Jordland

Playing around with pixels

Jordan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:20:40 +0000

Demon’s Souls

Jordan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:55:37 +0000

Dark, atmospheric, deep, innovative, challenging, original, fun. Next to Uncharted 2 it has my highest recommendation for your PS3. Click the image above to check out the trailer.

Sketches on the way

Jordan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:20:25 +0000

As soon as I can convince someone to let me use their scanner I’ll be uploading a few recent sketches from my recent obsession with Brian Froud and Conan the Barbarian.

Spacebundt – 003

Jordan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:07:06 +0000

Spacebundt – 002

Jordan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:00:14 +0000

Rocketo

Jordan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:51:25 +0000

Rocketo is a wonderful ongoing graphic novel (with the first Act now finished). It has a beautiful, near-abstract brush style that is as painterly as it is reminiscent of animation. Which isn’t all that surprising seeing as how Frank Espinosa is an animator (he’s worked for Warner Bros as well as Disney). So far the first act of the story is split into two volumes. Check it out if you live and breathe high adventure.

Spacebundt – 001

Jordan — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:45:44 +0000

TED

Jordan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:48:21 +0000

There is little on the internet that deserves as much love and praise as TED.com. In their words:

“We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.”

TED.com is where all the presentations from their annual conference are posted free, for everyone.

Go there and watch a couple presentations about your favorite topics (science, technology, design, art, environmentalism, philosophy, religion, business, culture…). Be inspired and change the world for the better.

Childhood’s End

Jordan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:20:46 +0000

As much as I love sci-fi I can’t say I’ve read a lot of it. I just finished Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke last week and I really enjoyed it. It’s a well known book to any regular reader of sci-fi, but in case you aren’t familiar with it, I highly recommend you give it a look. It came out back in 1953 and brought some interesting new ideas with it. The book has inspired many and for good reason.

Here’s the premise: A bunch of aliens suddenly appear over all the major cities in the world (Yep: ID4) and they tell the people of earth that they will help lead them to a new era… world peace, improved health, scientific breakthroughs… all the good stuff. The catch is that they will not physically reveal themselves or explain who they are.

It’s an interesting idea that is ripe for a fancy plot twist. However, the book is not built along that one “twist” as it goes far, far, far beyond it. I won’t say more.

It’s not hard sci-fi, it’s a quick read (around 200 pages), and the prose is simple and fluid. Give it a shot even if you don’t like sci-fi… I think you’ll like it.

Superbole Sketch

Jordan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:13:14 +0000

My friend, Ben, and I will be doing a silly collaboration comic where we each draw 5 characters and have them… fight.. alternating every page. Here’s one of my characters so far. Still working on the rest.