All Hail Thorndike Pickledish !!

WHA ???

2009-06-28T10:32:00.000-07:00

TV SUX

Say it out loud--
"Gorilla'd Cheese Sandwich"
50's puppet Sensation Howdy Diddley !

Howdy's Aunt Aretha Doody

2 for the show...

2009-06-18T17:04:00.000-07:00

---Face Trick---

I got a laptop--reconditioned one...see, I only know the landscape of my OLD desktop with Windows 98--so I figure if my 10 year old mainstay computer ever dies --I'd better have sumpin in line that will record voice..allow me to draw and animate---so the 26 sec movie above--is me drawing in Amorphium and Moho on the Laptop...and recording the voice on the cheesy mic that is built in...it proves that I can work with the new program--but I can tell I have to upgrade the mic... the movie woulda been better at a higher frame rate...but this is what turned out to fit for time.
so, funny? .
..uhh...maybe...
a test O' the Thorndike Pickledish communication lab...
yes !

The other day I had to change my answering machine...it's diaper was full of telemarketing droppings....couldn't think of much--but here is the one that answers my phone today....

Thorndike's $1.39 studio

Suxazitduz PM

2009-05-24T13:12:00.000-07:00

Watch my latest ad for Suxazitduz PM

So you don't forget, order before midnite tonight !

voiced by me on cool edit pro-drawn and animated using MOHO*

*Moho is now called Anime Studio

All in ONE Handy Place !

2009-05-05T09:06:00.000-07:00

The other day I found an interesting site--that has an attached contest, simulcast on You Tube...Needing a place to put most of my short films at once, I plopped in 6 films over at BIT FILM-- CLICK HERE
My Favorite aspect is being able to make up stupid names as credits on the film...this, to me is more fun than the films themselves...
for special effects in one, I wrote 'Hal Lou Cynation'---ha ha Hallucination ...
in music for one, I wrote "Hertz Meinhead" --hurts mine head...hee hee..

go on over, see what I mean, n' thanks

All talk and no Cars !

2009-04-18T15:39:00.000-07:00

It is once again time to steal from myself...I invented the names of these GM cars long ago...but now they are more appropriate--it is your doody to support them !

Also on cars...I've always loved the older Jaguar models...and the fine marque has changed owners in the last many years...finally to be taken over by Tata motors of India...I remember when people would say ..."Hey man...nice Jag !!!"

If I had my old Mark 10 right hand drive, back again, and my 1976 XJ12L in my driveway....would I hear ..."Hey man ....Nice Tata's"

I hope not.....

back to the pec deck for more flyes

My Favorite Picture

2009-04-17T11:26:00.001-07:00

I was on the beach a few weeks ago --and saw this --just had to shoot it--click on it to see a larger image....I wonder why there is a fireplug on the beach?
Is it in case the sand catches on fire?
this is an Anaglyph I tried to make from 2 separate angles--I do get the "Gull Friend" out in front with Vancouver in the Background.

I was going to do one O' my animated movies for ya...but I didn't like the end result..so this time it was just snaps with my 30 cent camera.

You say KOMODO I say KIMONO

2009-03-28T17:16:00.000-07:00

Komodo Dragon

Two Komodo Dragons were accused of killing a man recently...it was not drug or gang related...the Dragons were waiting for the fellow to fall off the tree he was picking fruit on...it might have been justified..

who knows if it wasn't their fruit..
their tree??

And with a name like Komodo..don't you think the defense lawyer will be quick to point out the Dragons being bullied in school with things like....

"Hey Dragons--go back to your Commode"

Meanwhile...a Kimono Dragon might be an iffy partner in a dollar a dance club...it might be hard to slip away without being ...dare I say...."frenched"
Kimono Dragon

Me such BAD man !

2009-03-22T17:56:00.000-07:00

This is a rant about the GYM today....Psychiatric help anyone ??

When I started this BLOG it was going to be just an occasional humorous bit of artwork or animation...and my "Bench Bozo" was going to be JUST my Bench Press training--and never the twain shall meet....well, today some merging has taken place and gym stuff (irrational mumbling) has become today's Thorndike Pickledish talking bloggeroo---relapse and enjoy... 2 minutes of me ruminating over the rant that IS the masked gym whistler....

Anatomy of a Brain Amateurism !

2009-03-10T14:14:00.000-07:00

I did this in the free Program "Project Dogwaffle" used the mouse to draw it.

Then I took the ONE panel and stretched it in the old "MOHO" program --MOHO is now improved and called "Anime Underwear" or some name with the word "Anime" in it....
I made 58 frames--repeated them-to 232 at 8 frames a second--I ad libbed a voice track to it and here is 29 seconds of silly thinking out loud..

It's a fun way to blog --when you don't type out your thoughts for the day..but instead do a 'talking letter' to expose the workings of your 35 cent computer and it's inner drawing board....

