namlook is an ambient and electronic-music producer and composer ... System of a Down is a left wing Armenian numetal band from Glendale, California. Their melancholy take on Hollywood is at YouTube ... Killswitch Engage  is a melodic metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts ... Alaska in Winter pop electronica from Berlin ... The Swell Season electro acoustic alternative longing and sighing from Ireland ... Greatful Dead an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area.The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, jazz, psychedelica, space rock and gospel ... Paul Hillier He is an active conductor, director, and singer (baritone) from Dorchester, England. He specializes in early music and contemporary art music, especially that of composers Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt ... The Dufay Collective is an early-music ensemble from the United Kingdom, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music ... Recoil is a experimental trip hop dark electronica music project created by former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder ... Overscene is a Dallas based metal band ... Giving Big Band music a distinctive British turn is BBC Radio Wales : Music from the Golden Years of Entertainment. Requires Real Player ... Current UK Pop on BBC Radio 6 with Nemone (3 hours) (Will launch BBC player app on desktop.) ... On BBC Radio 3 From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Donald Macleod introduces a performance of Wagner's Lohengrin, (4.5 hours ) (Will launch BBC player app on desktop.) starring South African tenor Johan Botha, with soprano Edith Haller as Elsa ... BBC Radio 6 Radiohead's legendary Glastonbury 1997 headline set. (2 hours) One of the most bootleged recordings of all time ... Over on BBC Radio 1's leftfield show  Moby plays his first ever Radio 1 session (2 hours) for Rob da Bank ... BBC Radio Jazz On 3 at the Summer Festivals. Jez Nelson presents US guitarist and composer Marc Ribot performing in concert with British saxophonist Evan Parker and Dutch drummer Han Bennink.(2 hours) Part of the 2009 Meltdown festival, curated by free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman ...

Crazy!
    I'm reading this book, it's called Spending by Mary Gordon, it's about this women artist and she meets a rich commodities trader.
    I'm on page 36 and it made me want ice cream.
    I haven't had ice cream for a while, and I'm eating a quart of French Vanilla right now and writing about why, no not really.
    I have an Americano from the Allegro too, its very good, chocolate tasting, a strong Americano from the Allegro and the crows are flying around outside and the sunlight is spilling across the rooftops of the University District and splashing onto the trees.
    I'm thinking that I like to watch movies and TV and I like to watch those things if they have aliens and explosions in them. Not necessarily exploding aliens.
    I love watching computer graphics and I know a little about them, the modeling and the lighting, and the texture maps, and the polygon sculpting and metaballs, and all that. Oh look it up!
    I have art work pilled against the wall here, pictures I've done, really some of them are very good and most of them have never seen the light of day. I think about that sometimes and I wonder why is that? I don't have an answer.
    I just turned on the Beach Boys' Kokomo I'm thinking of Hawaii when they sing this stuff, I can't help myself, Hawaii is a very nice place to be, and to be from, to have spent some time there growing up, and coming to a bit of understanding about how people intersect and interact, differently and still get along. I hear you, Kokomo isn't about Hawaii, but I know that so stuff it!
    I forgot that there's a neat Sax solo in Kokomo. It's about the need for connection and the need for separation, sometimes the need to have both at the same time which is possible in an abstract way, but not in a physical way, the need to have someone near you and away from you at the same time.
   California Dreaming is a masterpiece, really listen to it sometime that sexy sax jazz thing in there.
   This is in the same album with Surfin' Safari.
   Good Vibrations, this single was a work of genius.
   Listening to the music on the Internet makes me realize I never have to own an album again, all I need to do is just jack in and listen.
   Dance, Dance, Dance Beach Boys, Coldplay, Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin. Speed Of Sound is a Coldplay signature. It is music filled with breath, filled with light.
   It's amazing how small things like Winamp or iTunes have changed or altered peoples behavior, or their relationship to music.
   Music is something that ones hunts for with due diligence, not only you do a search for it, find it, and listen to it, but the searching is done now sitting down and takes only a few seconds, not days or week crawling through some dusty record shop, instant gratification, a wealth of infinite possibilities extend into the future. The only thing missing now are the old LP liner notes and art on the album.They even used to have Grammies for them! Learned a lot of music that way from a lot of good writers.
    Sonny Clark Trio, see what I mean? Horace Silver Trio, see? Listen! Dexter Gordon's Easy Living.

