Now that Sea of Leaves is up and running, manabanana.org will no longer be updated. The domain will be left to expire by the end of the year, and it shall cease to exist. Good bye, dear friend. You will be remembered...as the site I used to learn how to make sloppy websites.

Once again, my new home is seaofleaves.net. Go there. It's better.

I finally got around to posting a shirt design that's been put off forever. I figured it has a better chance of being printed on Threadless than it does sitting on my hard drive.
Shirt:

Linkos to the voting:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/239294/Porkadots

Mad love to those who vote.

Tried out a little tessellation tonight. It worked out, I suppose.

"The Prince and the Kraken" is finally finished!




It's available for download @:
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720p(high def)

or streaming:
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Thanks for watching!

You know how Wikipedia is, you start with an innocent search for "kraken", this leads to that and sooner or later you're neck-deep in 16th century cartography. I found two awesome maps that illustrate why, amongst other things, you should never attempt to sail to Iceland.

The first is the Carta Marina, which (poorly) maps Scandinavia. I really think the geographical features were merely incidental, and the main purpose of this map is to warn of the certain doom that awaits between your present location and anywhere else on the planet.

Available big and huge

Secondly we have Abraham Ortelius's map of Iceland. This seems to be how tariffs were enforced in the 1500's. I assume that taxes were just too difficult to collect from vikings, so in order to prevent the import of cheaper, foreign goods the monarchs commissioned and propagated maps like these to convince traders that coming to Iceland will get you ripped apart and devoured.

Bigness here.