2010-09-06
I have a problem with the halftone patterns that appear everywhere: They are not made “correctly”. (I will write about this…)
Here are some examples on how different halftone patterns can look when applied to an image:
Kekkonen with a sinusoidal halftone pattern
Kekkonen with honeycomb halftone pattern
2010-09-04
I have started eperimenting with natural dyes to be used in a CD cover art project. The first one of vegetable dyes is bilberry juice (Vaccinium myrtillus, maybe you know it as mustikka or blueberry). It seems quite versatile!
Bilberry juice test prints on yellowish non-acid-free cardboard. I used a screen from a previous project.
I knew from beforehand that the color of the juice depends on pH. When I handle the berries without breaking them, I get a bluish shade onto my fingers. But if I manage to break some of the berries, releasing the acidic juice, the shade tends towards red. And when I wash the bucket that I use to collect them, there is a shift from red to blue as the residual juice is diluted and pH approaches neutral. So I tried screen printing with both plain bilberry juice and with bilberry juice mixed with plenty of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3) that raises the pH to around 8. I also tried heat-treating the dry print in the oven, until there was a change in the shade, and ultraviolet ligth (UV) irradiation for 6 hours. See the above picture for results. I think there is quite a nice selection of colors achievable by different treatments! Plain juice gives a bluish-purple shade, and sodium bicarbonate shifts the color towards cyan. Heat treating gives a caramel color, but with the added sodium bicarbonate, heat treating gives a greenish brown “darkened leaf” shade. The colors seem quite UV-resistant, unlike the cardboard, which yellows a bit.
Printing was done without any resist, so I will press more juice from last year’s bilberries and add some resist. Hopefully the print will then have sharper edges.
For this experiment, I let 0.5 dL of the juice boil briefly, added 5 ml of potato starch, let boil briefly again, cooled down, and optionally added 1 ml of NaHCO3. The results:
Test prints with bilberry on grayish white cardboard
Either it was the boiling or the method of juice extraction that made the least treated test print more red than before. Potato starch seems to work quite well to make a nice printing paste. The burned colors each seem to match their unburned counterpart to make a nice color scheme. Now I’ll just have to pick with, or without, NaHCO3, for the CD cover art project. I’ll go with.
OK. Don't add all baking soda at once! Sodium bicarbonate reacts with the acids in the juice to produce CO2. Also, by gradually adding more, one could adjust the shade. This went a bit too far from blue to cyan. It may not be a good idea to keep boiling after adding sodium bicarbonate, because it will convert to sodium carbonate that causes pH to go to around 11.
Filtering out the inevitable gooey starch lumps. This stuff tastes a bit sweet, bilberry-ish and has a dominating baking soda flavor...
For the CD cases, we want to use natural materials, and recycled materials, and to have them hand made so that there is added value to the purchase of a CD.
Material for CD covers, old office supplies. The Mercantil file pile on the right is enough for about 35 covers.
The image to be printed. The resolution of the image is 254 dpi. Width of the dark rectangle is (2.5 + 135 + 3 + 135 + 2.5) mm and height is (2.5 + 135 + 2.5) mm. First the image is transferred onto a silk screen using photo resist and ultraviolet light. I used an exposure time of 1 hour, which was too little as I had to keep the large screen at quite a distance from the UV lamp. Parts of the photoresist peeled off, and I had to fix those spots of the screen by painting photoresist with a paint brush.
Silk screen print on discarded office supplies. Yes, this was printed with that dark goo, and heat treated. It has a pleasant burned sugar smell.
Text for the cover, at 254 dpi.
I could not reach the other guys for comment on the title etc. yet. But I will try out the above anyhow. The way I did the script was by first writing by hand, taking a photo of the writing and then following the traces in Inkscape using the calligraphic pen tool, with a width of 15 and a mass setting of 11. The procedure to make the wavy background was slightly complicated, and I will probably write another article about it, as the process gives such nice results. I first tried without the background but thought it looked too empty.
2010-09-06
Two ink layers, or actually three. The text (not the waves) is double-printed so it is a bit darker than how it will probably be in the final mass-produced version. Also there is a slight misalignment between the two inks because of the double print.
Next up: surprise webcap (Cortinarius semisanguineus, verihelttaseitikki). It is a very common mushroom in Finland, but only yesterday did I learn to recognize it. I collected a bagful, and cooked it to extract juice, which I then boiled to concentrate it.
A potfull of colorful Cortinarius semisanguineus mushrooms
Fake antique?
After tinting, there’s more of a feeling of holding a treasure in your hands… :) Also the color of the bilberry ink got shifted away from cyan to dark blue, which is a good thing. The mushroom juice may be slightly acidic, or the shift may be simply due to color mixing.
Roasted! Just fooling around, but I kind of like it! Perhaps I will try again and roast the text and waves properly and then the trees only slightly.
Tricks of light. There's kind of an emboss effect from the thick, charred ink layer.