Listening To: Nostalgia for lost technology ... Camera Obscura are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland ... Christina Courtin jumpy poppy otherworld folk nujazz from New York. Christina on google ... Dinosaur Jr. is alternative garage rock from Amherst, Massachusetts ... Rascal Flatts bubble gum country rock from Columbus, Ohio ... The Fray piano rock from Denver. Counting Crows mated with Coldplay ... New York Dolls undead lipstick proto-punk, proto-glam cross dressing rock from New York. On YouTube. Oh honey, who does your hair? ... Passion Pit steaming gleaming ecstatic electronica from Cambridge, Mass ... Phoenix French alternative rock ... The Sammus Theory numetal from Phoenix, Arizona. Coming to Tony V's Garage in Everett, Washington July 3rd, 2009 ... Tool progressive art metal from LA. Tool on YouTube ... Daft Punk is a dance house techno duo of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They live in Paris which is far superior to where you live ... The Toronto Consort ensemble specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ... BrotherSister down tempo experimental from Adelaide, Australia. Their new video on YouTube  ... Deftones is a numetal band from Sacramento, California ... Mnemic is a Danish death metalcore band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark ... Takida is a rock band from Ånge, Sweden ... Nels Cline is a experimental nujazz guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco, who play a kind of nice smooth roots rock. Some facts : He is at least 10 years younger than you are, and he is a successful musician in a famous band, he makes more money than you do  ... Another Black Day is a post grunge metal band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida  ... Atreyu is a screamo metalcore band from Orange County, California (Scroll down to play tracks.) ... Allie Moss alternative folk from New Jersey sings with ... Ingrid Michaelson indie folk rock from Staten Island, New York ...  Volker Bertelmann from Duesseldorf, Germany plays experimental electronica and piano music ... The American Dollar experimental electronica from Queens, New York. American on YouTube ... El Ten Eleven dancable post rock electronica duo from LA. El Ten on YouTube ... Hello Stranger from LA fronted by Juliette Commagere's vocals does shiney smooth pop rock. Hello on MySpace videos ... The Court & Spark 60’s psychedelic folk-revival shamanism rock from San Fransisco ... The Dufay Collective is an early-music ensemble from the United Kingdom, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music ... The Clay People are an industrial metal band based in Albany, New York ... Thelonious Monk bebop improvisational jazz. Scroll down to tracks. Thelonious Monk on YouTube ... Hilliard Ensemble  : English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals ...

Games, Comics, Film, Animation, Toys, and Special fx : First looks at Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland  remake concept designs ... True Blood HBO season 2 Episode 2 ... Arslan Elver senior-animator at Framestore CFC. Has updated his website with a reel of shots from the third season of the TV series Primeval ...  CGSociety : Artist Profile Roger Gibbon matte painter ... Color illusion ... Trailer for Ozzy Osbourne's biopic The Wreckage of my Past ... Onesize created some pretty awesome scientific anomalies for the sponsor titles this year at OFFF 2009 ... Resolution Design in Sydney, Australia just updated their site with these five tasty new videos for the 2009 MTV Broadcast Design ... Animafrik, an African animation film festival that seeks to promote African art and animation will take place October 5th to the 9th, 2009 ... The vampires from the blood-soaked, bare-breasted True Blood series are back with boobs, and blood. Well of course! ... Breaking up is hard to do ... Five short films created by the students of Gobelins at Annecy2009 ... 

The Manifested Glory Ministries Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut will exorcise your gay demons. You may not know you have gay demons, I'd be worried if I were you. Do they come in designer colors?

Every issue of Weekly World News from 1981 to 2007. I think I feel sick. This is part of google's mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Uh huh Wow!

What an out of control meme looks like.

Corrupted-Files.com, for a small fee will provide you with a corrupted Word, Excel or PowerPoint file just in time to actually do the work or get out of it.

cool live, interactive map of global shipping.

Ebon Heath designer.

Henri Cartier-Bresson photographer.

Kelly Thompson illustration.

Cedric Seaut digital sculpture.

Camelia Dobrin illustrator.

Robert Motherwell painter.

Kenny Harris illustration.

Irvin Rodriguez illustration.