I like this one today--but tomorrow --or maybe later tonite --I'll probably be embarrassed and want to send it to the messy art grave yard.

Lost Isle - FOUND?

2009-03-02T18:54:00.000-08:00

click to see all the touch ups---I mean Larger size image..

'Typos' a Greek isle, written about in depth, by Hunton Pecker, in his novel,
"Smith VS Corona...the yellow beer chronicles"

So You take a jewel case and a red and green marker and?......

2009-03-01T16:28:00.000-08:00

Yeah --I just saw a deal thingus where "Hannah Montana kids" were told IF they didn't have stereoscopic 3D glasses they could take a CD case--take out the label--and on the clear section with a marker...draw a red patch --then a 'nose' away--draw a blue(cyan or green) patch...that way, they could watch the 3D segment Disney had prepped for them....so, raid your kid's room and get that case...and watch another 3D experiment by me....yeah, I know...too many--but mine are getting 'depthier'-- YAY --
and I usually try to 'let'
a "funny"
during them too..

what's different here? the background is new--there is a new sequence with 'pink lightning' (ahem) and a quick flash of an old Little Richard painting I made that I 'anaglyphed' and there is always the "I wish I could be here...but I'm busy.." Narration....so click me baby one more time..

Can't I just see 3D without Glasses?? YES
my friend at -- Burbank's Tomato---has used a technique by Jim Gasperini---and has created a 3D still with NO GLASSES ---Eugene calls the technique the "Gasperini Wiggle" and explains it well at his site ! take a look...especially the 2nd and 3rd images...in the first...I think the statue's 'Gasperini is wiggling' too much (kidding)
in 1- 2- or 3 D !
BURBANK'S TOMATO (click the blue writin' )

AHA !!!!!

2009-02-26T10:49:00.000-08:00

As typed in comments to genius Hopalong EAC ...I learned to do the obvious
(I coulda read a book)

De-color some of the 3D images so that the red/cyan could do it's depth work..Luckily, many of you DON'T have 3D glasses --If you did--you'd see me right in your living room about to steal the cookie off your computer desk.....
"Hey where are my car keys???....Thorn-diiike !!!!!"
but, if you noticed my previous entry, you'd see I was trying to get stills to flow in a video and still work on a computer screen...here is a re-do of yesterday's first sequence..as 'Hoppy' wanted...Doctor Frankenstein style.

How can you experiment away your time and never get YOUR laundry done?
CLICK HERE FOR DOWNLOAD OF ANAGLYPH MAKER
it's FREE
--to take a 3D pic --shoot from two very slightly different angles --then put the pics in the software and follow the EASY instructions...and edit with the glasses on and you could have dandy things to share with your friends !

And make sure you read BURBANK'S TOMATO (click the blue writin' ) whadda dog (R MUTT) gone Artizmically faboo blog it is !!

Adventures IN 3-D !

2009-02-25T13:25:00.000-08:00

crick to pray

This is my first attempt at stringing the 3D Anaglyphs I make into a little movie...my big test is when I take the VCD copy of this and play it on my TV---hopefully a few objects will hover past the frame...what I am learning this time around is how depth 'into' the screen really enhances how any things that are sposed to POP OUT !--

To get the Sword picture I just simply shot 2 pix from different angles...not using a precise camera at all...fixing editing in Anaglyph Maker...then rearranging in Ulead Gif animator and Antechinus Animator....as usual just an experiment to see if it works well --and so far it does....put on your Red /Blue (green) glasses and see how it works at your house !

Brain Amateurism #2

2009-02-15T16:58:00.000-08:00

Your password is ---Weather Balloons--when the 48 second animation ends...you say....Weather Balloons !!
Ready?

Today's Brain 'Amateurism' !!

2009-02-09T16:05:00.000-08:00

Spose' since this Rhymes--it could be me as Rapper "Try-T Why-T"
(trite-ee whitey) I gets better as it goes--and it is just today's 50 second wig bubble !

drawn in Dogwaffle.
And the 'soft' previously know as Moho
--and ZBrush
with edits in "Painter"
voice in cool edit pro
(now called Adobe Audition)

And Then I drew....

2009-02-08T08:38:00.000-08:00

Herr Nicholaus 'Ned' Nasenbar --down on hard luck
because of low funding at the Zoo...
Sat on street corners saying 'Putt- putt -putt'
over and over hoping to be hired as an adult toy !! !

Here Is "YODEL" spelled Yodel..and pronounced YO-DELL...
who is from the forthcoming "Star Wars the Cow Pie Menace"
..Yodel is found in an Oklahoma Trailer Park....
when Luke asks how to use a pitchfork..
Yodel says I reckon ya ..'Thrust the Fork loose !!!'
( Trust the force Luke ...get it??) ------

Ms. Muir was definitely a different person on or about every 18th of the month

Thorndike... CLEAN the Damn Water !!
do You hear me..
CLEAN THE DAMN WATER

drawn using ZBrush--Dogwaffle and/or Amorphium- pics 1-3-and 4 are animated--if not moving wait for it

What Me Tube???

