Some Nice Smells

[lupestripe]

Being a wolf I'm quite used to using my olfactory sense. So here is a list of smells that this lil wolf likes:

1) New upholstery and carpet
2) Petrol and benzene
3) Freshly baked bread
4) Crisp springtime dew (or indeed any grass after it has just been raining)
5) Bacon frying
6) Fish being battered in a fish and chip shop

Comments

[schnee.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. ^^ I didn't know about it, either, but I read about it a while ago in an Irregular Webcomic! poll. :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Irregular Webcomic? What's that? It sounds like the source of a lot of interesting information. I like it when I find out random pieces of information like the one above :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is! ^^ It's a very beautiful - and, despite its name, *very* regular - webcomic; the website's at http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/ , and there's various Livejournal feeds, too (irregular_comic for links to the strips; irregularcomic2 for inlined comic images, but no annotations; irregularcomic3 for inlined comic images and annotations).

The comic's author often includes interesting tidbits of information, trivia and physics (and other things) in his annotations (in fact, he's got a Ph.D. in physics), and the site has interesting polls that change regularly, too (and the results, when posted, often include interesting comments from the author, as well).

The comic itself has a variety of themes; most are done with LEGO pieces, while others use fantasy game miniatures (there's also one about superheroes that's actually drawn by an outside artist, but it only appears very rarely, and fortunately so - it's about the only theme I don't like). There's occasional crossovers between the themes, too. :)

I can't recommend this comic highly enough really. :) I personally follow the irregular_comic feed and go to the site to read the comic and the annotations - this is mostly because I want to check out the polls as well (they don't appear in any feed), and because I occasionally comment on the feed entries or read other comments posted there (the feed's not overrun the way that xkcd_rss etc. are, though, fortunately).

If you want to check it out, I highly recommend reading the entire comic from the start when you've got a couple of hours to spare on a weekend or so. :) It'll have you in stitches many times, and you'll keep coming back for more. ^^

If you haven't got the time for that, I still recommend following the feed and checking out the daily strip and annotations (if any) and the polls (changing every couple of days), at least. :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

It looks amazing hun, I think I can spend many an hour flicking through this. So many websites, so little time *sigh*.

I like the lego-man stuff. It's lazy but it's to great affect. I love how the internet is a treasure-trove of pointless shit. It's so amusing - I tend to find the more random and twisted the better.

I'll have a look around the site somemore - thanks for alerting me to it *hugs*

[schnee.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. ^^ *snuggles* And it's less lazy than it looks, actually - building and arranging scenes, photographing them and postprocessing them in Photoshop (adding backgrounds, speech bubbles, and so on) is more work than it might seem, I think. I don't think dmmaus spends less time on the comic than other webcomic authors that draw their comics. :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a lot of work involved as you say. I guess as there's lots of different bits to the process it is more engaging whereas drawing takes effort to sit down and actually do it. My concentration span is bad so it'd be better for me to do the Lego stuff as I would be easily amused.

It's a great effect though - I'm very impressed :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, I'd probably enjoy building a comic with LEGO more than I'd enjoy drawing one, too (not that drawing isn't nice, of course). :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

The problem I have with drawing is that it takes me so long to come up with anything decent. I know it's a case of practice and if I had time I would but my attention span is akin to that of a housefly so I doubt I would have the patience. Plus Lego would be more fun.

Having said that wanting to draw and wanting to play the guitar are my next two wishes. I should act on them soon methinks.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

*noddles* Drawing's much the same for me... it's really frustrating that I always spend so much time yet come up with so little. c.c I know I'd just need more practice, but I haven't really got the patience for that. Ah well...

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

That's very much my problem - I'd love to be able to draw furries and characters but I find it hard to find time to practice. My mother is a good drawer so I may have latent talent, just never had the time to express it :(

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Yeah...