2009/11/23
When I had my dreadlocks made, I had little idea how to take care of them. I tried different things. By now, I have a routine. I wash the dreadlocks with water every morning and after sports. Once a week, I wash them with hand dish washing liquid, twice at a time, and make sure there will be no residual dish washing liquid in my hair at the end. Additionally, I spend on average maybe 10 minutes a day fixing them using a tool that I devised:
The tool is simply a metal wire loop with a handle. It works like this:
1) Push the loop through a dread near its root, stuff any loose hair that you think "belongs" to that dread into the loop, and pull the loop and the hair through the dread. 2) & 3) If the loose hair sticks out from the other side of the dread, you continue working towards the tip of the dread in a zigzag fashion.
The above cartoon misses a couple of important points: When you push the loop through the dread, make sure it comes out at the same spot as does the loose hair, so that you won’t be leaving funny loops of hair on the surface of the dread. Also, hold on to the end of the bunch of loose hair with fingers, while you are pulling the tool through the dread. It takes a bit of force to pull the hairs from your grasp, resulting in a tighter weave.
Go to your local guitar store and ask for the thickest electric guitar string that they have that is a simple metal wire, not a wound string. You can tell them you will use it as metal wire for non-musical purposes. If you have access to stainless MIG welding wire, that will also do. Normal iron wire is too soft, don’t waste your time with it. Guitar string that I have used were 0.4 mm (26 gauge) and 0.56 mm.
Cut a 20 cm piece of the wire. Fold it like this:
It should look like this when the two ends are held together:
Tie a cotton string to it:
The cotton string will form a handle on the straight parts of the wire ends. Cut off the loose end and wind the cotton string around the straight part of one end of the wire, then continue winding it around the other, so that the two are pulled together.
Hide the protruding wire tips by flattening the small hooks at the tips using pliers. Apply some super glue on the wound part of the cotton string, and wind the cotton string around the whole handle:
Quickly apply another layer of super glue, wrap the string once more around the handle, and squeeze the handle with pliers to flatten it. This will be of help when you use the tool as you will know its orientation by touch alone.
Apply super glue once more on the shaped handle. When the glue is dry, cut off the excess cotton string. Now the tool should look like this:
Apply some contact glue on the handle, and fit a piece of heat-shrink tube on it, making a nice rubber-coated handle:
Now the tool is ready.
Miscellaneous works and designs
2008-08-08
"NED", a fluorescent & phosphorescent patch
This was sold along with tickets for Histoni’s NED parties. The stuff in the tube is a combination of glue and a phosphorescent powder intended for fish lures.
2008-01
A shirt
For the shirt I used a coat as a model for the pieces.
2007-09-19
Fingerpaint on canvas, with Hilla Mattus
2003-12-25
Spooky mansion gingerbread house / Hexenhaus / piparkakkutalo, made together with my brothers
Detail of the gingerbread house
2009/12/05
Research group poster
2009/01/23
A poster for a scientific meeting
2008/09/04
A poster for a party
2008/03/13
A poster for a party
2008/12/01
My second screen printing project.
I found some burgundy bedsheets on sale in Anttila, and made a blanket cover from them for my mmmmmm-so-warm camel hair blanket from Lidl. (Thanks to Tiina for helping out with sewing!) I started to think that a subtle silvery plant pattern along the sides would make the blanket ever more nicer. So here is that process.
By the way, I wish I would have done the printing before sewing. Would have been so much easier, especially with the corners.
I drew the plant pattern by hand, scanned it, edited it to black/white and printed on paper. Then the pattern was copied onto two transparencies by a photocopier. These were glued together (to make the black REALLY black) and a printing screen with photo emulsion spread on it was exposed through the transparencies by ultraviolet light.
Because the pattern was repeating, I needed to devise some sort of a guide to align the endpoint of the previously printed piece of the pattern with the start point of the pattern on the screen. I used whatever I had lying around. The fabric was fixed in place onto this piece of wood using a metal clip. The pattern endpoint was always positioned in the same spot on the piece of wood. This was done by positioning a “key leaf” in the pattern to the end of the planc (X axis) and by centering the pattern endpoint (Y axis).
Wooden guides were attached to the screen, seen here from the bottom side. This way the piece of wood (with the fabric on it) could always be positioned in the same place under the screen.
This is the crappiest screen I’ll ever make! LOL! I found the frame in someone’s trash. I experimented with some sprayable photo-sensitive laquer. But turned out it had a natural repulsion towards silk… So I washed the screen again and spread the blue photo emulsion on it. I was feeling cheap, so I used silicone on most of the area. A few leaks were detected in initial testing, so these were fixed by adding more emulsion and more silicone… Yuck.
Here is the screen upside down with the piece of wood in correct position. Only the fabric is missing. And it’s upside down… The four screws on the piece of wood lift it up so that it won’t rest on the metal clip alone.
Here the fabric is fixed onto the piece of wood, right after printing. The wood is inside the two-layer blanket cover, so the backside did not get printed on. The discontinuity is somewhere within the metal part. The pattern was designed so that a slight misalignment is undetectable.
The emulsion dries almost instantly with the cotton fibers sucking away the moisture so I was able to work as fast as I could without worrying too much about dirtying clean parts of the fabric. A slower working speed would have given better pattern piece transitions however, because the screen seemed to somehow smear the ending of the previous pattern. But I did not want to risk the emulsion solidifying onto the screen!
