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between bears

tragnark — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:19:43 +0000

by Eran Hilleli original music composed by Ori Avni performed by Ori Avni and Daniela Spector.

dynamic syncopation: the plan

tragnark — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:34:07 +0000

Classic.

Dynamism (1999) 01. Intro 02. Dynamism 03. Ground Zero (Feat. Mass Influence) 04. Veteran’s Leg 05. The Essence (Feat. Yeshua Da PoED) 06. Bahian B-Boy 07. The Plan (Feat. Juice Aleem) 08. It’s A Monster 09. Homing In 10. Dedicated (Feat. Mass Influence) 11. Rock 12. Losing Your Soul (Feat. Yeshua Da [...]

skyline… stephen hawking warned you

tragnark — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:19:04 +0000

Haven’t seen much press about this movie until just recently. I like how they refer to Stephen Hawking in the trailer. Anything with a bit of Hawking makes it better.

darth schwarzenegger

tragnark — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:11:13 +0000

This just might be more entertaining than the Arnold prank calls.

An earlier casting of Star Wars IV: A New Hope saw Arnold Schwarzenegger put a juvenile, jealous and rather perverted spin on Darth Vader’s explosive personality. George Lucas had second thoughts and cast James Earl Jones instead. Enjoy these exclusive clips [...]

angry pig oink oink oink

tragnark — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:30:33 +0000

He’s a pig who’s angry

ANGRY PIG!!

He’s a pig who’s angry

Oink! Oink! Oink!

He’s a pig who’s angry

so don’t let him catch you

eating pork or pork byproducts!

spock and the world of fascinating

tragnark — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:02:07 +0000

We all need to use this word a little bit more.

food inc

tragnark — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:15:50 +0000

Worth watching if you were ever curious about how the meat in your burgers and the food in the grocery stores actually gets there. My family and my wife’s family buy a lot of organic food, and watching this convinced me I should be doing more of the same.

You are voting every time [...]

raging fire in tamboles village, russia traps drivers

tragnark — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:05:15 +0000

Situations like this have haunted my nightmares from time to time. How you would deal with being trapped in a car, trying to cut through the smoke and unsure of direction or safety?

Some local people were trying to be a bit more proactive and help out their neighbors, and for that they [...]

sinkholes in china swallow bathrooms and playgrounds

tragnark — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:37:28 +0000

My hope is that drastic weather changes like this don’t cause too many of the same problems in other countries. It’s disturbing how random the sizes can be, from varied pockets in farmer’s fields to depressions large enough to swallow an entire playground.

Craters of different sizes have been seen in a vast [...]

kirbys epic yarn

tragnark — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:20:19 +0000

Kirby’s Epic Yarn premiered this amazing trailer at E3 2010. I’ve been a huge fan of all the games, but this looks to be their most ambitious yet. The art style and game design are so darn creative.

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3.14 equals pie

tragnark — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:10:03 +0000

Mmmmmm….. food for thought.

N.A.S.A. spacious thoughts (feat. tom waits & kool keith)

tragnark — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:34:28 +0000

So dope. Probably one of the weirdest projects I’ve seen Tom Waits involved with also. I never thought he’d team up with Dr. Octagon.

Squeak E. Clean Productions

Director Fluorescent Hill

Production Company / Executive Producer / Post Production / Creative Director / Design Fluorescent Hill

Animation Mark Lomond, Johanne Ste-Marie, & Jacques [...]

jabberwocky goes for a walky

tragnark — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:13:36 +0000

For some reason when I think of the word “jabberwocky”, I think of kids taking the wocky out for a stroll. Of course they wouldn’t be able to do it without the magic hat. We all need magic hats, I reckon.

Too see the image in higher resolution click here. Too see more [...]

sea lion vs octopus uncut, via sea lion critter cam

tragnark — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:36:20 +0000

Through the perspective of a sea lion camera mounted on back of the animal, viewers are shown an uncut, underwater battle between natural predator and prey of the ocean.

wooden ark structure found on mt. ararat?

tragnark — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:58:45 +0000

Noah’s Ark has been something that a lot of people have claimed to find for the past few decades. There are several sites and curiosities on satellite images, most of which while compelling aren’t hardball evidence of something wooden being constructed.

Until just today, actually. What is interesting are some of the photos. They [...]

breaking the sound barrier

tragnark — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:46:24 +0000

Reality can be strange sometimes. Propelling an object fast enough to cut through Mach 1 is no exception. This F/A-18 Hornet is doing just that. Not only were the water vapor, density and temperature just right, but there just happened to be a camera in the vicinity to capture the moment.

The [...]

hide favicons on firefox toolbar with userchrome.css

tragnark — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:23:32 +0000

I like favicons. I really do, but something was happening with them. They were burning into my computer screen. Even though we all have screen savers to stop this from happening, there is no doubt that all the hours spent on a web browser will trump the ability of screen saver to prevent odd [...]

croatian girl wakes up from coma speaking fluent german

tragnark — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:30:38 +0000

Strangely enough, this isn’t the first documented case of this occurring. My friends and I had a discussion about spontaneous linguistic knowledge, and were debating whether it was her own memories that she was inheriting, or awakening dormant neural pathways that already had the information stored passively from study.

Our minds are curious [...]

l’ours (the bear): by jean jacques annaud: the cougar scene

tragnark — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:44:23 +0000

Wow. Wow. Woooooow. I’ve got to find this movie and watch it all the way through as soon as possible. The cougar scene is so gripping and filmed from the animal’s perspective. You get a sense of the raw tension between predator and prey in this clip.

