Online Shopping now better than ever! - Jun 16, 2008
Do you like shopping on-line? Do you spend countless hours on ebay and amazon? And doesn't it always seem like you can't find that special item you're looking for? That's how it was for me until I found this website: whalesdirect.com. It will change your life forever.
How much would you spend for this beautiful fleece jacket, covered with adorable kittens? Eighty dollars? Certainly I would be prepared to spend as much, but right now at Whales&Friends it's on sale for half of that!
You see, at Whales&Friends, you can pick an animal from a column on the left of the page, and, magically, everything you could ever want to do with that animal will be displayed for purchasing.
For the horse person, it doesn't get any better than this shirt:
Never again be confused at which is the front and which is the back of your shirt. How clever.
But Whales&Friends doesn't just sell clothing. Oh my, no. They also sell jewelry! Check out this magnificent horse ring, only $220.00.
Personally, I'm not into horses much. Wolves on the other hand... Well, here's a collage I made of Wolf items that will be on my Christmas wish list this year:
And lastly, I have compiled some images of my other favorite items from this fabulous website. And hey, guys, in case you couldn't tell, I'm being sarcastic about all this. This stuff sucks.
Later, -Scott
CASAsuperNOVA contest winners! - May 5, 2008
The moment you've all been waiting for!
This is it, ladies and gentlemen! I am about to announce the winners of the CasaSuperNova Pointlessly Rad T-shirt Contest! That's right, I said winnerSSSS, as in more than one winner. So exciting.
Before I get to the winners, I'd like to give some credit to the rad people who's ideas didn't make it onto a shirt. I underestimated you people, it seems. I really didn't expect to have so many killer suggestions. For example:
Adam Herrington: "I think a sexy lady centaur reared up on her hind legs wailing on a bad ass looking electric guitar over the corpse of her defeated foe, a jet fighter."
Mike Gray: "Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix fighting with switchblades and chains."
Truly there are more righteous dudes out there than I thought!
As I mentioned previously, the winning ideas must be BAD above all things. We had many hilarious suggestions, but in this contest SICK, WICKED and NASTY beat out SILLY, STUPID, and RIDICULOUS. One contestant in particular tried to make his suggestion more bad by using profanities. And he almost succeeded. But not quite. Take a minute to enjoy Brian Haney's idea of what a wicked shirt looks like:
"A kitten made out of butterflies. - Kind of like how in cartoons if there's a swarm of bees, maybe they all get together and form the shape of a hammer or something and smash the sh*t out of someone. Same concept, except with butterflies. They get together and form a kitten. Brutal. Or a few baby ducks eating breadcrumbs out of a little kid's hand. F**K YEAH."
Thanks Brian. We're giving you a signed book anyway because you rule.
Now for the runners up in the contest. Out of all the submissions, these are the ones that, in addition to their awesomeness, inspired a clear picture in our brains that would make a sweet shirt design. I wish we had the resources to print up all of these. We will be getting in contact with all of the following people this week so that we can ship to you all a runner up prize: a signed and illustrated copy of the new White Ninja book.
Ryan Landis: "My idea involves the two most popular things in the world right now: detectives and alligators! This shirt would combine the two in the world's first alligator detective! All he would need would be the sherlock hat that all detectives have and a magnifying glass. He could be detecting something with his glass, perhaps a bed, couch, or cabinet. Even a table. So I guess this sly detective alligator could be centered, maybe shown inside of a hallway or living room, or a dark alley, and he would be detecting."
Liam McConkey: "The coolest shirt design I can possibly think of would have to involve a narwhal. Right now I'm picturin' a viking standing at the railing of his ship, battling the narwhal back into the cold Arctic sea. Can he win? Can a man truly stand against the rage of a narwhal. The image would leave everyone breathless, hopeful for mankind but filled with respect for the power and fury of the whale."
Naomi (no last name): "For months I've been thinking about how the ultimate crime fighting hero could well be a cowboy who rather than riding a horse, rides a unicorn. This I feel would make a darned tootin' t-shirt....The cowboy needs chaps..." Imagine the Marlboro Man in all his Manly glory rounding up a heard of steers with his delicate, pure white unicorn, sparkles and stars trailing behind the its hooves. Such Contrast!
