Picture courtesy Staeiou

A little over a week ago I had the chance to travel as part of Super Art Fight to ROFLcon as a guest. A guest at M.I.T., mind you! It was a great time and we had a great show. Thanks SO MUCH to Tim, Rachel, George (who owes me a $*&@ pen!) and the rest of the awesome ROFLcon people who helped bring us out and make that happen. For those that are interested, lots of little things have bubbled to the surface since, so here’s a quick roundup.

There’s a great writeup of what SAF is like over at GeekingOutAbout. LINK »

While we weren’t interviewed by Attack of the Show, they did most of their filming in the room we were selling merch. If you squint, you can almost make out me standing at our table with Jamie Noguchi trying to shill wares and get people to go to our show. You can watch the whole video here, but here’s a screen shot of what I’m talking about:

If you want to watch our actual show at ROFLcon, it will eventually be up on Archive.org. In the meantime, some diligent SAF fans recorded and posted most of the show in both photos and video. Photos are all on Flickr under the superartfight tag, and here’s a video of the ENTIRE SHOW (via the awesome Kurteng):

The trip was definitely an amazing one for Super Art Fight and The System, though it can be a little tricky to wear both hats at an event like this.

Luckily we had the show to do which went very well for all those involved. We had the honor and privelage to host more than our normal share of guest stars this time out including SAF roster regulars Chris Impink, Jamie Noguchi, Yuko Ota and Jamie Baldwin as well as newcomers to the canvas Zach Wiener, Tak Toyoshima and guest commentator extraordinaire Kris Straub. I’ll be honest, I love having SAF as a chance to talk to and work with other artists whose work I respect and enjoy. Sometimes, it even leads to other shows and projects, but more on that another time…

If you want more than this, Marty (and sometimes me but mostly Marty) keep all this sort of info about our Super Art Fight things over at SuperArtFight.com, which is the real place to keep up with all our upcoming shows and the like. You should go there and sign up for updates.

Anyway, hope you like the roundup! These things take me forever to write so if you enjoy reading it (or don’t), be honest and let me know in the comments.

I’m posting this video because:

1. I worked on it (can you spot the influence?)
2. It’s a “System in the Wild” post (see point 1)
3. It’s Earth Day, you should think about this kinda stuff.
4. It’s up for a Webby! You can vote for it here. In fact,
5. HEY YOU. GO VOTE FOR IT.

This made my day yesterday.

Part System in the Wild, part Google is Scary. All interesting stuff! If you like it, check out other videos by The Beast File. I can’t find a web page for this project as a whole, but there’s plenty out there easily Googled. (See what I did there?)

Thanks to Systemic Christina for the link.  And it’s even a steampunk book cover! Via BoingBoing. LINK »

Howdy Systemics! Sorry for the delays with Friday and Monday’s comics. We’re a little off schedule this week but a comic will be up tomorrow (Tuesday). Hang in there!  In the meantime, check out this awesome animated short called Logorama. It’s up for an oscar and a fun watch. LINK.

It’s like Ren and Stimpy meet Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends! (For more info, check the post on BoingBoing)

“The Modifyers” animated pilot from Chris Reccardi on Vimeo.

This video makes me want to:

1. Visit Intelligentsia Coffee in CA.
2. Drink an espresso.
3. Take all my coffee needs more seriously.
4. Wear more vests.

Espresso, Intelligentsia from Department of the 4th Dimension on Vimeo.

It deserves all 3 exclamation points!!! This Saturday at The Ottobar, come see myself and other webcomic friends duke it out on a live canvas!  This video should fill you in:

If you want to submit topics for the artist to draw the deadline is today over at SuperArtFight.com.

If you want tickets to the show and more info, here’s all the info you can want. There’s also a Facebook invite.

So, shall I see you Saturday? Let me know in the comments!

UPDATE: My parents (that includes Rossmom) are coming to the show.

This is what designers / programmers / and pretty much every type of vendor has to go through when dealing with client.  My fav is “we got the burrito yesterday for less”.