A is for Andoff

Q is for Quasar

2011-05-27T06:02:00.000-04:00

Quasars are a "very energetic and distant active galactic nucleus." Interpret that as you will. They are among the most luminous objects in the universe. Aaaaand that's about as much as I understood of the Wikipedia article.

P is for Pinwheel Galaxy

2011-05-26T18:23:00.002-04:00

PanPastel and acrylic ink.

O is for Wubbo Ockels

2011-05-10T19:28:00.001-04:00

Why, yes, that is his real name. First Dutch citizen in space, blah blah blah, mustache, Wubbo Ockels.

P.S. My sincerest apologies, my lovelies, for the ridiculous delay. I've had a lot of complaints about my "hiatus" (mostly from my brother,) so here's to me getting back on track.

N is for Nebula

2011-03-21T01:27:00.002-04:00

This is the Pillars of Creation nebula and the Horsehead nebula, smushed together.

P.S. This one lost a lot of detail in scanning, so I might upload a photo of it later.

M is for Mars Rover

2011-03-11T00:32:00.002-05:00

L is for Laika

2011-03-03T07:40:00.001-05:00

Astro dog.

K is for Klingon

2011-03-02T23:10:00.003-05:00

J is for Jupiter

2011-03-01T01:28:00.000-05:00

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is an oblate spheroid (my favourite shape name,) same as Earth, meaning it bulges at the equator. There is a visible storm on its surface called the Great Red Spot, known to have existed since at least the 17th century (bad ass.) Also, it has at least 63 moons, the largest of which (Ganymede, one of the four discovered by Galileo) has a diameter greater than that of Mercury.

Pretty cool, Jupiter. Pretty cool.

I is for Imagined Things

2011-02-28T19:51:00.001-05:00

H is for Ham (the chimpanzee)

2011-02-24T23:33:00.001-05:00

G is for God

2011-02-23T20:59:00.002-05:00

Drawn maybe 1993-94. When asked about his brooch, I explained that that's his "God" pin so that everyone would know that he's God (bit like a nametag, I suppose.) Note the laurel branches.

F is for Fruit Flies

2011-02-21T22:40:00.001-05:00

Fruit flies were the first animal in space (in 1946.)

E is for Earth

2011-02-18T22:13:00.002-05:00

This reminds me of the "Don't tread on me" banner from Buffy the movie. Hayley, you know what I'm talking about.

D is for Dehydrated Food

2011-02-17T07:16:00.002-05:00

Fact: Astronauts don't eat bread in space-- they use tortillas instead (fewer crumbs.)

C is for Constellation

2011-02-16T19:20:00.002-05:00

B is for Roberta Bondar

2011-02-15T20:03:00.002-05:00

Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. I've had it drilled into my head since kindergarten that she's an Important Lady, so she couldn't be left out.

Space!/A is for Asteroid

2011-02-14T23:21:00.001-05:00

"But that did not really surprise me much. I knew very well that in addition to the great planets-- such as the Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Venus-- to which we have given names, there are also hundreds of others, some of which are so small that one has a hard time seeing them through the telescope. When an astronomer discovers one of these he does not give it a name, but only a number. He might call it, for example, 'Asteroid 325.' " (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Welcome to month number five: Space. I have posts lined up so that at very least the first week is daily (so check back!)... let's see if I can maintain that pace.

Z is for Frank Zappa

2011-02-10T23:07:00.002-05:00

Woooooo! That's month four done! Didja have a favourite one?

I'm lining up posts for next month's alphabet, because I'm going to try really hard to make it daily. "A" goes up Monday!

Y is for William Butler Yeats

2011-02-10T23:00:00.001-05:00

Painted&drawn on an unprimed board-- this scan looks really weird, so I'm going to try to swap it out for a photo.

X is for Professor Xavier

2011-02-10T22:58:00.001-05:00

I hate this one.

W is for Steve Wozniak

2011-02-03T23:54:00.001-05:00

V is for Lord Voldemort

2011-01-31T20:22:00.001-05:00

Because he was maybe the most gifted student Hogwarts ever saw... y'know, before he started up the whole genocide bandwagon.

U is for Ung-Yong Kim

2011-01-31T18:31:00.002-05:00

This one is taken from a photo of Ung-Yong solving a differential equation on Japanese television age SEVEN. He is believed to have the highest IQ of any person alive (210.)

"He began speaking at 4 months, could converse fluently by 6 months, and was able to read Japanese, Korean, German and English by his second birthday. At the age of 4 he solved a calculus problem on Japanese television.

Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University auditing courses from the age of 4 until he was 7. In 1970, at the age of 8, he was invited to the USA by NASA. He finished his university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D. in physics at Colorado State University In 1974 (age TWELVE,) during his university studies, he began his research work at NASA and continued this work until his return to Korea in 1978."

T is for Nikola Tesla

2011-01-27T00:10:00.003-05:00

When Tesla died (age 86,) he was working on a death ray. A death ray.