Oh how much easier this would be with a rolling stamp!
A messy job, but I managed. A rubber tool (on the right) was used to spread the mixture containing: opaque printing emulsion, aluminum flakes, blue pigment and a tiny bit of white printing emulsion. I used the pigment and the white emulsion because I was not perfectly happy with the color created by the flakes alone. Two sweeps gave a deep penetration onto the fabric.
After drying, the pattern was ironed to fix it. Notice how it is not as blue as you would expect from the previous picture. This is because there is only a very thin layer of the emulsion on top of the brightly reflecting aluminum flakes. But it is the way I wanted it. I found in initial testing that the fixed pattern will not fade in the washing machine – good. (P.S. Well, actually after a year of use there’s hardly any flakes left, but the pigment stayed, so the pattern is still visible)
Individual aluminum flakes on the cellulose fibers of cotton, seen through a microscope. They appear loose, but they are in fact glued to the fabric by the printing emulsion. Because most of the fibers ares not covered by the flakes, the “silver” won’t appear as bright as it could was all the surface reflective.
The largest particles are about 0.1 mm in diameter while the silk screen holes are about 0.2 mm x 0.2 mm, so things work A-OK. These kind of aluminum flakes might be sold as “100 Mesh”, I guess.
The finished product. I’m happy with it!
2009/09/01.
The aluminum flakes are gone by now, in loundry I suppose. It still looks nice though, because of the added blue pigment.
2008/11/21
My first screen printing project, logo patches for our football team shirts.
Evolution of the logo:
 The original sketch (anonymous artist) |
 Modifications by Juha Kärkkäinen |
 Finalized by me |
Silk screens
Real silk! …and photoresist. Exposed by ultraviolet light through two duplicate layers of photocopier transparencies. The frames are hardwood photo frames that were on sale, 2 EUR each.
Two-color prints (on small pieces of black cotton)
Patch, pigment and opaque printing paste
Not perfect registration of the colors, but what the heck. Also the pigment got stuck into the raster that was too fine.
an XL T-shirt of the football team, dyed using Procion MX colors
a close-up on the T-shirt, the finished logo of the football team "flower fairies"
2006/08/10
Introduction
Hello, fellow dyer!
If the Dye Mixer won’t start within a couple of minutes, your browser probably doesn’t support Java and you need Java plug-in 1.1 (or later) for your WWW browser. You may need to restart the browser after installation.
The basic idea of the Dye Mixer is to let you to try out various dye combinations on various canvases under various lighting conditions, in “virtual reality”, with only virtual fabric and dye wasted. :-)
Instructions
Here are descriptions of the different parts of the Dye Mixer user interface:
Here are some typical uses for the Dye Mixer:
Happy mixing!
Version history
This is version 1.1 of the Dye Mixer. Some of the older versions are available. The evolution of the Dye Mixer has been as follows (read from bottom to top):
| 1.1 | Plenty of illuminant, canvas and dye data has been added. Most of the data is now in a separate text file, allowing adding new data without recompilation, or updating the Dye Mixer version. The biggest improvement, however, is that now the Dye Mixer is Java 1.1 compatible! This is good because Sun’s license for Java 1.2 (used in the Dye Mixer 1.0) and greater is, for some users and browser vendors, unacceptably restrictive. There has been some changes in the scalings of dye amounts – sorry about that if you wrote down some formulas. You can convert the 1.0 amounts to 1.1 notation by a simple calculation. |
| 1.0 | Added sliders and some minor things; improved much on ease of use. |
| 0.9 | Initial version. |
Technical details
The jar package of the applet is made available for download.
The operation of Dye Mixer is spectrum-based. So, adding a new light source, canvas or dye will require measuring the spectrum. I will be happy to add a new dye (or light, or canvas) if you can provide me with its spectrum and as much information of the dye as possible. If you are unable to locate a spectrophotometer, you could also send me a sample of the dye.
The Procion MX dye absorbance spectra were measured with a spectrophotometer from 350 nm to 800 nm at 5 nm steps, using concentrations that kept absorbance under 1.0, with distilled water as solvent. The canvas reflectance spectra were measured with my own mirror apparatus combined with a spectrophotometer, using a tissue paper as white reference. The theoretical light spectra are computed by Dye Mixer and the rest of the spectra were obtained from various sources.
A simple absorbance model is used with the dyes: The absorbance spectrum of a dye is multiplied by the amount value. This is analogous to increasing the thickness, or concentration, of the dye layer. The model is unable to handle fluorescent materials and dyes.
The CIE XYZ tristimulus coordinates are calculated from the obtained light spectrum and further converted into sRGB for viewing. Java XYZ to sRGB conversion uses CIE D50 instead of CIE D65, so I coded my own according to the sRGB standard. sRGB uses the CIE D65 reference illuminant white point, so you should adjust your monitor and your room lighting to 6500 K color temperature, if you want to view absolute colors and compare samples directly against the picture on the monitor. Normally you should, however, resort to subjective comparison, using the screen white as the white reference for the virtual sample, and the room lighting (as reflected from white walls, paper) as the white referene for the actual sample.