All right. It's WINNER time! We have two winners, because we couldn't decide on one.
Our first winner is Neal Zaluski for his shirt "Cephalopod Attack!!!" We had a number of requests for shirts with either Narwhals or Octopuses or Squids. Hopefully this shirt quenches everyone's thirst for underwater carnage. It is a "giant octopus devouring a deep sea diver dressed in one of those old-timey suits. Don't forget the cloud of ink and blood." How could we, Neal? How could we? Here is the shirt:
WINNER number two is Adam Vallieres. Adam's shirt idea "War Bear!" has been haunting my thoughts since the contest began. It was the very first suggestion sent to us, and it was a mind-blowing enough to keep its power and mystique right through to the end. Very impressive. Adam's vision was very detailed, involving, well... here's some of what he wrote:
"The basic premis is a WAR BEAR!- The Bear is standing in his hind legs,- He is roaring the way a grizzly would in a documentary- He has a bionic eye,(like really outstanding metal square with the glowing red screen)- In one hand, he has a giant axe with visible electric current going through the blade, and a shrunken human head tied by the hair at the bottom of the handle..." And it goes on and on like this.
Well, as you can see, the axe has turned to a sword, and the square bionic eye is circular. We couldn't get in all the details, but I think we made up for it by PUTTING WAR BEAR IN A TANK! Hope you like it Adam.
Now, if you are able to swallow your pride enough to admit that maybe these two winning shirts could possibly maybe be mistakenly seen as equal or better than your own suggestion, and would like to get one to support awesomeness in general, pay attention: These shirts will be on pre-order beginning WEDNESDAY MAY 7th for a period of 2 or 3 weeks. If you order one or both of these shirts during this time, you will SAVE 5 DOLLARS on each shirt. That is quite an incentive. We will likely be stocking the designs later, but that all depends on initial interest. Like I said before, we don't have the resources to print up infinite amounts of awesome shirts.
Congratulations winners, and thanks to everyone who submitted an idea. The world is on its way to becoming as gnarly as you folks.
-Scott
So much stuff! - April 30, 2008
So much stuff to tell you guys.
I'm going to use this space to talk about the very exciting t-shirt design contest which has been going on for the past month, as well as a new contest, smaller, but still awesome.
But first, there's something crappier I'd like to discuss. Apparently, for a span of about 3 days or so, whiteninjacomics.com was being hijacked by our own ads. That is, the ads were rerouting the viewer to a new page which made it impossible to enjoy hilarious comics. This was completely unintentional and out of our control. To make things worse, our email mysteriously went down about the same time, so we didn't receive any of the emails warning us until about 4 days after the problem had been fixed. I know most of you probably didn't have a problem with this because you would have had different ads running in your part of the globe, but for those who could not reach the website, that sucks, and we're sorry about it. Had our email been running properly, it would have been fixed within hours.
Anyway, since our email has been functioning properly again, I've been spending my hours sifting through the countless suggestions for the CasaSuperNova t-shirt contest. Currently I've narrowed it down to about 10 shirt ideas. They are all so undisputedly cool, the selecting a winner is going to be very difficult. At this point in the judging, other factors are going to come in to play, such as, well, these:
1) Do-ablility. I already know the idea is killer, but is it so complex that it would take a million years of designing to do it justice?
2) Framing and Flow. Some things, gnarly as they may be, are difficult to arrange on a shirt with any sort of unity or rhythm. This may not seem important, but it is. To me.
3) Bad-assness over hilariousness. Some of the finalists actually made me laugh out loud. In the end, though, we will probably select something badass over something silly. Afterall, there's already a million t-shirt sites on the internet that specialize in silly.
SOOOO....We should have a winner (or more) selected very soon, but we'll probably hold off announcing it until the first week in May so I can have some time to finalize some sketches I've already started. When we announce a winner, we'll also post some of the awesome ideas that didn't quite make it. I hope you can all appreciate the radness of each other's ideas. I don't think any other event in the history of the world has brought together so many righteous dudes and girl-dudes.
In the mean time, we have another 'contest' for you.