S is for Bruce Springsteen

2011-01-27T00:03:00.003-05:00

R is for Mark Rothko

2011-01-21T21:24:00.002-05:00

Q is for Q

2011-01-18T01:39:00.002-05:00

Y'know, like from James Bond.

P is for Terry Pratchett (with a bonus Neil Gaiman!)

2011-01-18T01:37:00.002-05:00

Terry Pratchett made himself a sword out of meteorite. Also, I have read 98% of everything he's published. Multiple times.

O is for Otto Octavius

2011-01-18T01:34:00.001-05:00

N is for Pablo Neruda

2011-01-18T00:34:00.002-05:00

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,'The night is shattered

and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms

I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.

How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.

The night is shattered and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.

My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight searches for her as though to go to her.

My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.

We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.

My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.

Her voide. Her bright body. Her inifinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms

my sould is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer

and these the last verses that I write for her.

M is for John Stuart Mill

2010-12-31T01:32:00.001-05:00

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."

L is for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

2010-12-31T01:28:00.003-05:00

Invented Calculus (independently from Newton's work in the field.) Whatever, I could do that.

K is for Gustav Klimt

2010-12-18T23:28:00.001-05:00

One of the greatest tragedies of my adolescence was planning an imaginary trip to visit my favourite Klimt paintings and drawings, only to find out that some of his most incredible work was destroyed in a fire.

Apologies, kidlets. I got going on this one, got myself in way deep, then got fed up and stopped working on it. Here's as finished as it's going to get for now.

J is for Dr Jekyll (and Mr Hyde)

2010-12-15T00:42:00.002-05:00

I is for Eugene Ionesco

2010-12-14T22:18:00.002-05:00

Meant to post this earlier, was too busy being Christmas-y and crying at the end of It's A Wonderful Life (er... several times over.)

H is for Stephen Hawking

2010-12-10T00:33:00.001-05:00

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

G is for Galileo

2010-12-09T00:27:00.002-05:00

I kind of hate this one-- it looks like Three Wolf Moon.

F is for Bobby Fischer

2010-12-08T00:46:00.003-05:00

Made Chess Grandmaster at age 15 in 1958, and maintained the record for youngest Grandmaster ever until 1991.

My scanner still doesn't like graphite. I messed with contrast and brightness, so I lost some detail, but it still turned out okay.

E is for Albert Einstein

2010-12-08T00:35:00.004-05:00

Married a woman who was his first AND second cousin.

D is for Charles Darwin

2010-12-05T03:03:00.002-05:00

Such a serious looking dude.

C is for Marie Curie

2010-12-04T01:49:00.001-05:00

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win prizes in two categories. "Because of their levels of radioactivity, her papers from the 1890s are considered too dangerous to handle. Even her cookbook is highly radioactive. They are kept in lead-lined boxes, and those who wish to consult them must wear protective clothing." (thanks, Wikipedia!)

This one was supposed to be very different, but I got carried away and it turned into something completely other. Please excuse the line through the middle-- had to be scanned in two parts, and I didn't feel like using photoshop on that whole teal area.

B is for Lord Byron AND Ada Lovelace Byron

2010-12-03T01:28:00.002-05:00

Two geniuses for the price of one! A poet (and radical bad boy) who was once described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," and his daughter, the mother of modern computing (who worked with Charles Babbage and is considered to have been the world's first computer programmer... in the 1840s.) Hardcore family.

So, my scanner seems to hate graphite-- I had to really mess with contrast and selective colour just to get my shading visible on this one. I think I'm going back to pen and maybe some charcoal for the next few.

A is for Aristotle

2010-12-02T13:14:00.002-05:00

Hey friendo! This month's theme is Geniuses! (Genii?)

I feel like I've gotten really lazy with my lettering lately, and a huge point of this blog was to experiment with typography. Expect more exciting lettering! This one doesn't count-- apologies for very lazy 5am drawing. Onward and upward!

Z is for Zombie

2010-11-17T01:22:00.003-05:00

Seriously, 50 points and my eternal friendship if you know who this is.

And that's the end of weapons!

Y is for Y-Wing

2010-11-17T01:21:00.002-05:00

This alphabet took a turn for the nerdy somewhere around "phaser."

X is for Xiphos

2010-11-17T01:19:00.007-05:00

W is for Wand

2010-11-17T01:19:00.006-05:00

HP&the Deathly Hallows this weekend!

V is for Velociraptor Army

2010-11-17T01:18:00.002-05:00

Great idea, yes?

U is for USS Enterprise

2010-11-17T01:17:00.002-05:00

T is for Tommy Gun

2010-11-17T01:16:00.002-05:00

R is for Raygun

2010-11-17T01:14:00.005-05:00

Little tardy, huh?

S is for Shuriken

2010-11-17T01:14:00.004-05:00

Q is for Quiver of Arrows

2010-10-26T23:27:00.001-04:00

For any of my more pedantic readers, fine, it's not technically a weapon on its own.

P is for Phaser

2010-10-26T23:25:00.001-04:00

Special request for a future doctor.