References
The input spectra came from various sources:
Links
Here are some related links:
A bit of background
I got interested in textile dyes after I bought a tie-dye T-shirt at Berkeley, California, which I visited during a “business trip” in spring 2001. I loved the place for it atmosphere, too. I grew fond of colorful hippie clothes, and wanted more. I could not find any locally (in Finland, they hardly even sell T-shirts during winter). The consequence was that I ordered, together with my mother Hanna (I didn’t have a credit card) some Procion MX dyes from Quilt und Art, Germany, to dye my own clothes.
Since, I have dyed tens of T-shirts and some other items. Most have been bought by my friends, for small fees certainly not to be of any interest to tax officials… :-)
2001/10/27
I have occasionally been a regular on the EFNet #musicdsp IRC channel. This ASCII art comic is my perverted view of some of the #musicdsp characters.
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| | | | _|__|_ |\ /| | | / \ | / ` | \ / \ | \
| |--| |- _|__|_ | \/ | | | `-. | | | |`-. |__/
| | | |__ | | | | \__/ \_/ | \_, |_/ \_/ |
_ __ ___ __ __ _
,´\ | \ \ / | |\ | | | | | \ | / \
|__| | | \ / |- | \ | | | | |__/ |- `-.
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______________________
EPISODE I - MRL-DUNDEE
INTRODUCING: MRL, BRAM
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~~~||~~\ o ..We are in the Australian badlands.
||~\ <|> Fukcing dangerous for ppl without
\|/ \|/ || \|/ /|\ a big kulli & a big knife.
~~~||~~\ o o ..Yeah mrl, ma man! Like, look
____.__ GRR! ||~\ <|> <#> at that mean looking crocodile
~~~|\¨¨ || \|/ /|\ /P\ for instance.
~~~||~~\ o_/ ..No shit, bram. You'd better get some
_______.__ ||~\ <| distance with your - relatively -
~/\~~~/\¨¨ || \|/ /|\ smaller dick & bigger balls. *HEHE*
~~~||~~\ o..HEHehe \_o ..Pff, you...
_______.__ ||~\ <|\ #> freak of nature!
~~~/\~~~/\¨¨ || \|/ /|\ \|/ /P\
I've seen bigger..o o ..OK OK just get done
_ _______.__ /\ /#> with it will ya?
~~~~/\~~~/\¨¨ \|/ /\ \|/ /P\
GRR! _o ..hopp! \o/ ..NO NO! Use the knife,
_ _______.__ __|\ __# use your _KNIFE_!!!
~~~~|\~~~|\¨¨ /\ \|/ P\
*CRUNCH* __o ..HELP!! o ..Told 'ya!
_______.__ /\ <#>
~~~/|~~~/|¨¨.. . .~¨\ \|/ /P\
|~~\ *sniff* o ..HAHAHAA, now who's Da
|~\ /o <#> Man of da men
| .. . . \|/ . .. . /\ /P\ now, "mrlie"?!
|~~\ ..You are, bram,
|~\ /o you are...
| .. . . \|/ . .. . /\ *END OF EP.1*
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EPISODE II - THE RECOVERY
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|/ /_\ _ o ..SHIT MAAN! The doc said they could only
| o ____ | | /#> get back the top 4 cm, so yer still missing
||~¨----||'| /P\ like 40 cm from the middle.
|/ BUHUU!!_ o ..Heyyy.. Cheer up! At least it's not genetic.
| /\____ | | ~#> And it still works.. some! You'll probably
||------||'| /P\ be able to jerk off again in no time!
|/ U sure?_ o ..Yes. I have full confidence in you. In fact,
| o,____ | | <#> I'm gonna take you to a party and we'll get
||\¨----||'| /P\ some CHICKS for TONIGHT!
|>| :TONIGHT: |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o ..Hmm.. brammie, i feel a bit sma..
|<| .DJ MAUS. | (|) | |<| /|\ umm.. nervous. Are you absolutely
|>|__´/ | \`__|__|__|_|>| /'\ sure we wanna enter?
|>| TONIGHT |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o O ..YeS!! I want..... I MUST see
|<| DJ MAUS | (|) | |<| /|\ /#\ her!!! ComeOnCOMEON..!!.!!
|>|___________|__|__|_|>| /'\ /P\ PLLLZZ.. Let's get in alredi!
|>| :TONIGHT: |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o ..FUKC maan... Stop jumping around.
|<| .DJ MAUS. | (|) | |<| <|> And shrink yer monster or I'll
|>|__´/ | \`__|__|__|_|>| /'\ ninza-kikc you in the bidule.
|>| TONIGHT |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o_ \ O / ..OH SWEET JESUS MRL! I get
|<| DJ MAUS | (|) | |<| /\ ### sooo horny just thinking of
|>|___________|__|__|_|>| |\ /O|O\ the sexxxxyyy DJ's arse!