There's a week and a bit remaining in our NEW BOOK display at Barnes & Noble. Naturally we want people to take advantage of this, so the contest is designed to get people passing through the stores to look at White Ninja. Here's how it works:
Go to Barnes & Noble. Take a picture of yourself doing something awesome in front of the display. Maybe something funny. Maybe just go there and start handing the books out to people in the store. Make a sign "I'd rather read White Ninja than wear fur" and stand naked outside the store. Basically, anything you can do to attract (positive) attention to the comic.
Send us the picture. The winner will get a free t-shirt of their choosing, and 15 minutes of fame as the picture will be posted in our newsletter and in the news section of the site.
I know, it's more of a favor to us than a contest, but if you're the type of person who enjoys being an idiot, well, this contest may be for you.
P.S. The Barnes & Noble display is only in the U.S., but if you know of a store near you that sells the book, feel free to participate at that location.
FINALLY, one last bit of news.
The BadNewsRadio site has been updated for the first time in about 4 months. We've been very busy with the new White Ninja book, among other things, and BNR has kind of taken a back seat to all of that. I'm hesitant to say that it's back, but there is a new page of the story for you to read. I've also written three more pages which I'll post as soon as the illustrations are done. Likely this will be the way of the site until the story is finished - posting multiple pages every random once in a while. And when it's done, for the few of you who REALLY REALLY liked the story, we'll see if we can get some books printed up.
Recap:
1) Awesome shirt suggestions. We're narrowing it down and will have a winner soon.
2) New contest. Find a Barnes & Noble before May 10th and dupe people into checking out the new White Ninja book with crazy antics.
3) Bad News Radio is updated. You may have to start at the beginning again, cuz it's been a while.
Peace, Love and Unity
-Scott
T-shirt Contest - April 13, 2008
Last night we sent out a newsletter describing a contest that we're going to be having in the month of April, and we've already had more participation than I expected for the whole month. Obviously this is something of interest, so I'll repeat the rules of the contest here and open it up to everyone. The contest is this:
Suggest a supremely wicked shirt idea.
CasaSuperNova.com, besides being the outlet for wonderful White Ninja clothing, books and accessories, has had an immaculate record of bringing you the most pointlessly awesome t-shirts created for no other reason than to bring out the internal radness of the wearer. In the past we have brought you tigers with automatic weapons, pterodactyls fighting with lazers in outer space, gorillas viciously devouring deadly snakes, and an barrage of menacing skeletons riding magic carpets. Now it's your chance to come up with a rad shirt.
If you've ever had a sweet idea for a shirt, but no means by which to get it made, here's your chance to finally have that shirt. All you must do is email your rad idea to thecreators@whiteninjacomics.com. Kent and I will read through all the suggestions from now until the end of April, at which point we will declare a winner. The winner's suggestion will be turned into a shirt, made in true CasaSuperNova style, of which the winner will receive two - one for winner, and one for the winner's most righteous companion. The winner will also receive a copy, signed and illustrated, of the new White Ninja Book. If too many sweet ideas come in, there may be more than one winner.
Some wicked suggestions so far include guitar-playing female centaurs, alpacas doing alpaca stuff, and WAR BEAR!!! (< you can just imagine).
All solid contenders for the top prize. If you think you can top these, please try. As I mentioned in the newsletter, I'd like to see something with a DeLorean).
A few rules:
1 - The suggestion can be as vague or detailed as you like, depending on your vision
2 - Please make the subject title of your email obvious (address, again, is thecreators@whiteninjacomics.com)
3 - Only suggest things that are rad, wicked, gnarly or a combination of the three.
Ready....Go!
-Scott
p.s. CasaSuperNova designs have sold well in Europe. That probably means that they are ultra-fashionable and will be well received in the U.S. in a year or two. And in Canada in five or six. All I'm saying is that Europeans dress better than us North Americans and if you're from a European country there's extra incentive to participate in this contest because you may actually see somebody wearing your idea one day. And then you can be all like "hey, see that on your shirt? I invented that."
Armageddon! - February 20, 2008
In case you don't read the news much, here's a tasty morsel for you that might peak your interestors: THERE IS A DEFUNCT U.S. SPY SATTELITE, LOADED WITH HIGHLY TOXIC FUEL, ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH. Is it just me, or is this kind of a pretty big deal? Seriously, I just learned about this yesterday, so I haven't had much time to prepare a plan to shield myself from the rainstorm of flying debris and poisonous liquid that will be falling from the sky when the U.S. attempts to intercept this thing with a missile. The launch date: as early as LATE WEDNESDAY (that's today) NIGHT!!! Maybe early Thursday. Frig!
