Some time ago we made an exchange with friends. Some of our Canadian cookies and treats for some American ones. The results where lack luster. I proclaimed that all American candy sucks, put forth the idea of snack swap (a concept I dreamed up a year or so ago) and the challenge to prove me wrong.

Okay, so I wasn’t really looking to be proved wrong. I know every place has their own snack foods, good and bad. Lots of people came out and said that the ones we received where crap and that there are far better ones out there. I was more then willing to start up snack swap with anyone that would step forward with a list of treats to trade. Fucitol, from the DeviantArt community soon sent me a note with a list of snacks and asked if I was willing to swap for the items listed. I picked the ones I’d never heard of and sent him a list of my own. He made his choices, and so began the journey of snacks to new and exotic locals to be enjoyed (or not) by strangers linked only by a shared curiosity of what junk other people eat.

If your interested on hearing the gory details of the swap... then follow the link

Woo!!~

I just picked up my copy of Monster Hunter 3 Tri for the Wii. I picked up the classic controller bundle at Best Buy this evening. I did have it preordered at EB but for what ever reason, they didn't get enough copies. So I got my money back and bought it at BB for $5 less. Yay!

I haven't tried it out yet. I will after wife is done watching Glee. ^_^

A friend of mine has started a small game company called Seremeres and is making iPhone/Touch games. A while ago she gave me the opportunity to play one of her games. The game is called Spin Puzzle and that also pretty much explains what the game is. It’s not complex in execution but it will take a good amount of thinking to put the pictures back together. In addition to sliding and swapping the puzzle pieces around, you can rotate them to add an additional level to the game. Plus there was neat a “beat the clock” challenge and trophies too.

So what would be a puzzle game with out pretty pictures? Each puzzle picture is a super cute anime chick and hand drawn and painted for the game. It really helps push you to find the solution as you want to see the adorable art and see what’s next. ^_^

Spin Puzzle is fun game for sure. It’s nothing heavy and great to pick up and play when you have a few min or want a nice casual game for the evening. I recommend it for sure, so if you have an iPhone/Touch you should check it out.

Today is my Beagle's birthday!

YAY!!!

He's 8 years old! We where fostering his mommy at the time she was pregnant (we later adopted her) and so we where there for his actual birth, plus his 6 siblings. We even helped break the birth sac on some of the puppies. Beagle puppies are the cutest puppies. ^_^

Here's looking at you buddy!

^_^

Wow... I can't tell you how happy I am to see so many people voice their opinion on the great "American candy sucks debate". It was great to read all the responses and I honestly wanted to reply to all of them, but I figured this was the best way to reach everyone. Thank you everyone, you're all awesome! ^_^

Lots of people spoke up and stated that I should try M&M's, Reese's, Snickers and such because they're quite good. And they're right, they are very good, plus they're American made and internationally sold. So my original, sweeping statement isn't exactly true, and I quite enjoy a good Snickers Bar to be honest. But not all candy gets to make the trip to strange lands. There is so many snack treats that not only never make it to the border... never make it across the country.

Quite a few snack treats are regional and so people a few cities over might never know about them. Like how you can buy Strawberry Crush in Quebec, but not in Ontario. Which is really the whole point of the Snack Swap idea. To try fun foods from other places. Which is why sending me M&M's in the mail won't work, because I can already get all those here in Canada.

Now to all those who agreed with me that American candy sucks... I'm still on your side... US candy blows. But I am willing to change my opinion. I wanted to take people up on their offer to swap snacks, but I didn't really know who to pick. But then some one stepped up, sent me a note and offered me a list of American candy for me to choose from that would send. In exchange, I offered up a list of things they could pick from. Once the details are laid out, we'll ship them off and I'll jump back here and give my opinion of them (and probably post their thoughts of the Canadian candy I sent).

I think this is the best way do things at this point. I can't wait to be honest. Getting crap candy or totally awesome candy if fun ether way. I just love trying new things. Maybe once a month or so I'll put the call out for snack swaps and see who responds. Oh, and if people are wondering what my Canadian list of treats is... here it is...

