[Geeky, slight popular appeal:]
I have begun a perverse new project which I call Billustrator, a simple drawing program with a familiar interface:
It is written in Java, and thus runs on Mac OS X and Linux as well as Windows. It will be small and lightweight, so that users can do simple editing quickly. The architecture is extensible by design, and so it is not limited by its own assumptions. I think it would be keen to be able to embed it into web pages as an applet, and thus enhance the graphic capabilities of this 'Web 2.0' nonsense. [Along the lines of the
(e:strip) chalkboard, only more so.]
(e:dragonlady7) thought I was cracked, until this afternoon when she said she needed to crop & scale an image and had to resort to Photoshop. I guarantee that Billustrator could have had the job done before Photoshop had even finished launching.
The main UI is nearly done, and all the commands and tools are stubbed out. Even the builtins are implemented as plugins, so the plugin architecture is coming along as well and should end up very robust. More details [or not] as they become available [or don't].
- Z
Here comes the NSA!
Here is to trying: I can't believe (e:zobar) is such an American Hating fascist from Buffalo, NY. I mean what did Alberto Gonzales ever do to you, (e:zobar) of estrip in Buffalo, NY? Did Alberto Gonzales kill your babies or rape you sister while drowning her in a pool of her own blood on Main Street in Buffalo, NY?
(e:zobar) - I can't believe you would abuse a photo-editing program for your own political ends, do you think America will tolerate a Alberto Gonzales with googly eyes - let alone on the internet! (e:zobar) you are intolerant!
About.com :::link::: says that, "political science is the academic subject centering on the relations between governments and other governments, and between governments and peoples."
The real question is if (e:zobar) and his googly eyes are trying to make political science, a science of the arts - using real media techniques to grant meaning to images of Alberto Gonzales with googly eyes that say much more than words - in Buffalo, NY.
I think what would be cool is to make what ever reason they are being mocked or put down as part of the cartoon. So say Bush is shot he would bleed oil and the band Aides would be Haliburton brand. Maybe if it was a picture of Imus he would have black curly hair or something.
Googly News.
You mean Ted doesn't have googly eyes already??
You aren't a fascist, you are a communist. Get it right! Easy - only kidding man, only kidding. =P
I'm bored with political commentary lately. Politics is at such a low and despicable state of affairs that I'll take your googly-eyed cartoons over anything said on the news. I insist that you torch Ted Kennedy though.