Fathers day 如何稱呼文藝青年的爸爸?

今天是台灣的父親節，只有台灣這種連新聞裡面都愛大玩諧音的地方，才會用日期的諧音來定國定節日。因為是諧音的節日所以我才畫很冷的諧音的笑話。

Ok，重點是父親節。應該是要感謝父親的照顧和支持之類的，但我昨天才說人的基因就已經設定好要照顧下一代，所以我們多年來被照顧應該也大自然的原理吧? 但是有這樣的言論會應該會造成公憤，所以還是感謝一下所有盡職的爸爸，然後也要感謝自己的爸爸到現在還在間接性的養我。

PS. 給看不懂我冷笑話的人: 文藝青年的爸爸是文藝父親 (諧音: 文藝復興)。圖是仿義大利文藝復興大師達文西關於人體比例的手稿。

What is cute? 什麼是可愛?

圓和黃色並不是可愛的重點。
其實一個東西可愛是因為有年輕的特質，通常年幼人或是動物的膚色都偏粉色系，形狀也較為圓潤，還有眼睛和頭的比例都比成年來的大。

那為什麼我們(尤其是女生)都那麼喜歡可愛的東西呢?
因為照顧小孩是我們基因的默認設定，要不然不久後人類就絕種了。
有科學家說小孩的大頭，大眼睛特徵就是為了要讓我們注意到他們，讓我們更想保護他。
為了要孕育下一代，我們對可愛的喜好深固在基因裡，尤其是照顧小孩的女性，對其他就算不是自己小孩的可愛事物也無法抵抗。

有沒有感覺知識又增長了一些呢?

Cuteness is basically features of youth. It's not limited to appearance such as googly eyes and lollipop heads, but behaviour as well. That's why we are attracted to childish or clumsy behaviour I guess.

Our DNA programs us to take care of our kids, therefore we are naturally attracted and want to protect children. Since we are attracted to those "cute" features, those preference persist even if the subject is not children. Especially for the gender that breeds, cute things are irresistible to them. 

Pacific Rim rules of engagement 環太平洋戰鬥法則

機器人與怪獸對打本來就不需要什麼邏輯。
看電影時一直聯想到某某戰隊系列的影集和魔動王或是魔神英雄傳之類的卡通。
而我們喜歡環太平洋一大部分是因為小時候看的影集和卡通。
雖然到現在都還一直有在拍新的戰隊系列的影集，只是沒有環太平洋如此炫麗的CG。
如果環太平洋可以像復仇者一樣推出相關的影集就好了，但影集預算應該花不起CG的製作費。

Translation for those who don't read Chinese.

Panel 1: If he has a giant at his disposal, why not just use it at the beginning?

Panel 2: Haven't you watched any giant robot fight? Their ultimate move can only be used at the last second (before a 30 second intro)

This is the reason why it dragged a cruise liner through the city just hit the monster with it. Also, using a cruise liner as sword is pretty awesome.

This comic still took longer then I expected...but when I try to finish the drawing quickly I find that I usually do a really bad job. Well, worse then what is it now. And I've done this strip in Chinese because I don't think there are that many English only readers and also I am lazy.

Game Game 遊戲遊戲 (Part 2)

星期三快樂! 今天放後半段的遊戲，應該有比上次難一點。
兩段遊戲積分最高玩家會得到冠軍。

The second half of my game game. I don't think I can come up with another one without being ridiculous, so that's it for now. Thanks for playing.

遊戲遊戲 Game Game (Part 1)

星期四快樂! 因為我對遊戲很熱衷，所以我常畫一些跟遊戲有關的東西。
一般講遊戲(Game)我是指電玩，但對不同人遊戲可能代表其他種類的遊戲。

我做了一個關於遊戲的遊戲，每個詞句都有Game的字在裡面。
第一個全部答對的有獎。

Games means video games to most people (mainly me), but it can mean different things to different people and used in different ways. I searched the word "game" in wiki dictionary and the origin is usually related to joy, fun, pleasure...etc. So I guess you can say a lot of thing are games.

This Game game I made will have the player guess the phrase that contains the word "game" using my wonderful illustration as clues.

First one to guess them all correctly will get a prize. Also...this is not suppose to be hard so I don't have any real prize.

We are not that different after all

人性就是如此。。。

You really can't help it when it's 75% off and you can just spent $5 more to get the whole collection of 10 games.

Fly me to the moon

　
Happy Tuesday! 為了響應六月才剛上映的Man of Steel，我畫了Man of Steel電影的結局畫面(誤)。其實畫這個是因為逛YouTube時逛到Diana Krall翻唱的Fly me to the moon. (爵士樂的頻率還真適合我耳朵)

這首歌差不多有五十多年了但我第一次聽到是因為這首歌是"新世紀福音戰士"的片尾曲。而且，雖然每集的片尾曲都是Fly me to the moon，但是幾乎每集都是不同歌手跟版本。

再回到Man of Steel，雖然現在Superman好像不是最受歡迎的超級英雄(現在可能都是Batman還是Iron man吧)。但Supeerman應該還是最有名的超級英雄吧，你阿公阿嬤可能不知道鋼鐵人是誰，但應該知道超人吧。而且Action Comic #1(超人第一次出現的漫畫)也是目前拍賣價錢最高的漫畫(兩百多萬美金)。

我之前的Blog也有畫過一次超人，雖然是用滑鼠畫簡單的線條，但還是目前我自己最喜歡的作品之一。

I drew this not because I watched Man of Steel, but because I heard Fly me to the moon by Diana Krall. The first time I ever heard this song was actually at the end of Evangelion, this anime...go figure.

As for the Man of Steel movie, for an origin story, wish it has more of his Earth mom and dad. But I still enjoyed it nevertheless. 

Check below for the one of many many Fly me to the moon performance. Ah, jazz has is was of bouncing in my ear hole...