Brian Dunaway

Bicycle Safety?

April 14, 2011 | Author Brian Dunaway

What the crap. I mean…what the crap. Also, yes…this pre-dates Planet Of The Apes.

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Surf It Image

March 23, 2011 | Author Brian Dunaway

This is my first project with my new Large Wacom Intous 4.

Here is the ink: (Click to enlarge)

Here is the “mostly” color flats: (Click to make bigger)

More to come when the project reaches it’s final.

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Old ELR Skits

January 19, 2011 | Author Brian Dunaway

I was going through some old files and found some ELR skits me and Scott did back in the day.

ELR movie trip with brian

ELR lord zontar sketch

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Pen Sketches While Waiting

November 10, 2010 | Author Brian Dunaway

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Wheelchair Accessible?

October 28, 2010 | Author Brian Dunaway

Wheelchair people. This way!

Good luck!

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About a week ago, a plea went out from one of our church members that our local food bank was running out of supplies. Although the community always donates around holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc., donations were currently down and the food bank was suffering due to the shortage. While we donated at church, I felt there was more we could be doing to help.

After speaking to my wife Suzanne about what our family could do, I came up with an idea. If we were the ones needing help and we didn’t have any extras such as milk, butter or any other perishable foods, what would we want to receive? What could we donate that would be a complete meal for a needy family, not just a can of this or a box of that?

Then I took it a step further. Could we take our weekly food budget, split it in half and purchase a week’s worth of groceries for our family and give duplicates to the food bank? Things we would actually eat ourselves, for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

At first, my family wasn’t exactly thrilled about the idea. But the more we discussed it, we all began to get excited and the ideas started flowing. The initial problem was trying to come up with complete non-perishable meals. No spaghetti since we couldn’t donate hamburger meat. No mashed potatoes since we couldn’t donate milk and butter.

Our creativity kicked in, and we found new ways to solve problems. Breakfast was easy – Pop tarts or oatmeal. Lunches weren’t so hard – tuna, rice, Chef Boyardee or ramen noodles. After school snacks for the boys – applesauce or pudding cups. We even purchased chips and cookies, along with olive oil and salt & pepper.

Dinners were a little harder. We came across some canned chili that looks as good as homemade. Pair that up with cornbread mix that only needs water added and you have your first meal. Fettuccine and alfredo sauce with canned white meat chicken and cheesy parmesan biscuits for our next meal. We decided on three complete boxed meals for our last meals of the week – chicken and potatoes, Asian stir fry and pizza pasta.

By this point, even the boys were ready to give. They used their allowance to purchase a big bag of gummy bears and candy bars – one for them and one for the food bank. I’m so proud of them. I think they are starting to get the hang of it. They are excitingly awaiting donation day.

By the way, we came in .98 cent under budget. So buy a stick of gum.

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Oldie

October 6, 2010 | Author Brian Dunaway

I was going through more sketches and came across this pseudo comic.

Click the image to make bigger

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Guy In The Bush – Raw

October 4, 2010 | Author Brian Dunaway

While drawing some stuff for the return of Guy In A Bush, I noticed I had left in my rough sketches in one of my comic Photoshop files.

This is the ugly truth in all it’s beauty:

Click For Full Size

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NoTube

October 2, 2010 | Author Brian Dunaway

On the podcast The Final Score I do a gameplay review segment called The Odd Mod. Each week I pick a weird modification of a game and I review it during the show. On show 25 of The Final Score I chose the mod QuickFlip for Quake 1. I recorded my gameplay and posted it on YouTube and linked to it for everyone to see. This has worked great in the past.

However, this time after I uploaded my gameplay I noticed that the audio was missing from my video and I received this email from YouTube shortly thereafter:

Dear thebriandunaway,

Your video, output, may have content that is owned or licensed by WMG.

No action is required on your part; however, if you are interested in learning how this affects your video, please visit the Content ID Matches section of your account for more information.

Sincerely,
- The YouTube Team

It is true that the Quake mod has embedded the song “Hit The Road Jack” performed by Ray Charles which you can obviously hear in my gameplay review.

The video is a little over 1 minute long and contains a mix of the song in question, Quake audio effects and KickFlip audio effects. So my question is this: Technically speaking this is a review of gameplay. The song is embedded in the game. Legally shouldn’t I be able to post such a review without getting permission from the creators?

Once again, I am asking legally. I’m not asking whether youtube has the right to refuse service to anyone.

Also, this seemed to be pretty automated. The audio was cut almost immediately. I wonder what kind of AI they are running over there to catch all this or if there is some guy there watching all the videos. Weirdo.

By the way, you can hear the audio if you go to my page on YouTube http://youtube.com/thebriandunaway but not on the direct link for the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZKJW1ccuf0

UPDATE: Thanks for the heads up from Aaron Spain in the comments about contesting the ruling on YouTube. I dug a little further and was able to fill out a form for contesting that the video was Fair Use and YouTube turned the audio back on. Now let’s see if it stays on.