Kid Analog

Graphic Ideas for Ipod App

2012-01-28T17:04:00.001-08:00

Interesting Patterns

2012-01-28T17:02:00.001-08:00

For EDC: Cool graphic logo thing.

2012-01-28T17:01:00.000-08:00

Board Game

2012-01-28T16:48:00.001-08:00

This is a board game I made for solar education, as seen on LineLoad.Org

Here is how to estimate a system for a theoretical address.

Phase 2 for Paper Computer

2012-01-22T15:00:00.000-08:00

Space Pirate and Reading Directions

2011-11-28T18:07:00.001-08:00

Bike Parts: Gyro

2011-11-28T17:49:00.001-08:00

Ecolomics II

2011-11-28T17:47:00.001-08:00

How The World Works.

2011-11-28T17:43:00.001-08:00

Origins of the Socrates Bot

2011-11-28T17:42:00.001-08:00

Pianoland

2011-11-28T17:41:00.002-08:00

Townie Toons

2011-11-28T17:41:00.001-08:00

Miscellaneous

2011-11-28T17:39:00.003-08:00

Flipbook Island

2011-11-28T17:37:00.001-08:00

Humanoid! And Others.

2011-11-28T17:36:00.001-08:00

Paper Computer!

2011-11-28T17:34:00.001-08:00

Lost Levels.

2011-11-28T17:32:00.002-08:00

Problem Structure.

2011-11-28T17:32:00.000-08:00

Sub-Lab / Heli-Tank

2011-11-22T13:57:00.000-08:00

Flarfball Strategies (Continued)

2011-11-02T00:26:00.001-07:00

If you have ever played the classic Westville backyard strategy game "flarfball" then you know about the level of strategy involved.

Here we have another example
of a flarfball strategy. If you are skilled, you get to bounce for longer. That's just the ways of the world.

The Great Recycler

2011-10-25T06:13:00.001-07:00

We might not get excited enough about trash pickup. Garbagemen remove tons of waste from everybody's doorstep each week. Thank them when you see them. They are hard-working people with difficult jobs.

New Solar Workbook

2011-10-24T15:19:00.001-07:00

This one comes with better instructions. It isnt entirely complete just yet, but if Kid Analog has its way, every kid on planet earth will know how to solve them.

This one will show you how to wire a roof's solar system like a bunch of batteries.

It contains examples like this one:

It contains examples of different roofs, and all the different schemes you might expect to see on a residential installation.

Once you understand parallel and series wiring, you can complete the exercises in the book.

My Robot Runs On Coffee

2011-10-24T09:53:00.001-07:00

Kid Analog built a robot to work at the coffeeshop while Kid went on tour with his music. The robot uses Coffee to refuel. How does this work?

The Bot flushes out electrolyte that has no more electricity in it. Then it recharges by drinking coffee, then using the electrolytic composition in coffee to continue to run. Kid Analog wanted to select a power source for the Bot that was both cheap, and abundantly available. Coffee seemed like the best alternative.

Thing About Socks

2011-10-22T18:38:00.001-07:00

Here is what i think about socks. I think theyre great. my dad had a lot of socks. Now that i have too many, i know I am grown up.

Ever wonder about Safety Meeting...

2011-10-21T12:26:00.001-07:00

How it all got started?

Durham Fair

2011-10-21T12:08:00.001-07:00

Carnies are so funny. They look like wild animals and talk like theyre from someplace on Earth where no one's ever seen.

Pool Table Golf

2011-10-21T12:05:00.001-07:00

Fore! 18 holes on 2 floors. Each table is a hole. Pool with golfballs, using backs of putter to pop em in.

If for nothing else, it would make for a great subject in a music video to film one up close.

Love Stories

2011-10-21T12:01:00.001-07:00

Ever wonder if someone is thinking about you? Theres no way to know unless you ask...

Music Rotation

2011-10-21T11:59:00.001-07:00

A description of a musical performance/creation station. Blurring the lines between performance and creation.

Distractionary Tale

2011-10-21T11:56:00.001-07:00

This one is about living in the present moment. Its a good moral to learn, that its better to be than to show aspects of being. The experience of something happening first-hand could be lost in the act of trying to capture and share.

Brainwashing

2011-10-18T14:09:00.001-07:00

In this episode, Bot's got his facts all wrong. Kid Analog tries to clear his memory, but Bot is convinced that his memories are in fact real, when actually some dream files got scattered into his factual memory bank.

Also, Bot has filed some of its opinion files as facts (dont ask how that happened), and Kid Analog works out the bugs with the Bot, without having yo erase any data.

Lost Levels

2011-10-13T10:36:00.000-07:00

Paper Computer is a puzzle game that you can play, without computers. It involves solving visual puzzles involving our little humanoid shape, determined by the parameters that you see above, applied to the puzzle that you see below.

You can even design your own levels, using the same type of geometric parameters.

Turby The Wind Turbine

2011-10-13T10:33:00.000-07:00

This is a cartoon drawn for the purpose of indicating the world of clean energy. What kids think about clean energy, in the form of a cartoon.