Smarties - Chocolate candy like M&M's
Big Turk - chocolate bar
Aero - chocolate bar
Ketchup Chips
All Dressed Chips
Caramilk - chocolate bar
Kinder Egg - chocolate egg with toy inside
Bounty - chocolate bar
Crispy Crunch - chocolate bar
Eat-More - chocolate bar
Miss Vickie's brand chips
Hostess Hickory Sticks - chips
Crunchie - Chocolate Bar

Joe ^_^

I'm sorry.. but it has to be said. Consider it tough love from your Canadian neighbour. How do I know this? Well... my wife has friends in the States and on rare occasions we do a snack swap. We got a bunch of Canadian snacks together (ketchup chips, Caramilk bars, Eat-more bars, Kinder eggs, etc...) and sent them off and in exchange we got a...

Zero Bar
Cherry Mash
Whatchamacallit Bar
100 Grand Bar
Heath Bar
Baby Ruth Bar
Pay Day Bar
and something called a "Chick O Stick" o_O

Well, we sampled everything and came to the same conclusion. They all tasted extremely cheap. I'm talking like they we bought a bunch of these from the dollar store. The Zero and Cherry Mash tasted like the chocolate you get at easter. You know... like you can taste the wax in it. The Whatchamacallit was... um... interesting. The 100 Grand actually wasn't so bad and the Heath was quite similar to our Skor (but cheaper tasting). baby Ruth was like our Oh Henry! and Pay Day was... strange. No chocolate in that one... just nuts and caramel. It wasn't bad... just different.

Then there was the Chick o Stick. Good grief, what can one say about this thing. It's orange... it's... um... a stick... it's crumbles when you eat it and has toasted coconut rolled up in it. It looks sort of like a turd. Sort of... It tastes like peanut butter... sort of. And it's currently the last piece left from what was sent to us because no one wants to eat it.

The next day I went to work and asked one of my US co-workers "How and Americans get so fat off candy that tastes like crap?" He laughed and asked what I had received from our friends, then proceeded to say some of those where pretty good. o_O He then gave a pretty good reason for why things taste the way they do South of our boarder. He said, as sad as it is, a lot of American's don't care about food quality. What they do care about it getting a lot of it for as little as possible. "How much of that can I get for a nickle" is how he put it. He also said that most don't even realize that they're eating crap, it's so far to Canada or Mexico that they're just stuck with what ever the companies make them. He also agreed that a lot of what we have up here does taste better.

After I heard that I felt sorry for central US people. Not ever really knowing there is better confections then what they get at the local store. I seriously tempted to do a snack swap with others out there that are willing to do so. I'll send some tasty Canadian treats and you try and convince me that there are snacks out there that are of decent quality in the States.

Anyone up for the challenge?

I'm the type of gamer that loves his old games. I have pretty much all the games I've ever bought in my life. I'm not the kind of person that will sell back an old game in exchange for a newer one. Why? Well, I love to replay older game ever now and again and remember just how awesome it was way back when.

The latest game I've pulled out of the collection is Advance Wars for GameBoy Advance. It's been a looonnnggggg time since I've played this one, and even though I'm still currently playing Disgaea on DS, Advance Wars was just begging to be played.

I remember when that game never left my GBA SP. I've unlocked all the maps and such in the game but I did find out that there was somethings that I missed. Mostly just getting perfect scores on all the campaigns and such. As fan and great as the game is... I'm not about to try and get a perfect game. I will replay it though and try and beat some of my old scores. I'm also playing vs mode on the bus with a friend from work. Lots of fun! Makes me want to find some of the other versions and see if they're just as fun. ^_^

I love going back and reliving old games. What games do you have in your collection that you've revisited recently or now have a desire to do so?

Okay, just a quickie about commissions.

I know I have to still send some out, but the question is this. Who as PAID for one (or game traded) and has NOT had their commission done yet.

I think there is one more left... but I'm not sure.

So if you're waiting for me to draw your commission... let me know as I've just finished one and I'm looking for the next in line.

Thank you ^_^

So the other day I was on the bus going home when I looked down and noticed a tiny ziplock bag with some small white "rocks" in it laying buy the back door. o_O I though "Holy crap! That looks like it might be a bag of crack!" I wasn't sure what to do at this point as the bus was quite crowded, so I sat there and kept my eye on it to see if anyone picked it up. No one did. Eventually it came to my stop and it was still there. I decided to go and tell the bus driver as I'm sure they have procedures to handle this sort of thing. The lady bus driver looked none too impressed to have a bag of crack on her bus and actually roller her eyes and said "oh, that's wonderful..." As I walked away I noticed that she parked the bus and I saw her walk down the isle to investigate the small bag. Soon the bus started up again and that was the end of it.

