Gweek 030: Supergods, Mutants, and Mystics

My cohost for this episode of Gweek is my old friend Barry McWilliams, a designer/art director who has turned me on to a great many wonderful books, comics, games, apps, drawing tools, and so on. In this episode, Barry has a ton of recommendations for cool stuff:

Supergods, by Grant Morrison

Mutants and Mystics, by Jeffrey J. Kripal

Dungeon Quest: Book 1, by Joe Daly

Grubhub.com

Ready Player One audiobook read by Wil Wheaton

Pixelovely Gesture Drawing Tool

Love Castle pose reference

Stu Maschwitz's post on storyboarding with an iPad & Penultimate

Wacom Bamboo Stylus

Stephen Silver's Posebook, iPhone & iPad

Zeo Sleep Monitor

Wacom Inkling

Pentel Pocket Brush Pen

Follow Barry on Twitter!

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Mutants and Mystics really is a handsomely designed book. I’d recommend it for that alone.
M Carlson

My team here at work has been using Dropbox for about a year now to share large graphic files we all need to work on (InDesign, Illustrator type stuff). We’re addicted and are trying to think of a way we can convince our department to pay for more space. The university we work for does offer AFS space, but it’s really not the same.
iRowebot

Hey Mark,
I heard you mention that you have never really learned how to draw digitally in photoshop or a similar program. I have a resource to recommend called ctrlpaint.com that has a bunch of very excellent video tutorials that cover a wide variety of digital drawing and painting topics. Its has the basics and more advanced techniques and the instructor Matt Kohr is very knowledgeable and never boring. It would be a great addition to the resource list.
- http://twitter.com/barrymcw barry mcwilliams
  
  I’ll second that recommendation. I’ve watched several free videos there & bought two of his downloads, both worth the $10.
  
  Matt also posts regularly on ConceptArt.org. His sketchbook thread there is really strong.
  
  Cheers
victee

Further to Jeffrey J. Kripal’s “Mutants & Mystics,” Wisconsin Public Radio’s/Public Radio International’s “To The Best of Our Knowledge,” has an interview with Jeffrey re. M&M here:
http://ttbook.org/book/jeffrey-j-kripal-mutants-and-mystics