Time Language

2011-10-07T20:32:00.000-07:00

The Operation! Comic.

2011-10-07T20:14:00.000-07:00

This is a cartoon about making your own public access show / website. You can read along with me in your books. You will know that it's time to turn the page when you hear the sound go like this. BEEP!

Battle of LS Aristotle and Space Pirate

2011-10-07T19:52:00.001-07:00

The Operation! Comic Part 2

2011-10-07T17:27:00.000-07:00

Drawing Exercise 1.

2011-10-07T09:25:00.000-07:00

You can draw something like this, too. It's just an exercise. It's not that tough. Start with a big pen and draw the central lines first. Draw them to be able to contain other cross-sectioned lines which are smaller. The goal is to let your mind make all the connections on the page. It's as much a mental exercise as anything else, and it proves a whole lot.

These images are like web pages. You can build a network as complicated as Stereomedia if you are able to draw something comparable. Comment with your illustrations if you have achieved this, and we can move on to web lessons.

Web lessons are available through Stereomedia at educational.htm

Extra Value Meals

2011-09-17T14:13:00.001-07:00

The "Extra Value Meal" was designed sometime in the mid nineties as a way of simplifying choices even further for fast food goers.

Not only was food made cheap and fast, it could then also be ordered by annunciating a number such as "6" or "3."

You are probably familiar with the concept now that it has been sufficiently popularized. But in the meantime, remember that you can make your own food.

My "number 3" value meal is tofu with soy sauce, kale, and quinoa.

Sounds tasty, right?

Deejaying Skills: Illustrated

2011-08-31T18:20:00.001-07:00

Two things to know how to do as a deejay:

1. Be able to coordinate beats per minute.

2. Comprehend midi drum sequences and speak the language.

Not many Deejays can do both. What's remarkable about the art of deejaying? Almost everyone learns on their own!

Im not going to show you everything, but if you search ye olde website (spacepirate.co.uk) you will find detailed information about how to deejay.

Why BoT needs coffee

2011-08-31T18:05:00.001-07:00

This is not difficult to explain.

The bot does not need electricity in a conventional sense.

It uses the acidity of coffee to fuel its electrical components.

It flushes out the coffee when it has no more electrolytic properties. Then it fills up with more coffee.

Kid Analog wanted to design the bot with an ability to run on fuel that was cheap and abundantly available. Coffee became the best option.

What's Paper Computer All About?

2011-08-25T07:51:00.000-07:00

What kind of stuff can you learn by playing Paper Computer Game? All kinds of stuff.

For example, if you know how a character moves...

Humanoid Parameters

Jump = +2vert
Duck, Jump = +3vert
or Run, Jump = +2vert, +4horiz

Then you know for sure if you can solve the levels.

Watch out for additional "Objects" such as the rare "Earthquake Lever."

Hop up on stuff like an old-school Lego.

Once you have accomplished an understanding of what the meaning behind this project is, you can proceed to start developing creatures and objects. Elements, essentially, that recur throughout the setting of the videogame that you are creating.

You can define appearance, behavior, and how the things interact. Define appearance by drawing the item 3 times, being able to recreate the same visual appearance from mem.

8 is the recommended number of Creatures and Objects you should draw. 4 would be sufficient. 2 and that's almost not enough. Try to draw 8 a piece.

These creatures and objects will be all over your videogame so get used to looking at them. Try to think about all of the possible ways they could behave. Think of how your Humanoid will interact with them.

It can be a talking game, a running and fighting game, or even just a walk around and beat the level type of game.

In any case, that's just how it all goes down.

Coming soon, the game "Android."
And the game "Bot."

Also, "Parameters."

And, "EarthRock."

These are not just games on computer. They're games you need to design on paper. The instructions inside of Paper Computer show you how you can develop awesome videogame-quality flipbooks.

Stop playing videogames and start making them. Flipbooks are the first step. If you can prove what you are capable of, others will perhaps step in and form a group.

Paper Computer

2011-08-25T07:41:00.000-07:00

Imagine a game that you can play on paper, which looks and resembles an actual videogame.

You wouldn't need to plug in anymore!
MORE IMPORTANTLY, You Do The Thinking!@

Don't let computers do all the thinking for you.
Learn how to increase your own mental processing speed with Analogue Flipbooks, only available through Stereomedia.

Flipbook Island Voting Machine

2011-08-17T12:50:00.000-07:00

Consider yourself encouraged.

Hey! If you like Kid Analog Cartoons, you're gonna love Kid Analog Flipbooks. They're available all across the website that was built just for them: Flipbook Island Dot Blogspot Dot Com.

Here are some examples of what to expect from that website:

CafePress Shop

2011-07-14T11:34:00.000-07:00

Know where to get awesome Kid Analog merchandise? Cafepress! That's where!

$12 Coffeemugs, teaching you your favorite lesson in animation. You might even find some doggy hoodies that say "L.A.P.D.og" if you find those sorts of puns entertaining.