|>| :TONIGHT: |¨¨|¨¨| |>| YIEEE o/ o ..UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
|<| .DJ MAUS. | (|) | |<| EEE! ~|__#\ UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
|>|__´/ | \`__|__|__|_|>| /`/| UUUUUUUU!!!!!
|>| TONIGHT |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o o ..Man, you still can kick.
|<| DJ MAUS | (|) | |<| <|> (/ Uuu...
|>|___________|__|__|_|>| /'\ /|
|>| :TONIGHT: |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o ..Sure thing brammie. And one hint
|<| .DJ MAUS. | (|) | |<| <|> to the girls about my penis and
|>|__´/ | \`__|__|__|_|>| /'\ ya wish U was born a woman.
|>| TONIGHT |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o o ..Deal. Now let's get in. I
|<| DJ MAUS | (|) | |<| <|> /#> need some ize.
|>|___________|__|__|_|>| /'\ /P\ *END OF EP.2*
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EPISODE III - THE DISCO
INTRODUCING: DJ. MAUS
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||| õ_ ___ |_\ \_õ \õ/ õ_ _õ/ /_| _o ..Oh bram, just look all
|---|-\-|===| _/\ | /| | ´'` |\ those girls high on e!
|___|___|___| / | /^\ /^\ /^\ /'\ Let's get frikn closer!
||| õ_ __ |_\ õ_/ õ \õ/ õ_ o o ..Sorry mrl, mi eyez are
|---|-/-|===|´'` /\_ /|\ / /| <|> ~#> focused on DJ MAUS!!!
|___|___|___| | \/^\ /\ /^\ /'\ /P\ She's da fox.
||| õ/ SKRK!! :HEY WHERE's: o o ..Hm, what's this?
|---|-\-|===| ´´''THE MUSIC?: /|\ /#\
|___|___|___| ´''''`````` /'\ /P\
||| õ_..Oh fucking o o ..U thinkun what me is?
|---|-/-|===| Technics.. /|\ /#\ SHE NEEDS US!
|___|___|___| /'\ /P\
||| õ_ o o ..Excuse me, but me and my friend, especially
|---|---|/==| /|\ /#\ me, we are pretty good with this stuff.
|___|___|___| /'\ /P\ Just lemme grab my tools and.....
||| õ_ o_ o ...fix that thing!! WHOHOHOHOAAA..!! OH MAM,
|---|---|/==|/\ /###\ my tools are ready, more than ready! BUMMER!
|___|___|___| /\ /O|O\ mrl, hold her, I need to go to the bathroom.
||| õ/..What's o ..I don't know, but me - I don't have
|---|---|/==| his /|\ that problem. Not no more.
|___|___|___| Problem? /'\
||| õ ..Oh? So hey, will YOU come to my place with me
|---|---|===|<|\ and help me fix this thing? (he's kinda cute)
|___|___|___|/^\ /'\
||| õ o ..
|---|---|===|<|> /|\
|___|___|___|/^\ /'\
||| õ o>..Hrm.. (Shit if bram finds out)
|---|---|===| <|> <| I really dunno..
|___|___|___| /^\ /'\
||| õ o/ ..OK!!! (I'm gonna die)
|---|---|===| <|\ /|
|___|___|___| /^\ /'\ *END OF EP.3*
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EPISODE IV - MRL SCORES?
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___ o ..mrl..? DJ Maus..?
|---|---|---| /#\ Oh shit.. Oooh SHIT!
|___|___|___| /P\
___ \ O 9 ..MRL's GONNA PAY!!!!!
|---|---|---| ###
|___|___|___| / P \
| _ How's it goin?..õ / ..Uh.. This is harder than I
|/_\ __ _____ <|> /__ *_o__ thought. I think it just needs
| | | ¨ | /^\ |==|. /|_\_ hmm... more vaseline?
| _ I thought you.. õ o .. Naaah.. I do MUSIC-DSP.
|/_\ were good with </\ __ ~|\
| | engines &stuff /^\|==| /'\
| _ Hmm.. tell me.. õ o ..OK! It's like, I'm the man
|/_\ more... /|\ __ /|\ behind the VST FX's you use.
| | /^\|==| /'\ ... and shit.
| _ Cool!.. õ o ..Yeah! I say it's UEBERCOOL!
|/_\ __ _____ <|\ __ /|\ (well it's really not that
| | | ¨ | /^\|==| /'\ cool at all)
| _ Say.. why don't we.. õ o ..What? You gonna throw me out
|/_\ leave the turntable <|\ ~/\ now? I'm sorry about all th..
| | and.. well... uhmm /^\ /\
| _ Sshh.. just get õ o ..(Oh man. I'm sold)
|/_\ over here, (|\//\
| | handsome.. /^\ |\ *END OF EP. 4*
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EPISODE V - BRAMS WRATH I
INTRODUCING: FSM
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| . . . .. ...{~~~ \õ/ Oh mrl! OH MRL!!! ~~~~~~~~~~}
| o_ _____ { | }
||\~¨ | {__ /\|\_o ..ah DJ Maus, DJ MAUS!!!__}
| \O/ DAMMIT!!! _ |
| _ #_____ | | |
||~~¨ | |'| |
| __ Ô .. Hmm.. 1 + 2 = ...? SHIT! _ |
| (|_| --) I'll never get these | | ...KNOCK!