Franz Kline painter

Listening To: Miles Davis simply one of the great music geniuses of any age. Miles on YouTube ...  The Sounds is a Swedish new wave synth pop band from Helsingborg, Sweden. Full voiced clear Maja Ivarsson who fronts it has a pop voice to die for. The Sounds on YouTube . Please pay no attention to her legs, it objectifies her and demeans  ...   Velvet Revolver is a Grammy Award-winning metal supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth from LA. Velvet on YouTube ... Default a Canadian post grunge alternative metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia ... Loaded (also known as Duff McKagan's Loaded) is an American metal post grunk supergroup that formed in Seattle, Washington ... Electric Flag psychedelic blues rock soul late 60's. Thanks to Jeff for the nostalgic heads up ... Arto Tuncboyaciyan Armenian percussionist, vocalist and instrumentalist from the UK ... Ragheb Alama pop Lebanese singer (Scroll Down to tracks) ... Emilana Torrini an acoustic folk singer from the UK ... 311 alternative hip hop punk metal from Omaha, Nebraska ... Gene Krupa an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style ... Sintonik alternative thrash post grunk heavy metal from Nashville ...  Phon"noir experimental Electroacoustapop from Berlin ... My Toys Like Me alternative pop electronica from London ... Blue Oyster Cult is an psychedelic progressive post-Zeppelin, pre-punk metal band formed in New York in 1967 and still active ... The Fiery Furnaces are an indie post punk rock band from Brooklyn, New York ... The Cramps surf garage punk rockabilly from San Diego ... Afro Celt Sound System African Celtic folk electronica from the UK. Afro Celts on YouTube ...

Found Aesthetic Objects: Lional Hamptom drum solo ...  Duke Ellington Mood Indigo. Original RCA Victor recording of Mood Indigo (Must have .ram player like Real Audio ) More Ellington Sophisticated Lady - In A Sentimental Mood (1936) Compare to The Copenhagen Concerts, More 21 January 1942 recording of C Jam Blues, compare to the Oscar Peterson Trio's version of same dig the Jo Jones solo sans drum sticks at 2:32 to 3:05 ... Here's Oscar Peterson at 20 sounding almost like Art Tatum playing C Jam Blues recorded 20 August 17,1945 ... Here's Art playing Yesterdays, and here he is playing Tatum Pole Boogie live April 1949, Los Angeles ... Eddie Van Halen's NAMM 2007 guitar solo and earlier '95 Eruption solo. As good a guitarist as any alive. Steve Vai solo Denver 2003 I Know You're Here ... Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie (G3 Live In Denver) G3 Live In Denver - 2004, and Flying In A Blue Dream  2006 ... January 1996 Dick Dale playing Misirlou ... Dick Dale and The Del Tones 1963 Misirlou ... Primordial surf music The Ventures play Wipe Out Live 1964 with excellent drumming ...

   Somehow it has become "news" that John Travolta is " "struggling" to cope with the loss of his son, six months after the teen's death." quoting from MSNBC. As if we should be surprised at someone dealing with tragic loss only six months after it happened. Forget the mom by the way let's just focus on heroic dad.
     Yeah, why don't they just "Get on with life!" yeah, emotions and feelings for tragic loss are as easy to turn on and off as a light switch. It's important we make up rules for this so we can shame someone who is in mourning.
    In America it's important to deny the impact of death on our lives and give it another name, preferably something vaguely bureaucratic sounding (Passed to paradise, on to oblivion, exit)  so none of us have to deal with our own fear of death that gets lit up over someone else's loss of a wife, lover, son, daughter, father, mother, aunt, uncle, or pet.  Feel free to add to the list.
    So John do us all a favor and get over it, so we can dwell guiltlessly on our own fascinating narcissistic self absorption.
   Just so you know my true feelings : All Hollywood reporters and paparazzi should be kicked and spit on as often as possible.

   Forty years ago, Ken Thompson sat down and wrote a small operating system that would eventually be called Unix. An article at ComputerWorld describes the history, present, and future of what could arguably be called the most important operating system of them all.

   Hmmm, I smell a potential new horror film coming.
   From the Rumor mill :  Microsoft planning stores to compete with Apple stores, their version of the Genius Bar will be called The Guru Bar. Uh huh...

Before firing please feel free to tighten the barrel.
Artificial Owl is a blog about abandoned ships, buildings, and structures.
Moving Cities is a Beijing-based think-tank that investigates the role of architecture and urbanism in the creation of cities.
Mothballed Russian subs.
Like, totally K001! Agency website made entirely with YouTube videos.
Melbourne street art.
 OOOiii, gesture interfaces and interface design.
Yayashin illustrator.
Feona Meng illustrator.
Antony Gormley sculptural installations.
Jonatan Navarrete illustrator.
Fran Ferriz character, graphics, and industrial design.

