Actually i ended up not banning anyone, I guess i know better than to patrol the forum while drunk. Besides my friends would think I'm a bigger nerd than they already do.

Anyways, I finally got my shit together and got my monthly Artist-of-the-Month feature up for August. I'm late as shit but I was really swamped with things and I thought that getting my new movie was more important. Nonetheless I did get two of the main things i wanted to get done this month done, now i just need to wrap up the sketchbook tour and this can be penciled in as a productive month.

For those of you not familiar with the whole Artist-of-the-Month thing, basically it is a more regularly updated version of the DevSpot on the NG Alphas. I always loved reading peoples interviews and since Tom lovingly neglects that minisite, I decided to take it upon myself to build my own stash of interviews. It's actually panned out better than anticipated and is probably the largest traffic bringer on my site on months where i dont release anything of my own.

I think I'm running out of people I could interview though, so if you have any idea for someone who you think wouldnt mind being roasted for like 15 mins or whatever let me know. It's times like these I wish I could frequent the portal more and see whats fresh or up and coming in terms of talent.

K thats all.

-Lu

Just had 4 of them, they are awesome. Anyone that says the brand of tequila you use doesnt really matter ( i used to be one of em) is crazy.

thank goodness for my faux mexican sensibilities. and now i will go on a banning spree

Feels good to get back into animation.

Slaved over this puppy for a few days.

Thank you buzzwerd for masturbating boy.

Thank you swain for blockhead being shot in the face.

And thank you whomever i still have to thank.

Im going to bed.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
392224

For the record both of these luis day things sprung up without my knowledge.. i find these day themed things dumb but if people get really into em all the better for them to be creative. So yeah thats the disclaimer.

So yeah if you find any luis day entries let me know the titles so i can go look em up since you cant link things inside comments.. I'm gonna try and atleast look at all of em.

Althought this has gotten really silly.. maybe ill finish my movie today.

anyway THANK YOU. to anyone with enough boredom on their mind to actually throw something together.

Well I posted a slew of new pics and I felt it necessary to share that with you because it took a long time. Thanks to Mindchamber, SFB, frank, afro-ninja and others for theirs. Will continue uploading more as i get them. Just PM me if you want to contribute

Heres my favorite pic. Mindchamber and his date.

Visit the Gallery Here

Hmm yeah people need to stop sending me suggestions of the next meetup... make your own dammnnnn ...

-L

Just started throwing this together... its still ghetto but you can find some pics from the comic con and a few youtube videos.. i'll be updating it all this week so just casually check up on it.

Anyone who wants to contribute to it feel free to pm me.

http://www.brainwashstudios.com/comic-
con07/index.html

Well its over and im finally back home. Thought i'd share my thoughts on the whole ordeal.

It was pretty cool.. there were pluses and some minuses and i think as ng continues to be a prescense those minuses will be moot.

The great thing about it this year was meeting everyone, it was quite cool to meet up with users you've only known by screename or flash movie... met all kinds of people, hashbrown, atomic-noodle, the-swain, the milburn brothers, the super flash bros, etc etc...

That part about it was beyond what i expected and it was almost surreal at one point and me and tom were sitting there saying how bizarre it is to survey our dinner table and you got krinkles gossiping with johnnyutah, you got tom of the superflashbros discussing actionscript with DrNeroCF, then you had dustball mingling with Rog, the-swain making impersonitations for Stamper, it was just reaaaaallly bizarre and kind of cool, i mentioned to tom look at what you built here, the amount of talent at this dinner table is mind blowing we should all mate and have this ginormous flash prodigy baby.

Even meeting people who arent household names was cool, its so awesome to have people from the actual clockcrew interogate me about my clockday movie last year.. its just really humbling and if anything i came back more interested and intruiged about people, id like to definately make it my effort to work with people i never thought of before, rtil, the-swain, drnero, etc.

If there was a negative to the experience its that the newgrounds booth is far from feeling like a real booth. The fliers they passed out were cool but it explained nothing about what the site was about, you had to be already associated to know oh ok thats blockhead yeah ng is about games and movies... i think the flier bombed as a form of getting new people intruiged by it. Furthermore the banner on the top of the booth had no newgrounds.com anywhere.. there werent controllers setup for people to stop and play some games .. or nothin. If you knew nothing about ng youd walk by and think it was a t-shirt company. I almost hope that ng can live in its own booth rather than share one with the behemoth.. they are different entities and it always felt like they stole the limelight.. annoying.

If i met you at the con, and i didnt already give you a shout out drop me a pm.. there were a few users whom i am not familiar with but i wanted to learn more about how they fit into ng.
willl post pics and videos later when im not so tired

Well after a hideously long flight, im finally here in San Diego, i'll be staying with your pal Afro-Ninja so now ill wait for him to arrive and then we'll head down to the con to pick up our passes.

I'll post back here occasionally, i have yet to check if the comic con cam is up and functional.

-L

Well I should be off to Comic Con in a matter of hours, i should probably be trimming stickers instead of typing this dumb blog but i wanted to switch up the mood from my previous one, i felt sick looking at it.

In other news, I've finally come to terms with myself and my stubburness and have decided to support my partner in crime, TommyLM and the game hes finishing up. Its been the source of a never ending feud because it was originally sponsored by AG before the whole lord bling mess and when i heard of it, i became furious. I went as far as refusing to ever look at what Tommy's been working on.. which apparently is something quite substantial. I guaranteed him id never play it nor speak of it and i wasnt budging. It cause a large rift and he was (rightfully) disappointed that someone who he respects so much is so hellbent on not acknowledging something hes working so hard on...

This went on for months and months.. and after all the bullshit that happend last week.. i thought to myself; some fights are just not worth it... lifes too short to be upset at someone... and i dont even have a right to be upset... i can dislike AG but why am i taking it out and beating up on one of my best friends...
so yeah i thought i'd clear the air about that. Not that you care, but also this blog will forever remind me that ive made up my mind to let it go, as i already had second thoughts about it.. im just a very stubburn person and i hate to bend for ANYONE.