2009-02-02T12:20:00.000-08:00

My pal Zaitsoff sent me some You Tube addresses...and they turned out to be my ancient 45's that a comedy fan had put up--

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=p0gLnZ8fXVE&feature=email

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-72kGVH6Im4&feature=email

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-qJFtp2xTK4&feature=email

He went to the trouble of putting up some interesting frog animation/slide show videos while the bits played....at first I wasn't ready to have Lonely Bullfrog or 'Wart' now my love --on the TUBE--but when I found SF Bound --Paranoia and The imperial Grandmother up--I was pretty happy...even Happier when I saw the other artists he put on his site---follow the URL's to ToyBoyTwo's channel--
lotsa Python and Sid Caesar --and some comic gems....hah...if only someone had the guts to put up Viet Nama Mama---wait --no, that one scares everyone away...it's like I was imitating Yoko before she ever put a record out...hah---

anyway--thanks--and All Hail 'ToyBoyTwo' !

Yes -Yes --but so very NO !!

2009-01-24T09:17:00.000-08:00

29.5 seconds that explains EVERYTHING??!!!???.....

.....Naw .......

Sketch Book 30 years back.

2009-01-19T16:25:00.000-08:00

click on each pictures to see a larger version

When Thorndike PickleRobert was all nite DJ on Seattle's KVI (before it went News Talk Culture Shock) between tunes he would scribble --and as the cartoon appeared to look like something, anything, the picture would 'draw itself'--
later a caption was added
and there was his own do it yourself mental examination....

drawn in late 70's early 80's copyrighted in 2000 for web use

Brain Feathers !

2009-01-12T16:41:00.000-08:00

Brainpan Boogie

New version Tues 13th

Do you speak in chunks of mutton and mint flavored word sausage?
Sometimes even "Golden Glob" winners do too...
Well, this took all day....... to craft 37.2 seconds of Uptrite' pooetry !

What I do like, is the camera pan I did with the old MOHO program (it is now Anime' sandwich or some such) and the goofers I drew in ZBrush and the fiendish looking kid who menaces at the end...the model of the woman I like too..cuz it's not much in the way of a TP "Hideousity"--AND....Over Dog "bit" spokesdog.

I do like the idea 'Brain feathers being preened n' fluffed into a dream pillow'....I may use that idea properly one day...but never the less..here is what took me a whole damn day...and now...I finally kinda like it !

I found that to make fun of people who sing in their cartoons..you have to try to sing...I wont DO that again (Cybil Shepard syndrome I call it )--I also will never use my 'Nancy Grace' voice again....
...talk about creepin myself out !

The "SH" factor !

2009-01-03T12:56:00.000-08:00

Help me solve the Mystery of the new Vocal aberration the "SH" factor !

Movie proudly modeled in ZBrush
and animated in the wonder of Repeato flap...the cheatiest style !
the choice of lazy animators !

There will be Beans !

2009-01-02T14:48:00.000-08:00

Ready--aim--FIRE....

Tuesday I decided to make a huge pot of chili--so when I shopped for all the stuff I remembered to get chili powder

(the kind with all the 'chili aspect' in it---cumin-garlic-chili-basil or whatever ALL the ingredients of 'chili' are)

So, at Meinhardts I pick up the envelope of 'chili' powder --
come home...
braise the meat...
cook the onions...
green peppers --
tomatoes...
tomato sauce...
tomato paste (to glue any broken tomatos back together)

black beans--
kidney beans...
and the chili flavoring sauce....
stir...
taste...

........no chili flavor??.....

But HOT oh my god--the chili PREP powder was all CAYENNE

--yes Meinhardts
was literal
(no one else I know is)
instead of calling it cayenne powder
they labeled it chili...most people take that to mean quick n' dirty combo fixins..

Well...2 pounds o' meat is ruined...

all told 5 pounds of edible item should be flushed.....

one bite of this and you'd be in the emergency award...

yes...this was MACE in the non spray version, with beans...

What to do??? go buy real chili fixin powder 2 more cans of each bean--2 more pounds of meat??

damn, no, the idea is use what I've got......remember-the problem is icy sidewalks and getting to any store that has that stuff is a big factor.

well I have curry cubes (Glico) mild...so I'll morph this into CURRY !

I have banana's -

-overly sweet Goldilocks brand shortbread...shaved back to powder...

....milk....

but no yogurt --

no nuthin to kill the fire-

no coconut--no chutney--

--alright all of the above get chopped and sifted in--

oooh the bananas really help...

milk..too...

so now it has a wonderful flavor--really --not kidding

...cept this is the reaction I would get...