I never did find out if it actually was a bag of crack. I've never seen one in real life, but I would have put money down on the gamble that it was. I don't see what else it cold have been. What I do know is that day there was one pissed of crackhead somewhere in the city.

If you take public transportation, what's the strangest thing you've ever found during a trip?

Mine, so far... has sucked big donkey balls.

Everything was fine until I came in to work. Then I discovered the hot water dispenser was broken. So no hot chocolate for Joe... WAIT!!! I'll just warm some hot water in the microwave. Easy, peasey right? Wrong. I selected the "mug" option on the microwave but that must actually mean to nuke your hot chocolate in to oblivion as I discovered an ocean of what was my hot chocolate in the bottom of the blasted machine. Frig...

So I clean that up, but back at my desk I just ever so lightly nicked an anime figure on my deck (the one I got when I was in LA for E3). I picked it back up but due to my apparent amount of "man" strength I broke off a little piece of her base so now... she can't stand.

Then I knocked my waffles on the floor.

If I'm lucky I'll still have a job at the end of the day.

How's yours been?

Yay! Blog is working fine again!

I wanted to say thank you very much for everyone's help. It was an extremely easy fix, but I would NEVER have figured it out for myself with out help. So thank you everyone, I really appreciate it.

Now I can make a post about other articles I've made that you might have missed.

No More Heroes 2 loli secret - see some boarderline loli material in the Wii's new assassin game.
Hot Console on Console Wars - What would happen if the Wii, PS3 and 360 where hot buff guys?
Dead or Alive Paradice - PSP's new bikini "game"
Hot coffee in Final Fantasy XIII - Has someone found a nude model in the latest FF?
Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone - I talk about one of my favorite anime series.

So two things as of late have happened.

One, I've had this song stuck in my head for three days now. That's okay though, because I really like the song and the band. Great Big Sea (a folk rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador) is awesome, but probably not well known outside of Canada.

So yeah... three days...

The other things. My blog site seems to be borked. Not in a bad way... in just an annoying way. See, a few days ago I noticed that I got redirected to a site called chinaontv.com for no reason. I soon discovered that I was only getting redirected when I was at my blog. I thought my laptop had picked up a virus so I did a scan and came up with nothing came up. I went to our desktop and discovered the same thing was happening. I also got a few messages from people saying that they where also getting redirected to that site.

I started to do some research in to this and I can't seem to come up with a possible solution. Some say it's a script that's sitting on my hard drive somewhere that's doing this... if so where did I get it and is my site giving it out. Other sites say that it's malware and I just need to do a crap load of scans to hunt it down and get rid of it.

I just don't know... I'd really love to know how this happened. I don't link to evil/questionable sites.

I do have a back up of my blog from before this started to happen. I would lose some posts though (3 or 4 I think). I'm afraid though that it won't solve the problem... then what the heck do I do? o_O

Has anyone else had this sort of problem? How did you solve it?

If anyone can help me out with this problem, I'll do up a request pic for them of what ever they want.

I saw that a friend of mine had made a post like this... then I saw it again on another post so I thought... why not.

PRO:
1)I like when you draw _______________________.
2)I wish you drew more _______________________.
3)I wish you drew more fanart of these series/characters: ______
4)I wish you did more original art of these characters: ______
5)I love how you draw ________________________.
6)If you were to do a comic of/about ___________________ I would be soooo happy!:
7)If I could get you to draw anything I'd get you to draw ___________________.
8)My favorite part of your work is __________________________.

CON:
9)I hate when you draw _________________.
10)I wish you drew less ___________________.
11)Stop drawing ________________!

+ any more cons?

OTHER:
13)When I think of your art I think ______________________.
14)If I had to describe your work I'd say ______________________.

Thank you ^_^

This is a disgusting post...

Just this past weekend my family came down with a stomach bug. It was pretty bad to say the least. On Thursday my daughter comes home from school and tells us there where lot of kids getting sick at school... she wasn't kidding. A friend of ours told us on the phone that evening that when she went to pick her daughter up for lunch that day she felt like she had walked in to a movie. There where pools of vomit all over the hallways and in the water fountain, plus kids running to the bathrooms with hands over their mouths. On Friday, in my daughters class of 20 kids... there was 6. Even the teacher was down and out with the bug, and that's just one class. We heard that it was the same all over the school.

