Category: Adam’s Blog
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The Tacomapocalypse begins today!
The zombies cometh! Today from 4:30pm to 8:00pm, the undead shall roam the walls of Amocat Cafe. The Zombie Tacomapocalypse art show – put on by the fine folks at Treefish Studio – opens with a bang today, and runs all month. For more info, check out the nifty article that the Weekly Volcano wrote about the…
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Animated Annora
I haven’t made an animated GIF since the days of dial-up. This archaic, yet wonderfully nostalgic, bit of Internet culture seems to have made a resurgence since its near demise in the early aughts. No, I don’t count the continued existence of animated GIFs on 4chan and Myspace as a continued existence. We will not…
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The Alien’s Halloween Picks
Before Halloween comes to an end, I thought I’d put together a little playlist of must-see Halloween videos. It may be late in the day – or early in the next, depending on what time zone you’re in – but I couldn’t let Halloween pass without posting something. Besides which, no trick-or-treaters have come to…
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Today in Tacoma: Improv at Amocat
Amocat Cafe is the place to be. The new hub of culture and community in Tacoma, Amocat’s quirky rooms and multicolored walls have housed everything from painted mariners and Patty Murray to crazed clowns and cacophonous cartoonists. Now, the cafe that professes to be “your local counter-culture and political vortex” adds another rivet to its…
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Captain Manley and Shannancy’s Shanty
Back in June, I made a promise: I swore that if I won a certain Frost Park Chalk-Off, I’d use the prize – ten Spanish doubloon replicas and a Mayan calendar medallion – to make a pirate-themed video. Now, at last, the promise is fulfilled. I shot Captain Manley and Shannancy’s Shanty back in June,…
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The Creative Process
I’ve recently been introduced to a lovely webcomic called FreakAngels, written by Warren Ellis, that godlike writer responsible for Transmetropolitan. The story revolves around a group of twelve brain-whammy super-powered types called the FreakAngels who were somehow responsible for the end of the world. The details of how and why are not initially disclosed, but…
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An alien goes to VidCon
This blog is currently under the control of Adam’s Canadian girlfriend, Shannancy. Muahahaha! As this is being written, I am sitting in Sea-Tac international airport, waiting to catch my 6:00 am flight to LA. I am dictating this blog, via cell phone, to my lovely Shannancy, the totally awesome and magical and super super amazing…
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The Alien’s Perspective: The art of self-promotion (Frost Park S3Ep12)
“All art is self-promotion.” Overheard yesterday at Frost Park, while I was touching up my purple-coated alien pirate, the quote was a perfect summary of how things went down at 2010’s twelfth chalk-off. Self-promotion has always been a staple of Frost Park artwork, from websites written next to drawings and my ever-present alien avatar to…
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R.R. Anderson draws Adam the Alien action figure
Today I received the honor of being immoratlized by the great cartoonist and founder of the Frost Park Chalk-Offs, the mighty R.R. Anderson. Anderson draws a Tacoma-centric political cartoon called The Tacomic. Throughout the Tacomic’s four years of existence, the “Tacoma Action Figure” has been a recurring theme. Anderson uses the feature to portray significant…
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The Alien’s Perspective: Frost Park Season 3, Episode 11
The Frost Park Chalk-Off was in full force today, after weeks of low participation and rainy weather. Arriving a little bit late, I initially had some difficulty finding a good place to chalk. many of the choice spots were already filled, some by the usual Frost Park veterans and others by faces I didn’t recognize.…