"mmm Thonrndike--this is soo flavourful and sweet --and rich--oooh it is heavenly...

wait....

20 seconds in--

it's a bit hot isn't it??--

ohh it's so good but it's so hot...
oh my god...my head is pounding ...

my gut !"

wheee oooo wheee ooo....(sound of ambulance)

So, I put it away...thinking after a few days in the fridge I'll go buy food to dilute it...like a stew maybe...

so today I bought more meat--more onions -celery-plum tomatoes--potatoes-carrots...and I precooked those things in 3 batches and dumped them into the pot after they were cooked.....stirred it up...simmered it...

and it is just the right hotness...and still flavorful...red wine splashed in helped...so did cranberry sauce (small amount) so the once upon a time chili--will be Curry Stew !

and oh yeah---I used my coffee grinder to powder up some cumin seeds...that will be nice next time I grind some dark roast

and ..DAMN !

this stuff is good...
unfortunately it looks a bit like......

POOT!

chef Thorndike Singh Ouchmypoorhiney

Year End Wrap Up !!

2008-12-30T07:35:00.000-08:00

44 Seconds to Wrap Up the Year???---Aww damn. did we sell 59 minutes of Commercials again???

Hand sculpted with a mouse (not a tablet) using Amorphium 2
and one section in ZBrush (bridge part) Voiced on a 1992 copy of Cool Edit Pro
other softs to put it together on a caveman computer...Ulead Gif animator--Antechinus Animator and a Boilsoft avi-mpeg converter....budget....
33 cents....less than a penny a second and worth every...portion of a dollar of it.

Hickeys Everywhere !

2008-12-29T06:48:00.000-08:00

That name...that slightly..kinda funny last name..."HICKEY" ...there is that famous character actor...William Hickey...
There is Cheryl Hickey the host for one of the entertainment TV shows..
There is the TV character NAME, Earl Hickey, on "My Name is Earl"

But the most famous Hickey of all....ERSEL...no not Edsel....ERSEL HICKEY !!
he was a fine rock (Rockabilly and Pop) singer of the 50's and beyond...what a nice man he was...
and he wrote the great ballad recorded by so many..."Bluebirds over the mountain"
well actually he penned many songs for many artists...Jackie Wilson did one of his songs --and the Serendipity Singers first big hit was written by Ersel
--Don't let de rain come down my roofs got a hole in it and I might drown !---

Anyway, when I was struggling to use Flash to animate...I came up with an idea to try to animate his flip side to Bluebirds..."Hangin Around" it took me 93 hours to do this.. CLICK THIS FOR THE TUNE
might be a long load time 'sorry'

When Ersel's friends saw it online...they foned him and said there is this silly animation on you--on the web....whatta ya know--Ersel emailed me --we talked on the phone at length...he approved highly of my crazyass work and even had someone link a Higher- Fi version of my Flash toon...which I found once happily by accident on the web...

Before he passed on he was nice enough to send me 2 cd's --a vinyl disk--2 autographed pictures and a tee shirt from one of his BIG gigs... and some shots from his own camera of that performance...I still have the autographed picture on my living room wall !

Thanks to Ruthita for emailing me a thread of DOO WOP-ISHNESS that reminded me of this long lost song and my scribbled tribute to it..
most of the animations I did at CROODLOOPS have been taken down by me or my webmaster...sure glad we still have Ersel to listen to !

Let me tell ya why this is NOT redundant !

2008-12-18T09:00:00.000-08:00

In 2006 I put together a DVD disc of Comedy called:

And at the very beginning of the ALL HAIL T.P. Blog in 2007 --I ran the "Trailer"--to save space it was linked to the file sharing site "Zippy Videos" --well, it seems Zippy is NOW long gone...so once again, I'd like to regale you with the true Bafoonaphonic presence of the the original promo..linked RIGHT HERE..never to vanish.

And as before, this earth shattering offer exists..

So, now my FABULOUS Business plan (What Genius this is) you determine that you are weird enough to stand the entire Thorndike experience...then send the man who claims to be me... robotalk@shaw.ca ...an email with YOUR correct MAILING address, like Joe Blough 2323 Nottathru Street, Sillytown USA --and I will mail you the Homemade masterpiece that is
"A terrorist Donut in your Fruit of the loom"---then when you watch it and like it....YOU send ME $15.00 (12 for the dvd 3 for postage) Sorry we dont have the PAL format--

IF you don't like it--I'm out 15.00 bux, cuz no way will you pay for sumpin you dont like

Of course if you give it to someone who DOES like it ..

have HIM send me $12 bucks (9 for a USED dvd and 3 for postage)

remember, if this sucker ever 'takes off' you'll have the original version...worth bunches on Ebay--Don't Laff the Walter Wart 45 is 60 times more valuable on Ebay than it ever was in the stores in the 60's