So here we are: BOOHAVEN is online. I chose 29 Feb. for launch because a birthday every year is three birthdays every four years too many. Which I guess makes BOOHAVEN a leap year baby.

Okay, hey.

Shoot, the comic navigation is all borked. I thought I’d fixed that before launch…fortunately there’s not enough content for that to really matter yet.

So: workin’ on it.

In the process of fixing the navigation, I of course fucked everything else on the site up. Bear with.

Navigation is working properly, thanks to some fellow named karchesky. The nav images aren’t there yet, but hey, it works.

ComicPress is pretty nice, it’s just a shame that its built-in navigation is terrible.

Trent Reznor just showed everyone how way cooler than Radiohead he is by releasing Ghosts I-IV, a 4-CD set of new instrumental music under a Creative Commons license. The music is available in a bunch of DRM-FREE formats—including FLAC lossless. Earlier today, Ghosts I was posted—not leaked, posted—to The Pirate Bay. NIN would of course appreciate it if you buy the albums from the official site for $5, but seeing as the store is swamped at the moment, you can just get it from, you know, anywhere else on the Internet while you wait for the store traffic to ease up.

NIN’s been leaning this way—towards supporting free culture and a sensible copyright scheme—for a while now, but this is a sign of explicit support for CC and Free Culture. From the Ghosts FAQ: “An exciting partnership and experience regarding this release will be announced soon.” Whatever that means, I feel like Lessig is involved.

(Via Dracko on Whitechapel)

Ars reports that Internet Explorer 8 will now default to standards-compliance mode. Also, the world has stopped turning and God has retired.

(Via Nate)

I meant to mention this forever ago, but I forgot. Andy Helms, perennial inspiration that he is, drew wonderful pictures for each of the books in His Dark Materials, the excellent and sometimes kinda really creepy epic kids’ fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman. HEY PHIL THESE SHOULD BE THE COVERS.

So I found this because I always scrounge through the artdump folder on Andy’s website for inspiration, but then I just saw that actually he has a LiveJournal where he posted all this, so check it.

Hey so BOOHAVEN made it through a week of updates! And now it’s Friday. And it looks like I may go and see my German professor’s DJ boyfriend spin some crazy Brazilian/Angolan hip hop in a venue nestled in the remains of the Berlin Wall. So that’s great.

Have a good weekend! Tell people about BOOHAVEN if it’s not too awkward:

Don’t get too drunk, you alcoholics. More comics on Monday.

(Also, if you’re into diagrams, you should really check out Indexed by Jessica Hagy.)

(If you’re into graffiti, just skip the drivel in the next paragraph because you already know it and check the video below.)

Quality graffiti (or “street art”, ha ha) is not just about the quality of the art itself, but where it is and what it does to its environment. Like Banksy said: “People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.” The graffiti that effects people most often doesn’t come from people with great draftsmanship, but from clever bastards with ambition and a message.

(Via Wooster Collective)
(See also their Culture Jamming section)

Here are some quickie ink sketches from a couple nights ago:

Moudy, who was not in fact wearing a turban but a floppy hat and who is an excellent photographer.

Moudy and Eddie, who is not 98 years old but my roommate and a musician.