O is for Oranges (comma bag of OR comma projectile)

2010-10-26T23:23:00.001-04:00

N is for Naginata

2010-10-26T23:21:00.001-04:00

Special request for an Andoff.

M is for Morningstar

2010-10-20T01:36:00.001-04:00

Although I think this is technically more of a flail.

L is for Lightsaber

2010-10-13T00:34:00.002-04:00

K is for Katana

2010-10-11T08:00:00.001-04:00

J is for Jar of Venomous Snakes

2010-10-10T08:00:00.004-04:00

Y'know, like as a projectile...

I is for Ice Beam

2010-10-09T08:00:00.003-04:00

H is for Howitzer

2010-10-08T08:00:00.002-04:00

G is for Grenade

2010-10-07T08:00:00.004-04:00

F is for F-16

2010-10-06T08:00:00.003-04:00

E is for Enriched Uranium

2010-10-05T08:00:00.004-04:00

D is for Desert Eagle

2010-10-04T08:00:00.002-04:00

C is for Catapult

2010-10-03T08:00:00.004-04:00

B is for Boltgun

2010-10-02T08:00:00.002-04:00

Like what you'd use in a slaughterhouse!

A is for AK-47

2010-10-01T00:51:00.003-04:00

Welcome to month three: Weapons! We're back on daily postings, kids, so check back and let me know what you think!

Z is for Zabaglione

2010-09-21T00:56:00.002-04:00

And that's the end of month two! Yeah, I'm well aware that we should be nearing the end of month four by now, but extenuating circumstances, lack of computer and all that jazz. I have a whole bunch of next month scanned and waiting, so you can be sure of daily posting starting again October 1st. Please check back, and feedback is always appreciated!

Y is for Yellow Cake

2010-09-21T00:53:00.001-04:00

X is for X-Men Birthday Cake

2010-09-05T00:47:00.001-04:00

W is for Walnut Whip

2010-09-05T00:46:00.002-04:00

V is for Vanilla Cream Pie

2010-09-05T00:45:00.001-04:00

U is for Umbrian Panpepato

2010-09-05T00:44:00.001-04:00

T is for Trifle

2010-09-05T00:43:00.001-04:00

Apologies, apologies.

2010-08-31T21:23:00.000-04:00

I've been absent, I'm aware. It's just that a daily drawing project don't work so well when you don't have a computer set up to post. We are finally- FINALLY- getting ourselves a new Mac on the 10th, and I couldn't be more jazzed about it. In the mean time, I'm headed to my parents' for the weekend starting on Thursday, so check back then for the tail-end of Desserts and the front-end of next month!

Going back to daily in T minus 10 days (with sporadic updates leading up!)

S is for Strawberry Shortcake

2010-07-22T18:19:00.002-04:00

R is for Rum Baba

2010-07-22T18:17:00.002-04:00

Q is for Queen of Puddings

2010-07-20T20:23:00.001-04:00

P is for Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

2010-07-20T01:32:00.001-04:00

O is for Orange Creamsicle

2010-07-17T02:20:00.001-04:00

N is for Neapolitan Ice Cream

2010-07-17T02:19:00.001-04:00

M is for Madeleine

2010-07-17T02:18:00.001-04:00

L is for Lemon Meringue Pie

2010-07-17T02:17:00.001-04:00

Erg- I've been a little absent! Lots over the next couple of days..

K is for Key Lime Pie

2010-07-11T00:07:00.001-04:00

Want now, please.

J is for Jell-O

2010-07-11T00:06:00.001-04:00

I is for Ice Cream Sandwich

2010-07-10T23:33:00.002-04:00

H is for High Summer Pudding

2010-07-10T23:32:00.001-04:00

G is for Green Tea Ice Cream

2010-07-07T03:13:00.004-04:00

F is for Fruitcake

2010-07-07T00:59:00.002-04:00

E is for Eclair

2010-07-07T00:58:00.002-04:00

D is for Danish

2010-07-06T01:42:00.004-04:00

C is for Cupcakes

2010-07-06T01:41:00.002-04:00

B is for Bakewell Tarts

2010-07-05T00:43:00.004-04:00

A is for Angel Food Cake

2010-07-03T09:08:00.003-04:00

Welcome to month numero dos! July's theme is...... Sweets 'n Desserts (or, My Utter Lack of Will Power.)

Z is for Zooplankton

2010-07-02T23:39:00.001-04:00

Okay, so it's July 2nd. It took a month and two days, but my excuse is my lack of a Mac due to jammy-handed miscreants. We're hoping to be getting a new computer within two weeks, but until then... well, thank goodness for parents.

New alphabet begins tomorrow!

Y is for Yellow-edged Moray

2010-07-02T23:36:00.001-04:00

X is for X-Ray Fish

2010-06-30T20:24:00.001-04:00

W is for Worms

2010-06-30T20:23:00.001-04:00

This one was done really fast, because I didn't want to look at the pictures of worms anymore.