| | |¨|//T filters done. |'| |
| __ Ô ..Yo, bram! o ..Yo, fsm!
| (|x| /(\ /#\ How's it hanging?
| | |¨| T /`\ /P\
| __ Ô ..Same old, o ..Ya bet! But I need you to
| (|_| /(\ same old! /#\ help me kick mrl's ass with
| | |¨| T /`\ /P\ yer physical (yea right) skilz
| __ Ô..Sure, what o ..Just put yer pants on and
| (|_| <(\ ya need? /#\ let's get going.
| | |¨| T /`\ /P\
| __ Ô ..OK, I'll just o ..Good. (Don't bother, u
| (|_| --) uhm.. save my <#> skinny bastard.)
| | |¨| T /´\ work. /P\ *END OF EP.5*
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EPISODE VI - BRAM'S WRATH II
<mrl> i came too early
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|(_) Ô _o ..OK fsm, there he is. Go get'im.
|´'` /o /) #\ (mrl don't look too happy considering
| /\ /\ /P\ he just scored last night.. hmm..)
|(_) o ..wtf!? u gay0rds had better stand back. I'm on a bad
|´'` /|~ mood. I've warned you. Now get lost.
| /'\
|(_) o Im scared.. __Ô o ..Naaah.. he's bluffing. Go ahead.
|´'` <|> bram.. let's (\ ~#> I'll watch your back.
| /'\ just split! /´\ /P\
|(_) o oh ok..Ô o
|´'` <\ yer da boss /) <#>
| /'\ Hohohohoo.. /\ /P\
|(_) YIEAAA.. o__ Uhhhh! \O/ ..mrl U sado-maniac!
|´'` -------- <\___ \|\Ô/ #
| ------- /´ (_) /P\
|(_) He asked o o9..OK now tell me what happened
|´'` for it! <|\ Awk! /# with DJ Maus you.... TRAITOR!
| /'\ /\_<o_ /P\
|(_) o__..NOTHING HAPPENED WITH DJ MAUS FUKCN HELL AND
|´'` <| YOU COME HERE WITH FSM AND TRY TO BEAT ME IM
| /'\ DOWN ALREADY!!!!!
|(_) o o ..?
|´'` /|\ /#\
| /'\ /\._o_ /P\
|(_) This.. o Uhh.. o ..Hm.. So nothing happened?
|´'`all sucks <|> __Ô_ /#\ Umm.. wanna have a beer then?
|monkey arse. /'\ _// \ /P\
My glasses.. Oh.. o o ..Hm.. sooo.. let's go alredi!
__ okay <\ /#\
_//|Ô\ /| /P\ *END OF EP. 6*
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EPISODE VII - AFTERMATCH
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|\o ..Uch, bram, I wanna puke!
|=|==
|___|\
Mee too, o/|
mrl, me ==|=|
too... /|___|
|\o ....I'm a bit worried about fsm.
|=|== Maybe I kicked him a bit too hard..
|___|\
Naah!! \o/|
He's all ==|=|
right. /|___|
| [05:22] Ô ..Uch.. It's the third time I have to
| _______ <(\ wake up to piss blood .....
| |~~==~==| /`\ *END OF EP.7*
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EPISODE VIII - MEN'S NITE
<preglow> i'm incredibly well hung
INTRODUCING: PREGLOW
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|>| :TONIGHT: |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o ..Ack.. bram, I think you forgot
|<| GAY NIGHT | (|) | |<| /|\ to check the schedule.
|>|__´/ | \`__|__|__|_|>| /'\
|>| TONIGHT |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o o ..Naah.. You'll want to see
|<| GAY NIGHT | (|) | |<| /|\ /#\ this. Think of it as a
|>|___________|__|__|_|>| /'\ /P\ freakshow or sumthin.
|>| :TONIGHT: |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o ..Oh ok but it be the last time
|<| GAY NIGHT | (|) | |<| /|\ if theyre gonna get horny on
|>|__´/ | \`__|__|__|_|>| /'\ me. You know I look cute.
|>| TONIGHT |¨¨| o| o o ..Ha. So you do.
|<| GAY NIGHT | (|o |)~|\ /#\ But let's get in now.
|>|___________|__| | /'\ /P\
||_\ \_O_/ ROARR!/_| o o ..Uh oh
|´'` #______/ ´'` /#> /|\
| / \ /P\ /'\
|>| :TONIGHT: |o o | |>| VOMIT! VOMIT!
|<| GAY NIGHT(| o |)|<| /Q~ /Q~
|>|__´/ | \`__| |_|>| /'\ /P\
|>| TONIGHT |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o..WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT
|<| GAY NIGHT | (|) | |<| (|\ THING?!?!?!
|>|___________|__|__|_|>| __ __ /'\
|>| :TONIGHT: |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o o .. I think they call
|<| GAY NIGHT | (|) | |<| /|> /#\ him preglow.