Apparently there's about an 80% chance that they will be successful. If you're not good at math, that means that if they shot 5 missiles at the satellite, 4 of them would probably make contact. That's a comforting thought. Less comforting is that they aren't shooting 5 missiles. They are shooting one. Maybe a second if the first doesn't go will. Read more here if you want: CLICK HERE.
In other news...
Why don't they make tv specials like this anymore?
The clip is from the greatest special ever, 1987's Grand Knockout Tournament, where the biggest celebrities of the time got together and ran obstacle courses and threw hams at each other and stuff. Each team leader was a member of the Royal family. My parents have this whole thing on a VHS somewhere.
Other celebrities participating include Meatloaf, Jane Seymore, Tom Jones, Christopher Reeves, and Rowan Atkinson.
Hi-fives,
-Scott
Saskatoon today - February 4, 2008
As many of you may know, Kent and I live in the lovely city of Saskatoon, which is located in the middle of the Canadian prairies. Most of you will never see this place because, well, there's nothing here to see. And I don't just mean that there's nothing to see that you can't see anywhere else - I mean there is literally nothing to see.
Right now it's winter time and it looks like that movie, Fargo. The sun doesn't come up until 10am, and it sets at 4pm. That means people are at work before the sun comes up, and by the time they leave for home, the sun has already set. Some people spend 2 or 3 months seeing daylight only on the weekends. Tragic, I know.
With the windchill today, it was less than minus 50 degrees Celsius. For you Americans out there, I'll remind you once again that Fahrenheit and Celsius balance out at 40.
Maybe some of you Alaskans can relate. And I forgot to plug in my car. If you've never had to plug in a car before, or even heard of plugging in cars, I hate you. My car didn't start.
It's not all bad, though. In the summer it gets as hot as +40 Celcius. Still, the moral of the story is this: If you ever plan on visiting Saskatoon, for whatever reason - maybe you have an urge to look at nothing at all - or maybe you're from Fargo and you want to see if anywhere could actually be flatter and colder and more miserable - don't come in January or February. If you're not from here, you'll die. Not kidding.
Another reason you might want to visit Saskatoon is to pay a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Joni Mitchell. That's right, Joni Mitchell grew up in our hometown.
Everybody around here is overly proud of this, and for that reason I've spent my entire life avoiding Joni Mitchell's music. I still get a little nauseous when I hear "Both Sides Now," or "Big Yellow Taxi." But I decided to give her a real chance the other day (I don't know why), and I illegally downloaded the album "Blue." It's really good. It's really, really, really good. I kind of feel like an idiot for hating Joni Mitchell all these years. Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr., Folk Implosion, Sebadoh) stopped through here last summer and said she was awesome and that we should have a statue. Of course, Lou Barlow didn't understand that Joni Mitchell will never have a statue in Saskatoon because Joni Mitchell is not a professional hockey player.
We have a Gordie Howe statue, because Gordie Howe was a great hockey player, and after all, isn't that all anyone cares about in Canada? It's very nice. Let me see if I can find a picture for you... googling... googling... nope. I guess it's not a very famous statue. By the way, if you don't know who Gordie Howe is, he was the Wayne Gretzky before Wayne Gretzky played hockey.
That was a pretty long newspost there. Let's just recap to make sure you got all the important points:
-Saskatoon sucks right now
-Don't come here in the winter unless you are an Alaskan or a Norwegian or something
-Joni Mitchell is from Saskatoon and Lou Barlow says she's good so don't disagree
-Gordie Howe is also from Saskatoon and he's better than everybody because he played hockey
There you have it - all the news that is news in the world right now.
P.S. Lou Barlow, if you're reading my newsletter, I really enjoyed your acoustic set at the Dinosaur Jr. show. I'm sorry nobody else was listening. Next time, wear a hockey jersey, and you will have everyone in the palm of your hand.
Online Shopping now better than ever! - Jun 16, 2008
