Shotgun content 6

Holy crap, I've been working on that rejected iPhone commercial this evening and before I know it, 2.5 hours have gone by and I don't have a lot to show for it. Drawing iPhone apps on an iPhone are more tedious than I could have imagined. I am, however, very pleased with the quality thusfar, so I'll call it a wash.

As a result, I'm just going to blast you with some crap I saw on someone else's website content and call it a night.

• Been coming across a lot of 8-bit goodness lately. This latest installment is a medley of a bunch of rap songs as performed using NES sounds. For a full tracklist and more info, check out the site here. If you'd rather just hip-hop right to it, download the track. It's like someone went back in time and created an 8-bit Grand Theft Auto and then made a medley of its sound track.
  
• The Daft Punk console is pretty freaking awesome. Not only do you get to play around with the lyrics to Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger... I've been overlaying Daft Punk to a bunch of songs I've been listening to. This further reinforces my belief that all the world needs is a little more Daft Punk.
  
• Keeping in the music vein, ThruYou has got to be one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. Someone took a bunch of Youtube clips, spliced them together and created new music from them. The amount of time to make something this good boggles my mind.
  
• Vince from Shamwow is now also hawking the Slap Chop. The reason I link it is because in his promotional video he actually says "You'll love my nuts."
  
• I don't know if you've been following this whole John Stewart, Jim Cramer feud, but Jim Cramer has agree to come on the Daily Show tomorrow. I want them both to have a soundclip board ready to play during the interview.

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There's an app for that.

I think I'm going to try to sketch up a random comic that I want to make. This whole idea is really just and excuse to play around with my new pen tablet more. I've been itching for an excuse to use it lately, and the idea for this comic hit me all at once the other day.

It'll be a mock iPhone commercial, which I'm hoping shouldn't be terribly complex from a drawing standpoint. I've written the script below to share with you what I envision it to be, but also to not forget it later.

I'm not committing to a timeframe for it's completion because a) I don't really draw all that often and may do such a crappy job it'll either take forever or be scrapped altogether, and b) I have other more important things simultaneously going on in my life and those take precedence.

"There's an app for that":

[strip starts with an iPhone being held by a hand, a la the current iPhone commercials]

Voice: The great thing about the iPhone is...

[the hand starts flipping apps, starting up one for a call girl service]

Voice: If you want to find a hooker at 3 AM in, say, Weehawken, New Jersey...

[starts playing with the application]

Voice: There's an app for that.

[goes back to the menu screen, flips with a hand covered in blood to the Body-B-Gone app, leaving faint blood streaks]

Voice: If you need to find a service that will discreetly dispose of the body, no questions asked...

[continues using the application]

Voice: There's an app for that.

[goes back to the menu screen, and navigates to the iExtort app, continuing to leave blood streaks]

Voice: And if you want Apple to keep quiet about this whole thing...

[A second hand appears with a credit card as the user starts up the application]

Voice: There's even an app for that. But you'll have to pay. Dearly.

[Apple logo, end]

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