Listening To:  Leon Fleisher (Conductor), Leon Fleisher (Piano), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A K 488 , Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra ... 10 Years is an American alternative metal band, from Knoxville, Tennessee ... Red is a Grammy award winning Christian alternative metal band from Nashville ... Dead Letter Circus is a four-piece alternative progressive metal band from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ... Piotr Anderszewski (Piano), Ludwig van Beethoven : 6 Bagatelles Op 126 ... Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Their music encompasses dark ethereal ambient, voiceless industrial soundscapes, and electronic pop ... Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian gothic industrial electronica group ... Grendel is a Dutch goth industrial electronica music group ... Victor Sangiorgio (Piano), Domenico Cimarosa : Keyboard Sonatas ... David Greed (Conductor), Howard Shelley (Piano), Camille Saint-Saens : Piano Concerto No. 2 in g Op 22,Orchestra of Opera North ... Otep  is an American experimental hip hop numetal speed thrash band from LA formed and fronted by Otep Shamaya. Otep on YouTube ...

Sci/Tech :  Code snakes. The code is discussed here ... Galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 ... Visualization professor Jack van Wijk developed  Myriahedral projections ... Why Minds are Not Like Computers: an analysis ... String theory article in Science News by Tom Siegfried ...

Games, Comics, Film, Animation, Toys, and Special fx : From Animate Projects : Computer Baroque: Computer animation 1987-1995 by Richard Wright. Related : Animate Projects presents Computer Baroque, an online exhibition, curated by Richard Wright ... Carousel from Phillips a frozen moment in time with evil clowns ... From Animal Logic comes Ninja Kittens ... 1stAveMachine does Samsung's Hummingbird ... RSA Films and Filmmaster Italy produced, Chris Cunningham's directed Gucci's fragrance Flora ... Cinematically incomprehensible gameplay trailer from Final Fantasy XIII ... Shot In The Back Of The Head from Moby  ... The opening cinematic for the game Wolfenstein from id ... Pandorum trailer ... Eduardo Sanchez's Seventh Moon looks like a total creep-out ...

 Google News Timeline. A new way to waste immense amounts of time because in addition to searching the Google News database, you can search through content from specific blogs, magazines and newspapers. In other words read it as it was written at the time in the original news. Gol Dang!

What!? No, uh...well I don't think so but well it's called Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl, from the sickos behind Tokyo Gore Police. These are movies so bad they are already cult classics in much the same way Plan9 From Outerspace is, except Plan9 isn't a splatter film so that analogy fails, uh huh. In fact these films are so bad that they transcend the badness of the 60's Godzilla, Mothra Japanese black and whites. They are so bad they are not even good. Which I suppose makes them a kind of ironic film statement which makes them a little better than the trash they really are. We have New York academic criticism to thank for that post-deconstructive logic. Real thanks goes to Derrada, thanks! Really! You incomprehensible ass-hole! Remember when academics used to foam at the mouth and lick his boots?

David Maisel's stunning project Terminal Mirage.
 Sam Weber illustrator.
Donato Giancola illustrator.
Sarah McKenzie painter.
Marc Sasso illustrator.
Naquib Hossain design and photography. If you have a small screen scroll down to the menu.