The director of “Quest for Fire” [...]

kirk cameron and ray comfort vs rational response squad

tragnark — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:41:39 +0000

What’ll it be? I’d like one battle royale about the nature of reality with cheese, extra onions. What side of the fence do you fall on? Watch part1 and part2 (after the jump) and decide for yourself.

From left to right: Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron, and The Rational Response Squad

It was a [...]

nasa X-48B hybrid-wing drone

tragnark — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:27:48 +0000

This closeup of Boeing Phantom Works’ unique X-48B Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator shows off its unusual engine placement and super-critical airfoil.

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onemoreproduction pixels

tragnark — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:13:13 +0000

For all you fans of retro gaming.

Video by Patric Jean from onemoreproduction.

geminoid f, the japanese female surrogate android

tragnark — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:55:55 +0000

Japanese engineers are working on a new generation of android technology, which is both cheaper and more affordable. Dubbed the Geminoid F, it is the second model of interface technology to be developed by Hiroshi Ishiguro, after the Geminoid H-1. The possibility of experiencing the science-fiction life of robotic avatars takes another step closer [...]

house on loon lake

tragnark — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:22:23 +0000

Creepy stories, particularly those of old forgotten places have always had an appeal to me. Here’s a great episode of This American Life I’ve been listening to. Usually the show is divided into multiple stories. Adam Beckman’s recounting of a mysterious abandoned house is so good, they’ve decided to devote the whole episode to [...]

bouncing pebble toad of venezuela

tragnark — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:26:14 +0000

Tiny pebble toads of Venezuela have a unique defense strategy when being hunted by tarantulas. Since they are so light, they are able to make their bodies rigid and bounce down long hills of rock to escape predators! Pebble toads are communal breeders, making a single nest potentially larger than 100 toads.

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content aware fill-in for new photoshop

tragnark — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:16:30 +0000

They’ve been working on this new technology for touching up images in a future version of Photoshop. Hopefully Adobe will be adding it to the next one, it’s quite impressive. Not only is it able to heal textures next to broad areas of different colors, but do color corrections in complex areas with distortions [...]

zombie pig, zombie cannon, zombie farm

tragnark — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:22:46 +0000

A video game studio asked me to come up with concepts for a tower defense game. This is one of 3 concepts I came up with, “Zombie Farm”. Basically the game took place in a post-abarnalyptic future and involved the defense of Farmer Dell’s homestead and all its stored food with weapons fashioned from [...]

mysterious old man with a cane

tragnark — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:44:58 +0000

Maybe one day I’ll get old enough to need a cane like this. If I do I think I will make sure the cane is fancy and has a parrot head on it. No reason really, besides that I think it would look pretty awesome. And I could talk to it.

To see [...]

30 hornets vs 30,000 bees

tragnark — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:15:15 +0000

This is one of the most epic videos I’ve ever seen filmed of bees and hornets in battle. It’s a little less of a battle and more like a slaughter. I wasn’t aware of this violent “take no prisoners” behavior by hornets until seeing this. I started to feel kind of bad for the [...]

bomber girl belle

tragnark — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:53:13 +0000

I did a sketch of this earlier and figured I’d post the colored version. It’s based on old bomber girl art from WW II.

To see more studio work click here.

smoking athlete

tragnark — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:42:36 +0000

Someone should tell her smoking won’t help her sports prospects.

To see more studio work click here.

punker girl profile

tragnark — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:30:21 +0000

Punker girl profile. It was a design I did for work. I got some ideas for the character from pictures of Amy Winehouse.

To see more studio work click here.

festo bionic aqua penguin and air penguin

tragnark — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:08:03 +0000

Watching Science Channel and saw these crazy robots!

The swimming “aqua” penguin is very impressive, but check out the flying “air” penguin. It’s suspended by helium and has ultrasound transmitters that allow groups of them to float in the same space and avoid one another.

Now all I need is a bunch of these [...]

tractors, old and new

tragnark — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:29:56 +0000

A bunch of tractors. There were a lot of strange tractors manufactured back in the day. Some of the sketches are actual designs, others are a combination of a few, but all are based off of real tractors. Yup, even that one on stilts.

Too see the image in higher resolution click here. [...]

huts and various small homes

tragnark — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:48:16 +0000

Discovery Channel and National Geographic are neat. I like to see the specials on different cultures that showcase where they live. Here’s some ideas from projects that were the result of that curiosity.

Too see the image in higher resolution click here. Too see more sketch work click [...]

xarthean explorers concept

tragnark — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:15:20 +0000

Learned a lot working on this one. I’ve done some sci-fi themed work before, never with more humanoid characters. I tried a different approach where I isolated local colors out before building lights and darks.

Too see the image in higher resolution click here. Too see more illustration work click [...]

grwahar grwahar

tragnark — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:37:22 +0000

Not quite there yet….. Juggling it with other responsibilities right now. By this weekend for sure, it will be done.

cait the alchemist

tragnark — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:44:18 +0000

Turnaround drawing and a 3d prototype from a toy project a while back. The modeling for the character was done in Maya by the talented Joe Brogno. It was then cut in a 3d printer. The prototype was handpainted by myself using Cartooncolour vinyl cel paint. I had this whole mythology, numerical, alchemical, cultural, [...]

xarthean explorers sketch

tragnark — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:31:23 +0000

Colors will be added in the next few days. They are explorers from Xarthean, ready to probe the moons of Jupiter. I’m going to make some adjustments to the droid’s angle, and other things that I think can be refined in the final image. I’ll be using a red palette with this one.

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invasion

tragnark — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:01:28 +0000

I’m going to try and start doing a little layout thumbnail a few times a week before I go to bed. That way I’ll be challenged to work quickly to create a scenario with broad strokes. These are visitors from the mountains, but not the kind you’d want to make friends with. They bite.

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