The term "pun" was a short-lived preposition, preposterously located in a precarious position between Rome and London in the centre of France. It came from its own definition, and with every appearance it brings a closely related word, which is "fun."

Puns are poetic and keep everything copasetic.
Then again, maybe you just don't get it? (♪♫♬♬♩)

Enter the Kid Analog Cafepress site [HERE].

Definition: Philosophy

2011-07-13T21:37:00.001-07:00

All philosophy comes from that first piece of paper that you pick up, and grab that pen, and assemble an arbitrary list of rules you followed anyway, before you wrote them down.

Now that they're written down, you must justify them to everyone. And you feel somewhat exposed, for having all your strict, rigid, numbered rules on that piece of paper, for all to see.

That, you see, is the true nature of philosophy.

Movie: SquirrelDay

2011-07-13T21:20:00.001-07:00

it's just like groundhog day except a character relives the same day 3x, each time navigating it with a better outcome. The 3rd time, he succeeds and finds "release."

Another character is just 300x older than everyone. He has seen the world change and through history, there always exists the man who repeats 3.

They coincide in timeline, many times. But the elder 300 year old man only knows the man from the third life.

It's lessons in longevity. It's wrong or right. It's a whole bunch of things, especially movies in my mind I watch while walking at night.

(this picture was taken in the daytime).

Animation

2011-07-13T16:19:00.001-07:00

"Animate" comes from a Latin word meaning "the mind" or animus. It means that you are giving an image a "mind" of it's own, if you will.

All animation is attention-grabbing, that's for sure. Why that works is a trick of the mind, making the skill something of a modern day magic trick.

When you use that power, it can motivate people to want to try it.

There are several different ways to animate. Here are ones I know: flipbooks, which you can find references on How-to's over at flipbookisland.com. And stop-motion, which is viewable on LSaristotle.

Several other methods exist. A major one is Flash Animation. I cant demonstrate it as a skill just yet because I haven't mastered it. I'm looking for someone who can work with me on a Flash Cartoon, similar to Homestar. Kid Analog the website is supposed to look like that.

meanwhile in the real world, Kid Analog volunteers for Jimmy Day to restore a room desparately in need of cleaning. Jim pays me in oscilloscopes and old computers. It's all he's got. Theres just no money, All we got is stuff that others have thrown away.

Pinball Game Fact

2011-07-12T20:58:00.001-07:00

Did you know that the boards in the background of the old pinball games were made using a technique known as screenprinting? I think that's kind of cool.

Problem #210

2011-07-12T20:28:00.001-07:00

This is known as a "Problem."
I draw them just to solve em.
And if it's unresolved then,
We can make another drawing.

Marked in differentiating levels of complexity based on the difficulty
of the original issue, Problems drawings are analogies for real
world issues. Here is #210.

I can't remember what the actual
issue is, because it has been solved.

Origins of Bluegrass

2011-07-12T10:13:00.001-07:00

Uncle Jeb next door made his grass all blue. The kids in town didn't know what to do. Lil' Man went down to talk to him for a few.
There he was, on his porch in the middle. A rocking chair; placed on his lap was a fiddle. They talked for a little, deciding little to do about what's to be done when the lawn is all blue.

Jeb said: "I did it on purpose! You kids all deserve this! You're wasting the water, that's why it turned blue!"

But Lil man saw the lawnmower hooked up with the food coloring and knew the invention was why it was blue.

Have a good day to you!

Flipbook island Looks Inhabitable

2011-07-12T09:29:00.001-07:00

I built this awesome online flipbook Theme Park, and put it on an island because It keeps the locals from hopping the fence, now that you need a ship to get there.

The name of this place is Flipbook Island. I am proud to announce that it is by far, tue most organized assembly of flipbooks on any blog. it looks professional.

I'm tying down a few loose ends with the graphics, and hope to post additional info on how to assemble computer graphics, either here on Kid Analog dot Blogspot, or possibly another if I decide that it needs a special home.

To keep it consistent, I did include some animated GIFs, exported from files built in an old version of Flash that I've had for eternity.

Flipbook Island

This is only the first of many updates and shout-outs given to Flipbook Island by Kid Analog.

Welcome to Kid Analog: Cartoon Blog

2011-07-12T09:05:00.001-07:00

So this is it. The Kid Analog blog. Never thought it would happen, yet here I am. It's going down!

I am going to take photos and videos of my drawings, and upload it all here. Again, these will all be photographs of illustrations. If you want to have the originals, then maybe I can scan them. Alright, fine, some will be scanned.

But none will be scammed! Unless it's a cartoon about a flim flam man getting knocked in his can by a old prospector man with a frying pan.

That's what to expect.

Purchase Original Art.

2010-12-12T13:50:00.000-08:00

New: Karma Points from Kid Analog's Art Factory

Pneumatic Nomadic Gnome!

2005-11-28T18:03:00.000-08:00

Portable Media Portables!

2005-11-28T18:00:00.000-08:00