No one guessed the answer for the question posed in the last post. That’s the thing about being wild and unpredictable.
Good times once again in downtown Austin last night, with a big group of friends and all the people dressed up. Photos in The MKX® Photo Central.
More about the legendary Ugly Nun in The MKX® and The MKX® Gift Shop.
Halloween is second only to Christmas when it comes to commercialism. To join the frenzy, I headed out to Round Rock in order to visit the Mansion of Terror over in Round Rock. Very very cool. I think the scariest part was the room that looks like a nasty public restroom and a monster with a chainsaw comes out of nowhere and chases you. The scary part was that the toilets were so dirty that they reminded me of former roomate’s (Alejandro’s) bathroom over at the apartment in Riata. Even more scary is the costume I’m going to wear tonight. Long time readers please take a guess.
I was meaning to be part of this important worldwide event(1) but unfortunately I had to be out of town last weekend:
Thrill The World is an annual worldwide simultaneous dance of Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller”. I thought they could have used my dancing skills but it turns out I couldn’t make it. I sent(2) Austin’s mayor Will Wynn as a replacement. He did well, as you can see in the video below:
Congratulations to all 4177 dancers for breaking a record!
Some photos from my quick trip to my cousin Rafa’s Bar-Mitzvah in Guadalajara have been uploaded to The MKX® Photo Central. Not much to see in the tourism/sightseeing department, however.
Drawing is very much like hair.
Sometimes you’re having a bad hair day. You look like you just woke up from a nap on top of a puddle of glue and no matter what you do, you just can’t tame that weird thing sticking out from the top of your head. Other times you’re having a good hair day and you look great: no problem, no effort needed.
Same applies to drawing. Some days everything you sketch looks terrible, and some days you are on a roll and things come out really, really well.
As with hair, I haven’t found any pattern on what causes a good or bad drawing day. As far as I can tell it’s not based on rest nor lack of sleep. It’s not based on caffeine. It’s not based on anything but pure randomness.
Today I went down to AVAA for their Life Drawing workshop and I had (I think) a good drawing day. This is highly subjective; whenever I show my drawings to people, every person likes a different one or a different aspect than what I like. Of course, in a year I will hate them all as it seems to happen with very few exceptions.
Today’s two sketches are below:
I just read that Sergio “Kun” Agüero got Diego Armando Maradona’s daughter Giannina pregnant and it’s a boy. I will now let you ponder on the possibilities…
This past weekend I attended the Austin City Limits Music Festival. As a revenge act for not going last year I got me a nice 3 day pass; and most of my local friends decided to go as well. It was both a lot of fun and extremely tiring. These festivals aren’t easy on an old guy like me. I was expecting a lot of people to stay over at my place during the weekend but at the end it was only Nathan, Sarai, Mindy, and Jill. Nathan is a wuss and bailed out on day three. On the other end of the spectrum, Mindy and Jill are total warriors, doing all three days early in the morning followed by downtown partying, plus one all-nighter on Saturday and the drive back to Houston on Sunday night. Respect. Bernardo Dychter, Baruch Chollow (whom I hadn’t seen in a looong time), and Alex were in town as well.
More info, photos, and a video if you keep reading!
Best wishes on this coming 5769. I hope you haven’t looked at the stock market today. Thanks to Alberto Toiber for the image.
This is a very cool photograph I was recently sent of my great-grandfather Elías Zack, whom I never met. It must be from the late 20’s or 30’s. Hmmm… interestingly it bears a striking resemblance with a certain photo of mine. It really is pure coincidence. I wonder what else I’ve done that turns out to be totally unoriginal.
One thing I tell you: which version of Photoshop they used for this one, it’s an old one.
I guess it was bound to happen. Whenever you meddle with something that is dearly beloved by millions of people around the world, yo’ve got to expect some sort of backlash.
It happened to us when we redesigned. Worry not, our studies clearly indicate that a vast majority of readers prefer the new design and we are not going back.
However, in order to satisfy our nostalgic selfs, we present below a pictorial of previous designs for The MKX®.
