So today is the anniversary of my lovely wife’s D.O.B. and as part of her present I got my Buddy System bandmate and all around buddy Lauren Gregg to paint a Lewis Fambly portrait. The resulting painting is far cooler than I could have imagined so I am sharing it here for all to see.

Please to enjoy the Lewis Fambly…

Posted by ryan on 22 Apr 2008 at 01:02 pm

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Click it to make it all big and stuff:

Posted by ryan on 05 Mar 2008 at 04:09 pm

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Hey kids!  

For the past few months Mat, Craig, Lauren and I have been working on a new music/animation band called The Buddy System. Think Cornelius, Stereolab and Tullycraft playing along to the Electric Company and old Disney or Hanna Barbera cartoons. We are making our live debut at the Kindercore Xmas Party on Saturday, December 8th with a miniset - in case you didn’t know, animation takes a while.

We also have a song on the upcoming XMAS 3: The War on Christmas comic and compilation!Anyway there will be more news, music and video from us as time goes on but I wanted to announce the band here and point you all to our shiny new (but still in progress) MySpace page so that we can be friends! You can listen to our XMas song and a demo of another jam while you are at it. Also if you want a sneak peak at some of the animation in progress click HERE just don’t tell Craig since it isn’t finished yet!  

Oh and while I am at it here are some images from upcoming animations: 

Posted by ryan on 28 Nov 2007 at 04:12 pm

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Yeah, yeah, I know… long timey no typey. Well if you must pry, I have been failing miserably at passing a kidney stone and succeeding victoriously at finishing up our online store (should be up by the end of the week?) and putting together XMas 3: The War on Christmas (more on that soon).

ANYWAY…

Now on to the reason I brought you all here today… A while back I heard rumblings of a laptop being developed that could be hand cranked for power and be sold to developing countries for under $200 a piece to get them in the hands of poor kids. What do poor kids need with laptops you say? Well sure, food and clothes are good but the only way to truly help impoverished nations is to help educate the children so that they can create a better future for the entire country (and in turn, the world). The laptops can be loaded with a thousand or so books and when they are in proximity to one another they create an automatic network - meaning that if each kid in a village had a different collection of books on their laptop it would be a virtual library for a place that may otherwise have never gotten books other than the Bible (shudder).

When the project was announed it was said that they would never be available in the States because they didnt want to have all of the stock going to people who could afford a standard computer. However this morning as I was eating my Vanilla & Almond Special K (or my lady cereal as I call it) I caught a story on CNN about a special promo where for the next two weeks you can buy two of them for $399 and one will be sent to a third world child in need and the other will be sent to you. Not only do you get to help kids AND get a kickass looking little computer that can be powered up in a blackout or whatnot (mmm… apocalypse laptop) but $200 of the cost is also tax deductable as a charitable donation (if any of you are into that paying taxes thing - I kid, I kid).

If you are interested click HERE to check out more info on the computer, the Give One Get One program and purchasing.

Look at how pumped those kids are? Seriously, don’t you want to make kids that pumped? I thought so…

Posted by ryan on 14 Nov 2007 at 01:01 pm

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For reals people. I mean check this little dude out…

I mean what the fuck right?! Is that not the coolest looking little guy ever? I am not too proud to cop to having a tween girl’s prediliction for cute animal photos which is spurred on by CuteOverload.com - where I found this 3 month old baby Gibbon.

The thing about animals is that no matter how much human related shit in the world is totally fucking depressing all you have to do is bro down with an animal for a spell and things don’t seem quite so dire.

Just a thought.

Posted by ryan on 14 Aug 2007 at 01:47 pm

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