So needless to say that Thursday evening my daughter came down with it too. That evening she threw up about 22 times in 12 hours or so. I was next and only tossed twice (WoO!). My son was next, then my wife, whom got hit the hardest... I'll spare the details. It was crazy... I'm not sick now but I still feel low on energy. My wife is just starting to come out of it but not really able to watch the kids (who are both fine now), so I stayed home today.

Amazing that this all happened on a weekend. We know other families that are getting hit with it now which means more time off from work and school for those families.

What I am bummed about is that I threw up. It sounds strange, but the last time I tossed was 10 years ago. I hoping to keep that up. Oh well, I guess I have a new personal best time on throwing up that I have to beat now. ^_^

When was the last time you got so ill you tossed?

Man... this week has me so beat. Our youngest has come down with a cough that keeps him up at night. And if you have kids, you'll know that if one is sick and up in the night, then you're up too. We don't have much time in the evening to our selves and this just cuts it down even more. I've stayed up to about 1 or 2 am a few times the past few weeks just getting art going or just having some "me time" as we call it.

So this is the first time I'm trying this approach to posting. It's like a weekly update of what I've posted about on the blog. This way I'm able to make posts with all the picture goodness I like and still keep in touch with you peoples.

We'll see how it goes.

Posts this week

The Holidays - what I did over Christmas break
A very knotty figure - not just a mans best friend
The next generation of artist dummies - Stand aside wooden dummy...

On Feb 9th (one month from now) I will turn 33 years old.

Another year survived!

Everybody... START YOUR PRESENTS!!!!

^_^

So now that 2009 is over it's time to start looking forward. Lately I've been wondering where I want my site/blog to go. I currently look to my favorite two people on the internet for inspiration. Danny Choo and Miu.

I look at Danny and his site https://www.dannychoo.com and see that he's really built up a community with his site(s) with being a source to go to for Japan (since he lives there), figures, anime and cool stuff like that. He's become a trusted name in on the internet in those departments. It's fun to go to his site and he has new content up weekly with lots of great pictures.

With Miu, I love that he's built up a huge fan base for his art at https://www.clubstripes.com. His Peaches and Cream work (along with his style) are instantly recognized and he too is a trusted source of quality art, naughty or otherwise, on the net. Saddly, I do not have a Club Stripes membership and I just follow his work at FA and DA.

So what brings people to those sites or to follow and trust those individuals. They deliver content that can primarily only be seen at their respected sites/blogs. Something that I don't do. When I make a post or drawing, I cross post it over at DA and FA. So really... there is no need to travel here, which makes me kind of sad. They also know how to get their names out there. Danny has gone to conventions, danced around Tokyo in a Storm Trooper suit and is now a spokes person for Good Smile figures. Miu has been in several art books from Udon and does post the odd art on DA and FA to get peoples attention. Sometimes though it's just in line drawing form and to see the coloured work, you'll need to go to Club Stripes to see it.

Also, both own their own business/site and make money from them to pay the bills, whether it be with ads or memberships (in connection with being a trusted name).

Now as of right now I pull in, on average, about 400 to 500 views a day. If I want to bring more in I too will have to begin to have content that can only be seen on the blog. I've already started that with the last post. Putting the majority of the art here rather then all over would be a great plus too. But I don't want to leave my FA and DA communities. I love the people there and reading the comments makes me feel happy. I look at it like, DA and FA are places where people like to gather and my blog is my home. I just need to try and get people to come to my home more (if I could have a way for people to leave comments on my art at the blog, that would be awesome!).

Delivering content on time is a problem for me. I'm sure that as anyone knows, my commission time track record is far from polished. I also assure those that still have outstanding commissions from me that I have not given up on them and I will complete them. If you are waiting on a picture from me, please drop me a line and remind me. I'm the worst at replying, but I do read the messages. I will not walk away with your money I promise... so yeah... after all the commissions are done, I'll have to think long and hard if I want to do more. Because if I have commissions, I find it really hard to work on my own stuff as I feel really guilty for doing so.

As for the content of the site that is not art related. I see that I generally post about.

Video games
Adult video games

My daily life
Things I like
Questions for the community

Japan

I generally post about what I like, but are there topics that people really lean towards more then others "I like it when Joe posts about INSERT TOPIC". Or is there topics that people would like me to cover more? Maybe people just want me to draw more and that's it.