|>|__´/ | \`__|__|__|_|>| __ __ /'\ /P\
|>| TONIGHT |¨¨|¨¨| |>| __o/..NO I MEAN THE TAIL OR
|<| GAY NIGHT | (|) | |<| | SOMETHING!?
|>|___________|__|__|_|>| __ __ /'\
|>| :TONIGHT: |¨¨|¨¨| |>| o o .. Uh.. yea..
|<| GAY NIGHT | (|) | |<| /|> /#\
|>|__´/ | \`__|__|__|_|>| __ __ /'\ /P\
|>| TONIGHT |¨¨|¨¨| |>| VOMIT! VOMIT!
|<| GAY NIGHT | (|) | |<| /Q~ /Q~
|>|___________|__|__|_|>| __ __ /'\ /P\ *END OF EP.8*
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EPISODE IX - BRAM'S LITTLE HOBBY
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| _ _|[/ ]_{ .:´}| . . . ..{~~ \õ/ Oh Bram! OH BRAM!!! ~~~~~~~}
|[_] |[_/]_} /O\ {| { | }
|\~/_|_|_|_{ /P\ }| {_ /\|\_o ..ah DJ Maus, DJ MAUS!!!_}
| _ _|[/ ]_{ o:´}| ..DAMMIT! It don't work no more!
|[_] |[_/]_} <#> {|
|\~/_|_|_|_{ /P\ }|
| _ _|[/ ]_{ .:´}| . . . ..{~~ \o/ Oh bram! OH BRAM!!! ~~}
|[_] |[_/]_} /O\ {| { | }
|\~/_|_|_|_{ /P\ }| {_ /\|\_o ..Oh mrl, OH MRL!!!_}
| _ _|[/ ]_{ O /}| ..YEE--HHAAAA!!!
|[_] |[_/]_} <## {|
|\~/_|_|_|_{/O|O\}| *END OF EP. 9*
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EPISODE X - CAT LOVER
An attempt on decent comedy
INTRODUCING: FIRESLEDGE
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|(_) ..MEAOOW! O ..Come on Ginger. We must hurry.. Aunt's
| ( _A_ /T\ coming from Canada and I need to have
| (~(¨ |\ that hat washed and dried before that.
|(_) ..(/me O ..Ah, we are ||__[ZING ZONG]
| ) _A_ likes /T\ there ||/\/\|_o___|/\
| (~(¨ fs) /`\ already. ||\/\/| |\/
|/| Hi! I'd like you O Õ ..Yes yes! You want __ |/|
|/| to have Ginger's<T\ |==<=\=======| that cat done? | | |/|
|/| hat cleaned. /`\ | | |''| |/|
|/| (Huh?) Umm.. \_O> Õ ..No no - same price. You __ |/|
|/| OK if it won't T |=/=)========| eat and wait | | |/|
|/| cost extra! /`\ | | for hat. |''| |/|
|/| (HUH?!) Well .. O |:..:....::| MEAOW! Õ ..Yes yes!
|/| all right! (T\ |============| \ _A_ (|\ Ssssh cat!
|/| But hurry! /`\ | | (~(¨ /|
|/|[&]: |\O ..Damn weird Chinese! :[&]|/| :EXIT: |
|/|´'` |=|== ~|~~|~ ´'`|/| |¨¨¨¨| |
|/| |___|\ | | |/| |' '| |
|/|[&]: |\ O__ _ (&)__Ô ..Here your :[&]|/| :EXIT: |
|/|´'` |==== ~|~~|~ |\ dish sir. ´'`|/| |¨¨¨¨| |
|/| |___|\ | | / \ |/| |' '| |
|/|[&]: |\ O..YUM-YUM! Delicious! :[&]|/| :EXIT: |
|/|´'` |==== ~|~~|~ ´'`|/| |¨¨¨¨| |
|/| |___|\ | | |/| |' '| |
|/|[&]: |\O..Ahh.. The trimming and :[&]|/| :EXIT: |
|/|´'` |=<== ~|~~|~ cleaning should be ´'`|/| |¨¨¨¨| |
|/| |___|\ | | done any minute now! |/| |' '| |
|/|[&]: |\O _ _A_ __Ô_..Here hat. :[&]|/| :EXIT: |
|/|´'` |=|== ~|~~|~ |(&) ´'`|/| |¨¨¨¨| |
|/| |___|\ | | / \ |/| |' '| |
|/|[&]: |\O ..Yes? And cat? Ô__..Cat? :[&]|/| :EXIT: |
|/|´'` |=(== ~|~~|~ /\(&) ´'`|/| |¨¨¨¨| |
|/| |___|\ | | |\ |/| |' '| |
|/|[&]: |\ O ..Yes - Cat! __Ô_..Cat there! :[&]|/| :EXIT: |
|/|´'` |=<== ~|~~|~ |(&) ´'`|/| |¨¨¨¨| |
|/| |___|\ | | / \ |/| |' '| |
|/|[&]: |\ O ..Where.. Ô_ :[&]|/| :EXIT: |
|/|´'` |==/= ~|~~|~ <|(&) ´'`|/| |¨¨¨¨| |
|/| |___|\ | | / \ |/| |' '| |
|/|[&]: |\\O/ ..NOOOO!!! GINGEEERR!! Ô_ :[&]|/| :EXIT: |
|/|´'` |==== ~|~~|~ <|(&) ´'`|/| |¨¨¨¨| |
|/| |___|\ | | /| |/| |' '| |
| \~/ /& / -_ _----____-(xx) \ &\ /| | V |
| _|_ (& ( --- / (((( \ ¨¨ ' ) &) /\| | | *END OF |
| \& \ : . \ \ . / &/ /__| | | EP.10* |
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EPISODE XI - FIXED POINT L33TNESS
Guest script & sketch artist: mrl
INTRODUCING: ZEPHOD
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|(_) o ..Hi bram! o ..Hi Phixedpoint zePh0d!