....................... Miss Tita 8/12/94 - 3/25/09
   I had to check her papers to remember how old she really was. It seemed to me she was always here. Waking up in the morning with me. Waking up when I came through the door in the afternoon, jumping up and greeting me, tail straight up.
    She following the sun across the floor, if it wasn't in the right place she demanded I move it.
   She was born a pedigree with a horribly long pedigree name, a sable colored Burmese, American apple headed, eye color gold.
   She fit in the palm of my hand when we got her at eight weeks old, just weaned, just like her brother, as small a tiny thing as anyone could imagine, with those gold eyes. We took her and her brother, with pedigree names that proud cat fanciers like to spread around. We named them Moke and?Tita. Pigeon names, Moke was tough guy, and Tita was tough girl.
    I bonded with Moke first, then Tita.
   After Lauren, my wife, died, they saved me from suicide on Lauren's pain medications because who else would care for them?
   So Moke went first.
   Tita toughed it out. 
   She never looked like an old girl, more like a kitten, at six and a quarter pounds, muscled, sleek, a jumper, fast and a talker in her old age sounding like a Siamese. Talking to herself and me for hours. Very annoying!
   Like her brother, her kidneys gave out, in the end.
   I remember her intense yellow eyes and her soft ears.
   She used to love to those ears pinched lightly and pulled, it made her purr.
   She liked to lay in my arms as I worked at the computer, her head under my chin, she like to rub the top of her head and her ears on me there, looking up occasionally, as if to say rub with your chin some more.
    You could pet her like a dog. Real dog pets too, for such a small thing. She liked to have her fur rubbed the wrong way, it got her excited and she wanted to play.
   She loved sleeping under the covers, and made a special effort everynight to go there.
   She loved lying on lundry fresh and hot from the dryer regardless of the time of the year.
   We lived together in harmony as long as I did everything her way.
   I hate the lack of sound, the soft movements, the realization that there is no longer a non human sentience here. The rhythms of another life. Cat sounds, the subsilences of another intelligence.
     I miss her terribly.

Listening To: The B-52's originated as a New Wave rock band formed in Athens, Georgia ... Cheb i Sabbah  is a club DJ. He is a Jew of Berber (Amazigh) descent now based in SF ... Kamal ambient meditation electronica from Australia ... Smile Empty Soul is a surprisingly literate post grunk metal band from LA whose music is filled with minor keys, syncopated lyrics, and sadness. Smile on YouTube  ...  Massiv in Mensch is a German industrial electronica dark rave  trance duo made up of Daniel Logemann and Mirco Osterthun ... Funker Vogt is a German industrial aggrotech band, formed by Gerrit Thomas and Jens Kostel ... Neikka Rpm hard goth electronic industrial from New York ... Negative Format is the one-man techno trance aggrotech band of Alex Matheu ... Black Mountain stoned southern blues psychedelica from B.C. Drink whisky smoke a bong lay in the sun and roll around ... Dark Meat more southern merry prankster psychedelica from Athens, Georgia ...  Long Legged Woman post grunk psychedelic grimecore from SF ... Pig Destroyer southern death grind metal from Virginia. A bucket of nails to the face ... The Wolves hard core garage punk from Helsinki. Eat your dinner and scream at your mom and dad! ... Stereo Total post grunk gararge electronica from Berlin. Play rough with your cat, make your children run with scissors ... Ratatat stoned guitar hip hop from Brooklyn. Jump up and down on your grandmother's heirloom couch ...

Found Aesthetic Objects: Cosmos ...  Plane + cloud ...

Sometimes Some Pretty Seriously Utter Pretentious Intellectual Crap : From The New Atlantis, Ari N. Schulman on why minds are not like computers ...

Sci/Tech :  From Links : More Banking Stupidity: Phished by Visa "Not content with destroying the world?s economies, the banking industry is also bent on ruining us individually, it seems. Take a look at Verified By Visa. Allegedly this protects cardholders - by training them to expect a process in which there?s absolutely no way to know whether you are being phished or not." ... Semantic Studios is an information architecture and user experience consulting firm led by Peter Morville ...  Wired goes inside the new science of neuroengineering (and part 2) ... From Infowar : A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded. Cryptome mirror of the GhostNet report: http://cryptome.org/ghostnet.zip (5.1MB) ... The journal Transformative Works and Culture has published an issue that focuses on games, containing a variety of articles which examine how games interact with modern culture ... Christian Marclay plays with records ... GNU/Linux is my home ...  The text of the Open Cloud Manifesto. Related from Internetnews  ...

Games, Comics, Film, Animation, Toys, and Special fx :  A report in Variety about Marvel's movie plans suggests that there'll be plenty more on their way soon ... New look at Global Agenda the latest MMORPG ... PSST!3 is now available online ... A battle between Iron Man and Bruce Lee ... 

Leah Tinari painter.

Chris Buzelli illustrator.

Gale Albert Halaban photographs. Halaban's current exhibit at the Robert Mann Gallery.

Jeremy Forson illustrator.

Seounghyon Cho  illustrator.

Titus Kaphar painter.

Saskia Gutekunst artist cartoonist.

Kilian Plunkett artist illustrator.

Joshua the James illustrator.

Darth Vinod illustrator concept artist.

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