Speaking of drawing more... do people still buy art? I have to be honest that I do love doing what I do for free and I most certainly don't expect people to shell out money for my stuff. If I axe commissions though, would people like to see comics, or maybe some short picture series packs. I do know that I'd love to put together a Random Squirrel art book. That would be rad! Maybe I'll do just digital commissions rather then pencil and paper ones. I can shoot them off far quicker and I can just pass along the PSD file to the person. The cost of the art would even come down.

I have started to put up links to products that I can recommend or gifts I've received if anyone is interested in them as well. I know that I would love to be in Danny's shoes and just have people give me stuff to review on the site (figures, smutty things, etc...), but I think that's a long time to come still. If I had more traffic, I wouldn't be opposed to putting up ads up. I would of course approve the banners and wouldn't just put up crap ones. They would be ones of other sites that I trust and want to share.

At the end of the day I know these things. I want to bring more traffic to my blog, I want to build a community of sorts there and wouldn't mind making some money too if at all possible. I do know that I'm going to have to have more blog specific content and I think that's what it really comes down to. The major issue is time. I do work a full time job and have a family and I won't jeopardize ether of them for the site, nor do I want to separate myself from the communities I've become apart of. Weekly updates about what's going on at my blog might help solve that issue along with random posts and pictures as well.

~sigh

If I had to ask the peoples... what sort of content would you like to see more of?

Last night I was making Christmas cookies and I took my wedding ring off so it wouldn't get all covered in dough. I forgot to put it back on when I was done so for the day... I'm single.

That's right ladies... until I get my ring back on I'm open for business. Oh yeah ^_^

That's how this ring thing works right? o_O

I had my first Red Bull the other day. You might think "big deal", but to me it is a big deal, because you see... I'm afraid of energy drinks.

Seriously.

I hear about how people will drink them and get HUGE boosts of energy, and they kind of scared. Some of the stories are as such... some people tell me they get jittery when they drink them and can sit still. One friend said she drank one when she was moving and "couldn't move fast enough" as she put it. One friend told me he was doing a driving trip with a bunch of people and it was his turn at the wheel so he drink a Double Jolt and had a coffee to keep him up. His turn ended early though as he ended up shaking and crying because of all the caffeine in his system. o_O

And people drink these on purpose?

~sigh... so there I was the other day at work with about 6 Red Bull under my desk and feeling extremely tired because my kids don't like to sleep. I got the Red Bull for free at a recent game developer conference... and I love free stuff so I filled my bag with them. So yeah... me and the Red Bull... I decided to face my fear and drink one and see if it would keep me from falling face first on to my keyboard.

I cracked it open and... oh god!

It tasted awful! People actually drink this stuff?! And the crazy thing is, it didn't even give me an energy boost. Nothing. I literally felt no extra energy, in fact, I almost fell asleep on the ride home. But I shouldn't have been surprised. I can drink a Coke or Pepsi or any other caffeine drink and go to sleep and not feel anything. My wife on the other hand would be up for hours.

So yeah... energy drinks taste awful, have no effect on me and I'll most likely never drink one again. As for the the other 5 under my desk... I gave them all away.

Tis the season I suppose. ^_^

Do you drink energy drinks?

Since we're on the topic of pervy DS games it's only fair that I bring this to everyone's attention. Doki Doki Majo Shinpan 2 Duo is currently being fan subbed. If you don't know about this title, it's a ecchi Japanese only game where you follow the story and try to figure out who in your school is a witch by touching them. Oh, and you get to touch their boobies too (over the clothes that is).

Yay!!! I'm sure this makes me look strange, but I've very excited about this and I hope the project is seen though to completion. I have a friend that does anime fan subbing and from what she's said, it can be hard work. Sssooo.... if you can speak Japanese and have an urge to help share in pervy witch touching on the DS, then sign up and make it happen ^_^

Finally, I'll be able to follow the story instead of just clicking though the text until I get to poke some witch boobs.

My blog has some game play vids and for your viewing pleasure.

Where do games go when they die? No... I'm not talking about that NES copy of Wrecking Crew you've forgotten about, stashed away in the back of your closet. No, I'm talking about what happens to a game that gets canceled.

What got me thinking about this is a post I read on a Japanese dating sim for the DS. It was called Hachi Koi and was being developed by EA Japan. It featured seven characters to choose from (including a really cute, full figured character), and would allowed you to touch the girls in such ways like rubbing sun tan lotion on their back, tend to scrapes then might get and possibly a sort of sequence where you might cut one of the girls free from bondage. This in addition to asking and answering the right questions to try and win some of their affection.

