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I wasn't aware my camera had a Cartoon feature, but I honestly can't explain this image. The top left is actually one side of the capital, but the alternate universe component -- NO IDEA.
Kind of like it tho, could pass some groovy bills in this legislative house.
Cartoon Network is hosting a show that features artwork inspired by cartoons from Hanna Barbera to the age of Cartoon Network.
I snagged Wacky Races and created this set of helmets to highlight each of the iconic racers!
When I was 16 my school chums and I, went to camp on the shores of lake Naivasha. The area was lovely, plenty of fishing. They had toilets but they we just mud huts with no lights only a small window. I had just sat down when I heard a noise that I did not like and looking down realised I was not the only occupant. There was a very large Puff adder with me. Leaping to the seat, leaving my shorts etc on the floor, I leant over and opened the door, jumped out and streaked across all the other tents to get another pair of shorts. I surprised a group of ladies having tea outside their tent. I think mine must have been the first streak as they became very popular after that!
The african who was in charge of the campsite went into a complete "Tizz" when I brought the dead snake to him. He grabbed it and ran to the wood fire that heated the camp showers water and dumped the snake in. I had been trying to tell him I wanted the skin. He then said he had to do that because Puff Adders mate for life and the partner was sure to be around so without the snake it would go somewhere else to seek.
Combo put up with art1 and oder after the nose-go art show at cartoon network!
i should of slapped up a little nose sticker in the group!
Yogi, Cindy, Boo Boo and Ranger Smith colored by me from a color page from one of their many campground parks around the U.S.
Since I drew the older version of Khan from Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan a while back, I figured I might as well draw the earlier younger version of him from the Star Trek episode Space Seed, so here he is in all his charismatic glory.
According to the Space Seed episode, in the unimaginably far off futuristic year of 1996, Khan Noonien Singh was a genetically engineered superman who conquered and ruled one quarter of the world. He was eventually overthrown at the end of the Eugenics Wars (I must have been asleep that day; I seem to have missed the headlines in the papers). Rather than execute Khan on the spot as you'd expect would happen, he and 80 of his followers were placed in cryogenic suspension, loaded into a multi-million dollar spaceship and shot into outer space, where they'd never cause any trouble or be heard from ever again. All in 1996, yet.
Flash forward forward to the 23rd century when Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise just happen to find Khan's ship. Naturally they can't leave well enough alone and beam aboard the vessel and end up thawing him out. Khan then proceeds to use his smoldering good looks and sexy accent to defrost his remaining followers and take over the Enterprise. Kirk eventually gets the upper hand and defeats Khan. Once again, instead of just cutting off his damned head as logic would dictate, Kirk decides to exile Khan and his followers on an uncolonized planet. Case closed!
Space Seed is one of the better episodes of the series, but as always there are a few glitches. For one thing I've never understood why the writer insisted on setting the Eugenics Wars and Khan's exploits in 1996. That was only 30 years from the date the episode first aired! It's beyond ridiculous to think we'd have the technology present in this episode by then.
Khan is described as being genetically engineered. He appears to be around 40 years old in the episode, and presumably was that age at the time of his exile in 1996. That means he was born (or created if you will) around the year 1956. I'm pretty sure scientists weren't sitting around splicing genes back then.
Then Khan and his followers are placed in cryogenic suspension (instead of standing trial and being incarcerated or executed, as one would expect). Again, pretty sure that technology didn't exist in 1996.
Then the frozen bodies of Khan and his posse were placed into the highly advanced Botany Bay spaceship and shot deep into interstellar space. Why would they do such a thing? Each one of NASA's Saturn rockets cost hundreds of millions of dollars. What could possibly motivate any government to load a tyrannical despot and his followers onto such a vastly expensive piece of equipment and basically toss it away? Why wasn't simply placing them in prison sufficient punishment?
Also, the Botany Bay is far more advanced than any kind of spacecraft we have in the present, much less had in 1996. It contains a power supply and instrumentation that still function after 300 years, and even has artificial gravity inside (since Kirk and crew walk around the interior of the ship instead of floating). Again, artificial gravity is something we still don't have, and probably won't for a long, long time. Probably not for centuries. To think we'd have it in the nineties was ridiculous at best.
This episode perfectly encapsulates one of the biggest pet peeves I have about speculative fiction: Don't set your sci-fi story too close to the present day or you'll look like an idiot when your predictions don't come to pass. Set your story well after the audience will be dead and buried. Would it have killed the Space Seed writer to have placed Khan's downfall in 2096?
Khan was of course played by actor Ricardo Montalban, who turned in a powerful performance (as always). Montalban was born in Mexico and starred in many movies there before eventually coming to Hollywood. When he first began acting in American movies, studio executives wanted to change his name to "Ricky Martin (!)." Wisely, he declined.
He starred in many Western films, usually playing a Native American or Latino. In 1951, he suffered an accident while filming a movie, in which he was thrown from a horse and trampled. The accident resulted in an injury to his back that never fully healed, causing him great pain throughout his life. In fact if you look closely in Space Seed as well as Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, you can see him limping slightly.
In 1993 he underwent surgery to reduce his back pain, which left him paralyzed below the waist. This is why he appeared in a jet-powered wheelchair in the Spy Kids sequels.
Montalban was married to his wife Georgina for a whopping 63 years, something that's more rare than gold these days, and an absolute miracle in Hollywood. He was never involved in any tabloid scandals and was active in many charities and foundations. Sadly, he died in 2009 at age 88.
Montalban was famous for his "Five Stages Of An Actor" anecdote:
1. Who is Ricardo Montalbán?
2. Get me Ricardo Montalbán.
3. Get me a Ricardo Montalbán type.
4. Get me a young Ricardo Montalbán.
5. Who is Ricardo Montalbán?
Young Khan is a vector drawing, drawn in InDesign.
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Based on the 1994 Sydney production of The Pirates of Penzance, a formative childhood phenomenon for me.
I uploaded this a long time ago, but it got deleted. Here is an illustration from 2009 (I think?) for a goth culture zine still in the works. Figure "A" is a self portrait, if ya couldn't guess.