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Look to antiART for my latest stroll around the Photoshop block, Keep Walking.

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Yes, it certainly was an interesting last few months: In school, I directed a stage production and was taking a course on fairy tales! Isn’t that something? And next semester I have a class about videogames! Speaking of, I forgot to mention that in the month of October I was hired to beta-test a new computer game called Cosmic Osmo’s Hex Isle, which is exclusively available for purchase through Fanista. It’s for the Mac and PC, so if you’re reading this I’m assuming you have the equipment to run the game. “Hexisle” is an x-tremely fun action-puzzler, and I recommend it to you all.

In light of my beta-testery, I have been invited out to the snowy plains of Spokane, Washington to visit Cyan Worlds, the developers behind Cosmic Osmo’s Hexisle. Now this is something of a pilgrimage for me, since these people were responsible for my favorite games of all time, such as Myst. You may recall that over the summer I was involved with a certain fan-convention called Mysterium. This is no coincidence, friends.

A trip report upon my safe return (and no need to pack warmly — I am a penguin after all).

Hey guys, what’s happening? How about that month of September? That was really something, huh? Yeah, Red Penguin and I have been booted from our cushy summer jobs into the “real world.” We had an excellent summer of Sun & Fun: Comic-Con, Mysterium, and seeing some of our more reclusive FV crew members in a relaxed social context. All & all excellent, but as I said it has come to an end. After we snuck off the Polar Cruise ship which brought us to Antarctica, we had a several weeks journey to McMurdo Station. Once there we parted ways to our respective educational institutions. I arrived to my posh private college and settled in right quick, but I didn’t hear back from Red for a while. When it comes to him, it’s not uncommon to get the silent treatment. That said, he’s been a unusually hard to get in touch with as of late. He goes to the Igloo City School of Design but this year he’s living in an outer borough, so the internet’s been rather shoddy for him. He’s got some other stories to tell but I’ll leave it up to him to tell them.

So anyway, after all this nonsense, I bring to you a new antiART update. It’s called “I got blood on my hands,” which sounds ominous but I assure you is the lyric in a song by TPB (WARNING: Gothic Country is not for the weak of heart or stomach). I hope you enjoy this piece: half of it came from Los Angeles and the other half came from New York. I’ll leave it up to you to parse which is which, not that it really makes a difference to me.

So anyway, on the topic of updates. Like I’ve said, Red’s internet’s bad. My problem? I’m insanely busy directing The Rocky Horror Picture show at my school. Yes, I am not joking. I’m also taking a class on Fairy Tales and a class on Literary Theory (Freud, Saussure, Lacan — those guys), and then some. I was lucky to wring this update out, but I can’t promise any degree of consistency at this stage. By the end of the year, Red and I plan to take Penguinbros.com in a slightly different direction, to “unthaw” (if you will) certain aspects of the website. Continue sticking around in the meantime, we appreciate your return visits!

When the Penguin Brothers are on summer vacation, Penguinbros.com is in full swing! antiART returns from a five-week hiatus (whoops!) with Papercat. I don’t have much to stay about this one, only that when you stare into the abyss, it’s occasionally a cat.

For this week’s antiART, we’re going to try something a little different. For your viewing pleasure, I submit an experimental video entitled Woodstock. It’s not very long – just a little over a minute. Headphones are strongly recommended. I hope you enjoy it, and that it brings a little calm into your world.

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Today I woke up to some exciting news: (more…)

This is Purple Penguin bringing it to you live from PB-East, the one and only source for Penguinbros.com updates. Coming up on antiART are two naturalistically themed pieces: Habitat and Nurture. Enjoy, and remember to always look both ways. Always.

EDIT: Happy Friday the 13th!

The proof is in this week’s belated pudding: not one, but two! Well, more like one of each. Two puddings. Let me explain!!!

antiART: Out of Season.

Stereotypical: Raggedy Anne.

Actions speak louder than words.

EDIT: Well it might be informative if I said a little something about each item, so… this week’s antiART is a tree outside of my living space that seems to be trapped between Fall and Winter, in spite of the presence of snow. The Stereotypical song is a little ditty I started practically the day I arrived at school last semester; at midnight. It’s written in the spirit of some daft woman living near the docks, mourning for her lost sailor husband. Some turn-of-the-century pap. It’s a bit of a landmark because it marks the first time I’ve used real instrument – in this instance a melodica. The tune’s a bit experimental but kind of dark/fun nonetheless. How I can possibly reconcile that is a mystery even to me.

So Penguinbros.com apparently is the tired old grandpa that you have to keep waking up with various poking implements. Seems we have a little ‘ol thread on The Igloo (our webforum) entitled Complain about the lack of updates on PB in this topic! Well, it looks like it worked!

I have two new antiART pieces to share with you, for you. The first is a borderline defensive that I like to call Glory, because heaven knows we don’t have enough of that. The second is a – dare I say it – Daydream believer. Look to up the skies from down in the dirt; It’ll do wonders.

One of the things I pride myself about antiART is that everything on there has been made by me. All the photos are mine, and every last curious image is a result of my work. My latest work, Phased, breaks rank. The players in this piece - the deer and the red flowers - are not works of mine. I did not take a picture of that deer, nor did I pen those flowers (they are drawings, and not real). Secondly, that is a dark patch of fur, not a bullet wound. Thirdly and finally, I did not invent that background color: I stole it from Photoshop. Forgive me readers, for I know not what I’m doing with my life.

Okay, to celebrate this magical Residents week (only six more days until the screening and my birthday!!), here are some cool “Res” updates. First off, we got written up in the Walt Street Journal Online because of our Residents video submission! The article is viewable here, but this link may expire in a week (the WSJ is for paid members, you know), so that happens I’ll provide an archived version of the article… but until then this link should suffice.

EDIT: The link has indeed become unavailable for non-subscribers. I have archived the article here for your convenience.

The second Residents themed update is this week’s antiART. Before I post it, I should probably mention where it’s sourced from. In 2004, Red Penguin and I were commissioned to do a one minute music video for The Residents for their Commercial DVD. The video, which we’ve never made available until now out of respect for the band, is called Secrets.

So if you seen the video by now, you may recognize this image of the “Spider City.” It’s the cityscape backdrop in second shot featuring the spider towards the end. I’d post the other backdrop, but Red made that one and I don’t know how he’d take to that (maybe I should ask?)

We’ve reached the end of it, but it’s only just beginning! Stay Tuned!

This weekend’s antiART is known as The Fool. I’m not calling out anyone as being a fool. I’m talking about The Fool. Hopefully some of you know what I mean. It’s cool if you don’t.

Due to technical limitations I wasn’t able to impart the sheer size of the foolishness. While I’m not a huge fan of “special editions,” I’m gonna make an exception this week and make available a full resolution version of this particular antiART.

One Last Thing: Check back later this weekend for a very special post concerning an upcoming Penguin Bros appearance!