Anyway, when I hear things like this I usually wonder... What caused this title to get the axe? How far along was it? What's going to happen to the art that was done for the game? Maybe a ROM of the latest build will make it's way on to the internet. ^_^

Maybe EA didn't want to compete with Doki Doki Majo Plus (and it's prequels) or Love Plus from Konami. Those are pretty heavy hitters in the love/date sim category as far as the DS is concerned. I mean... some guy married the virtual girl from Love Plus o_O. Maybe the game just wasn't fun and rather then sink more money in to it, it's better to just cut it loose.

It really does suck when this happens. Not that this would have made it out over in North America but I know I was looking forward to it. I wouldn't be able to understand it, but the game does look really cute, and I'm a sucker for cute 2D girls (and naughty games ^_^). So yeah, with the game now canceled you might want to run to the site and snag up all the art from there (I know I will). I think what sucks most is the time that the programmers and artists have put in to the game. It's all gone and, in most times, the work can't be used in portfolios and such because the company still owns the art and code. Bummer. >_<

I have a Hachi Koi gallery up on my blog currently. Seems like they where really playing up the Kurumi character (full figured girl). Not many games have plus sized ladies as objects of desire so I highly approve of this. The only thing I couldn’t find was an online flash game featuring Kurumi. It was a tetris clone and when you cleared four lines… well, the noises she made where… um… very suggestive. ^_^ but it looks like they took it down. Boo!

Now I should see if there is a leaked rom of it any where. Anyone on the dev team willing to share? ^_^

So it's getting close to Christmas... which means I'll be doing up my annual candy cane pic. But the thing is, I'm running out of ideas for characters to use. So now is your time to make a suggestion! It could be parody or original... it doesn't really matter.

Oh, and since I'm on it. Last years Roxanne facial pic was so great... I'll think I'll do a new facial pic to bring in 2010. Feel free to make suggestions for this character too.

I usually get stuck on Fifi, Sawyer, Roxanne, Gadget... you know... my regulars. So now's your chance to suggest a face for the new year!

make it a good one and I just might pick it. ^_^

Last night I dreamed that I died.

I was in a plane flying somewhere. I can't remember where. It was a smaller plane like this one and I was sitting in the back. During the flight I fell asleep (it was a night time flight) in an attempt to calm myself since I'm a little bit of a nervous flyer. I was awoken by a huge jolt after which the plane started to fall from the sky. Panic and screaming filled the cabin as I felt my heart pound harder then I've ever felt. I had a window seat and I so I looked out the window as we ripped though the clouds and I saw a black sea under us. No lights, no land, just water.

I felt the impact of the plane against the sea and watched in terror as people where thrown about and water rushed in. I knew I had to get to the emergency door a few seats behind me. I unbuckled my seat belt and started to climb up to the door as the plane sank deeper and filled with more water.

The next things I saw was sort of like a news cast/documentary on how the plane fell from the sky and rescue teams where looking for survivors.

Then I woke up.

I had a hard time getting back to sleep after that.

I usually wonder what dreams mean. Did I see a bit of my future? Maybe a past life? Maybe it's just something my mind made up based on shows that I've watched. I'll probably never know, I just hope that tonight I dream of something less scary.

Something with boobies...

This commercial is awesome...

I love how NAMCO isn't dancing around this feature. They've put it out there for everyone to see. Hats off to you good sirs.

Now then... after watching the commercial I got thinking. What does this say about men in general? Does it make us look stupid? Or is it accusing men of being single minded and objectifying women? Maybe. But I feel that it shows that we are sexual creatures. Our bodies are built to attract the opposite sex with emphasis placed on specific parts. We like to look as sexy things. Men and women alike.

I love the old guy in the robe. ^_^

I found this (these) sites a few months ago and figured I'd share them. It's call Posemaniacs (site), (blog) and is basically a collection of human poses with no skin... as in you can see the muscle structure. It's really cool becauce once you find the pose you like it pops up in a window and you and turn the pose to the angle you want (left and right turning only).

You can download an app for your iPhone/iTouch and have poses on the go and even set up 30 second random poses so you can practice your quick studies. Very handy.

So yeah... Posemaniacs... check em out. ^_^