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ARCHIVE PAGE 60
 Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Ink Drawing: Social Security
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Ink Drawing: Girls at the Short Pump, Virginia, Barnes and Noble store
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Cell Phones and Health Issues
I keep running across these kinds of reports. How many are sound, I do not know, but this should make a cell-phone user pause for a moment (Jerusalem Post):
 Prof. Elihu Richter, a senior expert in electromagnetic radiation and retired head of the occupational and environmental medicine unit of the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, was speaking a day after the Health Ministry posted guidelines on cellphone use on its Web site.
Richter, who does not use a cellphone, has been cautioning against the excessive usage of the devices for years. When asked to comment eight years ago on a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association claiming no connection between the use of cellular phones and brain cancer, Richter told The Jerusalem Post that the study's follow-up period of four years was too short and did not take into account the thinner skulls of children. He went on to add that had a similar protocol been applied to testing the effects of cigarette smoking, such a study would have erroneously yielded no correlation with cancer.
"...As far as I know, Israel's Health Ministry is one of five ministries in the world to put out a statement [about the risks of cellphones], but the data on increased risks for gliomas and acoustic neuromas on the side of use, notably after 10 years from first exposure, have been in the scientific literature for several years," he said. "This is not a revolutionary finding."
In a 2002 paper, Richter, along with Dr. Zvi Weinberger of the Jerusalem College of Technology, posited that the specific microwave frequency at which cellphones broadcast utilizes the human head as an antenna and the brain tissue as a radio receiver. The two scientists urged against the excessive use of cellular phones based on the premise that the body is actually involved in sending and receiving signals, which likely has medical ramifications.
And then there is this related story which promptly followed (Jerusalem Post):
The Health Ministry guidelines advise limiting the use of cellphones by children, in hospitals, in elevators and other places where reception is poor; not wearing cellphones on the body; and avoiding the use of Bluetooth wireless devices attached to the ear. The ministry does, however, recommend the use of earphones, even though it has not yet been proven that they are safer than holding the phone to the ear. Some researchers have suggested that the earphone may carry harmful electromagnetic radiation directly to the head.
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Three older cartoons on new large pages
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Online Comic Book Story
Two page Story online:
Friday, July 25, 2008
Traveling this side of the Mississippi
I have been traveling quite a lot lately: Southern Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina. Sketches and such to follow.
{Below] This is what an awful lot of the scenery looks like from an auto:
Foto is from along the way of Highway 40.
[Below] Getting near the Smoky Mountains click to enlarge
Sunset Photograph
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Batman The Dark Knight Movie Review
Actor Christian Bale studies the suit in the Dark Knight sequel to Chris Nolan's 2005 Batman Begins
Film review The Dark Knight
I had read that The Dark Knight is a much darker film that the previous Batman Begins, the 2005 film of the DC Comics hero. Seeing the film in 35MM (there's a much larger imax version) at a local megaplex, it certainly had less brightly-lit flash than the other superhero movies of late. With many scenes happening in a dressed-down Chicago standing in as the comic book world's Gotham City, aside from strong lighting from explosions, this place is shadow upon shadow, as if the place just can't generate enough light to get a good look at what's really happening.
My review of this film has moved to: Cinemagraphe.com
Heath Ledger as The Joker
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ink drawing: Line of ticket holders at The Dark Knight
People in line at the evening show for "Dark Knight": the lines were the longest I had ever seen at this particular movie theater in Chesterfield, Virginia, outside of the city of Richmond.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Lion Suits of Batman!
[Above: Dustin Nguyen artwork from Detective Comics #846. DC Comics Sep 2008 cover date)
I don't have any particular problems with Dustin Nguyen's artwork for the recent run of DC Comics' Detective Comics. His distortions and cartoony feel are certainly not the pseudo-realism of the Neal Adams/Jim Aparo/Jim Lee wing of comic art, but it's still a nice batch of story telling on his pages. But on page 16 the lion just doesn't quite seem like a lion, but like a guy in a lion suit. Click to view the entire page:
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Super-pretty
This artwork ran before, but now it's at a more extreme size.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Bat - Distortion
I've seen the first two issues of Gotham After Midnight with Batman artwork from Kelley Jones. I like it a lot, though sometimes the distortion bothers me; on the other hand it adds some needed humor, too, because most of the gothic trappings of the whole Batman Milieu is being used so far.
Click to view an enlargement of the complete panel above. You will see Jones' complete control over the black inking which is balanced in a way you just don't see much anymore, inking having gone wildly over into the direction of open form to allow as much color manipulation as possible (think Tintin style drawing). I like the old way.
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