| <&> <#>
| /·\ /P\
|(_) o ..Oh goodie! o ..Cum here and i'll tell
| <&\ \#\ j00 all about my *HOT*
| /·\ /P\ adventures with mrl..
|(_) crap.. o __o ..Ha ha! You and your
| /&> #> "fixed-point l33tness"!
| · / \ /P\ *END OF EP.11*
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EPISODE XII - PLASTIC SURGERY?
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__o__ Ô .. wow mrl's looking good today; he's such a great
<~$$$~> /)\ guy and soo smart too AND goodlooking.. *sigh*
. /o|o\ /´\ if only i was as l33t as him...
| ___ ..AAAH! Life is good!
||[_]| o/_____
||¨¨¨||~¨-----|
| ___ ..crap
||[_]| _ ____ <o\
||¨¨¨||~~¨----| /'\ *END OF EP. 12*
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EPISODE XIII - /JOIN #MUSICDSP
INTRODUCING: YEHAR
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\|..|/ Ô \|..|/ y0 fsm!!.. o
___| |______/(\_______________________| |______________/_____
| |..| | |/\| | | | | | | | |..| | | | | |\ |
\|..|/ Ô ..yo mrl. o \|..|/
___| |_______/(\______________/\______| |____________________
| |..| | | /| | | | | |/'\| | |..| | | | | | |
\|. .|/ Ô ..How's o \|. .|/
____| |___________________/(\__life?_/|\_________| |_______
| |. .| | | | | |/\ | | /\ | | |. .| | |
\|. .|/ Sux.. It was OK until yehar..o \|. .|/
____| |__came with his comic thou.___/|\_________| |_______
| |. .| Nuttin melts his izy heart? /\ | | |. .| | |
\|. .|/ Maybe only one.. Ô Yea..o \|. .|/
____| |__thing. Shall we?_/(\________/|\_________| |_______
| |. .| | | | | |/\ | | /\ | | |. .| | |
| |=| __ O ..Dammit, I'm gonna need replacement
| __ ______ |=| (|_| <8> characters.
||__¨______|| | | |¨|/T *END OF EP. 13*
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EPISODE XIV - BODYHEAT
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|[23:37] |=| __ O .."<yehar> dammit a nice party - i was
| __ ______ |=| (|_|--8 sweating in the bodyhead of females"
||__¨______|| | | |¨|/T Now that is true.
| |=| __ O .."<glow_> you mean like these lovely
| __ ______ |=| (|_|--8> ladies here?" What?
||__¨______|| | | |¨|/T
| |=| __ O .."* glow_ has visitors".
| __ ______ |=| (|_|--8> Ahaa! He's not alone?
||__¨______|| | | |¨|/T
| |=| __ O .."* glow_ has numerous female visitors"
| __ ______ |=| (|_|--8> hmm... maybe it was one of his female
||__¨______|| | | |¨|/T friends who was typing.
{ _ __ O õ *tihii!* lemme say hi to your friends on the net~}
{|#|(|_|--#--\> /| /|\ please...! preglow please!!! *tihi* }
{|#|| |¨|//T /^\ /^\ /^\ *thihii!* ____________________________}
| |=| __ O .."* glow_ _wishes_ he had numerous
| __ ______ |=| (|_|--8 female visitors" Damn my imagination!
||__¨______|| | | |¨|/T He's really all alone after all..
| |=| __ O>.."<glow_> i keep omiting things from
| __ ______ |=| (|_| /8 my sentences" hm.. yes, that true.
||__¨______|| | | |¨|/T Wonder why he typos so much today...
||\ Ô9 ____*suck*_O __O_/..YEE-HAA! Preglow, if u keep this up
||=<==#/__ (|_|--###_### we'll make a new Guinness record in
||____| \ \ | |¨|/ @/\oo\_ no fucking time!!!!! *END OF EP. 14*
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|/|\ r|<#> r |<|\ Ma |/)\ s|/T\ sled|/ #__/\ gl|<&> ph|/8\ ha|
|/'\ l|/P\ am|/^\ us |/`\ m|/`\ ge | / \ _/ ow|/·\ od|/´\ r |
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<mrl_> . <0+0\ <- NN
<mrl_> . //^\\
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